Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25
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abandoned for the present its plan of reduced
premiums, which caused such a commotion in
insurance circles
EARLY Sunday morning fire broke out at
ChesterYille, South Carolina, and before the
flames were subdued half the business portion
OF the city was burned. Loss estimated at
S150,000; about half insured
RoBT. AND STEPHEN DOUGLAS, sons of the
late Senator Douglas, have prepared a claim
for $3.50, 900 TOR their private cotton and other
property taken, used and appropriated in
March, 1863 in Mississippi, by portion of
the army of the United States.
THE pewholders of the Old South Church
have voted, % to in favor of leasing the
building for post-office.
CoMAoDoRE VANDERBILT has abandoned for
the present his underground railway through
New York City.
GENERAL SIGEL has been elected president
of the Society of United Nationalties.
Hon. w. W. SELLERS, prominent Illinois
,ublcans, died at Pekin, Sunday, of typhoid
fever.
THoMAs SANDERsoN, deputy Marshal of
Springfield, ohiU, CIIarged with robbing money
order letters of 50, 1000, waived an examination
before the United States Commissioner. and
was held to answer in sc, 900.
VIM. GARDNER who has been on trial at
Cleveland, charged with poisoning J. Waters,
of Bedford, last March, was acquitted Satur-
day.
NEW organization called the Tammanv
Central Association has Just started in New
York, having among its members John Kel-
ley, Abraham r. Lawrence and other notable
citizens.
Ibos. DUNHAM was arrested in New York on
Saturday for attempting to negotiate bond
Of the state of Missouri which was raised from
Sc to $500. Durham had on his person bonds
representing $40, 900, all of which he admitted
were raised.
JOHN f. kENsETT President of the Artists
Fund Society, and member of the National
Academy, distinguished landscape painter,
died suddenly at his studio, in New York, Sat-
urday afternoon.
The United States steamships Supply and
Guard have been detained by the Government
to carry the goods of American exhibitors to
the Vienna International Exposition.
A NEW YORK Sunday paper states that the
murder of Maud Merrill by her uncle, Robert
T. Bleakley, was caused by her refusal to con-
tlnue to pay him share of her earnings, and
that he vas her real seducer
FIVE men were buried BY the cayinp in of a
trench on the grounds of the Missouri Insane
Asylum, only one Of whom was rescued alive.
BOILER explosion in a mill in Wayne
county, Missouri, demolished the building.
killed four men and wounded three Others
A YOUNG son of F. 2. Machhold upset a coal
oil lamp at Columbus, Ohio, Saturday night,
and was so seriously burned by the fluid that
ne died.
ALL the lists of Electoral Colleges of the
several states for President and Vice-President.
excepting three, have been sent to the Presi.
dent of the Senate by mail, though not more
than one-third of the entire lists required by
law to be delivered to him by messenger have
yet been received. Louisiana sends lists from
two different Electoral Colleges. The two
Houses of Congress, in joint convention, will
determine which list shall be counted on the
second Wednesday of February, the time of
counting all the electoral votes.
EDWIN FORREST, the tragedian, fell dead at
his residence in Philadelphia, on Thursday
while dressing.
THE ship Franklin, en- route from Hamburg
to San Francisco with large number of emf
grants, stranded ON the coast of Vlieland, Is
pieces. Eighty persons perished.
DATER & NAsB's sash and blind factory.
Troy, n. Y, was burned Sunday morning.
Loss s20000-insured $4,000. Fifty employees
lose situations and their tools.
AT Peoria, H., on Wednesday Henry Nc
Nulty was found guilty of numbering his wife
and sentenced to be hung.
IT is proposed to erect an iron monument
to Horace Greeley in Fairmount Park, Phila-
delphia.
GREAT damage was done by hurricane in
Paris and Versailles on Sunday. Several per-
sons lost their lives in both cities
MARY ANN FAGAN, a victim of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel fire, died in great agony at Belle
vue Hospital on Wednesday
JOHN G. MOORE was thrown from horse at
Lincoln, H., and instantly killed He was a
stranger in the town, being engaged by War
rem, Higgins Bean, OF Chicago, in getting up
map of Logan county.
The brush factory of the Lansingburg IN.
" Manufacturing Company, with AL its con-
tents, was destroyed by an incendiary fire Sun
day morning. About two hundred men. wo-
men and children are thrown out of employ
ment, and the loss is variously estimated at
$50, 900 to S350O0
THIRTEEN houses were destroyed by fire at
st. Mary's, Kansas, last SATURDAY.. Loss
heavy.
A DESPERATE in Chattanooga, Tenn on
Saturday, knocked down Mr.. Colwell mer-
chant, and sitting upon his body, stabbed him
terribly with bowie knife, killing him. Then
when his arrest was attempted, he shot and
killed two policemen, and wounded third. af-
terWards escaping across the river in a canoe
THE war vessels Guerriere and Albany we're
sold at auction at the Brooklyn navy yard on
Thursday-the former bringing $4,000 and
the latter $4,000.
Four HUNDRED AND THIRTY Italian immi
grants, most of them from the lower classes
IL Southern Italy, landed at Castle Garden on
Thursday. They state that nearly one thou
sand OF their countrymen are awaiting trans
portation to this country. They have but lit
tie money or baggage.
IHE following are among the combinations
by the Senate on Thursday J. L. Orr. of
South elrolina, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia Julius
White, of Illinois, Minister Resident to the
Argentle Republic; Lucien Hawley, Super |
VISOR Of Internal Revenue, Uice Sias B. Dutch |
er, resigned Alexander D. Dutton, Supervisor
OF internal Revenue, appointed during the |
recess ofCongress; Alex Knowles, Associate |
justice Of the Supreme Court in Montana |
Territory Nelson Rustler, United Stltes At |
torney for Indiana
FIRE at Galva, H., On Thursday DESTROYED
ole OF the largest business houses left by the
recent confagration. Two Swedes are under
arrest on suspicion of having caused the fire.
CAPTAIN A. h. BoGARDUs. the celebrated
crack shot, met with a serious accident near
Ekhart Indiana, on Monday. He was riding
II wagon, when sudden jolt discharged his
gun, sending lis contents through his thigh
making hole six inches in length by one and
pa inches wide and deep. The wound, |
though serious and painful, is not necessarily