Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-11-22
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young married people.
The Democrat states that La Crosse +
is 70 have $4,000 SCI o j house.
Large quantities of brick are being
shipped from Sheboygan to Chicago
A dispatch from Postmaster Beebe
says the postoffice at Beaver Dam was
broken into Wednesday night and about
one thousand letters opened and twenty
dollars in stamps taken.
A Farmer near Benton, Grant Coun-
", claims to have raised, on something
over an acre of ground, 125 bushels of
strawberry corn.
The wife of Edward Smith, of Port
Andrews, Richland county. was burned
to death on Tuesday evening, by the
upsetting Of a kerosene lamp.
The Lodi Journal states that Robert
Steele, of the town Of Dane, killed a
wolf, last week, which measured four
feet and eight inches in length, and
standing four feet four inches high on
the shoulders
The editor of the Oshkosh North
,oestern can count the smoke stacks of
TWEEN y-six manufacturing establish
ments from his window.
Lum bermen in the Green Bay region
are contracting to lave the bark pealed
from the logs. The cost for stripping
of the bark is from so to 60 cents per
thousand feet.
There is man in the poor house of
Winnebago county who was Colonel
in the war of 1872, and was a long time
senior commander of the militia of the
State of New York. He is IS years
of age.
A boy in Clark county recently
found two buck deer with their horns
so locked together that they could not
be separated He succeeded in killing
both the deer with shot gun. DIR.
French, of Neillsyil!e, is the possessor
of the horns.
The Green Bay AaOocatc says the
business of manufacturing slaves is
becoming o of the most i'm ortant in
that county, AS the pine timber is
being cut off, the oak is being brought
into more general notice, and is now in
fact the principal reliance of the count
ry.
A libel suit has been instituted
against the Milwaukee Ne.cs for $40
600 damages by Mrs Parks, for the
derogatory remarks which appeared in
that journal concerning the lady's
character.
Wild Rose, a trotter of some note,
owned by A. D. Wonzor, of Platteville
was stolen by Charles Hunte alias
Vinness, the man employed to dri We her
and sold to a man IN Racine. Mr..
Wonzor traced up the mare and ATTAIN
ed possession of her, but finally sold her
back to the man who had bought her
of Hunter. a
The Oshkosh Northeastern reports
that Frank Porter (son of the Hon. J.
Ell. Porter aged about IT, Of that city
accldently shot himself last Saturday
morning, while out cunning near the
cemetery. He was leaning on his gun,
when the charge exploded, 'causing in
slant death.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says that
Contractor Charley, on Monday last,
placed the bust of the Hon. Solomon
Juneau in the, niche of the south or
main front of the Lew Court House.
It is of brown sandstone, after model
by Haug, from a painting by Brookes.
The Msrinette and Peshtigo Eagle
says shanties and new buildings, many
of them of substantial character, are
springing up all over the site of Pesh-
tigo. The Company's new buildings
are going ahead just as fast as money
men and material can be used advan-
tageously. Grading on the side track
to the mills is going ahead with true
railroad CELEBRITY.
The Milwaukee Sentinel reports that
for some cause sufficient or herwise,
the price Of wood took a sudden and
very marked advance in the market a.
few weeks since. The result of it is
there has been greatly increased sale
OF coal Dy the deaierS there. many
who have been accustomed to use wood
in their cook stoves are substituting
Goa, and noae but those who have made
made up their minds to disregard the
cost of fuel will still cling to wood.
John Powell Of the town of Bruns-
wick, Eau Claire county, has killed
this fail on various occasions, ducks as
follows; II at three shots, l3 at three
shots, IA at three shots, Is at three
shots, l6 at three shots, II at three
shots Is, at three shots, and 10 at
three shots, all mallards, Aakinga TO-
tai of l24 ducks killed at "a shots.