Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-18
The State

Clifton.
The jail of Portage county is yawn-
ing for inmates. There are aone at
present.
The Milwaukee Philharmonic society
is rchearsing LA Somnambula."
Oshkosh has had thirty serious fires
during the past year.
A baby at Oshkosh, aged II weeks,
has just cot its eye teeth.
A Racine man has invented a ma
chine for planting pumpkins.
A man in Baraboo, 81 years of age
has applied for divorce from his wife
for desertion.
A Wisconsin assemblyman wants to
know who'll be speaker of the senate?'
A two hour-old baby was found in
one of the streets of Milwaukee on
Wednesday evening.
Three wolves and lynx were killed
last week on d. P. Andrews clearing,
about two miles west of the Wolf Riv-
er, near Shawano.
The manufactures of the city of
Racine foot up to s8,546,500,' of
which $12 ,09O is for threshing mach
ines alone.
Kenosha county has thirty two cheese
factories. Last year they manufactured
three hundred and fifty thousand
pounds of first quality of cheese.
Maggie Young, an esteemed young
lady of Chippewa Falls, committed
suicide the other day by taking poison.
There is woman in Oshkosh who
has been married six times, twice to
the same man, divorced three times,
twice from the same man, and is now a
widow.
The La Crosse Democrat does not
like the idea of nominating a Demo
cratic candidate for President at this
early day; it considers the policy bad
I one.
The Beaver Dam Citizen notes the
death at the age Of SO, Of an Irishman Of
that city named John McMullen. His
hearing and eye sight were but little
impaired.
The Green Bay Aduocote thinks that
there is one thing at least in which
Green bay ard Fort Howard eau claim
pre-eminence: and that is single ship
ments and gives a record showing the
shipment of 350,00O,OO0.
Two colored men of Milwaukee are
going to sue the proprietor of billiard
saloon in that city, because he refused
to allow them to play in his house.
The Delavan Republican notes the
resignation of Prof Laing, Principal
Of the High School, who goes, at a
salary of So, 400, to take charge of an
Episcopal institution at Portland, Ore
gon.
The Fox Lake Representative tells a
curious story of spiritual manifestations
there, in private houses, including the
freeding of the mediums hands from
steel handouts. sounding of musical
instruments, tieing of r3pes, de-, equal
to the Davenport Brothers.
The Hudson Star says that we think
that there has been between 5000 and
1000 acres of breaking done in St.
Croix County the past year. This with
moderate crop, will increase our
amount of surplus wheat next year,
from 100000 to 10000 bushels.
J. ". Howard, a teamster in the
employ of Fifeld Brothers, GAINESVILLE,
committed suicide by hanging himself
or Thursday Evening of last week
His brother died few weeks since,
leaving him sl4 ,0O0p which so affected
him as to cause him to commit the
deed.
The headless and nearly nude body
of man was discovered floating in the
river at Milwaukee at late hour on
Thursday afternoon. The only thing
about the sutilated remains which
could possibly lead to Identification was
a pair of fine black ribbed pantaloons.
1t was at first thought that the man
mig hthave been drowned and mutt lated
by a passing steamer, but inasmuch as
the river is not navfgated at this season
Of the of the year, this theory must
yield to that of murder
A correspondent of the Green Coun
ty Republican says:
at seems that the county has been
paying the sum of So for every wolf
scalp exhibited to the Clerk of the
County Board, and the State a similar
amount, so that wolf scalp was worth
SO. This handsome bonus for scalps
caused number of men to go into the
business of wolf hunting, and, accord
ing to the best information of the writer
some of item made it pay good re-
turn. They managed something in
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