Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-05-28
State News.

Ashland offers corner lot to any
body who will build a hotel there.
The lumber interests Of La Crosse
employ 200 workmen.
An Illicit distillery has been dis
covered 10 Rantoul.
There Is a prospect on foot in Mil
waukee for the establishment of a
| mammoth Bath-house
In Waukesha county some of the
marshes are still frozen solid down be-
low the depth of foot.
The Chippewa Indians in the upper
Chippewa valley are about to start a
large farm on the commune principle.
The logs in the boom at Menomonee
cover an area of seven miles and aver
age fifteen feet in depth.
Two hundred Indians held dance
and pow-wow at Trempealeau last
week.
Lieutenant Governor Petit had his
life insured for 1000, of which
amount his widow has thus far received
SIS, 1000.
The body of Miss Hattie Blay, who
disappeared from her home at James.
vile, April 18th, was found in the
Rock river, about six miles below the
city, last week.
John and Dennis Healy were re-
turning home to Glenmore, Saturday,
when their horse took fright and ran
away. throwing both men out, killing
Dennis instantly and severely injuring
John.
There is man in Oshkosh who has
not been able to sleep in a horizontal
position for the last seven years,
and still he attends to his business
daily. He is suffering from consump-
ton.
The Aontello F!cpress states that
Elah Everhard, of that village, on Fri
day of last week, caught two surgeons,
one weighing So pounds and the other
43 pounds.
The Waukesha Plaindeazer reports
that on Wednesday night. the 18th,
MIR. Emanuel Cook, near Duplainville,
lost sixteen Cotswold and Leicester
sheep with their lambs, and under
such circumstances that he is satisfied
they were stolen.
Mis- Fanny Picker, who took charge
OF newspaper and printing est ablish-
ment at Wlnneconne, and managed
it throughout the war, in order to en-
able her brother to serve in the r MON
army, has just been satisfactorily
married.
In the petitive examination at
GAINESVILLE, on Wednesday, for naval
and military cadetship, in Hon. Chas.
G. Williams district, Frank Bostwick
of GAINESVILLE, received the appointment
to Annapolis. and b benjamin B. Rex
ford, of Evansville, to West Point
b oswick is son Of Joseph Bostwick,
and Rexford son of J. D. Rexford,
President of the First National Ban K.
The Ripon Commonwealth says a
curious freak Of nature was shown us
Monday morning last, by Alfred
Thomas. 1t was a fully developed
chicken with four legs, four wings, two
bodies and one head. It was alive
when Matched but died in a few hours.
From the head to the breast it was
one chicken, but at that point began
two bodies, with perfectly developed
wings, legs and all appendices of two
chickens. 1t was undoubtedly Matched
from what we call double yolked egg.
Jim Carey, the cranberry king of
the Northwest, on Thursday last closed
a bargain with E. w. Daniels, where
by the saw and grist mill and The water
power of the latter at Auroraville, were
transferred to Carey Bros, of Berlin
The boys buy the property for the
sake of the water to food their extern
sive cranberry marsh. They now can
CONTROL the waters of Willow Greek,
and use them as they please. They
paid Mr.. Daniels $4,000 for the