Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-23

his passage home on the Northwestern
snow-plow.
The store of Mr.. Baker, of Neosho,
was entered lately and the money drawer
relieved of about fifty dollars in cash. A
young man by the name of Kinney, who
had previously worked for Baker, was ar
rested on suspicion the next evening at
West Bend. He was boarding at L.
Nehrbass's hotel, and spending his stolen
money very freely. He acknowledged
himself guilty, and is now provided with
free lodgings at the juneau Jail.
in view OF the approach of the
hundredth anniversary of the birth of
George Stephenson, the eminent railroad
engineer, who was born on June 9, 1881,
the Amalgamated Society of Railway
Servants has started a movement for
concentrating the event by centen-
nary festival, having for its object the
benefit of the benevolent institutions
established for helping railway servants.
Marshall J. Woodland furnishes an
incident of the late storm. He went to
Reesville by team to purchase cheese
Friday afternoon intending to be back
the same evening. As he could not see
his cheese man until the next morning
he waited to close the bargain Mean
while the blizzard set in and compelled
his boarding around among the Dodge
county farmers until yesterday noon,
when he made br eak for home on an
engine that happened to stray out on
the road in the vicinity of Reesville.
Next time he thinks he will consult the
barometer before starting after cheese.
The card of William Schultz, an
nouncing himself as all independent can
didate for city treasurer at the coming
charter election will be found in another
column. Mr. Schultz needs no common
dation from us for the Office he seeks as
he has been tried in the position and not
found wanting in any sense of the term.
His faithtulness and fidelity to the city's
interests are well understood and it is
not improbable that his services in the
treasurer's Office will be continued.
John Lewis, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lewis Lewis, of Ixonia, died last Monday
at the home of his parents, of congestion
of the stomach, aged about "a years.
The deceased was one of the smallest
persons in the United States of his age,
being only 81 inches in height and his
average weight only 10 pounds. His
diminutive size may be better compre
hended when it is understood that
child eighteen months old of the average
size was as tall as he With the excep-
ton of deformity in the hands and feet
he was quite perfect in formation.
The gross earnings Of the Wisconsin
Divisions of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul Railway during 1880 amounted
to S6,O12,7 1880, an increase over the
earnings in Wisconsin during 1879, or
81 per cent. A very close estimate on
the entire gross earnings of the company
is possible, and will be close to $12,000,-
900, against $1OO12,819.7S in 1879. The
actual increase of gross earnings by the
company from January 1, 1880, to Au-
gust IA, 1880, was $1,7SS,4S4, over the
earnings for the corresponding time the
year previous.
The rumor was current last week in
Railway circles to the effect that the
Northern Pacific, the Chicago and North
western, and the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul Roads were to be CONSOLE
dated, appears to be one of the most
ridiculous railroad rumors ever circulated
by unreliable gossips. 1t is a well-known
fact that both the Northwestern and the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Roads
are anxious to gain control of the North
ern Pacific, but that the two former roads
should be consolidated collectively with
the latter is regarded by the knowing
ones as one of the most stupid and idle
reports that could be manufactured. Well
informed railroad men laugh at the idea
and state that it is too absurd and ridicu-
lous to be given moments notice or at
tention.
The olemargarine manufacturers
have invoked the aid of the Scientists,
and have received abundant testimony
that there is no good reason why it is not
as wholesome as any other kind of butter.
The constituents are virtually the same
and it averages better than cream butter.
Prof. Chandler of New York Board Of
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