Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-04-30
State " ews.

Green Bay will expend $3.50, 900 in
building this summer.
The Wauk esha Democrat will issue
a daily edition durin- the summer.
| George Washington drives stage in
Oconto county.
A Dodeeville youth shot at pig
con and killed his brother.
| The maple sugar crop is reported
large In every section.
The death of Mrs Mary Breese,
mother of the Secretary of State, is
reported.
Waldo, the Oshkosh artist, has fin
lshed fine oil painting of South Park,
Colorado.
The students of Lawrence Univer-
sity have challenged those of Ripon to
pubic debate.
Thirty thousand young salmon are
soon to be let loose in the Kewaunee
and Menomonee rivers.
A Z Perkins, of Waukesha county,
is said to be the largest wool grower in
the State.
Mrs. Kammerer, of Racine, commit
ted suicide with strychnine Monday.
She leaves eight children.
The magnetic we'll at Fond du Lac
is daily visited by great numbers of
people.
The Winnebago Indians refuse to
leave Wisconsin.
Berlin will grant no more liquor
licenses after the lst Of May.
Neenah proposes to loan the village
credit to the amount of 81, 200 to
! WhomsoeVer will establish a wooIea mill |
More broom corn will be grown in
Fond du Lac County the present year
than during any former year.
There are 1000 acres of marsh land
along the Shoe River, said to be well
adapted TO cranberry culture.
A Racine COW thinks more Of pap.
ply which has been kept in the barn
with her, than her own calf
The religious discussion between
Rev. DIR. Spaulding and Father
Valley, at Madison last winter. has
been published in pamphlet form.
The Boards CT State Charities of
Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin
held joint session at Milwaukee on
the 10Th.
A party of fishermen recently fosnd
the headless body of man in Lake
Monona, which had turned completely
black, and was petriGed as hard as
rock.
Julius Mehke, Portage boy, fell
under the cars, the other day, while
trying to catch ride," and lost one
of his legs.
Two Evansville clergymen are to
discuss publicly the relative merits of
close and open communion.
a Baraboo girl has ssed the North
western railway because a conductor
kissed her against her will, on the
mouth. She claims 1000 damages.
And now Monroe, Green County,
has ghost Ii is in house about
whicl. rumors Of murder have linger-
ed for several wears.
A man at Chippewa Falls offers to
bet S. 900, and put up the money, that
that place will have 1000 inhabitants
within ten years.
One of the results Of the late severe
winter is the loss of some thirty thou
sand grape vines by Gresnman, the
Milton fruit grower.
The Waukesha Temperance Associa-
ton gives notice that saloon keepers
must comply with the laws as to closing
on Sundays, and selling:liquor to minors
and drunkards, or they will be prompt
ly prosecuted.
\ Milwaukeean has purchased the
Washington House at Beaver Dam,
and will immediately demonstrate to
the denizens of that lovely place that
he can keep hotel on the European.
Amsterdam, Rotterdam, or any plan
agreeable to Beaver Dam.
The Whitewater Register states that
a narsnip was brought into town a few
DAYS ago that Measured three feet and
nine inches, honest measure, aid there.
were evidently several inches of con-
tinuatIon left in the ground.
The Kilbourn City Mirror says
1.-The injury to the hop yards is not SO
GREAT as first reported. 1t is now sup
nosed that from one-half to two-thirds
of last year S crop will be raised if no
further injury is sustained.
The La Crosse Republican learns
from the farmers 10 that county, that
the winter wheat is almost entlrel y
killed out and that farmers have re-
seeded he ground to spring wheat. 1t
is estimated the winter wheat that will
be raised in that county, this year, will .
he less than the amount of seed sown
last fall
A hearty old veteran residing in the
town of Calarus, Dodge Co., John
Dickoff by name, who served under
Blucher, at the battle of Waterloo, in
1915, not only retains his senses, but
his physical vigor is so remarkably
GOOD that about four years ago he con-
tracted to cut one hundred cords Of
cord.0od, and fulfilled The contract
with his own muscle.
The sMadison people are puzzllne
themselves over the case of Jacob
Smitz, German, who has been con-
cealcd in his own house IN the centre