Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-03-20
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lyn On Tuesday
Rock ISLAND, ILL.,, was carried by the Re
publicans at the municipal election on Tues
day
THE wooden mill of J. D. Nichols & Son,
in Burrillville, was burned on Thursday. Loss
$4,000.
A FREIGHT train was thrown from the track
near Clyde, Ohio, on Tuesday, and section
hand killed.
Two females are said to bs in training for a
prize fight for one thousand dollars aside near
Vkron, Ohio.
The Dixon Qll.) Telegraph says GA Ger
family, father, mother, and two child
zen, residing in Reynolds Township, Lee
county. have ali died of trichiag spiroRs.
They have been in the habit of eating raw
pork"
PREPARATIONS are already being made in ST.
Louis for the National Sangerfest to be held
there in June.
Mrs. KRAMER. who was brutally beaten
the time her husband was murdered, in Wash
ngton township, Pa, is dead
THE Memphis. Little Rock and Fort Smith,
and Memphis. Shreveport and Southwestern
Railways, have been consolidated.
HAMMOND, the revivalist, is holding forth to
said to realize well from the sale of his works
CHARLOTTE JOHNSON was arrested at CI
on Saturday evening, charee7=
murdered her infant g
crushing its skull
READ, wi
Clinton, DeKalb county -, IL
succeeded in escaping from jail A large
reward is offered for his rearrest.
FREDERICK LUTH, residing at Blue Island
twenty miles distant from Chicago, committed
suicide on Sunday, by fracturing his skull with
hatchet.
The Thompson wadding mill, in Ellington,
was burned last Friday night, together with
200 bales of manufactured goods Loss
$40, 900 no insurance.
THE municipal elections in Rochester, Ell
mira, Auburn and Utica, N. Y, on Tuesday,
resulted in the choice of Republican Mayors
In Oswego, Democrat was elected Mayor
The Brooklyn Aldermen have passed reso-
luton that no railway company of that city
collect fare of passengers who are not proyid-
ed with seats
GEN. J. T. CRITTE1DEN, of the counsel for
ex Congressman W. B. Stokes, has entered
suit against him for $40O for professiona
JAMES STEPHENS, ex-Fenian Head Centre
is not prospering in the wine business in New
York his employees having sued him for
wages.
THE artillery association of the Army OF the
Potomac met on Tuesday, and elected Gen w
T. Barry President, and Gen. Henry J. Hunt
Vice President.
AN actor named W. Roberts suicided at Bowl
ing Green. KY, on Monday, by stabbing him
self thirty six times in the breast and stomach
with pen-knife.
WM. YORK, convicted of robbing the mail in
Madison county, Ky, last fall, has been SEN
fenced to five years Imprisonment in the
Kentucky penitentiary.
THE body of a negro deck hand named An
drew Pearson was found in the wreck of the
burned steamer Falls City, at Louisville, on
Thursday.
AMONG the combinations by the Senate on
Wednesday, were the following: Wilbur F.
Sanders. District Attorney for Montana Terri
tory; L. Hall, of Michigan, Consul at Valencia
Spain.
JAMES MELLAs was killed in a bar-room fight
in Yorkville, near New York city, early Mon
day morning by blow on the head inflicted
by Thomas Murray. a well-known politician.
Murray was arrested.
Mons. SAGE. for several years manager of
the French drama in New York, was recently
murdered and robbed in Havre, by person
who had taken passage with him IN New Or
leans. Poison was used by the assassin. He
has made good his escape.
A PITTsBURG special reports the horrible
mutilaton at Franklin, Pa, of youth named
az Do
been discarded by young lady to whom he
was to be married. Lynchers are after Tracy.
ONE of the fruit growers near Holland,
Mich. has made a careful examination of the
fruit buds in that vicinity. He thinks the
prospects for good crop this year better than
ley have been in years before.
IT is stated in Washington, on good author
ity, that Gen. Longstreet will be removed
from his position as Surveyor of the Port of
New Orleans on account of his active friend
ship for General Warmoth in the Louisiana
political imbroglio.
DURING the past three years sums varying
from $780, ,0OOto s65, 900 lfave been paid to
Tweed, Sweeney and others as deputy collect
ors of the assessment bureau. None of them
performed any services of the bureau. Amonr
the items are S65, ,624 to Hank Smith, and
$65000 to A. D. Barber.
The Government, on Tuesday evening, gave
grand reception to the Japanese embassy at
Washington, at the Masonic temple. About
1 400 persons were present, including Vice
President Colfax, Speaker Blaine, Secretary
Fish, the Judges of the Supreme Court. and
others. The President did not attend.
Oh Friday last the body of a woman, name
unknown. was foundi in the woods near Mineral
Point, Pa. When discovered, the body was
covered with burning wood. The lower ex-
trennities we're entirely burned off, Several
stabs found III the region of the heart, any one |
OF which was so deep as to have proved fatal. |
rope was fastened tightly about the mock,
ana the features gave every indication of
haVlnS Ged OF strangulaton.
The National Base Ball Association met in |
Cleveland on Monday. The following officers |
were chosen: r. W. Ferguson. of the Allan
tics, President; H. c. Doolittle, of the Forest
Citys, Vice President; N. G. Young, of the
Baltimore club, Secretary. The rules were then
revised and adopted, with foW exception, the
same as last year
A WASHINGTON special says Mr. Will am Or
ton, President of the Western Union Tele-
graph, has written a letter to the Appropriation
Committee of the House, informing them of
his unwiilingness to transmit the reports of
the signal SerY1co Bureau IN future at the
present rates, on the ground that he cannot
do so except at loss to the company. The |
present contract expires May 1st.
STOKES, of Tennessee, has been sentenced
to pay fine of 81, 800 and costs. The fee he |
received for working the fraudulent claims |
through Congress was 510,O 900. and the real
fraud upon the Government was between
100000 and 100000. The evidence elected |
on the trial was universally regarded in official
circles as showing one of the blackest cases of
corruption which was ever brought to light in
Washington Courts.
Abroad.
DECREE has been issued founding naval |
academy at Kiel.
The marriage of the Marquis of Butte will