Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-05-08
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stores.
A PrrrsBURa policeman named John Stock
was fatally beaten by unknown parties during
Monday night.
THE subscriptions to the fund for monu-
ment to Gen. George II. Thomas amount to
nearly $4,000.
In California, grain is maturing rapidly. A
great scarcity of hands to gather the crop is
anticipated.
The stevedores in San Francisco, who have
been receiving IS in coin a day, are now on a
strike for 81.
The jury in the case of Fanny Hyde, tried
in Brooklyn for the murder of Watson, were
unable to agree, and have been discharged.
The 308th anniversary of Shakespeare's
birth was celebrated by banquet by the st.
Georges Society, of New York. on Tuesday
evening.
SPOTTED EAGLE opposes the construction of
the Pac fc Railroad through his country. He
threatens to tear up the track and kill the
working parties.
TIE celebration of the anniversary of the
XVth amendment at Richmond, on Monday,
was the most successful affair ever gotten up
by the colored people there.
THERE is no prospect of Congress at the
present session acting upon the memorial of
tho Utah Convention for the admission of the
state of Deseret into the Union.
EFFORTS are making to induce Congress to
appropriate $3.50, 600 for the survey of the
northern and northwestern lakes, and for
geological survey Of the ooraatry west of the
s IUU parallel.
TIE paper and twine works OF g.. IT. Hart g.
Co, Eleventh avenue and Fifty-seventh street
New York, were burned Tuesday afternoon.
Loss S150,000, including $75,0 600 on machinery,
which latter was covered by insurance.
THE American and British Commission will
adjourn early this week until the latter part
of June. Gurney will leave this country for
England on the Goth inst, and is not expected
to return before September.
MONDAY night, Col H McCord, President of
the Southern Railroad Association, was robbed
at hotel in Grenada, Miss, Of diamonds.
gold watch, 1,2OO in gold and lot of curren-
cy valued at several thousand dollars.
SHREWSBURY, Mayor of Madison, Ind, one
of the Oldest and most wealthy men of that
place, fell dead as he was stepping out of his
door, Tuesday evening to go to the Council
Chamber, from heart disease.
VIM HINDEIL. banker of Girard, ILL.,, who
is alleged to have absconded last September
with 515, 900 belonging to a depositor has
been brought back from California by Deputy
Sheriff Cook, of Sandiego Co., California.
The convention of Baptists of West Tennes-
see, North Missouri and Arkansas, has pledged
the body to raise 100000 in the event of the
Southern Baptist University at Granville, S.
c., being removed to the vicinity of Memphis,
EARTHQUAKE shocks continue in Inyo coun-
ty, Cal. A volcanic island is rising in Mono
lake. On Friday of last week, Round Valley
Camp, Jnyo county, was thrown down, and
the earth opened in many places, but no lives
were lost.
PRESIDENT GRANT writes that he cannot be
present at the meeting of soldiers at Cooper
Institute in aid of the erection of monument
to Gen. Thomas, and the four thousand Union
soldiers inferred in Cypress Hill Cemetery
and encloses 800 for the object.
NUMBER of Presbyterian ministers from
all parts of Kentucky on Tuesday, held con-
ference on the subject of organizing new
university, under the auspices of the Southern
Synod of Kentucky, the Centre College at
Danyille having been virtually turned over by
the recent decision of the Supreme Court of
the United States to the other wing of the
church.
THE President has prepared another veto,
returning to the House, without his signature,
the bill granting a pension to Richard P.
Crawford, for the reason that Crawford is
now drawing pension private soldier; the
wound account of which he was pensioned
having been received before his promotion to
Lieutenant.
II is reported that since the return of Gar
vey, the ring pIasterer, and his appearance as
witness in the case of Hall, large number
of persons formerly connected with the ring
have sent to him for bills of plastering done in
former times, and promptly paid them. It is
said that he collected more than 100000 in
this way. 1t is further stated that if the trial
of Hall had proceeded the existence of these
debts would have been established by Garvey's
testimony.
MICHAEL McNALLY, an adherent of the Til
den wing of the Tammany organization, was
attacked on Tuesday afternoon in front of
Tannany Hall, on Fourteenth street. New
York. by three notorious ruffians, named
Owen Grohegan, John Heunessy and John
OCOnnelI, IN order to prevent his appearing
before the committee which is investigating
th5 primary election dispute. 1t is feared that
his injuries will prove fatal.
On Monday night party disguised went to
the house of Isaac Vancel. near Herrin's
Prairie, ILL.,, seized him and took him to the
woods and hung him. The same party few
weeks ago served upon Vancel written orders,
threatening him with the fate above recorded
in case of his failing to obey them. The ma
ture of the orders are not stated. Vancel was
an old man of IS, quite wealthy, and the out
rage creates excitement in the county.
SATURDAY morning a singular-looking box,
addressed to Superintendent Kelso, was landed
from the steamer Manhattan at New York and
exciting the suspicious of the Custom House
officers, it opened and found to contain
coffin on the lid of which was a plate inscribed
John G. Heenan, with representation of the
angel Gabriel. The coffin was opened and
found to contain lot of lace curtains, horse
blankets, etc. A similar coffin was filed with
valuable bronze goods.
Abroad.
THE ten-Word minimum has been abolished
by the European cable companies.
On March 8 the explosion of magazine at
Tientsin, China, destr yed eighty houses, and
many lives we're lost.
RIOT among the Chinese laborers at the
tin mines of Laroot, Northern China, resulted
in the loss of many lives.
AN earthquake occurred on the 9th nlt, in
Oaxaea, Mexico, which destroyed many
churches, dwellings,, and levees.
The steamer Neyo has been wrecked on the
coast of the Island Banca, in the Malay arch-
peEgo. The crew and passengers were saved.
DISPATCH from Seyastopool announces the
arrival at that town of General Sherman and
Lieutenant Grant and Hon. A G. Curtin,
American Minister to Russia.
MEXICO continues in state of anarchy. 1t
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Presidency, but his friends will not permit it
till his successor has been provided.
THEIRS will shortly hold a review of the
military forces in and around Paris. The re-
view, which takes place at Long Champs, will