Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-21
MICHIGAN MINUTES.

Roy SHANKLAND, 10-year-Old Benton
Harbor boy, was bitten by a rattlesnake
and may die.
DETROIT BARRIERS now charge Is cents
for shaves, and will enforce Sunday clos
ing after June IS.
A BADGER weighing twenty-seven
pounds was caught on the farm of
Joseph Beach in Pennfeld
One HUNDRED and five varieties of
potatoes are being grown in the prison
vegetable garden at Jackson.
A PARTY of fishermen encountered
wolves while en- route from Marquette
to Baldwin's Kilns and beat a retreat.
THE Lake Angelina mine Will soon
put in system of electric haulage 1t
is expected to be much cheaper than
man-pOWer.
JOHN O'BRIEN, of Whitedale, stepped
on rusty nail which went clear through
his foot. Blood-poisoning set in and he
died shortly after.
NAPOLEON MARQUETTE and Louis Spor-
ley while out fishing near Whites mill,
on the peninsula, Sunday, shot a bear
weighing $50 pounds.
TRAMPs at Flint locked a colored wom-
an in box car and then left She took
them for railroaders and paid them 81
to ride toia neighboring town.
Mrs BENJAMIN CURTIS, of Dundee,
will have growing on her farm this sea-
son twenty-seven acres of broom corn,
all for the factory in that place.
FRUIT prospects are SO tlattering in
Northern Van Buren, County that the
basket factories of that locality have
already started up and are running full
time.
CHARLES SAUERBIER, of St. Joseph, has
preserved in a jar of alcohol a natural
curiosity in the shape of kitten having
two bodies, seven legs, two tails and one
head
CAPITALISTS have bought a tract of
land near Alpena and are making ar
engagements to plant $4,000 plum trees
The best plums in the state are raised
in that section.
The first trout in many years have
been caught in the Huron River at Mil
ford. 1t is thought that they came down
from Indian Garden Lake, in which
large numbere planted about four years
ago.
THE Calumet & Hecla Mining Com
pany will pay $1,000 to each of the
widows of those killed in the recent
casualty there, the orphans $500 each,
and the relatives of the single men
81 900.
THE other day L. G.. Fry exhibited at
Lansing half a dozen enormous hens
eggs. OF four of them the measure
ments were as follows: 69x78, 53x7*,
7$x5s, 73x54. The largest egg weighed
ounces.
THE 2-year-old child of Lorenzo Smith
lost both feet at Alma, They were cut
off by the evening train at st. Louis
Fireman Stevens made heroic effort to
save the child by catching it from the
pilot and jumping.
THE State Military Board has decided
if satisfactory arrangements can be made
for accommodation and transportation,
to hold the annual encampment of the
Michigan National Guard in Chicago
August to II, inclusive.
AT Watervliet, on Memorial Day,
someone played a good one on the
marshal of the day When the latter
tried to draw his sword it was gone
Some one had taken it from the scab-
bard during the parade.
THE pumping out of Lake Angeline is
not completed yet The mud in the
bottom of the lake is proving tough
article to handle. The work has proven
very expensive, and the total cost has
by no means been reached yet.
THERE are about twenty-five miles of
private telegraph lines in Leoni Town
ship, Jackson County. Every boy who
can afford to has the line connected
with his home and sends messages to
other boys and girls-mostly girls.
WHILE four men were ascending in
cage at the Blue mine, near Negaunee,
the rope broke and the cage dropped to
the bottom of the shaft, distance of
400 feet. The men were found in the
bottom IN an unconscious condition.
They will all recover
THE 4-year-old daughter of Girard
Smith, of Grass Lake, died very sud-
denly. A post-moftem examination
was made and an orange seed was
found in the vermiform appendix. She
ate an orange Decoration Day and had
not felt well since.
Ten THOUSAND acres of land in Mon
roe County is now held by option by cap
italists, who are working the county to
find oil or gas. Wells put down several
years ago gave good yields, but were
destroyed by the drivers because of
some trouble with the capitalists.
IT has been found that myriads of
dead lizards are lying in the shallow
water in the lake at Cadillac. The Board
of Health has ordered them to be
scooped out and buried. This being the
lake from which the city gets it's hydrant
water lot of people Lave given up
using it.
THE SchlesiEger syndicate, composed
of American and German capitalists,
will be the heaviest producer of ore in
the country this year, the Metropolitan
Land and Iron Company coming sec
ond. Tie output of the Schlesinger
group of mines will exceed 100000
tons of ore.
A PECULIAR accident happened to Miss
Mary Coy, 17-year-old girl Of Mason.
She was sitting on the front door steps
of neighbours house with two compan-
ions and slid off from one step to anoth-
er, injuring her spine so badly that she
was rendered unconscious. Her life
has been despaired of, but physicians
now hope for her recovery.
Mrs. AMELIA CHICK, who lives about
twelve miles northwest of Maple Rapids,
aWoke few mornings ago and found a
small snake coiled around her ankle.
How the reptile got into her bed, or
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