Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-06-15
Nous of the 1l)eelt,

1st inst.
The dog law is not enforced in St. Croix
County.
"A settler named Wood, living near St. Jo-
seph was killed by lightning, few days since
Col. Forney has given important testimony
before the Coyode committee, seriously implica-
ting the President.
The W A. KNAPP snugly built little side
wheel steamer, from Lake Winnebago, is run
ming in the st. Croix trade, from Prescott to the
Falls.
SU1c1DE-Daniel Turnbull committed sui
eide at Mishawaka, Ind, on the 26th ult,, by
taking laudanum.
= stringfellow of former Kansas notoriety
has quit public life and gone to raising hemp in
Missouri
A lad about six years old, son of Grin
Dean, of Menasha, fell off the upper draw
bridge at Menasha, and was drowned.
- Gov. Dennison, of Ohio, has appointed
commission to New England, to investigate
and report in reference to the cattle disease.
"A letter from Mason county in Virginia
says that the writer knows between fifty and
seventy five people in his vicinity, who are sure
to vote for Lincoln and Hamlin.
BY the law of Georgia, passed in '58, all
the lotteries in that State closed the first in
slant. The managers have principally moved
the concerns to Delaware.
A musical prodigy, Martha s. P. Story,
three years and seven months old, is astonishing
the people of Salem by her musical performan-
ees on the piano. She is said to play fifty tunes.
The first trot in America took place Sept.
5, 1916, on Salem Turnpike, Lynn. An animal
called the Old Blue, trotted three miles in eight
minutes forty-two seconds.
= Charles Byers, while carrying locusts in
his hat, in Wetzel County, Virginia, recently,
was stung on the head and died from the effects
of the injury.
Three railway lines Of Cincinnati, during
the last seven months, the first of their exist
ence, have carried about l 100000 passengers,
and yielded the city revenue Of SIS, 600
s-The site of Post Office in New York has
been settled by the purchase, for $3.50, 200, of
the present locality. Government appropriated
5000, 600, and down town merchants $4,000.
3 Frank Berry, aged ID years, son of John
Us. Berry, master mechanic of the Lafayette: n.
and Cincinnati Railroad at Lafayette was run
over by an engine and instantly killed.
Hon Ansel Phelps, ex-Mayor of Springfield,
died on Saturday, after lingering illness. He
has been member of the legislature and was
for three years Mayor Of Springfield.
The Bark Wildfre, recently captured with
a cargo Of Africans, is said to have been owned
and fitted out by Boston house. who anticipa-
ted clearing 5000, 600 by the operation.
John Appleton of Maine, Gen Cass' Assis-
tant Secretary Of State, the man who has man.
aged Mr.. Buchanan to that old functionary's
great discredit and his own great profit, has
been appointed Minister to Russia,
- Benjamin Harrison, grandson of the
President, recently addressed the people of
LaWrenceburg, Ind, in a very able speech, in
support of the nominees Of the Chicago Conven-
ton.
- During the last winter, Story, the sculptor.
ut Rome, modelled a bust Of Theodore Parker.
The latter was much pleased with the work,
and paid it a compliment, saying, "It looks
as fit could do all that have been trying to do"
- The Lafayette (Ind.) Journal learns that
desperate fight took place at Montezuma, in
that State, between a circus company and some
of the citizens in which two of the latter were
killed by being beaten with the pins used to fas-
ten down the tent.
AT New Berlin, Waukesha Co., on Monday
last a child Of Peter Lower, aged about one
year, was killed in the arms of it's nurse by
VIC dCClueutdl ulSCAdISe Vi u gun III the NdQQS
of a brother nine years old.
- Kansas Is not to be admitted as a state, the
present session, the Democratic Senators having
agreed in caucus to vote for an amendment
changing the boundaries, and referring the
question back to the people.
In New Orleans on the 18th ult.. George
S. Howe clerk of the fourth district police
station, was shot and killed by Joseph Williams,
an engineer: Suspicion of the infdelity of his
wife, led Williams to perpetrate the deed
Ia5 The formal presentation of the belts to
Sayers and Heenan, took place at the Alham
bra palace, London on the 30th. Mr.. Bowling,
of Bells Life, presented the latter, with com
plmentary. George Wilkes did the same to
Sayers. Each declared all animosities buried
= The Chintz Bug has appeared in rath-
er alarming numbers in the wheat in Iowa
county.-Tribune. ....
- The three large hotels at Saratoga are
to be opened on the 18th inst. The others
are already receiving guests.
: Washington, June 8.-Major General
Jessup was struck with paralysis this morn
ing, and tonight there is no prospect of his
recovery.
= The .. S. Senate, have voted to adjourn
on the 18th inst, The House has not yet ac-
ted On the subject.
"A letter from Havana informs US that
Fowler, the defaulting postmaster, is now in
Havana, where he arrived by a steamer from
New York City.
A German by the name of Schneider,
who was in the employ of Mr.. Highly, at the
Lacrosse depot, was run over by a freight
car at Milwaukee and killed.
= The correspondent Of the N. Y. Trib-
une says the expense of the Covode inves-
tigation, for witnesses including mileage,
does not reach $4,000.
A stringent bill has passed the Legis-
lature of Rhode Island, to prevent the i'm
portation of cattle from Massachusetts du-
ring the tendency of the cattle disease.
- The main boom in Black River has Civ
en- way, and there is now nothing to pre-
vent the entire collection of logs for Il or
Is miles above, from passing directly out in
to the Mississippi.
= Brigham Young, with several of the
dignitaries, but with few, if any of his wives,
has been in Philadelphia for the past ten
days. He is negotiating for the purchase of
paper mill.
= 1t is said that girl at Shoeburyness
was struck dumb by the firing of cannon.
Since then number of married men have
invited the artillery to come and discharge
their pieces on their premises.
= Israel Washburne, one of the "three
brothers," has been nominated as the Re