Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-08-28
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NE Midi, w lnDeha9u -. Within
week.
The weevil has destroyei half the
wheat crop III Sheboygan county.
The nude body of an unkuown man
was found on the beach near Cedar
river, Green Bay, last week.
Martin Frear, suicided by hsneing
near Columbus.
There is ali extensive ridge OF iron
ore of remarkable purity in the south
ern part of the town OF Rudolph, Wood
County,
The new mammoth tanuery at
Green Bay is progressing, and por-
ton of it is so far completed that it is
being worked to the full capacity.
On Thursday morning of last week
slight white frost occurred at Green
Bay.
An advance of fifty ceA,s per day
for team and twenty five cents for labor
ers on the northern end of the N. d; n.
Railway has been lnaugurated
The Mansion Star says THE
promise now is we shall have most
abundant corp Of cranberries. The
managers of the cranberry company at
Necedah and Germantown inform US
the marshes could not look better. The
vines are white with berries and but
very few of which appear wormy.
The West Wisconsin Railroad shops
are to be located at Hudson.
a rowing race comes off at La Crosse
on September II.
Iron ore is found ut Randolph.
The lightning has gone To striking
wells at Monrello.
Madison proposes to Offset her bad
bear saloons with water works. The
unpopular fluid will be borrowed from
the Lakes.
Outagamie county is overrun with
bears.
The fall term of the University of
Wisconsin will begin on Wednesday,
Sept.4.
The Jewish temple that has cost $50,
900 is nearly completed at Milwaukee.
A married woman was fined S. and
costs for kissing a bachelor while rid
ing through the streets of Prairie du
CHEN. The husbands of og-prairie
eem to be at discount.
The eight-foot eagle was last week
inundated by j. K. Broods, of Menom-
once.
The Congregational Society of Wau
kesha having recently ordered fiue
organ for their beautiful church, at
cost of nearly 81 500.
The receipts Of wheat at Milwaukee,
the past week, were 64.636 bushels for
the corresponding week last year.
A mad dog bit several children at
Milwaukee, before he was killed.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette says the wat
er is so low in Rock river that the fish
have to carry parasols to keep them
from being roasted ready for use.
Outagamie county is the best place
In Wisconsin for stock raising.
A three year old vine at Ahnapee
bears hundred punches of grapes.
Three houses were struck by light
ming in La Crosse. last Sunday.
A party of boys killed black bear,
last weak. near Peshtigo.
At Berlin the 18th inst. the barn on
the race track was struck by lightning,
and four of six valuable horses it con-
tanned were instantly killed. They
we're owned as follows: Quaker Boy,
by Ed. Daugherty, valued $4,000 ;
Pinery Boy, by Geo. West, value 81,
600; Billy Burr, by q. Burr, value
$1,000; Ned Forrest, jr., by W.
Durfey, of Auroraville, value 81 900.
John Benjamin and his wife, an
aged couple of upwards of sixty years,
both died at Seneca, Crawford county,
on the same day recently.
The last EST. Louis fishing party
that went to Sturgeon Bay, succeeded
in catching $50 of the fnn5 tribe in
an evenings fishing, IT'S fine black bass
being in the catch.
DIR. John O. Taylor of keuaunee,
Wi is, committed suicide at that place
on Sunday, by taking poison. He was
formerly surgeon in the English anavy,
and was a man Of education and ability.
Hol. Henry D Barron. Of St. Croix
Falls, has been selected by our State
Historical Society to prepare and deliv-
er before the society Memoir OF Wis
consin S fifth Governor, Alexander W.
Randall, who recent y died at Eimira,
New York
The foundation walls of the new hpis-
copal Church in Kenosha are nearly
com pleted, and the work is progressing
rapidly.
The GAINESVILLE Times is informed by
tobacco grow ers that if the August
rains continue, the Rock county crop
may be equal to that Of last year. In
a few instances one tobacco crop has
already been cut, in the expectancy of
securing another Que from the same
plant,
Wayland University. Bea er Tam,
opens Sept. 10 andis to have new turnl-
ture thro ughout, which VII add very
much to the comfort of students.
The Sentinel says, in accordance
with resolution Of The State Associa-
ton, the several Turn Fereins Of Mil
waukee will each organize band of