Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-31
State News.
A Protestant Episcopal mission is to
be established at Marinette

A Protestant Episcopal mission is to
be established at Marinette
Fifteen thousand persons have visited
Devils lake this season.
The Milwaukee man who drew the
Green Bay Opera House offers to sell
his elephant for $1,000
The sportsmen of Kenosha have org
'nlzed a club, whose chief aim it is to
preserve the game birds, especially the
prairie chickens, and to punish offences
against the game law.
Plenty of black berries on Wolf
River
The late Geo. Hyer has been portray
ed by Milwaukee artist.
The Oshkosh Asylum is to be sup
nlied with an artesian well at an ex-
pense Of 81 50 per foot.
The La Belle Wagon W orks at Fond
du Lac are snid to be the largest estab-
lishment of tue kind in the State.
Christian Robson was brutally MUIR
dered by some one unknown, near Eau
Claire, on the 10Th, and his mutilated
body hid in the brush.
A bell boy at a Green Bay hotel
stole $4,000 from lady accompany
ing Mrs. Van Colt, few days since.
He was arrested.
A new style of potato bug is max
ing its appea rance in some parts of the
State.
A bear was lately shot in Kewaunee
county while feasting on fine pig;
Mr.. Steines, of Menasha, drowned
himself last week. in a fit of insanity.
Edward Yeamans, of Scott, Sheboy-
gan county, was thrown from a reaper
on the 18th, and fatally injured by the
horses and machine.
The next regatta of the Oshkosh
Yacht Club will come off on the 22d
of August.
A rumber of shade trees that have
been growing for years in Fond du Lac
are dying off. The dry weather is
supposed to lie the cause.
The Green Bay advocate says that
the "Green Bay flies" came in myriads
on Monday evening and completely
covered the buildings along the river.
They were so thick on the draw of the
Fox River bridge, on Tuesday, that it
was difficult to walk across without
slipping down.
Mrs. S. J. Chandler, CT Waupun, is
after two saloon keepers of that place,
claiming that her husband while drunk
pounded her $500 worth
-Four cars day are now being manu-
featured in the Northwestern shops,
Fond DIN Lac,
Till-tappers are the bother of the
Oshkosh shopmen now
The GAINESVILLE Gazette says the wat
err in Clear Lake has fallen some four
teen inches this summer, a circum-
stance which the oldest inhabitant new
er before noted.
Th Milwaukee Wisconsin reports a
corner on bread Monday. The bakers
is come to determination
to bake hereafter in the day time, and
deliver the bread in the evening, and not
as before bake in the night and deliver
in tie morning. The result was there
was no bread to be had during the day
at any of the groceries.
About half of the BARRIERS in M;lwau-
kee will close their shops on Sunday af-
ter this month.
The Oshkosh Times says that the
Secretary of War has ordered an engin-
Ger on the Fox River, to at once make
surveys and estimates, with a view of
the improvement of that
river, and the amount required there
for next year.
Capt. Rowell, of Jacksonport, had
sharp fight with bear one day last
week, which resulted in the death of
he bear, broken gun, and pair of
pantaloons badly torn
The Northwestern Telegraph Com.
oany has offered to put up telegraph
inc from Two Rivers, through Carlton,
Kewaukee, Pierce, Ahnepee and Clay
Banks, to Sturgeon Bay, on condition
that the residents of those places con.
tribute $4,000 to the estimated cost of
he works., 900.
A New Orleans company has bought
half the Bethesda Springs property.
Erie, Pa, has shipped 900 tons of
railroad iron for the Milwaukee and
Northern Road.
Berlin is building a Polish church.
Eau Claire has a large number of
summer visitors.
Five hundred thousand Milwaukee
brick have found their way to Escana-
oa.
A new pest, resembling the army
worm, has made its appearance in the
burned regions of Oconto county in
numbers. They find their
way into the houses through whatever
,revice offers, and in several instances
nave come in such numbers as to drive
'ut the occupants of the houses. They
attack grown grain near the roots,
utterly killing it.
The Madison Journal says a draft
orS20, 100 GA has been received at the
Executive Office from the Treasury of
he United States, it belngssthe amount
iue the state on account OF the five per
cent. of the sales of public lands within
Ter limits for the year ending Deem
Der 81, 1871. By the provisions of
he state constitution, this sum goes to
he credit of the school fund.