Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-29
WISCONSIN NEWS.


RIPE wild strawberries were picked
in the woods at Fairwater on the 18th
inst.
A PIPE line from the Waukesha
Springs to Chicago is among the posi-
bilities. -,.s
The Glenn Mineral Spring at Wauke-
sha has been sold to T. FL. Brandt. of
Chicago, for $4,000.
HENRY P. MARTIN, aged IA, fell from
tree, while nutting near Racine, and
broke his right leg below the knee.
E. M. CoNANT fell against a saw in
the basket factory in Weyauwega and
lost the fingers of one hand. Nearly
800 was raised for him by subscription.
FRED. HILL shot handsome black
eagle near Madison the other day. It
weighed eight pounds and measured 81
feet from tip to tip of it's powerful
wings. MS
The Taylor County Agricultural So
ciety has purchased ffty-one acres of
land about one quarter of mile from
Medford and has erected substantial
buildings. sassEI
In ferrying across the Wisconsin
River at Dekorra, David Allen crosses
fields and fences for distance of over
half mile. The water is over ten feet
above the low water mark.
EDWARD EsFEY, q single man, about
35 years of age, had leg taken off and
hand mutilated at Elkhorn by freight
train, which he endeavored to board
while in an intoxicated condition. He
died from the effect of his injuries. He
is said to have relatives at Mount Car
roll, Ill.
A MAN by the name of George Nc
Carly, who was confined to his bed with
brain fever, at Butternut, while his at
tendant was absent, tied two sheets to-
gether, and let himself out of second
story window and made his escape. He
was found four days after his escape,
standing upright in a swamp, dead.
STEPHEN TAYLOR, who died in Gil
mantown, Buffalo County, attained the
extreme age of LOO years, 9 months and
10 days. His mind remained reasonably
clear, and though his health had not
been good for several years, he moved
about doing light chores. He was a
native of Quebec and settled in the
United States in 1850
The Rev. Ct. Ct. Mickey, aged 66
years, died of cancer of the stomach at
Spring Green, on the 18th inst. He
came to Wisconsin from Ohio in 1850,
and had been an itinerant minister ever
since in the United Brethren Church.
He held the position of presiding elder
for twenty-three years in the state and
never missed an annual conference.
FRANK MYKLEsKY, of the town of
Caledonia, Racine County, suffered a
severe loss by the bursting of a granary
in which was stored 400 bushels of
newly-threshed wheat. A buggy, new
sef-binder and seeder were in the
building and were badly damaged. The
total loss will amount to 5000. Two
men who were carrying from the ma
chine had close call.
CAPT. FOREST G.. DODGE, of New
Diggings, the railroad contractor who
laid the first rail on the Chicago 6
North Western Railway, died at Wood
stock, ILL.,, on the 18th inst, whittier he
had gone for medical treatment. One
of his earliest achievements was that of
taking two locomotives across the coun-
try from Sheboygan to Fond du Lac by
means of horse and OK teams.
81. M. JoRDoN, an old and respected
farmer, who resides in the town of
Wheaton, about four miles from Chip
pewa Falls, committed suicide on the
18th, by shooting himself in the head
with revolver. He had been suffer
er from neuralgia for about three years,
which is the cause assigned for the act.
He was comfortably well off and leaves
family of six grown-up children, most
of them married.
A FARMER of Sevastopol, Door County,
reports several singular freaks of nature
leafng of maple tree. The tree
budded and was in leaf last spring be-
fore any of the trees around it. In
July the leaves took on all the usual
autumnal tints and fell. Later the tree
again budded and was soon covered
with new leaves. These soon turned as
the others had done, and a second time
the branches were left bare. Last
month the tree budded the third time,
and was covering itself with dense
growth of rich green when the recent
frosts came, and third time the tree
bears the beautiful tints of autumn.
The Madison Journal says: "The
crop of apples in Wisconsin this fall is
unusually large. and prices at present
are ranging very low In some places
twenty-five cents per bushel is paid,
though, as rule, the demand is for
higher figure than this. Growers state
that the apples are unusually wormy-
more SO than they remember of ever
seeing them before. The great bulk of
the crop being thus infected renders
the apples much less saleable than
would otherwise be the case. It is
estimated that barrel of cider made
from this years crop contains at least
one pint of real bug-iuice. This state
ment is not made with view to
reducing the sale of cider, however"