Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
STATE
HAPPENINGS


by MRS Cunningham and Mr.. Gun
nInsham's brother, Arthur, who made
an unsuccessful attempt to save his
life. The drowned mans BODY was
| recovered after a tWo-hour search by
the police The drowning occurred
| while the Cunningham party was wa
ding in Fall Creek in a shallow spot
north OF Thirtieth street Tevis Cum
bingham waded out into the stream
in an effort to cross it, but stepped
into a large hole caused by the ex-
cavation OF gravel for the bridge in
that vicinity, and went down.
New Richmond-As conse-
quence of the protracted drought,
the New Richmond strawberry crop
which is generally the last of the
strawberries in the st. Paul and Min
neapolls markets, is all but complete
failure. The largest of the strawberry
farms is that Of Fay Bros. company.
Their strawberry plants are protected
by an elaborate system of under
ground pipes through which water is
forced IN ordinary dry times. but those
expensive precautions are of no avail
this year, because their source of wa
ter supply has disappeared.
Racine.-Robert Schoepperel, aged
f1fty-five years, committed to the
county poor house from Burling-
ton two weeks ago, committed
suicide by hanging himself from
willow tree 800 feet from the counts
house. SchOepperel not appearing for
dinner, a search was made and his
body was found The man at one
time was fairly well-to-do, and on
losing his money became respondent.
When ordered committed to the coun-
ty house Schoepperel declared that he
would end his life
Racine.-Tony Jarvowski, aged
twenty-three years, employed as a
farm hand north of this city, board
ed freight train on the air line of
the Chicago G North Western road
intending to ride to Willows, four
miles west Of Racine, and there board
train for this city to visit relatives.
While riding the bumper of a freight
car JafVoWski was thrown to the
track and the wheels of the car passed
over both limbs. He died before he
could be taken to hospital.
New ACKNOWLEDGMENT of al
most months duration was bro
ken by a soaking rain. Less than one
inch Of rain fell, but in such a way
that it will do much good and prob
ably save all but the hay crop. Suf-
ticient rain fell to extinguish the fires
in the Willow River Lumber COM
pany's timber in the vicinity of Grand
View
unknown man were found near the
Northern Pacific railway at Grassy
point bridge.
Beloit-The fifteenth annual rally
of the Beloit Sunday school took
place. There were ten schools and
600 children in the procession.
Grantsburg.- the result, it
is believed, of leaving a "smudge"
burning in the house, two daughters
of George Hooley, farmer in the
northern part of Burnett county, are
dead and third is suffering terrible
agonles from burns which physicians
believe will cause her death The
family had gone to bed after leaving
the smoldering little fire burning for
the purpose Of driving away mos
qu1tOes. The house was enveloped in
flames before any Of the members of
the family were awakened. The fa-
Their, mother and son escaped with diff
Guilty, and as soon as they were par
italy restored from the suffocation by
smoke and heat, made frantic efforts
to save the three girls still in the
building. Their attempts were re-
warded by rescuing one, but only after
she had suffered the injuries from
which it is believed she canot re-
cover.
Stoughton. = Fire threatened the
plant OF the Mandt Wagon COM
pany, branch of the Moline
Plow company, valued at 100000.
night Waterman noticed sparks and
smoke rushing out of dry kiln and
quickly sounded the alarm Quick
work on the part of the volunteer
fire department and the company's
own men extinguished the flames be-
fore any serious damage was done by
fire. In trying to put out spark on
the office building adjoining the dry
kiln, considerable water was thrown
into the second story Of that struc-
ture doing damage amounting to ap-
Droximately 5000.
StOughtOn.-The eastern district
of the Norwegian Lutheran church
convened here for weeks ses-
sion. Rev. H G. Magalssen, La
Crosse, gave the opening sermon In
Norwegian Fully 200 ministers and
delegates are in attendance
Appleton.-The Fox River Val
ley Guernsey Breeders association