Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

ADJUTANT GENERAL CHAPMAN report
shows that the militia cost the state
$3l, 252.03 last year.
Cisco are now caught is Oconomowoc
Lake In considerable numbers. They
weigh six to ten ounces each.
WITHIN the past three years, accord
ing to careful estimates, $4,000 Wiscon-
sin people have settled in Dakota.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE Lyon, whose term
of Office expires next January, is re-
ceivlng volumnious requests toannounce
his candidacy for reelection.
PRoF. M. SwENsoN, of the University
Farm, has accepted a very lucrative
position rs chemist at the Hutchinson
Sugar Works, Kansas, and will take
with him the two senior students.
CHARLES HARRIS, of Eau Claire, was
killed on the Goth inst, in the pine1ies
in Pierce County, while engaged in load
ing logs or in Telling tree, which fell
on him.
The third annual meeting of the Wis
consin conference of charities will be
held in Madison in the office of the state
board of charities and reform Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, February
9th and 28th and March 1st.
The fox and wildcat crop in Door
County is exceptionally good this sea-
son. Newspapers in that locality tell of
hunters capturing from two to half
dozen of the bounty bringing scalps
daily.
The Larrabee House, Omro, was to-
tally destroyed by fire on the 18th inst,
together with it contents. The loss is
SAID to be from So, 900 to $40, 900; insur-
ance So, 500. The guests got out most
of their baggage and personal effects.
The valves and other portions of the
instruments stolen from the band room
at Waukesha about three weeks ago
were found in the river, o short distance
below the band room location. The
pieces found were all in sound condition,
and can be used again.
On the 21st inst. G.. Vansteenwyk, ex-
state senator and president of the
Batavia Bank, La Crosse, slipped on an
icy sidewalk and fell, breaking his left
leg near The ankle. The attending sur
geon says it will be many weeks before
he will be out.
THE gang of confidence men arrested
at La Crosse have been taken to Red
Wing, where they will be charged with
highway robbery. The specific ofense
is dragging an old man named Melon
aid and robbing him of $500. Mrs. De-
vine says that at the time her husband,
one of the prisoners, was sick in st.
Paul.
The following new post routes in Wis
cons1n are being considered by the SEN
ate committee: From Sumner, via
Cameron, to Barron; from Cartwright,
via Lakeville, to johnson; from Sank
City, via Kings Mills, to Logansville
from Forward, via Perry, to Blue
Mounds; from States Corners to Bur
lington; from Aver, via Frydenland, to
Pelican Lake: from Adsit, via Grace and
Deerfield, to Nora; from Pine River, via
Saxville, Wild Rose and East Oasis, to
Plainfeld; ftom Ceylon to Deer Park;
from Cartwright, via Forest City, Lake
House and Emnelet, to Johnson's Stop
ping on Chippewa River; from Cottage
Grove to Villas.
On the 7th of the present month a
man named j. 2. Roesser, of Sister Bay,
Door County, started alone to walk
across Green Bay on the ice from Egg
Harbor to Menominee, Mich, where he
intended to visit brother whom he had
not seen for twenty years or more.
Roesser never arrived at his destination.
On the 18th inst, his dead and frozen
body was found on the ice near Mari
nette. There was a small amount of
money in his possession, but nothing to
identify him, and it was not until q
brother from Sister Bay arrived that the
name Of the deceased could be learned.
Mr.. Roesser came to this country from
Belgium last spring. He leaves wife
and three children.
GRANVILLE HURD, an old and re-
spected citizen of Boardman, died on
the 18th inst. from blood poisoning,
caused by bite upon the hand by Jesse
Wood, desperate character, residing in
Hudson. Mr.. Hurd was drawing wood
to his farm on January Goth, when he
was overtaken by Wood, who was more
or less intoxicated, and demanded that
Hurd should give him the road, although
he was heavily loaded and Wood had no
load whatever. Mr.. Hurd tried to show
the unreasonable fellow how it was i'm
possible for him to comply with his re-
quest, but Wood insisted, leaping upon
Mr.. Hurd's sleigh to enforce his de-
mands. In the melee that followed
| Wood inflicted the bite that has resulted
fatally. He has been arrested.
A MARsHFIELD dispatch ofrecent date
relates thrilling story, which if true,
furnishes food for thought. 1t is as
follows: A young man of foreign
birth, who was employed in Contie's
camp, sustained broken leg, from
which he afterward died at the home of
his parents at this place. When en- route
to the burial ground it was found diff
cult to get through the snow blockaded
road with team. The large box, con-
tanning the coffin and corpse was placed
on the snow, rope attached to it, the
friends taking hold of the rope, and in
the journey thus pursued, the outer
box was broken to pieces, and the coffin
considerably damaged. No grave having