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


discovered near Florence.
FRED. W. BECKMANN. of Kenosha,
aged 48, bookkeeper in the state de-
partment at Madison, died on the Both.
A BOY named Roy Shane was fatally
injured at Eau Claire on the 2Sth by
an accidental blow from base ball bat.
JOSEPH MoNAHAN, of Willow Springs,
Lafayette County, harvested about 300
bushels of corn from a three-acre field.
THE tobacco crop did not suffer as Sc
verely as was reported, from the frost.
Every acre in the vicinity of Sun Prairie
will be shielded.
The report of the Menominee Railway
Company, whose line is three miles
long-between Menominee Junction
and Menominee City, Wis.-shows a
deficit for the year of $12, 848.
A GERMAN named Juchemech, resid-
ing in the town of Grand Chute, Outa-
gamie County, lost his barn filled with
hay and grain and several stacks of hay
by fire on the night of the LIST inst. Loss
about 81, 900.
| BURGLARS operated successfully at
Chippewa Falls, on the night of the I'd
inst. The safe In Rosse's liquor store
was cracked and 81, ZOO in cash taken.
Leclaire & Mandert's grocery store was
relieved of $500.
JOHN HULvERsAN, of Ixonia, drowned
himself on the 29th ult, after cutting
himself in the head with a hay knife.
He was insane; the result of grief over
the loss of eight children, between the
ages of Is and % years.
J. E. HIDDEN, of Bristol, Dane
County, sold four pigs, 5 months old,
that weighed 900 pounds, an average of
225 pounds each. The porkers showed
gam of forty-five pounds a month, or
about one pound and half day.
AT Madison, on the 29th, Phillip
Connors was sentenced to four years In
the states prison. The crime for which
he was convicted was larceny from the
person, he having impersonated an Off
Ger and robbed drunken man of $50.
THE body of Arney Virgins, a wealthy
Norwegian of Sun Prairie, was fshed
out of the lake at Madison by an an
gler, on the LIST inst. Virgins, who has
been subject to temporary fits of insan-
ity, was 70 years of age, and it is e5ti-
mated was worth about $75, 900.
HENRY RAIN, timer, whose parents
reside at Jackson, Washington County,
made an unsuccessful attempt to COM
nit suicide at Viroqua recently by cut
ting his throat. It seems that he was
found in grove near the city acting in
a strange manner, and was lodged in
jail. In the evening he imagined he had
killed a man who was trying to get into
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hang him. He had knife concealed in
his shoe, and with this he cut his throat
three times, completely severing the
windpipe, and just missing the jugular
vein.
JAMES GAI1AGHAN, a bachelor of
about 36 years of age, who resides en- a
farm three miles from Bailey Harbor,
Door County, fell from wagon on the
night of the 29th ult., when intoxicated
and broke both his legs below the knee.
His companion did not comprehend the
seriousness of his injuries and left him
alone in his house. Gallaghan managed
to attract the attention of passers next
day and secured medical assistance. It
was about twenty-eight hours from the
time of the accident until the surgeon
arrived, and the interval of suffering has
made his recovery doubtful,
THE following persons have been APP
pointed by the state superintendent to
act as visiting committee at the several
normal schools of the state for the pres
ent year: River Falls: ". 81. Rosen-
stengel, Madison; Carroll Lucas, Me-
nomonie, and J. T. LuRn, Ironton.
Oshkosh: S. D. Hastings, Jr., Green
Bay; r. G. Winslow, Racine; ". B.
Monaghan, Chiffon. Whitewater: W.
T. Price, Black River Falls; w. Fl.
Beach, Beloit; Edward Mclaughlin,
Eldorado Mills. Platteyille: Il. s.
Magoon, Darlington; Fl. F. North, Pc
waukee; j. T. FlaYin, Watertown.
A FARMER in town of Stanley, Barron
County, writes to the Rice Lake Chre-
notype as follows IN regard to his sue
cess with bees the present season: The
first swarm came out on the Sd of June,
were hived and a box for surplus honey
was put on the 10th of July, which was
filed and contained 46 pounds. Then a
new swarm was thrown out on the LIST of
August and which being taken up on the
10th of September yielded 81 pounds of
very fine honey, making 100 pounds of
honey and q swarm of bees from a single
swarm. He also adds: st wintered
three swarms which have thrown out
nine new swarms and over so pounds of
box honey has been taken from the old
swarms.
"No, George, said sagacious wife at
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