Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-06-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
miscellaneous.

| city and CIVILIZATION.
S. F. PIKE has bought the right O
patent of the Whipple & Dickersol
method of using raw petroleum in gen
Grating steam, instead of coal.
CAPT. MATrHEwsoN and Dr. Mexican
of the Inman steamer City of Durham
were drowned in Halifax harbor, Sun
day, by the capsizing of a small boat
THE New England Woman Suffrag
Association held q meeting at Tremon
Temple, Boston, Monday evening
Julia Ward Howe presided. Addresse
were made by Mrs. Isabella Beecher
Rev. g. Haven, Julia Ward Howe an6
Lucy Blackwell. The attendance was
small.
The Atlantic Cable Companies an
nounce that the cable tariff for ten.
word message after July 1st will be ten
dollars in gold, the date, address and
signature to be counted and paid for.
The limit of messages to fifty words il
removed, and press dispatches are here
after to be charged full rates.
The East.
HORACE GREELY is to receive q public
reception In New York on Friday.
AN appeal has been issued for SUBJ
stantial aid to the families of the vic.
Tins of the recent coal mine accident in
Pittston, Pa
I CONSIDERABLE excitement was oc-
casioned among fishermen and others,
on Sunday, by the appearance of fin
back whale, thirty feet long, in Fire
Island Inlet, New York Bay.
The seventh national camp-meeting
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church
will, as last year, be held at Round
Lake, Saratoga county, New York, and
the exercises will commence on Tues
day, July 4th, and close Friday, July
14th, 1871.
JOHN GIBNEY, who, on the 14th of
April, attempted to cut down crucifix
in st. Vincent's Catholic Church, New
York, and wounded with knife man
who seized him, has been sentenced to
seven years imprisonment.
The West.
The steamboat Far West, was attack
ed by Sioux Indians while en- route for
Fort Benton. Fortunately nobody was
hurt.
The White Stockings defeated the
Stars of Brooklyn 7 TO 1. The Hay
makers suffered defeat at the hands
of the Pastimes of Baltimore-25 to %.
The White Stockings defeated the
Eckfords by score of 10 to 5. The
Forest City nine, of Rockford, were
wersted by the Boston Reds-score 25
to IL.
The Superior Times of Saturday has
news of Thursday from the silver mines.
New mines are being discovered daily,
and the indications are that the deposit
of silver is beyond comprehension.
The Times is informed that fifteen bar
rels of ore netted $4,000. Silver Is
land is literally alive with miners.
A SHOCKING affray is reported to have
occurred between party of whites and
blacks at Hopefield, Ark, on Sunday,
which resulted in the death of John
Rayner, colored.
The railroad bridge at st. Charles,
Mo-, has been successfully tested, and
is pronounced the finest structure of
the kind on the continent. The ex-
treme length of this bridge and the ap-
proaehes is 6,570 feet; the bridge pro-
per, 2, 179 feet; number of spans, q;
ranging from 395 to 1922 feet in length.
All the piers rest on solid rock, and
range in height from rs to 145 feet, ac-
cording to the depth of the rock under
the river.
Crimes and Casualties.
A NUMBER of cases of sunstroke oc-
CURED in New York, on Tuesday, of
which four proved fatal.
The examination of Peter Schwab, of
Butler county, Ohio, charged with
stufing the ballot-box at the Schenck-
Campbell election, resulted in his COM
for trial.
ELLERY DANIELS, late cashier of the
Webster National Bank, Boston, has
been indicted in the United States Dis
trict Court for embezzling it's funds to
the amount of 81, ZOO.
THURSDAY morning an explosion took
place in one of the hot blast furnaces
of Kingsland's iron works, South st.
Louis. Owen McCabe had his left hip
and right ankle broken; Frank CORN
ley had his leg broken John Hegnor
his arm broken, and four other men
were badly bruised. The explosion
was caused by an accumulation of gas.
THE wife of Major General John G..
Foster died in New York on Tuesday.
The $40, 900 Hambletonian stallion,
owned by Mat. Suttle, of Peterson, N.
j., is dead.
A GERMAN named Louis Koelle died
of hydrophobia in New York on Mon
day. He was bitten fortnight previ-
GUS to his death.
Rev. GEO. E. PIERCE, ex-President
at Hudson, Ohio, on Saturday, aged
seventy years.
THOMAS G. DUNCAN, of Pittsburgh,
Pa, and well-known as successful
speculator in oil lands and the owner
and originator of the famous town and
wells of Pithole. died at Belfast, Ire
land, on Thursday.
Fires.
A FIRE at Worcester, Mass, on Mon
day, destroyed two blocks owned by
Messrs. Webster & Gibson.
A MAIL CAR was burned on the Grand
Trunk Railroad, near Newcastle, last
week, together with considerable mail
matter a24
AT Bridgeport, Conn, on Sunday,
confagration destroyed Beardsley 6
Wilson'S stock of lumber, the German
Hotel, F. Bartram's pork-packing es-
tablishment, McNil & Co.'S fruit store,
and damaged the docks and railroad
tracks Loss $135, ,000--largely COW
cred by insurance.
Foreign.
IT is said that Gen. Cluseret has been
executed.
The adherents of the Duke d'Aumale
and Bonapartists are very active in
their schemes for the restoration of the