Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-23
STATE NEWS.
CHEESE is being shipped in large
quantities from Palmyra to England.


quantities from Palmyra to England.
PAT KEARNEY, a school district treas
urer in the town of Thorp, Clark
County, claims that his house was
robbed of the funds he held in trust,
amounting to $67O.40.
TREMPEALEAU claims to have the
champion cow of the state. The an
imal is the property of W. P. Stokes,
gives thirty-two quarts or $50 pounds
of rich milk per day, and it is found
necessary to milk her three times per
day.
Mrs. WILLIAM TEAsDALE, of Mineral
Point, has curiosity in a wingless
canary. The little songster is now six
weeks old, is healthy, and hops around
in it's cage from perch to perch about
as easy as one blessed with all the en-
dowments of nature.
On the 18th inst, a genteei-looking
man, aged about 30 years, jumped be-
fore an express train on the Wisconsin
Central Railroad, near Eau Claire, and
was ground to pieces. 1t is supposed
the unfortunate man was intoxicated
when he committed the fatal act.
THE postmaster-gene asked for and
received the resignation of Charles
Roser, Jr., topographer of the depart
ment, who was appointed from Wiscon-
sin by the late Postmaster General
Howe. The position is to be given to
Nickerson, who held it before Roser's
appointment to the place.
BISHOP BROWN, of the diocese of
Fond du Lac, will sail for Scotland on
| September 1. He is not in good health
and the laymen of the diocese have
given him purse of $500 to make the
trip. He goes to Aberdeen to attend
the anniversary of the conservation of
Bishop Seabury, the first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of the United States.
A LARGE three-story frame building
| at Chippewa Falls, known as the Eu-
ropean Hotel, was burned by in
cendiaries. Two brothers named Pach-
EFT, who pretended to be giving the
alarm, were arrested on suspicion that
they had set the fire, and for a time
there was danger that they would be
lynched. The house was owned by
Peter Lego, whose loss was about ST.
600 above insurance for $4,000.
On the 18th inst, at Hayward, Saw
yer County, while handling a target
gun, Peter Med onald shot and instant
~ killed Herbert Demings, aged %
years. Mcdonald claims the shooting
was accidental, as he did not know the
gun was loaded. The ball entered
Demings' right eye and penetrated the
brain. Demings' home is in Eau Claire,
where his body was sent for burial.
Mcdonald gave himself up and was
taken to Ashland.
THERE Yves great excitement recently
among the residents In the town of
North Bend, jackson County, over the
disappearance of the aged father of
Hon. d. r. Wilson. The childish old
man had wandered away from home.
The searching party increased to $50
men, and finally the lost was found,
but not until he had lain exposed for
three nights and four days. He has
since rallied to such degree that his
friends are hopeful of his recovery.
AT this season of the year when clover
bloaG is likely to work destruction to
farm stock, it is we'll to have knowl-
ledge of a cheap and effective remedy.
vouched for by no less person than
Senator Anderson, who gave it to the
State Agricultural Convention in 1883
Place constantly before your stock, in a
large fiat boz, a quantity OF wood ashes,
mixed equally with common salt. If an
animal becomes badly bloated before
you are aware apply the same mixture
in liquid form, compelling the beast
to swallow a quantity of it from bot
tie.