Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-01-25
miscellaneous.

legacy taxes from NaukeSha county.
John MutZ, twelve-year-old KenOsh;
boy, was drowned Sunday while skating
Two cases of smallpox have been dis
covered in the town Of Aurora, Wau
shara county.
Eileen Thornton, of Chippewa Falls
while coming home from school, fell an(
bit the end of her tongue off.
Joseph Miller, a prominent shoe man
ufacturer of Racine, has donated $50O(
to the st. Rose church congregation tC
help build new edifice.
Edward Hardcastle was arrested al
Deadwo0d, South Dakota, Monday for the
murder of John Wellman at PIattviIle
on January 2. Hardcaste's father is a
Baptist minister at Mineral Point.
William Nenn, aged 10 years, son OF
Cnas. Nenn of Oshkosh, was badly in
down by a Wisconsin Central train
while driving across the track. The
horse was killed. The boy will recover
Mort Cartwright, the young man that
attempted to shoot his girl-bride and
then tried to commit suicide at Palmyra
few months ago, is still in precariOus
condition, with no hopes held out f0r
his ultimate recovery.
Lucius Howard, of Beaver Creek, Pep
in county, died Monday night in the
hospital at Eau Claire. He and David
Wilson of the same place were struck
by an interurban electric car a few
weeks ago. Mr.. Wilson died soon after
wards.
The loss at the Marshfield Bedding
cOmpany's factory fire will probably not
be more than so per cent, fully Governed
by insurance. The company will resume
operations as soon as the building can
be repaired and new machinery secured
The loss is placed at $4,000
During the twpnty-eight weeks of the
state free employment bureaus at Mil
Waukee and Superior they have had
1868 applications for employment and
4S49 for help and have filled 1000 posi-
tlons, leaving $50 applications for EN-
plOyment and S41 for help untitled.
John MelZerek of La Crosse skated in
t. an open space, was carried under the
ice Monday night and narrowly escaped
death. He finally caught a floating
stump, to which he clung for an hour
lntii rescued. The thin ice around him
broke as fast as he attempted to get on
it.
twenty-five m0lders employed at the
Chase piOw works, Racine, walked out
Tuesday morning. John Fennell, who
had been foreman for twenty-five years
was asked to resign by the company and
man from indianapolis was to be put
in charge. When the men heard Of the
change they Immediately left. 1t is said
that Mr.. Fennell lost his place for
obJecting too strongly to proposed cut
in the mems wages.
A sensation has been caused in the
section of BinghamptOn, n. Y, by the
el0pment OF Maude Oatman, 13 years
old, with Frank Quick, and the arrest
OF the chiid-bride at Ithica, as a disor-
derly character, in order to nuiify the
union. The girl and her mother came
to Tloga county from Waukesha county,
In her mother having been engaged in
conducting a summer hotel at Muk-
WonagO. The husband is 80 years.
Evening Wisconsin.
Christ Larson, resident of Racine.
was found in ditch three miles west of
the city in an unconscious condition. 1t
was believed that he was dead. A farmer
loaded the supposed dead man on his
wagon and started for town. On the
way in Larson revived and told the
farmer that he was thrown from his
Wheei some time during the afternoon
and had ain where found for number
cf hours. A physician made an exam
-natlon anf found the mans shoulder
dls!ocated an3 that he had sustained a
cUncUSSiGn f the brain
O'e Noe, Peshtigo harb0r fishermen
and two Ocr nto fishermen, names un-
known, had narrow escape from being
carried cut in Green Bay on a cake Of
Heating ice Monday night. They were
at work trying t0 save several nets when
the ice parted and they began floating
out. Their cries were unheard f,r
some time but finally Jacob Wensing,
another fisherman, heard them, .compre-
hended the situation and put out after
them. They were taken off the ice in a
small boat and were nearly swamped
before they reached the shore side Of the
ice.
Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Athow of 746
Washington boulevard, Chicago, will be-
gin the celebration Of the fiftieth ami
versary Of their honeymoon by golden
wedding trip to Cleveland. Mr.. Athow
and Miss Mary Dyer were married in Troy,
n. y, January %, 1852. He came to
Chicago in 1864 and for the last thirty
eight years has been travelling sales
man IN the shoe business. In all that
time ne has never missed a scheduled
trip. Ills present territory embraces
Kansas and Nebraska, and for twenty
wears he has represented Selz. Schwab
x Company. MIR. Athow was born in
1912 in Yarmouth, England, made
famous by Dickens as the home of David
C0pperfeid. " hen 10 years old he came
to the United States and started in the
shoe business as c0bbler's apprentice.
The couple will spend week or more at
the home # a daughter, Mrs. HI. Johnson
II 76o Case avenue, Cleveland.
Mrs. Mary A. Hunt Of Bel0it, ce'ebra-
tei her centennial birthday ednesday.
Size was born It 6 shen. Litchfiell county
New York, > Il. %, 1902. Her father
Was Jesse Waldham, and he traced his
ancestry to the English pioneers of
Massachusetts, Connecticut and New
York. He lived to the ripe old age Of 81.
Mrs. Hunts mother was a Hopkins,
whose history in America dates to the
MayfOwer. She too, reached an unusual
age, which shows that characteristics of
a family show in this instance at least.
Mrs. Hunt received her early education
in the famous old school of Miss Pierce
at Litchfeld, Conn.
She was married in 1927 to Hiram
Hunt, a physician of Mt Morris, N. Y.
Mr.. Hunt died in the year 1853 and
after that Mrs. Hunt made her home
with her daughter, Mrs. Royce. who
came to Beloit thirty-three years age
with her husband, the late Rev. Fayette
Royce, who was for twenty-eight wears
pastor Of St. Paul's Episcopal church
Mrs. Hunt has four Children. H. and
D. H. Hunt of Chicago and Mrs. J. H
Royce and Mrs. ". 2. Adams of Beloit.
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