Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-12-28
Summary of Late News.
AT HOME.

AT HOME
THE Welland Canal was closed Thurs
day for the season.
Two thousand three hundred and
( eighty one emigrants arrived in New
York last week.
In light at Sherman Station, on the
Sth, man named Wood was struck on
the head with stone and killed
ELLEN BURKE, aged 105, was sent to
Blackwells Island by the New York
commissioners of Charities on Tues
day.
A SNEAK thief stole $4,000 in dia-
monds from the residence of B. T.
Rabbit, the soap man Of New York, on
Friday evening.
REAR ADMIRAL Samuel l.. Breese, u.
| S. n, died Saturday at Mount Airy,
near Philadelphia. He was seventy
SIX years of age.
THE annual report of the Michigan
salt inspector shows 62S, ,979 barrels in
spected this year, an increase of SO, 921
barrels over last year
The entire stock of the American
Steamship Company, of Philadelphia,
has been subscribed for, and double
the amount required was offered.
e. JOHNSON. of Louisville, train boy
on the Memphis branch of the Louis
vile & Nashville railroad, fell from the
rear platform on Saturday and was
killed.
Hon. JAMES 3. BLAKE, Mayor of Wor-
cester, Mass, died Sunday, aged forty
four years His death was the result
OF Injuries received at the explosion of
the gas works on Friday night
The German Catholics of Evansville,
Ind, held large meeting Sunday
night, at which they denounced Victor
Emmauel's occupation of Rome,
pledged themselves to fidelity in sup
port Of the Pope's sovereignty.
A LARGE gas-wel was struck on the
grounds of the Erie Car Company,
Erie, Pa, on Saturday, the waste gas
OF which lights several squares. Erie
is now Illuminated nightly by waste
gas. Over thirty wells have been sunk,
and all have struck large veins Of gas.
TIE statement of the lumber bust
ness of Detroit for 1870 shows 57,00O,-
900 feet cut, against 46,OOO 900 in 1869.
and $4,000, 900 in 1868 The total
amount of lumber handled this year is
119, 900, 900. The number of shingles
cut p, 600, 900; slaves shipped, 2,000,
900.
FRANCIS Fl. FL. PRIMROSE, who plead
guilty to the charge of embezzling
$23, 900 from the Grand Trunk Rail
road company, was, on Saturday, SEN
fenced to the Michigan State prison for
three years. Primrose duplicates s. E.
Martin, formerly division superinten-
dent of the same road, and charges that
Martin received $1,000 of the money
Martin has fed to Canada.
THE report of the State Auditor of
Ohio shows that the receipts of Ohio
for state purposes last year were ST.
0,000; disbursements, S4,07l, 900; es-
timated receipts for the same purposes
next year, $3.50, 600; disbursements,
S5, 1853, 900. The total valuation of
property on tax duplicate for 1871 is
81, 167, 900, 000 The total tax levy for
1871 is about S23, 263, 900, and of this
amount, $1S, 1871 900 are for local and
county purposes.
ABROAD.
Tie French Government has remov-
ed from Tours to Bordeaux
IT is understood that semi weekly
line of propellers will be run next
spring between Chicago and Mon
treal.
The shock of an earthquake was felt
at Golden City, Col, on Sunday morn
ing, which extended southward to New
Mexico.
The liabilities of Thomas Riggs &
Co., of Cincinnati, commission mer-
chants, who applied for the benefit of
the bankrupt law, amounts to nearly
5000, 600. Their assets are ineeasider-
able.
THE President of the North German
Parliament informed that body on the
Sth that a note had been received from
Count Bismarck, stating that King
William had accepted the title of EN-
peror Of Germany