Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-08-17
The News Condensed.

The three-year-old son of Valentine
Koehler, at Ripon, fell into a ten
Gallon keg containing six or seven
inches of water, and when found life
was extinct.
The state board of control has let
the contract for supplying the state in
situations with meat for the next
three months to Swift & Co., of Chi
cago. The institutions use about ST.
200 worth of meat each month.
Unless something is done to stamp
out the smallpox which has again at
tackled the tribe of Winnebago Indians
on the reservation near Back River
Falls half of the once great tribe will
be wiped out IN a short time.
The Oshkosh common council has
voted favorably on issuing $125,000 in
bonds. Fifty thousand dollars are for
a new high school and $75, 900 to refund
present indebtedness.
Miss Agnes Winfred Mclaughlin, a
handsome girl in Green Bay, is ready
to marry William Olejniczak, provided
he changes his name. He has filed. APP
plication to change his name from
O,einiczak TO William Mclaughlin.
The church bells of Milwaukee are
being made the subject of a crusade
which promises to end in the silence of
the bells.
The pauper committee of the city
council has decided to purchase a
poor farm for the use of dependents in
Kenosha.
The Northern Pacific railway has
filed a land grant at the register of
deeds office in West Superior to
6,437.75 acres of land in the southern
part of Douglas county.
The City of Stiles, river steamer,
was burned at Green Bay and the cook,
Miss Archey, narrowly escaped drown
ing.
A. F. Hendrix a brakeman on the
Chicago & Alton, living at Curryville,
was killed by the cars near Mexico, Mo.
Joseph Hummer, aged 16, was in
stantly killed in the Wisconsin River
paper mill It Stevens Point. His skull
was crushed between heavy rolls of
paper on the winding reels.
Pearl hunters are beginning opera
tons in the Chippewa river. A bed of
CLANS about mile long and several
feet deep has been discovered near the
mouth of the river.
w. i. Mercereau. superintendent of
the Pere Marquette system, announced
that his company would in the near flu
ture install wireless telegraphy be-
tween Manitowoc and Ludington, over
156 miles of open water.
The statue of Frances E. Willard, to
be presented by the state of Illinois to
the national capitol at Washington, D..
c., will be modelled by Helen F. Mears,
of Oshkosh.
Business men of Stanley, Chippewa
Falls and Cameron have started new
bank at Cameron, to be known S the
Bank of Cameron.
Thieves entered the basement of the
county jail at Marinette and carried
away butter, meat and other eatables.
Rains that have fallen throughout
the tobacco belt have given the farm
ers hope that they may yet be able to
save some portion of the crop.
Charles, the seven-year-old son of
John Hermann, of the town of She
boygan, died from injuries inflicted by
the kick of a horse.
Oluf johnson, while in a field near
Orseo shocking, was struck by light
ming and instantly killed
Emma l.. Mantell, alias Emma Ora
ham, Il domestic at the Lakeside ho-
tel at Delavan Lake, was found dead
there The woman was from Chicago.
A coroner's jury found size died from
natural causes.
frankie CASTILLO and 3erten Rog-
ers, each 1 years old, Ware drowned
at Racine while bathing.