Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-10-11
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corresponding week last year.
The new oil we'll in Terre Haute is now pro-
duclng something over seventy-five barrels of
the best quality of oil per day.
REPORT is being circulated among the col
ofed people of Arkansas that Horace Greeley
belongs to the Ku-Klux clanl
LIPS brewery, in the northern part of Phil
dephia, fell on Tuesday killing Joseph Hahn
and seriously injuring four men.
Z LAD named Charles Belou was fatally in
Jured On Tuesday, by coming in contact with
circular saw in Chicago chair factory.
\ PARDEE, of Hazeiton. Pa, has given
5Z0o, j99 Tor the erection of new scientific
department IN connection with Lafayette Col
lege. >0i
The bodies Of the Confederate soldier sre-
Gently exhumed from the field of GETTYSBURG,
were brought to Savannah Georgia, on Fri
day last
On Thursday night last. the safe of the
Merchants Bank, at Lima, New York, was
broken open, and robbed of SO, 900 in money
and bonds.
The Now Orleans Bee publishes a letter
from Prof ASassiz, denying that he predicted
tidal wave would occur along the Gulf coast
in October.
PRIVATE dispatches from Vicksbure and
Jackson, Miss, state teat there we're twelve
new cases of yellow fever in each of those
places on Saturday
MAYOR HALL states positively that he cannot
recognize Deputy Comptroller Green. Mr..
Hall also announces his determination not TO
resign the Office of Mayor
L. Il. KERR, an able lawyer of Laramie Citv
was found dead in his room last evening. a
supposed suicide. He has once before at
tempted to poison himself
lHE recent Colorad election resulted as
near as can be ascertained, in two thirds
Republican majority in the legislature. Both
houses of the astlegislature were Democratic
CABLE dispatch confirms the previous re-
port OF the destruction of the steamer Lafav-
cite. She was burned while living in her
dock. Both the ship and cargo are a total
oss.
IHE people of Monticello, Arkansas are
greatly excited over report of the finding of
a 8old mine four miles west of that town. A
similar report comes from Dallas, Polk county.
Both mines give promise of a fine yield.
PAYMAsTER HODGE was arraigned before =
court-martial at Fort Henry, on Tuesday. and
pleaded guilty to all the charges preferred
against him. His sentence will not be known
until promulgated by the War Department.
AT meeting of workingmen in New York a |
general strike in most of the trades throuqb |
out ehe united States and Canada early next
spring was decided on, and measures were
adopted for permanent organization to sns-
tam and render it successful
CAPT. GEO. S. LEACH has voluntarily sur- |
rendered nImaaf +o
hls ship, the Enterpe, of the coast of Brazil |
last summer. The owner of the ship asserts
Leachs innocence to the New York authorities
Col. THOMAS G. SIMMONS. who WAS annointad |
Postmaster of Atlanta by President johnson.
and against whom the Post Office Department
mas an alleged defacation of 573 600. has been
honorabIy acquitted by the jury in the United
States Court
REV Mr.. MLBURN, Of Jacksonville I'll |
well-known as the ''Blind Preacher, has form
ally withdrawn from the Episcopal church. and |
on Saturday united with the Methodist denom-
nation He was admitted to the ministry of |
the Methodist church.
IT Is understood that the Government is
ABOUT 60 take action to compel the Haytian
Government to pay the one hundred thousand
dollars due 10 the heirs of the late Sidney
Oaksmith, of Patchegon, on account Of the
rebel ram Atlanta.
PEACE jubilee was held in Boston. on
Tuesday evening" under the auspices of the
American Peace Society, in honor of the raft
fcation of the Washington treaty and also in
commemoratlOn of the declaration of naaca
between Franco and Prussia
A NATIONAL Convention of colored peopIe 10
IN session at st. Louis. A resolution has been
adopted recommending. that the Fourth of
July be set apart to COL nemorate the several
events winch have eliminated in the present !
amehofated condition of the negro race in this
country. --
IHE woman suffragists have got lift from
Judge Underwood, United States District
Judge 9r Virginia. The Judge writes in a let.
ter that he Is confident that the XIV and XIV
amendments together with tn enforcement
ACT Of NAY last. have secured to all female
clazen6 equal right to vote with males.
IHF Coulter-Blglin crew has issued chal
ien8e to row a five or six mile race for from
one to five thousand dollars side. The cbaI-
len6e Is especially intended for the Ward
brothers, and it is believed they will accept
TELEGRAM from Milford Pa, announces
the sentence of the two boys named William
oaTfoI and John Harrington, aged IA and Is
years, for obstructing the Erie road. Thew
''tC - pay SlU0 each, the cost of the court
70 oonIlieu IN Ghe penltentiary at Philadel-
pma Tor two and half years.
len more workmen in the TJnitad S+o+os
Watch Company, at Marion n. j.. have been
arrested for stealing portions of watcbes
Whlle IN process of manufacture Twentv-ona
"erhlnen IN all have been arrested, and. from
coIIeS5lons by some, it Is estimated their
thefts exceed in value hundred Thousand dol
lars. '''-io' o'oi-
AMONG the most remarkable westward mas
saSes across the Atlantic are to be recorded
those of the Baltic, the City of Brooklyn. and
the wyoming, all Of which arrived in New
York on Monday, ahead of their usual time
Inc Baltic made the passage In eight days
and nlaeteen hours, the City OF Boston. in |
elSht days ana tWenty-three hours. and the
Wyoming 10 nine days.
= LITTER lfom Benton Harbor. Mich, re-
ports that the body of young German girl
named Worure, had been found in the canal
near that place. She had fallen into Ioosa
I!oolt0, ana II Is supposed that she was en-
tlceu upon some vessel outraged remarkably
uhtt she tainted, and then thrown overheard
on the supposltlon that she was dead. Medic
al examination OF the tody iustiies this hyno- |
thesis. '-I-' ~ po-
IHE late A. Champion, of Rochester. NY
bequeathed One-half of all his real and nor
sonal property to the American Bible Society
now being under the control or direction Of
the Baptist denomination. The remainder Of
hls property, with the exception of $4,000. he
bequeathes to the Presbyterian Society of
Foreign Missions under control of the Cen
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church Of
the United States. The $4,000 executed he
pequeathes to Mrs. Susan Edwards. The tes-
arnent will be, contested
Foreign.
FIGARO states that the Duke of Anhalt will
soon abdlcate in favor of the Emperor VIII
liam
IHE russian squadron escorting the Grand
Duke Alexis, has sailed from Falmouth for
New York
Ex-QUEEN ISABELLA has summoned 3 nuno-
ger OF Spanish grandees to a conference. the
purpose of which Is +o affe.+ = ,... -. =.