Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-03-19
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
WISCONSIN,.

OEVENTY new graves have been made
IN the cemetery at Ableman, Sank
county, since last fall. In that vicinity
diphtheria has bnen as fatal as yellow
fever at the south.
Mr.. BEN. GEORGE, of Hudson, met
with what may prove serious accident,
last Thursday evening. In sliding down
from load of hay he struck a stake,
which was forced up into his body about
four inches, making fearful lacerated
wound.
CHARLES SMITH, son of the late J. B.
Smith Of Milwaukee, committed sui
eide In that city by shooting himself in
the head with revolver on the 10th
INST He died the same evening leav-
ing a wife and one child entirely desti-
tute. His father, d man of consider
able means, left all his property to
second wife. His son, being out of en-
ployment felt this action of his father
30 keenly that he took his own life.
REV. FATHER O'MALLEY of Oshkosh,
the eloquent advocate of temperance
has been featuring to crowded houses
in Portage. He is doing much good
among the Catholics of that city.
ACTIVE operations have been COM
menced on Kenosha harbor.
WOLVES are making havoc with the
farmers sheep hOcks around Palmyra.
TELEPHONE communication has been
opened between Kenosha and Racine.
On a morning Of last week Peter
MOlderer was found frozen to death
near Waupun. The evening before he
had attempted to cross the marsh, but
lost the track, and his horses broke into
a mud hole. 1t seems he detached his
team from the wagon and got one of
his horses out, but was overpowered by
the cold. ..,... ..,......
WINTER-wHEAT Jocks promising in the
vicinity of Milton. 0...
THE body Of Michael Burk was found
floating in the slough at Prairie du Chen
since last November. The verdict of
the coroners jury was accidental
drowning" e..
QUITE successful revival has been
in progress for some time in the First
Methodist church of Oshkosh. The
number who claim to have been con-
verted is from sixty to seventy-fve.
GEORGE briggs, of Fond du Lac, is
now comm ercial agent of the United
States at the city of Hull, England.
TRAMPs are troubling the good people
of Milton. One of these gentlemen
sawed wood for fifteen cents per cord.
They called him crazy. .s4
MINNESOTA. ........
Mrs. Cotton, wife of w. r. Cotton,
formerly proprietor of this paper. acct
IDENTITY shot herself with a revolver
few days since and is not expected to
live. Mr.. Cotton resides in New York
city Carver Free Press. ........
CHUNKS Of coal have been found at
the depth Of twenty feet In well at
Marshall, Lyon county. -..t..
SINCE Montevideo, Chippewa county,
became railroad point, the VaRey YIN
dictator has more than kept pace with
the remarkable growth of the place.
EZRA G. BENEDICT, of Albany, New
York, has bought fifteen hundred acres
Of land in the towns of Wyanett, and
Spencer Brook, in this county, of the
St. Paul & Duluth company, paying
therefor Sc, OO0.-Cambridge Press.
THE LIE Boy Mower county, Indepea-
dent says: "Our father, mother and Sis
ter have arrived from Bangor, Maine"
This verifies the motto Of the editor at
the head Of his paper: devoted to the
up-building Of LIE Roy and Mower
county"
SYvERT OLEsON LATHER was lately
killed near Jackson, and the coroner's
Jury found it was from wounds on his
face and head, inflicted with club.
Matthias and Carl Danielson were sus-
pected but after hearing the justice de-
cided there was not sufficient evidence
to bind them over.
~ gt A MICHIGAN.
SARGENT, the Michigan baseball ex-
pert and only dead-beat, who duped
Kansas girl into marriage few days
ago, has pleaded guilty to the charge of
biganny preferred against him. is5-
A KALAMAZOO man s'took a chance"
in a lottery for a valuable horse and
won 1t. His prize is 50 valuable that he
has not yet dared to move it from the
stable for fear it will fall down and die.
The farmers in the regions round
about Caro-, Tuscola county, are organ
izing for the purpose of resisting any
suit that may be brought against them
for the alleged Infringement Of the So
called patent Lee farm gate.
Mrs. ]. J. BIGELoW died in Danes
burg, Oakland county, recently. She
was a sister of Bishop Hamilin and
relative of Senator Hamlin, Of Maine.
She was quite voluminous writer for
religious and moral reform papers on
temperance, anti-slavery and sociel re-
form, and in 1857 published an anti
slavery work entitled '"The Curse En-
tailed" ..s.
IOWA.
- A PACKAGE containing $500 was stolen
from the safe of the American Express
company somewhere between Dubuque
and Chicago a few days ago.