Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-06-12
State News,

Ferdinand Touchette got drunk and
4 was burned to death in barn at Chip
pewa.
I. ". Carter, of Clinton, has los
100 apple trees by piling manure abou
them.
The appearance of the Hessian f.
has alarmed Rock county wheat grow
ers.
In Rock county the wages paid fl
farm helps about $50 per month.
J Shocking to relate, the richest heir
ess OF Milwaukee is soon to marry
widoWer with three children. Tn,
young fellows talk of getting out an in
juction.
The State University::at Madison ha.
$40 pupils, 12S of whom are ladies.
The spotted trout fever prevails al
La Crosse, and is in all cases fatal to
the victims.
DR.. FL. O. Crane, of Green Bay, one
of the most noted physicians in the
State, and surgeon of the Third Wis.
consin Infantry, died the 22d inst. aged
81.
| Fond du Lac pays l 800 10 teachers
salaries, every month.
A chapter of Royal Arch Masons
| has been insti tuted at Omro.
The Secretary of War has engaged
hotel rooms at Madison for July 4.
The Wisconsin delegates to the Phil
4delphia Convention were run through
without change, in palace ear.
The cotton factory of Waupaca is
ready for work.
Great quantities of zinc ore are COM
ing into Mineral Point.
At Madison, on Decoration Day, after
every honor had been paid to the fall
len soldiers of the Union, 400 rebel
graves were strewn with flowers.
When the Madison Good Templars
adjourned the other night, they found
their doorway blocked up with empty
beer kegs.
Thirteen converts were baptized in
the river at Evansville, Sunday after
noon, June 2nd.
The commencement exercises at Law
renee University occurs June 27.
Rock county produced the past year
$1,000 cases of tobacco, which sold for
$4,000.
A violent wind and hail storm swept
over West Bend the 10Th ult. Sew
eral fields of growing grain were des-
troyed in the towns of Trenton and Jack
son.
A Fond du Lac man has sued the
Great Eastern Circus for $500 damages
for soaring his horse at the time of the
procession.
The Hessian fly has appeared in the
town of GAINESVILLE, but as yet their
numbers are not sufficient to cause al
arm.
The Monroe Republican says the
canker worm is making sad havoc am
ong the apple trees in that locality,
occasionally attacking cherry.
Rev. G. R. Pattee, pastor of the
Methodist Church at Beloit, Wis. has
been found guilty of falsehood, and sus-
pended from preaching.
The Sentinel says Milwaukee num-
bers among her residents a German
lady slender and graceful at six feet
eleven inches.
Warren Gilbert, residing near Rio,
is the largest farmer in Wisconsin.
He owns $500 acres in body, 500
of which are this year sown with wheat,
and 600 with clover.
The Oshkosh Times learns from lum-
bermen who claim to be posted, that
not less than 100000 feet of logs
will be hung up on the smaller streams
ibis seaeou, and infers that in conse-
quence lumber will keep up in price.
In Oshkosh, several saloons are sell
ling liquor without license and the
saloon keepers openly declare that they
will not procure a license. They say
the law is failure and that they will
resist the enforcement.
The Freeman says the number of
visitors at Waukesha is already nearly
as large as it was at the height of the
season last year.
The Appleton Crescent recommends
that manufacturers make Monday, in
stead of Saturday, weekly pay day. 1t
says that the change will increase say
ing banks deposits and more church
going.
The chinch bug is terribly destruc.
tive to grain in the western part of the
State.
In 1900 Wisconsin had a population
of lis IS belonging to Prairie du
Chien, and so to Green Bay.
Prairie du CHEN is to have Sisters
Convent, work thereon having already
begun. 1t will be three stories high,
and have a Milwaukee brick front.
The estimated cost of the edi6ce is S25,
900.
A Mr.. Davis killed five rattlesnakes
on the Sugar Loaf, on the shore of
Green Lake, that in the aggregate meas
ured thirteen feet in length.
While little daughter ofJohn Clip
man, of Pewaukee, aged twelve years,
was swinging in swing that had been
put up in an open shed, the shed and
swing fell, breaking the child's neck
and killing her almost instan tly. A
little brother was severely injured at
the same time.
A trottino race for $3.50 took Mace