Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-03-08

The store building Of o. {. Neist.n ii
New CentervIile was dlstr0yeG by fire
last week Thursday morning together
with stock Of general merchandise anl
household goods.
T. G. Mandt, known as the "wag n
Klng," died at Stought0n last week tri-
| day. Mr.. Mandt was born in Norway in
1916 and came to Dane county when
years of age.
Charles Quinn is i'll with smallpox al
lis home IN Fort Atkinson and guards
armed with sh0tguns are in charge If
the house, in which five persons are
quarantined'
C.Jones of DodgeviIle committed suicide
by hanging Sunday night. He was a
man OF good character and no reason can
be assigned for the rash act. He leaves
widow and enc child.
Sister Dcmitila died at Hastings,
Minnesota, Thursday Of last week of
tuberculosis. She was known to the
world as Miss Mary Hyiin ana her fu.-
mer home was al Columbus.
Edward hiundy, If DodgeviIle. aged 70
years, found stick Of dynamite and
played with it. in the explosion that
followed Mundy lost his right hand and
two fingers Of his left hand.
The police have discovered that the
attempt to wreck the La Crosse Lumber
company's mill with dynamite Tuesday
was the work of boys, who claimed they
wanted to see what would happen.
Mail train 81, going west, and mail
N nIrlfr or
three miles east Of Portage last week
Friday morning. A number of coaches
were badly smashed but no one was in
jured.
j. 7. CarmOny. station agent at State
Line has smallpox in his family and
they are quarantined in their residence
at that place. BObert Ziebell of the
same place will act as station agent
until the quarantine is raised.
A S50,GOO government building will be
erected at BarabOO. word having been re-
celyed from Washington that an appro-
prlatlon to that amount will be made.
Naupun Is also to have a government
building.
Six cases Of smallpox were discovered
Thursday of last week in~the family of
OF Oliver DusOld at Manitowoc. The
Davey hotel where one of the patients re-
Gently boarded, has been q.larantined
with sixteen inmates.
The jury in the trial of Joseph
Schaumberger, OF Wausau, charged with
tile murder OF Ida Adreski, his finance.
returned verdict of mansiaughter in
the first degree. Schaumberger claimed
the shooting was accidental.
The trustees of the Beaver Dam Wors-
ted company, bankrupt, Thurday Of last
week sold at public auction the entire
assets of the company to Charles M.
Dawson and others for $4,000. The
mill will probably be in operation with
in week.
Six prisoners broke jail at Easton,
Nj. d., late last Saturday night and in
attempting to arrest them Deputy Sher-
lff Thomas j. Thompson was instantly
killed. Lewis Green, colored, is thought
to have fired the shot that killed Thomp-
son. Green was awaiting trial on the
charge of having murdered his mistress.
The other prisoners were h sd on minor
charges.
Mike Godfrey, familiarly known as
Indian Nike" was found dead in his
iiOfCis db La N1OoSC WIFI Ills uURS SlHtU-
ing on the corpse. A strange coincidence
lies In the fact that last fail on the same
night in the week Lew Lane was found
dead in the same bunk in that same
h0vel. 1t is supposed that heart trouble
was the cause of Gcdfrey's demise. His
companion, John Rapkie, was awakened
strange indescribable sensation, and
hurrying to Godfreys bunk, found that
life had passed from the body.
Henry Bishop Perkins, many times
millionaire and one of the best-knOwn
citizens of Ohio, committed suicide last
Sunday by hanging. A year ago or
little more his son, Bishop Perkins, who
was a Yale man, ended also his
own life. Father and son were mental
ly unbalanced at the time they took their
own lives. The son is said to have been
enfeebled by overstudy and to have
sought death in a moment of alteration.
For some time after the death of his son
Mr.. Perkins br0oded and refused to be
comforted. His sorrow was deep-rOoted
and gradually his physical health began
to fail.
zone great trouble with the Ameri-
cans" says an exchange, sis that they
know exactly how to run the affairs of
their fellows. The old maid prOffers her
sister advise upon the management of
her husband, and an old bachelor can
give the father pointers as to the rearing
OF the boys. The man who would starve
but for the frugality Of his wife. feels
competent to manage the finances of his
country, and the people who can not be
entrusted to drive the ducks to water,
will explain to our wisest how to get to
heaven. Those cannot turn a hand or
gan If it were fastened to them, can tell
you just how to run your business. And
the man who can't run anything else on
earth knows how to run a newspaper.
Charles Woodruff, who came to Osh-
kOsh about two weeks ago and made ar
rangements with Company B. Second
regiment w. N. g., to produce the play,
''The Scout of the Philippines" has dis
appeared from that city, and is alleged
he took with him three watches pDr-
chased from jeWeler, to be presented
to the most popular lady" at the per-
formance as also the n st popular
gent eman. Woodruff left the ity Fri
DAY Of last week, saying ta ne was
going t. Fond du Lac tt get aiarried.
The watches are valued at $40. Besides
that Woodruff is said to have co eetcd
the sale of tickets several hundred
dollars. The expense came when G. A.
ComstOck, agent of the Milwaukee road
and lieutenant Of Company B, went to
Milwaukee to Oshkosh the sceneTygsE the
play, which they could n fnd.
An old railroad mai who dTiftea
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