Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-02-05
State N ew6.

eet thick.
Milwaukee, new court house cost
$500, 900. /
Milburn, the blind preacher lectured
1T La Crosse on the 9th.
Fond du Lac feels badly because
Oshkosh has ghost and the third city
has none.
Mr. Ebert, of Fella, Shawano county, |
has lost three girls this winter by fy-
phoid fever.
Neenah business men are organizing
to build a decent hotel for that enter
prising town
Il is claimed that more than forty
tons of fish were caught from Geneva
Lake last season.
The Appleton Crescent says the pref.
test girls in town ars those attending
Lawrence University.
By the terms of the game law it Is
unlawful to kill deer between January
18th and August LIST.
Two large wolves were seen on the
river opposite the Railway House at
Prairie du CHEN, last week.
The Rev. A. Egsleston, Of Oshkosh,
10 Jailed to the Tb I'd Presbyterian
Church, Wheeling, w. Va.
Two boys named Barnes and Biersch-
bach, each ten years of age, have
started a paper at Burlington, called
the Nescs.
The Winneconne Item prints medi-
cal advertisement from some eastern
quack headed very appropriately with
picture Of a duck.
A heifer belonging to Mr.. Raw near
Wingville, gave birth one day last
week to tri plets-,hree heifers-two
white, the other red
The Ashland Press states that an
Indian, one day last week, speared $50
lake trout, opposite La Pointe, for
which he got Sl6.75.
More building will te done in Green
Bay this season than for two years past.
Among the edifces TO be errcted is a
hotel three stories high, 66x90 feet.
A ladies debating club in Appleton
IS agitated by the following question i:
sis it christian act to endeavor to
coax away your neighbor' servants :"
A Wisconsin stage driver committed
suicide few days since berause be
was 30 short. He could not curry the
horses backs, nor kiss his girl. withou
standing on a chair.
Gen. Augustus Gaylord, late Seoreta.
~ of the Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance Company, has removed to
New York, where he acts as secretary
of a coal and iron company.
Seymour Wilcox, the man who own.
ed the land on which the State Prison
is built at Waupua is begging the Leg.
islature to pay him for it, as he claims
to have been swindled out of it.
In the State there was completes
during the year 1891 miles of new
road, and ten and half was taken up
and abandoned, max ing the total Of
railways in the State 2,l73 miles.
A number of cases of small. pox a,
Neenah are reported. The loathsome
disease Was contracted first by girls a,
work in the paper-mill, who took it
from ii e rags they bad picked over.
A Racine girl went to the boot and
shoe shop where her faithlass lover
works. the other day, broke bottle Of
backing in his face and poured hot
glue on his head. He will stick to al
most anything now.
| Col. David W. Jones, formerly secre.
rotary of State, who DISAPPEARED from
his home in Mineral Point on New
| Years day ~ manner that created
something of a scandal, is at present
residing in Denver, Colorado,
The Wood County Reporter says the
horse disease. under guise, seems to be
| prevailing, and already several horses
have died in Grand Rapids and Contra
liza, and they fear the epizootic is bound
TO Lave another run in their midst.
The Eau Claire Free Press says the
ladies of that city have organized a
society whose special object shall be to
look after the children of the poor !;
and see that they are comfortably clad
and 10 fit condition to attend school
each day.
The alleged mysterious disappear
ance of Fred. Glady, wife and two
daughters, from the town Of Windsor
has no foundation. The Sheriff found
the missing family at tavern in the
vicinity aud Mr. Gladly gave informa
ton that he had cold his property with
the intention Of leaving the country.
The Grand Rapids Times says that
man in tha, city bet $50 one of the cold
DAYS last week that he could walk from
G rand Rapids to Iona He spoiled a
forty-fve dollar suit of clothes, a four
teen dollar pair of boots, paid doctor
ten dollars to thaw out his ears, and
was arrested at Ionia sas a suspicious
character and locked up two days in
Jail. but he won his bet.
The Wisconsin River Plot says that
he Lac le FIsmbeau band of Chippewa
indians, numbering about 200 encamp.
d about seven miles north Of Wausau,
waiting their annuity, are actually
tarving. They are reduced SO low
hey have been obliged to build a FIRE
round a horse that died on the road
nd thaw out the animal to get its
Iesh for food.
A sharper giving his name as w. r
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