Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-06-09
Summary of Telegraphic News.

81, inclusive, were So. 472, ,0S3
Rust has appeared on the wheat in
Texas, and the crop will be reduced about
one-haf
Judge John Wilson, of Canada. died
at his residence, in Westminster, Thursday
morning.
bers of the New York Stock Exchange, died
Thursday.
Connecticut divorced 47S couples last
year-160 for husbands, and 31S at the in
stance of wives.
The raft Nonpareil, on which Captain
Wilkes made a trip to Europe, is again
ready fora like voyage.
| "A bill to establish the Great Northern
Railroad Company has been reported in
the Massachusetts Senate.
There were 2S8 hogsheads of premium
| tobacco sold in Louisville, Thursday, at
prices ranging from S7.25 to $T51.
The $50, 600 telegraph bill against the
Department of State has been paid by the
Government, through the Earrings.
:. The citizens of Jackson, Michigan,
have voted $40, 900 toward the Michigan
Airline Railroad and the Fort Wayne Road
Forrest, the actor, is now clear fnan-
eially and every other way from his di-
vorced wife. 1t cost him S10O, 600 to settle
the matter.
Albert Crowfoot, lawyer of Detroit,
has been arrested, on complaint Of the
sheriff, charged with assisting prisoner
to escape from Jail last Sunday.
President Grant has pardoned George
Meyers, convicted in January of having
counterfeit five dollar national currency in
his possession, with intent to pass them.
There is official authority for stating
that the rumors circulating about a disa-
9reement between the President and Com
missioner Delano are wholly untrue.
Among 1, 400 steerage passengers land
ed in New York on Thursday, from the
steamer NIallh;sttail, were 500 skilled Eng
lish and Welch workmen of different trades
"A blind boy named John Dixon, aged
seventeen, who had been a pupil in the
Blind Institute, at Beloit, for over year,
was drowned in Rock River, while bathing,
Thursday morning
A Cuban expedition left the Southern
coast on the 29th of May. 1t numbered
AIS men, who are part Of Gen. Jordan's
command All of them are eX-federal and
confederate soldiers.
-Brevet Major General Charles o. Wood,
u. S. A., recently sentenced to six months
suspension for striking q brother officer in
Alaska, has been reinstated in the service,
by order Of the President
The Dupuy pardon case comes up for
argument, before Judge Blatchford, OF
New York, on Saturday. This is the case
where the pardon was revoked by Presi-
dent Grant. I.
The French gunboat Lamathe Piquet,
which arrived at San Francisco from Pana-
ma on the 26th of May, infected with
| smallpox, was released from quarantine
yesterday.
Within few days, about sixty thou
sand fur seal-skins, valued at half u million
! dollars consigned to the successors of the
| Russia-American Fur Company, have been
received from Alaska.
The Captain of the ship National Ea-
ole, from Hong Kong, reports observing,
Nav 18th, an active volcano on an island
in latitude 81 deg. IS min, north, longitude
139 deg. SO min. east.
Norman Wizard has commenced pro
ceedines in eight cases against the Govern
I-ment, claiming 81, 300, 900 for damages and
/ expenditures arbitrarily annulled during
the war. a- y
During the month of May, LIST
| claims were received at the Pension Office
/, ,352 claims We're allowed, and 4S3 reject
ed, making total Of 1885 claims disposed
4 of: /, ,756 letters We're written, and IL 80
circulars sent
One hundred and twenty persons II
Louisville returned incomes of SIC, ,U0O an(
upward The largest were by John Buil
$132, 963; r. D Newcomb, $104, lS9, ant
: w. H. Hamilton, $47, ,483. 4G1aa
Z I--t==h Nun i11 I3osque, Texas, whose sol
2 had been shot, by pure accident, by anoth
er man, went to the church where the lat
l ter was engaged in worship, strobe up t
him, and shot both the man aud his littl
girl, seated by his side. 1
, The Indian Bureau has received II
S Official information whatever, coneernin
5 the recent Indian disturbances, accounts {
4 which are published in newspapers. Th
Commissioner, therefore, thinks that the
. are exaggerations.
a Some workmen in excavatiug lot
Savannah, last week, dug up four bodies
! supposed to be those of British soldier
: buried during the occupation of the cit
by the British during the Revolutionar
War.
: "A bill has been reported in the Masst
: chusetts House to loan the credit of til
/ state to the Massachusetts Central Raj
road to the amount of $4,000, 600, and
Q the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroa
Company to the amount of $2,000,000.
e John W. Briggs, one of the proprietor
Y of Briggs stables, in 2Gd street, New Yorl
t which were burned in December last, wa
: arrested Thursday on q charge of hi1in
L w P. Sheldon to burn the stables, an
committed for examination next Monday
=, bail being refused.
/, District Attorney Pierrepont, of Ne
& York, has consented to take bonds for IL
e Quaker City, on her appraised value an
a the matter will be brought before Jud,
2. Blatchford, for his action, on Saturda
when the vessel will, it is said, be formal
e released. The owners are losing 81, 600
= day by her detention.
~ The Chicago and Rock Island Railroa
= Las elected the following officers John
e Tracy, president and general superinten
IS ent; E. Cook, secretary (no treasurer w
q elected); F. d. Sherman, assistant treasu
I'll er; e. W. Dunham, register; p. A. Ha
> assistant general superintendent; John
: Tracy, E. Cook, David Dawes, B. e. ALE
n and w. r. Scott executive committee.
" On Tuesday, Timothy Wright sold
= J. Y. Farwell the lot on the southeast CO
i ner of Washington and State streets, Cl
cago fronting one hundred on Washin
IS ton and ninety on State, for the enormo
:. sum of $349, 600, being three thousand ser
te .handred and seventy j-seuem dollars and seq,
Of tY-seUen cents per front foot. This is t
re largest price ever paid for property in Cl
Il cago.
FOREIGN.
es -Dr Ernest William Hen9stenberg, IL
rt eminent theologian, died in Berlin, Thm
e, day, aged 81.
to Sir Stafford Northcote has nominal
c. George Pabody to be trustee of the Huds
+ Bay Company, vice Sir. j. Emerson Te
n, nant. resigned. ~
= In the House of Lords, Thursday, t
bill for the creation of life peerages w
- passed in committee. with an amendme