Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11
Summary of Late News.

HE Apaches are active, committing
many murders, and running off large
herds of cattle in the vicinity of Tue
son, Arizona.
MICHAEL DUIGNAN, a laborer, during
a quarrel with his aged mother at Eliza
bethport, n. j., shot her dead Thurs
day. He has escaped.
THE Assistant State Cattle Commits
sioner of New York, Thursday reports
1000 head of diseased cattle in Ouch
ess county. He states that the milk
business of the county is seriously
endangered.
THE Fish Creek Stage Station, sew
enty-five miles south of Helena, Mon
tana, was burned Thursday night.
Nine horses, including the race horse
Missouri, thirty tons of hay, and four
setts OF harness were burned.
VIM LENTz struck man named VAL
entine in Purdy township, seven miles
from Evansville, Ind, Wednesday, with
an axe, cutting his left hand in two
places, from which he bled to death on
Thursday. Lentz has thus far escaped.
JOHN BELL CRoCKETr, grandson of
| David Crockett, was found murdered
on his trading boat, at Brady's Land
ing, five miles above Memphis, on the
/ Arkansas shore, Wednesday,. His lead
was horribly crushed with an iron bar
lying near. The boat had been plum
dered.
A NEW steamer for the Upper Fox is
to be built at Oshkosh this winter to
fill the place of the Berlin City, burnt
a few weeks ago. The new boat will be
about the size of the Berlin City, and
will be designed especially for fast
travelling
A BLAST of sixty thousand pounds of
powder was successfully exploded in
the Blue Point Gravel Gold Mine, on
Thursday afternoon Gold-bearing
earth, 200 feet square and rs feet deep,
was lifted twenty feet and completely
shattered. 1t was the greatest mining
blast ever fired in California.
VIM. WOODS, worthy and industri-
Gus negro, living near Dewitt, Ark,
was called to his door last Thursday
night, while dance was going on at
his house. On opening the door he was
fired upon by some assassin and IN
stantly killed There is no clue to the
murderer.
A FREIGHT train from Lelly, Ochoco
and De Land, en- route to Camp Good
win, about thirty miles east of Tucson,
was attacked by large party of Indi-
ans. After a shap fight, in which Mar
tin Rivers was killed and two others
wounded, the Indians got away with
the oxen. The wounded men were
brought to Tucson.
A WASHINGTON special dispatch of the
29th says: The funeral of Mrs. Corco-
ran occurred this afternoon, and was
attended by large assemblage OF her
former friends. At the same hour ap-
pointed for the funeral, o'clock, the
wife of Secretary Belknap breathed her
last, and another brilliant ornament of
Washington society passed away. Mrs.
Belknap was a Kentucky lady, with
whom the Secretary became acquainted
during the war
DR.. DAVIDSON, a planter, who had
been gambling at Bremond and Kosse,
says the Calvert (Texas) Tribune, be-
came drunk, and was very boisterous
and pugnacious. In his riotous career
he became involved in a difficulty with
gambler by the name of Reese, whom
he shot and mortally wounded. The
deputy sheriff of Limestone county,
Mr. Hall, attempted to arrest Davidson,
who resisted and shot at him, when he
was shot and killed by the sheriff in
self-defense.
Mr.. FoRTEsoUE has been appointed
President of the British Board of
Trade, and Marquis Hargraves Secre-
tary for Ireland.
A PROCLAMATION has been issued by
the Prussian Government placing un-
der blockade ali ports of France now
occupied or hereafter captured by the
German forces.
THE Conference of the Powers on the
Eastern question has been Indefinitely
postponed, as France has refused to
take part, and the absence of one of
the signators of the treaty of Paris
would render the meeting useless.
The Prussians have lost heavily in
battle and from sickness. In the north
and northeast of France the villages
are encumbered with German wounded.
A great number of German soldiers are
suffering from opthalmia. There are
1000 sick and wounded German sol
diers at Chalons-sur- Marne.
KING WILLIAM telegraphed to the
| Queen, on the 29th, that the lombard
ment of Fort Avron si1enced the enc
Noisy was shelled, and the French ar.
tillery at Bondy dislodged. The Prus
sian loss was three men. The garrison
of Fort Avron fed to Paris.
The Investigation into the causes of
the loss of the Captain resulted in an
order from the Admiralty for the fol-
| lowing alterations in the British iron
clad navy: A reduction in the length
and weight in the masts, and the use
| of concrete for ballast introduced into
the cellular bottom.
ADvIoEs from Santiago de Cuba,
dated the 23d, state that on the 18th
800 insurgents, including forty ne
crosses, armed with cutlasses, sacked
and burned Socapa, fishing village
distant five miles from that city, oppo-
site the Moro fortress at the mouth of
the harbor. They forced small de-
tachment of defenders to retreat, and
killed nine persons, including two
women. They decamped after taking
erything from the village.
BRITISH BREAKFAST TABLES
Pail Mall Gazette complains that Brit
ish breakfast tables are threatened with
serious disaster, since the French
Government had prohibited the expor-
tation of salt butter and eggs from
France. The Gazette says that while
the agricultural population is diminish
ing, the manufacturing and commercial
districts are increasing in numbers, SO
that the English people will year by
! ,ronr haua to ralu rnn1n and more InOn