Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-11
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES.

SIMEON MIL1s. of Madison, has paid
the long-contested claim of $4,000 to
the state.
ALoNzo DAVIS, alias Frank Williams,
presented q forged check for $500 at
the bank Of New Richmond He was
ar ested and bound over for trial.
The wife Of John Barr, residing in the
town of Ackley, Lincoln County, was
fatally burned on the I'd inst. Her
clothes caught fire from kettle of boil
ing pitch.
AT Franksville, Racine County, Pat
rick Leonard was killed and his wife
fatally injured by being thrown out of
wagon attached to runaway team. A
family Of nine children are bereaved by
the accident.
Mrs HARRIET L. HoRNER, wife of
the late Gov. John S. Homer, died at
Ripon on the I'd inst, of pneumonia.
She had been ILL but a few days. She
has lived in that vicinity many years and
was well known to all and her noble quail
tiles were highly respected
AN Onalaska dispatch says: The
9-year- old daughter of the Widow Mon
son, living here, was fatally burned Fri
day afternoon. Her clothes took fire
while she was standing by the stove and
there being only two smaller sisters at
home, she was so badly burned before
the fire could be extlnguished, that she
died that evening.
MICHAEL SMITH, an old and respected
citizen of Waukesha, was arrested on
the 1st inst. while attempting to break
into the National Exchange Bank. His
tools consisted of an iron gas pipe, a
sledge hammer, Ratchet and snail
pair of fine pinchers. He is believed to
be insane. He was discharged on the
%, no complaint being entered against
him.
| JEFFERSON COUNTY IS acquiring rep
utation for weighty calves This spring.
One on the farm of J. Norman, in Ixouia,
| tips the scale at 104 pounds. r. Will
Jams, OF the same town, possesses q calf
weighing 1159 pounds, and last, but Ger
tainly not least, calf dropped within a
few days on the farm Of E. Allsbrook, IN
Concord, is Of the enormous weight Of
III pounds. The Allsbrook bovine had
been weaned from the start, and all
three were weighed when less than
half Holstein and half Durham.
ARRANGEMENTS have been COMPLETED
for a circuit of races Ia this state, taking
in Woodstock, Ill, just across the line.
Dates for the meeting have been fixed as
| follows: First week in June, at James
vile; second week in June, at Mllwau-
kee; third week IN June, at Oshkosh;
fourth week In June, at Chippewa Falls;
| following week at Woodstock, I'll. Thus
far the circuit will end at Woodstock, so
as to leave the horses near Chicago for
the July races there. Each place is to
put up purses to the amount of 81, 900,
making S10,0 900 to be offered in the
| whole circuit, and which is thought sui
fcient to attract some very good horses.
MENAsHA News: A gentleman of this
city has rooster and cat which we'll
| illustrates the strange fancy which will
sometimes spring up between animals OF
different orders. The rooster and a
couple OF hens we're purchased last fall,
and are a fine breed of fowl. They
we're Kept III their apartment all winter.
A few weeks ago strange cat put III an
appearance and commenced living with
the birds, taking a peculiar fancy to
the rooster. The cat, female, cOntin-
ually purred about the b1rd, ate out of
the same dish, and was never more than
few feet away. The bird took to the
cat, also, and seemed to reciproeate the
affections. He never objected TO the at
tentions Of the feline except once In
while to administer harmless peck
when his adnnirer might seem to inter
fere with him q little too much. This
kind of behavior continued for more
than three weeks. Lately, however, the
bird seems to act as if he was tired of
his prlrring admirer, and wished to break
off the close intimacy between them.