Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-01-19
STATE ITEMS.

mends the Legislature TO pass a law that
ono child shall be born without the child
consent Ths Milwaukee Wisconsin en-
dorses the Recommendation providing the law
shall apply only to children who have ar
rived al the age Of discretion.
Henry Sanford has retired from the Ra-
cine 4dUocqte.
The Oshkosh Times promises to issue
daily paper in the spring.
a large steam Touring mill is to be built
in Lacrosse by eastern capitalists.
Two hundred and fifty marriage certf-
Gates were recorded in Racine last year.
The Journal calls it a ''mournfuI record"
Three men were fined $40 each and costs.
last week for disturbing a school in Caledo-
mia, Racine County. Served them right.
The Durand Times says Judge S. L. Plum
mer had one of his eyes put out recently by
chip which Sew from his axe while chop
ping.
The PlattevilIe Fitness says that on
Wednesday last Mrs. Mckee, milliner and
dress-maker at Washburn, poured some
kerosene oil from can into the fire, being
in a hurry for supper The fire communica-
ted instantaneously with the oil in the can,
causing an explosion, and enVelopiug the
unfortunate woman in the flames. Her lit
tie girl, who was Just coming into the room
from the cellar, snatchcd up the babe and
| returned to the cellar, and escaped through
| another hatchway. Mrs. Mckee, completely
blinded, g1oped around the room in search
of the door; when she found it she started
for the pump, and was in the act of pumping
water on herself when help arrived The
flames were sfnothered, and she was carried
into the house. She was so badly burned
that notwithstanding everything possible
was done for her relief she died the next
morning. The oil is what is called non-ex-
plosiye diamond oil. The explosion broke
every window glass in the room Deceased
leaves husband and four children to mourn
her loss.
The Fox Lake Representative, advising
farmers to look on the bright side, says :
awe saw an honest farmer the other day
going home from market, where he had
sold his wheat for sixty cents. Although
it was cold, and he plodded along with an
ox-team: he was singing, 'Thereu be no
more sorrow there
The last Wisconsin ilirror comes out in
favor of the nomination of Hon. ]. Bowman
of knbourn CRY, for member Of Congress
from this district.
In the official list of preiates who attend
ed the opening of ths EcumenicaI Council
at Rome, we iad the names of Bishop
Henni, of Milwaukee, Bishop Heiss of La
Crosse, and Bishop Melcboir eff Green Bay.
Ex-Governor Charles Durkee, late of
Kenosha. and for several years Governor of
Utah, is on his way home, having been su-
peGSeueu Dy zen SnaU6r.
The Kilbourn City Mirror says: The
amount of hops shipped from this city du-
ring the last year has been exceedingly
meagre as. compared with the preceding
year. From a rough estimate, the total
amount will hardly reach eight thousand
bales against thirty Thousand bales for 1868
The average price of last years growth, as
shipped, IS about $4,000 to $72O, coo of
1868, as near as we are able to compare it.
a large wolf was killed in WaIworth
county few days ago.
A 81 pound pickerel was caught in &C.
neva lake 4 few days ago.
Edgerton, Rock county, has a population
Of 500 1t shipped last year $50 900 BUSH
els of grain, and it is estimated that the to-
bacco crop that will be shipped from that
point this year will amount to $250,0OO.
Bishop Kemper, of this State, is one OF
the Oldest of the Protestant Episcopal Bish-
ops in the United States. Bishops Smith,
of Kentucky, McIlvain, of Ohio, are the only
ones whose conservation dates earlier than
that OF Bishop Kemper.
Two little Milwaukee boys, who black
boots throughout the day and sell papers in
the evening, cleared enough during the past
season to purchase a 81 800 homestead for
their narents
4 man in Trempeleau County, in eating
''cold slaw,' last week, swal low ed a needle,
1t was pulled out at the back of his neck
{. - or four days after.
Seth Jones, an old citizen Of Bangor, La
Crosse County, Wis. was killed on Thurs
day evening, 9th inst, by a railroad train
running over him while he was driving
across the track. He was about sixty-fve
years of age.
We learn from the Beaver Dam Citizen
that new building is to be erected on the
County Poor Farm, near Juneau, at an ex-
pense Of $4,000, for the accommodation Of
such of the County poor as are insane.
The handsomest woman in Fond du Lac
wears No. shoes.
Hon. Henry Cordicr, the retiring State
Prison Commissioner, was recently made
the recipient, at the hands of his numerous
friends in Waupun, of set of silver plate
Of nine pieces, valued at $3.50. Mr. Cordier
goes to Pennsylvania, where he takes an i'm
ortant position in the management of the
State Prison of that State. He leaves be-
hind host of warm friends.
The Berlin COmaat says on Friday night
the 18th inst, the residence of G F. Gavitt
was broke into and Parlor Pictures TO the
amount of$75. 90 stolen. Mrs Gavitt being
absent from the city aud no one remaining
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