Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-05-07
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ed Col lector of the Port of La Crosse.
Edith OGorman, the escaped nun"
lectured in Milwaukee, Monday night.
An effort is being made to organize
a street railway in Madison.
y pew Chamber of Commerce is to
be built in Milwaukee this season.
Rev. DR.. Chaplin, President of Be.
lott College, has been appointed one of
the Board of Visitors to West Point
Forty lodges of Good Templars
have been instituted In this state
within the past year.
Flora Belle the s23, 900 mare now
owned in Chicago, is native OF Grant
county.
Hon. Alexander Mitchell and wife
will make tour of Europe this sea-
son.
Nearly every man In Waukesha
oWs private medical spring which he
is certain will make his fortune.
The late Peace Commission Thomas
was brother-iu-law of J. G. Brain
ard, of Elba.
Saturdays Milwaukee Wisconsin,
says: The ice block is raised and a
large number of vesse $ bound for
points along the East and West shore
have LETT the harbor.
For the first time in the memory of
man, SO late in the season, the BAY
and harbor at Milwaukee, on the 23d,
were filled with floating ice, and vessels
last In the ice in the lake of that port
A we'll TODD farmer named VIM.
Booth, residing near Hazel Green.
committed suicide by hanging himself
HIS conduct for some time was observ
ed to be very eccentric, but no one sup
posed 1t would lead to or result in SUI
eide.
A young lady residing in Eau Claire
disappeared the other day. and after
SUI people had searched Tor five hours
she war found sitting on the bank of
he river with her lover. squeezing
hands and talking nonsense as if moth
nS had happened.
lion ilor ce Rui,lee. min ;ster resi-.
dent ut Switzerland, arrived at Madi-
son Monday night, and is warmly well
comed by his hcs,s of friends. He
Will remain iii the state until the lst
Of ) ane, when he will return to his
charge.
The Grant County Heru2d states
that John Cocker, who for many years
resided IN tie town Of Highland. near
the village Of Montfort. was lost on the
Atlantic. He was an English.
man by birth, and two years ago be
had gone to Eugland to visit relatives
and friends.
At Prairie du Chen, Frenchman
had trouble with some Indians, and
they threatened revenge. The man
took his gun and went over on the
islands in the Mississippi to shoot few
ducks, aud the Indians were seen to
follow him. He did not come home,
and about midnight yells and shots
were heard on the ixlrr1ds The man
has been absent several days now.
New Oranges of the Patrons of
Husbandry have been organized in
Fountain Prairie Columbia county
Black Earth, Dane county; Hustisford
Dodge county; Bloomington. Mif6n
and Mt Hope, Grant county: Juda,
Broadhead and Cadiz. Green county
Somsrs, Salem and Pleasant Prairie,
Kenosha county; Plymouth, Sheboy-
gan county Aurora, Waushara coun.
ty.
Harrison Ludington, the recently
elected Mayor Of Milwaukee, was in
augurated on the 29th ult., In his ad.
dress he stated that the public debt is
only 1900, 900 The miles of rail-
way tributary to Milwaukee are esti-
mated at 3 200, and 900 as prospect
ed the coming year. Mr.. Ludington
was Mayor during the great Chicago
and Nor. hern fires and his efforts to re.
heve the wants of the suffering will
never be forgotten.
A dispatch to the Milwaukee Wis
consin dated Saturday, says: From
the head of Sturgeon Bay down past
the village the ice is broken loose and
drifting with thu wind and current
Below the village down into the mouth
it is in poor condition and breaking
up rapidly. A strong south wind
would break it up and carry it out in
to Green Bay Opposite the mouth
Of Sturgeon Bay it is breaking up, and
piled on the east shore by the ives,
wind A few days of favorable wealth
er will clear the ice from both bays.
The Trustees of the State Hospital
for the insane, at Madison, have elec-
led DE- Mark Ranney Superintendent,
in place Of Hon. A. 5. Dill, elected to
Congress from the Eighth District last
fall. Dir. Ranney is from the Iowa
Hospital, and has had large expert.
ance in the treatment of insane per-
sons Patients from the northern and
northeastern parts Of the State will be
to the Northern Hospital, at
Oshkosh, and number Of patients
now in the Madison Hospital, from that
part OF the State, will be removed there
soon
TUE WAR IN SPAIN. - LONDON,
April 20.-The Carlists committee here
have received kilograms from Spain
reporting that on Thursday last a
great victory was won by their friends