Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-05-21
State News.

Waukesha will spend 100000 on
new buildings
A Kenosha tanning r.ill firm will
manufacture 1000 mills this year.
The census of 1870 shows that there
are in this state 55,4l1 persons over
10 years of age who cannot read.
Kenosha County wool growers are
about to form an organization of club
for the exterminatioa of wolves.
Mrs. Henning, of Fond du Lac, lost
her mother and two nieces at the
Dixon horror.
Wheat is now being shipped from
| Milwaukee via Grand Haven and Bos-
ton to Liverpool. England.
A pine snake seven and half feet
long and ten and half inches in cir
conference was recently killed ear
New London.
Anton Lense, German, for a long
time past a resident of Green Bay,
hung himself on tina 18th. He leaves
a wife and four children.
In Waupaca county man and a
boy found two bears and four cubs in
a hollow log in the woods and killed
them.
Charles A. Larkin and three or
four others of the surviving members
Of the Constitutional Convention of
1913 have issued call for the reun-
ion of that body.
Mayor Ludington, of Milwaukee, is
acting on the decision of his city At
torney that the Graham law is uncon-
stltutional and has issued saloon licen-
ses without the required $4,000 bond.
G. G. Palmer, a hotel keeper at
Neillsville, Clark county, sues the
town authorities for $4,000 damages,
because his house was taken for
small pox hospital last winter.
Rev. Dr. Cahart pastor of the NJ.
| b. Church at Racine has invented a
steam buggy for common roads, which
will run four miles an hour and weighs
only 600 pounds.
Gov. Washburn has replied to the
invitation to attend the Chicago Re-
construction j jubilee, that it will give
him pleasure to do so if not inconsis-
tent with other duties.
Miss McQuaid, of Tremrssieau, was
laid out in beautiful cofiu and all
fixed up to be buried, when she evinc-
ed signs of life, and they think she
may now recover.
Lucy King, of Fond du Lac, became
engaged to six farmers. and on a GER
tain day called them all together, and
told them to fight for her hand She
married the remnant of man who
| was left.
Mrs. Reed, formerly Mrs M. NJ. Pom
eroy, has been in La Crosse. on a short
business visit. Since her arrival she
has seen her property for the first time
--Pomeroy Opera House Building
and expresses herself much pleased
| with it's construction.
J. W. Moreland, Of Clarno township
Green County, has a Crossword buck
| only IL months old, which weighs
l25 pounds, and carries on his person
wool l37 inches in length.
Claims to the amount Of 81 900 were
| presented against Milwaukee estate.
Receipts were presented for the entire
amount with the exception of s25.
SO much for the business habits of the
dead man, who thus kept his heirs
from being defrauded.
Miss Julia A. Hurley, whose poem
on the Chicago fire was as extensively
copied as almost nything written
about that great disaster, has charge
OF the school at the village Of Oak
held: Fond du Lac county.
From all quarters the report Of an
excellent spring for running logs comes
In. The rivers are just high enough,
and it is expected that not only will
all the logs of 1872 be got to market,
but the crops Of this year be mainly
taken out. The benefit to the coun-
try from getting all of this lumber in
to market will be very great.
Parties from Milwaukee are estab-
fishing themselves in Casco, Kewaunee
county, for the purpose of getting out
rock elm, of which there is an album
dance In that vicinity, to be used in
the manufacture of wooden measures
etc. They will bring on machinery,
land employ force oftwelve or fifteen
fmen.
Secretary Torrey is in correspon-
depce with Mr.. James G.. Blaine
Speaker Of the House of Representa-
tives, with fair prospect of securing