Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-11-06

CITY VI oCuOOldDle age.
They are busy digging ship canal
to connect Green Bay and Lake Michi.
gan.
Richard johnson, of Eau Gala,
caught bear stealing his favorite ram,
one frosty morning, and had bear
steak for breakfast.
Wood County people are getting
alarmed about the frequency of big
timber fires in that section.
\ Jackson county colt lived in
pasture for four weeks without water.
The Oconto Reporter says sickness
seems to be on the increase among the
young men. Typhoid fever is the pre-
valent disease.
Ashland has another mammoth brew
cry in process of construction.
Oconto has a new Scandinavian
church nearly completed
G. T. Reed, of Reedsburch, has eight
hundred trout in his artificial ponds.
Madame de Grease, a clairvoyant
physician of Milwaukee, has been sem
fenced to five years in the Penitentiary
for passing counterfeit money.
Carey, the Berlin cranberry man, re-
Gently shipped two carloads of berries
to California which sold for S22 per
barrel.
Peat is now being used for fuel by
the Waupun Touring mills.
The Milwaukee Neocs says there is
talk of regulating the whistling of the
tugs on the river.
Two sisters of Beloit have recently
received 5000 apiece by bequest in
the will of departed relative.
Peshtigo reports only thre cases of
wife beating by brutal husbands dur
ing the past week.
Charles Reed and Andrew Martin.
Of La Crosse, have been sent to State
Prison for two years and half apiece
for carriage stealing.
A Baraboo capitalist offers to erect
in that village a twenty thousand dollar
hotel, provided the citizens will pur-
chase and present to him suitable lot
on which to build it,
The Plymouth Reporter learns that
winter wheat throughout Sheboygan
county is looking splendidly-much
better than it did a year ago.
The sheep focks on the Blake Prairie
are suffering determination almost fro m
dogs and wolves. One flock has been
reduced to so, and several focks have
been entirely destroyed.
The fve-mile link of road, connect
ing the Manitowoc with the Wisconsin
Central Railroad, between Appleton
and Menasha, is graded and ready for
ties and iron.
The Oshkosh Times says the horse
disease has secured some victims in
that city. It learns of the death of two
valuable horses belonging to MIR. r. W.
Kimball near the Asylum.
Portion of train left the track of
the Green Bay and Lake Pepin Rail-
road, near Scandinavia, the other day.
Six cars, loaded with horses and mules,
went into sink hole, and two of the
animals were smothered to DEATH
A boy named James Frost, aged IA
years, residing in the town of Lamar
tine, was kicked by horse nearly two
weeks ago. His skull was crushed and
some of the brain discharged, yet he is
alive and in his right mind can talk
and eat. The case is a wonderful one.
The Reporter says the scarcity of
workmen in the several manufacturing
establishments of Fond din Lac, especi-
ally those engaged on shash, doors,
blinds, mouldings, &c, continues, with
but little relief thus far.
The Times reports that there is a re-
ligious sect in Oshkosh calling them
selves the Christadelphians, or Lovers
of Christ. They believe that the des-
of the world is fixed for the
year 1875, founded On the belief in the
of Daniel.
The north wing of the Insane Asy |
lum is now ready for acceptance by the
while work on the main
building still continues at lively rate.
Crowds of citizens and strangers from
abroad daily visit the grounds, and
wander through the vast corridors of
the building. Workmen are at pres
en-, engaged in laying sewer pipes, and
completing the draining arrangements
in all directions.
The Oshkosh Northeastern says
awe learn that the boats will probably
not be able to run between Oshkosh
and Green Bay this fall, as the waterls
only ankle deep along the flats at APP
pleton. Water communication on the
Fox has not yet been resumed, except
a light draught boat carrying cranber-
ries from Eureka to this city"
There is a speck of war IN Beloit
College. The faculty wanted oversight
of the register which the students are
about publishing. The latter thought
the demand unreasonable, and refused
to comply. The faculty threaten to
expel the publishing committee, and
nearly all the other students say they
will 90 too if the threat is executed.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette says The
State Board of Charities and Reform
were in this city on Saturday for the
purpose of inspecting the Institution
for the Blind. They found things in
excellent shape at the establishment,