Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-05-03
State News.

wheat never looked better in that coun--
ty than at present.
A new Railroad Depot is building at
Beaver Dam.
Col T. S. Roger, of this state, has
been appointed Superintandsns of the
Military Academy, at West Point.
Parties in Juneau County are going
into the business of cranberry culture
quite extensively, this season.
Several young ladies who broke up
liquor saloon, some time since, are on
trial at Trempealsau for the offence.
The Oshkosh Postofics il allowed
by the postof6ce department money
order check. Tia shows it first
class Office.
Gov. Fairchild has left Madison. Cor
Boston, to be absent about a month.
He delivers the annual address at the
next meeting Of the Army of the Po-
tonac, in May.
They have had another destructive
FIRE at Menominse, Dunn county,
which destroyed Nj. J. F. Edwards'
sash, blind and door factory, valued at
$4,000. Ne insurance.
There are now more than l 900 men
at work on the grade of the Wisconsin
Central railroad between Doty Island
and Stevens Point.
The steamer Island City burst
through the gates Of one of the locks
in the canal at Neenah, the other day,
injuring the lock to the extent Of
$1,000.
The State Journal, a Republican
paper, published at Richmond, Va, is
edited BY Col. Edward Daniels, for
merly of Wisconsin, and at one time
commander of the 1st Wisconsin Cav
airy.
MIR. G. Raywren committed suicide
at the police station, in Milwaukee on
Sunday morning, by butting his head
against the brick will of his CELL He
was new conner, and the names of his
relatives unknown.
The apprehensions that wheat in the
northern part of the State had been
winter killed were unfounded, and the
prospects for a large crop were never
better.
Homrig, the Sheriff of Marathon
county, wa. shot recently by half
drunken Indian, as Big John, whose
companion the Sheriff was attempting
to arrest. The wounded man will
probably survive.
Theodore Conklin, who wss killed at
the railroad accident at Crawford N. j..
on Thursday, was from Delavan, and
Thomas Walsh, fatally injured, has
relatives in Racine.
St. Croix County boasts Of farm
Of twenty two hundred acres, in the
town Of Warren, owned by Mr.. James
Hill. He expects to SOW nearly four
thousand bushels of wheat this season.
A trial of eorn-planters took place
at Elkhorn on the 18th, which demon
strated in satisfactory manner that
corn may be successfully planted by
horse power.
The Milwaukee News says some
hundred or more Norwegians we're at
the Union depot Tuesday, fresh from
the old country, and on their way to
new homes in q strange land. They
were remarkably fne-looking body of
men, all able-bodisd, strong fellows.
The Waupun Times says at the pres
emit time there ia the greatest prospect
for fruit ever witnessed around there.
Apple, pear and plum trees are COM
pletely covered over with fiuit buds,
and all are opening beautifully.
Miss Viola R. Grove has become
associate editor of the Hudson Demo
crat. Miss Grove is graduate of
Vassar College, New York, and has
long been a contributor 70 Harper's
and several other magazines.
Near Portage, on Friday last, an
old lady named Davis, was doing SOM.
out door work, aud set fire to burn over
a marsh. Her grand daughter, aged
aged about 8 years, got cornered by the
fire in fence, and, before she could
be rescued, was literally roasted alive.
The Green Bay Advocate says there
is reasonable assurance now that the
cash subscription required by the
North sstern Railway Company to ex
tend the road along the pay snore Il; t;
Menominee will be complied with, and
that work will be consummated this
summer.
The Appleton Times says that Wis
consin is now looming up as the great
iron producing State of the Union.
Four ranges of hills, each twenty
miles long, running parallel with the
aaisnI"r1inea River, have been found
to contain immense quantities of al
most solid iron, and are estimated to
contain ten times more of that metal