Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-09-14
STATE ITEMS,

overlook Pharaoh and his hosts.
The Chief of Police of St. Louis was c
"aukesha boy. He has just been presented
with a gold Maltese Cross set with dia-
monds, by the police force
The Milwaukee Sentinel reports that Mr.
y brIen, the commercial editor of the Wis
consin, drew the gold watch at the st. Gall.
Fair, on Saturday night.
The ceremony of laying the cornerstone
OF the Milwaukee county court house took
place last week. One wing is completed and
another nearly up, and no W commences the
erection of the main building.
AT Goebel's tavern, in Racine county,
last week, John Bush was assaulted by three
young men, named Haley, Harvey and Han
ahan, and beaten in such a manner that he
will probably not survive. The assault ting
parties were arrested.
The Hood on the Chippewa has departed
Chippewa Falls escaped with very little
damage.
The West Bend Democrat thinks that the
apple crop of that part of the State is fully
equal to the demand for home consumption
The Madison Democrat says that the walls
Of the new Park Hotel are rising rapidIy
and there is no doubt that everything will be
completed by the first of January next.
Monroe, in Green county, furnishes f.
school-'eacher for the town OF Maysyille,
California. Miss Lettie Bentley is the lady s
name The school marms on the Pacific
coast don't all come from Yankeedom.
The La Crosse Leader notices the death
of Hon. D. B. Priest, United States Collector
of that district. He died at his home in
Sparta, the 9Th inst, aged about forty years
He leaves wife and family to mourn his
loss.
The first lodge of Knights of Pythias in
the State was organized at Milwaukee on
the 9th, by delegation from Chicago.
Dist. Collector Burton, at La Crosse, has
been designated as Collector of the Sixth
District of Wisconsin, vice Priest, deed.
Hon. G. S. Meyer, of Fond du Lac, and
Hon. Henry Cordier, of Waupun, are spoken
of in connection with the Republican nomi-
nation for Congress in the 4th District.
The Northeastern says that business
prospects at Oshkosh haye greatly improved
since the passage of the ordinance author
izing tie city to aid the Ripon railroad. Not
more than half the necessary number Of
cars can be obtained at Oshkosh to supply
the demand of the shippers.
According to the Fond du Lac Reporter
a woman of light frame of body, but strong
frame of mind, resident of that city, DEM
onstrated the right to cowhide a man who
she said had slandered her.
The Appleton Post says that on last Fri
day young man drove team from Mani
towoc to that city in seven hours and a halt.
Shortly after his arrival, one of the horses
was taken sick and died.
The case of Barrett, convicted ofthe mur-
der of his brother. was argued at GAINESVILLE
on " ednesday afternoon before Judge Lyon,
and new trial was granted on the ground
that incompetent testimony had been admit
ted during the progress OF the previous trial.
The Portage Register learns the particu
lars Of the killing by lightning of a lad
named Bernard McCabe, of Lowville, on
the 4th inst The boy was sitting in the
family group when the bolt desceded, strik-
ing the boy with such force as to tear the
boots off from him, killing him instantly.
Several other members of the family were
shocked, but not seriously injured.
The POLK County Ecss says We weie re-
Gently shown fine, full grown specimen Of
Duchess of Gutenberg apple, raised by John
McAdams in the town of Pennington, this
county. McAdams is experimenting in fruit
and thinks there ia no doubt but what the
Duchess can be successfully grown. We
hear of several other fine specimens Of ap-
pies being raised in the county this season.
The Kilbourn Mirror says: Hop picking
is now going on lively in our yards Whole
families are engaged. Houses are shut up.
The baby wagon is trundled into the hop
yards. and all is joy and activity. We an
derstand some families, including pole pull
ers, make from FIVE to ten dollars a day.
The La Crosse Democrat says the members
of the Fifteenth Wisconsin Volunteers,
which was composed entirely of Scandina-
vians, and which did such noble service in
the late war, are making arrangements for
a grand reunion in that city on the 10Th
and goth of the present month.
Ole Bull, the renowned violinist who was
married to Miss Sarah Thorpe, daughter OF
Senator Thorpe, at his beautiful res dence in
Norway on the lst of June, arrived in Mad
ison last week with his bride and her moth.
er. They were wei coined at the residence
of Senator Thorpe by large number OF
friends, when the marriage ceremony was
again performed, the officiating clergyman
being Rev. Charles II Richards, of the Con-
gregational church. Ole Bull has purchas-
ed an elegant resedince in New York, where
he will soon take his young br ide to spend
the winter.
The La Crosse Leader says: "One Of the
most terrible tragedies which ever occurred
in the country isreported in St. CroiI coun
ty. A woman by the name of Lenchrue
living about ten miles east of Hudson, on
Friday last, drowned her two children-on ne
aged 2 years and one months-set fire to
he- house, and then took poison. The qusn.
tity of poison taken was so large as to prove
an emetic, and thus saved the woman's life
The woman tells about the following story
That she was cut gathering wood, heard hel
children scream, ran to the house, and saw q
person running from the house with the