Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-05-18
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Last week 500 bounty was paid at James
Vile to one man for 8 wolves, and sos to
another.
The Fort Atkinson glove company is IN
full operation, and turning out ladies' and
gents kid gloves of good quality.
A fine colt was fatally poisoned near
GAINESVILLE by eating the bark upon young
locust trees.
The fears of drouth in different parts of
the state have been removed by copious
showers of rain
a Catholic priest in Milwaukee has no.
tilted his parishiouers that waltzing must be
INDUCED IN no more.
| A Prairie du Chen firm one day last
week shipped ,45l musk rat skins.
The Amoskeag steam fire engine recently
purchased by the city of Madison, cost Sd,
500.
The Appleton district camp-meeting will
probably be held on Doty's Island during
the last week of June.
Sam. Ryan, Jr., county judge of Outa-
game county and editor OF the Appleton
Crescent, has resided in the Fox river valley
forty-four years.
T. h. F. Passmore, Democra tic candidate
for Congress IN the Third District of Wis
consin two years ago, died few days ago.
A young man named Haddou' committed
suicide at Waupun on the 18th inst. by
shooting himself.
Hon. Alexander Mitchell, President of
the Northwestern and St. Paul railroads,
will go to Europe in July.
Mrs. Thomas, of Merton, Waukesha Co.,
gave birth to two pairs of twins within a
year.
The commission store of NJ Skinner. at
Milwaukee, was burned on the 9th, and an
!, old Freedman named ChaYanoux persisted
in the flames.
Isaac Burehard, a boy II years of age,
tell overheard from boat into Wolf River,
at Fremont, one evening last week, and was
drowned
A new German lodge of Odd Fellows has
recently been organized in Oshkosh by Sam
Ryan, Jr., Grand Master of Wisconsin.
We learn from the Oshkosh Northeastern
.l.za al.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints" preached to a small audience in
that city on the sth inst.
A dispatch announces that Gov. Fair
child has pardoned Dawson, sent to the
State Prison for life for the murder of
woman named Higgins, in Milwaukee, in
1856.
Peter Lasen, a prosperous farmer of
Trempealeau county, was cut in two by the
cars at La Crosse On the night of the 5th
The train started as be was climbing be-
tween two cars.
Hon. Philetus Sawyer, member of Cen
gress from the fifth district of Wisconsin,
has written letter declining to be can
| didate for reelection.
Stringham's elevator. Oshkosh, caught
fire one day last week, from spark from
an adjoining mill, and five thousand bushels
of wheat were badly damaged Loss over
81, 600, fully covered by insurance.
The Madison Journal reports the death
of many Large smooth-shelled mud turtles
! in Lake Monona. Some that have lately
been cast to the shore are two feet long.
The cause Of their mortality is unknown.
E. B. Treat, editor of the Manitowoc
Pilot, will deliver a eulogy upon the lite
and character Of the late Jere Crowley, at
the mex meeting of the Wisconsin editorial
association.
Geo. L. Anderson, OF Dala6eld, Wauke-
sha county member If the senior class
| of Lawrence University. Appleton, has
been appointed by Congressman Paine
cadet at West Point after competitive
/
| The Metropolitan square OF buildings at
| Whitewater, was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 10th inst The FIRE broke out
from smoke-house and - buildings were
| consumed, involving loss of So, 300, on
| which there was an insurance of $4,000.
Gen Logan was reelected Grand Conn
| mander-in Chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic Gov. Fairchild, of this state,
was elected Senior Vice Grand Commander.
The projected Milwaukee and Lake Shore
road, from Milwaukee to Green Bay, is
meeting with favor along the line, and
| $3.50, 900 have already been subscribed in
the expectation that the road viii be built
within three years
The State officers who went up to Waa-
| pun at the burning of the State Prison, are
reported as saying that the loss by the fire
has been considerably exaggerated, and
that's new shop can be bailt, an iron root
put on, and the machinery put il for SO,
! 600,