Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-01-13
STATE ITEMS.
experiment tried

| OSn kOSh nlgn ScnOOl DullulnS consume
wood at the rate of two hundred and fif-
ty cords per year.
4 lad named William Schiller shot his
thumb off at SchIeissngerville, rece n,ly
while playing with rusty pistol. Il is
feared that he will lose his hand.
The Waupacca Criterion thinks, from
thr present ind cations, that the number
of logs gotten in on the Wolf and it's
tributaries this winter, will fall short of
the amount last winter by several millions
of feet.
In the town of Erin, Washington
county, DIR. E. B. Wolcott, of Milwaukee,
and DIR. t. E. Peck, of Hartford, took
from under a mans arm tumor weigh
ing nearly seven pounds. The man is
doing well, and feels much relieved.
Burglars entered the jewelry store of
M. Miller, at Kenosha, during the night
and carried off his entire stock of watches
and jewelry, valued at between $1,000
and 5000. 4 few articles of plated
ware were left behind. No arrests have
as yet been made.
The Jefferson Banner, in reviewing
the year, notes several valuable improve
ments made in the village, among others
the institute building, costing about
$50 900, snd fonrine mill costing about
the same sum.-A festival for the bene-
fit of the Jefferson Liberal Institute
yielded some four hundred dollars.
The Alma Express reports most wan !.
ton case of abuse of little child, five
years old, at Dufand. 1t seems that after
whipping the little one nearly to death,
they threw it into pond of water, and as
soon as it came to the shore they pushed
it in, keeping it there till death came near
releasing it. The man was fined fifty
dollars and the wife forty.
The Beaver Dam Citizen says the Wiscon-
sin Collegiate Institution, of Beaver Dam,
generally known as Wayland Universe
/ commenced its second term of school last
Thursday with the following teachers
j. Ambrose Miner, principal; Miss NJ.
A Wadsworth, lady princi pal; Miss A.
r. Boise, teacher of French and German.
The school is divided into three depart
ments-academical, preparatory, and
ladies', with every indication of pros.
perity.
A correspondent Of the Evergreen City
Times gives the following as the product
of farm of 100 acres belonging to Mr..
Buffers, of Lyndon, Sheboygan county
"He sheared I'll pounds of wool from
l55 sheep threshed 400 bushels of wheat
from 20 acres; $50 bushels of oats from
8 acres 800 bushels of buckwheat from
IL acres; husked $40 bushels ears of
corn from 8 acres and dug $50 bushels
of potatoes from 2 acres also 10 bushels
of peas. He cut 60 tons of hay from 35
acres; raised l6 barrels of apples and
fatted 1000 pounds of pork. He pastured
200 sheep, 4 horses, and 10 head of
horned cattle Turing the summer"
The Appleton Crescent says it is pro-
posed by a gentleman from Indiana to con.
struct stone dam across Fox River, and
connect it and the water-power generally
with the Chicago and Northwestern Rail
way by q side track. The Crescent thinks
the proposed improvement is one of ines
Unable value t6 that city. 1t would pro-
mote growth and prosperity beyond the
expectations of the most sanguine It
notes the admitting to probate in Outage,
ME county of an exemplifed copy of the
will of the late John Magic, of the state
of New York, who was connected with
the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal
Company, and died worth over forty n,az-
lions Of dollars. He owned real estate in
in some fifteen or sixteen counties of this
state.
The following is from the Prison City
Leader of the 7th: ave learn that a
man by the name of Jackson, who had
been working in one of the establishments
at Iron Ridge, has been missing for some
two or three weeks He had been paid
some 5000, and went into a house and
LETT his overcoat, and was not seen after.
wards. We were informed, yesterday,
that his body was found, on Tuesday, in
a marsh about half mile from Iron
Ridge, with his throat cut from ear to ear.
A man who had been working with him
and was paid like amount at the same
time, disappeared about the same time he
did, and is suspected of being the perpe-
traitor of the crime. inquest was held
on Tuesday evening, the result Of which
we have not learned"
The Oshkosh Northeastern has the
following under the head of "Another
Hop Man in Luck :"
"Mr. W. r, Kennedy received letter
from Elkins & Suddards, few days since
stating that his consignment of hops to
them had been destroyed by fire in Phil.
adelphia. They were insured, but to what
amount Mr. K. did not know, though
probably for not over five or six cents per
| pound"
The Platteyille Witness says one of the
very best discoveries in the lead mines
was made by the Mount Hope Company
in the town of Shullsburg, one day last
week, at depth of $50 feet. This COM
pany, composed of Chicago gentleman,
have exhibited nerve unparalleled by
non residents. This lead discloses vast
cave, the end of which is unknown, full
! Of the glittcring cogs