Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-04
State News.

of the many new churches built III
Och kosh this season.
The mercury marked ten degrees
below zero on Wednesday at Fond du
Lac.
Fl. l.. Devereaux, Of the Burlington
Standard, was the founder of the
Boston Pilot.
Apples have gone up four dollars
per barrel in Milwaukee.
The fre-engines in Milwaukee are
now run by ox-teams which bave been
trained for the work.
The senior class in Ripon college
numbers Is and the Lawrence Universl-
ty seniors number II.
Gen. David Atwood, of the Madison
Journal has gone East on visit, and
to attend the meeting of the Centen-
NAL Commission at Philadelpf
The stage lines from APP, ton to
Shawano and New London have sus
| pended on account of the horse dis
| ease.
General A. G.. Ellis, Of Stevens
Point, the veteran editor, came to Wis
consin and settled at Green Bay In
1922.
The lightning has cured another
man Of rheumatism by striking him.
| This time his name is J. D. Travis, OF
| Delton. He is recovering.
Mrs. Rosalie Dousman, a lifelong
missionary among the Indians, and
who came to Green Bag as early
as 1910, recently died at Shawano
| aged rs.
GAINESVILLE is troubled with a certain
class of respectable" young men, who
are inclined to be row fish on the
streets after nightfalI and insolent to
people, particularly on Sunday eve
| nlngs.
Major Phil. Parsons, of the comforta-
bic and always reliable Villas House, at
Madison, has bought out the Mime
wauken House, at Devils Lake, near
Baraboo; of which he will hereafter be
the presiding genius.
The Ripon Commonwealth reports
a greater scarcity of water in that vi
| cinity. Farmers are obliged to drive
! their stock one or two miles to water.
and unless We have rain before spring
much suffering and inconvenience
must ensue.
The Oconto Company have an immense
amount of lumber piled on the prem
Uses, estimated at 10 100000 feet. In
this is about $500, 900 feet of strips
probably the largest amount ever piled
in one yard in the northwest.
Alone Wood, of Wausau who has
been in the penitentiary three years,
under a conviction for murder, was re-
Gently pardoned by Gov. Washburn, on
account of an incurable disease rapidly
approaching its termination. The dis
| charged convict died last week.
The Ashland Press reports that the
storm on Lake Superior, the 18th and
I4th, ult was the severest ever exper-
fenced there. The wind blew a perfect
gale, accompanied by heavy seas in the
bay. Some planks were taken from
the dock, and other damage done to
boats.
| A fire at Baraboo, on Monday night,
destroyed Sayer's meat market Mag
inns cigar store on the corner, Udell's
saloon, Spearling's sooon, Yields furn-
iture warehouse and wheelright and
blacksmith shop adjoining. The fire
occasioned considerable suffering, as
the thermometer marked zero. The
pecuniary loss is not stated.
Governor Washburn has appointed the
following committee of Senators hold
ing over and assemblymen elect to visi-
the State Institutions and report to the
Legislature according to the law. Sena
tors J. E. Irish, Republican j. L.
| Mitchell, Democrat, Assemblvmen, D..
| G. Cheever, and G S. Kelsey, Repub-
lican, and Joseph Rankin, Democrat.
The Committee will meet December
10th, and proceed on their tour.
The Western Farmer says that J.
White, cranberry cultivator from New
Jersey, has spent some weeks in ex-
aiming Wisconsin marshes. He thinks
the amount of land suitable for the Gull
ture of cranberries here has been great
ly overestimated The Berlin marshes
are best Mr. White, with other par
ties, finally purchased 5000 acres of
| State lands in the eastern part of Jack
son county and will commence opera
tons in the spring.
| Thursday afternoon last fearful ex-
plosion took place at the Horsley Blast
ing Powder Mandatory, about three
miles north of Milwaukee. 1t seems
that the house in which the manufac-
turing of the material took place, was
situated within few feet Of the edge
| of the lake, and there were but three
persons engaged at work when the ex-
plosion occurred which totally destroyed
the building, and killed all the occu
pants The names of the victims are
John W. Cummings, man named
Sackereiter, his son, and a young man
named Frank Bentley. How the &C
cident occurred or what caused it is a
mystery sealed up in the dead.
YALE's HALE CENTURY.-TheC Col
lege Courant presents some interesting