Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-09-20
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Miscellaneous.

the largest ever grown in that region-45,0 900
boxes.
A NUMBER of people from Kansas have
aouatted upon lands belonging to the Chero- !
kee nation The Indians are greatly annoyed |
thereat
RELIABLE accounts state that the cotton
worm has appeared on Red River, and dole
the crop considerable damage. The crop pros
poets are not so good as they were three weeks |
ago. |
ApvIcEs from San Domingo state that al !
most the entire business portion of Peurto |
Plata was destroyed by fire on the 21st of Au-
gust. Loss estimated at s800,O00, on which
there is little or no insurance. The origin of
the fire is unknown.
SADIE 9. CLELLAND, q procuress, was ar
rested in New York, Saturday evening, for
enticlng nine girls to leave on the steamer City
of Galveston, to enter houses of ill-fame in
Galveston. Minnie Freeman and Miss Clel-
land jumped ashore after the vessel got under
way.
The baggage and two emigrant cars of the
night express train going west on the Degolt
and Milwaukee Railroad, were throwps fom
the track Saturday morning, two miles from
Linden Station. One lady, name Unknown
had her neck broken, and seventeen emigrants
were wounded.
Commissioners DRU1T11oND of the General
Land Office, has addressed a letter to the Reg
lister and Receiver at 4aylor's Falls, Mime
s0ta calling his attention to the encroach-
ments Of settlers upon the Mile Lac Indian
Reservation lands by regular entries, and re-
questing him to give public notice thar all such
entries are Illegal.
The Connecticut tobacco crop is being gath
ed. 1t is said to be enormous.
BASE ball White Stockings L; ; Mutuals 10;
Olympic Is, and Cley&lands II.
The Democratic State Convention is called
to meet at Rochester on the 4th of October.
The second Cincinnati Industrial Exposition
was formally opened on Wednesday evening
THE damage to the locks near Lockport, has |
been repaired, and navigation is again re
sumed
The anniversary Of the birth of Lafayette
was celebrated by the French societies of New
York on Wednesday.
KANE O'DoNNELLY, a well-known journal
list, formerly of the New York Tribune, died
Philadelphia on Friday evening.
The corporation of Brown University to-
day accepted the resignation of President |
Caswel, to take effect at the close of the
academic year.
wooLEN-1IILI on Wssahackon Greek Pa,
owred by Robert Haley and occupied by Fitz
patrick and Holt, was burned Wednesday
morning. Loss $40, ,000-insurance $15, 900.
The morse disease Is reported to be on the
increase in Brooklyn. The city railroad COM
pany have lost forty-two horses from eerebro
spinal meningitis. and the Atlantic avenue six
horses. The disease has made its appearance
in large number of private stables.
THE coal miners of the Kenosha, Illinois
Valley, La Sale and Peru shafts struck for an
increase Of wages on Friday morning last |
The present price paid is ninety cents per ton
for mining, which the companies propose to !
increase to dollar and five cents on the first |
CT October. but the miners demand an imme-
date increase to dollar and thirty-tiYe cents |
The West.
THE Utah Southern Railroad is open for
travel to the mouth Of the Cottonwood, four
teen miles.
A GRAVEL bank at Knightstown, Ind, eaved |
in on Tuesday. killing j. A. Strong and injur- |
ing two others.
A SERIOUS fire at Washington Court House |
Ohio, Monday night, destroyed square north |
east of the Kirk House.
THE safe and lock manufactory of Mcneil &
Urban, in Cincinnati, was destroyed by fire on
Tuesday evening. Loss $50, 900.
A GAMBLER named George Hood shot and
killed another gambler, Charles Graham, at
Salina, Kansas, last Sunday night.
II San Francisco, on Monday night, Richard
Hey, alas Mickey Free" boatman, was
shot dead by Sydney Flag, alas Smith, an
other boatman.
AT Ottawa ILL.,, Wednesday evening, a fire
broke out in the drug store of E. 7. Griggs, at
which boy named John Setback, aged four
teen, was so badly burned that ne died in two
hours The explosion of mecca oil is said to
be the cause. The entire stock was destroyed.
The iewery store of Japheth & Cross, at
Adrian, was entered by burglars or the night
of the 5th, who blew open the safe and stole
over 100 gold and silver watches, a quantity of
rings and other jeweIry. Total loss over
200.
At Rockford Illinois, Tuesday afternoon, an
OLE man named Jesse Zimmerman, well known
hers as a drunkard and icentious person |
stabbed ana killed his wife, an old lady 20 |
years old. The killing was done with car
penter's scratch-awl, as many ass twelve diff
ferent stabs eing inflicted. After dispatching
her Zimmerman took large dose of lauda-
mum with the intention of killing himself but
prompt medical aid prevented the consunma-
tion of his desire.
Ta1e South.
FoUR suicides occurred in st. Louis between
Saturday and Monday.
II IS now said that the loss by the Puerto
Plata fire will reach two million dollars.
Two deaths from yellow fever have occurred
in Charleston during the past forty-eight
hours.
A CONFLICT of authority has arisen between
General Crook and the Superintendent of In
dian affairs in New Mexico.
THERE are ten persons now confined in the
louisville jail charged with murder, two for
highway robbery, one for rape, and one for
infanticide.
ONE day last week large private party Of
citizens made a steamboat excursion down the
bay from Wilmington. The next day the
whole party suffered from serious illness, the
symptoms being those of poisoning, and in
several families one or more members are now
very sick.
Foreign.
The report that the Duke dAumale has
been appointed Governor of Algeria, is denied.
EARL DERBY delivered a brilliant speech on
the land question, at Liverpool, on Wednes-
day.
The bark Courier has been lost in a typhoon
in the China Sea. Her crew, composed en-
tirelv Of Cinnamon, pellshed.
FoUR plate-layers were instantly killed by
railway accident near Scornton, England, on
the Preston and Carlisle Railway.
The steamship Rhein outward bound has
been towed back to New York in a disabled
condition, having broken her shaft.
THERE was an accident on the Western
Railroad near Reading, England, Wednesday,
in which sixteen persons were injured.