Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-09
STATE ITEMS.

Madison.
The Whitewater Register does not favor
the removal of the capital to Milwaukee.
A reunion ofthe 9Th Wisconsin Volunteers
will be held in Milwaukee, Wednesday,
March 18th.
Thomas White, of Berlin, was seriously
injured by a runaway horse on Thursday
afternoon last.
The Senate has refused to NEEDLE with
the late alteration between Senator Will
liams and Senator Clark.
Another large meeting of the citizens Of
| Milwauk ee, in favor of removing the CAPT.
tai, was held on Saturday evening. Speeches
were made by Judges Mallory and Hubbeli
and several Assemblymen.
The Northwestern Advance is now under
/ the editorial control of Rev G. D. Pillsbury,
and will doubtless be success. The paper
is accomplishing much for the cause of tenn
perance.
4 woman in the town Of Lowyille, Co
! lumbia county; has cabinet which was
made by jefferson Davis. when in command
at Fort Winnebago, and by him presented
to her.
The nomination of Col. George B. Good
win for Assessor of the First Internal Reeve
rue District Of Wisconsin in place of Col.
| George B. Bingham, has been confirmed by
the Senate.
The Columbus Democrat gives the full par
ticulaIs of the death, by hydrophobia, of
James Cummings, of the town of Courtlant,
who was bitten by rabid dog on the 9Th
| Of December last.
The Berlin Cowant reports that city as
| prolific of arrests last week. John Rockfel-
| low, Newt. Linkield and N. Young were
arrested before Justice Silver and tried by
a Jury, on charge Of stealing money from
| Henry Vedder.
Some time last fall a girl living in Sparta
| lost her voice in violent fit of anger. Re-
Gently, while she was alone in the house, it
took FIRE, and came near burning down, and
the girl was terribly frightened, but since
that day she has recovered her voice.
woman in Eagle, Waukesha county,
was burned from head to foot, by the exple-
sion of can of kerosene few days since.
She was taken to Milwaukee for treatmen t
We learn from the Mirror that one night
last week the One Dollar store at Oconomo-
voc which had recently opened there, was
entered through broken window and
about fifty dollars worth of jewelry taken
out.
The Beaver Dam argus states that
the bell given by Robert Bonner of the
New York Ledger, to the Assembly Presley
terrain church of that place, has arrived and
may be seen in the church yard. 1t was man
ufactured in Troy, and weighs .o2o
pounds.
The Equal Right Association of Wiscon :
sin holds its second annual meeting in
GAINESVILLE, March 10th, and continues two
days. Among those announced to address
convention are Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Rev. D. E. Maxon, Lilly Peckham, Mrs. L.
A. Hooker and Mrs. O. Guernsey.
Margaret Doyle and Matilda Jahr. two OF
the victims of the kerosene explosion at
Milwaukee, are already dead, and the other,
Caroline kas tar, cannot live much longer.
The oil which caused the casualty had not
been inspected, and the dealers from whom
it was procured have been arrested and held
TO bail.
A large brick dwelling house of Thomas
George, situated upon his farm, two miles
west of Kenosha, took fire on the night OF
Feb 2 8th, and was burned to the ground
The family scarcely had time TO dress them
selves and get out of the house before it was
in ruins. 1t is not known how the fire orig
mated
, James Treadwell, of kenosha, a young
man of good education and disposition, was
found Sunday morning lying in the read
north of Main street bridge, in an insensibe
condition. He was taken to his house,
where every attention was given him, bat
he was too far gone to resuscitate and he
sooR expired He has been addicted to
strong drink for long time, and his friends
have made every effort to reform him, but
his appetite was too strong to overcome.
The Fond gu Lac Commonwealth says that
Hon. E. H. Galloway chairman ofthe Coun,
ty Board of Supervisors, and Col. DeGroat
the Clerk, were, last Thursday, served by
Marshal Hamilton, with writs issued by the
United States circuit court at Milwaukee
on complaint of Horatio J Olcott, the hold
er OF portion of the county bonds issued
by the Sheboygan and Fond du Lac r. R
These bonds, as is known by most of our
readers, have, by decision of the supreme
court of this State, been declared unconsti-
tutional and void. We learn that it is the
intention of these officers Of the board to
use every honorable means to- sustain this
decision in the L. S. court.
The first Government land Office, in Wis
consin, was established in Green Bay, the
Oshkosh Times tells US. The first tract of
land sold, was to increase Clafflin and Daniel
Darnell, July 80, lS35-being Lot !, of Sec
s, Town %, Range 20, lying just below
Wrightstown, Brown county. Less thar IS
years ago, the first Government lands ever
sold in Wisconsin circumS lance hardI J
credible when we consider that the State
is now not only thickly settled, but the
center of group of States, then wilder
ness known only as Indian Territory.
The last Wisconsin Mirror has the follow
ing: poor farmer, in this vicinity, has been
snxiously looking for the arrival of a snug
fortune He sent one dollar to a New York
firm, for which he was promised, IN an ad-