Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-10-26
STATE ITEMS.

one drunk in Evansville.
a country paper recommends Hnbbar
squash as a substitute for Pc tatoes
Bloomington, Grant county, advertise;
for 8 competent teacher for the new higt
school.
Quite quantity of goods were stoler
from the Burlington Wooden Mills. recently
A reward of $50 is offered for the arrest O
the tibet.
| James Lilburn, a Scotchman residing
near Emera Id Grove, Rock county, owns $50
acres of land. The farm on which he lives
comprises $50 acres
The Wisconsin Stage Co. is doing good
| business nowadays, between Berlin and
Stevens Point. Their stages are crowded
to their utmost capacity, daily.
The latest theft is that of man having
no fears OF the laws, the Pope, nor the Devil,
detected in stealing lumber from the new
| Catholic church at Wausau.
The Green Bay blast furnace is now doing
splendidly. The product last week was los
tons Of pig iron, an average Is tons per day,
E. P. Brockway of Ripen took $2of il
premiums on his Short Horns at the Osh-
sosh Fair
The construction Of iron vessels for the
lake service will soon be commenced in Mil
waukee.
The amount of internal revenue collected
in Milwaukee for the month of Septem Der
amounted to only $27,435.3S.
At Chippewa Falls and>vicinity, the ty-
phoid fever prevails to an unusual extent.
Nearly every section Of the city is afflicted
with the disease.
Gustaye Rocky, al incendiary, who had
burned a cigar store which ne owned at
Quincy, H., to secure the insurance, was
arrested at La Crosse last week.
A gentleman in the town of Bradford,
who has used tobacco 70 fifty years, quit
the habit some four months ago. and thinks
be can get along without for the balance Of
his life.
A house, barn and four stacks of grain
belonging to Mr.. Peter, of the town of La
Prairie, Rock county, were destroyed by fire
last Saturday night. The property was un-
insured and is supposed to have been fred
by an incendiary.
The Whitewater Register says that 7. Fl.
Kyle's store was opened by keyes on last
Wednesday night, and from $1,000 to ; 2, 900
worth of fine goods carried off. 1t seems to
have been very quietly done. Mr.. Kyle is
in New York.
j D. Goodrich, of Sheboyean Falls, an
nounces himself as a temperance candidate
for Congress in the Fourth District. He
does this, he says, because Mr.. Burchard,
who was nominated by the Temperance
Convention, has declined
The Sabbath School Of the NJ. E. Church,
in Shawano, received a present OF library
Of seventy volumes, last Saba tn morning,
from Mr. Laban S. Beecher, of Boston.
Or. Huebschman has been nominated for
Senator by the Democrats of the 9Th Senate
rial dist rict which, for the last two years,
has been represented by Hon. VIM. Pitt
Lynde.
There is rumor that the Milwaukee Nea0s
is soon to be merged into stock institution
with Col. E. a Calkins IS editor-in-c chief,
aud Charles Nash, of the St Paul Pioneer,
Alex Mitchell, S. s. Merrill, and others of
Milwaukee, as principal stockholders.
The Milwaukee Sentinel reports that over
S72 900 have, thus far been expended upon
the sewers in the several al. tricts Of that
city, and knowing ones predict that almost
one half OF the work will be taken up and
relaid on account of mistake in the plans.
From The FisconSin we learn that
fears of foul play are entertained in re-
gard to the mysterious disappearance of
Capt j. 7 Sanders He drew quite a sum
of money from one Of the Milwaukee banks
on Monday TO pay his workmen on the
dredges, and has not been seen sinee.....A
lady named Drossner, having been married
to Jew for two years, has adopted his
faith At the ceremony on the occasion,
she was renamed Sarah, and re- married &C.
corGing 10 Jewish rites, at the Synagogue
in Milwaukee, on Tuesday last, the services
being conducted by the Rev. Mr.. Eppstein.
The Milwaukee and ST. Paul Railway
Company have just completed, at La Crosse
one OF the finest warehouses west of CIeve-
land 1t is 400 feet long and so feet wide.
The company will proceed Immediately to
erect passenger depot, offices, and local
reight house.
been organ lied oy the election of L. T. Pull
len, President; Nelson Winston, Vice Pres
ident, and L NJ. Bennett, Cashier
Mr.. Nelson Reynolds, of Milton, has just
| gathered four wagon loads CT squashes from
| eight hills Of vines, few of the squashes
weighing 100 pounds each.
Col. Reynolds, of Madison, has received q
letter from james Burns, wounded SOL
der, now in the United States Military
Asylum at Dayton, Ohio, who served under
the Colonel in the Sixteenth He was
wounded at the battles OF Cornith and At
lanta. He says that he was not allowed tt
vote at the election in Ohio, last Tuesday
and expresses the hope that there viii be t
general amnesty law passed, which will a!
low wounded Union soldiers to vote.
James Knight, of Markesan, in double
sense, is the largest farmer in Green LAX,
| county. He stands six feet four ia hi
stockings, and weighs two hundred and six
| ty;pounds. He is square built, straight IS