Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-08-16
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Ter to France is dead.
AMERICANS visItin5 Europe must bring pass
ports especially naturalized citizens as the
latter cannot get them in Paris without show
ing the proper papers.
TRAINS for the transportation of passengers
and freight VIII commence to run through the !
Mount Cenis tunnel on the 18th of ofSeptember. |
when there viii be formal Inauguration of |
the road.
IN Washington, on Saturday night, Andrew
Curtin, white man, while proceeding home. |
was assaulted by three colored men. one of
which cut his throat with a razor. infiicting |
fatal wound.
CHARLES W. COPELAND testified before the |
Westfeld Investigating commission, TO TIC ef- |
feet that the explosion was caused by a weak |
boiler. In his opinion neither the engineer
nor inspector we're to blame He said that the |
explosion originated in the cracks the inspect
or could not get at. The crack on the lower |
side of the boiler, and that on the other side, |
we're equally disguised from his observation f,
during his inspection.
Mas S. T. LYON, Of Wyandotte, threw her
self into Detroit river, with her infant child
few months old, and before assistance could
reach them both drowned. She was a young
birth of the child frequently exhibiting wild |
symptoms OF insanity. Tuesday she deliber |
ately drew the child to the river in a carriage, |
undressed it with the exception Of a shirt, |
leaving the clothes in the carriage, and then |
plunged In.
The East.
Gov. HOFFMAN viii deliver the opening ad-
dress of the International Industrial Exhibi-
ton, in Buffalo, September 18th.
TIE first entire negro jury ever held in Erie |
county, n. Z, tried two notorious negro pros
titutes, and cleared them.
MISS F1TELINE TAYLOR, young lady residing |
at KelIey's station, in Western Pennsylvania. |
has come back to earth again, after remaining
II days in a trance.
CHARLES DAVENPORT has returned to Bath, |
Me, with 513,0 600 IN railroad and other bonds |
being the portion allotted the Orphans Home
of that city under the will of the late Horatio |
Ward, of England
The saw and pattern shop of A. N. Wilcox
of PeekskiL, N Y. was destroyed by fire on
Thursday. Loss 800, 900.
TIE first lot of new state rye brought nine
ty cents at the New York Produce Exchange
on Thursday.
Mrs, BURNSIDE, daughter of Senator Came
d.
n5.
ANDREW and Crawford Barnes brothers, of
Morton, were drowned off Bullocks Point, R.
T., Saturday afternoon, by the capsizing of
their boat. Their families were in company on
the shore, in full view of the accident.
NIR. DEwAIL., Cape May visitor, was rob
bed in Congress Hall, at that place. ON Satur-
day, Of watch, diamonds etc. valued at
"a, 600.
II has been rumOred for some days that
prominent druggist On Broadway, N. Y, has
become so embarrassed financially, that he
viii soon be compelled to suspend, unless he
can compromise with his creditors, who are
represented as very numerous. Extravaganza |
IN living Is given as the cause Of his trouble. |
His liabilities are said to he several millions. |
CAPr.JAAEEs W. BRIsrED Superintendent o |
the ferry line to which the Westfeld belongs, |
on Thursday, appeared before the Govern |
ment Inspectors, investigating the cause of
the recent disaster, and testified to the fidelity |
abllty. and temperate habits of Robinson, the |
colored engineer.
THE funeral of Phoebe Carey occurred at |
Rev. DIR. Bellows church, Friday afternoon. |
the services being conducted by Rev. A G.
L0wrie of Erie Pa and Bernard Peters or t
Williamsburg. Horace Greeley, Oliver John
son and o. J. Victor were among the pail /
bearers, and the remains were inferred at |
Greenwood.
THE steamer Providence, on her way to New
York from Newport, Thursday, during a dense !
fog, ran into three schooners IN succession |
In two instances the damages were not great. |
In The third, the schooner ". A. Cobb, of |
BuG2ksport, as well as the Providence were SER
ously injured.
The West.
OToE COUNTY, Kansas, suffered loss of
property Of the value of $15O,O0O during re-
cent thunder storm. Nearly al the bridges. |
fences, and crops along water courses were
swept away.
SISTER Of Thomas Mcclure, Of the San |
francisco opera house. committed suicide in |
New York on Thursday night last, in conse-
quence of being discarded by her lover.
Rev. W. T. SAUNDERS, a prominent and |
popular minister of the Methodist Church, |
died at Madison, Ind, on Saturday, of brain
fever
The trial of John A. Hunter, of Akron, |
Ohio, for the murder of Mrs Garget. of |
Richfield, in June, has resulted in his convic- |
ton. He was sentenced to be hanged Novem-
Der 21st.
the Postofice at Pittsfeld, Pike county. Ill. !
and carried off $500 worth of postage stamps.
A MAN named Wright, employe of the
Quincy Herald office, had a child born to him
last Saturday with full set of upper teeth.
LAD fell into the river at Detroit, from the
steamer Hope, and was drowned.
MRS. AsroH died at New Albany, Ind, We'd
nesday afternoon, IN the eighty-fourth year
of her age. She was one Of the pioneers of
that place, having lived there since 1860. She
was the first white woman married in what is
known as : Ctark's Grant and probably
bore the first white child born in that sec
ton
DAVID VICToR, charged with the murder of
Isaac Lindsay, in Stoddard county, Missouri. |
twoyears ago. was arrested IN UIlin, H., We'd |
nesday, by Sheriff Irving. and taken to Mis- |
souri, for trial
G. W. STEVENS has been arrested at Spring |
tield, H., on a requisition from the Governor |
of Iowa, for swindling farmers by obtaining |
notes under false pretences-
A RAILWAY construction train was precipi- |
tated into the Navasato River. Texas. on Sat
urday. Five persons were instantly killed two |
fatally injured, and twelve more or less iu-
iured.
Tne south.
a NEGRO riot occurred at Goldsboro, n C. |
on Saturday, in which three or four whites
were wounded and one policeman and negro
killed
A son Of respectable, family living near
Fort Gibson, Ark, named Hudson, was found
murdered near that place few days ago, his
throat cut from ear to ear.
FLOOD at Little Rock, Sunday, caused
damages to the extent of 5000.
THE Cheyenne, Arrapahoe and Kiowa In
dians are represented to be quiet.
The railroad war at Chattanooga continues |
THE Ku-Klux triaIin Memphis, in which four |
men, named SmaIley, Chapman Bowden and |
Reed were anaigned for the murder of man |
named Garret. who was taken from iail AT |