Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-08-07
State News.

Polk county farmers complain of
snutty wheat.
Reports from the Burnett county
cranberry marshes are very encourag.
ing this year.
st. Croix county farmers offer from
So to S. per day for hands, and can't
get them.
Madison gentlemen to the number
of four have purchased the Gevena
Lake yacht Agamemnon, and will keep
her at the city of the four lakes.
Mrs. Ole Anderson, aged Sc years,
was instantly killed by reaper run
ming over her, on her husbands farm,
IN Fish Greek valley, sixteen miles
from La Crosse.
Ex- Postmaster Chase's residence at
Eau Claire, and contents, with the ex-
ception of small armful of clothing,
grabbed in flight, were burned to the
ground from an exploded lamp.
Hon. G. G. Washburn has advertis-
ed for proposals for rebuilding the
Washburn A mill, destroyed in the
great explosion in Minneapolis. The
size of that mill was 1OOx13S feet.
Mr.. Washburn proposes to replace it
with mill lOOx25O feet.
The Portage Register says the Fox
and Wisconsin River Improvement is
building two new scows and repairing
three old ones. A small force is also
at work getting out stone and brush to
repair the dam near Senator Barden' s
and the dam below.
Mr.. Within, an old gentleman of 80
years, residing in Bovina, near Apple
ton. because be thought his daughter
in-law had expressed a desire to be rid
OF him, went ous to the middle of
small lake in the vicinity, and there
gave up the struggle of life.
The "Orchard" farm or 66S acres,
the property of H. P. Hall, situated
In the town Of Burk, Dane county, two
and half miles from Madison, was
late y sold at auction, being bid off by
). Z. Gregory, of the latter place, for
himself and Messrs. M. E. Fuller J.
W. Hudson and Timothy Brown, the
purchase price being $50 per acre, or
$50, ,O4O for the whole.
Andrew Gains, of Beloit, 81 years
old, fell down stairs the other evening,
receiving wounds upon the head which
caused his death in about twenty min
utes.
William Kepp, while crossing a
mash tub in Meiner's distillery, in
Milwaukee, slipped off the narrow
board and fell into the boiling mass
below. He was terribly scalded from
head to foot, and cannot survive.
Another military company has been
organized in GAINESVILLE, with G. W.
Baker as Captain, H. W. Tousley as
First Lieutenant and J. B. Lagrange
as Second Lieutenant. They adopt
the name of gainesville Veterans"
Janesville's 9 year old walkist, May
Thomas, walked rs miles Saturday
night in five hours and fifty three min
utes.
The trial of Russell Wheeler for the
murder of Theodore B. Henderson at
the Newhall House bar early in the
past month was commenced in the
Milwaukee Municipal Court Monday.
The attendance was very large. w. H.
Ebbetts and ] J. Orton are conduct
ing the defense, and the District At.
torney is assisted by e. K. Martin.
John Manning, supervisor of the
Fifth ward' of Racine, accidentally
shot himself in the hand with a revol-
yer Monday.
Samuel Rindskoff, of Milwaukee,
has filed voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy. Liabilities, $4,000. Assets
estimated at from S25, 900 to $4,000.
Ou OuuudJ, q ueW SIOut HpISCOpdl
ian church was opened at Kenosha,
with appropriate ceremonies, Dr. Full
ton, Of Milwaukee, preaching:the morn.
ing sermon. The church has been in
the course of construction since the
year 1871, and is built very solidly,
with chapel in connection, in which
service has been held for some time.
1t is in Gothic style, with clear story
and immense stone columns, which
are much admired, and which were
present to the church by one of its
benevolent members. The inside is
furnished with black walnut and pine
seats, but the other fixtures are black
walnut. The memorial windows, % in
number, were not finished, but the
clear story windows, the windows over
the chancel, the central one of which
contains the figure of st. Matthew, the
patron saint, and the front windows,
consisting of a beautiful rose window
an1 'uou,or;olo folRi.hopo Kompor and