Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-07-30
State News.

Rev. E. D. Hu1tley of GAINESVILLE.
fell off his pulpit. platform and broke
his arm.
Hops in the vicinity of Ocono-
mowoc will prove less than half the
usul crop this year.
A son Of John Wagner, of Bosco-
bel, was accidentally shot with an air
gun, the ball striking him in the fore.
head aud inAicting a severe wound in
the skull.
Mrs Sarah J. Van Vliet, who OBJ
tanned money from the Wisconsin Ma
rine and Fire Insurance Go. s
bank in Milwaukee, on forged papers,
has been sent to Waupun for two years
Prof Blake of the coast survey has
established an observatory at Madison
University, and on Monday night ex-
changed signals with Omaha via Mil
waukee and Chicago.
There is quite colony of Iceland
ers upon some of the islands in Green
Bay. A part of them passed through
Milwaukee last week, and during The
season about 200 have gone to the same
destination.
On Wednesday of this week the citi-
zens of Green Bay paid Milwaukee a
return visit iu celebration of the com
pletion of the Milwaukee d Northern
railway to the former city.
The Milwaukee Wiconssn OF the
22d says: 1--WE are panied to record
the death of Mrs. Harrison Luding-
ton, wife of Mayor Ludington, which
sad event took place this morning at
eleven O'Clock.
The strike at the Bay View lilwau-
KEEP rolling mills, inaugurated on
Friday, continues. and the entire estab-
lishment is closed, with the exception
of one blast furnace, which continues
in operation. The company officers
and strikes are close mouthed, so that
it is impossible to learn the intentions
of either.
The Beaver Dam Argus reports that
on Thursday night a woman in that
city was delivered of a monstrosity-
half human and half canine, the Lead
shoulders, arms, and upper part of the
body being perfect formation of a
child, while the lower part of the body
was as perfectly in the form Of dog.
The receipts of wheat at Milwaukee
since the Let of January up to date
are 10, 0S1 ,028 bushels, and the ship
ments during the same time are 5000,
ISL bushels. Competent judges esti-
mate that the receipts for the year will
reach the unprecedented amount of
25.000,0 900 bushels. Milwaukee bears
the palm as the greatest primary wheat
market in the world.
Strawberry growers in the vicinity
of Racine, complain that their crop was
not only short this season, but that the
plants in many cases are dying The
only visible cause Of this trouble seems
to be very active little yellow headed
| cinnamon colored worm, about half an
inch in length. This worm seems to
have means of folding the leaves
bringing the two sides Of the upper
surface together, and attaching them
by sort of gummy web The leaves
wither and finally the plant dies.
The Green Bay Gazette states that
the morning express train, which ar
rived in that city somewhat behind
time, ran over and killed four station
men between Fond du Lac and Osh-
kosh, The unfortunate men, with
fellow labors, were at work on a
bridge, and for some reason did not
get Oft in time. The bridge left no
room tor man to stand at the side of
the train. and the men were killed un-
able either to escape from the bridge in
season or find any other means of self
preservation.
The Wisconsin Valley Railroad hav-
ing recently been completed distance
of A miles from Tomah, in Monroe
county, to Centralia, on the Wiscon.
sin River, opposite Grand Rapids, in
Wood county, where it crosses the
railroad built and running between
Green Bay, and Merrillon, in jackson
county, direct and almost air line
railway has been opened between La
Crosse and Green Bay. about seventy.
five miles shorter than the railroad
route via Watertown and considera-
Eiy shorter than the route via Merrilon
viii be, when completed.
Articles of association have been
filed in the Secretary of states office, by
the Chippewa Falls and Western Rail
way Company, with capital of $160,
OOO. The road which is to be branch
Of the West Wisconsin, will extend
distance of twelve miles from Eau
Claire to Chippewa Falls, and is to be
completed and In running order in two