Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-04-03
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The cotton-waste warehouse of Jon atha
odge, at Holmesburg, Penn, was burned on
Friday morning. Loss $4,000.
The steamer Charmer struck rock while
descending the falls at Louisville, on Thurs
day, and sunk. The boat was valued at S10,-
900.
The Touring mill of Zesighouse & Brother
corner of North Second and Jefferson streets
was burned on Sunday morning. Loss $780,
600.
The harness and saddle mandatory of E.
P. Mover Bros, 720 Market street. Philadel-
phia, was burned on Saturday night Loss
$85, 900.
The Methodist Episcopal Church at New
York Mills was destroyed by fire on Saturday
Loss $50, ,000-insured for $4,000 The fire
was caused by defective fue.
HARTFORD, Conn, has voted to purchase
the Trinity College grounds for the extension
of the park and site for new State House.
The price to be paid therefor is s6OO,0O
THERE we're about II, 900 bushels of wheat,
$4,000 bushels of corn, and $4,000 bushels of
oats destroyed by fire in the Ohio elevatar at
Buffalo
BURGLARS entered the warehouse Of c
Moorman, in Shelbyville, Tenn, killing a clerk
named Michael Murphy, blew open and robbed
safe of $500, and then burned the building
BOY named Rowe, nine years old, got on
behind an omnibus in Covington, Ky. The
driver drove him off, and the lad fell down
and baggage e-wagon ran over him az ! killed
him.
IT is stated that fully $12,0 of Eris
stock are now under control Gould,
half of it his private property. a, . rumored
that he retired from the board merely to en-
able him to renew the fight.
The New York Post calls on Connecticut to
strike death blow to the Democratic party
before the national canvass begins, on the
ground that in Connecticut the Democracy
have adopted the same old platform.
The typhus and typhoid fevers are prevalent
in the House of the Good Shepherd, Brook
lyn. There are forty-two cases now there,
including four of the Sisters of Mercy, while
another of the latter has died.
A CORRESPONDENT recently returned to Eng
land from the Cape diamond fields, gives the
following account: During the spring of this
year the value of the stones discovered did
camps no less than sc, 900 people were engaged
in digging or supplying the wants of diggers.
Since then, however, the supply has been
nearly tripled, owing to the discovery of a
small field of extraordinary richness. Nearly
four-ffths of the whole amount of diamonds
come from a little hillock of only twenty acres
extent, to which half the mining population
has fiocked.
Boston had a snow-storm on Friday last,
~, rL,ob LII HoJ-.
greenish-brown worms, an inch long. They
crawled away IN lively manner as soon as
they struck the ground The same phenom~
enon was witnessed at Somerville. Mass.
The subscription books for monument to
Gen. Thomas will be opened the 1st of May
1T is proposed to raise 500, 900, or S., 900 from
each of the twenty states. The monument
will be at Washington, West Point or in New
York Central Park.
THE aggregate issues of the Chicago relief
and aid societies to March I'd were l. ,46O, III
articles or yards of goods. Among these are
over q. 900 mattresses, over so, 600 blankets
$4,000 pairs of shoes, 283 900 articles of cloth
ing, $4,000 bedsteads, 10000 stoves and 80. 900
tons of coal.
LAWRENCE GIBBONS, shot on the steamer
Abina two months ago by Thomas Worthing.
Louisville. He had not lain down since the
affray. The only sleep he has had since he
was shot, was by laying his head on a table
while sitting in a chair.
Two Americans, Capt. Cunningham and
Mr. Simpson, we're severely wounded BY
Nlcarauguan soldiers for neglecting to remove
their hats In presence of religious procession
at Nicaragua. Both had been in the country
but fortnight, and neither understood Span
TGh I1n
matter.
A NEW review of the candidates for Mayor OF
New York, gives the name of Comptrolle1
Green, ex-Sheriff John Kell, Senator O'Brien,
W. h. Wlckham, and F. Havemeyer, Chairman
of the Committee of Seventy The Germans
name Ottendorfer, Whithars, Augustus Schell.
and Emil Sauer. Banker Kelly, is still Tam
many's favorite, and Wickham, of Apollo Hall.
IT was rumored in Washington, on Mon
day evening, that Chief Justice Chase
intends to go to New York for the
purpose of urging August Belmont and other
prominent Democrats of that locality to hold
straight out party Convention, notwith-
standing the Cincinnati movement Chase is
said to regard Judge Davis prospect for the
Democratic nomination with much jealousy
The workmen in the mines of the Roth
sch1lds at Wittnowitz, in Moravia, enraged at
the non-payment of their wages, attacked the
office of the Superintendent. Gaining an en-
trance. they burst open the safe and appropri-
ated the contents. They then demolished the
building. The soldiers were called out and
tired on the rioters. Four were killed fiftv
wounded, and one hundred arrested Order
has been restored.
GEN. RosENcRANz, Gen. Palmer and wife
Leon P Acosta, and Richard York, civil engin-
Lad 11y +ho d.,
New York, for Mexico. on Monday morning.
They will land at Manzanillo and follow the
route of the Seward party across the CONT
nent, making q preliminary railroad survey.
They expect to commence active operations for
the construction of the Luxpan Railroad and
connections immediately.
EDWARD Cook, young married man, living
IN the vicinity of Charlestown Landing Ind,
was found dead IN skiff floating down the
river on Saturday afternoon half mile below
the landing. He had gone out to hunt ducks
with ouble-barreled shotgun One barrel
OF the gun was discharged and the hammer
broken oft. The contents lodged in Cooks
side and breast. Il is supposed he shot him
self accidentally.
A FATAL shooting affray occurred On the
morning of the 18th inst. at the rancho ot
Mayor Crane, near Carmop Citv. Col. be-
d.
were at the breakfast table, when a dispute
arose about the size of the potatoes in disl
before them. The lie was. given Tindal
seized butcher-knife and attacked Hanna
Hanna picked up pistol and shot his assaiIan
several times, from which death ensued
Hanna was arrested.
Abroad.
THE first steamer of the new French line be
tweenYalparaiso ard Panama has arrived il
the Pacific.
IT is rumored that General Bourbaki hal
sent challenge to Marshal BaraguoY d.
Hilliers.
PRINCE NAPOLEON, who is now in Rome, hal
had an interview with His Majesty King Victo
Emmanuel.
SEVEN persons were drowned by the upset
ting of boat of the British steamer Bagota
at Eten, on Feb. IS.
THE several parts of the monument to b,
erected to Gen. Rodman, of Rock Island. hav,
arrived at that place. -...
THE bark Delta picked up at sea seventy
three persons, who escaped in boats from th,