Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-06-19

s@-z-ges were lost.
- CAPT. GE<5. NJ. CoLYocoREsspo, the Uni
ted States Navy, was murdered and robbed at
Bridgeport, Conn.,. on Monday night.
Tar seeretaryaof State, "a reply to- q letter
from Gen. Banks, says nosAmeriean citizens
are imprisoned IN Canasa on accoJfnts Of con-
plcity in the invasion of Canada.
THE ship st. GIoff, from Hamburg, reports
eight deaths, the bark Everhard Delius, from
Bremen, ter deaths, and the Harrisburg,
from Bremen, six deaths.
BUMsTED AND VREELAND, of the Jersey City
Board of Works, who have been on trial
charged with conspirlng to defraud the city,
were found guilty on Saturday.
DR.. VIM. PITCHER died at Hudson, N Y :,
last Friday night from poison introduced into
his system by attending erysipelatous pa
tient.
ALL the men employed on the new Court
House IN New York were discharged on Satur-
day They have received no pay for nine
months.
THE Shelby Female College at sheIbyville
KY. was destroyed by fire last Friday night
Loss, between S14, 900 and SIG, 600; insurance
between $1,000 and $40, 900. -zrr
THE.City Mills in Cleveland, owned and run
by Harvey & Sons, wero burned on Friday
night together with 25, 600 bushels OF wheat
and LOCO barrels of -four, and T. 600 empty bar
rels. Loss 100000. ~ -
The Supreme Court of Florida has decided
that W. d. Blotham, Democrat, was elected
Lieutenant Governor of Florida by IS votes
S. T. Day, Republican, has hitherto filed the
Is position. ~ Fl s aFe rrFfergs
THE civil service regulations as to clerk
ships are now completed. The necessary
preliminary steps for applicants, viii be fur
nished by writing to- the heads of the depart
ment.
The recent wind and rain storms we're very
destructive to the crops in Illinois, Iowa and
L II WISCONSIN, aud much other damage isreport-
ed, railroad travel in some sections being in
terrupted. In Tennessee there was great de-
struction of farm property. and in some in
stances sacrifice of life.
HEAVY rains on Friday night and Saturday
p washed away the. track of the Illinois Central
Railroad for distance of nearly sixty rods
at ParkersburS, Ia. The S, W. road was wash
ed away near Cedar Rapids, delaying the east
ward bound passenger train nearly two hours.
AssS. THn seeretary>of the Treasury has author
zed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to-
buy two millions of bonds on each Wednesday,
and sell two millions IN coin each Thursday
during the month Of June, IN all to buy eight
gold.
5 A TELEGRAM from Jacksonville, Ill, states
that after nearly a years incessant search and
investigation by shrewd detectives for the
murderers Of the Hon. Sharon Tyndae. ex
Secretary Of State, it is believed that the men
who committed the crime have been discov-
cred, and evidence found to convict them. - &
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed
the Assistant Treasurer at New York to with
OOO0 mn
bsr1ng from 3, S11l to 1885, inclusive; 10 900
numbering from 1852 to 4,150, inclusive
dated from the first of August, 1868, to the
10th Of August, 1868, the interest to cease on
. the 3lst of July, 1872 "a g. "a So
LATE Saturday evening, at Portsmouth,
Ohio, man named Scott, of that place, with
his son and four or five others, were out boat
ing, on the Ohio, il a small steamer, provided
with tubular boiler. The boiler exploded
and tore the boiler to pieces and wounded
nearly all the inmates. Mr.. Scott'E injuries
arc probably fatal. His son suffered broken
leg
4 FIRE occurred in Bath N Y, on Saturday,
which destroyed Bushnelrs shoe store the ad-
Joining residences and the business places of
DR.. Wiley, W. 81. Purdy. and Mrs. Ives. This
was followed by a fire in the warehouse of
Hardenbrook q Co., which, with a stock of
& agricultural implements, was destroyed. Loss
ga, 5,0O0, insurance S16, 900.
The President has nominated Charles H
Walker Register of the Republican Valley land
district of Nebraska; Ware Worthing, Receiver
Of Public Money at the same place Geo. ~
z = Cory, Receiver at the Wyoming land district of
Nebraska; F. H. Langley, Receiver of the
western district of Nebraska A A. Thomas
Register of the northwestern district of Ne
braska; Thomas P. Tournan Receiver at the
4 same place; George Nourse, Register at Lnk-
= vie, oregon; Geo. Gonnor, Receiver at the
same place.
BIsMARcR is going to the Isle of Wight for
the benefit of his health.
NJ, PAUL DE CAssAdNAc fought duel on Sat
urday, with III. Locroy, editor Of the Rappel
The latter was slightly wounded -.
The Lucas cotton mill, one Of the largest
establishments of the kind in the vicinity Of
Rouen France, was totally destroyed by fire
on Saturday. Loss estimated at million
francs. Nearly 1000 operatives are thrown
+ out of employment. b 50 It 81 f.
The merchant steamer Clara, temporarily
fitted up q man-of-Yar, while cruising in
search Of the Eleguarist, ran into the Spanish
gunboat Celega one day last week. on the
coast of Cuba, striking her in the forechains
and carrying away her foremost. The Celega
sunk six minutes afterwards. The crew and
money box were saved and taken on board the
Clara,
In the French Assumbly, on Tuesday after
noon, Jules Fayre made powerful speech
against the tax on raw materials He pre-
- nOunced it fatal to French trade and manu-
y factlres, Unproductive as a source of revenue
and objectionable IN a diplomatic sense, be-
cause 1t will ALLEVIATE foreign powers.