Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14

complete is As, 721 falling off OF between
5000 and 1000 in ten years.
The Ladies' tea party of the Congre-
gational church will be held Thursday
evening of this week at the residence of
j. A. Chadwick.
Daniel Crowley, of the town of Water
town, took his departure to-day for
Martinsburg, n Nebraska, where he goes into
farming and stock raising on large sale.
IS. Cooper, of Lake Mills, has twin
daughters, young ladies grown, whose re-
semblance to each other is such that even
their most intimate friends cannot name
them correctly when they meet them
apart.
The citizins of Juneau have decided
to build new school house at cost of
$4,000. This step will meet a require
ment long felt by the people of the vii
lage, their present school building need
ing replacing badly.
William E. Dervin, while painting,
on Straw & Murphy's building, Monday,
received sunstroke prostrating him so
that it was with difficulty he reached
home. He is now better but still feels
the effect of the stroke.
The Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
Company has purchased the Mineral
Point Railway and its rolling stock. The
sale does not include the Calamine and
Platteville branch of the Mineral Point.
The Milwaukee & St. Paul will at once
i ~, 70
Henry Engel, of Lowell, arrested in
Milwaukee recently on charge of horse
stealing, and who was shot by one of the
Milwaukee police for attempting to escape,
had his examination before Justice Beck
mann, of the Sixth Ward, ON Friday, and
held for trial at the next term of the
Dodge County Circuit Court in the sum
of $500 bail, and being unable to procure
it was remanded to the jail at Juneau.
"A pleasant reception was rendered
Bishop Edward r. Welles, Of the Wis
consin Diocese, by the Pensioners of ST.
Pauls church on Saturday evening, at
the residence of Henry S. Howell, Second
street. Notwithstanding the unpropi-
tious condition of the weather there was
goodly-sized representation Of the par
ish present to pay their respects to the
Bishop, who received them all in his
usual kind and friendly spirit.
"A nautical spirit infuses our people
and the result is the organization Of
rowing club known as the Watertown
Regatta Club, with the following officers:
Edward F. Masterson, president; Memo
Stamm, vice-president; G. G. Eaton,
secretary, and Edward J. Brandt, treas
urer The club have the question agitat-
ing them of procuring shells for the use
of the oarsmen, and some animated con-
tests may be expected when things
get properly organized.
The Whitewater Register says: G. L.
Williams, who was unpleasantly con-
nected with the Delavan asylum scandal
a few years since, and afterward with an
other affair of the same character at Green
Bay, has been for time Superintendent
for the State Asylum for the blind, deaf
and dumb at Austin, Texas. But he car
ried his old weakness with him, and
brother of a wronged inmate treated
Williams to dose Texas medicine, adj
ministered from six shooter, and with
such effect that Williams is now at Hot
Springs hospital and probably on his
death bed.
That many Wisconsin cities have been
imposed upon by worthless and disreput-
able companies, whose entertainments
richly earn for their managers the right
to be kicked out of town, there is no dis
putting. Arrangements have been made
by which Racine, Beloit, GAINESVILLE, Mad
ison, Portage, Oshkosh and Fond du Lac
will be relieved from such impositions.
Messrs. Lift and McFarlane have estab-
lished a Wisconsin circuit and have plan
ned for furnishing the people with class
Of entertainments that it will be pleasant
to attend and creditable to their cities.
Mr.. Lift is the gentlemanly and popular
treasurer Of the Grand Opera House, and
publisher of The Dramatic Record of Mil
waukee.