Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-04-20
STATE ITEMS.

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has raised about ten feet this spring,
The Davenport Brothers-spiritual jug
gIers-perforrn in Madison, May 9th and
It'll.
Hattie Pratt has been ARE sted in James
vile for throwing key eff beer through
saloon window.
Edwin Forrest, the tragedian, viii visit
Milwaukee and play on the 5th. 9Th and 18th
of Nay.
A new post office has been established in
Columbia county, called Lewis ton station.
The town of Windsor has pledged Sc, 600
in aid Of the Madison aud Portage Rail
road.
A fire swept over the cemetery at Mazo-
mamie, Dane county, Tuesday, and destroy
ed the trees and shrqbbery generally.
The wife of Mr. Oscar Jackson, of Eau
Claire, rose from her bed on Thursday
morning at three o'clock, and committed
suicide by cutting her throat with razor
The Pioneer reports that the Wisconsin is
clear of ice. The first raft passed Sank City
on Thursday last
The maple sugar season around Berlin
contrary to expectation, has been short and
improbable in that section
The Columbus Democrat estimates that
only three-fourths of the spread of wheat
sown last year will be put in this season.
about there.
The Dell Lodge Of Odd Fellows at Kill
bourn. established January 2lst with nine
members, now numbers twenty nine, and
every meeting adds to its strength.
Tuesday morning soldier belonging to
the National Asylum, while intoxicated,
attempted TO throw hims elf into the river
at Milwaukee. He was rescued in time to
escape death.
On the 18th, by the violence of the wind
on Lake Winnebago, the ice was driven
with such force against the dam at its out
let at Neenah, as to carry away some 800
feet
Eight persons were confirmed by Assis-
tant Bishop Armitage, at the Episcopal
church, Wa1pun, last week.
Ex-State Treasurer, W. E. Smith will soon
start on trip to Europe, and will be absent
about six months. His many friends
throughout the State will wish him
pleasant journey.
Henry Pegram, Menominee haif-breed
and son of the rebel General Pegram, died
at Weyauwega, on the 9Th, and was buried
with Masonic honors.
The store of c. L. Wheelock, Indian
trader Of Keshena, was broken into by an
Indian burglar last week. The " brave
was arrested and lodged in jail.
Madame Zollicoffer, female lecturer, an
nounces a lecture on Friday evening in
Oshkosh, in opposition to the arguments of
Petroleum V Nasty on the woman suffrage
question.
The Oshkosh Journal says: st is believ.
ed that the temporary works put up al
| Portage City for the purpose will prevent
| the waters of the Wisconsin River from
flowing over into the Fox this spring"
Miss Euphbalia yiles of Elkhorn, has
commenced suit against Mississippi steam
boat company claiming $25 600 damages
for injuries received while passing from a
boat to the shore. Carpenter & Murphy Of
Milwaukee are her attorneys.
The flag on the capitol was at half mast
and guns were fred balfhourIy on Friday
last, the anniversary of the death of Presi
dent Lincoln, in pursuance of an order by
Lieut.. Gov. Pound.
The people of Waushara county, at the
recent election, defeated the proposition to
remove the county seat from Wautoma to
Pine River by over 500 majority.
Madison has organized a military com
pany with B. R. Bird captain, Thos. Wilson
lst lieutenant, Tunis Davis I'd Lieutenant,
who, with most of the 40 or 80 members
already enrolled, have served in the army
Sidney Burbanks, of Northport, Wau-
paca county, was killed on the 8th inst, by
falling from a staging while fixing water
wheel in lis saw mill OF that place
The Ripon Free Press IS the name of
new eight column paper just start at Ripon
by L. B. EverdelI. It is printed from the
material of the old Representative office.
| On Saturday morning two students O. the
State University, at Madison, were out hunt
| ing for ducks One of them, Williams, ac-
cidently set off his gun, its charge striking
his comrade, Lentz, in the neck, severing
an artery from the effects Of which he died
in few minutes.
Charles Seymour, Esq, Of the La Crosse
Republican, declines being a candidate for
Congress in the sixth district until the
State capital shall have been removed from
Madison to Milwaukee, and the National
capital from Washington to the Valley of
the Mississippi.
We learn from La Crosse Republican that
G Norwegian, residing in Lew is Valley,
while out hunting, on Sunday of last week,
dug the root of what he supposed to be
horse-radish, but which proved to be that
of wild hemlock. He ate a considerable
quantity Of it, from the effects of which he
died in less than half an hour.
Acting Governor Pound, has appointed
Col. Ezra I. Sprague, Of Depere, Brown
county, Judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit,
TO fill the vacaucacy occasioned by the fact
that the change of the boundaries of the
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