Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES,

Fond du Lac again this year.
CHAs. PETERSON has been appointed
register OF deeds of the new county of
Florence.
CLARK COUNTY last year paid bounty
on l78 foxes, 81 wild cats and wolves,
total of $616.
THOMAS O'CoNNoR, aged 7, son of a
farmer near Montello, was killed, and
5-year-old brother seriously injured, by
q runaway team last week.
A BOY aged 5 years, son of FL. G..
White, OF Monroe, had his arm badly
damaged IN the cogs of seeder. It is
thought his arm can be saved.
SPARTA HERALD: The sap refuses to
run in Clark County this year, they say,
and it is the most unfavorable year for
sugar manufacturers they have had for
years.
The state treasurer on the 18th inst.
sent draft for So, 900 to Mrs. Margaret
Coleman, widow of Charles G.. Coleman,
one of the Coleman brothers shot by the
MaXwells.
THE seventeenth annual public shear
ing of the Southeastern Wisconsin
Sheep-Breeders' and Wool Growers AS
ISOLATION will be held at Caldwell's
Prairie, May 4.
DURING storm on the night of the
18th inst, the house of Mr.. Notbohm at
Oconomowoc was struck by lightning,
and Mrs. Notbohm sustained injuries
which will probably prove fatal.
ROBERT ARMSTRONG was drowned
while logging near Eau Claire on the
18th. The Free Press announces it as
the first accident of the log driving sea-
son.
NEAR Colfax, on the 18th inst, Jennie
Emerson and Miss Oleson were out in
boat on the slough, when the former be-
came terrified, jumped from the boat
and was drowned.
A WHITE man named Mckenzie, four
Indians and squaw cut and banked
on Blueberry Greek 904, 900 feet Of pine
by February %, an average per day of
$500 feet per capita, or 5000 feet per
day for the crew for every day they
worked.
AT Madison, on the 18th inst, articles
of association of the Hudson Gold and
Silver Mining Company were filed, the
incorporators being James Vincent,
Louis Streeter and Hampton B. Smith.
The capital stock is fixed at $3.50, 900,
and the principal place of business is
designated as La Crosse.
A YOUNG man named Mike Woods,
resident of Michigan, employed upon the
Chippewa drive near Glidden, was acct
dentally drowned on the 18th inst. He
lost his footing on the logs and was
thrown into rough water, and being un-
able to swim, was drowned before aid
could reach him.
NEARLY all of the lumbermen on the
upper Wolf are making preparations to
begin driving, and it is expected that
work will begin in COON earnest by the
first of May, which will be some fifteen
days earlier than last year. A few of the
lumbermen on Red River have already
begun work.
On the 18th inst, while Samuel J.
Philbrook, one of Racine's Oldest citi-
zens, was driving over crossing of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul Rail-
way, two miles west of Racine, passen-
ger train ran into him, killing the horse,
wrecking the buggy, and throwing the
old gentleman to the road, injuriug him
so badly that he soon died.
A SERVANT girl in the family of r. G.
Russell, at Oshkosh, named Nellie Nor
rissee, was asphyxiated by escaping gas
from low jet that was blown out by a
draft during the night of the 10Th inst.
Physicians worked at her for long time
before they were able to revive the faint
spark of life that yet remained. Her
escape from death is remarkable.
MONROE holds her head high as a stock
shipping point. Twenty car loads IA
of sheep, of cattle and 1 of hogs-were
shipped on the 18th inst. A. Ludlow
sold on the 18th inst s. head of high
grade steers nearly three years old, at
$500 per hundred. They averaged
|, 430 pounds and brought 500 per head.
The steers were shipped to Chicago.
SUSAN KATE was arrested and lodged
in jail at Racine on the 18th inst. on
charge of having stolen $29 of John
Mainland, young man to whom she
was to be married in one week. It is
claimed she invited him to supper, and
poisoned cup of tea, which he drank.
They then went out for walk, when he
fell to the sidewalk from the effects of
the poison, and she robbed and deserted
him. He was discovered and carried
home and a physician was called in time
to save his life.
JOHN KRAUsE met with an almost fatal
accident on the 18th inst, at his farm
about six miles, west of Oconomowoc.
Hewas cbopping wood and had succeeded
in partially telling large tree when it
lodged upon another tree, necessitating
the cutting of that also. When the Sec
ond tree toppled over the first one fell
upon him, pinioning him to the ground.
He was discovered by passers-by on the
high way, and brought to his sons home
in Oconomowoc. He suffered COM
pound comminuted fracture of the right
leg, both bones, the tibia and fbula, be-
ing crushed below the knee. So says
the Wisconsin Free Press.
LODI VALLEY News: By private let
ter from Merrimac, we learn that Henry,
a fve-year-old son of Mr.. VanHolten,
the music teacher, was drowned, as is
supposed, in the Wisconsin River at
that place, on Monday afternoon. He
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