Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-04-24
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New London will have National
Bank before the summer ends
The Columbia county pioneers who
settled there before 1910 will meet at
Portage May l.
A Liberal Reform Club has been
organized in Oshkosh.
A family of nine prairie wolves, a
mother and eight young ones, were
captured in Dane county, several days
ago.
A GAINESVILLE man recovered seventy
five dollars from a fellow who poisoned
his dog.
More than one-half of the bees in
Outagamie county have died on account
of the prolonged winter.
Church tea and maple sugar parties
are the leading amusements in Delavan.
The Fond du Lac Commonwealth
says that winter wheat never passed
winter with so little injury. The crop
of that kind will be quite large this
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The Leader learns that the saloons
in Neilsville and Black River Falls,
were closed last Saturday for non-com
plance with the new Temperance law.
Cliford's dramatic company had a
splendid season at Green Ray.
Business of Fort Howard station for
March amounted to S53 1906 thus
making it the first station on the Wis
consin Division Oshkosh takes a
back seat
A Fond du Lac family has been bles-
sed with four pair of twins in ten years.
Owen Aldrich, one of the first set
tiers of Milwaukee, died at the age of
so.
The Waupaca Wooden Mills are to
be enlarged and capacity increased
The first raft of the season at La
Crosse are sealed and is ready to start
down the river.
At the Winneconne ship-yard of T.
W. Lake, eight or nine boats are being
built or repaired
The dam at Montello has been partly
carried away on account of the depreda-
tons of. Muskrats during the winter.
Three mill-dams at and in the vicin-
ity of West Bend were carried away by
the freshet of last week.
The Sparta Eagle has given up the
ghost"
Two large pelicans were shot by Geo
B. Toby, of Trempealeau, last week.
They measured six feet four inches
from tip to tip of wings
Governor Washburn has appointed
as Commissioners for the capitol 2 lark,
Messrs. George L. Delaplaine and
George &. Morrow, of Madison, and
Hans Croker, of Milwaukee.
A flock of wild swans passed over
Milwaukee Saturday evening and took
up their lodging in Menominee marsh.
The Wisconsin says the frequent
complaints of late, of cruelty to ami
mails, makes it imperatively necessary
for the common courcil to take imme-
date action on the subject
A great deal of damage has been done
by the ice in Lake Monona, caused by
the violent winds which have driven
the still strong ice with great force on
whatever was in its way. The most
serious damage was done to the trestle
work OF the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad crossing the lake, the ice en-
tirely forcing out of place and breaking
off number OF piles.
In the Third Internal Revenue Dis
trict, composed of Fond du Lac, Dodge
Washington, Ozaukee, Sheboygan.
Manitowoc, Calumet, Brown. Winneba-
go, KeWaunee, Green Lake, Waushara,
Waupaca, Marquette, Shawano, Door.
Oconto and Outagamie. there are
seventy-six breweries and one distillery.
The Madison Journal says ''In ac-
cordance with custom for some years
past, ex- Mayor Bowen presented Mr..
Hill, his successor in office, new hat
at the Inauguration to-day"
The Oshkosh Northeastern says
fears are entertained that the usual
spring freshet in the head waters of
the Wolf and its tributaries will not &C.
cur this year, and that, consequently,
but few logs will be got to market.
The Wisconsin, says the number of
arrests made in Milwaukee during the
year was 1887, of which 766 were
married and l 1921 single; 1908 could
read and write, and 70 could not
There was only three murder cases of
the number, the majority of the Of
lenses being of trivial nature. There
are only forty two members in the po-
lice force.
The upward bound stage, Saturday
of the line between Marrinette and
Escanaha, connecting with the G. N.
w. r. R., met with an accident in the
falling of tree upon it, which result
ed in the serious injury Of several per-
sons. The tree struck the driver
John Routledge, on the head and in
the back, ibjuring him very badly, and
as the stage was going at a rapid rate
nearly all of the passengers were hurt,
only three escaping uninjured.
Last week good Oshkosh wife lost
her husband--he sickened and died.
In due time the funeral took place.
The poor woman felt badly, of course,
but she was not the only one thus stu
ated, After the sermon was over and
last opportunity was offered to witness
the departed, first one woman went to
the coffin and kissed the corpse, then
another, and another, until about TWEEN
ty had pressed their lips to the marble
forehead. All this time the weeping
widow was looking on. She knew none |