Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-11-13
VOL. XIII.

NOL. ALL.
| 900 reserved shares at par, and thus Increased
| the company's capital to about SO, OPS ,000
The House of Bishops of the Episcopal
Church elect this week a Bishop for Nebraska
| The jurisdiction includes the territories of
Dakota, Montana, etc.
IoFIs KoRMERKY, the well-known proprietor
| OF Kormerky's gymnasium OF Chicago, shot
and killed himself on Sunday.
| GROUND is broken ON the Brigham Union
Narrow-gauge Railroad, at Salt Lake City, to
be finished in ninety days.
! GENERAL HOWARD, arrived from Arizona,
says he acts strictly in accord with the in
| structions from General Crook, and endorses
his policy and plans of a vigorous war against
| the hostile Indians He never gave Crook
orders to suspend hestil,ties While he & az in
power.
THE election of Gen. Maxwell to Congress
| from Utah is to be contested.
| THE race between Occident and Lucy, at San
Francisco, has been postponed to November
| 18th.
| A DISPATCH from Eiko, California, says the
| eaatern-bound freight train was badly wrecked
Saturday morning.
LA GRAVE, who some time since extensively
swindled prominent merchants in New York,
was taken in custody on Saturday, on his ar
rival from France, where he was arrested.
The amount of his swindling is SAID to reach
near million. He has been jailed in default
of bail. which is fixed at 100000
THE French papers foreshadow the adoption
at the coming session of the National Assem-
bly of constitutional amendments making
Theirs President for life, creating an Upper |
Chamber and the office of Vice. President, par
ticularly remndeliig the Assembly, and pro-
vi,'inE restrictions upon the right of universal
suffrage.
Abroad.
THE loss by the destruction OF Music Hall, |
in Oxford, is estimated at 1915, 900. Before the
fire was discovered the flames had made con |
siderable progress. Immense Volumes of
smoke and flames issuing from the windows
and doors, fesidefing the work of the firemen
useless. The hall was one of the finest in the
country, having an immense seating capacity.
It's magnificent organs were taken out. Little
else was saved.
The emperor of China was married on the
18th of October. There was no oHtside cere-
mony other than procession which escorted
the brdr rom her residence to the imperial
palace.
INTENSE excitement was caused in Havana !
by the receipt of the news Of tie burning of |
the steamship Missouri Several prominent
persons of Cuba were among the lost
IT is announced that the late Sir David Bax- |
ter has bequeathed the enormous sum of five !
hundred thousand pounds to the Free Church
of Scotland, and fry thousand pounds to the
University at Edinberg.
ADvICEs from Gotha, concerning the explo-
ration of the Norwegian Captain Nils Johnson,
represents that Johnson in re-exploring in Au-
gust last, off the island coast of Spitzenbergen
found seas free of ice to the northeastward
and indications of powerful oceanic currents
SERVING, To keep open iilo trgher pear seas.
Johnson went north to the latitude OF nearly
eighty. DIR. Peterman the great German geo.
grapher is shortly to make the public dIscov
cries of Johnson
SIR SAMUEL MARTIN PUIsNE, Baron Of the
Court of Ezcheuuer, will probably succeed
Lord Penseance as Judge Of the Court of Pro-
bate and Divorce.
The Emperor of Germany has conferred on
Mr. Hepworth Dixon the decoration Of Knight
of the Golden Cross,
A PRIVATE company propose to construct and
maintain telegraph lines throughout St'aii;.
The waters of the riter Rhine are rising. !
The dyises above the town of Aries are broken |
in many places, and the extensive plains Of
Camargue are inundated.
A BANQUET was given by French conserva.
tiveS at Bordeaux Thursday. They declared |
in favor of monarchy, and hoped soon tt be !
permitted to offer toasts 10 the King and |
Queen,
HE trial OF impeachment OF members of the
agOsta Ministry promises some curious dis
closures Senior Sagosta i1ao announced his
intention Of defending himself at the trial.
LIEUT.. MOORE and gunner Mahoney, of the
British sloop Shearwater, recently swan
across the Hellespont, f6m Abydos to Sestos
CouNr re GuYDoN, Governor General of Al |
geria in a report to the President, states that |
the number OF immigrants to the colony, dur
ing the last three months was five thousand,
and of these fifteen hundred were from Alsace
and Lorraine.
The Pc continues to rise. and the inunda-
ton is spreading. Families are flying. Those
who cannot escape are starving on house tops
and in trees, where they have taken refuge.
The streams are filled with carcasses of cattle,
and wrecks of houses and barns. The town
of Reggie, fourteen miles from Madina, has
almost entirely disappeared beneath the food.
HOWARD BRowNELL, private Secretary TO
Admiral Farragut, at the battle in Mobile
Bay, died in East Hardford Thursday, aged
So
A GENERAL conference of Jews is in session
at Brussels.
THIERs does not want to be made President
of France for life.