Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-09-25
State News.

A Milwaukee couple who have been
twice married to each other, and once
divorced, now want to be divorced
again.
Friar, a supposed incendiary. has
been arrested at Columbus.
AL Messervey killed thirty light
ducks at one shot, at Fox Lake.
Ashland has 100 houses lately com
pleted or under construction.
William Graham will probably die, at
Beloi,. Glenn Barnes hit him over
the head with cord wood stick
Herbert Fl. Mills, a bank-teller at
Madison, and wealthily connected, has
disappeared mysteriously.
The dogs at Oshkosh have become
too smart to pick up nice pieces of
beef they find lying around loose.
A burglar named John E. Owens
was captured at Bangor, La Crosse
county, the other day.
The editor of the Kenosha Telegraph
has received large ear of corn from E.
Robinson, of Somers. 1t has sixteen
rows, with A kernels in a row, making
over 700 kernels on the ear.
Willy & Co. s stone Touring and grist
mill, the oldest in Appleton, was des-
troyed by fire Thursday morning.
A sheep belonging to a Granville
farmer, was bitten by mad deg, and
soon thereafter exhibited SYMPTOMS Of
hydrophobia. Instead of biting it butt
ed, aud nearly killed several sheep of
the flock.
G. L. Williams, of Madison had a
new buggy stolen the other night.
Cranberry pickers in Wood county
can get 81 05 per bushel and board.
Isaiah Skidmore, ESQ.,, one of the
early settlers Of Waukesha county, died
at his residence in the town of Muk-
wonago, on the 18th inst, aged II
years. Mr.. Skidmore settled on the
farm where he died in the yearl844
A prize fight comes off near Chip
pewa Falls, on the Ist of November.
William H. Coe, of Appleton, is
better. H has been relieved of l04
feet Of tape worm.
The annual meeting of the Wiscon-
sin Unitarian Conference will be held
at Kenosha, on the 9th and Goth
inst
A canary bird which had reached
the ripe age of eighteen years and four
months, died in Green Bay recently.
A farmer of Brown county captured
az old bear with three cubs Tuesday
morning.
A heavy frost has injured the crops
in the vicinity of Peshtigo.
John Dixon, of Duck Creek, raised
$50 bushels of wheat from four acres
this season.
Within a year Appleton will have
rolling mills and car works.
The boiler of steam threshing ma
chine, while at work in the town of
Erin, Washington county, exploded,
killing two men instantly and wounding
several.
The Wisconsin river is SO low that
lumber dealers are unable to float any
out.
A Fond du Lac girl picks AZ bushels
of hops in single day.
Mr. James Curry, of Berlin, alone
employs 400 cranberry -pickers.
The Lake Superior Chippewas have
received their annual silver dollar apiece,
according to treaty.
The Grant county Jail at Lancaster
is completed and worth S25, 600.
The Ashland Press says: "Parties
here intend erecting comfortable
station house at Moose Lake, the june
ton of the Ashland, Bayfield, and the
Superior wagon road. We expect to
receive our mails by this route the
coming winter"
Oconto is to have new hotel.
There is a great deal of sickness
about Oshkosh.
A Ripon boy, one day last week, at,
tempted, in broad daylight, to quietly
slip valuable horse out Of livery stab
lie, and make away wit h it. He didn't
succeed.
The State Historical Society has
recently received new portraits Of Hon
l. q. Howe, Col H l. Dousman and
Gen. Henry. Harden.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail-
way company has its track laid nearly
tos Racine, but some delay in the
progress of the Work has occurred from
the fact that the iron has not been re.
ceived as promptly as it is expected
The track will not be completed tc
| Chicago as a consequence, quite so soon
as it has been expected.
| s. d. Carpenter has retired from the
| Fond du Lac Journal.