Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-11-29
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TIE schooner Jas, Merrett capsized off
Barnegat, Saturday night The Captain and
four men were drowned
The Swiss residents of New York celebrated
the 564th anniversary of the independence of
Switzerland on Friday evening.
d AaovERNEIENT coal barge. laden with fifteen
hundred tons of coal, sunk in New York har-
Dor during the gale of Tuesday night.
A SECTION man named Robinson, on the
Union Pacific Railroad, has fallen heir to $50
600 BY the death of a relative in England.
HE hardware works of Penfeld & Son. at
middleton, Conn.,, were burned on Thursday
night. Loss S45, 600; insured for 530,000
The HaIrisburgh Telegraph says it is ru-
mored than an organized band of incendiaries
boast that they will lay that city in ashes dur
ing the winter.
MICHAEL CUsICK, who has figured as a wit
ness during the inquest on the murder of Kate
Lehan, in Boston, has been committed to jail
as the murderer.
A CAR driver named Fish, shot himself. and
then jumped from the roof of house in HIck
street. Brooklyn, Wednesday morning. He
died in few minutes.
A YOUNG man named Charles Stiles com
mitted suicide on Friday night at the Grand
Hotel, corner of Canal and Madison streets,
Chicago, by taking poison.
IT Is proposed to bridge the Mississippi at
Carondelet or South st. Louis, the structure
to be completed within two years, at cost
not exceeding two million dollars.
In the trot between Goldsmith Maid and
Lucy, at Philadelphia, Monday afternoon, the
Maid won in three straight heats. Time,
2:2515, 2:19 2:23. TIE track was heavy.
A CASE is before the United State Circuit
Court of John I. Hamilton against the Amer
ican Telegraph Company, the former claiming
800, 900 for alleged services as an inventor.
THE Pinas Indians in Arizona made raid
on the Apaches, killed thirty-fve, took eight
children prisoners, and recovered the plunder
taken the day previous from the white settle
nent.
The brig E. C. Sweet, Captain Pendleton, of
Bath, from Philadelphia for Portland, was
lost seven miles off Sandy Hook, Friday night.
The Captains wife and three of the crew were
drowned
LAST Saturday, two negroes while going
home fIom Grenada, Miss, were shot by Jack
Trebble worthless fellow One was killed
and the other mortally wounded. Treble has
been arrested.
TRAIN on the New Jersey railway ran into
the Hudson City horse car, containing 18 or
20 persons, at Newark avenue crossing, Tues
day evening. Two of them were fatally and
six seriously injured.
AT BLACKSTONE, r. l., Wednesday after
noon, Mrs. Fr9ncis WaIfield took her young
child to shed and chopped its head to pieces
with an axe. The mother, who is probably
insane, made two attempts to drown herself
last week
The total amount Of money received at the
Treasury Department since November so, 1868,
and credited to what is known as the 90 con-
science fund.-" is 1925, 6,147. Of this amount
S.. 739 was received during the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1871
The department of the Platte, which, by a
recent order was consolidated with that of the
Missouri, is to be reestablished. It is prob
able, however that General Augur will be
changed to the command of the department of
Texas, as first ordered.
BOLD attempt was made at Tupollo Miss,
feE nights since, to rob the express car on
the Memphis and Mobile Railroad, which was
frustrated by the messenger presenting a pis-
tOl at the first man that entered the car, fore
ing him to jump from the train while in motion.
THE assayers have finally found out how to
treat the tin ore from Ogden. They have no
trouble now in making assays; and the results
to them are more surprising than to any one
else. About thirty per cent. metal of which
the greater part was fine tin, has been shown
By one assayer.
SEVEN persons have been killed during the
past twelve days by the cars entering the new
union depot on Forty-second street, New
York. The Board of Inspectors demand that |
the company be compelled to sink the tracks |
ten or twelve feet below the streets or place |
gates at all the street crossings.
IT is officially stated that Secretary Bout
well, in his next report, will strongly recon-
mend the necessary legislation for the payment |
to Europe of tie interest Of so much of the |
loan as is or may hereafter be placed abroad /
That it is claimed and believed, will greatly |
extend inc European market for United States |
securities.
The N. E. gale of Tuesday night was very
severe throughout the east. At Long Branch !
the roof and part of the piazza of the United |
States Hotel was carried away. The bluff was
also washed away, and much damage done to |
the beach. In Boston, some basement cellars |
near the Wharyes were flooded. The gale was
very violent in New Hampshire.
A TERRIBLE scene with a gang of burglars
occurred in the house of Albert Daggett, at /
Williamsburg Sunday morning. Mr.. Dag |
gett's mother was held in bed by a man hold
ing large knife, but raised an alarm which |
brought assistance from a son. who fred the |
contents of a revolver at the robber. The fire
was returned and the thieves escaped with
$500 IL booty.
ITh hueh hoa loEo,. I
Hall Democratic Reform Organization, under
whose auspices the late campaign was princi-
palIy conducted, the leading institution of the
Democracy in New York. In the new organi-
zation all of the leading political elements of
the Democracy will be embraced. Those who
have been prominent in connection with Tam
many, however. will be excluded from mem
bership.
THE Grand Jury now in session at Chicago,
had the matter of the death of Colonel Cros-
venor under investigation, and, after careful
and thorough examination of all the facts
bearing upon the case, to-day came to the
unanimous conclusion that there was no good
ground for an indictment, either against Young
Treat who did the shooting, or the military or
civil officers under whose orders the city was
being guarded and patrolled, at the time of
the unfortunate homicide.
IT is said that number of well-known citi-
zens of Salt Lake, polygamists, are making
arrangements to send away their plural wives
should the decision in the forthcoming trial
for lascivious cohabitation go against the de-
PENDANTS. Nobody believes that the weIl-to-
10 Mormons think of abandoning their pres
ent homes and their property because of the
enforcement of the law against polygamy.
The Mormons claim earnestly to believe that
their plI,ral-wife doctrine is of God but many
OF them begin to express grave doubts as to
the expediency of continuing its practice in
violation of law.
THE loss of the Gloucester fishing fleet
during the present season is greater than
during any previous year, and the number of
lives which have been sacrificed exceed that