Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-02-07
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Green Bay will have an 0pers-H ouse
lottery in April or May.
Eight hundred barrels of beet sugar
were made at Blackhawk last season.
There are four Indians in the vicin-
ity of Bayfield, named, respectively,
High, Low, Jack, and Game
House breakers are troubling the citi
zens of GAINESVILLE.
| Most of the northern lakes are covered
with ice of great thickness.
On the Oconto there are now nearly
two thousand axmen and teamsters at,
IN about seventy camps.
| Thirty-three and one-third per cent,
of the students Of Lawrence University
are ladies
Messrs. A. P Dickey &c Co. at Ra-
cine, are manufacturing tanning -mill
for some one in Pesth, Hungary
The value of all the Milwaukee
school houses is estimated at 1927 800
and of their sites s62 400. The schools
will accommodate 8 200 scholar.
The Darlington Republican, says
Mrs. Carnage of that place wove last
year 1887 yards of carpet.
The Racine Journal says; ''The
river is literally filed with dead fish
whose putrescent odor fills the air,
bringing to mind Chicago River in its
palmiest days.
They have wise dog in Oshkosh
who warns himself, these cold mornings,
on the sun-heated skylight of the
Daily Northeastern office.
Col. Chas D. Robinson. of Green
Bay, has written much-lauded history
of the great fires in Wisconsin.
Miss Linda Gilbert, OF prison libra
ry fame, is bent upon tour in Wiscon-
sin
The Wisconsin State Board of
Charities and Reform recommend an
appropriation of 1907 ,779.
Thomas Paine birthday anniversary
was celebrated in Racine, by the Turn
ers, last Monday evening An address
and dance composed the entertain
meat.
The failure Of Mcsers. W. r. Hoyt,
of Chippewa Falls, has caused much
excite ment among the business men of
the larger trading centres of the State,
particularly Milwaukee
A survey of tn e country between
Lake Michigan aud the Mississippi has
demonstrated that the highest land
between the two is the spot on which
/. the State Normal School at White.
water is located.
The Times says some Of the leading
capitalists of Appleton are seriously
agitating the subject of building a
cotton mill in that city. Capital to
the amount of 100000 stands ready
for investment In the enterprise so soon
as the plans are satisfactorily arranged,
and the feasibility demonstrated.
Peter Aleasen, Waupaca county, has
trapped over 10 foxes this season.
On..Tuesday, oflast week Miles Harris
of Porter, received ST 600 on the mort
gage of his farm from GAINESVILLE mer-
chant, and in the evening went out,
saying he should spend the night at
the house of his friend Jesse Miles.
He has not been seen by his friends
since.
The city schools of La Crosse will
be closed for one week, by order of the
School Board, to enable the scholars
to be vaccinated; and after the vacation
Of one week, the schools will De re-
opened to those who shall lave been
yaccinated.
A Fon du Lac doctor visited small.
pox patient the other day and remark
ed, as be turned fron the almost dying
man; Dig the grave; the corpse will
be ready. The grave was dug, but
the man recovered, and the grave
diggers bring suit against the physic-
ian for their pay. What was the under
| takers comoIss On!
One of the lumbeFmen engaged in
/ the burnt distrlct" informs the editor
Of the Oshkosh Times that recently,
nearshis camp, woman was taken sud
emily ii, and before a physician could
be called, died A child was soon
after taken in the same way, and then
another, and then a third. all three
dying suddenly. The symptoms wsre
buraing feyers, aud the throat and
face turning black.
The grocery aud post-office at
Duplinville station. on the Milwaukee
and St. Paul Railway, three miles east
of Pewaukee, took fire accidentally on
Thursday morning, and was entirely de