Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-09-24
WISCONSIN ITEMS.


ENocH BROWN, pioneer of Racine
County, is dead, aged II years.
CORN in Southern Wisconsin is now
out of danger of injury from frost.
The new directory of Oshkosh shows
the population of the city to be over
$4,000.
5. MALCOMsON has some fine sweet
potatoes growing on his fruit farm, near
Palmyra.
The corn yield in Palmyra Township
is the heaviest known to the Oldest in
habitant.
On the 10Th inst, the grist mill at
Colfax, Dunn County, was swept away
by flood. Loss about $4,000.
VIM. SCRIBNER, of Rosendale, Fond
du Lac County, has threshed his wheat
and it averaged 324 bushels per acre.
A MIR. O'Conner had SO bushels of oats
per acre.
HE total receipts Of the Northern
Wisconsin Fair at Oshkosh will not be
much short of $8, 900, which is expected
to leave balance to apply on the asso-
CATIONS indebtedness.
WHEAT ON Hart Prairie, already
threshed, averages thirty bushels to the
acre; barley averages thirty-nine bush
els, while some fields ran as high as
forty-seven bushels per acre.
GEORGE HARTwELL, a section hand,
was knocked off hand-car by the
handle, at Menomonie, the wheels
passing over his arm crushing it out fiat.
With good care it may be saved.
The parsonage of the Lake Street
Methodist Episcopal Church, at Eau
Claire, occupied by the Rev. G. Pitcher,
was totally destroyed by fire on the 18th
inst. Loss, $4,000; covered two-thirds
by insurance.
B. f. FOWLER of Heart Prairie, JEFF
ferson County, well known as breeder
of Poland China hogs, recently sold 5
pigs, prices as follows: One for $25;
two for $50 each, and two for $40 head.
They were sold before months old.
Mr.. JOHN PIPER, of Richmond, Jefer-
son County, reports the largest average
yield of spring wheat per acre, in that
section-thirty- seven bushels per acre.
He also threshed one field of barley
that yielded forty-fve bushels per acre,
and thinks a second field will average
fifty bushels.
AUGUST MARTZ, a young man of Whit
tlessy, while carelessly handling gun
on the 18th inst, accidentally shot him
self. He had the gun standing by his
side, pointing to his left cheek, which
was badly shattered. He died after suf-
1ering few hours.
@. B. KENYON, of Bloomington, Grant
County, threshed last week 154 bushels
Of spring wheat, from seven acres of
land, an average yield of twenty-five
bushels per acre. John Barr has $50
bushels of wheat, raised on twelve
acres, an average of thirty bushels to
the acre.
VIM. ARMsBURGER of Palmyra, has
registered Jersey bull bought of V.
Loewe. Among his grade OF COWS is
high grade Jersey heifer that was
two years old in March. She calved the
LIST of February, and has since given an
average of nearly % pounds of milk per
day. Mr.. Armsburger milks AZ COWS,
that give total of 700 pounds of milk
daily.
A FARM engine, owned and operated
by Ecker Bros, exploded at River
Falls, on the 10Th inst, instantly killing
the engineer, Chas. Ecker, and seriously
and probably fatally scalding Cheney
Chaplin. The engine was an old one
that had. been used more or less for the
past five years, but had been pressed
into service this fall because of the
great crop.
WHILE Phillip Cory, farmer of the
town Of Harrison, was working about
thresLing machine on a farm a few
miles east of Menasha, on the 18th
inst, he lost his footing and fell among
the moving machinery, One of his
legs below the knee had been taken off
when fellow-workman came to his
rescue, and undoubtedly saved his life.
It is thought that he will recover.
Miss LILLE ANDERSON, of Wauke-
sha, about year ago, caught vio-
lent cold, the result proving the
loss of the voice. She has just been
able to speak above a whisper since
that time. Medical science proved of
no avail. On the 18th she was taken i'll
very suddenly, the sickness lasting only
few minutes, when to her amazement
she found that her voice had returned.
AMONG the heavy tobacco raisers at
La Prairie, Rock County, are W. e.. and
Chas. Stark, ten acres J. Shimmel, six;
Chas. Kemmerrer, about fourteen; FL.
Tarrant. ten; the Van Calder brothers,
ten or twelve. J. M. Gleason, j. Ell.
Rowland and others have also large
fields. W. FL. Stark received STA per
acre for his last years crop and has
been offered the same for this years
growth.
GILLETT & MOORE, of Springvale,
Fond du Lac County, exhibited some
fine Holstein cattle at the Oshkosh
fair. There were eighteen head in all,
among which are Duke of Springvale,
2-year-old weighing 1850 pounds,
and the celebrated cow Johanna, 13
years old, formerly owned by G. s.
Miller, with record of 88 pounds of
milk per day and 2,407a pounds in 81
consecutive days.
EVERETT GoTTscHALL, of Lodi, raised