Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-31
STATE NEWS NOTES.

RIO-The village has voted to erect a
$4,000 high school building
GRAND RAPIDS-Alex Timm, years
old, is dead as result of sunstroke.
BERLIN-Water in the Fox river is ut
the lowest stage in years.
FOND DU LAC-Charles E. Broughton
has retired as managing editor of the Fond
du Lac Bulletin.
RACINE--Fire in the plant of the Hol-
brook Armstrong Iron company caused a
loss estimated at $1,000.
CHETEK-JOhn Swanson aged 70
drowned in the Red Cedar river near Col
fax, Monday. His boat struck a snag and
overturned.
FORT ATKINSON-O. ]. Bogo, who es-
capped from the Marnette county insane
asylum at Peshtigo a year ago, was located
here working as Il type setter
JANESVILLE-ROck county leaf tobacco
growers are in fear of damage to the crop
by hail, damage having been inflicted in
that way in neighDOring counties recently.
yANESVILLE-Frank Bunk found his
wifes wedding ring, which had been lost
for fifteen years. The ring was found on
his farm in tobacco field.
LA CROSSE - According to plans pro
jected, a line of steamboats, used entirely
for transporting freight is to be run be-
tween Cairo and st Paul.
. OCONOMOWOC-ThO Brannon, Jr.
fell from a ladder while painting at the DIR.
Martin Luthern church and was badly in
jured and bruised.
CHIPPEWA FALLS-The Chippewa Val
ley Light and Power company has begun
the installation of motor generator here
to get 200 additional horsepower from the
local lighting company.
AROTTSFORD-John Dryer sustained n
broken leg and internal injuries. being
struck by a swinging timber on the WiscOn-
which is supervising here
HANCOCK-Copper is the only commodity
not showing large decreases In shipments
from Lake Superior ports this summer
chinmpntS
thirds
MENOAINEE-The city is suffering IN
under an excissible heat, the thermometers
registering 96 in the shade. Several pros
trationS were recorded and q number or
horses succumbed to heat.
BELOIT-J w Kflley, blacksmith, re
fused to stop work when his shop caught
fire, but continued shOetng a horse while
the department eXtinguished the blaze.
much to the CONSERVATION IF the owner Of
the horse.
of Herbert Campbell of StevensvilIe, was
nearly killed by a vicious dog at his home.
the animal chewing the lads head so BAD
Iy that it required twenty-six stitches to
close the wounds.
FOND DU LAC-John T. Boyle, accom-
panied by his daughters, Mrs. A. q. Dana
and Miss Gertrude Boyle, and two sons,
John Thomas and Howard, have departed
on a tour to New York city and return in
an automobile.
SUPERIOR-The contract for the new
HlSu ScuDOl, iutClIhFA ~ NC ALt uiIeSl III
Wisconsin, will probably be awarded to
Duluth firm at S22S,ODD. The Northern Con
struction company of Milwaukee was
RACTNE-Capt Gus Lofberg of the Ra-
cine lifesaving station, performed the feat
Of swimming from the station and around
the buoy on Racine reef and back again,
a distance of a little over four miles, in
just three hours.
FOND DU LAC-The money which dis
appeared from the safe of the Forest Ave
nue. hotel was returned and placed in q re-
mote corner of the safe while the clerks
and manager Of the hotel were at the DO
lice station giving information. The amount
involved was $40
KILBOU RN-PeopIe of this town declare
chat the impression given out by Nat Wet
eel recently that the business Of the DeHs
resort has gone to smash as d result of
the railroads failing 10 grant excursion
rates - erroneous. Business men say that
general conditions here were never better.
CHIPPEWA FALLS-Because Joseph
Cote. proprietor of the Cote house, put the
members Of the Byrunm Theatrical com
pany out of his hotel before the close of
the performance here Sunday nj ght, as he
had promised he would not do. they were
discharged in court when they were charged
by Cote with jumping their board bills.
APPLETON-Word has been received
here of the death in Kansas City of Miss
Aline Pearson, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Pearson. Miss Pearson, until she
moved to Kansas City two years ago. where
her father is general manager of d large
paper mill, was one of the leading young
ladies of the Fox River valley. The body
vii be brought to Appleton.