Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-02-14
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IHE Cunard Steamship Line offered To caYrv
Wednesdays European mails free of CHARGE
thus enabling the Postmaster General TO re-
duce the rate of postage to four cents
IHE Captain of the bark Warren HaIlet tes-
tihed on Thursday in Boston that be sbo+
george Little dead while he and other seamen
were mutlnying and beating the second mate.
MAN named John Oburn committed sui
eide IN Joliet, on Tuesday, byshooting himself
with shot gun. The shot took effect in his
heart, causing instant death I'll
sG CHIoAaoANs were highly excited, and MANY
OF tnem elated, on Monday, over a rrnnor that
Gile principal portion of st. Louis had been
destroyed by fire. Unfortunately for Chicago.
there was no truth in the report.
MISS MATTE RALEIGH, aged about tvventv-
one years, only daughter of w. W. Raleigh, a
"en-known citizen of Columbus. Ohio, COM
i'ilIOed suicide, on Tuesday evening. by taking
poison. o' =
oEo' W. WATSON, a Williamsburg hair |
0fesser, was shot dead in his own establish |
Iheht by Mrs. Fanny Hyde, aged 18, who saws |
-sie has been in the habit of insulting and ac
enslng her of unfaithfuluess to her husband. |
1HE commercial agency of Brock Brothers, |
IN Boston, has exploded, leaving 100 voung
men and girls, employed as clerks without
pay, many OF them destitute and among |
strangers.
In New York, on Saturday, a Henry Hepner
while suffering from delirium tremens. shot
and instantly killed his own son. eighteen |
years of age, and then inflicted a mortal wound |
upon himself
JOHN MCKENZIE, miner working in the
henosha coal mines, about three miles from
Lasalle, ILL.,, was instantly crushed to death by
the tall of an immense mass of rock upon him
from the roof of mine
IHE Grand Jury of Hudson county, New
Jersey, indicted "Boss y Burnstead, of the
Board of Public Works, Fire Commissioner
1hos. Fielder, Chief of Police Williams. Police
zSaptaln McHaTney and number of Repub-
hcan politicians, charged with ring Jobs.
PROMINENT Tammany Sachems say that the
amount in the Treasury of that Society is
about thrty-six dollars that the Society has
never since its organization had large bal
Ance on hand, but has often found it's expendi-
cures greater than its income.
EARLY on last Saturday morning, the United
states Quartermaster's Department and Com
Inlssary store, at Madison Barracks, Sackett's
Harbor, N Y, were DESTROYED by fire. All
kinds of stores, clothing, etc., were consumed.
reported loss, 500, 900.
JEFFERSON CALLING has been convicted in
chicago court, of the murder of James Town
send, and sentenced to Imprisonment for life.
Ihls is known as the Pigeon Hole' murder.
CaLlng having deliberately shot Townsend
Mhiie the TWO were engaged in playing pigeon
Hole. = .
DESPATCH from Nice reports terrible
railroad accident in that city on Thursday.
While train from Cameo was crossing
bridge over the Paglione river, the structure
gave way, and the cars were precipitated into
the water Fourteen persons were killed and
wounded
THE Senate, on Thursday, confirmed the
the following nominations: G. A. Straffen-
burg, marshal for Colorado James E, Nc
Caffrey, attorney for Arizona; 2. G. Holmes,
agent for the Yankton Sioux in Dakotah |
IerTltory; s. S. Slater, register at Lewiston,
Idaho.
STEPHEN MORGAN, a-young Baptist Minister,
who has been about five months preaching to
congregation in Cheviot, suburb CT Cincin
matt, was on Friday arrested by a detective for
steahDg books from the Theological and Re-
Ilglou3 Department of the Cincinnati Public
Library.
hal d. Spring, colored, murdered two of his
companions few nights ago, at League Sta
tlon' on the Mississippi Central Railroad.
Ihey mad been employed on the construction
tTaIn ana PAID Off. They had been inducing
IN cards, and Hal had lost his money. He /
tilen murdered the winners, robbed them and
then escaped.
The snlaa pox is raging with great fatality
IN the town of Thayer, Iowa, situated on the
s line of the Burlington and Mississippi Rail
road Over sixty deaths have occurred in
population OF less than one thousand, within
few weeks, and almost every person. old and
young, is down with the disease No trains
on the road are allowed to stop there
MRS WHARTON was admitted to bail in s5. 600
upon an Indictment for attempting to poison
Van Ness, and gave her own personal recog
nlzance, and s., 800 each on the two sureties
VIZ, j. Crawford Nelson and Miss Nellie
Wharton. Mrs. Wharton remains a few DAYS
IN Annapolis at the house Of a friend.
6ENAToR WILSON intends to press the bill
introduced by him to prohibit the deportation
OF natives from the South Sea Islands. IT has
come 10 the knowledge of our government that
cItlzens of the United States are ENGAGED IN |
THIS nefar1ous traffic, The bill proposes to |
break 1t up and imposes heavy fines and
imprisonment on those engaged in it.
SCHEME Is on foot among the officers of
the National Banks of Chicago, for the erec-
ton OF a magnificent building, 400 feet front
py l9c feet deep, to be divided up into ten
apartments on the ground floor for the accom-
modatlon of that number of banking bouses
Ihe building viii be sufficiently large to allow
portlon OF 1t to be set apartfor the use of ex-
press companies.
IHE Senate Judiciary Committee report
upon the memorials claiming the right of
women to vote under the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution.
tna6 thoSe amendments do not confer tha |
tl6hG OF female suffrage, the power of states
70 exclude women from voting being m
touched by these amendments, and indeed.
recognized by the Fifteenth amendment.
a MUTINY occurred on board the brig Casca-
telle, Capt Simmons in the harbor of Port
land Me on Friday afternoon. The crew
- were drunk, and had just been put on board
Ihey went into the forecastle and with drawn
eszkmYes threatened the lives of any who should
approach. While there they got into a fight
among themselves and two of them were hor-
rIbly cut and gashed.
REPORTS from stations along the Union Pa
cltlc indicate the worst blockade of the winter |
Ra Wins station reports that it is now showing
and drifting there. Trains from the West re-
S port THAI they are making no progress, as the
now drifts into the cuts as fast as it is shov-
eled out. train with three engines has been
three days IN getting ten miles. The weather
between Cheyenne and Evanston has been
intensely cold. The thermometer has been as
low as thirty degrees below Zero
Abroad.
IHE Empress Dowager of Brazil has freed
all her personal slaves.
A NEW national federation on a Communist
basis is organizing in Paris
SIR CHARLES dixie was married on Tles-
day, IN Chelsea, to Miss Sheal.
The Emperor and Empress of Brazil leave
Paris on the 30Eh of January.
FIVE persons were drowned in Blackwood
Colhery, England, on Thursday.
The journeymen carpenters of Bru ssels are
on strike, and the masters have closed their
shops.
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