Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-16
State News.

River Falls is to have a linseed-o
mill.
Waupun reports 3l9 inmates at the
prison.
The ice in Lake Pepin is good for
another week.
The roads near Eau Claire are we'll
nigh impossible.
r.. Hinman is putting up large
! hotel at Eau Gale.
Business is picking up in Grand
Rapids and Centralia.
Oconto saw-mills will have a stock
of Is 100000 feet of logs.
The Prairie Mills, at River Falls,
have commenced running. r.
H. l.. Stafford has Withdrawn from
the Fox Lake Representative.
Lind, Waupaca county, enjoys at
least one marriage per week.
The Durand Congregationalists are
W Uullu CuulCu tulS oAuLuci.
George s. Kaime has served his
connection with the Omro Journal.
Lead-minning at Potosi is not pan
ming ut as we'll as in years gone by.
1t is said l47 men have left Colum-
bus during the past year for the west
The St Croix and Mississippi rivers
will have plenty of water this season.
The Durand Congregationlists are to
build a church next summer.
The large land owners of Lincoln
county have organized to contest the
legality Of the taxes in that county.
Farmers are strongly advised not to
SOW Russian wheat, as millers will not
buy it.
Dogs have slaughtered about seven
ty sheep 10 the vicinity Of Randolph
within the past two weeks.
A. Chase, living near DeSoto, re-
Gently had removed from his back bone
a tumor weighing two pounds.
The Eau Claire Lumber Company
has decided t. pile 5000 600 feet OF
lumber for shipment by rail the ensu-
ing season.
Julius Weilep, Treasurer of Kewau-
nee. and a Socialist, has absconded
with the village funds to parts uo-
known
Chief Kennedy's report of the MIL
waukee police force during the past 6s-
Cal year shows that 3. III arrests we're
made. and Sl4 ,08l worth of property
recovered.
James Ward is under arrest on the
charge of highway robbery. At 10
o'clock Monday afternoon, he knocked
dowu an old veteran of the Soldiers
Fl lone in a secluded spot on South
Water street, and rlfed his pockets.
The old saw-mill at Neenah, lately
owned by Henry Sherry has been
pulled down to make room for the new
yrist-miIl by Messrs. WuIff, Walker &
Winters.
A four year old son Of William Fies
a few miles west Of Beloit, was fatally
burned on Saturday by falling into a
pail of hot water. lie died Sunday
morning in great agony.
Navigation on the St. Croix this
season will lack one element Of inter-
est it has had for two or three seasons
past--opposition lines. The Knapp
and Reaney liues have been consolidat.
ed.
Fred Randow, a Milwaukee laboring
man, 50 years of age, hanged himself
Monday noon at his residence. Family
difficulties resulting from intemperan ce
led to the suicidal act. Randow had
but recently served a term in the
House of Correction.
Ferdinand Messerschmidt fell into a
vat III a tannery Of Geo P. Scbeide-
ner & Co., Milwaukee, Monday noon
aud was drowned. Deceased was sub
ject to fits, and it is supposed suffered
spel when he fell Messerschmidt
was about thirty years of age aud un-
married.
At Superior, at the late election, an
/ attempt was made, under new law, to
prevent old citizens from voting-men
whose fathers were Frenchmen, but
whose motherss were half breeds and
quarter-breeds. The law being ex-
postfacto, and not applicable to old citi-
zens: the attempt was promptly ruled
out.
During a dance four miles north of
Neilsville few evenings since, a gang
Of young meu under the influence of
lqour, headed by Fred Drake attacked
the floor managers because they were
not allowed to par arcipitate in the dance
without having purchased tickets. E.
D. Brown, one of the managers, drew
revolver and sent a bullet into Drake s
head. The wounded man walked home,