Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-08-01
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES.

S. LIeHToAP, wealthy mill owner of
Hazel Green, Wis. lis dead. -rs ~e- s--
FRANK CLIFFORD, burglar. escaped
from the Sparta jail last week, by break
ing through brick wall.
JOSEPH SCHRGDER, living at Smell
Station, near Oshkosh, fell from barn
and fractured one of his legs.
. HAIRY LILLY, Beloit boy, was
drowned at Council Grove, Kansas, on
the 21st, where he was visiting.
L. O.. FOSTER, o.. Warren, st. Croix
County, has become the owner of a
thoroughbred .Holstein bull called
FAngus." # y 4f FEFh
THOMAS Dunn, aged IS years, bad one
of his legs broken in three places by be-
ing caught in a wheel at Sibley & Co.'S
mill, Oshkosh.
JOHN DOUGHERTY, an inmate of the
Sparta jail, was found dead In his cell on
the morning of the 23d. He was vic
tim of epilepsy. - @ .
MASTER EMIL ENGERBRETsEN caught
o silver eel at GAINESVILLE the other day
weighing five pounds, one of the largest
ever caught in Rock River.
ANNIE PITMAN, an eight-year-old girl,
was badly burned al Madison by the ex-
plosion of oil which was being poured
out of an oil stove by her mother.
AN insane man named Pat Maloy,
who recently attempted to murder a
man by the name of Gotta, died in the
county Jail at Chippewa Falls, on the
night of the 22d.
THE Warren cheese factory, in st.
CrOlx County, is now utilizing about
1000 pounds of milk and turns out seven
beautiful cheese per day, weighing from
So IS pounds each.
Az tempt was made to steal horse
from Julius Hendee, living west of Be-
lott, recently, by chloroforming Mr.. and
Mrs. Hendee while asleep, they awoke
in time to foil the thieves. FrFGUg
JOSEPH Z. VINES, a resident Of juno
ton City, Portage County, was run over
and killed by railway train on the
night of the 21st. Deceased was in
toxicated at the time of his death.
d. B. HOLT, of Elba, bought q full
blood Kentucky shorthorn COW at q Chi
cago sale. He paid $3.50 for the animal.
The Webster Brothers bought three
heifers at the same sale, paying 500 for
the same.
THE small schooner Eliza was struck
by lightning last week off Fox Point.
| Her foremast was shattered, a hole
| knocked in her bottom and side and she
water logged and capsized. She was
towed into Port Washington. Two of
the crew lost their lives. r#a-
WILLIAM HARTLEY, Of the town of
| To Hrocco Oo3,,,4x, hoe oP
the finest herds of shorthorns, Dur
hams, in the west. Seventeen COWS,
MIXED daily, 285 days, yielded 260 pounds
of butter per head, or 4, 420 pounds. At
twenty cents per pound this would
amount to 1884,
The Jefferson County Fair will be
held on the I'd, Sd, 4th and 9Th of Oc-
tober, and not in September, as was first
reported. September was the month
originally, afterwards changed upon, but
the time was postponed owing to the
fact that the state and several county
fairs were to be held during that month.
CHARLES PEEToN, veterinary sur
geon and an old resident Of Fond du
Lac, was found dead, on the 25th, IN
the alley back of the American House.
IEOn appSafauC6S the D0uy udd bSeu
there for at least twenty-four hours and
decomposition had set in. Deceased was
so years of age and had been addicted
to hard drink. ~
The remains of a middle-aged mulatto,
with features almost unacceptable,
were found by section hands on the
Omaha Road short distance west of
Eau Claire, on the Dist inst. From indi-
cations the body must have laid for a
week or longer, as it was much decon-
posed. Nothing was found on his per-
son to identify it. - 5 NJ. -1