Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-06-08
STATE ITEMS.
Oshkosh boasts of trunk fsctorY.

The twenty -{opfth annual Diocesan Con-
vention Of the Episcopal Church commences
in Milwaukee on the 22th inst.
/ The State Methodist camp meeting COM
menccs at Prairie du Sac on the 18th inst
! Beloit has An old Fourth of July field
piece which is supposed TO be more than 200
| year. old. 1t was in the Mexican war, and
came originally from Spain.
a mill is being built at Beloit capable Of
or hiding 200 bushels of corn per day.
Kenosha county now claims 10 be the
champion cheese-making county in Wis
| consin.
| Manitowoc is more bitter against Mi,rau-
| kee than Shebcygan, and talk. of running
/ railroad around that city to Chicago.
| The Milwaukee Turner's have collected
! one thousand dollars for the purpose of pay
| ing tha..expenses incident to testing the con-
| stitutio4alily of the "Danc house ordi-
nance
! killed at Oshkosh. He had bitten one child
The Sparta Herold says large quantities Of
! speckied trout are daily sent to Milwaukee
from that place.
Joseph Holmes, who went 10 Kansas some
time since from Madison, is missing aud
friends are very ANXIOUS.
The FTeemon says the Waukesha county
convention of Good Templars will meet at
HartIand on the i6 and 18th insss.
General Washburne, member of Con gress
from the Lacrosse district, is at home on
brief visit.
A new Catholic seminary to cost SIS, 900,
4 CHEN.
The Gazette states that large numbers Of
drunken men and boys may oe seen on the
/ streets at Janesviile.
| The committee Of the state agricultural
| society are putting the grounds in order at
Milwa .kee for the coming fair in Septem-
Der. ..-
4 remarkable bird was exhibited on the
| street in Fond du Lac, the other day, by
farmer from Forest. It was neither hawk,
| owl or eagle, but seemed confused cross
between all three. 1t was Savagely cross,
| beside.
The Waukesha Pl Gindealer says that du-
ring the past week number of silver eels
have been ca ught in the ponds and lakes in
| Mukwonago, and last week Mr.. Cox caught
one at the South Genesee Mills that weighed
four pounds.
Governor FairchiId addressed the New
York produce exchange on the 18th, upon
the necessity and practicability of construct
ing canal route between the Mississippi
and Lake Michigan by way of the Fox and
and Wisconsin rivers.
The State Historical Society is in ex-
pectation OF receiving the marble bust of
Hon. Alex Mitchell of this city, very soon.
Shirly Dore, who writes readable letters
from Washington, for several papers, is
Miss Susan Cunning, of Columbus, Wis.
At Sturgeon Bay, council of the Meth
odist Episcopal church convened last week
to try Rev. George Pinney for some breach
of the discipline. Pinney, however, swore
out warrant and had the prasldins elder
and all OF the council arrested.
The Kilbourn City Mirror says that four
stores and the Post-office in that place were
entered BY burglars on Friday night, the
9th ult. Thirty dollars in money was
taken from the Post-office.
In the town of Wheatland kenosha coun-
~, on the llth of October, 1868, T. Pithoff
was murdered by Henry and Bernard
Nielsen. The murderers fed the State, but
one of them lately returned, was ARRESTED,
and placed in Jail. The other is som ewhere
in illinois.
The Eau Claire Free Press in a well writ
ten article on. the congressional campaign,
comes out in favor of Generel C. e. Wash
burn ano Philetus Sawyer, as representa-
lives in Congress from the state at large
should the bill new beforr Congress become
a law
The La Crosse Leader says The safe in
the county treasurers office Of Trempeleau
county WAS opened on Tuesday night and
81 900 in money tnkea therefron. The
thief entered the room OF the county
treasurer at night, took his pants, carried
them out to the granary, rifled the pocket
of The key, and with it opened the safe and
secured his plumber. The safe was in the
| court house, about half a mile from the res
| idence Of the county treasurer.
| The 5.ingiest man in Wisconsin lives at
| Durand Re has board with hole bored
| in It about the size of the largest hens
| eggs. He will go to store with his tester
buy half dozen eggs, and.pick them out by
taking those that will not go through the
hole. This is fact.
man named Thomas Murphy, at work
| in the single mill of H. K. Smith, Osh-
kosh, was killed by a single bolt last
| week.
| A $50, 600 hotel is in courss oferection at
| 0eonomowoc.
| General Cobb, member Of Congress from
| the Sd district, declines to again become a
| candidate.
The Oshkosh Northieestern relates the fol-
! lowing which it claims is not fshy:
Early this morning two men in n sshing
| boat on the lake about two miles from the
mouth OF the Fox river caught in a pound
net, among other Ssh, a sturgeon six feet