Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-05-10
Sta&a News.

iUi' AASoo IL INC S"iOOh "a oooi 9S
Guder, at Wausau, a few days since.
james Grimmer, aged seventy years,
accidently shot and killed himself
while hunting pigeons near Shawano,
on Monday.
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail!
road is to be extended from Green Bay
around the bay shore to Peshtigo and
Menomonee.
The Green Bay Iron Company have
shipped from their furnace, during the
month of April l, 900 tons of pig iron,
of their manufacture, and have 600
tons on hand ready for shipment.
The Beloit and GAINESVILLE railroad
company has been organized. A
Board of Directors was chosen and
Alex. Graham, of GAINESVILLE, was cleo
| President.
The Clark County Republican, does
not think that in the history of log.
ging on Black river and its tributaries
there was ever more profitable season
for log driving than the present.
Hon. Amasa Copb, recently member
of Congress from this state, is now
President Of the First National Bank
of Lincoln, the Capital of Nebraska.
A mulatto named James Brooks.
living near Boscobel, shot another
named Albert Hamet, during an alter
cation, recently, killing the latter in
stantly.
Two dealers in the towr of Lincoln,
kewaunee county, b: ought into the
market, last week, nearly eight tons of
maple sugar. About twenty tons of
maple sugar were made in Fond du
Lac county during the past season.
Prof. j B. Parkinson, who has re-
Gently become one of the editors and
publishers of the Madison Democrat,
is to retire from the professorship of
Mathematics in the University, which
he has filed since 1867, with great
credit.
The Oconomowoc Times says a de-
termined effort is being made to secure
the designation of that town as the
place for holding the animal regatta of
the Northwestern Boating Assoc alton
in July
A Mrs. Ackerbau, residing two
miles south of Darien, Walworth coun
ty, committed suicide by hanging her
self on Sunday afternoon last. The
family are old and respected residents
of the county.
The Lancaster Wooden Mills con-
sumed in the manufacture of cloths
last year nearly one-twentieth of the
amount of wool consumed in the state.
his branch of manufacture now stands
third in the state, being rivaled by that
of -four and lumber only.
The rain storm of the past two DAYS
has caused heavy rise in all the
streams throughout Wisconsin. The
Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers are at
food height. Travel between Portage
City and Baraboo, and between Kill
bourn City aud Baraboe, is interrup
ted, the roads being under water.
The Milwaukee Ne,gs. says: Mr..
Davis, the builder, has just returned
from Florida, where he has been build
ing winter residence for Mrs. Alex
ander Mitchell, bringing with him two
live alligators. They are mere babies,
being only about two months old, and
about Is inches long. They are now
in Mrs. Mitcheli's hot house, and appear
to be in good health, and well pleased
with their new home.
The City of Evansville, and Rock
county, generally, is considerably excl
ted over forgeries Of notes and mortga
ges, amounting, so far as already dis
covered, to over $4,000, with a prob
ability that the amount viii reach $40.
600. They were perpetrated by j. NJ
Kimball, late Of the firm of Peck &
Kimball, rea' estate agents and abstract
owners, who has been arrested at Gin
ton, Iowa, and brought back to James
vile to stand his trial.
The Milwaukee Sentinel of the Sd
says: In the Circuit Court, yesterday
morning, the application for divorce by
Anna A. Pomeroy from M. NJ. ('Brick, J
Pomeroy was granted, and the defend
ant, it was decreed, should pay alimony
to the amount of $4,000 The do
mestic unpleasantness which has led to
this separation is said to haze been of
long standing"
The GAINESVILLE Gazette is informed |
bv Mr. Virgil Pope. that large numbers
of seventeen year locusts have been
discovered in the ground in his neigh
borhood' Mr.. Pope, who is one of he
pioneers of Rock county, also states
that the first appearance Of locusts
since the settlement of this portion of
the west occurred in the year 1887, and
hat nothing was seen of them from
that time until 1854, when they again
apDeared in large num- e.s.