Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-10-05
STATE ITEMS.

Gays ago.
Messrs. Knapp, Stout Co. are cutting
100000 feet of lumber daily at their mills
in Menominee, Dunn county. =
The fourth annual reunion of Co. &,
Eighth Regiment will take place atGeneva,
Walwor;h county, Oct. 9th.
1t is intimated that General Thomas S.
Allen, late Secretary of State, is soon to
take control of the Oshkosh Northwestern
The steamer "City Of Madison has ceased
her trips for the season on Lake Mendoza.
She will shortly be laid up for the winter.
The Shawano Journal makes favorable
alluson to an excellent picket fence there,
built by Indian carpenters, full blooded Me-
nominees.
Three men in Eau PLANE, in Portage coun
ty, have lately kilel five bears, the SMALL
est weighing 80 pounds, and the largest
45" pounds.
Gov. Fairchild has appointed 6. NJ. Dam
forth, of Oshkosh Hon. D. w. Maxon, of
| West Gend,. and A. NJ. Skeels, of Rpon,
as Commissioners to superintend the build
ing of the new Hospital for the Insane near
| Oshkosh.
The fall meeting of the Burlington Ra-
cine county, Horse Association takes place
| Oct. 18th, 10Th and goth. Purses to the
| fJ goo ora r,
| Col Thomas Reynolds United States
1 Pension Agent at Madison, has nearly COM
peted the sem-annual payment ofpensions,
having paid out about $40, 900 to some
| 1000 pensioners.
The Oshkosh Northwestern says Judge
George Reed, of Manitowoc president of the
Portage, Winnebago and Lake superior
| Railroad Company, has removed to Menasha
SO as to be on the line of his road
They had horse-shoeng match at the
county Fair at.Fond du Lac. One man put
on four shoes in IL minutes anu 48 sec
| onds, and another the same number in Is
minutes.
The Oshkosh Northeastern says that the
| pipe used for the gas mains on the south
side are made of young tamaracks, from six
to ten inches in diameter. The joints are
closed with red lead and the pipe will last
an indefinite length of time.
The Madison Journal says that Colonel
W. S. Franklin, Professor OF Military Tactics
and Engineering at the State University,
detailed for that position by the. War Depart
ment has resigned his commission in the
| United States army and his Professorship,
in order to accept al appointment as Man
ager ofthe Ashland Iron Company, near
Baltimore Md.
The Racine Journal states that on the
ED daughter of Christon Johnson. aged
four years, was poisoned by eating the seeds
OF the Stramonium or jamestown weed
| Medical aid was at once summoned, but with
no avail, ard after few hours of terrible
agony, death came to the relief of the little
sufferer.
At Oshkosh, on the 18th, Mrs Lebold,
residing in the Fifth ward, ad
ministered to her babe, child u few months
old, dose OF laudanun, for the purpose of
to find that it fell into a comatose state, and
ali efforts to arouse it proved fruitless.
!
Convention has just closed an interes ting
session at Delavan, Wis. The officers Of the
convention for this year are: President,
Rev. E. Nisbet, D. D., of Fond du Lac !;
Corresponding Secretary, Rev. j. W. Fish,
of Fox Lake; Recording Secretary, Rev. j.
o, N. Hewitt, Of Waupun Treasurer, Hon.
W. E. Smith, of Fox Lake
The GAINESVILLE Recorder has been shown
a single plant of tobacco from the farm of
Mr. Geo All, of Albion, Dane county, With
| fourteen leaves FIVE of which VIII measure
from 20 to % inches wide and 80 to SO
inches long. The stalk was not selected for
its unusual size, but is an average of his
crcp on three acres.
A young man named Englebert, employed
a, VOLTS brewery, Racine, undertook to let
boiling water into the cooler by means of a
long tin pipe. AS he turned the cock to let
the water on, the force threw the pipe down,
and the boiling stream struck him full in
breast, scalding him the entire length of the
body and down both legs as far as the knees
His recovery is considered very doubtful
The Berlin Journal reports that on Tues
day terrible accident at Neshkoro resulted
fatally. Mr. Frank Weeks, of Harrisville,
moving 10 Berlin with load of goods, on
arriving at Neshkoro halted a moment to
talk With an acquaint ance, when his horses
took fri : ut and ran and threw him from the
load, and the wagon wheel passing over his
neck severed the jugular vein, causing death
as matter Of course.
The baby show in connection with the
Southern w isconsin Fair was great success
There we're twenty-eight competitors for
the prizes, which were awarded as follows
Mrs. G, A. Nelson, GAINESVILLE, first premium
(silver tea-set valued at twenty dollars) F.;
Mrs. Burr Sprage, Brodhead, second premi-
UNI (six-bottle silver caster, valued at twenty
dolars) Mrs. fl. c. Russell, Beloit, third
premium (silyer knife, fork, spoon and cup
The Waushara Argus reports a daring
burglary at Wautoma on Thursday night
The dwelling house of Miss Rebecea Gerry
was entered, and 5000 in United States
bonds, and between $50 and 90 in curren
cy, were stolen. The thief entered Il {
house through the cellar, passed Into the
bedroom where Miss Gerry was sleeping,
and threw a handkerchief saturated with