Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-03-26
THE GREAT NORTHWEST.
A Portion of Its Local History is Here
with Presented.
ILLINOIS,.

ILLINOIS.
PARTIES in Peoria are establishing o
telephone exchange.
STEAMERS are making regular trips be-
tween Peoria and st. Louis.
HUGH MCCRACKEN a Mclean county
man, died recently, aged 10Y.
A BLOOMINGTON man challenges the
world to mile walking match.
Four daily newspapers have died in
Springfield within the past two months.
IT is estimated that there are %, 900
acres of winter wheat sowed in Decatur
county. .
FARMERS and nurserymen report that
the fruit buds are seriously injured by
the freezing weather.
WILLIAM H. VETS, aged IA, son ofone
of the oldest residents OF Clifton, Iro-
quois county, shot and killed himself re-
Gently, with a new gun which his father
had just given him.
JAMES GOODSPEED has sold the Joliet
Republican, subscription list, good will,
job department and all, to Major Rob
ert M. Woods, formerly insurance ex-
aminer of this state, for $4,000. The
transfer was made and the Major took
possession yesterday.
A CONVICT named Thomas A. William
son was released from the penitentiary
recently, who was sentenced in 1867 to
twenty-one years imprisonment for
murder. During his incarceration ne
did not have single black mark against
him, nor was he once reported for
breaking the rules Of the institution.
His good time amounted to nine years
and thee months, SO that his actual
confinement was hut eleven years and
nine months, instead of twenty-one
years.
EPIzooTIC prevails in Jasper county.
The diphtheria still fingers in Mar
shalltown.
Iowa winter wheat is described as
looking fine.
The Chicago and Rock Island COM
pany IS surveying a route from Beving-
ton, on the Winterest branch, to Osce-
OLA
THE Chicago and Northwestern rail
road gives notice that it will bring seed
wheat into Iowa for the farmers at half
rates.
GEN. 7. w. SHERMAN, recently deceas-
ed, established the post of Fort Dodge
in 1850 and remained in command there
for some time.
THE Oskaloosa Herald reports the city
council of that place tie on the license
question unable to pass a license ordi-
nance or to repeal the prohibitory ordi-
nance.
Mr.. d. A. PooRMAN has been COM
missioned district deputy master work
man of the Grand Lodge of Workmen
In Iowa, with authority to organize
lodges IN the state.
Gus. PETERSON, store-keeper at the
Aborn house, Des Moines, was the
other day notified that he had fallen
heir to $50, 900 in Sweden, and immedi-
ately packed his gripsack and started
after the money. f..
THE school board of Des Moines has
prohibited rope-skipping by the pupils
of the public schools on the school
grounds, on the ground of danger tc
health and life. young girl having lost
her life last week by over-exertion al
the sport.
MINNESOTA.
PRESCOTT is badly off with the scarle,
fever.
NINETEEN thousand cords of wood
have been cut for the Minnesota South.
ern railroad.
H. PETERsoN,o Two Rivers, Morrison
county, has a two-year-old colt which
weighs 971 pounds.
| The Northwestern railway company
will erect wire fences along the line O.
the Chattield branch as soon as the
frost is out Of the ground.
The Lincoln county Tribune says new
settlers are arriving from nearly al
parts of the union, and claim jumping
Is just beginning to be lively. ..
AT GAINESVILLE, Waseca county, in 1877
only 10, 200 barrels of -four were shipped
while last year. from January to Janu
airy, Il 900 were shipped.
| ONlA1 CW0uty -uVo SCI1OOl ulSlTlClS gu
Of one hundred and ten in Winons
county have invested in the Merrill
textbooks. The aggregate amount O.
purchases thus far made is 1884.
Mrs. T. c. UDELL, of Viola, Olmstec
county, recently fell heir to five hund
red acres Of valuable land on Cumber
land Island, off the coast of Georgia
through the death ola wealthy planter
who attained the advanced age of 1Of
years. The estate consisted Of a part
of eight thousand acres OF land, the
larger portion of which is improved.
Hon. F. M. CROSBY, judge of the first
judicial district, has appointed John
Byers, Esq, of this place, member Of
the Farmers Board of Trade of the
State Of Minnesota" under the law es
tablishing such organization passed by
the legislature. This being an odd dis.
trict, this appointment is for the period