Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-08-22
Main street bridge is receiving a COW
ering of new plank.

Some of the old planks from Main
street bridge will be used for covering
of the Boughton bridge.
1t is reported that Alex. Mitchell has
set aside 81, O0O,0 900 to be used for educa-
tional purposes in Wisconsin.
The Charles A. Gardner Karll Co.
is billed for an appearance at Turner
Hall, Thursday evening, August go
Now is the time to buy wall paper.
Several thousand rolls will be sold very
cheap. All good patterns, At Straw
& Murphy's. 45w2
An ice cream and cake sociable by
the ladies of the Congregational, church
will be held with Mrs w. P. Green
Thursday evening.
Headquarters for the best machine
oils, wholesale and retail at Straw &
Murphy's paint and oil store. West side
of river. 45w2
Mrs. NJ. E. Parker being unable to
sell her property will rent it. Miss d.
Bodien will occupy the store after Sep
TENDER with millinery goods.
The Chicago & Northwestern Rail
ways gross earnings for the last fiscal
year amounted to over $24,OOO,OO0 The
company now operates 1854 miles of
road.
Sunday was genuine sweltering
day, the heat although rot of so high a
temperature as we have had it many times
before, being Of most oppressive kind.
Thermometers ranged about So in the
shade
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Kellie, of Minneapolis, months
old, died this morning of cholera infan-
tum at the residence of Mrs. James Hill.
In their deep affiction the parents have
the sympathy of large circle of friends.
A very sudden darkness enveloped
the city last Friday morning at six
o'clock which gave considerable alarm
to people. Doors were promptly
" closed, windows shut down and due
preparations made for entering cellars in
anticipation of a genuine cyclone. But
the darkness was dispelled almost as in
Simultaneous sit came.
The Oconomowoc Free Press reports
that the Dousman cheese factory, which
was Scattered to the four winds of heav-
en- 10y the recent tornado, has been re,
built and reopened. Is is fitted out with
engine, steampipe, pump, ETC., and is in
excellent shape. One-half of the old vat
was blown over a mile from the factory,
and dropped in the center of field.
w. 81. Rohr received a cablegram
Monday from the father of the young
man Max Brandt, who was fatally injured
by the freight train here on the 9Th inst,
thanking him and all others for the atten-
ton his son received and promising to
pay the expenses attending the sad case.
The cablegram was dated Furstenwalde,
Prussia, the same day it reached here.
Marshal Zautner arrested a man
named Frank Baron at Redwood yester-
day, charged with committing burglary
al the house of Albert Rice, near Water
loo Monday night, taking watch from
the premises. 1t is surmised that Baron
also stole some knives a few days before
from the store of P. Janisch at the village
of Waterloo. Baron is in Jefferson jail
awaiting examination. The watch was
found on his person.
The reunion Of the Iron Brigade
will be held in La Crosse on the 18th and
14tn II September. The meeting will be
held in Concordia Hall. General Bragg
will preside and is expected to make an
address, in the course Of which he will
make special reference TO Generals J. F.
Reynolds and James Wadsworth, who
commanded the corps and division in
which the brigade served. Both of these
commanders were killed in action.
Mayor Harrison declined an invita-
ton yesterday to deliver an agricultural
address at Jefferson, Wis. 1T pains me, %
he said, ''to let such opportunities slip
by, but I am obliged to do it, There is
no class of subjects on which I can talk
so well as those agricultural, Most all Of
the silver al my house is in premiums
which 7 have won with the products Of
my farm, I'm as much of an agriculture
list as DIR. Loring s."-CAicago Daily
News.
The following sensible item from an
exchange expresses our sentiments exact
ly: owe are willing to give place in
our local columns to the mention of any
visitors, the absence of any citizen, his