Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11
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yet safe Tor teams.
Turkish Baths are to be introduced
at Oshkosh.
Rents are aboat oue-fourth cheaper
in Milwaukee than they were year
ago.
A portrait of the late Bishop Kemp
er has been sold for one hundred dol
lars.
4 widow woman died of sturva ton
in Milwaukee, on Saturday morning.
In Calumet county there is good
sleigLing
Six hunters have been acciden ly
killed in tie st. Croix valley, within
two weeks.
Lutte Taylor, of She La Crosse Lea
der, has entered the lecture field this
winter.
Rev. Rowlaue Connor takes the pas
| torial charge of the Milwaukee Uni
tartan church during the current year.
George Ferry of North La Crosse WIS
held to bail in the sum of $500 for the
shooting of VIM. Merrill, of the same
place, last week, and his trial will come
off at the next term of the Circuit
Court.
At Sun Prairie, on Friday evening
last, Olive Whitman, a lady so years
Old, was burned so bad y that she died
in Il short time, her clothes taking fire
from a spark from stove,, while she
was alone for few moments.
The Kewaunee Enterprise says that
Mr.. Henry Halam, OF Ahnepee, killed
rooster a few days since, which was
fonnd to contain two perfectly formed
hearts, and other eculiarites.
There are seven hundred and thirty
nine more males than females in Rock
county, which will make it pleasant for
the former if suffrage is extended to
the latter.
Several cases of trichinae spirahs are
agitating the good people of Delavan.
One child is reported dangerously i'll
from the effects Of this disease.
The annual meeting of the Wiscon-
sin State Horticultural Society will be
held at Madison, Feb. and 8, open
ing with an address by the Hon. Har
low S. Orion, of the State University.
The Appleton Crescent says on Tues
day at Stephensville, a two year old
child of Geo. Wunderlich was burned
to death by It's cloths accldently catch
ing fire during the temporary absence
Of the mother.
The. Chippewa Falls Herald says that
the people Of Eau Claire and Chippe-
wa Falls are united in favor Of Chip
pewa Valley Railroad, designed to
strike the Mississippi River below
Lake Pepin, and the officers elected at
the recent organization embrace citi
zens of both places.
Gov. Fairchild Thursday gave par
don to. Henry Beobel, of Milwaukee,
sentenced in 1915. He has had the
case under consideration for the last
year and a half. Parties acquainted
with the circumstances of tie case
agree that the pardon is justifable and
deserved.
The Appleton Post says Mr.. Jas.
Gardner, an old resident of Centre,
disappeared from his home on Monday
last and has not been heard from since.
He was comfortably of, and the only
solution offered for his mysterious de-
parture is that be may have, without
notice. started on trip to the old
country.
The bayfield, Times of December "a
says: "For the last two weeks at least
$50 packages of white fsh and trout
have been ght..daily IN this vicinity,
and the value of the $500 half barrels
brought in during this time is $4,000
The fishing is still fair, and upwards of
5000 packages will be stored here by
spring, besides the large quantities of
fresh fish sold during the winter
Capt E. Horton, of Wyoming, who
has been hunting in the vicinity of
Horse Greek, in Polk county, for the
past eight weeks, shot huge lynx last
week. He measured over FIVE feet in
length. Capt. Fl drew the State boun-
~ On him. The Captain reports hunt
ing hard business, the deer wild and
scarce He has, however, killed over
twenty, some of them very large One
buck weighed 220 pounds.
The formation of a Sorosis Society
is talked Ct among the young ladies of
Beloit. At the closing exercises Of the
High, School last week, a young miss
read composition On II wish | were
boy" in which she so pathetically set
forth her own sorrow for being a girl.
and 50 brightly portrayed the glorious
privileges Of boys, and tie deprecable