Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-05-22
State News.

musKratS curing the past TWO month.
Fires are doing much damage in the
woods about Kilbourn City, and in
Adams county.
Many of the cranberry marshes in
in jackson county have been ruined !
for this seasons crop by being burned
over,
A lad, Is years old, was struck by
baseball, in Sheboygan the other day
and was so badly injured that he died
soon after
The Chippewa river and some of its
branches are now higher than they
have been for two years past and the
logs are coming down freeley
The Milwaukee papers hope that the
harbor in that city will ere long be
dredged out SO that loaded vessels can
get out or In without running aground
The Waukesha Freeman understands
that Chief Justice Chase has bought
the site for summer residence on the
south side of Dunbar avenue, where
he intends spending portion of each
summer.
Columbus Methodist replenishs their
church exchequer by banquets at
which festive pudding and milk is
is the staple dish::for fifteen cents.
In Oshkosh, a white girl sixteen
years old was found lying in a hut, in
indiscriminate concubinage with three
negroes. The negroes were fined SIS,
and the girl ordered out of town.
The state board of assessment, at its
session in Madison, fixed the average
value of live stock as follows: Horses
$50, 900; cattle, 5000: mules, $780,
600; sheep, $3.50; swine. $3.50;
wagons and carriages, $500 to S45,-
90 watches, $4,000.
The Beaver Dam Argus states that
G. &. Lewis, of that place, on Friday
last made some 81 900 on the sale of
wheat at Milwaukee.
At Stoughton, court Commissioner
discharged man from Imprisonment
for drunkenness under the Graham law
pronouncing it unconstitutional.
At least fifty bricklayers and stone
masons are wanted in Prairie du Chen
this summer. There is plenty of work
for laborers and mechanics there.
A divorce was almost brought on by
Beloit husband insisting that his
wife should CRATE their own horse-ra-
dish, $50 as to preserve the flavor"
A Sturgeon weighing 103 pounds
was recently caught near Black River
Falls.
The State Normal School at Osh-
kosh contains 100 students.
In addition to- President Grant,
Generals Sheridan, Meade, and other
distinguished officers will be present at
the army reunion at Madison on the
4th of July.
A Miss Brown has been missing
from Clayton for two weeks. She is
partially insane.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says horse
men will be glad to learn that the own
ers of Goldsmith Maid and her mate
have written letter to a gentleman in
that city, informing him that these
famous trotters will appear at the Cold
Spring Course during the present sea.
son.
The show for fruit in Vernon coun-
ty is promising.
The Prairie du Chen Union says
ground has been broken for the cree
ton of convent on the site of the old
fort.
On Saturday and Sunday the Nor
monss held meeting in GAINESVILLE.
10. Smith, the younger, preached.
The Dodgeville Chronicle says: "On
Monday evening last about twilight
could be heard curious sound. as of
mighty wind in the distance, but on
examination the noise was found to
proceed from millions of large bugs or
beetles; they were about the size of
locusts and came and went suddenly"
George Smith came to West Bend
all he way from Kansas to have leg
amputated by his favorite surgeon.
One-ffth of the wheat at Trempe-
leau county is winter killed.
Peter Estas was killed at Neenah on
Saturday last, by runaway accident.
A young man at New Lisbon spear
ed $50 pike in five hours, one night |
this spring.
The old settlers of Walworth county
meet at Elkhorn on the 18th of June.
O. W. Kellogg, Of Fond du Lac,
has invented horsepower broom.
A Woman in Fond du Lac last Mon
dav did weeks washing and took
GOOD care of her infant less than forty
eight hours old.
Pinney & Co., of Sturgeon Bay have
orders Tor 0,UOO,Ooo evergreen 'lees.
A most brutal murder took place in
OF Friday, particulars of which
are given by the Herald, published
there. A man named VIM. Mosby,
claiming rela tionship with the guerilla
Losby, walked up to Mr. Robt. Hen
derson, who was quietly standing on
the walk, and struck him on the back
of the neck with club, breaking the
bones and causing instant death.
Mosby then dropped the club and
ran, but was captured after long
chase.
Potato bugs have been discovered in
great numbers in St. Croix county of
late, and it is feared that they will do
n,rcb don,ooo 70 tho cron of Irish lem