Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-03-29
The News Condensed.

The Park hotel in KilbOurn was
burned, causing loss of $4,000; in
surance, $4,000.
William X. Rideout, president of
the National Union bank in Oshkosh,
received telegram announcing a
fire in his lumber yard at Eland.
About 100000 feet of lumber was de-
stroyed, causing a loss estimated at
about $4,000 or $4,000.
c. B. Pride, of Appleton, has pre-
pared plans for a paper mill to be
constructed at once at Independence,
Kan, to manufacture paper from sor-
ghum cane.
A meeting of about $50 progressive
farmers and business men in Bloomer
organized farmers cooperative
grain company, and voted to incor-
porate with a capital of $4,000, and
committee of seven was appointed
to solicit sales of stock.
Gov. Yates has honored the requi-
sition for the return to Wisconsin of
Charles Mccoy, alias Edward Rati-
gan, notorious safe cracker, who
escaped form prison at Waupon, but
who is just ending a two-years' SEN
tence at Chester, H., for robbery.
George G. Houghton, vice president
of the Wisconsin national bank of
Milwaukee, and we'll known in bank
ing circles throughout the country,
died at the age of about 70 years.
The grand total of logs brought
down on the Menominee river this
year will show shrinkage of over
S0,000,000 feet from last years to-
tai.
Andrew Carnegie has notified Fran
els Williams, secretary of the library
board in Sheboygan, that he will give
$35 ZOO instead of $25, 900 for library
building.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kork, the Oldest
woman in Kenosha county, died at
the age of 90 years. She had been a
resident of Kenosha for more than
so years.
James Forestal was killed while at
tempting to pass a switching freight
train in the Wisconsin Central yards
in Marshfield.
Rev. C. G. Rheim, for 80 years pas
tor of the First German Lutheran
church in La Crosse has resigned on
account of i'll health.
The Rock county soldiers and sail
ors' memorial monument was COM
pleted in GAINESVILLE when the figure
of the soldier surrounding the col
umn was placed in position.
A body found in the Mississippi
river at Prairie du Chen proved to
be that of Peter Hawley, who dis
appeared from the Ahrens farm last
November. The body was frozen
when found.
The Milwaukee chamber of COM
merce will permit no women to be-
come members.
Rev. J. d. Brothers, one of the pi-
oneer Methodist ministers of north
ern Wisconsin, died in Menominee,
aged 70 years.
A movement is under way to organ
ize every department of labor in Eau
Claire and combine all unions into
central organization.
Peter johnson, young farmer
living south of Roberts, killed him
self by shooting. No reason can be
given for the act.
In the circuit court at keDosha Mrs.
Edith Roth was granted an absolute
divorce from her husband, Robert
Roth, on grounds of abandonment.
DR.. Albert Fisher died suddenly of
heart failure in Eau Claire. He leaves
a widow, two sons and two daugh-
terS.
At Black River Falls Hiram Hall
was acquitted of the murder of E. B.
Parker. The jury was a unit from
the start.
James H. Curtis, one of the early
steamboat men, died in Oshkosh of
pneumonia at the age of SO years.
Two store buildings on Main street
IN Oshkosh, occupied by the Kretlow
Bros cigar mandatory, the F. C.
Nielsen barber shop and the Case res
taurant, were destroyed by fire.
Seymour Swartz, of Chicago, who
was elected from a Kenosha hotel be-
cause he is jew, will sue for $4,000
damages.
A company has been organized by
capitalists in La Crosse to build an
interurban electric road to NeiIsville.
Mills Tourte otte, a millionaire, is
the leading stakeholder
The family of Henry Bartheld was
saved from death by asphyxiation in
La Crosse by the mewing of cat
David II. Rose has been rtnominated
for mayor of Milwaukee by the demo-
Gratis and the republicans have nomi-
mated Maj. Charles FL. Arson.