Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-10-02
State News.

ty make wagon load.
The Appleton Times says there is
a larger amount of winter wheat sown
in Outaaamie conunty this fall than in
any previous season.
Extensive marble works are to be
established at Stevens Point.
A protest is being circulated in
Hartford, Washington county, against
Sunday parades and Sunday night dan
cling.
Secretary Torrey has received about
60 entries for the Northern Fair, at
Oshkosh, from the southern part of
Illinois.
A tornado at Lacancaster, on Tues
day, unroofed the Herald Office block
and Lancaster House barn, and des.
troyed the smoke stack of the wooden
mill.
The fall term of Racine College
opens with upward of 200 students
More grain has been raised in wash
ington county this year than any ether
season since 1860.
Preparations are in progress for two
days' races on the new driving park
course at Beloit, take place on the 9th
and 10th of October. Twenty-Five
hundred dollars in purses are offered.
Mr.. August Pott, editor and publish
er of the Sheboygan Zeitamg, died at
his residence, in that city, on Monday
night last, after an illness of several
weeks.
A Greeley paper is about to be STAR
ted at Monroe, which makes three for
that village
Mr.. Haddock, of Eastman, has
threshed I67 bushels of wheat from
fouf acres.
NJ. P. Barry, Esq, late of Racine,
and now Secretary of the Oshkosh
Manufacturing Company, which is
getting ready to make the famous Gelser
Threshing Machine. has removed to
Oshkosh.
". G. Coup. the manager of Barn
um's show, is Delavan man.
Beloit College, Wisconsin, has in
attendance full blooded negro, an Tndi-
an and Turk and one of its students
is inatructing a japanese.
The fall term of Lawrence University,
Appleton, opened with over 800 stud
ents.
The soldiers and sailors of Clarke
County will have S reunion On October
6.
A correspondent of the Nil waukee
Wisconsin, writing to that paper from
La Crosse says that more than thirty
per cent of the people all along the
river are sick with fever and ague
Quinine is sold by the sack, the same
as -four.
Gems. Butler, Osborn and Lavender,
Judge Bond and DR.. E. R. Wolcott, of
the Board of Trustees of Military Asy-
lums, on Tuesday visited the institution
located near Milwaukee, and expressed
themselves greatly pleased with the
management of the institution.
The new Methodist Church of Eau
Claire was dedicated on Tuesday last
and before the conclusion of the cere-
mony $1,000 were raised to pay off all
Indebtedness.
A man named Oleson jumped from
train at Oregon. Dane County, last
Monday night, and sustained fatal in
iuries. His lifeless body was found
near the track Tuesday morning
The Sheboygan Times says: cat
the Cincinnati Exposition, now being
held the lest display Of chairs is from
the Sheboygan Manufacturing Comp
any,"
The Peshtigo Eagle says about
twenty miles of track is laid north of
Menomonse river, on the line of the
railroad, and five miles on the Escanaba
end. In the meantime the grading
between the two extremes being push
ed forward with usual vigor and celer-
ity. Nothing but bad weather will
prevent the completion of the railroad
to Escanaba on time.
The Berlin Journal says cranberries
thereabouts have not been injured by
the frost. On the small marshes pick
ing is about finished: Sackett has al
ready picked 1000 bushels. and paid
out 81 900, and from $4,000 to s3O,-
900 were paid in that vicinity, last
week, for cranberry picking.
The severest storm ever experien ced
in Milwaukee poured upon the city
Sunday night and Monday morning
of last week. The Streets and
cellars were flooded from over
burdened sewers, and several build
ings were struck by lighting. In the
country the storm ragged with equal
severity. The barn of Mr.. George
Dobner of Buckfeld Waukesha county,
was struck by lighting and burned with
its entire contents.
A dispatch to the Milwaukee Ws.
consin of the Goth ult. says: Yesterday
afternoon sailing party composed OF
Charles Koske, Joseph Bent and j, 6.
Parker, went out on the Lake at Fox
Lake for pleasure sail, and as they did
not return parties this morning went in
search Of them. 4 man shortly after
wards came into town on horseback
with the news that Mr. Parker had
been found on Browns Island, Within
hree rods of the house naked and dead.
It is supposed that he had swan ashore
and had afterwards died from exposure
and exhaustatioa. Parties then went
out in search of the rest and about 10
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