Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-05-15
State News.

work on the Sturgeon Day 6a'p |
canal will commence early this month.
lakewood, on Green bay, is being
fitted up for summer resort
There is big rush to enter land at
the new Eau Claire Land Office. The !
amount to be sold is 10000 acres.
A GAINESVILLE lady, bavinga favorite
cat, wanted to name it after Dolly Var
den but couldn't, so she called him
Thomas Warden.
The examining board in the cadet
matter accepted VIII. Ustick, Of La
Crosse, for the navy; and Geo. Palmer,
of Eau Claire, for The army.
Fires set in the marshes, near New
London, infringed upon that village,
doing considerable damage, recently.
A new hotel has just been complet
at La Crosse.
The railroad men near West Salem
struck for higher wages the other day
The ringleaders we've discharged and
the men went to work
Oshkosh will build to HE extent of
100000 this season-all Cor resi-
dences.
The first cheese factory in the coun-
ty is tosbe started at Waupaca.
A steamboat Is being built to ply on
on lake Shawano.
Iron ore in paying quantities has
been discovered in Belgium, Ozaukee
county.
Small pox is raging to an alarming
extent in he northern part of Ozau-
kee county.
There are 5000 feet of tunneling on
the Nor thwestern road between Madi-
son and La Crosse.
Mrs. Denver, living in Waukosha
county, in good health and spirits, was
104 years old on the IL inst.
A scnoolmaster at Depere used a
rawhide on young girl pupil. and has
been called to account in the courts.
Yachting is brisk at La Crosse.
A couple ofsbruisers are training for
a prize fight IN La Crosse.
The Hudson iSfay. and Times Office
was burned in the late fire at that
place.
The first suit under the new TEN
perance law came off in Monroe last
week, and resulted in verdict for the
defendant.
The clerk of the court receipted at
GAINESVILLE for half dozen wolf scalps
Tuesday.
A five year old boy of Mr. Ishmael
Warren, Of Neenah, has been missing
since the 9th inst.
The new temperance law has already
closed about one third Of the saloons
In Grant county
The Milton college library now num-
bers over l 800 volumes, a greater por-
ton of which have been secured since
1867.
A young offender, John Hunk, 10
years of age, has been sentenced from
GAINESVILLE to confinement in the state
prison for term of two years and six
months, for stealing span of horses.
The Wausau Pilot says the spotted
fever is still at work there, making sad
havoc among the children, and some
adults, victims falling every day. 1t
has become alarming.
Three persons were injured in a
kerosene explosion in .Green Bay the
other day, Mr.. and Mrs. Engels and a
daughter. Mrs. Engels has since died.
The Journal says /: at looks as if
the fleet of the Madison Yacht Club,
on the occasion of the first regatta
which will be held on Lake Monona on
the 9Th of June-wiIl be the largest
ever seen on the lakes
Fish Brothers, of Racine, are manu-
featuring a number OF wagons to be used
in Montana to transport silver bull
ion.
Governor Washburn has received in
formation that the water Of the st.
Louis river has broken through the
Duluth dyke and is pouring into the
lake, through the Minnesota Point Ca
nal, threatening to utterly ruin Super
Tor Harbor. He has taken prompt
measures to protect Superior and Wis
consin interests.
The lodge Of sorrow. held by Wan
pun Lodge No. %, T. & A. NJ. on
the 18th ult., in memory of the dead
members of the lodge, twelve in num-
Der, is described as solemn and impress
i've 1t was the first ceremony of the
kind held in this state.
The dome of the Court House at
Milwaukee is to be surmounted by a
statute Of the Goddess of Liberty about
10 feet high, and ball of ten feet in
diameter. The hight Of the building
to the top of the statute will be 205
feet. The dome is being pushed for
ward to completion as rapidly as 2possi-
BILE. and next fall will no doubt see
the WI ole building finished.
Lewis E. Barnes, of Menominee,
was accidentally shot and killed by
his brother, while hunting few days
ago.
The windows of the La Crosse Con
gregational Church were broken 500
worth by boys throwing stones.
An Outagame county sportsman,
Tuesday, shot woodchuck with a
brass collar about its neck with the
name of person and the state of New
York.
The sale of state lands in Madison,
attracted large crowd of capitalists,
and as high as Sc per acre were realiz-
ed.
In Berlin a young lady told her
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