Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-01-08
MILWAUKEE MATTERS.


in the town of Granville where he en-
gagged in mercantile business and became
a leader among county merchants. lie
came to Milwaukee in 1866 and started in
the dry goods business; of late he has re-
sided in Waukesha. He is survived by
wife and four children. Davis and
Theodore Wambold, Mrs. Charles Gull
yer and Mrs. Joseph Gleason.
While skating on the river near the
Locust street bridge Sunday afternoon
Rudolph Iresek, aged IL years, and two
companions broke through the ice and
young lresek was drowned. His COM
panions, John Ludwig, aged II years, of
105 Lloyd street, and Charles johnson,
aged II years, of 1892 Fourth street,
were rescued. Patrolman Reuter- warned
all the skaters not to approach the spot
where the boys broke through, as it was
dangerous. Iresek resided with his pa
rents at 107 Lloyd street.
The Infants home has received g gift
of $500 from Mrs Meyer Friend in
formerly member of the board of man
ayers.
John J. Brenk. weIl-known and high
~ respected citizen of Jackson, Mich,
father of Messrs. Robert and Joseph
Brenk of Milwaukee, died at o'clock
Sunday evening at his home in Michigan
after q long and lingering illness. Mr..
Brenk has frequently visited the fami-
lies of his two sons in this city the past
two years and was we'll known to many
MilWaukeeans He was sc years of age
and is survived by widow and four
sons, all engaged in the tailoring business
in this city and in Jackson. Mr.. Brenk
was a man of moral worth and was
greatly esteemed by his fellow towns
men of Jackson, where he had resided
for so many years.
Walter G. Sanger and Katherine Kot-
zenberg Of Chicago were quietly married
groom is the well-known cyclist
Daniel Zehm. laborer employed in
Benjamin's coalyard was struck in the
neck by hosting block about a week
ago and had his WindDipe punctured. He
was taken to the Emergency hospital
where he remained until last Friday,
when he insisted upon being removed
to his home, SIG Muskego avenue, despite
the protests of his physicians. Sunday
he died from the effects of his injuries.
The coroner will hold an inquest
Robert Baty. the manufacturer of arti-
fciai limbs, died Sunday at his resi-
dence. 112 Seventeenth street. Mr. Baty
was 50 years of age and resided in Mil
waukee for many years He was well
known throughout the state, having ac-
CURED great repute in his business as q
maker of artificial limbs and surgical APP
planes. His wife died not long ago.
Warren Brinton, one of Bay Views
earliest residents, died suddenly of heart
failure Tuesday at II o'clock. He was
sitting in his chair reading the morn
ing paper, when, without moments
warning, death came. Mr.. Brinton was
born in Salisbury, Conn, August Is,
1925. He came to Bay View to assume
charge of the blast furnace in 1870. Aft
er holding the position for two years, the
mills closed and he moved his family to
Leland, Mich. In 1876 he returned to
Bay View and has been employed at the
rolling mills ever since. When he left
the blast furnace the workmen presented
him with an easy chair and gold-head-
ed cane, as a mark of their esteem. He
has been a sufferer from rheumatism for
several years, but none of his friends
knew of the existence of heart trouble,
and at his sudden death all Bay View
experiences a sense of personal loss He
is survived by a wife and three children,
Mrs. A. E. Pickard of Ellsworth. Mich,
". D. Brinton and Miss Daisy Brinton.
Peter Paul Gerezewski of 354 Bartlett
street, a policeman whose beat was III
the Eighteenth ward, died at $40 o'clock
Wednesday morning from theeffects of a
quantity of muriate of zine which he
accidentally swallowed at 1915 o'clock
on Tuesday night at the residence of his
father-in-law, John Lukowicz, 800 War
rem avenue. 1t appears that Gerszewski
called at his father-in-law's house and
man took him into the cellar, where from
a bottle he filled a glass full of what he
supposed was whisky and told GersZew-
ski to drink it, as it would relieve him.
LukOWicz also took swallow of the
stuff. In q short time both men were
taken very i'll and Drs. Sperry and Lem
on were called. GerszeWsh had taken
considerable of the poison and it was at
once apparent that he could not recover.
His father-in-law took considerably less
and is now out of danger. The dead Off
Ger was appointed a patrolman in April,
two small children. John Gerszeswki,
his brother. is lieutenant of truck No. 3
in the fire department..
The death Of julius Coll, which had
been expected for several weeks past,
occurred at noon Wednesday at the fam
ily residence on jackson street. The
direct cause of death was the hardening
of the tissues of the heart. Mr.. Coll
had been in poor health since February
last.
Mr. Coll who was nearly 70 years of
age, arrived in New York from Bier
bach, kingdom of Wittenburg, in 1913,
and year later came to Milwaukee,
where he took up his permanent resi-
dence He soon afterwards started in
the dry goods business with Henry Stern,
opening a small store on East Water
street. In 1852 the firm became Coll &
Frank and in 1861 went into the whole
sale business, in which it has ever since
been engaged, being now known as the
Coll & Frank company. 1t is now an
incorporated concern and one of the
most extensive of the kind in the West.
The deceased is survived by a wife
and seven grown children, Frederick T.
Coll Mrs. Henry G. Inbusch, Miss Lou
Use Coll, Mrs. Oscar Loeff1er, Mrs. Wal
ter Gregg, Mrs John r. Kern and Mrs
Charles J. Cottrill. Mr.. Coli was great
ly devoted to his family and home and
was rarely seen in public except in
business way. He did not care for So
ciety and belonged to no organization.
He was an honored and honest citizen
and was highly esteemed in business cir
cles.
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