Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-08-28
State News.

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apiece cash on the dock at Little Stur-
geon.
The oteam whistle nuisance is likely
to become an issue in Oshkosh politics.
Few cities in the State are showing
so much activity in building as James
Vile.
General Fitzpatrick will deliver the
address at the Walworth County Fair
September 25.
Clintonville, one of the villages in
| Northern Wisconsin, is soon to have
newspaper published there.
A Sun Prairie curiosity is an apple
tree in blossom, which may be seen at
the residence of Rev. Mr.. Stafford.
Wenzel Bosek, Of the town of Alma
pee, has had the misfortune to loose
his barn, stable and all the grain they
contained by fire.
Black Earth has new hand engine
1t requires fourteen men to work it;
stream 100 feet high is thrown.
The State Fireman's Association
will hold its annual meeting for 1878
at Jefferson, the 10th Of September.
Mr.. A Osborn of Ripon, threshed
his crop of wheat of a thirty y-acre field,
and had only four bushels to the acre.
A cowardly william set fire to the
sheds of w. j. Williams, of Genesee
and $500 worth of property was des-
troyed.
The ninth annual exhibition of the
Southwestern Wisconsin Industrial
Association will take place at Mineral
Point, September 3 to 6 inclusive.
The Wolf river above New London
is so full of snags as to render naviga-
tion both difficult and expensive du-
ring the season of low water.
The wolf-scalp bounty of S. is said
to bleed the Wisconsin treasury to the
tune of $4,000 per annum, and the
wolf crop seems rather to increase than
otherwise.
A party of twenty boys took forcible
possession of an orchard in GAINESVILLE.
and when the proprietor tried to drive
them out they turned about aud stoned
him, one of the missiles knocking him
down.
Paul Reynolds went bathing in Lake
Winnebago near Oshkosh few weeks
ago Michael Canary came along and
stole watch and $50 in money from
Reynolds pocket. Canary has been
imprisoned three months for the theft.
A camp meeting IS to be held on
the east shore of Green Lake, on the
grounds of Mr.. Wood, directly oppo.
site Sherwood Forest, commencing
September 2. It will be under the
direction off. W. Carhart, Presiding
Elder.
The La Crosse Chronicle SAYS:
"From the officers of the La Crosse
National Bank we learn that the prac-
tice Of clipping silver is extensively en-
gagged in by some unknown parties in
this section. Dollars, halves, quarters
and dimes come into the bank with a
clean round hole punched through
them, evidently with tool of good
quality in skillful hands. A few days
ago five of these doctored coins came
in in one lot"
A telegram from Milwaukee dated
August 2lst says: The mystery at
tending the death, last Monday night
of Mrs. Nellie Van Kirk is fully solved
ed. She was found dead in her bed
yesterday morning with an empty
chloroform bottle on the table, and
she left two letters-one addressed to
DR.. Spearman. and the other to her
daughter, Ada. In: both letters she
mentions her intention to commit..sui-
eide by the use of cl-loroform, and she
wanted the appearance to be that of an
accidental overdose, or that it might
pass as a case of heart disease or paral-
ysis. Her tragic act is attributed to
alteration of mind, caused by the
death of son, aged 8 years, to whom
she was very much attached. She
committed suicide the night of August
20, which was the anniversary of the
| child's death.
The proposed conference of the
Railway Commissioners of the different
states is to be held at Columbus, O.,
on November IL. The Commission
ers of Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Mime
sofa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Hamp-
shire and Massachusetts have given
notice that they will attend.
County Treasurer Thomas Cooper,
of Tazewell County, ILL.,, has levied on
three locomotives. three coaches and