Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-11
State News.
The chinch bug has made its ap-
pearance in Dane coef,ty.

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Ripon has kitten with one head
and two bodies, eight legs, etc.
Sixteen sections of the INDIAN reser.
walton land will be offered for sale a.
the Eau Claire land office in August
The hop yards in Grant county are
reported to be nearly all used up by
the past winter.
In one day near Grand Rapids forty
one men, with one iron car, laid four
miles and four hundred fees of railroad
track.
The extensive fires that have late.
" ragged around Shawano are said to
have been purposey started by the
Indians.
There is tombstone in the Catholic
cemetery in Oshkosh, on which is in
scribed the epitaph "Jeremia Mad.
den, aged I07 yrs, mos"
The Methodist pastor at GAINESVILLE
did such effective talking one Sunday
afternoon recently that 81 600 was rails
Ell for the church. on the spot, and $500
on the following day.
Last thanksgiving day the limb of
a boy was blown off at powder ex-
plosion near North Point it was picked
up on the beach near Milwaukee last
Sunday.
Professor Nicodemus, of the State
University at Madison. has been pre-
sented by the Engineering class of
~: with complete and handsomely
bound set of the works of Addison.
The last winter has been very de.
struct've one to plum trees, many
growers losing one half of their
orchards. Pear trees also have suffered
severely.
The jury in the case or Mrs. Lamb,
the Wisconsin Borgia, tried at Ellis.
worth, Pierce county, has returned
virdict of guilty of murder.
Senator Matt. H. Carpenter will
soon make a speech at GAINESVILLE, on
current political topics, particularly the
back pay bill, and he will probably
discuss Louisiana matters and the
monopoly question.
The La Crosse Common Council has
appropriated $500 for the entertain.
ment Of the editors at the Editorial
Convention to be held there June
10Th.
The express company at La Crosse
received queer package on Wednes-
day, for gentleman on the Southern
Minnesota Road. It was nothing more
or less than fine three-year old bull
boxed up nicely in portable stable.
| At Chiffon, Young man named
johnson attempted to kick ceiling
seven and one-half high, and fell dis.
locating his hip. A revolver which
be carried in his pocket was discharged
% the fall, the bullet entering the
thigh of lad who stood near by.
Jas. M. Bracket has been appointed
receiver of public moneys, and Hoo
Joseph 3. Irish register of the land
Office at Eau Claire. Mr.. Brack.
EFT is editor of the Eau Claire Free
Press. Senator Irish is minister
He represented the Gath Senate district
last winter, and was chaplain of the
Senate.
The Shawano journal states that a
BURGLAR named Fred Wilson, while
connned IN the county Jail, empted
to escape few nights ago, and so far
succeeded that be had removed two
iron bars, and in crawling through was
caught by,the waist by the iron bars,
and was obliged to call for help. The
Sheriff helped hlm into stronger cell
where horse thieves do not break out
Marathon County is the largest in
the State 1t is one hundred miles in
length and Sd wide, and contains
n'nety-seven townships and 1000 900
acres OF land. Not over $4,000 acres
are under cultivation. Tie soil is
rioh and water power abundant, and
minerals and quartz rock exist.
The Marinette Eagle says A die
ooiical outrage by brute in human
form was perpetrated on the person of
little girl in this town few DAYS
since, the child being not yet four
gears OF age. 1t is some satisfaction
c. 20 know 9 that the party charged with
the offence, is in Jail at Oconto, await
lIg the action Of the circuit court