Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-02-22
Summary of Late News.
AT HOME.

al lo1htA.
JOHN E. BENNETT has been appointed
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of Arkansas.
Rev. r. W. CoNDrr, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of Oswego,
for the past forty years, died suddenly
Sunday.
LIEUT.. GOVERNOR LESLIE was inaugu-
rated Governor of Kentucky on the 18th,
vice Governor Stevenson, resigned.
The decision in the case of Pointer
VS.. Pillow, involving $130, 600, for slaves
bought by Pillow before and during the
war, and for which want of consid-
Grafton was pleaded, has been affirmed
by the Supreme Court against him, the
court deciding that he is liable.
A FIRE at Princeton, ILL.,, Saturday
night, destroyed the Republican news
paper office, the stores of Showl &
Clark, r. Foster, Harris & Cottle, and
others. Total loss, $4,000; insured
AT the Illinois Valley Coal-mining
Company's shaft, three miles from La
Sale, on Friday last, miner named
Knowles stepped into the cage for the
purpose of descending to work. By a
mistake of the engineer, the cage was
raised instead of lowered, and Knowles,
apprehending danger with the pulley,
jumped for the landing from which he
had started, but, striking his head
against post, fell backward into the
shaft and was killed.
SIXTY thousand dollars has been sub
scribed in New York in aid of the
French sufferers.
THE East River, at New York, is again
blocked up with ice at Fulton Ferry,
and thousands are crossing the river on
foot at that point. The ferryboats are
unable to make their regular crossings,
and several tugboats and steamers are
stuck fast in the ice.
THE Assistant Postmaster at New
York died suddenly, about Ii o'clock
Sunday night, from heart disease. He
has occupied the position since 1922,
with the exception of an interval of
three years.
In the case of Elizabeth r. Coffey
against the Home Life Insurance Co.,
in New York, which suit was brought
in the Superior Court on policy of
plaintiffs husband, and which the COM
pany refuse to pay on the ground of
alleged suicide, the jury rendered a
verdict for the plaintiff for the full
amount.
A MIR. MCCLELLAND, who has been
for a short time past employed as book
keeper for the Atlantic and Pacific Tel
egraph Company in Omaha, suddenly
disappeared on Friday morning last,
under peculiar circumstances.
GENERAL SICKLEs has telegraphed the
State department that the negotiations
for mixed commission to consider the
claims for injuries to persons and prop
erty of American citizens by Spanish
authorities during the insurrectlon in
Cuba, have been concluded, and that
messenger is on his way to Washington
with the correspondence.
A STEAMER foundered in the Indian
Ocean and fifty three lives were lost.
IT is new stated that only ninety
eight lives were lost on the French
transport Lecerf, wrecked off Cape la
Hague instead of 81, $50 as at first re-
ported.
IT is said that the Germans have i'm
posed contributions of million francs
on Dieppe, and twenty-five thousand
francs on each of the adjacent villages,
all of which will be paid by the people.
The Department of the Seine is said to
have already paid twenty-five million
francs to the Germans. Contributions
have also been imposed on other cities
and tOUnS