Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-11

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FfyE HUNDRED workmcn were on Saturday
discharged from the Charlestown navy yard.
JupaE KEcKEL, OF the United States District
Court at jefferson City, Mo, has recovered
Judgment for the government of $4,000
against Geo. D. Orner, late collector of inter
nal revenue for the fifth district of that state
JupaE BNLEy, highly esteemed citizen
aud prominent lawyer Of Canton, Miss, sui
ciied last week by taking morphine.
A FIGHT is reported in Oregon between a
company Of U, 5. troops and the Moderes In
diaoS, in which fifteen Indians, one soldier
and two citizens were killed and four soldiers
Wounded All the indian women and children
and many horses were captured. at last ac-
counts the fight was still going on, both sides
expecting reinforcements. Four Indian chiefs
are among the slain.
JoHN II. s. BOND, editor of the Sciota Ca
zette, and western journalist of twenty-nine
years standing, died in Chillicothe on Sunday.
CHARLES CONWAY, a fireman of the steamer
Missouri, in giving the story of the loss of the
vessel, tells also the story of the loss Of Col
Albert S. Evans, agent of the Associated Press
at San Francisco. He said he was on the boat
which was bottom up, and hauled Stewart out
of the water while trying to right it. Evans
was in the water. In about twenty minutes
he went down.
The leather betting manufacturers have
advanced the price Of leather betting ten per
cent.
THE Financial Chronicle intimates that
number Of parties in iutcrior cities were COM
promised by the Northwestern corner, whose
cases are yet to be made public.
- stea-ler Littlo Rock, with $50 bales of
sunk, about sixty miles below Pine
on q. She lies with her bow in six
Get, and aen rreighteen feet of water. The
steamer is valued at s13, 900
TIE Rev. Samuel Watson, of Memphis, was
detected writing book entitled ''The Clock
Struck One" by the Memphis Conference of
y the South the book being defence of Spirit
ualism, and containing numerous letters pur-
porting to be from former residents of Mem
phis long since deceased the Doctor made
full apology and agreed to withdraw the book
from sale as far as possible.
The roof of the new gas building at Cam
bridgeport fell through on Friday, injuring
two men. Loss $4,000
NEPHI HALL was shot and killed by Chas.
Baden, at Springville, Utah, recently.
GEN. MAXWELL has served notice upon Geo.
D. Cannon, of his intention to contest the
alters election to Congress from Utah.
SECRETARY DELANo is dangerously ill.,
THE forthcoming report of the Secretary of
the Treasury will, it is said, contain the only
correct statement of the public debt ever is
sued.
The jail at Homer, Louisiana, was fired by
negro prisoners on Friday night and totally
destroyed.
SATURDAY was a bad day for horses Seven
were burned to death in Troy, and twelve in
Fitchburg, Mass, by the destruction of stables.
The oil mandatory Of c. NJ. Stratton, in
Philadelphia, was burned on Saturday.
The legislature or North Carolina remains
at a dead lock on the Senatorial question.
The last ballot on Saturday stood, Vance 72,
Merrimon 81, Pool IS.
The Nashville Banner suggests, in view of
the complication presented in the electoral
college by the death Of Horace Greeley, that
the Southern States which voted for the de-
ceased cast their vote in the electoral college
for Grant, in graceful and under the circum-
stances appropriate, acquiescence to the over
whelming popular verdict of the November
election.
The Atlantic steamship companies have
agreed to carry steerage passengers between
New York and Liverpool at $50 per head. The
National line rate is 500.
JUDGE SILAs B. STRONG, of the Supreme
Court of New York, died on Long Island, Fri
day, aged 81 years.
JUDGE FANCHER discharged Carl Vogt on
Saturday, but the latter was Immediately
rearrested on a civil suit brought by the Bel
gian Consul, to recover the amount said to
have been stolen by Vogt.
WALLACK's THEATRE, New York, was dam
aged by fire last Friday night.
JUDGE BARNARD, of New York, has decided
the new shipping law constitutional.
TIE steamer Pinero has been I1st off tn
harbor of Havana, with d cargo of cattle.
ADyIoEs from San Domingo report that the
troops of Baez killed Gen. John Lynch while
the latter was on HaYtien territory.
A TYPHooN near Manila destroyed three
hundred houses. A Spanish brig was lost
with all on board but one. Several other ves-
sells We're also totally lost.
SAMUEL WENTzEL, German consul at Hong
Kong, died October 7.
Abroad.
CAPTAIN A. G. REID, Of the American Navy
was banqueted last week in Malta, by Admiral
Ingelfeld, the commandant of the station
LIE FRANC has rendered his resignation to
President Theirs. This is in consequence of a
vote of the French Assembly, 3O5 ayes to 299
nays, declaring that the Municipal councils
had violated the laws of the country, and that
LIE Franc, il receiving the addresses for the
President, had also failed to observe them.
1t is stated that all of the ministers have ten
tered their designations, and that Theirs Will
also probably resign.
The German Emperor has by decree seat
ed twenty-five peerssout of the ranks, govern
ment officials, generals, and landowners.
DISPATCHES from st. Johns, N. B., announce
heavy storm along the coast, and the loss OF
many vessels, some with all on board.
Congressional Summary.
SEN ATE The Sapata m Of of poo,, 90,