Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-24
Horizon Lake is alive with ducks.

Watertown, nicely fitted up for dwelling
purposes.
1t is said that Burr Robbins has lost
$4,000 in his show business this year.
The expense of travelling by rail was
greater than he expected.
The Chicago, Milwaukee Il st Paul
earnings for the second week in August
were 1888 900, showing an increase OF
$117 900 over the corresponding period
last yer.
The gross earnings of the Chicago q
North Western Railway in Wisconsin
during the past year were over $40, O0O,-
600, and the tax paid the state was over
$4,000.
The prophetic Vennor is 40. His
father was hardware merchant, with a
house in Liverpool and another in Mon
treal. The prophet was educated at the
McGill University of Montreal.
The rehearing in the case of Mrs.
Mack the murderess before the Jefferson
County Circuit Court has not been decl-
ded upon yet. No notice has been re-
ceived by the clerk of the court of the
new trial.
The annual conclave of the Grand
Commandery of Knights Templar of
Wisconsin will be held in Oshkosh, Sept.
6. Receptions, boat excursions and a
dress parade are among the attractions
of three days programme.
-The.Milwaukee Odd Fellows have
abandoned their project of erecting
union hall. 1t appears that the surplus
funds of all the lodges in the city COM
bined, only aggregate $4,000, which
would purchase little beyond a site.
The city school board have appoint
ed A. J. Whiting, of Fox Lake, principal
of Union School No. 2, in place of J. NJ.
Turner. resigned. The new appointee
comes we'll recommended and is expected
to give good satisfaction in the position
he is to fill.
R. H. Burke, late proprietor of the
West side drug store, returned from
Chicago Saturday to his home in Emmett.
Mir. Burke went to Chicago several
months since for medical treatment end
comes back with his health considerably
restored.
-Parson & Roy's Palace Show, which
exhibited here on the 9th inst, went to
pieces last week at Lake Mills, the mana
ger taking French leave with the funds
of the institution which had demoraliz-
ing effect on the poor showmen. The eff
fects of the concern were attached by l..
II. Joslin, of the Newton House, and
Others to satisfy claims.
The Chicago Live Stock and agri-
cultural Fair will be held September y,
Is, IA, 10, 16, and II. The Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad will receive from
any railroad running into Chicago, all
Live Stock and articles consigned to the
Chicago Fair and deliver the same at
their station on 10th street (West Side)
only a short distance from the Fair
Grounds
The twen,y days allowed in which to
make an appeal having expired, the
decision in the Justice court in the suit
brought by Daniel Jones' Of Watertown,
against Thomas Waterworth, on the $3.50
note stands 1t is probable suit will
never be brought on the other four notes.
Mr.. Jones being "out'' the costs in the
prosecution, as we'll as any amount he
may have paid for the notes.-Cozum6us
Republican.
Last Sunday morning horse belong
ing to G. II. Fie got loose from its enclos-
! ure in the 1st ward and dashed along the
railroad and across the railroad bridge
keeping on its wild course down the Mil
ford road. The horse was caught some
six miles south ofhere and strange to say
received no injuries from the desperate
race beyond few scratches in its legs.
1t is one case in hundred that a horse
could have Gro ssed a railroad bridge
without being either killed or fatal
ly injured.
Here is something that ought to be
generally known. A recent article IN
the n. Y. Tribune says that the clean
der is such deadly poison that horse
which had eaten bunch of leaves died
in short time. Persons picking and
eating the blossoms have also died from
It's effects The branches Invested OF
bark and used as skewers, have poisoned