Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-09
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

The hay press at TruesdeI, Kenosha
County, has baIed as high as 35 tons
per day.
VIM. WOoDIN, of Asbippun, marketed
two hogs at Hartford recently that
weighed 1, $50 pounds.
J. HoLLENsTEIN, of Jefferson County,
sold to an Oconomowoc butcher a 2.year
old Herford steer that weighed 1900
pounds and dressed $40.
CHAs. FRAME, a cigarmaker at Eau
Claire, attempted to commit suicide with
a razor, while under the influence of
liquor. He will recover.
ROBERT NJ MooER has disposed of his
numbering interests on Black River to
Messrs. Sawyer & Austin, for S55, 900.
Mr.. Sawyer is a Milwaukeean.
Mr.. FL. D. MCKINNEY, OF GAINESVILLE,
has purchased from Ira Bingham, very
promising 4-year-old colt, son OF Nc
Kinney's (Bowles) Almont, Jr.
JAMES B. CANTERBURY, of La Crosse,
purchased mare called Snowflake from
Michigan man. She is six years old.
weighs $50 pounds and is Messenger
thoroughbred.
Mrs. WILLARD JOHNSON, of Empire,
Fond du Lac County, raised 70 turkeys,
which aggregated $40 pounds in weight,
and when sold brought her Is cents per
pound or $123 90 in cash.
JOSEPH r. HoHL, a young man resid-
ing at Marshfeld, has been arrested on
a charge of stealing horse and buggy
at Sheboygan last October, and taken
to Sheboygan for Identification.
QUITE a large number of fresh COWS
are being purchased for the Aztalan
cheese factory to keep it running this
winter and large prices are being paid,
all the way from $35 to $50 each.
JOHN O'CoNNoR, Waukesha repre-
sentative of the Great Eastern Mutual
Life Insurance Company, OF Anamosa,
Ia, failed to appear on the 3Ist ult., at
the hour fixed for his arraignment, and
his bail was forfeited.
AT Wilson, on the I'd inst, Frank
Hicks dwelling and F. W. Ayers store
were burned. The store was occupied
by Gilbertson & Co., dealers in general
merchandise, and their stock, valued at
So, 500, is total loss; insured for &c.
900.
THERE is quite trade in clover seed
at Waushara. l.. Starks has bought
aid shipped already eight car loads,
paying out in cash over $40, 900 for the
same. There are yet large quantities
to come to market. The price at pres
ent is about $3.50 per pushed.
A. D. BU1LABD, Of Evansville, may
be put down as a successful farmer. He
marketed thus far this season As hogs
averaging about 525 pounds each. He
has 81 porkers left and has refused
SIS. 25 per hundred for 40 of them. Mr..
B. sold his tobacco crop for Is cents per
pound.
THE famous suit of J. I. Case against
the Fish Bros, at Racine, has been set
tied. On the 31st ult. Judge Went
worth signed decree giving Case iudg-
ment for 1912, 546 and costs, with in
terest at 10 per cent. from October Is,
1888. This amount the defendants are
to pay within six months, otherwise the
business will be disposed of to realize
the sum. Case is also declared owner of
the business, subject to the right of the
defendants to recover it on payment of
the sum given above; he is given lien
on the property originally mortgaged to
him by Fish Bros. & Co. for certain i'm
provements thereon. The plaintiff is
adjudged to be the equitable owner of
the real estate acquired with money
from the business. The works have re-
sumed business with a full force of en-
ployeg, under the management of J. I.
Case, receiver.