Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-10-31
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

EX-MAYOR -. w. CLARK, OF Appleton,
died on the 21st.
F. A. HEA1x & Go, of Medford, have
failed for So, 934.1O.
A SISTER of Litta, the dead prima
donna. is soon to be married to citizen
of Madison.
JOHN AGNEw, of Marshall, Wis, was
killed by falling lumber pile near
Aberdeen, Dakota.
JOHNNY MULLIGAN was shot and fatal
ly wounded during a saloon fight at
Robinson, near Crivitz.
The Onalaska Short Line Railroad
has been purchased by the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul Company.
FL. @. RICHARDSON, of Princeton, ILL.,,
aged about % years, committed suicide
at Eau Claire on the 23d, by taking poi
son.
GARDNER & EVERETT, boot and shoe
dealers, of Monroe, have made an as
sionment to Joseph McKilben for the
benefit of their creditors.
JAMES ADAMsoN made haul of 1900
pounds of fish in Sherman's Bay, Door
County. Twelve of the twenty. four
gill-nets yielded ], 400 pounds.
AT Pine River, Waushara County,
John Protho so carelessly handled a
gun that it was discharged into the side
of his 16-year-old daughter. The girl
may not recover.
WHILE a special freight train was
switching in the yards at Monroe on the
goth inst, a 13-year-old son of Henry
Niles fell from the top of the cars and
was instantly killed, the train passing
over him.
W. @. WHIPPLE, American Express
agent at Winnipeg, is short in his ac-
counts about $4,000. His father, who
resides at Eau Claire, has footed the bill
in order to save Whipple from imprison-
ment.
Fl. D. MCKINNEY, of GAINESVILLE, re-
Gently purchased the following horses at
a sale of trotting stock at Racine: Viola,
chestnut mare, $3.50; two yearling colts,
one at $135 and the other $115; Poca-
hontas Girl, bay mare, $155; Bill Hen
ry, brown colt, $100.
The fine potatoes raised by Fl. A.
Taylor, of East Troy, were of the Rural
Blush variety, not the Early Blush.
The seed planted was two ounces-seven
eyes-and from this crop of forty-one
pounds was realized. The potatoes were
all large and sound.
The store of f. W. Meinke, at West
field, was entered on the night of the
21st inst. by burglars, who blew open
the safe, and after lunching on canned
fruit, secured $50 in money, small
quantity of goods and notes to the
amount of $4,000 belonging to- Mr..
Meinke's father.
The following officers were elected at
the state convention of the Young Mems
Christian Association, which closed at
Eau Claire on the 21st: President, j.
NJ. Holley, La Crosse; vice president, G.
B. Lewis, Madison; second secretary, S.
A. Abbott, Eau Claire; secretary, G. W.
Harmed, Oshkosh; assistant secretary,
A. L. Whitcomb, Appleton.
TWENTY NINE years ago Mr.. L. E. Glea-
son, who resides near Reedsburg, Sank
County, planted number of black wal
nuts on his farm. In nine years they
commenced to bear, and this year he has
gathered fifty bushels from the trees.
He has found ready sale for all he has
had to spare, a good share of them going
to Dakota for planting. Mr.. Gleason
planned his for shade and considers his
nut crop SO much clear gain.
The Big Brook Improvement Com
pany has filed articles of incorporation
with the secretary of state. The place
of business of the corporation will be in
the township of St. Joe, st. Croix Coun-
ty; its object the improving of Big
Brook, body of water in Bayfield,
County, for logging purposes. The cap
ital stock is So 500, divided into fifty
shares of $50 each. The incorporators
are Joseph A. Brown, Mike Johnson and
Harrison McKusick.