Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-05-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Miscellaneous.

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damages.
/ The government has ordered the re-
moval of the buildings known as Rot
ten Bow, on Governors Island, where
the yellow fever has originated for sew
eral seasons past.
| The Senate Investigating committee
are said to have got upon the track of
the person who furnished the copy of
the High Commission treaty for pre-
mature publication.
WHIrELAw REID managing editor of
the New York Tribune, has been sum-
moned to Washington to give evidence
in regard to the premature publication
of the Treaty of Washington.
The Americus Club is,on its return
trip from San Francisco to New York.
Among the souvenirs carried away were
six bales of Mission blankets of the
costliest description, embroidered with
initials, for presents to their friends at
the East
The C1afin- Woodruff Blood case has
been dismissed.
THE French Theatre in New York, has
been disposed of at auction for the sum
of $115. 200.
THE New York canal men are incensed
at the order allowing but ninety cents
per ton for the transportation of coal.
The coal miners held meeting at
Hyde Park, Friday, and voted to resume
work at once, at the companies offer.
The citizens of Winthrop, Maine,
celebrated the Tooth anniversary of the
incorporation of that town on Satur-
day.
MIR. AND Mrs. BRICK PoMERoY have
embarked on an overland trip to Salt
Lake and the Pacific coast They
stopped in Binghampton to attend
the marriage of Mr. Pomeroy's
private secretary, Mr. Charles G. Frit-
chers, to Miss Eliza Keller. daughter
of Judge Keeler, of Union, who will
accompany them the rest of the way.
The Pekin Gil illicit distillers have
compromised with Uncle Sam for $37,-
68e.
IMMENSE bodies of ore have been dis
covered at Nebo, Utah, but they are all
OF a low grade.
The Chicago detectives, Dixon and
Rheims, have arrived in New York with
Hegenmeyer, the Gumbleton murderer.
A PRESCOTT (Arizona) dispatch says
that the Pimo Indians had struck a
camp of Apaches in the Pinal Noun
tains, and killed twenty-eight Apaches.
The Golden Gate Black-Spur Ledge,
owned by Messrs. Mills, Dewar, and
others, in Webster canon, that is assaying
40 per cent. of silver under an ordinary
test.
The White Stockings OF Chicago start
upon an eastern tour Saturday The
Forest City Club of Rockford, beat the
Ke Kiongas of Fort Wayne, in game
of ten innings score, II to 13. The
Olympics defeated the Howards-17
to 5.
The SOUTH
Sixty journalists, principally editors
of newspapers of New York State and
northern Pennsylvania, are making a
trip through Maryland, Virginia, West
| Virginia and North Carolina.
HENRY J. SMITH has obtained yer
dict against the city of Richmond for
So, 000-the value of whiskey destroyed
by order of the Common Council the
night before the evacuation.
JOHN HENNEssEY has recovered $10,-
900 from the New Orleans and Chatta-
nooga Railroad, for damages sustained
by falling through an opening in the
company's wharf.
Grimes and Casualties.
A GIRL named Emma Hendriok was
burned to death in Cleveland. Friday
evening, by an oil explosion.
SEVERAL persons were injured by an
explosion Of gas at a new oil well in
Titusville, Pa, on Tuesday.
A THREE daughter of Joseph
Loats, of the town of Leyden, Cook
county, was drowned in a cistern on
Friday.
A SERIOUS explosion occurred in the
receiving house of the oil refinery of
Homer Chapman & Co., at Cleveland,
on Saturday.
JACOB START, farmer residing near
Louisville, fell from the second-story
window of his residence Saturday
morning, and was killed.
WILLIAM HASKELL attempted the
ruin of young lady at Allegan, Mich,
the other day, and failing jumped into
the river, but was rescued.
Vo1NEY W. HIGHT, counterfeiter of
United States bonds and tobacco
stamps, arrested in San Francisco, will
be taken East in a few days.
L. N. SMITH, deputy postmaster at
Stuart, Iowa, was arrested on Thursday
for robbing the mail, and bound over
in $4,000 for appearance at the next
term of court
VIM. H. CLARK, news editor OF the
Baltimore Sun for thirty-three years,
died on Monday, aged So years.
BISHOP DAVIS W. CIARK, of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, died in Gin
cinnati on Tuesday evening. Bishop
James and the members of the family
| alone were present.
AN ircendiary fire on Lewis avenue,
| Brooklyn, Tuesday morning, rendered
I fifteen families houseless.
A FIRE occurred at Nashua, n. H.,
Saturday morning, destroying Chas. FL.
Holmes candy mandatory.
The workshops and engineers build
ing, and the Naval Academy, at Anapo-
lis, were partly destroyed by fire Sun
/ day morning. Estimated loss, $50,
600.
In Boston, the dwelling house at
tached to the wo-story home owned by
General Israel Hunt, and cottage
house owned by Miss NJ. G. KimbaI,
of Boston, were burned on Saturday.
Loss $50, 900.
Foreign.
AsHBURY's new yacht, LiVonla, mas
had very successful trial
THE High Commission treaty re-
ceived considerable attention IN the
English House of Lords on Monday