Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25
VOL. XIII.

said, in passing out of the house where she
stopped, that he had shot his niece, and would
give himself up, but did not do so, and has
not been arrested.
THREE men were precipitatedto to the ground
a distance of forty feet, in Chicago, on We'd
nesday, by the fall of scaffold at the new
Turner Hall, on North Clark street. One man
received fatal injuries.
GEN. VAN BUREN, United States Commits
sioner to Vienna Exposition, and Clayton Nc
Michael, of Philadelphia, assistant Commits
sioner, were before the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs on Wednesday, to urge the
propriety Of an immediate and liberal appro-
priation by Congress to secure proper repre-
sentation of United States products at Vienna.
Secretary Robeson WAS present al themeeting.
and stated that the Navy Department was
ready to send two vessels to transport the
goods as recommended in the message of the
President. An appropriation will be recon-
mended
AT billiard tournament in Boston, We'd
nesday evening, all exhibition game of 100
points was played between Miss Bessinger and
Mr.. Tobin. The lady played with much skill,
and won the game by 81 points.
DENNIS SHEA shot and mortally wounded
James LaughIn at Louisville, late Monday
night, in saloon brawl.
The name of the man found dead at Union
City, Ind, on Monday, was c. P. Raining. The
COroner's verdict was that he was murdered
and carried out to the woods. The doctors
say he has been dead two weeks.
RETURNS from Schoolcraft county, Michigan,
complete the vote of the state. The whole
number of votes is 227, ,579-Grant has 13S, ,811 :;
Greeley, 1850 others, 4,118. The majority
for Grant is 60 161. Grants vote exceeds his
vote in 1868 by Is, 261 Greeley's, 419 less
Seymour's. The whole vote of the state is
4,040 less than in 1868.
A YOUNG German named Heinrich Mohr
was accidentally shot and killed by pistol in
the hands of companion named Henry
Smith, at Chicago, on Monday.
COMPTROLLER GREEN, of New York city,
having refused to pay Court Justice Quin
$4,000 salary, allowing the legal salary to be
$1,000, suit was brought by Justice Quin.
Judge Fancher, of the Superior Court, decid-
ed in favor of the plaintiff that the salary was
legally raised from 5000 to $4,000 by the
Mayor and Municipal Council.
ERBIN PORTER, living near Columbiana,
Ohio, murdered his two children, aged one
and two years, with a hatchet, on Thursday.
The steamship st. Louis sprung leak and
sunk, on Sunday last, 10 miles from South
west Bar, Florida. The passengers and crew
were rescued.
A QUARREL among the convicts in the Ohio
penitentiary resulted in a serious disturbance,
which was not quelled till one Of them was
shot twice.
DAVID G. CRoLY has resigned the position
of managing editor of the New York World
and it is reported is succeeded by Jerome B.
Stillson.
ONE Howard Tilden is under arrest at Jack
sonville, H., for dealing in bogus patent
rights. He succeeded in taking in four monied
men of that place, but failed to get away with
the spoils.
A WAsHIN GToN dispatch states that the At
torney General has notified Lieut.. Governor
Pinchbeck that the President recognizes him
as the lawful executive of Louisiana, and the
body assembled at the Mechanics Institute as
the lawful Legislature of that State.
VIM. A. LAU VALE, Cuban, and one of the
directors of the Montreal branch of the British
North American Bank, has been arrested in
New York, charged with feloniously approprl-
ating the funds of the bank to the amount of
300,O 900.
The murderer of the fallen girl, Maud MIL
ler, IN New York, has given himself up. He
states that he is the uncle of the deceased,
that he went to see her, to urge her to leave
life of shame, and seeing her make a move
ment towards her pocket as if to draw pistol,
he shot her.
GEo. c. MILLS, who was badly injured by the
explosion at the rolling mill, in Springfield,
H., some days since, is dead.
FIRE at Stuart, Guehrie county, Iowa, on
Wednesday, destroyed seven of the leading
business houses. The principal losers were
William B. Hussey, John Leonard, Trout
Viele, D. FeIgar, Hubbard's Savings Bank, T.
J. Montgomery, and P. II. Lennon. Damage
$780, 900
On Wednesday evening the stock of Hey
mann & Cohnfield, dealers in ostrich feathers,
No. 8 Greene street, New York, was damaged
by fire $50, 900 worth. and the building 81 500.
ONE night last week the business portion 0
CherryvaIe, a small station on the Leaven
worth. Lawrence and Galveston railroad, was
destroyed by fire. Eight houses were con-
sumed. Loss so, 500.
GEN. B. f. BUTLER has been elected Pres-
dent of the Lower California Company, vice
Richard ScheIl resigned.
Abroad.
HEAVY gale Friday wrecked several vessels
at Cow Bay, Nova Scotia.
BILL has been introduced in the Spanish
Cortes providing for universal compulsory
military service.
The French Assembly, after the most vio-
lent discussion ever witnessed i'll the Chamber,
rejected the petitions for dissolution by a
large majority.
MCDoUGALL, GRAY & Co., of Charlottestown,
n. S., have suspended. Liabilities, $40, 900.
VIsCoUNTEss BEAcoNsFIELD, wife of Disraeli,
died Sunday.
A DISPATCH from Nantes reports that the
river Loire has overfowed, and the adjacent
country Is flooded. The quays in the lower
quarters of Nantes are entirely under water,
fearful spectacle. The CUSTOM
house and all business houses in the flooded
section are closed. Great destruction of
is apprehended. The railways are
covered with water, and travel is interrupted.
THE Daily News publishes letter from Gar
ibaldi to an italian friend, in which the Gen
eral says he joined France in 1870 purely fr,m
devotion to Democratic principles, yet he feels
a pang of sorrow because he had to fight
against those noble Germans who, IN their
progress toward truth, are struggling against
the hodra of Jesuitsm. He confesses with
shame that Italy is going back to the inquisi-
ton.
HE horse disease has broken outin Cuba.
Ii is again announced that the Pope will
not leave Rome.
FRIENDS Of the Tichborne claimant held
meeting in London Wednesday evening.
The Austrian Reiehsrath reassembled on
Thursday.
News has been received of Herr Mouch, the
German explorer of Africa. He had arrived
at Guitemane on his way home, and was in
good health.
THE Lett in the French Assembly is much
for raising inopportunely the ques-
ton of dissOui ion and TINS osivinp the Gov