Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-01-15
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Secretary Boutwell, will receive nearly four |
ffths Of all the votes IN the Legislature for the
UnitedStates senatorship. It is also stated
that Ben. Buffers advocacy of Boutwell,
against Dawes has alone prevented the Seere-
tarys nomination from being made unani-
nous.
THE friends Of Senator Blair consider his
election almost certain.
e THE Canterbury Theatre on Broadway re-
Gently a concert saloon, has failed and will be
closed out at auction next week. Its perform
anees have been vulgar beyond precedent its
former corps oftifty waiter girls figuring in
programme Of shameless and indecent dia-
logue. It is something to the credit of New
= York, that the place has not had paying
audience since it opened. - e..
SECRETARY BoUTwELL in a recent CONVEX
sati j on the subject of the public debt, said
he wouldnot be greatly astonished if there
were not further apparent increases of the in
debtedness of government hereafter Mr..
Boutwell, it is stated, still adheres to his opin-
ion of last year, that it was unwse to reduce
the taxes to such an extent done last
winter, through the efforts, mainly, of Senator
Sherman. gIe s..
A LARGE storehouse belonging to the Green
leaf Machine Works at Indianapolis, was
burned on Saturday Loss $4,000.
DISPATCHES from Queenstown, Birmingham
and Southampton, report that tempest of
unprecedented violence ragged all Thursday
night. The storm was accompanied by ter
rife thunder and lightning, and caused great
alarm to ths Inhabitants Friday morning
the wind was blowing gale. and sieet and
snow were falling. .r +
The residences. of Hon. Polk Sharon and
Chris. Reyhert in Terre Haute, Ind, were
destroyed by fire on Thursday.
EARTHQUAKE Shocks were experienced at
Dayton and Columbus, Ohio on Saturday
night. .ea4
AT fernando, Mississippi. Saturday night
a colored man. John Horton, stabbed and kill
ed colored man, his brother -in-law Moses
Wiglin.
THURSDAY night Simpson L. Caldwell, la
borer, murdered his employer, R. H. Johnson,
Coldwater, Mississippi and robbed his
~ wife of eleven hundred dollars. He has been
arrested s
A NASHVILLE dispatch announces the burn
ing of the sunken steamer r. G. Gray, near
GAINESVILLE.
FIRE at Mount Clemens Mich, one day
last week, destroyed the brewery OF Mr. Lutz
Loss s8 0O0.
AT the Liberty Copper Mines, in Frederick
County, Maryland, recently. a scaffold gave
way, and twenty-six miners were plunged into
pit several hundred feet deep. Eight of
~. them were badly injured. s5FEl
MAYOR JEWELL, of Wyandotte, Mich, who
abseondeda short time since with young girl
Of that city, returned one day this week and
f- rendered his resignation. Oliver GoIborn has
been chosen his successor. Et
10 - DISPATCHES have been received IN Washing
ton announcing thattwo English war steamers
have been sent to the Sandwich Islands to pro
tect the interests of British residents there
(TIr sOyerrlr1ent has one vasspf in the tv
and has ordered another there s
Gov. morgan, Of New York is reported to
said that he has no expectation of being
appointed Secretary of the Treasury, but de-
cined TO say what he would do if the appoint
= 4e ment was rendered to lima. + a
I 49, y GEN. SeHoFIE1D is reported to have said
that his-visit to the Sandwich Islands at the
present time has no political significance
whatever and the report that he had gone on
secret nsission is pure invention. General
Schofeld goes upon his owa voition, not at
the suggestion of ths administration. The
statement that the President is looking to the
s- acquisition Of the islands is also authoritative
Iy denied.
Ar Newark, N J.. on Thursday night, a man
beat out the brains Of his mother-in-law with
iron bar. s. #. .--.
WHIrELAw REID will begin suits for libel
against the malgners of the New York Tr-
bune
JOHN H. PAwsoE & Co., of London, England
dealers in Manchester goods, have failed
Their liabilities are reported to be fifteen mil
lion dollars. 1t is said that other failures will
ia follow. ~ zIOH
MRa. G. ". HAcKET was burned to death on
Saturday morning, in a frame dWeingin Ger
mantown, Pa
A FIRE in New Haven, CT, destroyed Brew
ster Ford's iewelry store. Loss heavy
The bodies at all Of the victims of the Cen
tro street fire, in New. York city, have been
recovered. -4# rs ~
Gov. DIX and Lieut., Gov. Robinson were
inaugurated at Albany on Wednesday.
Mrs. MARY ANN LaNPLEY, aged Y years OF
age, was found dying in her house, Thursday
night in the eastern section of Baltimore,
Tbrutaly murdered. A1
VAN VMKENBURG's collar factory, in Troy,
~ Y, was entirely, and some adjoining build
ings partially burned, last night. Total losses
about s23 G00. =.
MR. " Il. HuRLBzRl, Of the World edito
rial staH has departed on 8 tour through
Central and South America, during which he
viii write descriptive letters to his paper and
. series OF articles for Harper's Magazine.
AUGUSTINE DALy manager Of the late Fifth
Avenue theatre, VIII open the Globe theatre.
Daly's iosses by the Fifth Avenue fire will
reach Sf0O000
TIE steamer Erl on Thursday, brougbt & ~
New York an additional number of destitute
Italian emigrants. They complain that tbev
were unable to snbsist in their own copntr,
and had received favorable Inducements for
anmigraton.
The New York Chamber Of Commerce la
passed resolution urging the Legislature ia
enlarge the Erie and Oswego chapals, also
Congressional action upon the same subject
HE Erie director Is pressing the old suit
instituted by Fisk against Commodore Van
derpllt' tor the recovery OF four millions and a.
half of dollars. as
1t u stated that advices have been received
at the husslaA legation that an understanding
hss peen s6riVed at between England ana Rus
I'd viii regard to the against the Khivas
Ff4nee$ Gortschakoff has given assurance to
the British Minister at St. Petersburg tnat
Russia has no hostile designs on Afghanistap
chat the Russian expeditions commanded bv
General Kaufman was sent to punish the
Khan of Khiya who still refused to surrender
Russian pris oners. The British Government
expressed itfslf satisfied with this explanation.
1.# j. Fl CROWLEY, master of transportation.
and five men were injured by an accident on
the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad on
Friday. BY another accident on the same
road, near Saltwater, conductor Tyler had his
49, hip broken and brakeman his ankle Sc
Verely burned. Fl i