Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-08-23
State News.

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be completed to Weyuuwega next
week.
The Oshkosh Northeastern says the
/ Oshkosh Yacht Club will have "a grand
regatta August 10Th, during the annual
! State Turnfest.
4 big saw mill at the Peshtigo har-
Dor has averaged 1900 feet of lum
Der in twelve hours' run during the
past week
The Superior Times says Lake Su-
perior promises bigger yield of iron
and copper this year than during the
previous year.
&. One acre and twenty-eight rods of
wheat in twenty-eight minutes is the
best time made with reaper in Rock
county this season,
Elk Gov. Randall will attend the
Waukesha county Fair, and has CON-
sented to make an address on Friday,
Sept, 18th.
The Fond du Lac Daily chronicles
young gentleman named w. E. Slater,
who is % years of age. has a beautiful
wife, one son II years old and another
IL. He was married at the tender age
of Is to girl of his own age.
The Grant County Democrat learns
that Mr.. S. L. Borah, near Mt. Ida,
had one hundred and ten acres of win
ter wheat, which averaged 40 bushels
to the acre.
Commodore E. P. Lull, of the u, s.
ship Guard, Darisn expedition, and re-
Gently returned, arrived at Menasha a
few days since, to spend vacation of
six weeks with his brother, W. Fl.
Lull Esq.
More than 70 car loads of lumber
were shipped from the Oshkosh station
on Saturday, and the shipments for two
weeks past averaged so carloads per
day.
Sunday evening Of last week two
children of Mr.. George Henkles, in the
town Of Marion, Grant county, were
playing in the dooryard, when one of
them, little girl six years old, was Bit
ten ON the foot by rattlesnake. She
suffered greatly until Monday evening,
when death ensued.
The Green Bay Aduocote entered in
to its twenty-sixth year of publication
with the last number. It has been pub
.lished without interruption, under the
same proprietorship, and in the same
city for quarter of century.
A survey for the proposed levee up
the Wisconsin river, from Portage
city, is now being made. From this
survey will be learned the cost of the
projected levee, and also the effect it
will have upon the waters of til g Wis
consin.
On Tuesday of this week French
boy of Il or Is years of age was duck
shooting or East River, near Green
Bay, when he accidentally shot himself,
the whole charge entering in the region
of the heart He was about landing,
and after the discharge Of the gun he
walked several feet and. fell dead.
Mr.. j. R. Smith, OF Erempealeau,
has peach tree, graft into an old
plum tree trunk, which is this year
bearing large number of very fine
peaches. The tree has born fruit in
smaller quantities. for several years past.
A Roman Catholic church which was
being built in the town of Granville,
was destroyed by the storm on Monday
of last week. It was ON the Fond du
. Lac road, seven miles north of Milwau-
kee. Several workmen were injured in
the general wreck.
j. j. Brookman, travelling agent for
a New York house, commenced pro-
ceedings against the proprietor Of the
Newhall House for: false imprisonment.
The proprietor caused bis arrest last
week, on suspicion that check of 500
deposited by him. and upon which be
had drawn $50, was forgery.
The Bethesda mineral springs, at
Waukesha, are attracting more visitors
and sojourners this summer than ever
before, and none but good Impressions
OF the efficiency OF the waters. tor per-
sons out Of health, are entertained. The
Improvement of Chief Justice Chase's
health, while staying here, is notable
case.
Calumet county is curiosity, SO far
as babies are concerned, In 1851 the
Times recorded that a woman in that
county had six children within eleven
months. and now is compelled to chron-
icls the other extreme. The other day
a good looking, healthy woman, in Ran
toul, gave birth to healthy boy, who
weighed, when dressed, two and half
pounds. Mother and child are doing
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