Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-04-05
TelegTaphic Notes.
AT HOME.

MosT of the five hundred Chinese
laborers from the Alabama railroads
will go on to the Louisiana plantations
| THOMAS RINasDoRF, agent of the
Etna Sewing Machine Company. of
Indianapolis, was shot and killed in the
drug store of Robert Beniowsky. at
Shelbyvllle, Indiana, on the 25th. Ben.
jowsky is charged with having com
mitted the murder.
The Meridian Miss Mercury rsays
the investigation into the recent riot at
that place "has brought to light a
chain of circumstantial evidence point.
ing so strongly to VIM. Sturgiss, late
Mayor of Meridian, as the incendiary OF
the night of the 4th, as to crown every
other theory of the confagration. He
stands before the world as an incen-
diary and the fermentor of the riot in
which Judge was shot on the JUSTICES
seat by negro. He is, besides, under
Indictment for felony, which would
send him to the penitentiary-"
TWENTY square miles of wood land
on the South Shore of Long Island,
were burned over on the 25th, and
thousands of dollars worth of other
property destroyed, the total loss being
not less than hundred thousand dol
lars. The fire begun near Amerik, and
burned westward to Oakland, passing
close to several small villages, which
were only saved by the great exertions
of the inhabitants. No lives were lost
Or dwellings burned during the entire
progress of the fire.
HE scenes at the close of the recent
session of the Arkansas. Legislature, are
SAID to have been of disgraceful ma
ture. Whisky flowed freely, cigars were
circulated, members became intoxicat-
ed, and several drunken brawls occur
red-wlthout serious results however.
A DISPATCH from Memphis says that
several large crevices have occurred in
the Mississippi River levee in the up
per parishes of Louisiana, which will
lnfilct great damage upon some of the
most productive portions of the low
lands of that state.
f. K. ACKERMAN committed suicide
at st. Louis by taking arsenic.
WALTER WATTS, recently from the
State of New York, was crushed to
death at Kansas City, on Thursday
last, while coupling cars
CHRIsMAN & DEBALDo's extensive hy-
cry stables in Wheeling, West Virginia,
were destroyed BY fire on the 26th.
Loss $25, 900.
AN old man named Brindle and wife.
each seventy years of age, have been
arrested and lodged in Jail in West
moreland county, Pa, charged with the
murder of German peddler at New
Stanton, four years ago. When ar
rested, Brindle was attempting to sell
goods known to have been in the DOS
session of the peddler.
ABROAD
MENosr1 GAR1BALDI has been ap-
pointed Commander-in-C Chief of the in
surgent National Guards
SIGNS of disaffection are becoming
manifest among the adherents of the
revolutionary Central Committee in
Paris. Five hundred of the National
Guards have been disarmed.
: THE Montmartrists aud Garibaldians,
with two guns, invaded the Place de le
Bourse, on the Oath, and, making a
charge upon the guns in the hands of
the Loyal Nationals, demanded their
surrender. They met with both refu-
sal and repulse.
REvoLUTIoNARY uprisings are feared
in Marseilles, Lyons and Bordeaux.
The Montmartrists have increased
their vigilance. They stop all railway
trains bound to Versailles and seize all
found in the cars.
FROM Uruguay it is reported that
Gen. Lopez Jordan has again been de-
feated, and his army routed.