Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-07-06
STATE ITEMS.

Fond du Lac has had three cases of sun
stroke.
On Sunday the corner stone of the new
Methodist church was laid at Racine.
The Racine journal reports number O.
:ases of sun stroke in tLat city-none OF
hem fatal.
The Be'oit College commencement takes
place from july 10th to the 18th, inclusive
The International Hotel at La Crosse was
entered on Wednesday night aud $500
stolen.
The Advocate says about 2 o'clock on the
morning gath inst, the safe of Mr. Blesch,
of Fort Howard, was opened and large
amount of money and valuables extracted,
the thief or thieves getting safely off with
the plumber.
The Prairie du Chen Union says "a
man named Nelson, employed in the
elevator at this place, was taken suddenly
i'll on Saturday last from drinking cold wa
ter too freely while he was in heated con-
dlton lie was taken home and medical
aid procured, but he died in few hours
afterwards"
On Thursday, June 23rd, young man
named James Malloy, aged Is years, was
drowned in the miilpond in the village of
Cedarburg. He was bathing in company
with several others
The Walk esha PZaindealer says II. i.
Judson, near that village, has field of bar
ley that vii average four feet high.
A fatal case Of sunstroke occurred at
Portage City A German named Debkt,
received STR Ike on Saturday last, while
working in a field, from the effects of which
be expired almost instantly.
Bernard Aeisner, the young man who
arrested in Kenosha for the murder of Fred
Pithoff, in the town of WheatIand, in Oc-
tober last, was examined last week before
Justice Baker, and adm TIED to bail in the
sum of $4,000. He will be tried this fall.
A German se'vant-girl working for Mr..
evenson, at Fond du Lac, very foolishly
undertook to start a fire in the stove at 5
P. N Monday by using kerosene. The can
Immediately exploded, and the girl was en- l.
veloped in the flames in an instant. With
much difficulty the FIRE was extinguished,
but the girl was horribly burned. She
died during the night. She bad no rela-
tiyes in America
Port Washington fred salute OILS guns
over the news of an appropriation of $l5,-
900 for their harbor.
A. A. Hobart, superintendent of the Wis
consin division, Chicago and Northwestern
| railroad, has been appointed superintendent
of the Milwaukee division.
The Waupun Leader nomipates J. A.
Watrous, of Fond du Lac, as the Republican
candidate for member of Congress in the
fourth district against Eldridge.
Heavy fires have recently been raging in
the timber in the vicinity of Warsaw. A
large amount of property has been destroyed,
including bridge.
The Waupun Times says William Whit
more of the town OF of Leroy has
three LAMBS that will do to brag on One,
Spanish merino buck lamb six weeks old
that weighs so pounds, and two twins, a
cross of leicester and Cotswod, six weeks
old, eve At TBS, and buck 81 TBS.
The Green Bay Gazette says that little
| accident occurred at the circus at that place
Tuesday evening, by which that institution
was "out'' a snug sum, A kerosene lamp
was upset in the ticket wagon aud set fire
to pile of currency. Before the flames
were ext ngushed about $3.50 were burned.
The Democracy of the Fourth Congress
sional District of Wisconsin hold their con-
vention for nominating a candidate to sue
coed Eldridge, on the 25th of August. Ed
ridge will probably be re-nominated.
A man was found dead in n sitting pos
ture, by two boys, in the woods near Nee
nah. A whisky bottle, nearly empty, CON
tanning sediment which proved TO be arse
mic, showed that the unfortunate had poison
ed himself From papers found upon lis
person, he must have been new y-arrived
German emigrant. His name is not learned
The Baraboo Republic reports the death
of Gen. a. W. Starks, an old resideut@ OF
Baraboo.
There were over 1,70n, 900 bushels OF
wheat in store in Milwaukee on the 18th.
Peter Swan, workman in c. G. & G. E
Smith foundry, at La Crosse, had his leg
casting, weighing 2, 200 pounds, falling up
on him.
The Whitewater Register says that Phillip
Welsh an insane man, was shot at East
Troy on Saturday night, and died He was
in strange house at night, and supposed to
be burglar, not answering when spoken to-
J. n Stone has commenced the publica.
ton of the Appleton Daily Times, a neatly
printed fv column paper, full of interes-
ting matter.
Geo c.. Dufie, of Ripou College, has be-
come editor of the Ripon Press
Over FIVE hundred students have been in
a tfandanca at the Sfnta University Madison