Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-30
STATE NEWS.

ENGINEER Pull BARRY, of Baraboo.
was killed by the ditching of his engine
at Mendoza, near Madison, on the
North Western Railroad.
A FARM hand scattered quantity of
poisonous post-preserving compound
on the pasture of Rev. Meredith Evans,
of Dodgeville, IN mistake for salt. A
number of valuable animals were killed.
AUGUST MAST, of Eden, lost new
barn, granary, cow-sheds and sheep
stalls, together with 80 tons of hay and
considerable grain, by fire recently.
Total loss, $4,000; insured for small
amount.
S. K. AYERS, at Delton, Sank County,
has 1O3 hills of Dakota Red" potatoes
to show for a pound of seed with forty
six eyes, and there is prospect that he
will be able to count as many more hills
before the season is over.
A. Ell. BARROW, of Brandon, reports a
record of 372 pounds of milk from one
COW in a week, an average Of trife
over So pounds day, from which he
churned Isl pounds of butter. Her
best milking weighed 654 pounds.
The Madison Democrat says Commits
sioner Bishop removed fifteen tons of
dead perch from the shore of Lake
Mendoza. DR.. Rowley, Of Middleton,
on microscopic examination OF the
fish, found the deadly enemy to be
parasite that attacks it's victim near the
gills.
The people of GAINESVILLE are shocked
over the marriage of Belinda Mack,
principal in the famous Rock County
murder case, to Joseph Watsie. an i'm
portant witness in the case. Frank
Dickerson is now serving life SEN
tence for the murder of Mrs. Mack's
husband.
The annual reunion of the Thirteenth
Wisconsin Infantry for 1884 will be
held at Sharon, Walworth County, on
Wednesday, September 10. Col. W. P.
Lyon, Gov. J. M. Rusk, Phil. Cheek,
Jr., and other distinguished veterans
have been invited and are expected to
be present
ONE of the Beloit Paper Pail Com
pany's buildings was burned at o'clock
on the morning of the goth inst, caus-
ing a loss of about 81 800, which is well
was in the hands of an assignee, and
the works have not been running for
some time.
AS Hermann Voss, a young man in
the employ of the Eau Claire Ice Com
pany, was leading a horse into the
Chippewa River for water, the animal
kicked and knocked him insensible,
and before assistance arrived he was
drowned. The body was recovered
shortly afterward.
ABEL NUTTING, an old settler of
Jefferson County, jagged 81 years, dropped
dead. on the 21st inst, from apoplexy,
at the house of his only son, A. M.
Nutting, in Pennington. Deceased
came to Wisconsin from Jefferson
County, n. z, in 1848, and settled on
the farm where he died.
Mrs. JOSEPH WHITE, the wife of a
farmer living near Beaver Greek, Ocon-
to County, found 100 brass rings marked
/. FL. S. The supposition is that these
rings must have been the property of
some of the early missionaries who so
zealously sJrove to carry the light of re-
igion to the Indian tribes through that
section in the years long past.
A FIRE kroke out on the 18th inst in
Emmit Horan's block, Eau Claire, oc-
cupied by Larson & Thompson, grocers,
O. Monson, saloon, and the Paris
millinery store, making a complete
wreck of the building. Most of the
goods from the respective apartments
were saved. The total loss estimated
at $4,000; fully covered by insurance.