Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-10

July 81
If you want to enjoy good game of
base ball go and see the Fat and Lean
men play Sunday July 21st Admission
IS cents. Ladies free.
One hundred thousand dollars was
given to Beloit college recently on the
condition that like sum be raised for
the institution. The second 100000
has just been secured.
Benjamin Hutchinson and Miss
Bertha Yaeger, both of the Second
ward, were married in Milwaukee by
Justice Liver, Thursday, July 4. The
couple will reside here.
-"Children's Rights, or Christ in
Boyhood," will be the subject of the
morning sermon by the pastor at the
NJ. E. church next Sunday. A Sunday
school song service will be given in the
evening. Everybody invited.
For the Wisconsin Sunday School
Assembly annual encampment, to be
uOlu DIT 10 W 11uSuob
the c., NJ & ST. P. Ry. will sell eXcur
sion tickets from WATERFOWL at a fare
and a third for the round trip. Tickets
good to return until August 3.
Through the efforts of The New
York Press the American flag now
floats every day from the government
buildings in Washington, and The Press
is following up this patriotic movement
by agitating the question of having the
Nations flag flying daily from every
public building in the United States.
james Croosdale, of Milwaukee,
and former resident of Ixonia, was
| killed Monday afternoon in a runaway
accident. While driving sprinkling
wagon, the horses took fright and the
tank was overturned on him, crushing
| him to death. Croosdale was IS years
old and leaves wife and four children.
The Haverly- Cleveland Ministries
attracted large audience. The pro-
gramme was of high order. A great
attraction of the evenings entertain
ment was the Imperial Japanese
troupe, chief among the performers be-
| ing five diminutive Japanese, whose
marvellous feats of dexterity on ladders
and poles made the female portion of
| the audience hold its breath in expect
ancy of catastrophe York E1en-
ing Telegram.
AT Concordia Opera house, August 7.
Tom Cullen who has quite string
of trotters at the Central Fair ground,
took a small number of them to Beaver
Dam on the Fourth. They had some
pretty heavy purses hung up there SO
he entered one Of the horses, which
| won the race in three straight heats.
| They claim that this horse is owned by
some of the Watertown boys, and it
| shows when our boys go in for anything
they 90 in to win. This brings Water
town again to the front
The department of agriculture has
issued report regarding the English
| sparrow The report shows that from
| the few birds colonized at sixteen diff
ferent points in the Union east of the
Mississippi and some points in the west.
The weight of testimony taken on the
subject is against the sparrow and shows
| it is injurious to grain, fruits, grasses,
etc., and drives off other birds, while it
| is not q destroyer of insects.
WATERFOWL can testify to the pesti-
ness of the sparrow and thinks that in
no wise should it be protected by law.
BY virtue ofthe appropriation lately
made by the state superintendent, j eff
ferson county has received from the
state for school purposes S16, 5S2. 81.
This amount has been divided among
the respective towns as follows: Alta
Ian, 7O209; Cold Spring, S3SO.24; Con-
cord, S740.11; Pennington, 1915. O4; He
bron, S556.7S; Ixonia, 1881. 10; Jefferson,
81 ,906.63; Koshkonong, 81 ,6173S; Lake
Mills, 1892. 40; Milford ,S771. 81; Oakland
S517 40; Palmyra, 1927. Al; Sullivan, 1919;
Sumner, S23OS6; Waterloo, $780, 3;
Waterloo village, S573.OS; Watertown,
S731.59; Watertown city, So, 335.25.
At meeting of the Grand Army
post of Fond du Lac Friday night, Gen.
Bragg was dropped from the roll of
membership by a vote of three to one
| The meeting is said to have been a very
stormy one. At the time of the debate
| on the dependent pension bill, which
passed both houses of congress and was
vetoed by President Cleveland, an ef-
fort was made to GUST Gen. Bragg for
his opposition to the measure The
effort was defeated, and at the expira-
ton of his term in congress he was ap-
pointed minister to Mexico. During
his absence the fight was renewed, and
on his offering to pay his dues on his
return he was met with the statement
that he never really was member of
the post, although he bad been it's first
commander.
The Roman Catholic prayerbook
authorized by the Third Plenary Coun-
Gil Of Baltimore, which met in Novem-
Der, 1884, has been completed and
placed in the hands Of the publishers.