Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-09-17
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

of A. n. Borst, at Beloit, and. stole $3.50
worth of jewelry.
ANDREW NELSON, aged 80 years, COM
mitted suicide at Mt Pleasant, Racine
County, by hanging himself to fence.
On the 9Th inst, the brewery owned
by the Roelhinger estate, GAINESVILLE,
took fire and was totally destroyed.
Loss between So 900 and $4,000 with no
insurance on building.
UNION CENTER, a small station north
of Wonewoc, lost it's largest warehouse
by fire on the night of the 9Th inst. It
was owned by G. @. Eagle. Loss about
$4,000; covered by insurance.
The North Wisconsin News says the
Bayfield, silver mine, four miles from
Pratt, is panning out big. A specimen
was taken few days since that assayed
40 per cent of copper and $40Oin silver
to the ton.
DURING an alteration at Hayward be-
tween James Wilkin, a veteran slab
burner, and 15-year-old boy named
Win Sabin, Wilkin was stabbed and IA
tally wounded, the knife having pene-
trated the lung cavity.
DURING a row between two Winnie
bago Indians at Morrison's Greek, Jack
son County, an old squaw was killed
while she was endeavoring to make
peace. The murderer, known among
the tribe as William Kingsley, managed
to escape arrest.
WILLIAM A. EVANS, the money order
clerk at the poS-ofice, at Racine, was
robbed of a valuable watch on the 9th.
He strolled up to the park, and lying
down upon the grass, he dropped into
sleep, during which some one stole a
watch which was presented to him by
his father,
W. A. HENRY, professor of agricult-
ure in the State University, has made
his report concerning pleuro-
which he was sent by Gov. Rusk to in
vestigate. He found the disease really
present, and while no cases can be di-
rectly traced to this state, yet there is
danger of an outbreak.
The Rev. John McLain, for a num-
Der of years pastor of the Presbyterian
Church, of Beloit, rendered his resigna-
ton on the 9TH inst, and it is under
stood that the church will accept it, Mr..
McLain is also a prominent temperance
and prohibition worker and is we'll
known throughout the state.
The harvest in the tobacco belt is
over, and fine crop is now hanging in
the sheds. The reported damage by
the recent hail storm was largely exag-
gerated. The towns through which the
storms passed grew this season over
l 400 acres of tobacco, while careful es-
Inmates show that not more than TWEEN
ty-fve acres we're injured by these
storms.
W. K. POTTER, of Cambridge, Dane
County, has hop yard of twenty-five
acres, one-half of which is planted with
early hops. These are now ripe and are
being picked, but they are SO infested
with lice that one-haIf of them will not
be touched at all. The late hops, ahich
will mature in the course of another
week, are looking better, though they
are not in first-class condition.
ORRIN PoMERoY, of Fulton, Rock
County, has undoubtedly the largest to-
bacco farms in the West. He had sew
enty-three acres under cultiva ton this
season. One enclosure contained thirty
eight acres, probably the largest single
! field of tobacco IN the United States.
Mr.. Pomeroy has seven large curing
barns, averaging over 100 feet in length,
making nearly a quarter of a mile of
tobacco sheds. Mr.. Pomeroy first grew
tobacco in the Connecticut Valley, and
in fact has been at the business since
his boyhood.
A DISASTROUS explosion occurred at the
Congregational Church at Oconomowoc,
on the evening of the 9Th inst. It ap-
pears that while Minis & Folz, travelling
exhibitors, were getting their machinery
ready for an exhibition of dissolving
views, their gasbag exploded with great
violence. Nearly every window in the
church was broken. Underneath the
apparatus was two by six-inch oak
joist which was forced out of position,
and the plastering in the basement bad
ly loosened. Neither of the propr1etors
were injured. The damage done to the
church is estimated at about 500 to
$780,
The Whitewater Register says: "Op
sold to Mr.. Mouat, of Mount, Zion,
thirty steers, estimated average weight
1,O20 pounds. The steers actually
weighed the next day lob pounds
apiece. Mr.. Mouat turned chem on
grass until the Goth day of August
LOG days-when they were again
weighed, and lacked but few pounds
on the whole lot of averaging 1900
pounds. We do not know under Just
what circumstances the steers were
weighed, but presume the actual gain
could not have been less than $40 or
$50 pounds each.
The Madison Journal says: "The po-
tato yield throughout this section prom
Uses to be about one-fourth less than
usual, owing to the fact that blight has
struck the root. This came on imme-
diately after the rainy period of one week
experienced during the latter part of
July, and farmers generally agree in at
tributing it to this circumstance. The
presence of the blight was first made
apparent by the leaves and vines droop-
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