Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-09-11
NO. A.
MiscelLaneon News in Brief.

A FARMER named Kane Higgins was
murdered in MYSTERIOUS manner at
Winetka on Sunday last. A German
laborer named W q. Schweiger has
been arrested on ST spicion of commit
ting the deed.
THOMAS DowLINa and John MeCor-
mack were shot by colored waiter in
st. Louis on Monday night last. g
@. Ell. REMINGTON, foreman of the D.
and L @. Machine shops, and Charles
Hargus, little son of the City Record
er, were drowned on Monday, at Du
buque
G. W. MARTIN, of Pixley county.
Tennessee, who a few DAYS ago mur-
dered his wife and threw her body into
a pond, was taken out of Jail on Sun
day night by twenty armed men, taken
a few rods from the jail, and twelve
charges of buckshot, from as many
guns, emptied into his body. .-.
VIM. FL. PYNE, agent of the Roberts
Torpedo Company, was blown to atoms
at Titusiylle, Pa, on Monday, by an
explosion of nitro -glycerine
A LOCOMOTIVE and two freight cars
laden with whiskey were smashed. and
the whlskey burned, Tuesday, at Jersey
City, by collision with another train.
Loss $141, 900.
FORGED drafts for large sums have
recently been presented to various
banks IN the West.
Rev. JAMES RoosEvELT BAILEY of
Newark, has been appointed Arch
bishop of Baltimore, vice Spaulding, de-
ceased. af
JOHN B Lyon & Co, and Hugh
Maher, managers of the great wheat
corner have been expelled from the
Chicago Board of Trade.
ROBERT DEAL, his two grandchildren,
Miss Snyder, and a coachman, were all
killed at a crossing near Philadelphia,
Monday night, by a locomoti smash
ing their carriage.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars worth of property was DESTROYED
by a railway smash-up at Philadelphia
on Tuesday.
THE yellow fever is epidemic at Car
thagena.
RIrTAR, LEvERsoN & Co., London
diamond brokers, in a communication
to the Times, state that few months
ago an American came to this city and
bought large number of diamonds in
the rough. These, they intimate, were
used by the alleged discoverers of dia-
mond mines in Arizona to sustain their
assertions.
TIE cholera is reported raging in
India and fatalities are enormus. Thou
sands have died in the city of Lahore,
and other large places.
RELIABLE reports from all parts of
Alabama represent the destruction of
cotton by worms more thoroughly than
ever before. Fears of almost universal
bankruptcy among planters are enter
tained.
A COAL breaker at Hyde Park, Pa,
burned on Friday. Loss $4,000.
KET1s' card and trimming factory, at
Hunters Point, n. Y, is burned. Loss
$500, 900. One hundred and fifty
hands are thrown out of employment.
Two cases of silks valued at $4,000
was stolen by burglars, who cut through
brick walls of the bonded warehouse
on the Cunard dock, Jersey City,
Thursday night.
THE recent failures in London had
the effect to fatten consols and cause
general feeling of insecurity in fnan-
cial circles.
francis MoRoNEY, a young stone
cutter in New York, is reported to have
fallen heir to an English estate valued
at 100000.
Some days ago two desperadoes, Nc.
Clellan and Wright, got INTO quarrel
at Hays City, Kan, in which Wright
was killed, and Mcclellan badly
wounded. Mcclellan was placed in
jail, and chained to post with Pony
Donovan, u noted horse thief. The
second night after the murder a band
of citizens visited the jail and killed
both Mcclellan and Donovan.