Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-10-23
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men and a boy left Ltchfeld, H., ON the |
Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad on
hand-car, Thursday evening, for their home, |
some miles away. When out a short distance
they were run into by passenger train, anG
Tighe, his wife and child killed.
THEiremains of Fanny Fern will be taken to
Boston for interment.
SIX burglars were foiIed in an attempt to
rob the Merchants Bank at Mottowan, New
Jersey, Monday night, by the courage of
colored woman, who escaped after they had
handcuffed her, and gave the alarm to the
citizens. The robbers succeede1 in escaping
IHEo. S. FOWLER has commenced suit to re-
cover fifty thousand dollars from Thos Nc
Grath, who, as is alleged, obtained by false
papers at the New York Custom House eighty
three bales of goods, the property of the plain
tiff. McGrath was arrested.
4 MIDDLE-AaED man named VIM. Sands, liv-
ing near Hiliiard Station, Ohio, was commit
ted to jail on Friday for committing rape on
his daughter
THE bank of England rate has advanced
one per cent. 1t is now six per cent.
G=o. R. KINGsBURY, cashier of the Lacka
wanna Valley Bank, at Scranton, Pa, was gar
roted, beaten, and gagged Th ursday ev ening
by three men, who nnsuccessfully attempted
to get possession Of the keys of the bank.
SARAH PAYsoN WILLIS, wife Of James Parton,
otherwise known as Fanny Fern,'' died on
Wednesday, in New York city.
A MAN named Fagg was burned to death in
New York city on Wednesday. He is said to
have been an Italian nobeman banished for
political offences, and lived under an assumed
name.
IT is said that fifty thousand dollars have
been already expanded in prosecuting the late
Tammany ring.
A FIRE at Plainf1eld, n J., on Wednesday
damaged property to the extent of $50, 900.
SUPERVISOR HENDRICKS, of Westchester. n.
Z, is reported defaulter to the town of the
sum Of s14O0G
EDMUND SCOTT and James Galma employ
ees at the Philadelphia gas works, fell into a
d rop Thursday morning, and were suffocated.
RoBICHoN and Eyrand, two Communists,
ave been convicted and sentenced to be exc
cuted
MINISTER SoHENoK has left London for
Italy, where he will remain two months.
A PRIZE FIGHT between Tom Kelly and Fred
Bussey took place about twenty miles below
st. Louis on Wednesday, and was won by
Kelly in twenty-eight rounds. Time, 81 min
utes. Busy was badly punished.
FIRE at Sing Sing, Wednesday night con-
umed twenty-seven stores in the principal
business portion of the town. Two persons
were seriously burned. Loss over $3.50, ,OOO
hon. VIM. Fl. SEWARD died in Auburn, n Y,
on Thursday.
THE Secretary of State has received by a
special messenger an official copy of the de-
eision an award of the Geneva arbitration
handsomely engrossed on parchment and
bond, with the signatures of the arbitrators
The document was enclosed in neat wooden
ase, highly polished. The Secretary pre-
sented it to President Grant. It was after
ward taken to the Department to lie deposited
in the archives.
SPEAKER BLAINE visited the Chicago Cham
Der of Commerce, on Monday. In response
to address OF welcome, he made few fell
citious remarks, expressing wonder and ad-
mlration of the city, which was such. he said
as almost to induce the belief that the great
dre was merely a 8 bulln movement in real
estate.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were exDerienced at
Sioux City, Fort Randall, Yankton, and other
points on Wednesday.
ARMSTRONG (Dem.,) has been elected Dele
gate to Congress, from Dakota Territory.
There were two Republican candidates in the
field.
JUDGE JAMES BUCKLEY, of BrooblyD, who
was recently indicted for drunkenness, died
suddenly Wednesday night.
SAMUEL BANCROFr's wooden mill at Me(iea :
Pa, was burned on Wednesday. Loss $780,
0OO
At fire in West Thirty-second street, New
York, Wednesday night, Nicholas Watson, a
boy, was burned to death.
LONDON letter says the publication of the
ponderous judgement ofSir Alex. Coch burn,
dissenting from the award of the the Geneva
arbItrators has had the effect to create a be-
lief that the award was fagrantly unjust to
England.
HE extensive new furnace of the Nine
Lamott Mission Lead Company, at Frederick
town, was burned on Thursday Loss quar-
ter of million dollars. Five hundred men
are thrown )ut of employment.
A RENCoNTRE occurred in st. Louis on We'd
nesday between J. NJ. Turner and Geo. B.
Wedley, colored politicians, in which Wedley
stabbed Turner with a pen knife, inficfing a
serious if not fatal wound
FURTHER trouble bet yeen whites and blacks
IN Oseola, Arkansas, are reported. In a fight
on Wednesday, one negro was killed and sew
eral wounded. The negroes were driven out,
but threatened to return and burn the town.
Abroad.
The Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia has ar
rived at Constantinople. The Sultan has con-
ferred the Order of Osmanie on him. The
Czarowitch Alexander has gone to Vienna at
the invitation of the Emperor Francis joseph.
By the accidental flooding Of coal mine
near Wrexham, Wales, five hundred miners
ave been thrown out of employment.
The workmen in the Havana cigar manu-
factories have inaugerated strike for higher
wages.
FIVE gambling saloons in well known Ger
man watering places have been closed
The race for the Czarowitch stakes "a free
handlcaD), one OF the greatest events of the
English Newmarket Autumn meeting was
run Tuesday, and won by Salvanos. sylvia
was second and Enfield third. Twenty-four
horses ran. The betting just before the star
was II to against Salvanos, 3 to 4 against
sylvia, and II to 1 against Enfield W. Arnull
was the jockey of the winner.
RICHARD WAGNER, the famous composer
who is now on a visit to Bologna, has been Of
fered the freedom Of tnat city, where his opera
"Lohengrin, recently had such great sue
cess.
The Havana newspapers, in commentingson
the report that Spain intended to claim DANA
ges from the United States for the ravages of
the American hibuster steamers, think that
Spain is justified in doing so, and that the
case against the United States is on an equal
footing with that Of the Alabama claims
against England.
A STRAsBoURG telegram says that an official
statement has been made of the result of the