Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-02-01
The State.


Col. Thomas Reynolds has been re-
appointed pension agent for this State.
The new government post Office at
Madison is nearly completed,
President Merriman of Ripon college
has returned from the east.
A young man in Wapello writes
with his mouth. His body lis paraly-
| lied below the chin.
6 vernon Farchild and wife will
give their receptions on Tuesday even
ings during the session Of the legisla-
ture. @
The state association of real estate
agents meets at Madison on the 1st of
March. $50 s
Gen. Halbert E. Paine will be sup
ported by the Wisconsin delegation, for
sergeant-at arms of the next house of
| -
representatives.
Major j. l.. Nicodemus has been
elected professor Of military tactics in
the State university. a
Gen. G. S Hamilton has been re
elected president of the regents of the
tate university.
A wildcat was killed near Baraboo
last week, which weighed twenty four
pounds, and measured three feet from
head to tail.
Rev. Mr.. Park, of Waterloo, New
York, has accepted the call to the rec
torship of Trinity (EpiscopaD church.,
at Oshkosh.
Winnie Ream, the sculptress, who
has just finished the statue of Presi-
dent Lincoln, is native of Madison.
There will be 8 200 feet of piling on
the Wisconsin end of the proposed
bridge across Lake St Clair.
The church property of Wisconsin
is estimated to be worth 81, 744 ,8O3.
There are 1,4S6 church edifces in all.
The Improvements in the villages of
East, West and North Eau Claire, du-
ring the past year, amount to about
| S240 900, of which West Eau Claire
has the credit of $40 900.
The Herald says there is no port on
the lake that possesses so many advan-
tages for ship building as Sheboygan
The First Holland Presbyterian
Church, of Milwaukee, was burned on
the night of the Goth ult. Loss ST.
900.
Hon. Phineas W. Hitchcock, the
newly elected United States Senator
| from Nebraska, is native of Wiscon
sim
During the past year the governor
has pardoned % persons 10 from
county jails. 9 from Milwaukee house
of correction and from the state pri-
son.
The Waupun Leader reports that
convict named William Smith, senten-
ced at La Crosse, some four years since,
to FIVE years Imprisonment for robbery,
died at the Prison, of consumption.
Major Robert Hardness, of Delavan,
Walsorth county, has been appointed
Judge of the Circuit Court of the
FIRST Judicial Circuit, in place of Judge
Lyon, promoted to the Supreme Court
bench. ~
During the present season about TO-
900 dressed hogs have passed through
Prairie du Chin for Chicago and Mil
waukee, being nearly 100 per cent
more than last year at this time.
A little child of John schiltz, of
Sevastopol, Dorr County, was SO Sc
Verely scalded, last Friday, as to die
shortly afterwards. A large kettle of
boiling water was standing on the
floor, and in some manner the child
upset it, the contents going all over it.
Appropriation bills have been intro
duced into the senate giving to the sew
eral institutions as follows !: Soldiers
Orphan Home, SIC, 900; Insane Asy-
lum, 1872, 100; Blind Asylum, s2a373;
Deaf aud Dumb, SIS, 1854; State Re-
form School, $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Keyes, of Me-
nasha, celebrated the 50th anniversary
of their wedding on the 10Th inst.
They were married at Chelsea, Yer
mont, Jan 10, 1921 and~have resided
in. Wisconsin for the past thirty-fo
years. Br ~
Ole Bull, the famous violiniss, has
bought Mr.. George II. Shapleig's resi-
dence and farm. situated in Lebanon,
Maine He has gang Of workmen re
modelling the house, and as soon as the
arrangements are completed he will oc-
cupy the premises.
The news from the Wolf River pin
cries is of a very discouraging nature
for Fond du Lac and Oshkosh lumber
men. Late arrivals announce the ell