Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-04-06
STATE ITEMS.

club at Madison.
a sturgeon weighing 30 lbs. was recently
caught in Lake Winnebago.
White fish in large quantities are being
taken from lake Mendoza t Mad son.
A man named Dougherty was drowned at
/ Fond du Lac on Saturday the. 25th ult,
Madison has had q fires during the past
gear with an aggregate loss of $4,000.
Three cheese manufactures are to be
started in the vicinity Of Sparta during this
| season.
man in Rutland Dane county, recently
shot and killed large prairie wolf with a
revolver.
Major Fl. A. Tenney, OF Madison, has be-
come one of the editors of the Chicago Re
publican.
Rock River is very high at GAINESVILLE,
and fears are entertained that there will be
a repetition of the freshet of 1866.
A Michigan paper saps: Wisconsin, hav-
ing abolished capital punishment, Mexican
Buchanan is to play there.
Dr.. E. G, Benjamin, late of the Ocono-
VOC Badger, has bought the Whitewater
Register for $4,000.
Mr. A. W. Kellogg, who has so long aud
| ably served as secretary of the Northwes
tern Mutual Life Insurance Company, has
resigned his position and gone so Chicago.
The Wisconsin, Chief says that two saloon
keepers at Fl. Atkinson have been fined $50
each for allowing minors to play billiards in
their saloons.
E. j. Owen, of Center, Rock Co., was
bitten last Tuesday by rabid dog. The
animal was afterward killed, but there was
no doubt that he was mad.
Mrs. Lumley died last week at Winnie
come, aged one hundred years and three
months. She enjoyed excellent health up
to few weeks of her death,
The Waupun Times says that seven con-
| ,ict8 were received at the State Prison last
week, their sentences varying from one to
ten years. The whole number in the prison
is now 20l.
A tailor of Lancaster, named Ed. Hite,
became the happy father of three boys on
Saturday last. 'sMother and children are
doing WE'LL
The report that Gov. Fairchild was going
to Europe is without foundation He goes
to Washington this week on business con
nected with various state interests.
The Madison Journal says: "Gen. Harm
den has killed seventeen red, and four
Wooa gray foxes this winter The wood
.oxes are tree climbers and are probably
often mistaken for more dangerous ami
mails"
The GAINESVILLE Gozetts says: ''The double
headed girl is at Beloit. What splendid
politician she nay become when women
come into power. She can look both ways
at the same time with perfect ease"
The Elkhorn Independent has long ac-
count OF a recent election held in Delavan
for candidate for postmaster of that vii
lage. Mr.. Mullvile, retired soldier, was
the unanimous choice.
They are trying to introduce water from
Lake Pewaukee into Milwaukee by sys-
| tenn of water-works, but newspaper cor
respondent protests against it, and says
that the water of that lake is alive with
wigglers."
Appleton ha enjoyed first class sensa-
ton in the way of an elopement. A girl
aged fourteen and boy somewhat older ran
away to Stockbridge and were married
A fire in Berlin, on Tuesday evening of
last week, destroyed two frame buildings,
one owned by Mr.. q. Merriam, and occu-
pied by him as boot and shoe store and
the other belonging to Mr.. VIM. Gordon,
occupied as a millinery store and residence.
Loss So, 700. Insurance about 81, 2O0
The Princeton Republic tells of Mr..
MCGEE, of Kingston. who had his horses
| stolen by two young men, one of them his
own son. On the same night they stole one
hundred and seventy-fve pounds of wool
from neighbor. a saloon was also enter
ed and the whisky barrel emptied North
ing has been heard of the thieves Young
MCGEE leaves young wife destitute.
A late report from Fond du Lac says that
the lower portion of the city was entirely
under water, rain and the melting of the
heavy fall of snow producing freshet In
about quarter of the city the water is up
to the top OF he doors in the houses, and
the hook and ladder company had been
called on to protecl the buildings from the
floating ice.
The La Crosse Leaders tells of a remark
able family which recently arrived in that
city, on the way to Minnesota The pa
rents have been married but eleven years,
their oldest children are but a triie over ten
years old, and they have tscenty- taco HUing
children. There were nine births of twins
and one at which four children were born,
sound, preserved, and are now alive.
Whether any escaped or not, We do not
know. 1t is unnecessary to add that the
man was poor.
h Oshkosh Northeastern reports thai
the dead body of an infant child had been
found in an clubhouse on the premises, 40
Ceape street. An inquest was held upon
the body, and a young woman named
Clark was arrested on suspicion of being
the mother After the examination of sew
eral witnesses, and a post norton examina-
ion Of the body Of the child hy DR. Iird,