Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-03

The arrival last week of son, the
first of the sex, at the residence OF Mr..
and Mrs. H. B. Dodd, is a source of great
qualification to the happy possessors and
their numerous friends. n ae
The harness making firm of Piper u
Smith will remove this week from the
basement of the Rheubhausen building,
Main street, to the store in Maldaner's
building one door east.
1t is reported that the Williams
brothers took breakfast in one of the no
tells at Palmyra yesterday. Two men
answering closely the description of them
entered the dining-room ate and departed
without settling their bill. Officers were
sent in pursuit as soon as the men were
suspected, as
"A grand excursion to St.. Paul and
Minneapolis, via the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & St. Paul R'y. starts from this city
August 22d. Tickets for round trip only
5000 and good for Is days. This is the
finest opportunity for splendid excursion
ever offered here. S. Meier, Sd street,
has charge of it.
The Milwaukee Republican announ-
ces that eleven miles of the Madison
branch of the Chicago & Northwestern
have been completed westward from Mil
waukee. Seven miles yet remain before
Waukesha is reached. Between the vii
lage and the present terminus of the line,
several hard grades yet remain to be
worked upon.
Another victim of the toy pistol, at
jamestown, Grant County. A son of
Frank Hase, aged nine years, died last
week from the effects of cap exploded
by toy pistol The cap was driven into
the forefnger and so poisoned the hand
that the boy died from the effects in five
days after the occurrence.
At the matchmaking centers of the
country some excitement attended the
trade of last week, on account of the sharp
drop in the price of the cereal. The de-
cline last week was three and three
fourths cents per bushel, and is attributed
to favorable crop reports and hints of dis
sessions in the Chicago-Cincinatti syndi-
cate.
The striking mania has been preva-
lent oflate throughout the country but
no dissatisfaction manifested itself
among the workmen of Watertown until
last week, when the packing boys en-
ployed in Woodard & Stones Bakery,
aged from II to Is years Of age, struck
for higher wages and shorter time in imi-
tation of their elders in other places.
The business Of the above firm did not
suspend for a moment neither did the
proprietors comply with the demand of
the strikers, much to the surprise of the
boys. The strikers were law abiding we
are glad to state and no attempt was
made to intimidate other workmen, con-
sequently no militia was ordered out to
protect lie and property. Most Of the
boys are now looking for jobs, other boys
having been employed in their places,
The State Hospital for the Insane at
Mendoza has nearly six hundred patients
under its care, and is largely over-crowd-
ed Medical authorities who are fully
advised of the capacity of the institution,
insist that regard to such hygenic con-
ditions as are essential to the successful
treatment of recent and hopeful cases
would forbid receiving more than 400
patients. Many of the counties in the
district assigned to. this Hospital have
large surplus of patients there. For this
reason the State Board of Charities and
Reform is urging those counties that are
able to do so to build, in connection with
their respective poor houses, a building in
which to care for their chronic insane,
so as to relieve the existing hospitals, and
to give better opportunity to the treat
ment of recent cases.
The community have been cautioned
and re-cautioned time and again regard
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