Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-16
THE NORTHWEST.
I Record of Its Local Events.
WISCONSIN,.

mills to Cuba and New Zealand.
LEAD mining at Potosi is not panning
out as we'll as IN years gone by.
MANY farmers have finished wheat
sowing In the southern tier of counties.
THERE is a prospect that the Oshkosh
WOODEN mill will soon he in operation.
THE Oconomowoc yacht club will
have floating club house on Lake La
Belle.
ROBERT KENT, Of Osceola, a Mexican
veteran, Will receive $4,000 pension
money.
MADISON and Oshkosh are to have
telephone exchanges on the central
plan.
THE Racine street railway project is
progressing finely. Nearly all the stock
has been subscribed.
Docs have slaughtered about seventy
sheep IN the vicinity of Randolph with
In the past two weeks.
FARMERS in Wisconsin are.advised
not to SOW Russian wheat, as the millers
of that state will not buy it.
THE Eau Claire lumber company
have decided to pile five million feet of
lumber for shipment by rail the ensu-
ing season.
NEARLY three thousand men found
employment the past winter along the
Wisconsin Central road, In the lumber
camps.
The Oshkosh steam wagon manufac-
tory has sent one heavy freight wagon
to Texas, and is at work on another or
dered by the same man.
A TELEPHONE line from Berlin to Au-
rOraville, q distance of seven miles, has
been arranged and will be constructed
and in operation by the first of May.
Mr.. McCutcheon, proprietor of the
hotel at Arena, fell down flight of stairs
on Thursday, smashing his skull. He
is said to be now lying at the point of
death
The enterprising stock men of Gen
essee, Eagle, Ottawa and Mukwonago,
Waukesha county. have united their
forces, and purpose hereafter to hold a
monthly stock fair at Genessee depot.
The annual strengthening festival of
the Wisconsin Sheep-Breeders and
Wool-GroWer's association will be held
on the grounds of the Walworth County
SOCloGy DIT LikuOTn, 1nufS-
day and Friday, May 1 and 2.
A QUEER monstrosity in the shape of
a calf or calves was born on the farm of
Mr.. Roman, of the town of Fond du Lac,
recently. The curiosity was still-born,
and before mutilated was one body with
two heads, six legs and three tails. A
dissection Of the body showed that there
were two hearts and the vitals of two
animals. The jointu1e had taken place
at the hips.
ILLINOIS.
IHE Piano Harvester works employ
four hundred men.
AN Elgin man has invented a new
kind of milking machine.
The SandoUich Euening Herald has
suspended, after an existence of six
months.
A LITTLE girl in Rockford was severe
ly bitten in the face and arm, few
days since, by a pet coon.
A De KALB county farmer offers to
pay 500 annually to have his sheep in
sured against damage by dogs.
A REVENUE officer has discovered that
some Elgin druggists have been doing
business a little crookedly.
A GRAY eagle measuring seven feet
from tip to tip Of wings was killed the
other day by farmers boy living west
of Elgin
A Mrs. SPENCE, of Mackinaw, has
been arrested upon suspicion ofsetting
fire to a mill at that place belonging to
a Mr., B. T. Whistler.
A WOMAN in Cairo who could keep no
food on her stomach experienced with
raw turnips. These she found she
could retain. She has subsisted On
them, but her stomach has swollen to
four times its natural size.
The Elgin hunting and fishing clubs
are circulating petition to the legisla-
ture asking that winter fishing through
the ice be forbidden by law. Tons of
fish are caught every winter, the lake
drained, summer sport spoiled, and
the work of the fish commissioner more
than ever overbalanced.
The venerable father of ex-senator
James Robinson wandered from his
home in Pekin the other day. Search
was made for him, which continued
through the night, but he was not dis
covered until Thursday morning, when
he was found at the house of Nathan
Robinson, ten miles distant
The counties of Cook, Du Page, Kane
Kankakee and McHenry produced,
last year, over 100000 gallons of
milk, 6,0S6, 636 gallons Of which were
shipped to Chicago, the balance going
to the country cheese factories and home
consumption. These figures show an
increase of $500, 900 gallons over 1878.
A CARPENTER of Belvidere, named
Carpenter, has made a box seven and
three-fourths inches wide, twelve and
one-half inches long and five inches
high out of forty different kinds OF wood,
and which contains six thousand and
twenty pieces. The maker was several
months in completing the box. which is
valued at 5000.
EFFIE SPIcER, the 15-year-old daugh-