Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-08-30
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MisCelIanenus.

LAttl0' = DAoh'J-LIdL anu t6lflDly nluIng an
other brakeman named W. J. Clendennin.
A SHOOTING affray occurred at Crab Orchard
Ky, Thursday evening. between Geo. Dol
lings and a man named Best. Dollines and
spectator named Frank Smith we're instantly
Killed, and Best seriously wounded.
VICE President CoLFAx and Senator Window
have gene to Otter Tail Lake and Red River
They join the Union Pacific Railroad Directors
party at the former place, and accompany them
to Fort Garry and Manitoba
The government is anxious for information
concerning Felix Brunot. the new Commission
er OF Indian Affairs When last heard from
Brunot was going up the Columbia River to
visit the UmaIla reservation.
GOVERNMENT DETECTIVE THAw in ferretting
out band of counterfeiters, at CfalleopoIis. O.
arrested Reuben Haig, a dry goods clerk. en-
ployed there, and found lot of counterfeit
fifty cent currency on his person. ---------
The next crop report OF the. Department of
Agriculture will not be published until Septem-
Der. Returns recently received show that the
crops are in better condition than was report
ed IN Jelys including corn and cotton. A
letter from Arkansas says that although the
average of cotton is not 80 large as last year
the crops viii be usually as large, and so of
other states.
The East.
A FOOT and mouth disease has broken on
among the cattle and hogs near Oxford Furn-
ace, Warren county, n Y
Hills planning and moulding mill, in Eas
New York, were burned on Friday. Loss
.000-insuranee $40, ,000
MONUMENT. one hundred and fifty feet
high is to be erected to Miles Standish at
Duxbury Mass.
CHARLES A. PHILLIPS, millionaire of Petro
leum Centre, was thrown from his buggy, on
Thursday and fatally injured.
J. s. JoHNsoN's paper mill and barns. at
Northeast, Pa, were burned yesterday. Loss
from 1000 to 800, ,O0O-insured for about
$4,000.
The yacht squadron at Newport, has ap
pointed committee to elect a yacht to repre-
sent the New York Club in race for the
Queens cup with Ashbury's Livonia. Three
yachts are to be chosen to sail a series of test
matches, and the best of these is to RIM
against the Englishman.
STATEN ISLAND has lost nearly all of its Sun
day pleasure seekers by the ferry disaster
There are few visitors on week days, and the
falling off on Sunday is extraordinary Central
Park has now become the great Sunday re-
sort, over $4,000 persons having visited 1t on
Sunday last
HE officers of the Staten Island Ferry Com
pany have been brought on habeas corpus be
fore the Supreme Court, and held to bail,
jacob Vanderbilt, President, in the sum of
800, 900, and Braisted, Superintendent, and
Robinson, the engineer, in $4,000 each.
JONATHAN R. WARNER, an old resident of
Poughkeepsie, who died recently. bequeathed
$4,000 to the Utica Orphan Asylum, $4,000
to the Board of Domestic Missions of the Re-
formed Church, $4,000 to the Home for the
FriendIess, and $4,000 to the Old Ladies'
Home, both of that place. The estate is val
ued at 1876, ,000
HORRIBLE accident occurred. Thursday
night, near Altoona, Pa, by which woman
named Catharine Brown, aged % years. and
her sister, Anna McGarvey, aged 6 years, were
burned SO badly that they lived but a few
hours afterward. William Brown Catharine's
husband, is also so badly burned that little
hopes are entertained of his recovery. He is
terribly burned about the abdomen, and one of
his arms burned to a crisp. Mrs Brown. when
the accident occurred, was filing lighted
lamp with oil from a can. The oil or gas
which had accumulated in the can ignited and
the can exploded.
The West.
Col. DOWNING has been elected Chief of the
Cherokee Nation by two hundred majority.
THIRTEEN buildings were destroyed by fire at
Warsaw, Ind, Sunday morning. involving
loss of $4,000.
The Glen Falls Company's paper-milI was
partially destroyed by fire Thursday morning
Loss $4,000.
LARGE beds of coal are being opened in
Ohio county, Kentucky, along the Elizabeth
town and Paducah Railroad.
A FIRE broke out in the office of the Daily
Beacon, at Akron, Thursday evening, and de
stroyed 81 900 worth of material
MINING speculation is rife in Salt Lake City. /
Upwards of 81 600, 900 have been invested in
this class of property within a few days.
THE planning mill of A. K Morris, on West
Twenty-third street Chicago, was burned
Thursday forenoon. Loss 925. .00O-insurancs
515,O0O
The planning mill of the Bloomsbury Lumber
Company, wit the adjoining buildings and
dwelling house, was burned Wednesday even
ing. Loss S40, ,000-insurance SO, 200. The
fire was caused by lightning
CALIFORNIA highwaymen attacked the Clover
dale stage, killing merchant of Utah, Ment
doclno county, fatally woundIng Lieut.. B. S
Holman and slightly wounding Sandy Wools-
worth, owner and driver of the stage.
The head chief Of the Santa Clara Indians
IN Southern Utah, died some weeks ago. Since
then the tribe has commenced depreciation on
the settlements and are threatening war ON
the whites. 1t is reported that there is a pen-
eral combination of Indians on the border of
Utah and Arizona, for an aggression in Utah
LAST Monday, farmer named Saunders.
living near Wilksburg. Ark, was working in a.
field, and his wife went to take him his dinner
leaving their daughter, aged sixteen. at the
house. Returning, an hour afterward. the
daughter was missing. Search was instituted
but no trace was discovered until the next
morning. when one of the neighbors who had
joined in the search found her living in the
brush, some sixty yards from the house. with
her throat cut from ear to ear, and her BODY
bearing unmlstakable signs of having been
outraged.
Foreign.
The number of deaths in Paris last week
was S28, including one from cholera.
A FLORENCE telegram states that the Arno
River, by the melting of SHOWS in the Appe-
mines, has overhowed the banks in MANY
places, causing great destruction to crops.
THE Canadian government schooner New
England seized the American schooner Frank
lin for violation of the fishing laws. She has
been ordered to Quebec for adjudication.
A CASE of Asiatic cholera has appeared in
London, and creates an extraordinary sensa-
ton among the people. A letter from Berlin
says the cholera is increasing in Kcenigsberg
but no cases are yet in Dartzig
POSTAL conference is sin session in Berlin
to suggest conclusion to international trea
ties between all the great powers, including
America, establishing uniform rate of post-
age on letters, regardless of distance.