Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22
miscellaneous.

Pete Husting, of Fond du Lac, has
signed contract to play with the St.
Louis baseball team. He is to receive
$1,000 salary.
Fire Sunday in Charles Alber's fur
nlshing goods and fur store at Eau
Claire damaged the stock $4,000. In
surance 5000.
Hugh Monroe, aged AZ, an employe of
the Allen tannery, at Kenosha fell dead
IN the Interurban railway station Sunday.
Heart disease was the cause
P. BrOnillard, the 93-year-Old French
man who attempted suicide by cutting his
throat at Despere, was examined in the
county judges office as to his sanity but
was not found to be insane.
Fire started in the basement of the
Clark House, the leading hotel at Beaver
Dam, Monday morning. The puests
were driven from their beds, but all es-
capped safely. The loss is $1,000.
A beautiful ffty-grain high button
pearl was taken from a mussle she'll a
few miles north Of Prairie du CHEN
in the Mississippi river by Ed. Smith
and William Stock. The gem is valued
at about 1920.
The body of Rev. Henry Martin Grant,
who died at Eau Claire, of apoplexy
Thursday afternoon of last week, has
been shipped to Cortland, N. Y, for buri-
al. He was born in Persia in 1886, and
was cousin of Gen. U. S. Grant.
Jesse Hale, the well-known baseball
man, arrived at his home at Fond du Lac
Saturday night with we'll developed
case OF smallpox. He was ill when he
left Minneapolis and his face broke out
while he was on the train coming here.
1t is feared that many were exposed to the
dread disease. His home has been quar-
antined.
The long expected strike of paperma-
kers now seems certain in the near future.
The Kaukauna Papermakers union No.
26 voted to man Sunday to walk out at
e o'clock this evening unless the manu-
facturers conceded them the short hour
schedule demand of twelve hours off
every week with the same pay as at pres
ent.
Ole Johnson, the most prominent
Scandlnavian-America resident of Vjro-
qua county, died Sunday last of pneumo-
MIA, aged 81 years. He was county
treasurer Tor thirteen consecutive years
and served as a colleague with Gen. Rusk
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the name OF the county was changed
from Bad AK to Vernon.
Harry Epstein, aged %, one of the pro-
prietors of the Epstein brewery at Por-
tage, was killed by passenger train No.
on the Milwaukee road at Cook street
crossing Sunday. There is double
track and he saw train coming from
the opposite direction ON another track,
| hnf did not tho froir, nd
stepped in frontOf it. Mr.. Epstein was a
son OF the late Henry Epstein in that
city.
AS the result of an alteration with
two members of the Peterson family at
KenOsha, +. j. Neil lies at his home in
a serious condition. Neil is brother
in-law of the alleged father of Chester
Peterson, whose abduction has caused SO
much notoriety recently. Last week
OF Saturday night Neil met two mem
bers of the Peterson family in a saloon
and in a fight which followed he was
badly used and the saloon was wrecked
Arrests will follow.
Mrs. John C. Boy,l, of Racine, reported
to the police in that city last week Fri
day that her husband had disappeared
from their boarding place Tuesday
moIuiHg ana bnaG Sno lad hoarC
nothing from him since. She says thai
he is TO years of age and that she is %
They were married in Beloit in Decem
ber. He has been local agent for a fire
extinguisher company, but has done
little business. Mrs. Boyd is almost pen
nileSs.
Mrs. Alice Welch, the young wife Of
Joseph Welch, photographer who re-
sides at 211 Fourth street in Milwaukee
tried to commit suicide early Sunday
morning by taking carbolic acid. The
young woman was taken to the Emer
gency hospital about o'clock in ths
morning and given medical attention
1t is said that Mrs. Welch owes her es
cape from death to taking an overdose O.
the poison. She left the hospital for he
home later in the day. Her mouth ant
throat were badly burned and it will b
some time before she is well. The al
legged cause for the act was domesti,
troubles. Mrs. Welch is alleged to hav,
said that she would end her life to spit
her husband. At the hospital she CAV,
her name as Miss Alice Goddard.