Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-04-12
NFWS OF THE WEEK.
Miscellaneous.

IHE National Land cOmpany's Offic
at Denver, Col, sold during Marcl
%, 397 acres 4or $l26, 203.
The nail manufacturers of the United
States have determined to advance tn
price 25 cents per key, in addition t.
that ordered month ago.
The registration of votes in the Dis
trict of Columbia, in preparation TO
the election of delegate, is complet
ed. It shows whites, IL, LA; colored
1900.
The State of New York proposes te
give $50, 900 to the inventor of the bes
plan for navigating canals by steam
caloric, electricity, or any motor othel
than animal-power.
IT is understood that definite propo
sitions we're made to the directors ot
the great coal railroads, for Chinese
labor on large scale, for working the
Pennsylvania mines.
COMMISSIONER Pleasanton decides
that persons whose gross income dur.
ing the year 1870, estimated in United
States currency, did not exceed 81, 900,
! are not required to make any income
returns.
The West.
OMAHA is to build a $3.50, 900 school
house during the coming Summer.
SAN Francisco experienced another
shock of earthquake last evening. No
damage was done.
ADvIcEs from the plains state that
the buffalo rub down the telegraph
poles faster than they can be put up.
The garrison of Fort Shaw, Mon
tana, were at last accounts engaged in
a grand buffalo hunt, and had succeed
ed in slaughtering hundreds of the
noble animals.
Cotton, ZAHN & Co.'s messenger,
while coming out of the Park Bank,
New York, on the 29th, had a package
of $4,000 snatched from his hand, and
the robber escaped.
A DARING attempt was made on the
Sd, to rob the Central Park Savings
bank. Three men entered the bank and
after locking the front door bound and
gagged the paying teller-Mr. Ellison
and then proceeded to rifle the safes.
DR.. Hadden, one of the directors,
finding the door locked broke it open,
when the burglars fled through the rear
and escaped.
D. Ct. FENNo, First Lieutenant in
the Seventeenth u. S. Infantry, and
Acting Post Commissary at Grand Riv-
er Agency, Dakota Territory, having
leave of absence of sixty days duration
for the purpose of visiting his relations
and purchasing certain commissary
supplies, visited gambling hell in
Dearborn street, Chicago, this week,
and lost So, 460, of which 81, $50 was in
cash, and the balance in a check onthe
United States Depository, payment of
which has been refused. Maj. Gen.
Hartshuff, Commandant of the Depart
ment in Gen. Sheridan's absence, has
ordered Fenno to report himself under
arrest to the commanding General at
ST. Paul, Mimi, that being the head
quarters of his Department. Fennos
wife and parents reside in Green Bay.
Casualties.
A SON of Rev. J. Ct. Schaeffer was
drowned at Whitehall, Mich, recently.
ANinebriate named Michael Callahan
died of strangulation in Chicago, on the
1st
LOUIS ScHIENNER and Max Albrecht
were suffocated in beer vat in New
ark, N. j., on the 31st ult.
ERNEST L1DEB, driver of a steam fire
engine in Omaha, was thrown from his
seat, run over and killed on the 31st.
A switchman had his head cut off by
the cars at the same place on the same
day.
Fires
A FIRE at Cleveland, Ill, on the Sd,
destroyed five buildings. Loss $14, 900
A FIRE at st. Johns, N. B., on the LIST,
destroyed several business houses. Loss
$4,000.
THE Calvin Presbyterian Church at
st. Johns, N. B., has been destroyed
by an incendiary fire. Loss $4,000.
AN incendiary fire in the town of
Salina, near Syracuse, N. Y, on the
1st, destroyed three large barns and
several other buildings, together
with fifty tons of hay, a large amount
of grain, sixty COWS and five horses be-
longing to John Reed.
Obituary.
THE Queen of Sweden is dead.
Rev. FATHER LEBEL, an eminent
Catholic clergyman of Michigan, died
at Kalamazoo on the Both ult.
EX-SENATOR JACOB M. Howard, of
Michigan, died at Detroit on the End,
age.. 66 years. He leaves five children,
two of whom were with him, one the
eldest child and daughter, is in Chicago,
and two sons are in Minnesota, whence
they have been summoned. President
Grant was on the eve of rendering Mr..
Howard an important foreign appoint
ment, the exact character of which,
however, has not transpired.
Foreign.
The insurrection in Algeria is re-
ported suppressed.
AN order has been sent to the Cap
tain General of Porto Rico to hold cleo
tions in that island in July.
A DISPATCH from Versailles says Mac
Mahon has been appointed Commander
in Chief of the French army.
Paris grows sadder in appearance
daily. One hundred and sixty thou
sand people have left the city within
the last ten days.
A soUTHERLY wind, amounting almost
to hurricane, swept over Cuba on the
31st. It was the heaviest ever expo
rienced on that island.
The Paris Commune have issued a
decree arraigning Theirs, Favre, Picard,
Dufour, Simon and Pothnam before a
tribunal of the people, and ordering
their properties to be seized. Another
decree pronouuces the separation OF
the Church and State, suppressing re,
ligious bodies, and abolishes national
property.
The attempt to establish the Com
mune in Marseilles is q failure. Col
Ducin has resigned the position o.
Commandant of the National Guards
Cremieux, President of the Provisional
Committee, has been arrested, and the
other members of the committee have
fled All Republican societies have
been disbanded, and the red flag has
vanished from the city.
CHAPPED HANDS, tace, rough skin
pimples, ringworm, salt-rheum, ant