Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-09-21

the guest of Hon. Alexander Mitchell.
Burglars are still operating in the villag
of shopiere.
wedding procession in Chippewa Fall
last week contained some forty carriages.
Wisconsin lunbermen are floating log:
down the Mississippi to be sawed South.
| A yacht club has been organized at Madi.
son.
The new census will make the population
of Wisconsin $500
A wide strech of winter wheat will be
sowed in the State this fall.
"Old Abe" the eighth regiment eagle, will
attend the soldiers reunion at Milwaukee,
on the 26th.
By the new census Wisconsin is the
twelfth State in point OF population.
The La Crosse Republican dominates Ole
Bull for the next Governor of Wisconsin.
man named Sam. Tiffany, a dangerous
week, for burglary and stealing. He will
undoubtedly be sent to Waupun.
The receipts Of wheat in Milwaukee, du-
ring the week ending September 10, were
46l ,3ll bushels, against l57 1908 bushels in
the same period last year.
The grand master of Odd Fellows of Wis
consin has issued a dispensation permitting
pnblic installation in October, by such
lodges as wish to.
s James Campbell, President Of the Madison
and Portage railroad, has procured the iron
and intends to have twenty miles of his road
running this fall. So much on the line from
Oshkosh to the Mississippi
General J. NJ. Rusk, the sixth district n om-
inee for Congress, is in favor Ct building up
American industry by national legislation.
A new fire tower has been built at Madi-
son.
Geo. H. Paul, of the Milwaukee News, has
been chosen school superintendent of Mil
waukee, in place of Pomeroy, deceased
At Sturgeon Bay, one day last week,
hailstones fel! which weighed two or three
ounces each, and many windows were
broken. The scow Venture was capsized
near Sturgeon Bay, and fifteen cords of tam
bark was lost from her deck load.
Rev John Walworth, one of the oldest
editors in the State, has retired from the
Richland County Sentinel, and is succeeded
by E Pick ard.
De Volson Wool, professor of civil en-
cheering in Ann Arbor university, has
been rendered the Office of superintendent of
the Milwaukee iron works, with salary of
81 900.
Senator Carpenter may now feel that he
has alta ined the summit of human great
ness. Milwaukee halter has got out
new fal ! hat which he calls the "Matt- n.
Carpenter"
The bottom lands in the vicinity OF Prairie
du Chen are overhowed, owing to the high
water in the Mississippi and Wisconsin riv-
ers.
The Scandinavian Society of La Crosse
have received beautiful silk flag, made in
Christiana. Norway.
The Fifteenth Wisconsin Regiment, CON-
posed entirely Of Scandinavians, have a re-
union at La Crosse on the 10th inst.
The Richlaud County Republican says
hop picking there is over. The crop is light
quality good.
Delavan is to have handsome stand erect
ed i'll their city park, for public meetings,
aud for the use of their city band they are
ambitious to rival the Marine Band of
Washington.
The Racine Journal reports that on FRI
day night the Catholic school house was de-
stroyed by fire. 1t was the work of an in
cendiary. Loss, $4,000; $500 insurance.
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kesha, began on Monday, Sept. 10th, 1870,
and extends over fourteen weeks.
The Madison Journal reports the drown.
ing of Gottlieb Brown. He was out on
Lake NJ oDona with adother man, in skif,
which upset by one of them standing up in
it. Both were drunk.
The Clark County Journal says that the
brewery of Messrs. Gondrececk & Andrews,
at Humbird, was destroyed by FIRE last Fri
day afternoon. The FIRE is supposed to have
orr ginated in the dry kiln Loss about
$4,000; insured for $4,000.
horse weighing some !, 200 pounds, the
property of Mr.. An drew Barron, gainesville
fell over precipice forty feet in height
| striking upon solid rock. He suffered NJ
serious injury, not bone being broken.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette says: In house be
longing to Mr.. o. Guernsey, town of Rock
reside the representatives of four generation
of the same family. The eldest, gentleman
of 96 years, took the gold headed cane Of
fered as premium at the last county fair t
the oldest man present at the fair en- Ger
tain day.
On Thursday night, c. H. Lewis, OF Hori
con, shot himself with two balls through
the breast About a. m. of Friday, beirl
still alive, he somehow managed to reloa'
the pistol, and placed it to his forehead
blowing off the scalp most horribly, he be
ing too weak, apparently. to hold the pisto
| souarelv to his head. He canno. recover.
The Darlington Republican reports tina
about six years ago, Mr.. James Anderson,
farmer residing in the town of Benton, La
fayette county, suspecting that his dog hat