Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-11-27

to hsve been accidental.
WILLIAM YoKEN. of Pike county, ILL.,. had ter
hesd OF fine horses poisoned to death on We'd
nesday night. The lot was valued at nearly
$500.
MAN named c. W Allen. mail agent or
the Illinois Central railroad. was robbed an6
thrown into the river at Sioux City, Iowa, Oh
Friday night, but succeeded in getting out o.
the water andwas picked up and cared for by
people living near by.
ALONG the line of the Hudson River terri
BILE disease has broken ont among the poultry
Chickens are dying by hundreds. Turkeys
geese and ducks in the New York market show
signs of the malady. The disease appears tc
be assuming the form of destructive pesti
lence among domestic fowls.
DRoPsY, the new horse disease, has made it:
appearance IN all the car stables in New Yorl
city. Fifty per cent. ofalI the horses attacked
are said to die, and the horses affected are
mainly those worked while suffering from the
epizootc.
A DISPATCH from Phillipsburg, Pa, states
that there is great excitement i'll the mining
regions consequent upon general strike of
miners upon an advance of ten cents per ton
The operators refuse to give the advance
Sixteen mines are now idle, all of the miners
in them have quit work.
On Saturday night Wilson & Sons silver and
plated ware manufacturers, corner of Fifth
and Cherry streets, Philadelphia, were robbed
of So 900 worth Of property.
New YORK Insurance circles are excited over
rumors that Judges in an adjoining county
are ready to appoint receivers upon e1-pdrte
statement, with the view of making money out
of the misfCrtunes of companies.
A LOCOMOTIVE on the Atlantic and Great
Wectern Railroad exploded at Bowlesville, six
miles north of Springfield, Ohio, Saturday,
tearing up the track, wrecking the train, kill
ing the engineer, John M. Mavnes, the brake
man, L. D. Carter, and fatally scalding the
fireman, J. Dovoss.
The new coal shaft, penetrating the bluff be-
tween LaSalle and Peru, Illinois, the sinking
of which was commenced last July, has reach
ed the second stratum of coal, five feet in
thickness, at depth of 245 feet, and the coal
is remarkably free from sui phur pyrites.
VIM. ?. SHERMAN, chief of the stamp divi.
sion OF Internal Revenue, has resigned, to take
effect January first. Il is understood Sherman
has been appointed treasurer Of the New York
and Erie Railroad
By the breaking of a platform on the third
floor of The new Herald building in New York,
Monday afternoon, five workmen were precipi-
tated into the basement, and Jerome Norma
IA, John Farrill, and John McCurdy fatally in
jured.
JAMES G. KING, formerly stock broker, shot
one ONeil dead in New York, on Monday. A
family difficulty was the cause.
Coal MINES are ON fire at Evanston, near the
head of Echo Canon, Utah.
GEN. NEWTON, United States Army. express
ses the opinion that the use of gunpowder is
injudicious to step the pro sress of a fire. Civ
ing preference to dualine and giant powder,
which do not scatter combustble debris, but
cut building close off to the foundations and
piers, and let's it fall vertically.
The state fire building, police charities and
dock departments of New York city will be
abolished by Legislative actin this winter.
In the United States Circuit Court, at New
York, on Saturday, Judge Shipman decided
against the government in a suit to recover
$4,000 from Benz. J. Cahoon, the alleged de-
faultIng paymaster in the navy, and sureties,
holding that Cahoon was Iunatic, and una
BILE at the time Of entering into his bond to
make any contract whatever.
JUDGE SHEA of the New York Marine Court
has decided that knowledge on the part of an
agent, not communicated to his principal that
premises are to be used for improper purposes
cancels the claim for commission or brokerage
HE people.of Arizona protest against chang
ing the territory to the Department of Mexico,
and the assignment of General Howard. or any
one else, to tie command, in place of General
Crooks
THIRTY vessels are in San Francisco to load
with wheat. The inward boundi feet due be-
fore April 1st is composed of one hundred and
eighty vessels.
TWENTY inches of snow is reported at Ango-
Ia, New York.
The government steam saw-miII at Bedford
ID: T., was entirely destroyed by fire on Tues
day night. By good luck, there was no wind
at the time of the fire, and the loss Of the
mills constitutes the whole of the disaster.
The loss is more than ordinarily severe. as the
navigation of the Missouri River has closed.
and the machinery cannot be replaced before
spring.
ON Tuesday night, as colored man named
John Smith, OF Mansfield, Pa, arrived at
home, found a white man with his wife. He
shot at the white man several times. but he
escaped unhurt. Smith then kicked and poun
ed his wife, inficting injuries from which she
hrs died. Smith was arrested, and, on his
way to the lookup, shot himself, inficting a
ound which may prove fatal.
A VERY serious, and perhaps what will prove
fatal stabbing affray, occurredin the Central
House, in Pana, ILL.,, between Bill Marray and
Charley Humphrey Murray is very low with
his wounds, and viii probably die. Humphrey
received an ugly cut IN his wrist
BERNARD STEINER, German employel in
L Kneirs dry goods establishment, No. 1872
North avenue, Chicago committed suicide
Thursday morning, about six O'Clock, by hang
ing himself from hook in the ceiling of his
room.
THERE is considerable curiosity in Washing
ton, to know why Governor Wells of Virginia.
has just bought S25, 600 house in that CITY.
The celebrated Barnes will was admit
ted to probate in Mount Vernon, Indiana. 1t
involves property valued at $1,000
Col. MCDANIEL offers to match his stables.
three races against any horse or horses in the
"orId, TO name at least two, three and four
mile heats for ten or twenty thousand dollars
each; the races to be run over the Saratoga
course any time between the last of July and
and September 1st, 1878.
HE proposition to raise fund for monu-
ment over the remains of Walter Brown meets
with favor among boatmen.
a SERIES of well-deined gold-bearng veins
nave been discovered near KelIy's Ford, Va.
n'e miles from Rappahanock Station. The
surface rock OF gold-bearing quartz yields from
sixty to one hundred dollars per ton. Three
tunnels are now being worked through rich
rock, and everything gives ev vidence of perma-
N ency.
COAL shipments by canal from SchuvlkiIl
Fa'. have been suspended on account of the
horse disease. usiness in Cincinnati and
Louisville is greatly impeded from the same
cause.