Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-21
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

ULAO O"h0I VI l1u0 uOck OF ClfOpSl1r0
| sheep.
The McMurdo cheese factory, in Hor-
tonVille, has closed for the season. The
daily milk supply was {, $500 pounds.
ANDREW BRADT dug up 95 bushels of
| fine potatoes from one-fourth of an acre.
on his farm at Bradford, Rock County.
The liabilities of the Rock River
Paper Company of Beloit, as shown by
the schedule filed by the assignee, are
$288, 900, and the assets $43O, 900.
A YARD engine while switching cars
near Merrill on the 9th, jumped off a
bridge and into Prairie River. A brake
man named Duffy was seriously injured.
HOWARD E. THAYER, of Escanaba,
railroad conductor, was crushed to
death at Powers on the 7th while COUP
ling cars.
ANDREW PRoUDFIT, a prominent citi-
zen of Madison, died on the 18th inst.
He had been afflicted with partial paral-
ysis for several years.
SAMUEL NEWMAN, of Ahnapee, recent
ly sold his handsome trotting horse
"Flora" to DR.. Laforteune, of Rosiere,
for $3.50.
LANGDoN PORTER, of CentervilIe,
Trempealeau County, dug SO bushels of
Browns seeding potatoes from two
bushels of seed.
Mr.. LANGLEY, of La Prairie, Rock
County, makes a speciality of raising
Shetland ponies and has an imported
Shetland stallion.
FRANK GRASS, of Minneapolis, charged
with swindling and stealing, and pris-
oner named Blake, from Dubuque,
knocked down the guard in the La
Crosse Jail and escaped.
WHILE Lyman Smith was at work in
his barn near Baraboo, his lantern ex-
ploded, severely burning him about the
throat and chest and setting his clothing
on fire. The barn was totally destroyed.
FRED STRAUB, of the town of Hull,
Marathon County, raised 260 bushels of
Yellow Swede rutabagas, on an acre of
ground. Two of them weighed II
pounds.
THE average daily product of the
Aztalan cheese factory is 420 pounds of
the famous Adams which bring from Is
to 10 cents pound. They are moulded
into spheres.
The badly decomposed body of a
German named Schultz was found hang
ing to a tree near Dodgeville, few days
since. Schultz had been missing for
nearly month. About $40 in currency
were found in his pockets.
JOHN ROBERTS, of Neenah, has made
arrangements to plant several million
carp in Lake Winnebago next season.
The flesh of the carp is highly esteemed
as food. but it is not very valuable
fish to the angler, because it does not
bite freely.
The inside walls of the new city hall
at Racine fell during the high wind
storm on the 18th inst. A portion of
the outside wall also went down. There
was no one in or about the building at
the time. The loss to the contractor is
estimated at So, 500.
Mrs. PETER BANGERTs, an aged woman
of Racine, died of grief on the night of
the 10th inst. She had, with her hus-
band, sold the home in which they had
! lived since 1915, and upon second thought,
when too late, grieved so deeply that she
was found dead in bed.
DUNCAN MoGREGoR, of Stevens Point,
while inspecting a pine land purchase
near the head waters of Pelican River,
| discovered tract embracing about 49,
00O,0O feet of standing pine, which he
values at about $55, 00U. He has since
become the owner of the forest at cost
barely one-ffth of the sum just stated.
THE State Lumber Company has pur-
chased the French Lumber Company's
mill near Eau Claire for $50, 000 The
incorporators of the State Lumber Com
pany are Bradley Brothers, Milwaukee;
Capt. Jenkins, Oshkosh; the Loveioys,
of GAINESVILLE; and the Kelleys, of Chica-
go. 1t is considered one of the wealthiest
lumber firms In the state.
An association of farmers has been
formed for the purpose of purchasing
the Milford dam, in Jefferson County.
The sum of SIS, 900 has been subscribed,
and strong effort will be made to raise
the full amount-$l0, 600. The dam has
been standing menace to farmers with
low lands, and the damage by overflow
at different times has been great.
A LABoRER, whose name could not be
learned, in the employ of the lumber
company at Hermansville, fell from a pile
of lumber on the 9TH. A piece of broken
board, a splinter of six inches In length,
entered one of his eyes and penetrated
through to his brain. He got up and
walked to his boarding house, some ff-
teen rods, but lived only ten minutes.
DURING carousal on the night of the
9Th inst, at the house of Thos. Ian
ders, In the town of Carson, Portage
County, August Seeman stabbed VIII
liam Cushman number of times, in the
breast, stomach and abdomen. Cush-
man fingered until the 18th inst, when
he died. Seeman fed. A reward of
5000 has been offered for his arrest
A DOZEN sheep belonging to Thomas
Seaman, of Eden, Fond du Lac County,
were recently killed by dogs. In order
to find out about the matter Mr.. Sea-
man killed a dog that he suspected, and
cutting him open found mutton, wool,
etc., in the animals stomach. The proof
of the dogs completely in the affair was
SO conclusive that his owner will proba-
bly, settle for the sheep.
The Oshkosh Times says: ''Within
radius of six miles of Medina, Outa.
game County, there are five cheese fac
tories, all of which commenced manu-