Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-04
The State.

sity begins January 4th.
The Hooley opera house in Madison
is nearly completed
The new factory recently started IN
Appleton for manufacturing boot heels
is meeting with success.
Wages in the woods range from go
to $40 per month and board.
May BelIard, of La Crosse, took
hot brick to bed with her to warm her
feet, and burned up So 900 house by
so doing.
At a recent festival for the benefit
of the poor in Waupun, the receipts
were s362,57.
The Portage railroad is finished to
within one mile of Madison, and has
no iron to complete the track
Stevens Point reports itself as ode
cidedly moral; not even canine mis-
understanding having occurred there
for several months
A hunchback, named D. K. Emer-
son, residing at Stoughton, Dane Co.,
was frozen to death on Sunday night
the 18th of December.
The city debt of Racine, which
amounts to s729, 900, is to be funded
through the efforts of bond associations,
who are buying up the securities.
Mr.. Van Dresar, of Fond du Lac,
publishes a notice that his wife hav-
ing left his bed and board aoith just
cause &C., he ,ciU pay all debts of her
contraction &c. What husband can
beat that for liberality?
Tt is rumored that "Lisle Lester" a
lady not unknown in Fond du Lac. is
to return from California on lecturing
tour Fond du Lac was her home, be-
fore she went to San Francisco, to edit
the Pacific Magazine.
VIM. Schu ly, lad fourteen years
of age, was killed last week at Ocono-
mowoc, by mounting a train OF cars
which was switching at the depot.
Coming in contact with the spout of an
elevator, he was knocked off, run over
and his head severed from hia body.
Because his girl "went back on him."
q love,sick swain at Ployer decided to
end his troubles by drowning. He
took off his boots and jumped into the
river where it was two feet deep, then
crawled out and decided to wait till
spring.
A woman in Milwaukee left her
house recently, and returned. to find
her infant child mangled and partially
devoured by hog. An officer of the
law was about to shoot the ANIMAL
when she plaintively begged him not to
do so, stas her loss was heavy enough
already"
The Madison Journo! understands
that the Regents appointed to select a
President for the University of Wiscon-
sin, have spent much time in their en-
deavors to get competent man for the
place., who will give satisfaction to the
real friends of the institution. This
they End a very difficult undertaking.
The Stoughton Reporter says that
Mr.. n. Jensen, of that place, has been
presented by his lady with triplet of
fine babies-two boys and girl-all of
whom are alive and doing well. They
average six pounds each.
The Clark County Republican says
that Kate Scott, an old Indian squaw,
and the widow Of MIR. Scott, white
mao, has killed some fifteen or twenty
deer this fall. She is the NEST sue
cessful hunter in the county.
A most destructive fire took place in
Racine, on Sunday morning last, the
25th inst, by the burning of the Pump
Factory of Winship &c Parker, loss s1S,-
900 insured for SIS, 900. In the afternoon
the Racine woolen-mills were burned to
the ground, together with large stock
of shawls and fannels. Less 500, 900.
Insurance s34 500.
The Sheboygan Herald announces
that controlling interest in the She
boygan Dc Fond du Lac Railroad has
been sold to j. T. Joy & Co, of De-
troit, and that it is to form part of an
air line route between Detroit and st.
Paul. A line of steamers between
Sheboygan and Pentwater, Mich, is to
be put Oh next spring to make the con-
nection between Wisconsin and Michi-
gan.
The Adoance gives the following
Congregational statistics of Wisconsin
There are l72 churches in the State,
and Isl ministers, Of whom "a are in
stalled pastors, 102 acting pastors, and
80 without charge, II ,022 members of
the churches are reported, a gain of
454. SO churches report 667 addi-
tons on profession, less number than
for any one of the FIVE previous years
IA churches reporting no additions by