Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-07
THE NORTHWEST.
WISCONSIN.

VERY large barn is being erected on
the Racine driving park grounds.
The grain is backward in Kenosha
county, ADD cattle have to Re fed; pas
lures are as bare as in winter. '-.s
TROUT fishing is the principal sport in
the northern part of the state at pres
ent. ..,
THE English cabbage butterfly has
made lts appearance in Racine. 1t is
said to be very injurious to cabbage.
KEWAUNEE has the smallest delin-
quent tax list of any county in the
state.
| QUITE a small village of Winnebago
Indians are encamped across the river
from Kllbourne City. ......
The work Of rebuilding has COM
menced on the site OF the recently des-
troyed buildings at Union Grove.
THE Milwaukee council is still con-
slderlng the propriety of altering over
their self-propelling fire steamer to a
common horse engine.
The Plankinton house at Milwaukee
will, after May l, be conducted by Mr..
John Plankinton, the owner Of the
structure, MIR. Sherman retiring.
A TEAM-HEATING company has been
organized in Milwaukee with charter
running twenty years. Its object is to
furnish steam for heating buildings of
all sorts, through pipes, as gas is fur
nished.
GABE BoUCK gives notice that a COM
petitive examination will take place at
Oshkosh, on Thursday, May 10Th, for a
vacant cadetship at West Point. APP
plicants' ages must be between II and
% years.
TWENTY years ago, James Storm, of
Whitewater, cut the knuckles of one of
his fingers, and when the wound healed
it left the finger perfectly stiff. A few
days ago he accldently cut the same
knuckIe, but in a different direction,
and now he has the full use of the Joint
again. ... .....
LEMARs has been visited by four hun
dred tramps since the season opened.
A FIFTY-MILE extension will be made
to the Muscatine Western railroad this
year. -.- -r
EXPERIMENTS are being made with
clay in South Des Moines with q view
to commencing the manufacture of
pressed brick. sg.F-
AN order is to be formed at Cedar
Falls in which ladies are admitted and
their lives insured. It is q branch of
the Knights Of Honor.
Iowa CRY is to vote on the proposed
| or tav h or,
railroad, the requisite number of petit
TONERS having been secured. 49,.
AN emigrant wagon passed through
Indianola last week, going in an easter
ly direction, labeled on the cover: Go
ing back to my wife's people, ....
! STRANGERS are not allowed to firt
with the pretty girls of Cedar Rapids.
Two strangers were arrested and locked
up for trying it the other day.
A TELEPHONE now connects Burling-
ton with Keokuk.' 1t was gotten up by
the Burlington boat club as a means of
adding to the receipts of their coming
z fair. ~ s.1 .a ate.n
CEDAR RAPIDS is making extensive
preparations tor the firemen's conven-
ton, to be held III that city In June.
Several Illinois companies have sent
wore, that they expect to be present.
The skeleton of an Indian was I'M
earthed the other day on Bloody Run,
near Dubuque. 1t was several feet I'M
derground. The body had been buried
IN sitting posture, and two pieces of
pottery and other relics were found with
tAe bones. sf.. .a -.. aa. ttl#
A PARTY of thirty-fve residents of
Muscatine city and county have pur-
chased large tract of land in Mead
county, Kansas, and have chartered
cars for the removal of their families,
furniture, agricultural implements, seed
grain and provision sfor year. III
a. REV. [. n. .PARDEE, of Fort Dodge,
and Rev. J. r. Berry, of Vinton, are
making arrangements for Sunday
School excursion to San Francisco,
which will leave Council Bluffs May 2S.
The rate for the round trip will be 500,
half the usual price. The national
Sunday School convention will be held
in the Yosemite valley, and the excur-
sion will arrive in time for this meeting.
|a8) - jssln MINNESOTA. 1ieat3
IHE youthful grasshoppers are said
to be putting in an appearance IN Rock
county.
| ST CLOUD has been made Northern
Pacific office for all business on that
road north of Sank Rapids and west of
| Brainerd. ,--..,.. ~ .t...~.-.....t.
EDWARD W. HARTLEY, father of Hart
ley Bros, proprietors of the Bismarck
/ Tribune, died on the 18th at his resi-
/ dence in Lower Canterbury, New Bruins
| wick.
BUILDING operations are active in
Minneapolis. Work on two hundred
residences, large and small, is reported
by the Tribune to be under way at the
present time. s6I ,GlltsHas ...
q SURVEYS are nearly completed for an
extension Of the WinOna and St. Peter
railway westward distance Of one hum
dred and fifty miles the present season,
and contracts for grading, ironing and
bridging will be let in a very short time.
GENERAL MANAGER MEYERS, of the