Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-03-22
S tate News.

rope this summer and will be absent
about a year
There are in Wisconsin, 400,52S
children between the ages of four and
twenty.
The beat sugar machines lately used
at Fond du Lac is now in operation IN
aux county.
The Bayfield, Press says brook trout
are being caught in goodly numbers
thereabouts.
The Milwaukee papers say that
Brick Pomeroy's wife and child are in
that city aud in very destitute circum-
stances.
The Hudson Star and Times says
w. ID, Baker had his trout-pond mined
recently by musk-rat, and some 1920
or | 300 trout escaped.
The Martin murder case, from Ra-
cine county, has been put over to the
next term of the Walworth County
Court.
At Merrimack, Sank county, on
Wednesday last, two children of E. D.
Potter broke through the ice and were
drowned before assistance could be
rendered them.
". Fl. Whitney has sued the James
vile Gazette for libel, fixing his DANA
gessat $4,000. The Gazette made
certain remarks about an ARRAY in which
Whitney was engaged, at which he
takes offense.
The growth of the Wisconsin histor-
lcal society is wonderful. 1t has been
IN existence but seventeen years, and
its library now numbers more than As
600 volumes, documents and pamph-
let's.
Two surveys of the Portage and
Stevens Point railroad, between the
terminal cities, have been completed,
and actual work will soon begin. The
distance is seventy two miles.
A bold robbery was perpetrated at
the residence of Mrs Strasberger, OF
Racine, last..week. Events proved that
the husband of the lady was the guilty
party, and he now awaits trial in the
County Jail.
At Germantown, juneau county, on
the 9Th, Felix Reynolds and Bart JEFF
frey got into an alteration over the
settlement of an account, and the for
mer knocked the latter down and
kicked him to death.
John Dolan, of GAINESVILLE, a fireman
on the Chicago 4 Northwestern Rail-
road, fell from the train, about half
mile south of Oakfeld, on the l4th, and
was instantly killed. He was terribly
mangled.
The Wolf River Boom Company was
sold at bankrupt sale in McCourt's Hall
at Oshkosh, by S. B. Paige, assignee.
James Jenkins was the purchaser, the
price being $4,000 The company
owned charter to maintain a boom
across the Wolf river at Boom island.
granted in 1859.
A bill is now before the legislature
to establish county academies. 1t pre-.
vides for distributing to each county
500 for each thousand inhabitants on
condition that the counties raise a
like amount, the whole to be devoted
to maintaining county academies.
The Green Bay 4arocate says it
seems to be prevailing opinion in that
region that the potato bug is, during
the coming summer, to excel any for
mer season in its ravages. They seem
to be winteriug over in all possible and
impossible places in great quantities,
aud are found at every turn"
A correspondent of the Ws.sconsin
reports the death at Racine at 4 o'clock
saturday afternoon, from an attack of
apoplexy, of Rev. NJ. 2. Kinney. who
has occupied very prominent positions
in the Congregational church in Wis
coDsin and Illinois. Ee has been pas
tor of the Congregational churches in
Whitewater GAINESVILLE, Racine. and
Rockford, Ill.
Hon. Hammer Robbins Of Platteville,
Grant county, President of the Mil
waukee, Platteville and Dubuque rail
roads has become violently insane and
is now confined at Lancaster pending
an application for his admission to the
Insane Hospital Mr. Robbins has
been several years a member of the
legislature and is now a member of the
State Board Of Regents of Normal
Schools.
Ga Sunday morning the old Court
House at Dopere, Brown county, occu-
pied temporarily as a Jail, took fire
Two young men, named Buckley and
Howard. who had been arrested for