Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-12-29
STATE ITEMS.

TO here Madame Parepa Rosa in the ODera
returned disappointed, as she was too sick
to sing.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says while the
State Visiting Committee were visiting the
Reform School at Waukesha, the boys be-
longing to the institution were assembled
together for the purpose of being atalked to-
| by the members of the committee. The Gov
ernor was the first gentleman to make re-
marks. in the course of which he asked the
| boys if they could tell him what the COM
mittee came for. To which bright little
boy at once responded: eyes, sir; to be re-
| formed r That bog should not be confined
The Pensaukee correspondent ofthe Oconto
/ Lunaberman writes that on Wednesday last
some boys skating on the bay-shore found
the body of squaw lying on the ice mile
and half south OF Maple Bead. They in
| formed some Indians who were encamped
! on the shore, who took the body. She had
I two large TASKS of liquor in her bosom, and
as one was partly empty, it is supposed that
she had imbibed q little and could not pro-
ce but lay down and died from exposure.
An 'fautomatic FIRE lighter has been ia
vented by a Fort Howard man which at any
desired hour will light match and start q
fire in the stove. Good thing on cold
morning
The State University at Madison, as shown
by the annual report, seems to be in prosper
Gus condition. During the past year the
aggregate attendance in all departments wa 5
497. In 1867 the attendance was about
| 300. There are twenty-five professors and
teachers with the institution. The regents
urgent call for additional buildin rs, the
probable cost Of which is estimated at $780,
600.
The connecting link between the Western
! Union and St. Paul railroads is to be bnilt
between Eagle and Elkhorn. Trains will
run from Milwaukee direct to Rock Island
without change.
Rev. Geo. NJ. Steele, President ofthe
| University, at Appleton, is announced as q
contributor to the Old and Nev, the new
| Boston magazine.
Al the next meeting If the Wisconsin,
Editorial Association to be held at Prairie
du Chen in June next, George Van Waters,
of the Durand Lean HoG, will deliver the
! annual address, and II. N. Ross, of the She
boygan Times, will read the poem.
We notice fir ON the Oshb osh Northeastern
that the Lumbermen of that city, recently
held a meeting to secure from the Chicago
and Northwestern Railway lower tariff on
lumber. A memorial to the President and
Directors OF the road was drawn mp. signed
| by James Jenkins & Co., G. n. Paine & Co.,
Foster and Jones and thirty others.
A prisoner named Julius Bonn from Green
Lake, attempted to escape from the Jail at
Oshkosh on Thursday morning last.
We also CLEAN from the Northeastern that
Col. C. D. Robinson delivered his lecture on
Naples and its Surroundings" at McCourt's
Hall last week.
We learn from the Baraboo Republic, that
within week four aged men, worthy patri-
hs,-Cadwell, Barnes Maxwell aud Cook,
have died in that place. Their ages respect
lively were 10, SO, 70, 80; sum total 3l8
! Three of them natives of Vermont, died very
suddenly, two of them with scarcely mo-
ments warning.
The wife ofTim. F. Strong, late Assistant
Superintendent of the G. & N. W. railroad,
died at Fond du Lac last week
The directors of the Chicago & Northwest
ern Railway Company are now considering
the questson of extending the Wisconsin di
vision of their road from Green Bay north
ward to Eseanaba by ,Oconto, Peshtigo and
Menominee, along the shore of the Bay.
The Burlington Standard says drove of
cattle passed through that town, on Thurs
day last, bound for Waukegan, Illinois,
where they are to winter. They were from
Sank county, where feed is scarce and high
From the Madison Journal we learn that
about 81 o'clock on Thursday morning last
a fire was discovered in the second story of
the large frame building constituting the
machine and wood shops of the Mendoza
Agricultural Works, recently owned by E.W.
Skinner & Co., and now by the Madison
Manufacturing Company, lately organized
The hour was so early, the weather so cold
and the distance to be traver8ed by the fire
company so great that the fire was under
full Roadway before anything was done to
check il, and the building where the fire
originated was very nearly consumed. The
loss is estimated TT ST. 500; covered by in
suranee.
An attempt at Miscegenation was recently
made at Madison. An American citizen of
African descent living in the Third Ward,
| suspecting that his wife was rather too init
| mate with certain well known white man,
| dete; mined to fkeep an eye on her. On
the evening in question he left his house, as
his wife supposed, but slipping into little
room adjoining the bedroom, and climbing
up on chair, made preparations to watch
things through stove pipe hole. Having
watched the proceedings for while he
could stand it no longer, and marched into
| the room, but the white man, minus several
articles cf clothing, and boot in each
hand, rushed out of the back door. The
| husband was enraged at bis escape, but after
| calm consideration concluded to 60 back to
his house and whip his wife, which he did
So says the Journal.
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