Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-10-04
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re with a Dr. Boatman, at Hopefeld. Ark
MusKEaoS has voted 8100 coo for the intro
duction Of the Holly water-works at that
place.
A MEETING of the Woman's Club of Wash
lngton, on Friday evening, was disturbed by
roWdies.
1HE Coll worm has destroyed the cotton
a's1fing this month in the cane brake region
CT Alabama.
THURMAN GREEN, woman, and little girl.
were killed by an express train near Adams, n
Y, on Friday.
J. W HuLEN clerk of the Michigan State
Prison, is under arrest on a charge of embez-
zllng state monies
A coLoBEp man named A. J. Pensd n,ur.
dered his wife in Chicago, SATURDAY. night. hv
cutting her throat with razor.
WILLIAM REmMEs and Henry Miller were
drowned by the upsetting Of boat in New
York harbor, few days ago
MUCH apprehension EXISTS in New Orleans
regarding another flood in the Mississippi
which Is seriously threatened.
h1Y, NJ GEORGE, D, D., from Wis consin,
vas on Sunday installed as pastor of the
South Baptist Church, in New Yor6.
A YOUNG man named G. Washington Conk=
ling, only nineteen years of age, is under ar
rest at Gentreport L. l., on charge of big
amy. .
Dr. MeGoyEEK, who was shot at Shawnee
town, Ark, last Saturday, by Thadford. viii
recover Thadford is not expected to sur
viYe.
SEvERAL firms and stock companies are get
4iyp a6vs4a Si7,I, oil rails rTos.-.-
couraged by the success of the one recently
sunk there
A COLLISION is reported on the Hudson
River road, between a special passenger and
coal train. Much rolling stock was damaged,
but no person hurt.
A CONFEDERATION at st. Johns N. B.. on
the north side Of King Square, destroyed over
thirty buildings, including four churches and
several stores. FL
AMERICAN Girl beat George Palmer for a
purse Of 50, AGO, at Fleetwood Park, on Friday.
Time 2:237(, 1926, 2:2577l, 2:24H. The third
was dead heat
The grand encampment Of Knights Templar
have decided to hold their next triennial con
vention at New Orleans on the first Tuesday in
December, 1874,
HENRY c. BosTRIcK has been appointed Chief
Clerk of the mint at Carson City, Nevada. J
Banfeld has been appointed Collector of Gus
toms at Chicago.
SECRETARY BOUTWELL, viii leave Washington
on Wednesday for Cincinnati where he will
speak on the 28th, and will also speak at Cleve-
land on the 10Th inst
I'VE colored people of Cincinnati and vioin-
1ty celebrated the anniversary of the Emanci-
patton Proclamation, On Friday by a meetings
at LooAland, Hamilton county.
LINCOLN monument was unveiled at Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia. on Friday. in the
presence Of 10000 spectators. The Grafton
was delivered by Wm. MeMichaels.
HALF-BREED Indian named Leonard Rog-
ers, murdered a beautiful but fallen woman
named Hattie Lewis, at New London. Conn,
the other day, and then shot himself.
WOLF, REED & SHAws cotton mills. at Car
dington, seven miles from Philadelphia. and
Whitbys mill, at the same place, were des- |
froyed by fire on Friday. The loss will amount
70 about $3.50, 900.
A RENcoNTRE is reported from Jefferson.
Georgia, in which colored man named Pierce
shot and killed two men, one of them white
man named Coleman. Pierce was afterwards
hung by the Ku-Klux.
JOEL 4. FITHIAN, son-in@aw of Comptroller
Connolly, Assistant Receiver of Taxes, Com
missioner on Street Openings, and Commits
EIoner on Broadway and street, it is reported,
has determined TO resign. -
The Knights Templar parade in Washington
was grand affair. On passing the Executive
Mansion the Knights we're reviewed by Secre-
fetary Boutwell,. Postmaster Genela al Cresweu
and Solicitor General Bristow.
The whole business portion Of Pioche, New.
was destroyed by fire. Five lives we're lost.
and many wounded The explosion of powder
was the origin. No other particulars have
been received. Loss from 81, 900 600 to So
900, 600.
Gov. hLcoRN, of Mississippi was successful in
obtaining the agricultural college scrip belong
ing to that state OF q 900 acres. He viii re-
sign his G0yernorship and take his seat "a
United States Senator at the next session of
Congress.
JOHN KELLY, aged seventeen, EMPLOYED at
the Golden Tlint-Horks, in Trenton. n. j., fell
through hole in the floor into fiint-cracker
below, He was run into the wheels, and his
body passed out into the water below. literally
ground.
DAVID FooTE, a negro, recently arrested on
8age five women, on the Cleveland highways,
but afterwards discharged, has again been ar
rested for similar offence, and will this time
get his deserts
coNFLAGBATIoS at ST. Adams, Sunday
morning, destroyed the buildings on the south
side of Lake street, from Farrelfs block to
he st. Adams House. Loss $500. .000-lsreelv
insured. The Transcript and LIE Protecteur
Offices were burned.
SAMUEL j. IILDEN, Chairman of the Demo
cratic State Committee, has sent circulars to
prominent Democrats requesting their attend
anee at the primary meetings to choose dele
gates to the respective assembly district or
county conve entions. He concludes with these
words Wherever gangrene corruption has
reached the Democratic party we must take
the knife and cut 1t out by the roots"
ABOUT $500 claims have been allowed bv
the Southern Claims Commission. The apgre-
gate amount of alleged damages sustained is
upward Of $40, 600, 000, owing to the seizures
Of supplies, etc, for United States troops. be-
longing to those claiming to have been Union
men during the late war. EYiience has been
taken IN six hundred cases, and decisions al
rived at In one hundred an fifty.
Gov. PoITs, Of Montana, writes that he has
organized a force OF two hundred volunteers
Tor the protection Of settlers in the Galatin
valley. who now feel no apprehension of
further Indian raids this year, unless Sitting
Bull declares war on the Northern Pacific rail-
road surveyors. Five thousand Sante Sioux
are now camped On the Milk River, near Fort
Browning, and refusing positively to return to
their agency, are being fed with supplies in
tended for other tribes.
The new constitution for Nebraska is de-
feated by majority Of nearly 2,O00 The in
dependent propositions submitted were: First,
for making bank stockholders liable for three
times the amount of stock; second, for giving
counties the right OF prohibiting or licensing
ing county or municipal aid to raiiroads:
fourth, compulsory education; fifth, female
suffrage. They were all voted down by over
whelming majori6es, female suffrage faIing
the worst Of all. f.