Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-01-19
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Brown County.

w.
Esq, OF Green Bay. was lately sold to
Messrs. Scotield & Co., of Red River,
Tue consideration was $1,000. The
purchasers have already commenced
taxing the machinery apart, and re-
moving it to Big Sturgeon Bay, where
u VIII be set up in the mill they are
building there.---A five-year-old son
OF Charles Ellis, of East Wrightstown.
placed his mouth to the spout of q tea.
Kettle and was SO badly scalded that he
died soon after.
. Crawford County.
IHE artesian we'll at Prairie du Chen
has been sunk to depth of over 500
feet. Water flows at the rate of 200
barrels per minute and rises % feet
above the surface.
Dane County.
Mr.. j. E. MosE1Y, of Madison. has
an ancient volume of Danish history.
Dan1corum Monumentorum," pub
llshed In Copenhagen in 1913; ordered
OF an antiquarian bookseller in New
York for Prof. r. B. Anderson, of the
State University.
Dodge County.
IHE state takes care of 259 convicts
at Waupun
Eau Claire County.
A YeUNa man named Quaig was
scalded in a frightful manner near Eau
Claire last week, by the explosion of q
steam apparatus for scalding feed at
Ovens logging camp. Eau Claire
has a ten year-o old boy named Shay, who
on New Years day brought the scales
down at l65 hard, and may be consid-
eted pretty tolerably fat.
Fond du Lac County.
In November, 1869, q four-year-old
baby boy was left upon the doorstep 6
gentleman named Morse at Waupun,
with note requesting Mr.. Morse's fam
iiy to take care of it. They did so, and
the little fellow is now more than ten
years OF age, and as bright child as
there is in all Waupun. du
Lac wants militia company
Fond du Lac Commonwealth tells of q
COW, whose calf was on the track about
to be run over by the train, catching it
with her horns and pitching it out of
the way. -,
Grant County.
The 10th anniversary of the poet
Burns will be celebrated at Lancaster
on the 26th proximo. L. r.
Bingham, Bloomington, butchered last
week thirteen hogs of the Poland China
breed, The aggregate weight before
dressing was 6,531 lbs, averaging 500
each.
| Kewaunee County.
A LIBRARY association has been or
gained at Kewaunee.
Marquette County.
MISS JULIA KELSEY, daughter Of Hon.
q. s. Kelsey, has taken charge of the
Montello postoffce. 45as
Outagamie Cornty:
A MAN by the name Of Halter, while
croeslng Wolf river near the Sand Hill
House, in the town of Maine, last Fri
day, broke through the ice and both
horses were drowned.
Pierce County.
AT River Falls, e. D. and 81. W.
Levings have sold their interest in the
Trout Fishery to A. A. johnson for
81 900.
SECRETARY WMs1ow is soon to call
another meeting OF the Beloit Library
Association, to consider what shall be
done with the property of the Associa-
ton, which is now rapidly deteriorating
IN value from lack of care.-At q
meeting of the stockholders of the
GAINESVILLE Cotton Manufacturing Com
pany, held last week, for the purpose of
considering the question of enlarging
the capacity of the mill, 773 shares of
stock were represented. On the vote
to enlarge the mill to double its present
capacity, there were 735 votes for, and
SO against the proposition. The nee
cessary work will be commenced at
once.
Winnebag0 Cocnty.
The Oshkosh Times says that thenev
WOODEN mill there is nearly ready to
start up. It will give employment to
about 80 hands.
Walworth County.
Mr.. N. RocKwELL was found drown
ed in a lake near Delavan. last week.
Waushara County.
The Wisconsin Central Road is com.
pleted to Hancock, and passenger trains
are running regularly.
At Largo.
A. A. PAYNE, who operated on the
TomahaWk last winter, and had q crew
of men on the Willow this winter, is re-
ported to have skipped out, leaving
several parties in the lurch.
LIST Of Patents ISIS ned to Inventors
of Wisconsin for the week ending jan
uary l, 1876, and each dated December
IA, 1875: Siding Gage and Bracket, W.
Payne, Neilsville; Draw-bridge Gate.
G. Esche, Milwaukee; Draft Bar for
Cutter, J. Thompson, Milwaukee; Fly
Trap, w. Bennett, Beaver Dam;
Bed Bottom, A. Seaman, Milwaukee:
Core Anger, O. Townsend, Fond du
Lac.
Mr.. JOHN MATTHEWS, an old Wiscon-
sin hunter, since October LIST, has killed
81 deer and IL bear-something that
few hunters can say.
The Northwestern Prohibitionist. tho
new temperance paper lately started in
Ripon, is to be removed to Oshkosh.
where it will be run by stock COM
pany.