Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-08-21
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State N 9wS.
The Appleton Times reports that Mr..
A. Il. Hart obtained 500 pounds OF
honey from one swarm of bees this
summer.
The Milwaukee papers are in favor
of erecting a statue of Solomon juneau
In the center of court house square.
The Milwaukee Sentinel reports
large gang of men at work construct
| ing a dock for the water works. 1t is
to be 375 feet in breadth. and to ex.
tend out into the lake It's feet.
Another convict, Jerry Wilson by
name. made an unsuccessful attempt to
escape from the State Prison last
Sunday.
The fall term of the State Normal
School at Oshkosh will open on Aug
ust 9th.
Three Saw mills are to be erected
near Marinette for next seasons opera
tons.
A. G. Coun and others, of Green
Bay, are building a saw-mill in Florida.
Mrs. W. E. Morse, of Milwaukee,
declared her intentions to commit sui
eide on Saturday, and has since been
missing.
Parties threshing wheat in Winnie
bago county report the yield as surpass-
ing their expecta tions.
Fond du Lac has seventeen year
old burglar in jail.
A Milwaukee company will invest
$50, 900 in the manufacture of vetrif
ed sewer pipe.
Fond du Lac has had a sensation.
A respectable young lady insists on
riding horseback with both feet in the
stirrups.
A son of G. O. Brown, of Farming.
ton, Waupacca, Co. killed large lynx
few days ago. The Brown family
have been the means of the death of
three of these ugly customers this sum-
mer.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette says Adam
Mowry of the town of Rock, has begun
the work of cutting and housing his
tobacco. Mr.. NJ has eleven acres of
excellent tobacco on the farm of ". L.
Trip. One or two farmers in the
town of Clinton have also commenced
their tobacco harvests The tobacco
Of Rock county, this season, presents
all stages of growth, and the harvest
of that crop will continue from tits
time until the fall frUst5 arrive"
A party of Indians went up the riv-
er Oshkosh, Monday morning. One Of
them-a squaw, is said to be one hum
dred and five years old. She padded
her own canoe" as well as any Of them.
Wolves are committing depredations
on sheep in the town OF Dane. They
are SO bold that they come into the
fields in open daylight. Messrs. Rapp
and Steele have lost upwards of twenty
sheep and lambs in the past few weeks
from this cause.
Ashland has 1876 houses now and
means to have 800 before winter.
The New Odd Fellows Hall at Pesh-
tigo was struck by lightning last We'd
nesday and considerably domaged.
Peshtigo has built over one hundred
dwelling-houses stree the fire, besides
all other buildings.
Miss Cushman, of Boston, has been
engaged as teacher of painting and
drawing in the State University.
AT Fond du Lac, Wis, On Thursday
afternoon, a run away team colllded
with an awning, knocking down heavy
sign. which struck boy named John
Burton on the head, dashing out his
brains and killing him instantly.
A grass. widow and young unmarrl-
ed man we're fined S. and costs for kiss
inc each other while riding through
Prairie du CHEN.
The Government authorities are to
have the channel in Sturgeon Bay
staked out.
Joseph Harris is laying out village
on the north side of Sturgeon Bay.
Men are at work clearing and survey
ing, and there is already large de-
mand for lots.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin says eight
miles of water pipe has already been
laid in that city.
A o'clock Monday of last week the
Goddess of Liberty on the Court House
was unveiled The cannon was fired
and many expressions of the most I'M
bounded satisfaction were made at the
fine proportions of the statue. The
firing was kept up till nearly noon.
The La Crosse Democrat says the
contract between the White Line and
the Northern Line Of steamboats, on
the Mississippi which has existed for
sew eral years, folding them in peace
and anfty, has been annulled and live
ly com petition and cutting of farmer
rates is being INDUCED in by both