Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-03-13
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ST.. PAUL papers state that the loss by the
burning of the machine shops and engine
house of the st. Paul and Sioux CITY railway
at Shakopee, Tuesday morning. is over e100 :
OOO, on which there was an insurance of but
$4,000.
JOHN THOMAS YVES executed in Toronto on
Thursday, for the murder of one johnson.
some months since.
HE spoke factory Of Bigel & Co., and an
adjoining dwelling, in St. Marys. Ohio, was
destroyed by fire on Wednesday. Loss $780,
600.
HE japanese Embassy left Chicago for
washington on Tuesday evening. Before
their departure they contributed 5000 to the
reilef OF the sufferers by the late fire.
a sEvEN-YEAR-oLD lad named Hermon
zenes, attending school at Rock Island, ILL.,,
was recently kicked so badly by an older schol-
ar, that he died
The body of a suicide was found hanging
from the limb Of tree IN a grove east OF
Cleveland, on Sunday. The deceased is sup
posed TO have been Joseph Marx, a peddlar OF
glassware
EIGHT freight cars, belonging to the Indian
apolis Railroad, with their contents. princi-
pally dry goods, were burned on the track in
East Louis early Sunday morning. Loss re-
ported at about s2500o
TIE girlsir the Hope and Louisville woolen
mills a re on strike against reduction of
half cent per yard in the price of weaving.
Ex-SENAToR YATES, of Illinois, is danger
ouslly i'll at his residence, IN Jacksonville, from
hermorrhage of the bowels .-
brewery in Galena, H., fell into boiler filed
with boiling water and was soalded to death
Rev. ARTHUR Brooks, of Williamsport, Pa,
has accepted a cau to the rectorship of st.
James Church, in Chicago recently vacated
by Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson, D. D.
The order for the arrest of 1ngersol, the
Tarnmany chair maker, has been returne
not found"
The men arrested recently at Vanwert, o.,
have been fully identified as Scott and Char
rest. the Windsor Lock rnurderers.
ABRAM BEA1, for eighteen years past agent
Of the New York Prison Association. died on
Sunday
VERY Rev. HENRY BENEDICT CosKEY, Vicar
General and Administrator of the Arch Dio-
cese of Baltimore, died at the h-Episcopal
residence in Baltimore, of pneumonia, on
Tuesday, after an illness of several weeks. in
the sixty-z eventh year of his age. The de
ceased was a native of Frederick county.
Maryland, and has been Vicar General Of the
Arch Diocese since 1649. In 1854 he declined
the appointment by the Pope, of Bishop of
Portland, Maine.
The cornerstone of the Chamber of Com-
nerce il Chicago was laid on Friday after
noon i<ra --st t-EsEsaa
4 LARGE assortment Of blooded live stock
and improved machinery have been collected
at Chicago, by A. B. Capron, for shipment to
Japan, Is will go forward to San Francisco in
charge of Geo. Mayo, of 0wosso, Mich.
NELSON WALKER, a colored lawyer. has beer
admitted TO practice in the Supreme Court OF
Tennessee. "a
EX-SENATOR FOWLER, Chancellor Post and
other Liberal Republicans, have issued an ad-
dress invoking the Republicans of Tennessee
to send delegates to the Cincinnati Cenyen-
ton. The address condemns the AdnaiRsstFa a.
f1on of President Grant, particularly in its
treatment to the South, and calls for reunion
and reform.
On Monday, q small boy who was stealing
ride on the pilotof locomotive on the Rich.
nond Road, was thrown therefrom by the
1rernan. Both legs were cut off. ~
TIE East Saginaw Courier figures up the
Total amount Of humber manufactured on the
Lake Huron shore OF Michigan, last year, in
cludikg shingles latla, as1gi pickets. at SGT $50
S78 feet, and puts the total value thereof a
St5,000,60e, ..s - s =
A Warrington telegram of Wednesda,
states That the judges and officers of the United
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funeral of the late Gewaii Clark, coIored door.
keeper of the judges ,cloak-room, and who
has had charge of the department. since 1898.
he was aged u. Their attendance at the
funeral Sas mark of respect for an hopes+
and fsithful servant. --Fri
EHE Wayne County (Mo.9 Democrat states
that two men named Scott and Leaf were ar
rested at atPiednaont, in that county. charged
with haElpE Committed three murders in Mis-
fIsSpps, Scott, IN attempting to ESCAPE was
sssot and seriously wounded in the thigh. Scott
con1e6sed th&t he and Leaf killed two men IN
q quarrel about an axe. 80. Z 4. :
D. l7 ONLY SIX inches of snow Asz fallen in Da-
kota Territory this winter. The prairies are
now bare, and al the transportation west Of
cheyenne is dene on wheels The grass is
green, and some ponies are found in Splendid
condten which have subsisted a.. huffalc
sgrass all winter. 4 u. - -
4 HIILsDALE (lIieh> special SAYS. "Tbe
-Hllisdale engine machine shop and foundry
have just been burned. The patterns were
saved The lathes were damaged, The loss
ls aaout $4,000 insured in the Phoenix. of
NsW York, for about S2.OO0'f rf.-- :
BERNHARD LUsTER, saloon keeper at Ham
nton. Ohio, on Wednesday shot and killed a
negro, named Ed Miller, whom he caught
IN the act of tapping his till.
IN the first Of fifteen suits against the Allan
nc Mail Company, the aggregate penalties
amounting to $50, 900, on allegations that ci-
Sars nave been landed from its vessels witbou4
payment of duty, Judge Woodruff has given =
declsfen ln favor of the United States. . - =
HE principal educational Institutions of the
onited States have petitioned Congress TO as,
tablish an American college IN China,
HE Jewelry store of Piper & Co., at Romeo.
Michigan, was entered last Sunday night by
burglars, the safe blown open with gunpow-
der. and about So, ,GG0 IN watches and iewelry
taken.
FIsKs horses and carriages have been sold
at auction. They brought $50, 900. ....l.
PROMINENT army officers of New York oity
propose to initiate a measure to erect nnonu-
ment to the late Gen, Geo. 3. Thomas.
JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN, President of Bow
dom college, has been elected, by concur
rent legislative vote, Major General of the
volunteer militia of Maine -.---
HE Germans of San Francisco are organic
ing clubs in every ward in the city for partici-
patton IN the coming Presidential campaign.
as independent Republicans
The large sugar refinery of Bartol & Baker,
at Marcushook, Pa, was entirely DESTROYED bv
ire Sunday morning. Loss $3.50, 900; insur
ance 100000.
The steamer John Kyle, which sunk near
Commerce, Mo-, on Friday, was owned by w.
T. and P. S. Davidson, of La Crosse, Wiscon-
sin, and A. 81. Hutchinson. of st. Louis. The
John Kyle was built IN Cincinnati, and was
valued at 100000, ard is insru ed in Cincin
natl Offices.
Abroad.
1HE Cunard Line steamer Parthia, which
sailed from Liverpool Tuesday morning for
Boston, came in collision with two Spanish
steamers and a1u1y ono of +bayo rrl,o