Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05
Chicago and Northwestern.
HOME MATTERS.

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Several miIlers in Milwaukee are
talking of shutting down until after
harvest.
Wells French & Co. are now work
ing on an order from the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul company for 800 new
freight cars.
The prospect for cheese men this sea-
son was never better. The market opens
with high prices and there is but little of
old cheese in stock.
VIM. Marshall, of Cold Spring has near
II finished his new Cheese Factory erect
ed in place of the one destroyed by fire
some weeks since.
Roland Hughes sold his beautiful stall
lion to William Carroll, of Johnson's
Creek, on Saturday, receiving for the ami
NAL 5000
DR.. c. NJ Steele, formerly at the head
of Lawrence University, has been elected
president of Boston University, leading
educational institution at the east.
a meeting Of the creditors of Mr.
Boardman, of Waterloo was held in that
village recently, when an offer of settle
ment of fifty cents on dollar was made.
Iron has fallen S. per ton since Feb
ruary. Glass is also down, and it would
lock as though the boom was at an end,
although it is in no way probable that
prices will go back where they were.
-Ex-Gov. Farwell, the first merchant of
Milwaukee elevated to the position of
chief executive of the State, is being urged
as the prohibition candidate for governor
Of Missouri He resides in Worth coun-
ty.
Within two weeks the insane asylum
in Milwaukee county will be furnished
and ready for the reception of the
countY's quota of patients (about 1907
now being cared for by the Oshkosh asy-
lum.
When Mrs. Scott Siddors was at
Louisville the other night, halEcrazy
cousin, who was in the audience, jumped
upon the stage and attacked her savage
". Result, great excitement and no
damage done.
j. B. Bennett w H. Clark, John J.
Moulding and Daniel Jones are the dele
gates from St Pauls Parish to the annual
Council Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church for the Diocese Of Wisconsin, to
be held in Milwaukee next month.
The Fort Atkinson Union says that
the cutter works Of that city have had
very prosperous season. 1t is designed
to manufacture 1000 cutters and the same
number Of buggy tops for the next year.
William Eustis Of Oakland turned
his sheep, about 200. in number, to pas
ture on the 10Th ult. Two or three DAYS
after, on looking the Aock over he found
fifteen dead killed by dogs, and num-
Der badly bitten.
-Rev. Milton Wells, who removed
from Milwaukee one year ago to assume
the pastorship Of the Congregational
Church at Palmyra, after preaching in
Wisconsin over 81 years, died at the resi-
dence III that village last Thursday, of
general debility, in his Goth year
Recently at Dexter Park, Chicago,
Il. B. Sherman sold nineteen cattle from
his Spring Brook Farm, in Burnett, to
the amount of $4,100, the average per
head being $205. "Spring Brook Lass
31st'' brought as high as any, $500 the
lowest was for Glendale Lass a year
ling, which sold for 500.
The work of getting in the machin-
cry and 5utting the new St. Paul railway
machine shops in the Menomonee valley
in readiness for the business for which |
they are designed, is progressing salts |
factorily, and as rapidly as force Of half !
a thousand men are able to make it.
-Forepaugh and the Great London
circus consolidated for one weeks per (.
formance in Philadelphia, They showed |
under the largest tent ever made, contain
ing 1877 900 yards of canvas. The two !
<hows exhibited at the same time in sep
arate rings side by side. Forepaugh |
comes west.
Representative OF the Illinois HUI
name Society and Of the Chicago packers
and freight agents of the roads centering
there met at the Grand Pacific Hotel last
week to take steps to prevent the inhu-
nan practice Of prodding cattle and hogs
order to hurry their movements into
out Of cars. The practice has become
general along the lines of the roads as
cause the loss to packers who buy the
eek of 500, 900 annually, and for com
arciaI reasons they are now forced to
e steps to suppress the cruelty which
formerly merely deprecated.