Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-10-17
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

HUGH LAIRD, near New Diggings, La
fayette County, lost over thirty tons of
hay by lightning.
A TOTAL of 384 students are in at
tendance at the State University at the
opening of the fall term of 1883.
AT Oconomowoc on the 9Th inst,
Michael Kane, farmer, fell into eel
lar-way while drunk and broke his neck.
JOHN MORRISON, of Racine, was re-
Gently drowned from Mississippi river
steamer near Barfeld, Ark. He was a
deck hand.
A BARN belonging to E. & II. Stapel-
ton, and containing about eighty tons of
hay, was destroyed by fire at Sandusky,
on the 9th inst. There was no insur-
ance on building or stock.
WILLIAM SPAU1DNG, of Harmony,
Rock County, has been exhibiting a
weighs three pounds. Five others Of
the same variety weigh eight pounds.
EDWARD BLOOD, of Stockbridge, has
a large acreage of sorghum uninjured
by frost. He is the owner of sorghum
press and will experience busy fall,
both in the conversion of his own crop
ana the crops of his neighbors.
BETWEEN and o'clock on the even
ing of the 9th inst, Jules Ducommen's
iewelrY store, at Eau Claire, was enter
ed by burglars, while the proprietor was
at supper, and about $4,000 worth of
jewelry and watches taken. So far, the
robbers have not been arrested.
CoMFoRT's live stock sale at his Lom-
hardy Park farm, in Iowa County, ag-
gregated SIS, $50. Forty-tAree head
were sold, the sales ranging from $40 to
$3.50 a head. Between 900 and 700
people attended the auction. Owing to
! the partial failure of the crops, the stock
did not bring as much as it would have
done under more favorable cIrcum-
| stances.
The land commissioners are investi-
eating the recent sales of public lands
by the state. It is alleged that the lands
sold after the forenoon of the first day
the sales were secured through the ma
nipulations of a syndicate of forty
wealthy lumbermen which subsequent
~ realized handsomely on the invest
ment. IF this can be proven the sales
will be annulled and the matter referred
| w bllS 1CE1S4dA uI0 LO1 tSGAO1s
A. L. PR1TcHARd. VIM. II. Clark, l..
r. Cady and Geo. Hawkins, owners of
$40, 900 of. the $4,000 stock in the bank
OF Watertown, have disposed of their
interest in that institution to Fred.
Miller, M. J. Woodland, J. Stone, Hugo
jacob, @. Wiggenhorn and VIM. Buch-
heit, of Watertown. Theodore Prentlss
is the only one of the old stockholders
who retains his stock ($8, 00G(. The
bank of Watertown was organized some
twenty-eight years ago by Messrs.
Pritchard & Clark.
The Mineral Point Democrat says: j.
G. Kirkpatrick had his fine herd OF
Aberdeen (Polled Angus) cattle at the
Iowa county fair last week. The herd
consists of three young COWS, nine
calves and one bull. They are nice look
ing animals, jet black in color, short
legged, and good size. They are said
to be an excellent breed of cattle for
beef as well as for dairy purposes. The
calves in Mr.. Krkpatrick's herd are
nearly five months old, and in weight
average 423 pounds, and have been fed
only half of the milk from the COWS.
THE Madison and Portage accommo-
dation train which left Portage at $3.50
pm. on the 9Th inst, when about three
miles south of Portage, met with an &C
cident by which the caboose and two or
three rear freight cars jumped the
track. The caboose rolled on It's side,
and the cars were piled up in ditch.
The caboose was full of passengers,
about half a dozen of whom sustained
injury. Conductor Geo. Acres had his
collar, bone broken. The wounded are
CLARK GoodelI, wealthy farmer of Man.
chester, Wis, internal injuries, case
serious; Miss Hattie Taylor, of Canton,
Dak.; Geo. Strong, of Chicago, and 8
man from Iowa named Winchell, slight
ly injured.
JAMES WmnoTT, residing with Viii
liam Mills, a farmer, on the Mineral
Point Road, about two miles northeast