Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-04-17
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A FIRE at Port Legion, N. Y, on Monday /
night, destroyed Sylvester & Riggs block. |
Loss $50. 600; insurance. s21, 900.
EIGHTEEN thousand three hundred and |
seven emigrants have arrived in New York this |
year to date, against ,007 last year.
$500, 900 hotel, to be built near the corner
of West Harrison and Halsted streets, is talked
about by the West Siders of Chicago.
The election in Cincinnati resulted in the
success of the Democratic candidates for
Judges of the Supreme Court.
An old man named Knight, committed sni-
eide at Henryvile, Ind, Wednesday morning,
by blowing the top of his head off with a mus
ket.
HE number Of cases presented to the Brit
lsh and American Claims Commission is abont
five hundred, only eighteen Of which are
American.
zen. HUMPHREY MARSHALL. of Kentucky. is
dead His body has been embalmed. and
VIII be temporarily deposited in a vault at
Frankfort, Ky.
YOUNG man named Frank Mullen a law
student, a resident of GAINESVILLE. Ohio fell
from the fourth story of building in Colunn-
bus, Tuesday evening.
A CONSIDERABLE confagration occurred at
the coal oil works of J. L. Gibson, at Gibson
Point, near Philadelphia, Monday morning
Loss $50. GOO; Insurance 526, $50.
The Michigan Central Railway Connanv has
contracted for double track between Detroit
and Ypsilanti and from Nile3 to LAKE Station.
to be completed within sixty days.
HE lottery advertised in the East for the
benefit of charity hospital in San Francisco
Is, says dispatch from that CITY, a fraud.
There is no such institution or lottery there.
IHE Senate Executive session on Mondav
confirmed the nomination of Ex-Governor
Francis Thomas Of Maryland, as Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Peru.
MAJ.-6SEN. JOHN NJ OLIVER, who seryad
under Gen. Sherman during the war, died in
Washington Saturday morning g, of congestion
ot the lungs. He is to be buried at Penn Van
New York.
IIEUT.-Gov. PINCHBEcK. of Louisiana. dined
with Senator Sumner in Washington on
Wednesday evening. The New Orleans poll
tclans have made no progress in compromis-
ing their differences.
JOHN ALBERT BRIGHT, son of the distin- |
8ushed English statesman. John Bright, was |
on the floor Of the House of Representatives.
andwa introduced to the Speaker and manv
msmbers of the House.
FORGED certificates of deposits. amounting
to toSl7z,000, purporting to be issued by George
Opdyke d Co., have been sent to New York
for payment by Iowa and Kentucky banks.
Other victims are feared
ALEX. BEAvEY, New York LAWYER. was
committed in default of ball in SO 600 ON q
char8e OF forgery, in obtaining the signature
OF lady to sheet of blank paper and filing
the paper so as to obtain her property.
GARY, NASH & OGDEN's paper mill and Geo
=. mon 1ourlng mill, at Port Dickinson near
0lh8hampton, N. L., were burned SATURDAY. |
evening. Loss on the paper mill, s25, GOO. |
insured for S11, 900. Loss on the +iour min |
$4,000; insured for $4,000.
A HEAVY robbery is reported from New Or
l3ans. The runner of the Citizens Bsnl, while
at the Canal Bank, on Monday. placed his bool, |
on the counter and turned around to answer a |
Iaestioh, NhlIe SO engaged some one took |
MS BOOK and substituted another
An elderly lady named Norton was fonnd
dead IN her room at the residence of Col
Jack, a WeH-known lawyer of Brooklyn, Thurs
day morning. There were some eleven nor
sons IN the house, all of whom were prostrated
from the effects. as is supposed of coal oas |
from defective heater
HE bark Nimrod was burned off Perrnnda |
last week, Of seventeen persons on board
only ten were saved. The vessel was loaded |
with iaFt1ia and Kerosene, and an explosion |
iroll some unknown cause took Mace in th, |
hold behind the main-hatch.
1HE arteslan well for J. V. FarwelI & Co
store, IN Chicago, is finished. Wat was
reached at the depth of fifteen hundred feet
and at last accounts was flowing through fbe
tube at the rate of one thousand Gallons na,.
hour. With the exception of one hundred feet
near near tie surface the well passes through lime
HE Office of the Lycoming Fire Insurance
Company at Muncey, Pa, was entered bv
burglars Tuesday night, and one of the safes
blown open. Over thirty thousand dollars Of
registered railroad bonds and stocks were al
sEraoted, ten thousand of which BELONGED t.
the company and the balance to private indi-
Vidual5 1hree suspicious characters have
peeA arrested N connection with the robbery.
HE Union Pacific Railroad Conpanv Is
making survey for narrow-gauge road
from Juleaburg up the South ForE, of the
Platte River to Greeley, Denver and Golden
City, to connect with the Colorado Central
Railroad which they are EXTENDING fo C.ertre1
Clty. Ihls will give the Union Pacific Ra;I
road an independent line into the heart of
California 't'0 l0alV ol
= CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago Times
telegraphs Senator Wilson has been in con-
ference with the opponents of CoIfax. and
hopes ID a few days to have several RepubIi-
3Sh papers present his name for Vice Presi-
o1Ht. Gfant1 however, wants the old ticket !
IGAotluhated while the whole west Il is |
,oiIou, Cie, VIII be either for the Iowa Wilson or
Ooll'A; anu against the New England Wilson.
BAND OF robbers last week removed the
rails on the Madrid and Andalusia Railway.
between Yaldepenas and Manzasares. and
stopped the mail train. They then made an
attack on the train which was resisted BY the
guard Shots were exchanged. and one of
ro,,$715 mn an ohcer and Passenger were
Mouhued Ihe bandits finally gained posses
SION OF tne cars and took all the MONEY tbev
could md some 93, 600 sterling.
1HE supreme Court on Monday, in the case
appealed from the United States Circuit Court
for Kentucky, decided that witness has no
such right IN case to be tried under the civil
right act OF April, 1866, as will give Federal
courts jurisdiction, and that only the Govern |
ment and parties to record in this case are to |
pe affected by the decision therefore an |
averment in an Indictment that imnortant |
witnesses IN the case we're colored and were |
denied the right to testify by Kentucky courts |
this case.
The Washington correspondent of the Chi
caso Times telegraphs that congressman
wilson, OF Iowa, Is developing considerable
strength among the Republicans1n the South
ern states as candidate for the Vice Presi-
dency- All the delegations to the Philadelphia
convention which have been appointed bv
tnose states have expressed themselves in
favor of Wilson. Weu-posted politicians there
seem tc think the contest for the VIce-Presi-
dency at Philadelphia will be between Wilson.
OF Massachusetts,, and Wilson, of Iowa. It is
sad that Colfax is in earnest about retiring
from politics, and that if his name is brought
before the Philadelphia convention it will be
merely to obtain a complimentary vote.
Abroad.
The rinderpest has wholly disappeared from
Belgium.
--uE Erlnca and Drincass r. I.-, III -.