Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-04-27
STATE ITEMS.

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a company talk of es ablishing gas works
at Green bay, and wisl do so if the citizens
will subscribe half the stock-s25 900.
Z letter was received at the post-office in
addressed s5. Christ, Oshkosh,
Wisconsin,
BUS on the 4th of May. Prizes are offered
rang'ng from So tos15.
Hon. W. E. Smith, late State Treasurer,
eft for Europe last week.
A new paper has just been started in
Beloit by II. Ehrman & G. E Leland.
1t is lively paper, and issued semi-weekly.
Over one hundred thousand dollars worth
eff new buildings are already contracted for
in Madison, says the Democrat.
The Appleton Crescent says A child was
born in the town of Maple Greek, Outa-
gamie county, last week which weighed 20
pounds.
The amount of logs cuton the Wolf river
and its tributaries during the past season
was $50, 900, 900 feet. Last year the amount
got ont was IT'S, OO0, 600,
Atkinson's chair and bedstead factory IL
Appleton, turns out annually 5000 bed
steads and 80, 600 chairs, consuming l,000,-
600 feet of lumber, and paying out from
$40, 900 to $50, 900.
The Chiffon Times notes the sudden death,
on Sunday, of a boy named Whalan. He
was well and making sugar on Saturday
but, probably, ''caught his death of cold
by going barefoot
The Kewaunee Enterprise says that John
Keller, man of q, living at Carlton, in
that county, accidentally shot himself on
the 10th inst, while out gaming. The
whole charge entered his body on the right
side the shot passing upward through his
body.
series of farm experiments are to be
tried at the Wisconsin University during
the present year. They embrace the i'm
provement of the soil by mechanical MEANS
as deep and shallow blowing, wheat culture
experiments in raising corn, oats, potatoes
and fruits
\ new county house is being built al
Friendship, Adams county The basement
is of stone, and each Office separate fire.
proof arched vault It will be the finest
and most convenient building in that sec
ton, and ''worthy of imitation. Friend
ship is also about erecting Congregational
Church.
Two large mink have been killed recent
ly, in Jefferson county.
Mrs. Lydia Duville Of the town of Green
field, near Milwaukee, was, on Wednesday
found dead, suspended by rope, and locked
in one OF the rooms of her residence. A
suit for divorce was pending between her
and her husband. The latter was arrested,
but the Coroners jury in the matter of Mrs.
DuVille failing to agree, he has been dis.
charged.
The Odd Fellows mutual life insurance
company of the State of Wisconsin held a
meeting at Madison on the 18th, and elected
Sam. Ryan, jr., president L. B. Hills, OF
Madison, secretary; and Stoddard Judd, Of
Fox Lake, tire asurer.
daughter of Hon. j. G. Thorpe, of Eau
Claire, is said to be the Madison lady tC
whom Ole Bull is about to be joined in
wedlock.
The Pension Agent at La Crosse has paid
out since March 4th to pensioners in the
Sixth District of Wisconsin, $57, Sc.
Oshkosh claims the youngest City Attor.
ncy in the United States, barely q, and
without experience.
The Oconomowoc Mirror pertinently sug-
gests to farmers whereabouts to raise enough
vegetables, poultry and eggs to supply the
not have to send to Chicago and Milwaukee.
The village of Augusta, Eau Claire coun-
ty, has population of 1000 and The Herald
says it will more than triple that number
in the next four years
Green Peas have appeared in Beloit.
The sales of agricultural implements in
Madison the past year amount to 81, 468, O0y.
The Beloit Journal says Katie Putnam
talks Of locating permanently in that city.
Waukesha county has a pig with five feet
all of which it makes use of in walking.
Prof. Emerson, of Beloit College, and
family, sail for Europe in June, to be absent
about l6 months.
The largest taxable income for the past
year, in the Second Congressional District,
was retired from Madison-Sl6,43 5.
The Delavan Repu6lica" learns that a
young man named Keith, living over the
inlet, recently cut himself across the stom-
ach with a draw-shave so that it is impossi
BILE tor him to live.
The Prairie du Chen Union says indians
have been very numerous in our streets this
week-the regular blanketed, bejeweied,
feathered and painted brawny
children of the forest.
Some children gathering flowers near
Black River Falls on Sunday last, discovered
the dead body of child two or thee years
old. The inquest identified the child as the
daughter of woman known as Jennie
Davis alias Jane Woodbridge. The chilu's
skull was broken and lis back bruised. The
Jury returned verdict that it had been
m ordered by its mother, who has since been
arrested at Portage City and taken to the
Falls.
The Oshkosh Journal reports the water
ba,a HIGHER by a foot than ever before