Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-03-13
State " ews

I"hCS ~ a. an DJke success y
B. Tallman.
The Racine Council, by vote Of
s TO 3, has decided not to light the gas
in future.
1t is estimated that three hundred
thousand hogs have been packed in
Milwaukee during the present sea-
son.
Two Fond du Lac men caught forty
sturgeon in Lake Winnebaso the other
day.
A Fond du Lac Justice has lust
fined man 800 for selling oft con-
cert tickets.
The GAINESVILLE postoffice does an an
nual money-order business of SI1 900
The bayfield, Press understands that
boats will be able to pass through the
Sault canal on the 4th of May
Smallpox has made its appearance
at Bangor.
Eau Claire having received a CITY
charter will hold ar election Tor city
officers on the 18th.
| Oshkosh has car-shop project, in
the interests of that city, in mind.
Grant county pays out annually over
seventy five thousand dollars for fire
insurance.
Tom Burchard sold three-quarters
of mile of cloth from Ithe factory OF
McFetridge, Burchard Il Co, Beaver
Dam, in one day the fore part of this
week.
The Catholic church at Superior
was destroyed by fire on Friday last.
Loss $4,000.
Hon. A. P. Cock burn, of Toronto a
member of the Canadian Parliament.
ls visiting Shawane county, where he
has several thousand acres of valuable
pine lands.
Mr.. Eccles, nf Milwaukee, is about
to erect monument costing 81 500, in
the Washota cemetery to the memory
of Bishop Kemper.
Work is to be commenced on the
Sturgeon Bay canal early in May
The Tomah Journal says the work
of surveying and locating the connect
ing link ofthe Chicago and North
Westerns Baraboo extension and the
West Wisconsin's has commenced.
The Wisconsin reports 1l9 arrests
during February in Milwaukee. The
married were 26 in number, and the
unmarried were 90.
Spotted fever (cerero spinal nene,,-
gitas) prevails to an alarming extent in
Waupaca county. and the mortality is
frightful. The Republican states that
upwards of 80 per cent. of those at
tackled have died.
Dir. w. D. Ranney is laying up a
large supply of ice at Washington har-
Dor, which he will use this summer in
shipping fresh fish from that point to
Cleveland
sxhaustible beds of kaolin exist
near Grand Rapids and Stevens Point.
| English manufacturers to whom speei
mems of the clay have been sent pro-
nounce it equal to the very finest
Chinese porcelain clay.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin SAYS tn e
demand for dwelling houses in that
city now, is greater than it has ever
been before. A day nursery. where
infants and small children of Iaboring
women may be cared for through the
day, In cases where there is no one at
home with whom they can be left, is
to be established in connection with
the Home for the FriendIess.
The indications are that magnif-
cent railroad bridge will span the Mis-
sissippi at LA Crosse, before another
| year has passed.
The Beaver Dam Argus says: "The
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
has called home the surveyors it had
at work through this county on the
Iron Ridge and Lodi railroad"
The monthly yield of the Williams
Diggins, near Fairpay, is not less than
3OO. 900 pounds of clean solid miner
al. The boys take out IS, 900 or more
every week Que of them has been
offered SIT 900 for his third interest.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette says that a
dutifuI son of that city thrashsd his
wife last Friday. :. for using abusive
language to his mother.
The Portage folks want to see GER
tain fish peddler who sold lot of pick
erel that were taken dead from the
shallow waters of Horizon Lake, and
then prodded with spear afterwards
The railroad bridge of the Chicago
| and Northwestern at Marinette, will
be completed by May L.
The Dodgeville Chronicle says tina:
Mr. Theobold, Of Middlebury. sold,
sew weeks ago, II dressed hogs avera-
| ging All lbs. each The Chronicle,
wants the man that can beat that to
report.
The Dunn Go. Nevs says There
are some cute boys in Menomonie,
and no mis- take. The best are in
Sunday school where all of them should
be. A teacher of one of these classes
after a lecture to the scholars, in which
she pointed out the way to get to the
happy land, finally asked the class :"
Now, boys what is the first thing to
do, in order to 60 to heaven 2" die"
was the prompt response of Young
America.
The Wisconsin river lumbermen are
rejoicing over three consecutive months
of good logging weather.
A single case of small pox at Wau-
sau has cost the village authorities up
ward of of 5000.
The Dodge County Citizen says that
| Mrs. Libby. the matron Of the Way-