Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-06
STATE NEWS NOTES.

EAU CLAIRE-Crops in this section have
suffered severely this winter owing to the
open and dry weather. This is especially
true of winter wheat and rye
CHIPPEWA FALLS-D. Sweeney. 20
had Il narrow escape from fatally shooting
himself while hunting near Maple Grove.
life
CHIPPEWA FAILS-COnductor Andrew
Peterson of the Wisconsin Central grabbed
Il woman and jcrkCd her off The Track as
the pilot of passing engine brushed her
skirts.
WAUKESIIA ~ Dcspondcnt because has
parents refused to give him money To pay
the balance on farm he had purchased.
George Bullion, 20. committed suicide 10y
hanging.
ASHLAND-John Smith. who lived At
Sanborn. where h" has been working for
some time, committed suicide by thrown.
himself iii front OF Il railroad train. For
some time Smith has been drinking
GLENWOOD-Adyices from Somerset a~c
that '.Dr.r Till Immediately resumed war-
ticc after his release under bonds from the
court in GlcnWOOd and that 200 patients
came to Somerset for treatment in one day
TOMAHAWK-B uttcd in the stomach nv
Erickson died five minutes afterwards ut he
camp ana sawmill Of A. q. Stephenson. i've
miles from Hazclhurst.
FORT ATKINSON-Thp use Of ali slot
machines in Fort Atkinson has been st0u-
ped by the police. The ban is also on dice
games and minors will no longer he al
lowed to play billiards, pool or to bowl.
JANESNILLE-One of the social events
of the season in FIckSburg. Miss was the
marriage of Miss Cora Griffith 10 Clarence
Palmer Beers of GAINESVILLE wis The ma
is daughter of Mayor w Il. Griffith
Emmett C. Dean, px-maua-
ger of the Western Union. for whom n waT-
rant charging cmbeZZlcment was issued
was arrested in Chicago and brought to
KCnOsha.
RANDOLPH-Mr. EpIcy died at his homo
here from complication Of diseases IIc
is survived by one son, DR.: /. Eplcy of New
Richmond. and one daughter, Mrs. J. Addi-
son l. ghtnrr Of this place.
STEVENS POINT-Thc North Wisconsin,
saengerfcst will lie held here July l7-1g
On the second day concert will be given
at the operr house in the afternoon and an
other i'll the evening. The festival Will con
clud" with picnic
ASIILANB-NpgOtatlon are being car.
which the Mcnomonie, Wis. capitalists viii
take hold of the Ashland -four mill ana IN
sure its rc-opening and regular operation
night and day.
BELOIT-Eight local merchants have
learned they have cashed checks for about
SO each that were valuclGSs. The checks
purported to be signed by the Warner IN
Strument company The man who passed
them has left town.
WAUKESHA-Mrs Vera T. Fisher. %. a
prominent member Of the Holy jumpers
ut the Fountain house. where she vas en-
ployed as Il cOmpOstOr on The burning
Bush, the official publication OF the sccf,
died in New Mexico where she went for
her health.
RiPON-Thc annual circus liycn by the
athletic association of Ripon college was
held in Armory ID, Saturday night, and was
successful. The feature was the prep
faculty basket ball game, won by the
.'Ereps," 6 to 4. In the annual sophomore
freshman relay race the sophmorcs won
EAU CLAIRE-Thp city council has
awarded five year contracts to the Chip
pcwa Valley Electric Railway. Light u
Power company to light the business section
with 100 arc lights ut 500 per light per
year. and to the Welsbach Street Lighting
Company of America to light the res dencu
section with 100 gas lamps at $3.50 per
light per year, lights to be sixty candle
power. Graft charges rife and it is pos
s.ble Mayor Frawlcy will FetO It,