Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-05-29
State N ews.

There are ten Touring mills at Mil
waukee.
During the present month Baraboo
dealer has shipped II 900 bushels of
potatoes.
The water bonds of the city of Mil
waukee have been disposed of to the
amount of 100000.
The temperance law is working we'll
in Cambria.
Father Perain, of St. Louis, is secur-
ing the erection, at Peshtigo, of
Catholic school, Sisters of Charity
school, and catholic church.
The Rev. Henry D. Porter, of Green
Bay, will shortly sail for China, to en-,
gage in missionary labor.
Two white men were held as hostages
for two days recently by the Indians
near Trempealeau, because brave
was mysteriously missing. The lost
Indian came back and the scared whites
were released.
A well-known aud highly respecta-
BILE resident of the town of Elba Dodge
Bo, hung himself last Wednesday.
Senator Carpenter has purchased
residence in Washington.
Sunday afternoon, two prisoners,
Mich. Childers, for stealing watch
and Jimmy Welch, for highway rob-
berry, escaped from the county Jail in
La Crosse.
The Sentinel says there are indica-
tions that large number of immi.
grants will arrive at Milwaukee the
present season. There should be bet
ter accommodations in the way of depot
room.
Several influential Germans of that
city are interesting themselves in the
new German Daily in the interest of
the administration, the Herald having
gone over to the Liberals
The cigar makers are still on strike.
In the national Asylum there are at
the present time over five hundred
soldiers.
Gov Washburne writes to Captain
Langworthy, of the relief service here,
authorizing him to make contracts for
the rebuilding of the burned school
houses in the burned region. These
include seven in Door county, seven in
Kewaunee, eight in Oconto and three
in Brown. The expense is to be paid
for out of the appropriation of SO 900
for burned bridges and school houses,
made by the Legislature of last win
/ ter.
Racine is to have works for the
manufacture of gas from the resieum
of the distillation of crude petroleum.
Racine sends old women to Jail ten
days, under the Graham law, if they
get drunk.
The Sheboygan and Fond du Lac
Railroad is selling through tickets
from Ripon to Milwaukee and return
for So, rs.
A prize fight between Dan. Carr and
James Taylor came off ON Monday af-
ternoon about five miles above Winona
on the Wisconsin side. They fought
nineteen rounds in forty two minutes.
Carr struck Taylor in the jugular and
laid him out on the eighteenth round.
Taylor's second led him to the scratch
for another round, but he couldn't
stand up. Neither of the men were
very badly punished.
Thomas Tracy, Esq, eighteen or
nineteen years ago resident of Madi-
son, and now editor of the New Orleans
Republican, is now visiting friends in
this state.
NJ. A. Olin is to be the pianist of
the Wisconsin delegation at the forth
coming Jubilee at Boston.
Plenty of n1easels at Waupun and
293 prisoners in State Prison.
The Oconto Lum6erman says the
drive is reported Furnishing. The
creeks are full and the river banks are
overlooking.
The wool clip of the State for 1871
amounted to q, 100000 pounds
Governor Washburn is to preside
over the ceremonies at Madison, Dec
grafton Day, and Captain Pliny Nor
cross, one of the most brilliant members
of the GAINESVILLE bar, will deliver the
Grafton.
The Commonwealth denounces the
lax state of public morals in Fond du
Lac, and asserts that cases of murder,
infanticide and abortion are of freqent
occurrence and are winked at by the au-
thorities.
Fond du Lac has dog population of
1000.
The strawberry season in Southern
Illinois opens excellently well, and car
loads of the fruit are being shipped to
Chicago daily.
Ole Bull and wife, and j. R. Turn
bull, his agent, and wife, will sail for
Europe in few weeks, and make pro-
fessional tour through Norway, Ger
many, Italy, and Austria.
The wife and son of Rev. Wesley
Latin, Methodist Minister formerly
of this State, were drowned while en-
deavoring to cross ford at Osawatomie,
Kansas a short time since.
The Lodi Journal learns that on
Thursday of last week, son of Robert
Caldwell, of the town of Arlington,
met with a sad and fatal accident.
The child went to the barnyard to gath
er eggs and in attempting to creep be-
tween the pannels of patent fence,
when only part way through, the fence
fell and killed him. When search
was made he was found dead, only
twenty minutes from the time lie left