Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-11-01
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Thomas Ewing, who is reported to be serious
ypls
Two mills of the Oriental Powder Company,
at Gambo Falls, Gorham Me-, blew up on
Friday afternoon
H. S. ClaIBLos Co., of Wall street, who
suspended IN New York Tuesday, have paid in
full and resumed.
An Injunction has been granted against she
Irving Fire Insurance Compap5' and NJ. J.
Grow is appointed receiver. r
QUITE a severe shock of earthq IKE was felt
at Augusta, Me-, Thursday afternoon, lasting
ten or twelve minutes
A SPANISH infantry regiment has just been
armed with he Berdan rife. The people of
New Jersey ought to feel proud
THE Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner
has called upon all insurance companies IN the
state to make returns of their condition.
The Warsaw On. " Manufacturing Com
pany's establishment was burnt on Thursday
evening. Loss S25,000; insurance small.
A NEW ORLEANS telegram says Hall & Co
macll's bond-box, containing about $500
worth Of securieties, was stolen from wagon.
NEW YORK city intends improving her Fire
Department, and two hundred thousand o.
lars are to be raised Immediately to that end.
Gov. Brown, of Missouri. has issued a
proclamation calling out the militia in Dunk
liz and Stoddart counties for the suppression
of the Ku-Klux.
a MONUMENT in honor of the late Gen. d. d.
Bidwell. killed in the battle of Cedar Creek,
Va, was dedicated at Forest Lawn Cemetery,
Buffalo, on Thursday.
IlCTT r. hot foo
high are among the wonders of the Yellow
stone Valley IN Wyoming. They surpass the
geysers of California.
The Secretary of the Treasury has authoriz-
ed the issue of 81, SOC, 600 in United States
notes, to take the place of those burned in the
government vault in Chicago
A RECEIVER has been appointed FOR the Full
ton Life Insurance Company, of Brooklyn,
which stockholder swears has become insol-
vent, owing to the Chicago fire.
THE wealthiest siiyer-mIne owner in the
world lives in Mexico. His name is Jose Cor
resco One of several valuable mines which
he owns yields him a monthly income of $780,
600 9aF sfsaE
The Secretary of the Treasury has instruct
ed the assistant treasurer at New York to buy
1000, 900 of gold each Thursday during the
month of October.
CAsEYyILLE, twelve miles from Salt Lake. is
one of the most fourishing of the smaller
Mormon settlements, Reports say it contains
70 husbands, who have in the aggregate 347
wives and 522 children.
FIRE in Syracuse, Thursday evening, des-
troyed publie school building No. 7. the larg-
est in the city. Loss $12, 900. A colored girl,
thirteen years old, has been arrested on srspi-
cion of having fired the building.
The quarrel for the possession of the great T
Emma Silver mine, in Utah Territory, which T
has been actively carried on in the courts of I
the Territory for long time past, is, we hear, |
about to be settledby compromise.
ADMIRAL PORTER expects war with China, !
and has written letter to the Secretary of |
the Navy, recommending an increase of the |
Asiatic squadron and the building of several
gunboats for use in such an event on the !
Chinese rivers.
The gold and silver annually produced upon |
the Pacific coast approximates $50. .O00, ,000 |
Only a little more thau twenty years have
elapsed since mining was begun for these
metals, during which time we have extracted
and Pnt into circulation something over 81
200, 000 of the precious metals.
The Newport News tells of an old gentle /
man who stepped into tailoring establish |
mont in that city and gave order for a suit
of clothes and while in the store a member of
the firm produced a similar order IN writing |
from the same party given just fifty years
ago, which was filed at the time The price |
then pad was $26, while the one now charged /
is $40, though the new suit is to be no better
than the old one.
INFORMATION is said to have been received |
at Washington, indicating that zne Mormons
have considered a fearful plan of retaliation |
toward The Government for the course which |
has been pursued in Utah against polygamy
by the Federal judicial authorities. tits moth
ing less than to foment AN Indian war from
Arizona to the northern bounds of Dakota, to
destroy the overland railroads and deYastate |
the whole Western frontier
IT is reported in well-informed circles that
the new treaty for the annexation of San Do
mingo, which viii be submitted to Congress-
early the session. it calls for no appropriation
whatever, but that provision viii be made by
privateparties and corporations to pay off the
debt of the Republic. which has been regard
ed as amounting to about 81, 100000.
THE New York papers announce that four
members of the Aaron gang of thieves Bar
ney Aaron, Bill Tracy, Jim Mundy, and jim
Brown-haye been shot by Sheridan's soldiers
in Chicago sf z...l.s s.s....-s
JAMES WILSON, alias Bentley, the murderer
of Warden Willard, of the Connecticut State
Prison, having been sentenced to be hanged on
Friday, attempted suicide early in the morning /
by puncturing his heart with sharp wire, or
long needle. He, however, survived the at
tempt and, later IN the day, he was executed |
in the Hartford county Jail.
In Warsaw, KY. on Sunday a man named
Grdley, said to be a desperate character, shot
out of a hotel window at young man named
Worth, with whom he had a difficulty, infiict-
ing mortal wound in the breast of Worth.
Gridleywas put in jail. About two o'clock
Monday morning party of men went to the
jail broke hole through INTO Gridley's cell
with crowbars, ETC., and fred in, killing the
prisoner
FOrei gn.
ENGLISH Universities are now thrown open
to all, and recently, for the first time since
their institution, the degree of Master of Arts
has been conferred upon a Roman Catholic
and Jew. 6ga
NINE thousand Holsters were landed short
time ago at Grimsby, England. direct from
Sweden. They were transferred to floating
chests to preserve them, as usual, but next
morning the whole were found to have.died,
causing loss to the merchant of not less than
G30O. The Holsters were killed by the filthy
condition of the water in the dock
BY a recent decree the Japanese Govern
ment has abolished the position of Hans, or
Diamos, which reduces that class, who have
been rulers for over three hundred years. to
the grade of common people, and their terri
tory win be annexed to the Government. The
Mikado is nowthe sole source of aristocracy
and religion. q A aAA
The. French government directs that the
military and naval forces be on the alert for a
Bonapartist disturbance which is feared
The amount contributed for the relief of
Chicago by Americans in Paris is I31. .O55
frames. 81 ,z1EE -.HE Ers. se-.
NINETY ONE Communists have been convicted