Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-02-23
STATE ITEMS.


week hssled load of ten tons.
A GAINESVILLE man has yea Ring Devon
calf weighing 1000 pounds.
Diptheria is prevailing to a serious ex- |
tent at Fremont, Wsupaccs county,
o. A Reyes, of Menasha, was last week
elected President of the State Firemsn's As
ISOLATION.
The 6rst and third wards of Madison,
and the 6rst ward of Portage City gave ma
joriti-s against Atwood.
The wife of Charles Brening, resident of
the 9Th ward, Milwaukee, committed suicide
on Tuesday of last week by cutting her throat.
Charles A. Eldredge is aching to be re-
turned to Congress at the next election. The
voters of his district may "object" 10 the
great Director.
A correspondent of the Madison Journal
urges the establishment of an industrial
school for girls, where they may De in
structed in the various branches of house.
bold labor.
Beriah Brown, a we'll known Democratic
editor of Madison in the days of Barstow,
and the balance, is now publishing the
Democratic Press, at Salem, Oregon.
Lieutenant Manley, the Indian Agent at
Green Bay, has been removed by order OF
the President, and Lieut. ". r. Boyne de-
tailed 10 act as Indian Agent in his place.
A. C. Kent's dis:illery, about mile north
of GAINESVILLE, was destroyed by fire on Tues
day night. Loss $4,000; insured for 5000
The third State Normal School ae Osh-
kosh will be ready for occupancy on the lst
of August next The building is 75xl26
feet, stories high, and will cost $43, 900.
The Columbus Democrat says Warren Gil
bert, probably the heaviest farmer in the
county, this year carries over between
1000 aud 5000 bushels of wheat.
Miss Mary Mead, aged AZ years, commit
ted suicide, at Columbus, on Saturday, by
taking morphine. For long time she has,
been afflicted with occasional fits of melan-
choly.
The Senate on Thursday last by vote of
~ to 9, adopted resolution striking the
word 'smale' out of the Constitution where
ever it relates to suffrage.
We learn from the Madison Journal that
the Meat Market of James Mathiesen was
destroyed by fire on Wednesday last. 1t is
supposed that the fire caught from stove
in the back part of the building The
meat market and its contents were totally
destroyed.
In the Circuit Court at Milwaukee, the
case of " K. Wilson us. Josiah A. Noonan
for libel, was brought to close on Tuesday,
Feb Il, and verdict for the plaintiff was
rendered in the sum of two thousand dollars.
The farmers of the town of Trenton,
Dodge county, have organized q club. and
hold semi monthly meetings. "Theory of
growing wheat and oats" was the last sub
ject of discussion.
The Fond du Lac Reporter says: "The
suggestion OF the Oshkosh Journal to organ
ize sort of new State Fair for Northern
Wisconsin is very good one, but before
that is done Fond da Lac, " innebago and
Brown counties should get their county ag-
ricultural societies upon better paying
basis than they now have"
The Dodge County Democrat says on
Monday afternoon, Mr.. Patrick Thornton, of
Elba, was thrown from a sleigh and had
both legs broken and terribly bruised, and
the breast bone on the left side broken. He
is very low.-...On Tuesday morning the
house of Mr.. R. 81. Ellis, was destroyed by
FIRE. Loss about 81, 900; insured for 81 900.
The Columbus Democrat says that in Co.
lunbia county, from the same spot, one can
fling chip either into the tributaries ofthe
Fox OF Wisconsin rivers. In one case it
finds its way to Lake Michigan, and in the
other the father of Waters bears it to the
Gulf of Mexico.
The last Berlin Courant contains the fol-
lowing obituar notice: At the Stale Cap
itol, in Madison, on the 9th inst, of stran-
gulation; ga Bill to divide the County Of
Waushara and attach a portion thereof to
Portage County, and ;he renal nder thereof
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Here is a weather item from the Shswano
Journal: "The present winter has been, so
far, for a Il kinds of winter work, unparali-
sIed in the history of the lumber regions.
At no time has the weather been uneom-
fortably cold, and the sleighing has been
good since the middle of November.
Notwithstanding that the logs have to
be hauled in most cases nearly double the
distance that they were last winter, the
amount put in will overrun that of last
season, owing TO the favorable winter"
The Waukesha Pldindealer says ex-Sena-
tor Mann and T. C. Dousman, ESQ., have
purchased the old saw-mill property near
the old "Ottawa House," in Ottawa, for the
purpose of breeding the common brook
trout. There is with it above twenty acres
of land, with a water power produced by
large spring. They are also erecting on the
premises large cheese factory, thirty by
seventy feet, two stories high, with base
ment.
Superintendent Craig's report shows the
total number of children in Dodge county
between the age of 4 and 20 to be 8, 900, Of
which number the East District has 1891
the West District 5000. No. of teachers
employed in the East District, 90. Average
wages paid male teachers, per month, s4l,-
81; female teachers, per month, $25, "a.
No. of teachers employed in the West
District, l2o. Average wages paid male