Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-05-15
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on Saturday.
A Boston broker named David Nichols has
been arrested on the charge of forging the
name OF Horace Saunders, another broker, for
50 875.
A SERIOUS difficulty has occurred between
New Jersey and Delaware fishermen, concern
ing the fishing boundaries between the two
states
SEVERAL children were injured, but not Sc
rIously, during panic occasioned by a fire in
the rear of public school in One Hundred
and Twenty-ffth street, New York, on Tues
day.
STATEMENT, recently widely published
that Col. Casey, Collector of the port of New
Orleans, had drawn $32, 900 from the Treasury
as moiety pei attaining to his Office is said to be
untrue.
FIRE in Akron, Ohio Saturday morning,
entirely destroyed the office of the Akron
Beacon, together with three joweIfy stores of
o. III. Remington, J. b. Stow & Co., and H. s.
Abbey. Loss about $50, 900; partially insured
The mails received on Saturday by the JAP
anese Embassy at Washington, to March Is,
show that the reports of the persecution Of
Christians in Japan are untrue and grew out
of the conviction of counterfeiters
PATRICK DoNAHUE, publisher Of the Boston
Pilot, presented the Catholics in the north
section of Boston, on the occasion of the Goth
birthday of Bishop Williams, with st. Johns
Hail, worth $25, ,O0O
The house of John Jennings, on Atlantic
avenue, Brooklyn, was burned Tuesday night.
His wife and three children escaped from the
burning building by means of sheets tied to-
gether. Loss $4,000; insured for So, OO0
Work on the new Academy of Fine Arts. in
Philadelphia, Will commence at once. TWENTY
one gentlemen have subscribed $40. 900 each
and four SO, 600 each. The total subscribed
is $3.50, 600. The lot and building will cost
half a million dollars
TELEGRAM from Kingston, N. Y, states
that the fires on the mountains continue.
Fires are also raging along the line of the Os-
wego and Rondout Railroad, where large
quantities of wood and railroad ties have been
burned.
CAPT. MIENHoLD, of the Third Cavalry, in
pursuit of the Indians who drove off the stock
near MCPHERSON, Nebraska, on the 9th. sue
caeded in overtaking twenty of them on the
Loupe. Three Indians were killed and a Dor
ton OF the stock recaptured.
TIE Washington Chronicle, whose editor is
Executive Clerk of the Senate, makes the as
sertion that it is a fact within the knowledge
of the editor, that Senator Robertson. of South
carolina, paid forty thousand dollars to secure
his election to the United States Senate.
DURING severe thunder storm Sunday
night, lightning ran down the stoTepipe of
house four miles from Ackley, Iowa. instantly
killing two of the occupants Patrick Cassidy
and Peter Burns. The other occupants of the
house were unlnjured. The house also escap-
ed damage.
THE American Society for the Prevention of
cruelty TO Animals held their annual meeting
and reelected FL. Bergh president and Henry
C1ews treasurer. The treasul ers report shows
a balance IN cash of S22, ,00O together with
100000 bequeathed by the French Board and
S2uo'O00 secured by other requests
IHE annual statement of the Minister o f
Marine and the Fisheries shows, as the ac-
tual produce of the fisheries under the Do
mlnIon for the year, 575, 732, 900; being an ex-
cess over the previous year of nearly million.
amount OF capital engaged, S15.0OOOO0: COL
iecuon, such as fishing rents, licenses, fines.
&C; Slz40O0; expenditures, $40, 600: expense
oil the marine police, $40, 000
HE late Quincy Tufts, of Boston. leaves bv
his Will $4,000 to Harvard Coles. for the ed
ucation of INDECENT students, s.. 1000 to Am
herst College, and s., 900 to the Atkinson N.
h Academy, for like purpose: SIC. 600 to
! Iue town OF weymouth, for a free library
lectures, ETC.; $4,000 to the NassacbT7setfss
General Hospital for free beds, and some san
o0V 10 be distributed among the city charitable
Institutions. 'io
Early tuesday morning, three men on A.
wagon hLed with milk cans, drove to Jno. NJ
Stearns, silk factory, 213 to 521 Fast 49d
street, New York. One of them knocked or
the once door, which was opened nv tbe nor
!er, Mlchael Sherry, and while he was engaged
IN conversation, another st171cJ, him o2, ~
mead with club and he fell insensibIe. He
was then gagged and bound, and s., ,OO0 worth
OF silks stolen. No arrests.
Abroad.
A LONDON dispatch announces the death of
Horace Mayhem, the well-known Iiterateur
BISHOP FEssLER, who officiated as secretary
Of the late Ecumenical Council, is dead.
4 POLAR Expedition is projected, under the
auspices of the Royal Geographical Society of
England.
FRINGE HUMBERT, of Italy, expected in
Berlin to return the visit of Prince Frederick
Charles to the royal family Of Italy.
IT is reported that Bismarck has sent 70
hlnS Amadeus 1O,OO0,900f, to be used in put
tnS down the Spanish insurrection.
A LARGE number of members of the Inter
national Society have been arrested at LYONS
a BATTLE has been fought at JaudeIia, in
Bayarre, Spain, between the government
troops and insurgents. The latter were de-
trated, with loss of 300 killed and wounded.
The Swiss Government having demonstrated
against the maintenance of the French pass
port system with regard to Switzerland. while
at IS abandoned for England and Belgium Or
ders have been issued that passports no longer
be required of travellers to and from Swltzer-
land
GoRToN, convicted Of participating in the
slaughter of hostages under the Commune.
has been shot at Satory. Blanqui has been
sentenced to transportation for life.
Two thousand cartmen in Liverpool have
struck work, and all business on the dock and
warehouses Is interrupted in consequence
Upwards of one thousand laborers are threwn
out of employment by the action Of the cart
men.
The labor troubles in Berlin continue. The
builders and master masons have Joined the
master carpenters in the lockout movement
Thousands Of working men are thrown ont of
euDlONntGu
y DISPATCH from Bayonne states that a large
number of French troops have been stationed
at this end of the bridge leading from Vera. in
Neyarre, Spain, across the Bidossoa River to
reyent the retreatng of Carlists into France.
1t is now believed that the movement of Don
Carlos is a failure.
A DISPATCH from Bayonne confirms the re-
port that the Carlist leader Roda, with his
command, has fled into France closely pur-
sued by Spanish forces. The French troops
on the Spanish frontier disarm and return all
Carllsts who escape into France.
The eruption of Yesuvius has entirely ceas-
ed. The inhabitants of the villages which
were threatened with destruction by lava have
returned to their homes. A hurricane of ter
rible violence swept over the devastated coun-
Try, greatly damaging the villages and remain
ng crops
A PARTY Of French half-breeds went up the