Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-02-22
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Mrs. Van Colt the noted reyivalist,
IS about to visit Oshkosh.
Several wolves have been seen late
" in Dane County bear Madison.
The Lancaster Herald says pound |
parties are becoming quite fashionable
one that goss takes pound Of
Col. ltatrous, editor Of the Fond du-
Lac Daily, was recently converted at the
revival IN progress at Fcnd du Lac.
1t costs the Milwaukee Gas Light
Company about three hundred dollars
annually for the glass broken in the
public lamps by mischievous boys.
A fire in Sparta on the night of the
18th, burned S. Cramer & Co s furni
ture store and three adjoining wooden
buildings. Loss, $1,000
A lady teacher in GAINESVILLE punish
ed one of her scholars, and was arres-
ted for assault aud battery. The trial
resulted IN her discharge.
Henry Penterman, while chopping
in Woodville, one day last week, was
killed by limb of a tree falling on his
Head.
I here is man engaged in chop
ping wood for the Blast Furnace in the
vicinity of Kaukauna, who recently
offered to wager a sum of money not
less than $500 that he could chop ten
cords of wood in ten successive hours.
The Sheboysan Times says that a
wedding came off with rush, a
few days ago, at Sheboygan Falls.
Four days from the first meeting Of the
parties they were married. There
were no cards, no cake, and up to date
had been no divorce.
The Patty House, Fond du Lac, was
discovered to be on fire Monday eve
ming, but the prompt action of the fire
department soon had the flames under
subsection. Loss estimated at about
| 5000.
A countryman recently went into a
confectionery store in La Crosse and
asked for piece of sole leather to tap
his boys shoes with. The was gish
merchant palmed off upon him large
sheet of jujube paste, for which he re
ceived forty cents.
Coal is said to have been discovered
on the west side Of the bluff, west oil
Smiths Valley, ia the town of Camp
bell, about six miles east Of La Crosse
A well has been dug to the depth Of
about forty feet, and the strong odor Of
petroleum has repeatedly driven the
men from the well.
The Weyauwega Times says that Mr.
Atwell, Principal of the village school,
has suggested to his pupils the plan, Of
looking over county papers, and report
ing at school the number of errors auto
graphical, typographical and grammati-
cal that each have found in it.
The La Crosse Leadcr says that
Monday morning the wheat warehouses
Of that city, owned respectively by Mr.
Anderson and Mr. Rowell, were des
troyed by fire. It is the prevalent
opinion that the fire was the work of an
incendiary. There was stored in the
warehouses Z 900 bushels of wheat and
5000 bushels of fax seed. Loss esti-
mated at $4,000
J. L. Fobes, foreman in a tannery,
at Milwaukee, became entangled in the
machinery of the tannery, one day last
week, and was whir ed around shaft
at the rate of forty times per minute,
causing his Instantaneous death. Mr.
Forbes had twice represented Manito-
woo county in the Legislature.
The Manitowoc Tribune reports that
Henry E. Monger, man quite ad-
vauced in years, hung himself, on
Wednesday, to beam in his tannery.
in Mischiott, because he had been re-
quired to enter into bonds to keep the
peace for six months, and either would
not or could not give the security de
manded.A-
The Sparta Herald reports that Dir
D. Bakers trout-pond, near Farmers
Valley, was mined by a muskrat, q
couple of weeks ago, and a hole made
in the bank, through which escaped
some l 200 or 1900 trout into the
main stream from which his pond is
fed. He has since succeeded in catch
ing and returning nearly all of them
Reports from all points in the piner-
les Indicate an unprecedented activity
The snow is sufficient, and the logs are
being banked with amazing rapidity /
[. is stated that more logs will be cut
and put into the Chippewa, Eau Claire
md Menominee rivers than during any
former winter.
The Mineral Point Democral has the
"A man, who resided in the
Of Monroe. on returning