Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-09-11

! bushels or neat ms season from elght
acres.
The cranberry-piet ers now infest the
swamps aud scare me.odlous bull-trogs.
! Great preparations are making to
ensure the success of the Southern
Wisconsin Fair at GAINESVILLE on the
I7th, 18th, 10Th, and goth instants.
A FIRE at Milton Junction, on the Sd
inst destroyed the furniture store of l..
P Babcock, the meat shop of r. Smith
and the wagon and blacksmith shop OF
Charles Weed. Loss $4,000; insur
ance 81 800. Supposed to be the
work of an incendiary.
Father Ward, a Congregational d.
vine, died at Fond du Lac, last week,
where he had been stationed for over
| 20 years.
A Menononee mill has sawed %,
O0O,0 900 feet of lumber this season.
A splendid summer hotel is to be
built at Sandstone Bluff, Green Lake.
| Five thousand people attended the
mass temperance meeting on Doty's
Island Sunday 1st inst. Steamers car
ried upwards of l 900 from Fond du Lac
alone.
Burglars entered the store of Mr..
Hammond in La Crosse, Friday night,
and one of them received ball from
revolver in the hands of Mr.. H., but
with the assistance of a companion
managed to escape.
Geneva Lake is to have a regatta
club.
Fond du Lac county is producing as
fine beef cattle as any in the world, says
the Commonwealth.
The fall term of the Appleton COL
legiate Institute opens September IL.
The Wisconsin says there were 298
deaths in Milwaukee during the month
of August, of which l5S were males
and 40 females.
| lie y dueSfIIlS Ou@cttO iido lCpoito
of heavy frost in the marsh lands in
the town of Lima, which left its mark
upon vegetation.
| The contracts for the buildings OF the
Oshkosh Manufacturing Company have
been awarded.
The north wing of the Insane Asy-
lum at Oshkosh is nearly completed
and is expected to be ready for use in
two or three weeks
The Oshkosh Tines says: 1.-The
new courthouse dome is approaching
| completion Il will be ornamented
with four clock faces, and will render
| the courthouse one of the finest look
ing buildings in this portion of the
state"
The various blacksmith, establishment
of Depere, Green Bay and Fort Howard
met in convention at Green bay on
Thursday last and settled upon living
prices for their work. Henceforth the
owners of horses will be charged SIS for
shoeing team and $3.50 for single
horses.
Fond du Lac Lac has six Grant and
Wilson Torch Light Companies and
more will be organized. A Regiment
al organization is talked of.
| The Wisconsin asserts that there is
a deficiency of $40, 900 in the accounts
Of the late Democratic City Treasurer
of Milwaukee.
The Berlin Co,rant has been sold to
David JUNIOR, of Canada, Messrs.
Blackstone and Arnold retiring.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette reports that
last week horse 70 years old, belong
ing to Mr.. w coliscrott. committed sui
eide by walking into the river aud lay
ing down.
Two prairie chickens were killed
near Kenosha last week, and when their
crops were opened, they we're found to
be literally packed with potatoe bugs,
Don't kill the birds -
The Green Bay Go3ette says the depre-
datjon OF a thiefwho barpooned the wed
ding suite of young man who was to
have joined in the holy state of we'd
lock in Font Howard on Friday even
ing last, spoiled first class marriage
| notioe.
Over s21 900 were realized from the
sale of pews in a Milwaukee .synago-
que last week.
The Milwaukee Neocs denounces as
shameful practice" the habit indulg
ed in by many gentlemen Of taking a
lady's arm when walking together.
| The Ripon Fair will be held On the
18th, 18th aud l9t; Of Septem Der.
Hon. Charles A. Eldredge willadeliver
the annual address.
A man named Stevenson, living at
| Oshkosh, on the afternoon of the I'd
inst shot his wife, killing her almost
instantly, and then shot himself in the
head, after which he cut his throat. He
recovered.
The Grand Lodge |. Q. of 6. T., at
its annual session in Madison, elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year G. w. c. T.. Theo. D. Kanouse,
Sun Prairie; G. w. Coun., j. A. John
son, Melrose; G.. W. V. T., Miss Ella
Wheeler, Westport; G. W. Sec. W.
B. Hazeltine, Beaver Dam; G. W. T.,
Mrs. W. w. Likens, Mineral Point.
The following named were elected as
representatives to the next session of
| the Right W orthy Grand Lodge, which
will be held in London. England s. |
D. Hastings, Madison ; FL. Ii. Giles,
Madison j. t. DOVE, Cooksville.