Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
State News.


A Catholic seminary has been estab-
tablished at Stevens Point.
There has not been a prisoner in the
Wa paca Jail since last fall
A Norwegian lady aged lot. keeps
house for her son. a youth of 80, in
Kewaunee county
Oshkosh has the highest assessed
valuation of any city in the state except
Milwaukee.
Sheb 'ygan County will produce fifty
per cent. more cheese during the coming
season than at any previous season.
The young people of Madison get up
excursions to the insane asylum 10 box
cars
Nine years ago a Galesville man was
bitten by dog. At last accounts he
was dying of hydrophobia.
The falls and rapids of the Wisconsin
river, near Wausau, were largely i'm
proved during the past winter.
"A Menasha man 90 years old has
sold bis homestead aud gone West to
grow up with the country.
Mrs FL R. Joiner. of La Prairie.
Rock county, has completed bed quilt
which contains 3,528 pieces.
A runner for whiskey house who
recently visited Neillsvile also took or
ders for grave stones
Kalula, who discovered Stanley AT
ricanus. has been apprenticed to a Mil
waukee barber.
The new boot and shoe factory at
Beaver Dam will employ from fifty to
seventy-fve men:
A young lady in Beaver Dam has
recently fallen heir to a fortune of
100000 through the death of an
uncle.
A fine stick of hewed timber was
hauled to Peshtigo the other day. It
was l06 feet in length and from Is to
20 inches square.
4 women eighty-six years of age has
inst reached the town of Harmony.
Rock county, all the way from Ireland
| She is mother of seventeen children.
The wolves still continue to slaugh-
ter the sheep in Racine and Kenosha
counties. Parties of hunters are do
ing what they can te kill off the
wolves.
The Mauston Star learns that the
hop roots are very seriously injured
by the hard frost of last winter. In
some instances, the roots set out, one
year ago, have entirely escaped, while
the older ones are nearly ruined.
The Lancaster Democrat has an
account of the burial of Winnebago
squaw, who attained the ripe age of
lis years. The ceremonies took place
in Grant county, opposite Bridgeport.
The Prairie du Chen Union states
that on Wednesday, the 18th. Michael
Flynn, while returning home from that
city in a state of intoxication, fell out
of his wagon and was run over, receiv-
ing such injuries that he died on Sun
day evening, the 10th.
The Depere Neus states that one day
last week little four year old son of
VIM. Nye, of the town of New Den
mark, was accidentIy shot by an elder
| brother with a horse-pistol, which will
probably result in the little fellows
death. The charge tore away the left
shoulder blade and portion of the
shot lodged in the neck and breast,
making a frigbtful and intensely pain
| ful wound
Elizabeth Currier, of Flintville,
Brown county, wishes information con-
corning her husband, Geo. Currier,
who left his home for Milwaukee On
the l4th Of January, for the purpose
of purchasing pine lands, and has not
since been heard from Currier is
described as about thirty years old, six
feet high. blue eyes and dark brown
hair when he left he had on a dark
over and under coat brown check Or
striped pants, and black felt hat.
A Little Rock county girl died few
days ago Of what was supposed to be cere
bro-spiaal meningitis. The GAINESVILLE
Gazette says: "Dr Quidor, doubling
the cause of her death, obtained permits
sion to make post mortem examination.
The examination disclosed the fact that
the little girls stomach was loaded with
boiled cabbage, which had worked it.
self into one bard solid mass. distend-
ing the stomach and causing death, the
victim dyingin commissions The doc
tor says that many of the deaths cred
tied to this cerebro spinal disease have
nothing to with it, and are entirely
distinct from it. -