Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-10-18
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The official canvass in Nebraska shows GAL
majority against the new constitution.
THE elevated railway in New York city was
sold at mortgage sale on Thursday for $780,
000
A Mr.. MILLER was robbed of $4,000 in
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, on Friday evening
last
POLITICAL meeting in Mahoning City, Pa,
was broken up by mob on Wednesday eve
ming.
N Lowell, Mass, from Sept. 10 to Sept. 90
inclusive, there have been reported 11O cases
of smallpox.
THE prairies are on fire from Fort Totten to
the Missouri, a distance of one hundred and
thirty-fYe miles.
TIE ship-wrights of the Clyde, who have
joined the Nine-Hour League, have been lock-
ed out by their employers
They are after eInigrant robbers in New
40 k. Another has been sentenced to Eve
years imprisonment at hard.
BRITISH revenue returns for the wear ending
september Both, show decrease, as compared
with last year, of over half million pounds
sterling
4 DISPATCH from New York states that the
case of the fraudulent importation of spices
has been settled by the payment to the gov
ernment of $4,000.
AT the Moline, (Ill,) water- Awer canal, on
Thursday, the unexpected explosion of blast
killed man named Johnson and tore off one
Of the laborer's hands.
The Board of Commissioners of Foreign
Missions have voted unanimously to include in
their work the sending of missionaries to nom
inaily Christian lands.
A GANG of horse thieves made a raid into
Laramie City, Wednesday evening, broke open
the jail and liberated three of their compani-
ons, and then made good their escape.
HE Aleutian Islanders have killed so 900 fur
seals this seoson, but were unable to sell over
half the skins and threw the remainder worth
q half million dollars, properly cured, into the
sea.
DISTANCE of twenty-five miles along the
wabash Railroad, between New Haven and De-
fance, O., has been de vastated by confiaera-
tlon Farmers to save their barns and h ouses,
plowed around them.
The brick steam Touring mill at Webster
City, Iowa, owned by Moore & Selders, was to-
tally destroyed by fire last Friday night The
building and machiney were valued at IS, 900 :;
insured for 81, ,00O
The Secretary of the Treasury has instruct
ed the assistant treasurer at New York to buy
=, 900, 600 of bonds each Wednesday, and sell
$2,OOO 600 of gold each Thursday during the
month of October
GEORGE W. DARRow, overseer on Tiff s
farm, near Buffalo, while riding home in a
buggy, was murdered by some unknown per-
son, who fired several shots from revolver.
apparently through the back of the curtain of
the vehicle.
-FOUR boys, whose parents reside on Cottage
Place, Chicago, went boat-riding on the lake
Saturday afternoon, and are supposed to have
been drowned, as the boat was found floating
bottom upwards several hours after their de-
parture.
A CHICAGO lumber firm recently received an
order for $4,000 feet of lumber from MIR.
Maitland, the extensive Illinois farmer. The
lumber is to be used by Mr.. Maitland in build
ing corn crib, and will make one about two
miles long
THIEF entered the banking house of Err
rickson, Jennings & Mumford, in Rochester,
n. T., on Wednesday, and snatched a package
containing Sc, 400 in Canada money, from J.
1. Briggs as he was about to deposit it. The
thief escaped.
AN explosion of sulphur occurred in the
Otto colliery, near Pottsville, Pa, Monday
afternoon. Patrick McMichael, George Dun
lap, Jacob Yost, and Thomas Hays, were kill
ed, and George Baince seriously injured. One
miner is missing.
Il
ing, KY, three miles below Amsterdam, J. B.
Moore, late of Madison, Ind, and Levi Apple
gate, got into a desperate fight while in skiff,
capsized the boat and were drowned. The
steamer Cornelia brought up Moores remains
this afternoon.
In New York, on Wednesday, Isaac Davis
was arraigned for a misdemeanor and pleaded
not guilty. He was admitted to bail in s38.-
600. Davis is said to have offered medical as
sistance to females through the medium of
business cards thrust under the doors of nu-
merou3 houses in the city.
el'HE Japanese Charge dAfai,,s in Washing
ton has presented our Government, on behalf
OF The japanese Chamber of Commerce, about
ono hundred different samples of paper manu-
factured IN Japan, mostly of rice fibre. The
specimens viii be arranged n portfolios and
placed In the model room of the Patent Once
for inspection.
a PORTION of the bridge being constructed
over the Verdigris river, near Fort Gibson. In.
dian Territory, on the Missouri. Kansas an6
Texas Railroad, while being raised, on Sunday
the false work settled, and the bridge fell. car
fying with 1t large number of men, two Of
whom were drowned one killed, and sixtee1
seriously injured. The bridge was built BY
Boomer 4 Co., of Chicago.
DR.. CHRoNIK, a well known Jewish Rabbi il
Chicago, is engaged in forming new congre-
cation of Israeltes, which will. in its WORSHIP
adopt the new Berlin Prayer Book, and will OBJ
serve the first day of the week as their Sab
bath, instead of Saturday. number of the
leading lsraelltes are engaged in the move
mont.
IHE international money-order system be
tween the United States and Great Britain has
gone into operation. Remittances can alsC
be made by International money-orders vi;
switzerland, to all the principal cities ant
towns OF austria, austria, Hungary, Spain, Russia
Egypt, the East Indies and China
AsHBURY, owner of the yatch Livonia, saw
his business is to carry to Old England tn
Queens cup, which, he says, he has determin
el to do. He objects to sailing on the Yach
CluD course, as he wishes to test the merits O
the boats, not that of pilots and sailing mas
ters. He will go to Newport if agreeable, an
sail the Black Island course and back Fl
would prefer to have keel boats to sail agains
b I'M.
Ar Wheeling, Virginia, on Sunday, one q
the cables of the old suspension bridge lead
ing from the foot of Sixth street to the Cres
cent iron mill across Wheeling creek. brok
with nine persons on it, five of whom fell t
the creek bottom. distance of about thirt
feet. Two men, named Thomas Callahan an
James Kline, were killed outright, and Jane
Coyle has since died. Albert Elliott, Josep
Hague, and George Akers were badly hurt
One or more of these will probably die. Th
other three fortunately caught to the other ca
bic and got off,
Abroad.
The Victoria oil works, in Philadelphia wer
burned on Thursday. Loss 1000.
HE SCISSOR grinders, cutters and carpenter
OF Sheffield, and the spInners of Bolton an
Dundee have struck work
The number of emigrants which sailed fror
the port of Liverpool during the last thre