Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-01-03
MICHIGAN MINUTES.

nine hens that have laid ,236 eggs the
past season.
Miss HnIsGJE MULDER, one of the
earliest pioneers Of Holland, died at the
age of 90 years.
OVER 1000 ducks have been shot on
the marshes below New Richmond this
fail. One hunter killed $50 In one day.
JOHN QUMBY, Cass County nimrod
recently shot white owl which meas
ured five feet and six inches from tip to
tip of its wings
AUGUST HOLM, who lives near Au Train
spent two nights and a day in the woods
and was badly frozen. He became lost
while tracking bear.
The Avery marsh, near Three Oaks,
has been SO drained this fall that several
hundred acres of the richest land in
that vicinity will be made tillable.
A CRAWLING farmer was killed by
wildcat in his chicken coop, after des-
perate fight. 1t measured four feet in
length and had killed fourteen chickens.
MICHIGAN curly and birdseye maple
is coming in great demand for veneers.
New York buyers are taking all they
can find in Alpena and Pressure Isle
counties.
AN Escanaba butcher uses his odds
and ends of meat for the manufacture
of free soup for the poor His soup
kettle is already running at its full ca
pacity of tortyfve gallons.
Four HUNDRED workers in the Win
throp mine at Ishpeming failed to re-
turn to work Saturday as agreed. They
want cash instead of store orders. The
mine prefers to close down.
FRANCIS GLASS, Methodist preacher
since 1910, died at Grand Rapids, aged
81 years. He was a missionary to the
South Sea Islands in 1871 and 1914, and
came to Michigan in 1916.
O. T. MILLER, a Mason celery grower,
to the New York market, realizing a
Of twelve acres next year.
4 FLINT firm has received 1900 bush
els of buckwheat from Canada, on
They have 1900 bushels more coming
from that country which costs about the
same.
\ GENTLEMAN who has visited the al
legged gold field in Bentley Township
GladWin County, claims that the story
Of finding gold is flake though he
saw the greatest excitement and num-
Der Of prOspeCtOrs at work.
A STANDIsH man has solved the shin
gle-making riddle. BY saving them,
nearly half the wood is wasted III saw
dust. He sieams the blocks, and then
slices off the shingles with a knife, there
being absolutely no waste,
WITHIN the last eight months there
have been killed and wounded in the
town of Allegan, Allegan County, by
worthless dogs, about $3.50 worth OF
sheep and at q very reasonable estimate
about $4,000 worth in the county in the
past year.
AT present there are about ] 800 men
mployed at the mines in and about Ish
peming. The Lake Superior has 500;
Lake Angelina, $50; Winthrop, $40; Sal
isbury, 175 and the Cleveland, Lake and
Pardore have 100 or over. The esti-
mated number Of idle men at Ishpeming
at present is between 500 and 400.
MUSHROOM has secured the biggest
puncher in the world. This gigantic
mass OF iron weighing IS, 900 pounds
has been set in its place at the MUske-
gon Boiler Works. 1t is relic OF the
Worlds Fair and is capable Of punch
ing tWo-inch holes through tWo-inch
plates of steel. 1t slices off fat bars
10 by Il like cheese and cuts two.inch
round bars. Its depth of throat is so
inches.
Mrs. ROBERT c. JOHNSON, formerly Of
Flint, who died IN California a few days
ago, leaving al estate valued at s. ,00O,-
600, leaves two-thirds of it to her broth
ers and sisters and their heirs. Mrs
| Col. Fenton, of Flint, is a sister The
heirs in Flint interested through their
relationship to Mrs. Fenton are J.
Brush Fenton, Fenton r. and the Misses
Adelaide and Catharine McCreery
Miss Adelaide Birdsall is an heir also.
SALT has been struck at depth of
1,1S0 feet in the we'll south of Trenton,
in which drilling was begun by Church
q Co, of New York, six weeks ago.
The drill will 60 deeper into the ground
In the hope of finding another stratum
at a depth of about /, 800 feet. The
stratum found is about % feet thick It
is proposed to erect large works on the
site Of the Craig shipyard and give en-
| ployment to 300 men if another level is
found.
OIL was discovered at Scofeld sew
enty-fve feet beneath the surface.
ARTHUR, son Of Capt Turgeon, was
accidentally drowned at Ludington.
THE village of Arthur Bay on the
shore Of Green Bay, above Menominee,
y
several hundred people and great pros
poets. Now there are three families
and many houses to rent.
4 PROMINENT jeweler Of Lenox, a sub
urb Of Richmond, has a clock made in
Germany which is so fixed as to play q
piece of music once an hour. The clock
is $50 years old and worth $500. Mr..
kieldt has been offered $3.50 for the
clock, but refused it.
CHAPLIN & Son, of Niles, who own val
liable mine-tees in the vicinity of Iron
Mountain, have disarmed criticism bv
sending acheck Of $500 for the suffering
miners in Iron Mountain. Their agent
announces that they will send another
check for like amount on January Is
next.
ABOUT fifty years ago a sort Of 'boy
tramp struck Birmingham. He got
Job Of making flour and pork barrels
Old Dr. Ray nal took notion to the lad
and said he would make lawyer Of
him. That boy tramp is now the head
Of the Knights Templar of the United
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