Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-06-05
State News.

S' nc pOy 10 years Olu.
Kenosha has two extensive edg
tool manufactures.
, The GAINESVILLE Driving Park ha
been much improved.
Dolly Warden sociables are the pop
ular dissipation IL Delavan churcl
circles.
Milwaukee Cigar makers are on
: strike.
A Green Bay wool dealer paid eigh
f ty cents for the first lot of wool from
this springs clip.
The trial of Henry G. Rice, indicted
for the murder of John G. Mosher. in
Lodi, is In progress in Portage City.
Work is to be Immediately commenced
on the construction of the Sturgeon
Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal.
A cannon that has been buried al
Fort Howard for twenty years was ug
up by a man blowing his garden the
other day.
A Presbyterian and Congregational
Convention will be held at Waupun on
the 18th and 10Th.
Several of the Little Champion rea-
pers, which are manufactured in James
vile, are now in use in Prussia.
The Door County Adyocate says that
2T goo telegraph poles were got out at
North Bay last winter.
The State University, at Madison,
has $40 pupils, of which i38 are la
dies. :
The GAINESVILLE Gazette says "Tob-
acco plants are growing finely, and
some of our growers will commence set
! ting them next week"
There is more drunkenness at Nee
nah, just now, than has been known
for long while.
The Oconto City council has decid-
ed to grant license to liquor dealers
under the old law, without additional
bonds Of 81, 900, as required by the
new law.
Mr.. Swenson, of Racine, took NOR
phlne for toothache, and didn't wake
till three days afterwards.
The spirits have made discovery of
silver ore at WinnecOnne. A Colonel
johnson, having consulted the spirit of
his deceased son, followed its direction
sunk a shaft, and found bright look
ing metal in the hard pan about twenty
feet below the surface.
The barge dam built by the Necedah
Cranberry Company. for the purpose Of
supplying their marshes with water has
been washed away, involving serious
loss to the company.
The last game by telegraph in the
match between the Racine and Milwau-
kee Chess Clubs, was finished Thurs
day evening, and was scored by the
latter on the 38th move.
The Sparta Herald says THE winter
wheat crop looks splendidly in this sec
ton of the country, and also early
spring wheat. Grass and all kinds of
vegetation improve rapidly under the
long spell Of cool, rainy weather"
The report of the State Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction calls the
Oshkosh High School budding the
best in the state and the one at James,
vile next.
A Marquette county white girl of
sixteen has become attached to a rowing
band of Indians, and will not leave
them.
There is widow lady in Milwaukee
who has just followed her seventh hus.
band to the grave, and sbe is but 81.
1t is estimated ths.t it will take up.
wards of 10000 gallons of water per
day to supri,y the needs of the new In.
sane asylum at Oshkosh.
There are now ffty-nine qualified
Justices of the Peace in Columbia
county.
| Col. Samuel Ryan, father of the
Ryan boys, of Appleton, celebrated his
SD birthday at the latter place on the
23d. ult.,
Petroleum has been discovered in
Portage county.
The German Evangelical Church
edlfices in Appleton is to be dedicated
on the 9th day of June, with appro-
pirate religious exercises.
The State Journal says that it is a
fixed fact that General Grant will be
at Madison on the 18th Of July, to attend
the reunion of the Army OF the Ten
nessee.
Manitowoc is about to ere ct 10000
school house.
A day or two since, the remains of
Ernst Kuncher, a German tailor, who
lost his life in the terrible fire of the
9th of October, were discovered in the
mill-pond at Peshtigo. They were re-
cognized by means of wooden leg.
The village authorities Of Warren
have instructed the Marshall to CON-
mence legal proceedings agains citi.
zen for using profane laguage on the
street.
The Sentinel reports that greater
activity pervades the streets of Milwau-
kee at the present time than ever be-
fore Business of all kinds appears
to have a healthy tone, and trade is
reaching out to fields not hitherto oc-
cupied by the merchants Of Milwaukee.
Speaking of the rapidity with which
the pine forests are being cleared off,
the Winneconne Item says that there
will not be a mill on the whole length
Of Wolf River that will in ten years
from now be able to earn the oil requir-