Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-06-26
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A SFsTE Temperance Convention Will prob
ably be held at Saratoga, N. Y, the latter part
Of July to adopt measures to secure united and
efficient temperance action in future. 8 u
THE ministerial investigators having acquit-
ted DR.. Huston, the Baltimore ibertine, he
viii it is stated, presshis suit fo1]ibel against
the Ral aaaore american. ~~z9 sse
A GRAND CONCERT was given in SRngerfest
Hall, at st. Louis, @on Thursday evening
Fully fifteen thousand people were present.
The concert was rendered by /, 800 male sing
crs and an orchestra of 1853 performers
The body Of VIZ 7. Williams, prominent
business man Of eieyeland who was drowned
II the lal spIace, nile bas' i,'g, several
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.=sa-aa.n.s,sss- Nssceat suffolK Park,
PhladelpB,ia baswean Jay Gould and Lucy.
The race xFAs Won by Jay Could IN three
Strsight aeass. Time .2:2asz, 2:s6zls rps
Tna Isf6aE1ent has nominated William H.
Chesbrough Assistant seeIetaryof Legation at
London, vice Max Woodruff resigned.
one apd one-half tons is tie average
amount OF silver bullion received at Omaha
daily by express from the West, mostly from
Salt Lake Oiby.
Robert Fl Milroy has been confirmed Su-
perintendent of Indian Affairs for Washington
Territory, and John Ne. Thatcher, Assistant
Commissioning of Patents
Gov JEwIsLL, of Connecticut, has offered a
further reward OF s2, 600 for heaarest of the
muEderers of Capt CalyorcresH.
The cornerstone of the new Court Honse at
indianapolis was laid on Tuesday, with i'm
posire e ceremonies. The structure viii cost
$500, 600.
A SPECIAL from Richmond, Indiana, says a
heavy thunderstorm passed north of there.
about dark Thursday evening, and that the
storm Of the last few days did great damage
in some OF the adjoining counties.
The bonded indebtedness of counties in the
state OF Kansas for railroads, already
amounts to the enormous sum of $50, ,OOC 600.
THE amount of spproprlations involved in
the sllndry civil appropriation bill is upward of
@l2, 100000.
The Yerk Superin tendent. of Public In
strdct ior has decided against excluding chill
dren from the public schools for a refusal to
read the Bible. r---sae ~
HENRY ALBRIGHT was shot and probably
killed by H. McCusblin, near Indianapolis, on
Friday. A family quarrel led to the affair
Both are farmers. McCushlin waylaid his vic
DoGaETT & Co., wholesale confectioners of
Indianapolis, have just discovered loss of
some S., 900 through the defalcation of their
bookkeeper.
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the Junction iron mine, near Negaunee, Mich,
was almost instantly killed on Friday, by a
blow from the lever of a brake, which was let
of before he could get clear. s ..
A AHAnsToRar of Extraordinary severity pass
ed over North Adams, Mass, on Thursday.
Some of the hail stones were from seven to
eight and a. half inches in circumference, and
hundreds Of panes of glass were broken.
The Pacific Coast Hrecking Company have
received adYices from the expedition sent to
the s0ast of Ecuador to raise the treasure
sunk on the Spanish frigatc Leocoda. They
have commenced raising it with prospect of
complete success,
SEcRErABY boutwell, has condemned the
block between Seventh and Eighth streets and
Washington and Christy avenues in st. Louis,
as site for the Government buildings in ad-
dition to the sites heretofore authorized to be
COndemned.e #
ONE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND cubic
yards of gold-bearngH cement was thrown down
by a single blast of two hundred and fifty
pounds of giant powder at Dutch fiat on
Monday. So says a telegram from San Fran
cisco. esa#
At Manchester. n. H.. on Tuesday Mrs.
Woford and Miss Anne Therien were bound
over IN the SUM of $500 each, on a charge of
attempting to poison Daniel Wolford, husband
Of the former, with oxide acid administered
with medicine. Neither Of the women DENY
the charge. WolfoEd Is about sixty years of
age.
An official statement, prepared BY the Comp
troller, shows that on Nav 31st the outstand-
ing debt of New York was S111. .838, ,788. SO.
There has been no interest paid on the CITY
debt duIng the year. The total county debt
amounts to So, ,683, 800. The total city and
county debt amounts to S124. .451 25S. Sc. In
the county debt there has been in five months
2 net increase of 81, 554, 506, SO that the city
and county debts show an increase during the
current year of So, I'll.
THE New York Bulletin publishes tables
showing that the gold balances in the treasury
and those in the sub-treasury are actually
short 81 600 900 and that this S21 600, 900 has
not been accounted for IN any treasury exhibit
heretofere published The Bulletin says that
on Apn 2,sth5 balance in the treasury was
~lzY, SIS, ,g00; O1e May l, the amount was S10S-
953, 756, while the amount held at the sub
treasury had decreased IS, ,000, 000 between the
same dates, showing that no GOLD had been
transferred here. No explanation of tLis de-
Icency Is glvep N the last treasury exhibit. s
At Plymouth, Ind, on Saturday, a party of
from forty 90 fifty young men proceeded to
house OF Il-fame kept.bys one Locke and de-
stroyed the windows and furniture, and every
thing they could lay hold Of Thence they
proceeded to another house. kept by a woman
named Dunham. and gave the inmates fifteen
minutes to leave the premises, which they did
The mob then demolished the whole house.
leaving nothing but the roof standing. In all
they demolished six houses of the same class
At some of the houses the male occupants
were seized aud eowhidea. e i- s---1
GEORGE Dunn, an adroit swindler, who
realized at least $5O,O 900 by his operations the
past four years has been arrested and COM
mitted for trial in New York city. His plan
has been to represent himself as a wealthy
landed proprietor in Columbia county. anx-
lous to purchase blooded stock. As he is a
mar OF respectable appearance and good ad-
dress, he, IN almost every instance, succeeded
N inducing bis victims to accept his notepa
able IN one, two. or three months after date.
~ return for valuable horses and carriages
THE boiler atthe Coshocton COhio) Iron and
Steel Works exploded with heavy report, at
Two o'clock. on Monday afternoon. badly dam
aging the main building, and almost entirely
demolishing one wing. -Four OF five of the
workmeI{ were severely injured, but none fa-
ally.
Abroad.
LoNDoN papers represent the famine in Per,
sia worse than ever.
THg great event of the French racing season,
the contest for the prize of Paris, was won
easily by Cremorne, the winner of the Derby,
who came ia two leuGths ahead of Barbillon.
beine was third
IHE treaty giving Germany working control
over the Luxembourg railways has been sign
ed The Germans stipulate never to make
use Of the. roads for the transportation of
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