Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-02-28
State News.

n qne:te, md dry wood two dollars.
Sore Of the roads in Washington
county are obstructed by snow drifts
from twelve to fifteen feet in height
i 'fock Of wild geese flew westward
over Appleton the other day.
A dozen flying squirrels were recent
y captured in East Delavan.
One thousand SABBATH school children
Of .Ianesvills, signed a petition favoring
the temperance bill.
The Post says in the line of improve
ments, Appleton needs a new steam
fire engine and gas works.
In the hospital established at Mar
meta for the sufferers by the nor them
fires, there are So patients.
&. e. Grove of Fond du Lac, died
on Sunday last, over 100 years of age
The authorities of Fond du lac are
in arms against gift enterprise agents
The Group among the children exists
to an alarming extent at Barton.
The tavern stand at Fillmore. Wash
ingten county, formerly owned by VIM.
Klotsch, was the first building in Wis
censin lit up by kerosene oil
The Milwaukee Sentinel reports that
on Sunday afternoon, a fortune-teller
named Mat ia Dietz,er, was stabbed
by her reputed husband Adam Diet
zler, and her recovery is doubtful.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette says motb-
erless seven year old German giil in
he Fourth ward has been deserted by
her father anu is wandering about the
city begging for livelihood.
4 lady school teacher on the Osh-
kesh L Ripon Railroad, whose school
house stands back stones throw
from the track allows he school five
minutes recess every time train OF
cars passes the door.
The Democrat thinks that Waukesha
lFshould be made place for Milwaukee,
merchants to .lncate their families
they can thus have the double advan
.ase of a healthy country residence
and the NJ neral Spring water.
Edward Beeson has retired from
the editorship of the Fond du Lac
Journal, having disposed of his inter-
est to his partner Mr. Bohan. Mr.
Beeson has been in the publishing
bu~ine forty years.
Miss Mary Gamble, a daughter of
j. Gamble who lives near Brandon at
tempted suicide on Monday of this
week by taking strychnine Prompt
medical attendance will probably save
her life. Cause-parents' opposition
in love affairs.
The Darlington. Republican says
that the Williams mine. near Farplay.
Grant county, is proving far better
than was antici pated. 1t is only two
weeks since the heavy mineral was dis
covered, and in that time 200, 900
pounds Of mineral has been raised.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin, says one
Of the leading hardware houses in that
city, sold during the month Of January
goods to the amount of Sl06 600. Dur
ing the corresponding month last year
their sales amounted to S5O 900.
The Sparta Herald says a Norweg-
ian, named Oliver Cleson, was found
| frozen dead on Saturday, on the road
between Sparta aud Leon, and had
come to Sparta for medicine feeling
unweil GA his return he had proba.
bly, lain down, aud lost Consciousness.
The circuit court In Oshkosh has
completed the trial of William Schmidt
OF Berlin, for assultIDg his wife. and
Judge Pulling has sentenced Schmidt
to five years in the Stare Prison. The
evidence showed the assault TO be one OF
most d-vilish crimes ever known.
sThe NeaUs says some, one is wanted to
build fifteen or twenty dwellings in
West Depere. The Car works now un-
dergoing the finishing strokes will be
ready in short time to give employment
to at least 175 or 200 operatives, many
of them heads of families, and unles.
homes of some description are afforded
by some means there will be no way of
taking care of them.
| The remains of a white man, with
light sandy hair, were found near Pick
erel Lake (about sixty five miles north
of Shawano, on the United States
'lltary Road) a: out two W eks ago
When found the dogs had eaten all of
the body except the head, which re-
manned entire. There was knit wool.
en- jacket, folded up. under the head
Any person wishing for further iufor
nation eau obtain it by addressing D
ii. Pulcifer.
The Monroe Sentinel says the of
repeated experiment of trying to make
wood burn more freely ii a stove by
pouring kerosene on the same out of
cas-, was tried not thousand miles
from Monroe, during the cold weather
CT last week. The owner Of the domi-
Gle intends to put up fire proof house
in the Spring
The Fond du Lac Reporter says that
Nr. l.. G Bissei returned from an ex-
tended trip through the Wolf river
pineries, few days ago. He reports
this the finest season for numbering
ever known in Wisconsin, just snow
enough for continued active operations
and everything else favorable He es-
Inmates the amount of logs that will be
put in on the Wolf and its tributaries
at 200 900 900 feet one-third more
than was banked last season.
The Gleen Bay Gazette gives the
particulars of a distressing state of af-
fairs existing in Hartland, Shawano
county. Small pox having slightly
prevailed in the county the town board
of Hartland resolved to have vaccina-
ton thoroughly performed within their
borders, and accordingly made stipu-
lation with 4 we'll known physician of