Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-17
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THE Commissioners of the IsInatic Asylum
of New Jersey have purchased one hundred
acres Of land, and expect to expend 800, 900
for a new asylum, in Morris county.
The residence of the Russian Minister at
Washington, was on Tuesday night entered by
burglars, and robbed of a considerable amount
of sIlverware.
Rev. i. M. G50DFELLow, who resided at
Duntoh, Cook county, was thrown from
.sleish, on Friday, in the vicinity of Elk Grove
ILL.,, and instantly killed
DENNIS MCCARTHY was kicked to death on
Church street, New York, on Tuesday morn
ing, by three unknown roughs while peace
ably going home.
WN. I. MOORE, an inmate in the Washing
tonlan Home, in Chicago committed suicide
on Monday, by taking an ounce of lauda-
nam.
L. New York, on Tuesday, passenger in a
Broadway car was shockingly beaten by pick
pockets while trying to prevent them flcbip g
lady's wallet.
Oh Monday, at Albany, during scufie, a
boy named Hefford, aged fourteen years shot
aud killed William Trunnell, aged eighteen
years. 6enOfd Is IN custody
THE storm in California. Oregon and Ne
vada was at last accounts unabatcd It is
raining almost necessarily, the rivers everv-
where overfowing, aad the mails, telegraph.
and travel interrupted.
VAN MORT, successor of Tweed has dis
charged sixty sineeurists, known as water po-
lice, drawing each a thousand dollars per
annum. A similar number of sewer inspectors
viii soon follow.
An old lady named Nagle was instantly
killed on the track of the Chicago, Columbus
and Indiana Railroad, in Chicago, on Monday,
by being run over at the Madison street
crossing.
The Secretary of the Treasury will shortly
Issue circular containing new and more
stringent rules for the keeping and disbursing
of public moneys by government officials.
which will supercede those previously issued
upon this subject.
The State Department has information that
Gen. Gorloff, recently in temporary charge
of the Russian legation at Washington. has.
by an order Of his government, transferred
that trust to Valerien Schirkoff, Secretary of
the legation.
TIE Postmaster General openly announces
himself against the system of civil service re-
form lately reported by the Commissioners,
and which went into effect on Monday. He
says that he believes in the oId-fashioned
doctrines on the subject.
Tue Phoenix Insurance Company. of Hart
ford, one of the strongest of American com
Panies, has ceased issuing policies in Chicago,
on account of the laxity of the Common
Gooncll IN liking the fire limits and enforcing
the ordinance relative to building
lNthe double murder case at Harbor Grace.
N. F., the girl Hamilton confessed that Gee
han murdered his wife by knocking her down
and then smothering her with a feather bad.
He then shot her brother, Sayers Hamilton.
She says she helped to dispose of the bodies
HE New York News states that the party
TO whom the policy dealers paid money to keep
the police from rsidfng on them has alb
seconded, being charged with defraudiug the
city, and is said to be one of the principals in
the voucher robbery.
BRIGHAM You've, trustee in trust Of the
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Dav
SAINTS, has brought a case before the United
States Supreme Court. which went against
hlm there, on an account rendered against the
Deseret Lrlgatlng Company, the Judgment
being for something over $4,000,
SEVERAL prominent French fnternationalists
had secret nise ting in New York on satu.,=
day evening, Gen. Cecilia presiding. Letters
from Communists In Massellles, Paris ar
London were read. letter from MarseilIes
eHectualIy contradicted the report of Carl
Marx death,
A CONTEMPLATION in New Orleans on Satur-
day night destroyed sixty buildings. en-
bracing two squares, in the wealthiest portiess
oI the clff, from Desiard street down and
along tue river front to and indiuding Sanders
saloon and store; from the river to McKenna's
saloon alongside of Desiard street. Loss
S6G9, 9,000-insurance $500, 600.
TIE st. Joseph Herald thinks the cold
weather of last week gave a. pretty close call
to the peach crop of 1872, in the fruit belt if it
dldnt settle it. The thermometer in different
Localities hereabout marked from u to Is de-
Slees below zero. Eight degrees below zero
Kills some OF the buds 10 degrees below xiii
more; I6 degrees below uses up a large pro-
portion OF the tender varieties; IS degrees be-
10" Is a very thorough wipe out of the crop
1T IS understood, was when it ascertained
that Catscazy had been definitely recalled, the
President directed hat the Grand Duke be IN
Hted to revisit Washington. The invitation
Was necessarily declined from the exigencies
connected WITH the services of the Russian
squadron, N which the Grand Duke is 4
lieutenant. "
SENrENcEs were pronounced ii Columbus
). G., on Thursday, upon parties convicted Of
completely IN Ku Klux outrages, as follows ):
John W. Mitchell, five years imprisonment
and tine OF 81 900 Sheerars Childers, VIII
nan montgomery, Evans Murphy, Hezekiah
Porter, P. III. Mitchell Svlyanus Sbearar
Hugh Shearer, William Shearer. and James b.
onearef, each 10 months Imprisonment and
nne OF Stt0. DIR. Thomas B. Whitesides. one
years imprisonment and fine of 800: John
,. Miller, three months Imprisonment and
ne of $40.
Foreign
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR con1agration oc-
CURED IN Quebec on Thursday
TIE sale of photographs of the executed
communists has been prohibited in France.
hUMoR has it that the Prince de JoinyilIe is
about to resign his seat in the Assembly to
strengthen the position of the Duke dAuaale,
PARIS papers assert that Bismarck is seeking
pretext for the reoccupation of the evacu-
ated French provinces.
SEVERAL engagements have lately taken
place in Cuba between the Spanish troops and
rebels under Modesto Diaz.
! DISPATCH from Constantinople announces
that four Greek brigs have been wrecked in
the Black Sea, and all on board persisted.
The Notifications around Matamoras are
being strengthened in anticipation of an at
tack by the revolutionists.
Ii is stated that French squadron VIII pro
ceed Immediately to Greece to support the
G. inns of French citizens to the silver mines
of Lauvariun.
THERE is considerable talk in London of
transferring the property and control of the
Atlantic cable lines to the joint governments
of Great Britain and the United States. The
proposition is received with favor, anticipat-
ing that 1t might result in reduction of the
present exhorbltant rates of tariff
The floor of the courtroom. at Kittvs
clo8her, in Leitrim county, Ireland, gave way
while trial was in progress, The room was
overfiowed at the time, and thirty-fiye persons
we're precipitated distance of 80 or 40 feet
The number of those killed is unknown. Some
thirty are badly injured, most of them fatally.
The Cologne Gazette asserts that the United
States claim an enormous amount of indem-