Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-01-15
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parents.
The Chicago and Northwestern
Railway Company are to build 700
railroad cars at their Fond du Lac
shops tor moving ore on the Peninsula
Division.
During 1872, 5,791 visitors register
ed at the Milwaukee Chamber of Com
merce.
A Janesvillain has pet alligator he
brought from Louisiana with him.
This amusing animal was intended as
a rat-catcher, but prefers spring chick
ems and an occasional NIP at a mans
leg.
At Rush River a lamp chin
ney burst fragment of which sever
ed the jugular vein of William Hulls
little girl, causing almost instant death,
Two hundredth anniversary of the
discovery Of the Mississippi river is
to be celebrated at Prairie du Chen
on the 18th and 18th of next June.
Milwaukee claims 5000 men engag-
ed in manufacturing
The catch of furs by the Indians in
the Shawano region this season will
amount to from $4,000 to SIS, 900.
A man and two boys were killed in
Monroe county by the explosion Of
can of Danferth's non-explosive oil.
The soldiers graves in the cemetery
at Madison are to be inclosed with
light iron fence, and a gun, monument
erected.
Rock County has furnished larger
number of the inmates of the Waupun
prison since its establishment than
any other county in the State except
ing Milwaukee
The publication of a new paper call
ed the Dial, has been commenced at
Boscobel.
Shawano county has no paupers, and
the JAN IS empty.
The Appleton Post says: TIC people
OF Appleton are swindled yearly for
want of a wood inspector. enough to pay
the interest on the $4,000 asked to
build ,tbe Milwaukee and Northern
Railroad TO this city.
| The West Wisconsin Railroad s
brought suit against Trempe ,au
County to compel cancellation of tax
certificates on the lands of the company
In that county.
The Indian Agent at Sockbridge
Reservation has deprived the sachem
and head chiefs of all authority over
the Showano tribe there, and deals
officially with the Indians directly in
stead o. through their chiefs.
100 800 chairs were turned out of
the Chair Factory at Two Rivers last
week.
The carrier boys of the Milwaukee
Sentinel realized $500 from their New
Years Address.
The publishers of the Milwaukee
See-Bote invited all his foremen to a
New Years Feast, at the conclusion of
which, he slipped an envelope contain
ing a $50. bill into the hand of each.
A certain old gentleman of Berlin
wishes to inform certain boy that if
he don't lean little lighter on his gate
be will have pair of hinges to pay
for
1.-THE belle of Racine rises at 6
o'clock in the morning gets her break
fast and eats it leasurely, cleans up the
breakfast dishes, commences washing
at s o'clock, and has the washing on
the line and everything set to rights
before the clock strikes ten.
A gentleman has been in Ripon ex-
planning and illustrating the manufac-
ture of a new gas by the decomposition
of ater.
There are some big men in the
village of Monroe. Thirty-six of these
giants have been examined with the
following result: Thirty six men
average height 6 feet 2 inches aver
age weight 1879 lbs. Of this number
three are six feet inches and nine
reach the heigth Of 6 feet inches.
Four of this number are brothers, two
of whom stand feet 3 inches, and
other two 6 feet 2 inches.
The question of the renewal Of the
St. Croix land grant is destined to be
one Of the most important ones likely
to come before the Wisconsin Legis-
lature this winter.
The editor of the Oshkosh Journal
made brief visit to the Insane Asy-
Ium the other day, and was locked in
The keeper Of the institution had read
some of his poety, and claimed that he
had right to confine him, at least un-
til an examination could be made.
Oshkosh has a haunted house, and
the Northwestern half column item
thereon.
The Fond du Lac Commonwealth
says: 1.-The signs all indicate large
amount of building in Fond du Lac
next season. And work will COM
mence early in the spring.
The Dunn County News says the
firm of Knapp, Stout & Co., and the
resident members thereof paid about
$4,000 in taxes into Menominee town
treasurer for the past year. The com,
pany also paid taxes on 10000 acres
of land in Barron county, besides
large tracts in Dunn and Chippewa
counties.
On New Years Day, Mrs. Gjertrud
Olson, and aged lady, in the town of
Greenfield, La Crosse county, met with
an accident. which caused her death a