Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-11-20
GENERAL NEWS.
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10.
SAVANNAH, Ca, Nov. 1.-THE
business portion Of the town of Abbey
vile, S, c., was destroyed by fire to-
day. The loss is $50, 900, partially in
sured.
FROM CHINA AND JAPAN. Late
advices by steamer from China and
Japan embrace the following items of
news
The completion ofthe first railroad in
Japan, from Yeddo to Yokohama, was
celebrated in Oct, the Emperor offici-
ating: The department of religion at
Yeddo has issued document looking
toward the federation of all creeds.
The rinderpest is making terrible
ravages among cattle in the rural dis
tricts of Japan. The exports of japan
to the United States the last three
months were So, $4,000.
The plains near Tien. tsin, China, are
again flooded. The waters were report
ed September 10 rising rapidly. On
September 21st, there was a severe
shock of earthquake at Shanghai.
A dreadful famine is reported among
the people of Corca.
Locusts have destroyed the crops at
the PHILIPPINES.
FROM New YORK AND AUSTRALIA.
-Congratulatory messages were ex-
changed on Friday between the Mayors
of Adelaide, Australia, and New York,
upon the completion Geographic COM
munication.
A dispatch from New Orleans brings
news OF the sinking of the steamship
Katie, one of the most magnificent
boats on the Mississippi. None OF the
passengers or crew were lost. The vessel
cost nearly 100000, and was insured
for 100000
William N. Evarts'' is now mention
ed as the successor of Secretary Fish,
and General Meigs as the successor, of
General Meade, and Judge Settle, of
North Carolina, as the successor of
Justice Nelson, of the Supreme Court,
the latter being about to retire on ac-
count of old age.
The Republican gains made in New
York State at the recent election were
obtained chiefly in counties in which
large cities are situated. The follow
ing are the more important: New York,
40, 900 Kings, 5000 Erie, 1000 !;
Rensselaer,, 5000; Albany, $500;
Monroe, $500; Oneida, 1000 Queens,
1900. Total, 60, 500.
Advices from Shehoygan, Fond
du Lac, Green Bay, and all the lead
ing cities in the ate, announce the
prevalence ofthe horse distemper. -Four
deaths occurred at Green Bay on Thurs
day from the disease, which has also
proved fatal in many instances at other
points. Fears are entertained that
logging in the piner les will be retarded
by the epidemic.
WASHINGTON, D C., Nov. 14.-It is
now authoritively known that secretary
Boutwell, will NOT apply any of the forty
millions of legal-tender issue fund to
the purchase of bonds held by insur-
ance companies losing largely by the
Boston fire. 1t is his opinion that all
the relief necessary can be given with
out further expansion ofthe currency,
to which he is very much opposed.
The bonds will be purchased by pro-
ceeds derived from extra sales of gold.
The question of the legality of female
suffrage in the Presidential election is
to be tested in the United States courts.
Miss Susan B. Anthony and fourteen
other ladies who insisted upon voting
at the late election in Rochester, n. Y,
have been arrested on a warrant from
the United States Commissioner, on
tie charge Of illegal voting. They will
be brought into the United States Dis
trict Court next week. The result
will be looked for with no little interest
by both the female suffragist and their
opponents throughout the country.
Last winter the Iowa Legislature
abolished the death penalty and substi-
tuted imprisonment for life, and the
Northern Synod of the Presbyterian
Church, passed resolution at a recent
session, saying that the aforesaid legis-
lation was unwise' They want the old
law restored. Their action has been
endorsed by most of the leading papers
of the State. One journal says that
crime has increased enormously in six
months, and in some places there il
talk of restoring to Lynch law.
THE WAR AGAINST THE OMAN
sARDs"-NEW York, Nov. 14.-Al-
though the Board of Aldermen to-day
by vote of 9 to 7, to order
that no more Mansard roofs except
those that are fre-proof shall be erected
in this city, it is certain that the insur-
snce men have determined to elias,
them a, extra hazardous, and some
have fixed the rate for such
structures at fifty per cent: Among
the buildings in this city with immense
wooden Mansard roofs are the Grand
Central Hotel, the Gilsey House, and
the long row of stores on White street.
The Grand Central Hotel is the Hottest
building in the city, and has an enorm-
Gus amount Of pine lumber in its upper
stories. No engine in the city can
force water as high as its cornice, and
a small panic prevails just now among
lite neighbors on Broadway and adjacent
streets.
HoRAoE GREBLEY.-Horace Gree
ley and Miss Ida, his oldest daughter,
came into the city this morning from
Chappaqua. Mr.. Greeley repaired to
the house of his friend Johnson. where