Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-01-08
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At Home.
TIE English bark J. B. buffers, loaded with
2,249 bales of upland cotton, took fire at
Charleston, S. O., and was scuttled. The dam
age to her cargo is large.
DANIELS & MeG.w's sale stable in St. Louis,
was destroyed by fire Sunday morning. Loss
81, 900. -....f
THE transfer steamer Leclair No. was sunk
by ice at Evansville, lad, on Sunday. She
lies in five feet Of water
NUMEROUS protes against the dismember-
ment of Wyoming Territory are being received
in Washington. 4a1s .rF .. s5asE ssEE +.
RUnoRs concerning a change in the Post
master Generalship increase. Judge Settle
Of North Carolina, and President of the Phila-
delphia Convention, is prominently mentioned
as the possible successor of Mr.. Cresswen
TWELVE cases of smallpox and eight deaths
IN Washington on Friday
COMMISSIONER WALKERS resignation is ac-
cepted, to take effect February first, not Janu.
ary first, for which it was rendered.
ASSOCIATE JUDGE STRICKLAND, of the United
States Court of Utah, will soon resign
The Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections will, on the 10th of January, resume
their investigation of the charge against Sen
ator Caldwell, that he was elected by the
bribery of certain members of the Kansas
Legislature
The Commission to inquire into the depre-
dations of Mexicans on the Texas frontier ex-
pect to leave Washington on the 9TH of Jan
uary to resume their labors. Meade, one OF
the Commissioners, has resigned.
The Secretary of the Treasury has author
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buy 81 200 600 bonds and sell s1,000,000 coin
each week 9prIpg. the mouth of January.
A COLLISION on the Erie Railroad, near Wee.
hawken, resulted in the destruction Of five
freight cars and serious lplqFysof tn , loeomo-
tiYes, .44
rHE body of Jane Stewart has been recover
ed from the ruins of the Centre street fire.
FREDERICK CAMPBELL, son Of the President
of the Pacific Bank, sucided III New York on
Z Friday. ss1igegg Hun EaaaEiaZ Z .
Doc. TowNLEY, BUSINESS manager of the
New York Grand Opera House and well known
as journalist, died Sunday morning.
EDWARD A. EVERETT is under arrest in Chi
cago on a charge of stealing one hundred
thousand dollars in bonds of the Selma and
Gulf Railroad, which a Miss ShortwelI had
been entrusted to deliver to Gen, P. D. Rhod-
dy, of Alabama.
RUNAWAY mule team knocked down a
small building near the Evans Rolling Mil, in
Cincinnati killing John Krieger, laborer.
STA e TREASURER MAoKEy has bought a
controlling interest in the Pittsburg CONNER
cial for 100000
W. G. ROBINSON, prominent Pittsburg
manufacturer, is dead. sn
FIVE immense land slides have occurred in
Oregon on the line of The Northern Pacific
Railroad Two hundred men will be employed
two weeks to put the track in order again.
CHARLES KRAEGEB, merchant in San Fran
cisco, committed suicide with razor He had
a desperate struggle with his clerk who tried
to prevent him, before accomplishing the
deed.
HEAVY rain storms have flooded the str cams
IN California. Much damage is reported.
SEVERAL collisions are reported between the
miners of the Phoebe Phoenix and Raymond and
Ely mining companies in Nevada. One miner
Thomas Ryan, was killed on Saturday evening
and another, Jacob Sweitzer, dangerously
wounded. The Raymond and Ely miners have
struck against ten-hour shifts
THE report that Governor Warmoth has
abandoned the contest in Louisiana is author-
tatively denied.
TREMENDOUS seas have prevailed on the At
lantic for the past zen days. .s
The new public school building, No. 5, Jer-
sey City, was partially destroyed by fire on
Monday evening. The loss on the building
and furniture is estimated at sixty thousand
dollars; insurance forty thousand dollars
Ahnnt one hundred and fifty girls in the school
at the time escaped without accident
The atmospheric wave which caused such
sntense cold here Monday and Tuesday. reach
ed the eastern states Tuesday night. At Con-
cord, N H., ON Wednesday, the mercury inii-
Gated 80 degrees below Lancaster. N. Y.
from 10 to so below. At Bath, Me-, % below,
which was the coolest with perhaps one or two
exceptions since 1857.
AN old lady named Potter, residing IN Keo-
huk, Iowa, was burned to death Monday even
lng byher clothing taking fire from stove at
which she was cooking.
CoPIoUs rains have fallen in every portion 0
California, from San Diego to Yreka A boun-
tiful harvest is promised next year
KATE CoNNoR, the servant injured by
cooking range explosion in Cincinnati. on Sun
day, is dead.
IHE Porto Rico emancipation bill provides
that slave owners shall receive so per cent.
indemnity, the slaves to be free within four
months after the passage Of the bill
kAMEHAMEHA, King OF the Sandwich Is
lands, died at Honolulu on the 18th of Decem-
ber He IS the last of the royal line named.
No successor had been chosen when the
steamer left EsEz
NIGHT express train on the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad ran # the tracI, a few
miles north of Harvard, III. All Of the cars
except the sleeper, SIX in Dflnl3.er.were thrown
Of. and the conductor, Murray MiImine. epci.
neer Stephen Hottling, and lr q kenap named
Ben Hill, were slightly injured
JAMES Way, an engineer. was cancbt in tbe
machinery of Jmead's chair factory at Tan
sing. Michigan, on Thursday, and hurled to
The toor with such force as to fracture his
skull, causing death in short t1nlr.
MRs. FEM, a widow woman 4esif,i,, ,,o,,.
Charlotte, Michigan, has been insane for sr,,,oo
time. On Monday night she lad 10 he fled j.,
ped. Hot bricks and hot cloths were put in
with her as part Of the prescribed treatment
60 quiet her. From the bricks, however. some
OF the bedding caught fire, and she was fatal
y burned before she could be released.
A YOUNG man, named Andrew Powell. while
oul huHih8 on Wednesday, near PikeviIle
ONO, was shot by the accidental DISCHARGE of
his gun. 81 =. y :
IN Lafayette township, Indiana, on Wednes-
ay, James Baker and Samuel Carpenter quar-
eied over game of cards, when Baker
struck Carpenter with an ak, fatally iniuring
him. Baker afterwards attempted to shoot
his sister, Carpenters wife.
DUNeANsoS, the colored landscape painter
OF Cincinnati, died at the Insane Retreat in
Detroit, on Tuesday
JUDGE BLATcHEoRD of New York, has decid
ed that the Adams Express Company is en-
TITLED to recover from the United States the
value of $4,000 treasury notes, of which one of
It's messengers was robbed in Nav. 1868. and
which of a..