Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-08-23
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miscellaneous.

tIOnS tc aid the sufferers.
THE large saw and planning mill of H. H.
Murray & Co., near Louisville, was burned
Thursday evening. Loss heavy.
IT is stated that Kingtsher has gone amiss
in the great four mile race, and that Long
fellow will contend with Helmbold and Barney
Williams.
The temperance men Of Pennsylvania have
nominated Barr Spangler, of Lancaster, for
Auditor General, and Hon, Z. A. Wheeler, of
Mercer county, for Surveyor General
A NUMBER of seamen, lately attached to the
ships Sardis, Of Boston, and Mary Brave, of
San Francisco, who navo just arrived in New
York, say that reign of terror was carried on
by the officers on board these ships on their
last trips, which was, by the former, from San
francisco to Hong Kong, in the apring. The
crews OF both were most cruelty maltreated
while on the Mary Brave four men were fcullv
murdered.
REAR ADMIRAL BoGas. IN his flagship Frank
lin, Capt. J. A. Parker, accompanied by the
Juniata, Commander Luce, arrived at Chris
tiana, Norway, July 9th, and renamed several
days.
THE next crop report of the Department
Agriculture viii not be publishe until Septem-
Der. Returns recently received show that the
crops are In better condition than was report
ed in July, including corn and cotton. A
letter from Arkansas says that although the
average Of cotton is not SO large as last year
tine crops wiEisase usually as large, and of
other states.
The East
a DEATH from yellow fever oeeurred-a at tn
New York qulrR-sine on Wednesday.
A TWENTY thousand dollar fire is reported
from Rochester, New Hampshire.
The fire IN the coal mine at Manch Chunk,
Pa, has been extinguished.
The latest count Of the victims of the West
field disaster makes the number of dead one
hundred
Four suicides have occurred in New York in
the last twenty-four hours. two of them wo-
men.
Ten cars loaded with oil, were burned near
New Florence station, Pennsylvania Central
Railway, on Saturday.
SOLOMON FIELD, treasurer of the Building
Association, in Baltimore, who left that city
with $40 600 belonging to the Association, has
been arrested.
Mayor HALL of New York. saved life at
South Bay, on Saturday, by leaping into he
water and rescuing child as it was sinking
for the third time.
THE German Democrats of Brooklyn have
adopted platform denouncing the Sunday
aud prohibitory laws and the Albany Commits
sioners, aud expressing approval of the posi-
ton of Carl Schurz.
THREE infants said to have been farmed out
to an old woman named Julia Callahan, in
East Cambridge, Mass, died recently. The
woman Is under arrest on suspicion of killing
them with opium.
A LETTER from Miss Weed states that her
father Thurlow Weed, takes the next steamer
for home, due here on Sunday, and express
es fears that he might not survive the voy-
age.
A FIRE broke out at the head of Slope No. 3,
inside of No. Mine, of the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation Company, Thursday morning.
There we're only a few men inside, and all got
out safe. The danger is that the fire will run
along the vein, which extends to Tamaqua
The religious societies who; under name of
Evangelical Alliance, were to have held con-
vention in New York last year, but which the
European war then prevented. have decided,
at a meeting lately assembled in London, to
come together in New York in 1873. the excite
year preferable to 1872.
The West
The Kansas Central railroad company has
made arrangements to negotiate its bonds to
5he amount Of 81 900, ,0G0, which insures the
construction of narrow gauge road from
Leavenworth to Denver.
A SON of Caspar Slower, Il years old, acci-
dentally hung himself with a chain in a corn
crib near Washington, TazeweI county, ILL.,
dis neck was broken by the fall while the boy
was playing at hanging.
DEPUTY United States Marshal Murphy. of
st. Francis county, Mo-, was run over by a
railway train, while intoxicated and killed
HE tannery of G. Burnside, on Canal street.
Cleveland, was destroyed by fire Thursday
night Loss, 800, 900.
A FIRE at Ravenna, O.. Friday afternoon.
destroyed Merits & Riddles carriage-factorv
and number of wooden buildings Loss
about $780, 600.
The briek-layers of New York city demand
an advance of fifty cents per day. They are
now receiving four dollars
ONE man was killed and another severely
wounded On the new railroad from Columbus
10 Springfield, Ohio, by the falling of derrick
AT Rockford, H., on Friday, a negro named
Smith committed rape upon the person of a
aughter of Rev. E. NJ. Walton, aged II years
The First National Bank of Evansville Ind
has given notice that it will subscribe to $780,
900 of the five per cent. new funded loan by
the transfer of that amount in five-twenties
held by the Treasurer of the United States as
security for circulation
AT Belvidere, ILL.,, Thursday night, during a
heavy thunder storm, three burglars under
took entrance into the counting-room of
Nj. 6. Leonard's warehouse. Geo. Tuttle, an
employe, was on guard and attacked the three
scoundrels, who were all armed. During the
hight, Tuttle shot one of the burglars IN The
mouth and through the arm, and knocked an
other senscless to the floor. The third one
He'd The two damaged ones are in iail
On last Saturday week SYDNEY Miller. an
aged citizen of Indianapolis, was struck vio-
lently on the head with club by his son
John, during quarrel and will die The dis
pute arose from trivial cause, in which the
son was the aggressor.
The South.
NUMBER of rude images of the human
body. carved stones, strange heads of clay,
and stones cut in the shape of cannon balls
nave peen aug up near Cordoya, Mexico.
The Republican majority in North Carolina
is estimated at from 1000 to -, ,OOO
NM Cursor and Laboulaye, and a number
of other distinguished abolitionists. have
memorialized the King of Spain in favor of
the abolition of slavery in Cuba and Porto
Rico.
Foreign.
The royal visitors left Dublin on Monday.
Crowds lined the streets through which they
passed, but not a cheer was raised. The peo-
pie preserved dead silence, broken only by A
few hisses.
ANOTHER American vessel has been seized
for fishing IN Canadian waters.
ADvIcEs from England settle the final with
drawal OF the English troops from the Do
minion.
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