Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-10
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street. New York, was caused by the ignition
of vapor of nitrous ether from gas jet.
8 TIE striking cabinet makers have come to
grief in Philadelphia. The strikers are glad
ha0ceept any terms.
hR. G. A. STURGRs Of Michigan, Principal
Examiner of Navigation and Fire Arms in the
Patent Office, died on Monday. ga f.
An attempt was made to have an $8. 600 spu-
rious check cashed at a Cincinnati banking
house on Saturday.
The Connecticut House Of Representatives
on Tuesday repealed the usury law, of two
hundred years standing, fixing the rate of in
terest at per cent. The vote was 131 to 4s.
1t passed Senate unanimously last week. . - !
NJ f. WEIoEL, who testified recently in the
lllden- Butler suit at New York, was arrested
N Baltimore on Tuesday, on a charge OF per
fury. - - :
WHILE blasting at number four furnace
Crane Iron Works, in Catasaqua, Pa, Tuesday
morning. q premature explosion mortallv in
lqred the foreman, John Hopkins. Thomas
hunt and other men we're slightly injured.
GEN. PLEAsANToN arrived from Europe in
the Russia.
MARY MEYERS was awarded $4,000 damages
IN the Supreme Court of Brooklyn from fhe
Central Park and East and North River Rail-
road Company, for injuries received on thai
road.
]. D. KIMMEL's malthouse was DESTROYED
by fire at Cambridge City, Ind, on Tuesday
Loss, $35 600, insured probably thIee-fourtbe
Of the value.
THE jury in the United States Circuit Court
a. 2W York found verdict of s4 100, gold, in
favor Of Horace 81 Fairehild gainst ez-CoIlee-
tor Barnegy fer excess Of dgty 1alposea on i'm
ported goods.
MELANCHOLY feature of the reconstruction
of Chicago is the almost daily loss of life by
derrick accidents. John Hogan was a victim
ON Friday at the Wells street viaduct
The machine shop of the e. n. & A. G. R.
r., IN Lafayette, Indiana, was burned Wednes-
day afternoon. There were four locomotives
IN the shop, three in running order and one
stripped Tor repairs. All We're very seriously
damaged. The building was all frame, and OF
ysry temporary character. Loss. probably
$4,000; partially covered by insurance.
JOAQUIN MILLER has received 81. 600 in coin
for the manuscript of new Spanish-American
poem to be published in the Overland Maga-
zine. -5l
IN Philadelphia, on Saturday evening Geo
Weleh aged %, shot his mother while at the
supper table, iuficting mortal wound. Young
Weleh is supposed to be insane.
Tho paper box manufactory of Berry Bros.
in Detroit, Mich, was burned on Wednesday.
Loss, s5,0OG
Al Cleveland, on Wednesday, dissipated
inn-heeper named Ike Bennett. ATTEMPTED to
Kill his wife by striking her with rolling pin.
andthen committed suicide by cutting his
throat with a razor.
HE Japanese Embassy have returned to
WASHINGTON from their pleasure tour Gov.
Ito and Okubo will not return to the United
States, having left Japan for London via Suez,
and VIII meet Iwakura in that city
PROVISION of the Sundry Civil Service bill,
allowing the Secretary OF the interior TO en-
ploy extra labor bv the piece or the day, at
rates not to exceed $1,000 per annum-ap-
pontments are now being made in that De-
partmeGt irrespective of the Civil Service rules
altogether.
The President has recognized Leslie c.
Hanks, as Consul General of Guatemala for
the states Of California, Oregon, and Nevada.
and the Territories Of Washington, Arizona
Utah, Montana, Idaho and Alaska. ~
HE last volume of the Ku Klux Committees
report IS III press. There are in all thirteen
volumes, containing over &, 900 pages.
STEPHEN CoMBERLING, brother Of the ex-
Congressman, and one of the oldest lawyers
In New York, died on Tuesday. aged so.
J. W. WATSON, a New York broker. is under
arrest for embezzlement
u, BOY, five years OF age, was shockipgly mu-
# tlated in the face on Monday, bvs a leopard at
eGentral Park, New York
PETER COOPER, instead of subscribing 81 900
to the strikers, emphatically condemns the
Inoyenlent.
RBy. E. L. W. JONES' who swinded widow
lady IN Pittsburg oubof large sum of noney
by representing himself as an Episcopal clergy
man OF large wealth, has Eeen sentenced to
. three years in the wOrkhouse.
RAILROAD engineers be. wocn Astoria and
Cornelius, Oregon, found marks on rocks
leading to the discovery of box containing
$4,000 dollars in old Spanish coin, and a
quantity of jewery.
AT Fleetwood New York, on Saturday, Cas-
tie Boy won the purse for a thousand dollars.
beating Daniel Boone and Grace Bertram.
SIX heats were trotted Time-2:;25 9,sO
2:341z, 2:91tS, 2:922, 2;s311.
A FIRE in Rome, N. Y, on Sunday evening
destroyed five frame dwelling houses. a lauu-
dry and three barns
TWENTY-FIVE members of the New York
Schuetzan Corps have sailed in the steamer
Deutschland for Europe, to attend the great
shooting festival in Hanover.
- ar Mystic Park, Boston, on Friday. for 50
y Coo. George Palmer beat William TT. Allen in
2:3O4, 2:255z, 2:2414, and 223Jz. Allen won
the third heat.
OFFICIAL dispatches from Charleston, S. c..
state that numerous arrests are being made
throughout that state of parties charged with
violation of the enforcement act. At Newbero
WlHle the United States Marshal with a file o
soldefs, was attempting to arrest a Dartr- Of
feaf, one hlan was seriously wounded and two
succeeded IL escaping.
BASE BAIL-At Chicago, Athletics 6, Hav-
makers 2. N es
6I JOINS DAY was celebrated bv the Ma
sonic fraternity of Louisville, on Monday nv
grand festival for the benefit Of the Masonic
Widows and Orphans Home It is said fo he
the grandest affair of the kind ever held in
Louisville. More than 10 600 people attended.
There was grand illumination of Central
Park and display of fireworks in the evening.
with speeches, songs, music, etc. The profits
Ct the festival viii probably be over ten thou
san dollars.
TIE United States Hayden Yellow Stone ey-
plo1s8 expedition have left Ogden, Utah. in
two divisions for the unexpIored regions north
one party under Prof. f. V. HAYDEN. going to
Fort Ellis, and the other under James Stevens.
to Fort Hail.
Abroad.
RIo JANEIRo dates of the 29th of Nav an
nounce that the Russian frigate svetlana and
corvette Godaire arrived at Rio on the 2gth of
ApfH. lear Admiral Largan saluted Vice Ad-
mural P0lsette's flag with fifteen gums The
salute was returned. No special ceremonies
were rendered the .trsed DUKE. he beng an
executive officer Of .ie Astg-shIp SvetIana,
though the officers visiting the vessel wer6
presented to him.
TaE faspe mail steamer. from Picton for
St. Johns, was lost near st. Peter on Thurs
day. The mails and passengers were rescued
The cable steamer Dacia, which was feared
to have been lost, is known to be safe
Tue American surveying expedition reports