Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-29
State News,

Inst contained All inmates, larger
number than it has ever held during
the summer months.
The Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad employees have discovered
fine spring on the lake bank, just north
of Wisconsin street, to which the
thirsty denizens of that locality repair
in large numbers. The water is said
to be equal to Waukesha Water.
The Chicago Tribune and Times ad-
vertise that in order to supply their
Sunday morning paper to those wish
ing it, they will run Sunday trains for
its distribution to Milwaukee and in
tervening stations, leaving Chicago
early in the morning, and a like ar
rangement may be made on other
roads.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin, quotes an
article published in the Chicago Times
stating that the headquarters of the
Milwaukee and St. Pau, Railroad, were
to be removed from Milwaukee to
Chicago, and says:
Ga the authority of Manager S. S.
Merrill, we contradict the assertion.
The headquarters of the company will
remain in this city, The Times
article is all humbug.
At Crawford, recently rural couple
registered as man and wife, and were
allotted to the same room. The next
morning, after breakfast, they request
ed that Justice Of the Peace might
be called to unite them in the holy
bonds Of matrimony. The request
was complied with without hesitation.
Senator Carpenter has accepted an
invitation to deliver the address at the
Ripon Fair, September 10Th.
A destructive tornado passed over
Geneva Sunday afternoon. The steam
err Lady Of the Lake lost her upper
deck and smokestack. Small boats
were upset at their moorings, aud the
large ice house of Wadbaus & Willard
was destroyed. The grounds Of George
L. Dunlap and j, S. Ramsey were seri-
ously injured by the destruction of a
large number of forest trees. No lives
lost.
The Princeton Republic states that
Mrs. J. 3 Merley, bought twenty-five
hens last spring and thoughtto try her
hand at the chicken business, aud she
has now growing 2l0 chickens and
over 100 more in prospect, besides she
has had all the eggs needed for the
family.
At Mineral Point, on Thursday af.
ternoon two young ladies, while boat
ting on the Pecatonica river, were cap
sized, but through the fearless efforts
of Robert Scott Ansler late of Chicago
were saved by his bravely putting In
to the water and safely bringing them
to shore.
j. j. Vollrath & Sons have commenced
the erection, in Sheboygan of an ex-
tessive establishment for the manu-
tacture Of porcelain hollow ware, cast
iron fences, etc.
The Stevens Point Journal states
that the pigeons are nesting this year
in the vicinity of Colby, where they
are said to be countless thousands of
them:
An old lady named WEIGH committed
suicide by hanging, at Omaha, on Sat-
urday.
The Dodge County Democrat says
Mr.. B. W. Warden, of Minnesota
Junction, assembled the smoke-stack to
his planing-mill, for the purpose of
placing fire screen over it's top.
W bile at its top, the whole structure
Tell to The ground Mr. Warden freed
himself from the falling stack, nding
on the roof Of the mill on his feet,
bounding thence to a pile of boards,
which he struck with his side. Strange
70 say, no bones are broken, but the
shock was terrible. from which he still
suffers greatly.
The Portage Register says quite a
number of the Indians who had been
taken, ~ ct arms to the Winnebago
Reservation at the far west, last winter,
have returned to the hunting-grounds
of their fathers, in the vicinity of
Portage. One of our citizens ia
taking train from the West, on the
Prairie du CHEN road, was very cordial
ly greeted by the happy red skins, who
like him, were en- route for Portage.
Pleasure beamed in their countenances
at the prospect of so soon seeing and
embracing their native soil. and all