Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-09-18
State News.

Ripon has walker who claims to be
able to beat Weston.
Sheep are being killed by wolves
around Hamilton.
The Methodist church at Madison is
to cost $4,000.
Wild ducks are unusually numerous
on the small lakes of Washington
County.
Louis Cronauer committed suicide at
Hudson. on Sunday last, the 9Th inst,
by cutting his throat with razor.
Ferdinand Alcan was killed the other
day at Rowley's Bay, Racine County,
while setting a spring gun to shoot
| deer.
The Oshkosh Northeastern says there
are now 80 students in the Institute
class at the Normal School. 100 in the
Normal Department proper, and 90 In
the preparatory and model classes
making a total of 245 students A
good showing for the beginning of the
second year.
! Within the past three months.
Thomas Hamilton, a farmer of Union
Grove Racine Co. had much of his
property destroyed, and his life attempt
ed, by enemies. Depredations were
begun by smashing reaper worth $40.
| A few nights after, they sawed a horse
rake in pieces. Later on dark night
Mr.. Hamilton's daughter head some
body walking about the house. She
called her father, who taking his lantern,
went out of doors to discover who it was,
when some one fired at him, the charge
(of shot) striking tree close to his
head. A few nights ago he had two
stacks of hay fired and burned to the
ground
The Wausau Pilot says the mortality
in that city the past summer has been
terrible, especially among children, and
still it continues, there being funeral
nearly every day, and some days two or
three. At present, however, it is some
what abating. The principal diseases
have been first, the scarlet fever, the
spotted or spinal fever, and at present
the summer complaint.
The Fox and Wisconsin Canal Com
pany has been notified to surrender its
canal to the General Government, aud
claim pay therefor.
The Neaos says forty-one vessels were
in sight off Milwaukee harbor at diff,
ferent hours during Monday afternoon,
all speeding along at rapid rate.
A Fond du Lac girl picked AZ bushels
of hops in single day
Work on the new line between Fond
du Lac and Milwaukee is progressing
rapidly.
At Beloit, on the 1st of October ,s22'
900 are to be trotted for.
A fragment of tree limb was found
at Harmony, at depth of $50 feet.
Miss Blanche Tucker, formerly of
La Crosse, has been employed to sing
in the Union Park Congregational
Church, Chicago, at salary of 81, 600.
The Normal School at Oshkosh is
forming a mineral and geological cabi-
net, and invites contributions.
Sixty new students have lately join,
ed the State University.
The Northwestern Railway Company
are building, at their car shops in Fond
du Lac, some boarding house cars to be
used on the Escanaba extension for
boarding the men. Two cars are de-
signed for the lodging apartments, tive
others for the dining rooms, and the
fifth is intended for a general store
room for storing the provisions, &c
The lodging cars are supplied with
berths on each side, and each car will
afford comfortable sleeping accommoda-
tons for sc men. The dining cars are
provided with tables and seats sufficient
to accommodate all the men.
Surveyors are busy at work stak
ing out the railroad between Geneva
and Elkhorn.
The Railroad companies have become
tired of the competition IN the freight
business between Prairie du CHEN and
Chicago. and now the rates have been
raised from IL cents per hundred to 6O
cents.
More buildings are going up in Mil
waukee a! the present time than ever
before.
Allie Arnold, the Fond du Lac
poetess, has just become Mrs. A. q
Crawford, of Traverse, Mich.
In consequence of the long continued
and great heat of the summer, and the
great demands of the breweries, the
supply of ice in Milwaukee has about
given out.
The Racine Journal learns from far
mers that the wheat crop turns out
finely, and the net product will be
much larger than last year some claim
ing that the yield will be one-eighth
more than last year.
1t is expected the Milwaukee Cour,
House will be completed by the first of
December.
The Portage Register reports con-
siderable excitement over the finding
of recently born infant in vault in
the rear of the St. Charles Hotel. Sus-
picions were directed toward a young
woman named Julia Nichols, who was
stopping at the house, and one P. S.
Dudley, of Neillsville, as her accom-
plice in what appeared to be case of
infanticide The examination will
soon come off.
Major Baetz. State Treasurer. is the