Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-09
STATE ITEMS.

mutes residing at Fond du Lac, became a
| maniac last week.
Two boys played at ducking, with shot
guns, on La Crosse marsh. ON the 20 milf
! and one OF them now suffers the penalty of
a wounded arm and side.
Bishop Henri, of Milwaukee. arrived
home last week. The Bishop has been in
Rome since September last in attendance on
the Ecumenical Council.
The Milwaukee papers publish its mortu.
AIRY statistics for October, showing lsl
deaths--96 males, os females, and all but
| 81 under years old. Health officer John
son says Group and diptheria prevailed to an
alarming extent.
! The Evansville Reuiew tells of pea-nu ts
raised there by Mr.. Dioble, whose expert
| .nents, it thinks, demonstrates that peanuts
! can be raised in that latitude, and with
| favorable season and the right kind of soil
! the business could be made quite remuner-
ativc.
The dry goods store of Dearborn & Hall,
| Evansville, was entered by burglars on
Thursday night last, and goods to the value
| of about 5000 carried away.
| A man in Fond dn Lac went into the for-
| sune-telling business. One nervous lady,
" no applied to him, was SO much excited
at the tale he told her, that, when he pro-
| nounced the final words, MADAM four
weeks from this day you will be murdered"
| she fell senseless upon the floor, and for
| time it was feared that she had lost her rea-
son.
Ansel W. Kellogg for many years one OF
| the Leading bankers of Northern Wisconsin,,
died in Oshkosh on Sunday.
An insane man jumped out Of third
story window in Racine the other day.
When picked up his mania had left him, and
! he was perfectly sane
| The Sparta Eagle says some of its clti-
zens are preparing to engage in trout breed
ing,::for which there are great facilities there.
| The Sentinel reports the death of Mr.
Henry Nunnemacher, an old and well
| known citizen of Milwaukee, aged SO years,
| who took up his residence there about
twenty five years ago.
Mrs, McNish, a woman 70 years old, who
was one of the first white settlers at She
boygan Falls, has an apple stand in Mad
ison.
Among the passengers reported lost on the
Inflated steamer Cambria, recently lost off
the Irish coast, was George Wildfang,
| resident of Neenah.
The Appleton Crescent reports typhoid
fever raging; marriages multiplying; fall
trade lively; up river freights heavy; and
potatoes scarce, etc.
The Berlin Cdurant says the young man
who burglariously entered the residence of
Miss Gerry. of Wautoma, and relieved her
of some 5000 in United States bonds, was
captured last:week in CINCINNATI, Ohio,
brought to Berlin and forwarded to Wau-
toma.
The Waupun Times says some farmers
aged by over growth. 1t is recommended
by farmers club to feed it with sheep if it
is thick at the roots, and feeding it by cal
YES if it is not.
During the All Saints Day service at Sti
Joseph's Church, Milwaukee, the congrega-
ton was thrown into CONSERVATION by tie
appearance of mad man, who rushed up
| the aisle, ju nped over the chancel rail, and
sci zed the officiating priest by the throat.
| The ..worshipers nearest the alter ran to
| the rescue of the priest, and with difficulty
succeeded in loosening the madman's clutch
A farmer in the town ofVilland, Winnie
baqo county, while at work on his farm,
the other day, powed up fine specimen of
copper ore, weighing forty pounds. 1t was
sold for 12a cts per pouad, being almost
pure,
! The Fifteenth Annual Convention OF the
Wisconsin State Musical Convention began
in Evansville, on the LIST, and continued
four days Prof L. 0. Emerson, of Boston
was the director of the convention.
The Polk County Press tells of rutanal 6
turnip, raised on Horse Creek, which II
thinks the largest ever raised IN the state
it measuring fifty inches in circumference
and weig hing thirty -four pounds.
A young lady of Manitowoc, while play
ing at croquet recently, got into dispute
and had her nose broken by mailet IN
the hand of her adversary.
The indications are that more numbering
: will be done Oh the upper Wisconsin TIM
winter than ever before. Working and bee
, cattle are daily arriving in large droVes 10
the lumber business and supply.
Thirty vessels were driven into Mantle
+. woo harbor on the oath, by the torn.
The first reunion of Co. B., 4th Wiscon
in Cavalry, took place at Opera Hall, hiE
on, last week and was in every particular
splendid success.
Among those lost on the ill-fated steams
Cambria, on the 10th, was James Gard or
of the substantial farmers of town OF Call
4 donna, in Columbia county.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin tells OF coz
/; young man expecting to die the other day
. who after giving instructions as to how AL
/ when he wished to be buried, and disposir
of his effe cts, requested that the suit {
:. clothes used to lay him out in, might
given TO some poor person after the tune
al, and his body might be given to II
surgeons for scientific purposes. Fortuna
ely, more favorable symptoms were develt
ped, and the young man is now nearly re
j. covered and the surgeon will not get b
g BODY at present