Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-09-07

Hudson has a broom factory.

Hudson has a broom factory.
The Waupaca Republican says the vi eld
of wheat is coed and the quality better than
for years past.
A cracker bakery has just been started il
Sheboygan, and broom mandatory a
Dea yer Dam.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says the cash col.
lections of the o. S. Assessors Office du.
ring the month of August announces to
sl15,s55ss.
TIE Green Bay Gasstte says railroad mat.
tiers now wear brighter look than at any
time since the enterprise of a connection
with the Mississippi was inaugurated.
Appleton proposes 10 have water works.
They have bought IS horse power engine
to threw water from the river to the big he s {
point Of land in the city.
1t is stated that the hop crop win be
light in Portage county in proportion to the
number Of acres to be gathered. The work
OF harvesting them was commenced in most
Of the yards on Monday.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette says that q young
lady who had been rendered a position in
the city schools for the coming term, wrote
note declining the appointment On the
ground that she had received better offer.
She was married last Tuesday.
The colored lady and white gentleman
arrested Friday night at GAINESVILLE for be-
ing too intimate, have each been sentenced,
the man for twenty and the Dinah for thirty
days in the county Jail.
John D. WEIGH, an old resi- lent OF Mad.
ison, died on the 9th nit Mr.. Wslch was
highly esteemed by his neighhors; he had
been sheriff of tho comfy and was an officer
in the army.
The Beloit Journal says that number
Of persons have been poisoned by eating
chickens. The cause of it is this: potato
bugs are filled with rank poison these The
chickens eat freely, and naturally some lof
the poison:is communicated to the flesh.
The Representative says that the Fox
Lakers were wonderfully excited las: Friday
evening "hy the appearance of a luminous
belt extending entirely across the horizon
from N. w. ia S. E." neither rainbow nor
the northern lights.
The brig Butcher Boy is now at Fort
Howard dlscharging cargo ofiron ore into
an immense barge which will take it to the
ron furnace in Appleton, now nearly COM
pleted. The barge is built for the purpose
and is as large as the passage of the locks
will permit.
The Waushara argus says that DR.. N. W.
Briggs came into that Office on Saturday
bea ring on his shoulders a mammoth stalk
of tobacco. 1t measured feet in height,
and several of the leaves were 2 feet long
and 10 inches wide. 1t was grown by Mr.
Geo. Yates, on the ia rm formerly ow ned by
friedrich Barnes.
Judge Albert Smith, Probate judge of
Milwaukee county, died at the city Of Mil
waukee On Monday, the 29th inst, of pa.
ralysis, aged 81 years. In 1874 he was
elected to Congress by the Wings of the
Batavia IN. W District. In 1916 he moved
TO Milwaukee, where he practiced law till
1859, from which time till his death he
illed the positio n OF Judge of the County
Court.
Up to last Thursday, Black river had
raised nine feet, and logs had commenced
running quite freely. 1t is the first time in
several years that rise Of any account has
occurred during the month Of August.
ogs will find their way to market during
he present rise, and also consider able lum-
Der and timber.
The OconomOwoc Tin . says that an old
gentleman named friedrich Wolframm, liv-
near Silver Lake, about three miles from that
village, was missing on Wednesday morn
ing, last week. His body was found float
ing in the lake on Saturday, by daughter
Of Christian Jacobs. The case was reported
to the coroner, a jury impaneled, and YER
dict of suicide rendered.
One hundred and fifty thousand bushels of
wheat arrived at the elevator at Prairie du.
Chen last week. OF this amount some 3d.
900 busheles consisted of new wheat, which
averaged from sixty-one to sixty two
pounds to the bushel. There are shipped
from the elevator about seyenty-ive car
loads of wheat daily to Milwaukee.
The La Crosse Leader learns that a few
nights since Sylvester Mackelrod, of Beaver
Greek, was killed at Galesville. He had
been IN Trempealeau during the day, and
had been drinking, and when he left home,
at night, he took a jug Of whisky with him.
Three other men were with him, but at
Galesville they left him, and he proceeded
to drive home after dark, alone. He al
lowed his horses to stray up an old road
that had been closed for sometime, but in
a short time they left it for deep ravine. On
Friday afternoon his wagon was found in
pieces scattered through the trees, his horses
with the harness partly torn off ana entagled
in the bushes, and MacKelrod's body lying
near the fence with cash cut on the face
and dent in his forehead.
The Oshkosh Northeastern says that q
clergy man, residing in = neighboring city,
recently, failed to keep an appointment to
preach in one Of the churches of that city,
on account of the "duplex arrival Of the
MALL" as he wrote the committee. His
wife had twins...... While digging gravel on
the east shore of the lake, in Calmet county,
few days since, one Of Day i Co.'s men
found an Indian pipe under the roots Of an
eak tree about twenty inches in diameter
The pipe is made of species of red clay
and is perfect although of rude design.