Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-05-14
State News.

n Norwegian society intends to build
| church at Whitewater.
There are three hundred boys in the
State Reform School at Waukesha.
A Peshtigo woman recently gave
birth to boy weighing 1s pounds.
There is heavy immigration to the
Lake Superior iron region.
Prof. George F. sohilling. of the
Delavan Deaf Dumb Institute, goes to
he Vienna Exposition.
Work has commenced at Ashland,
On the north end of the Wisconsin
Central Railroad.
Forty lod ges of Good Templars have
been organized In Wisconsin during
the past year.
A Waupacca man fell into basket
Of eggs the other day, bis head smash
ing Sc at one blow.
Eight members of the Sophomore
class in the State University have been
for INSTRUMENTATION.
About one-half of the winter wheat
in the eastern portion of Fond du Lac
county is reported winter killed.
1t is estimated that upwards of 20
men have been drowned in the Wis
consin river while running lumber this
spring.
The doctors recently removed two
pound tumor from the breast of Mrs.
Donovan, Ia Linden, Juneau county.
Henry f. Hobart will be hereafter
connected with the editorial depart
ment of the Beloit Free Press.
The President went on fishing ex-
cursion May 9th, to Lake Geneva in
this State, and returned to Chicago in
the evening.
A man named Leopole With fell
into vat of hot whiskey in Milwaukee
and was scalded so that the flesh drop
ped from his bones.
The La Crosse Republican says on
the authority of a private letter that
Brick Pomeroy will soon revive the
La Crosse Demccrat daily and weekly.
The Sheboygan Dc Fond du Lac
Railroad Company lost $4,000 by
the recent great fire at Sheyboygan.
Their engines, the machine shops,
blacksmithshops, &C., were destroyed.
The Walker stage line, one OF the
institutions" between Stevens Point
and neighboriug towns for the past
twenty years, has suspended operations
and given up its business to rival
line
The Monroe Republican learns that
hog cholera is raging in Green county
% considerable extent. On Thurs
day night last, Mr.. George Clark, re-
siding near Monroe, lost thirteen hogs
by this disease.
Congressman Williams, of GAINESVILLE.
announces that he will nominate for
he vacant cadetship at Annapolis and
West Point, the boy who has the best
examination before board at James
vile, May 9th.
Quite snake harvest is produced
on the railroads. On the first warm
Jays of spring they be iu to crawl out
from their retreats in the swamps, and
lie in the sun across the warm rails,
until some passing train cuts them in-
to pieces. Near Oshkosh the track is
perfectly Uttered With reptiles.
4 gang of about 20 Italians, Il part
Of those who landed in New York last
winter. have been at work on the Air
Line railroad near Fond du Lac lately.
They were found to be lazy, shiftless
and were soon discharged
and sent back to Chicago.
The Beloit Free Press says "Prof.
Porter of eloit College, is one of the
twenty odd thousand Americans who
will visit Europe this year. The Pro-
fessor has spent something like
quarter of a century in laborious and
most successful efforts for the growth
Of the College, and greatly needs rest
and relaxation. A multitude of warm
friends will hope for his happy sojourn
abroad, 'and after that winter under the
happy skies of Italy, he may return
stranger than ever, to his home"
Here is one of the La Crosse Demo-
Gratis stories 1.-The tricks that some
people play on good deacons are wick
ed. Now in Green Bay, the other day
the boys got an old deacon to drink
some champaign. They called it cider
and the good old man didn't know any
better. He has been trying to explain
to a church committee how it was he
got I'D on a table and sung, "Ho Bob
Ridley. no !" He wants to be charter
to start a Washingtonian
Society.
Lutte A. Taylor, in the La Crosse
and Leader, says that
fresh blood is being infused Into poll
tics. The next struggle is to be be-
tween the monopolies and the people,
and the first battle will be fought be-
tween the Transportation Companies
and the allied forces of Trade and
Production He predicts the triumph
of the People and says I'm the near
future the plough handle will be
the sceptre of dominion. and the FUR
row the path of power"
Sir Charles Dlks moved on the 9th
inst, in the English House of Com
mons for raform IF the INEQUALITIES