Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-02-05

lasted only few moments. Grant declined
to talk on Louisiana matters.
Rosa DAHLMaN, aged 60 years, died from
the effects of intemperance at Cleveland. OH
Wednesday.
An unknown man was run over and killed on
Thursday, at Mantua, on the Atlantic and
Great Western railway,He is supposed to have
been drunk and laid down on the track to
sleep.
DURING the gale in Chicago, on Thursday.
the south wall of the Congregational Churc b
recently destroyed by fire was blown down.
partially crushing, in its descent. dwelling
occupied by Mrs. S. u. Brown, an invalid
The additional loss to the church society is
estimated between thirty and forty thousand
dollars
An Ifsh grl. died from the effects of an
abortion IN Chicago, several days sinc9.
JOHN WARD the short-stop of the Forest
City nine in 1870, has been convicted of un-
lawfully opening letters in the Cleve land post
office, where he was clerk.
TIE Chicago Times states that those who
know are quietly whispering, sub rosa, that Gen,
J. D. Webster, well known from his past mill
tary and official connections, is very soon TO
receive the appointment as Commissioner of
Indian Affairs
A LOUISVILLE telegram states that the ice
gorge at Pumpkin Patch gave way Wednesday
night, destroying six coal barges, laden with
81, 1000 bushels of coal, valued at SIS, 500.
INFORMATION from Washington is to the eff
feet that no land grant bills will be passed by
Congress this session.
SENATOR HARLAN has prepared a report on
the Choctaw net proceeds claim, nearly ST.
000, 900, which Solicitor iaiIey decided With
out foundation in law or equity, in which he
reyerses the reasoning and conclusions of the
Solicitor, and maintains that the demand of
the Indians is just and should be paid.
A RUNAWAY horse was stolen by two thieves,
near Green Bay, last week,
IN the Minor case in the New York Supreme
Court, Counsellor House made an argument
against the constitutionality of the act Of May
80, 1872, in relation TO the challenge of jurors
in criminal cases. The argument obtains i'm
portance from the fact that if the act is de-
clared unconstitutional Stokes must have a
new trial
On Wednesday night a fire occurred at Du-
wallis Bluffs, destroying the Western Union
t. ttlegraph Office, railroad offices, and several
stores.
An effort to repeal the lottery clause of the
Public Library of Kentucky, after the next
drawing, was made in the Senate of that state
on Thursday, and, after debate, defeated by
the decisive vote of 20 to Is.
The House Judiciary Committee have
agreed upon the principal features of Buffers
bill to distribute the Geneva award.
PAYNE DURKEE, an inspector at the Custom
House at Portsmouth, N. H., fell dead in the
Methodist chapel, Sunday evening, aged So.
Mrs. MARY A. WALKER, widow of the late
Robert J. Walker, died at Washington on Sun
day. She was sister of the late Professor
Bache, of the Coast Survey, grand daughter
of the late Alexander James Dallas and a
granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin
A YOUNG man, who booked himself at the
Creighton House, Boston, as Geo. Glenn, of
Providence, was assaulted Sunday night by
Isaac Young, colored barber, with a razor.
receiving fearful, but probably not fatal, in-
uries in the neck.
ALLEYNE OTIs, ESD, very wealthy gentle
man of Boston, died in Newport R. l., on Fri
day, of Brights disease.
The coroner's jury in the case cf Granville
Kimball, supposed to have committed suicide
at Chicago, has returned a verdict of acci-
dental drowning.
A BOILER in Clark i Rineswith's mill, near
Grand Rapids, Mich, exploded last week.
wrecking the building and seriously iriuring
one man.
MAJOR E. A. BEAcHER, one of the most tai
ented lawyers of tde Memphis bar, died on
Monday morning Of pneumonia.
ENoCH JACKSON, a coIored men, near Little
Rock, was murdered by his wife and another
woman, who knocked him OIL the head and
threw his body into the fire.
IT is rumored that Ex-Governor and ex-Sen-
ator Richard Yates has been rendered the ap-
pointment by the Administration to Terri
torial Governorship, and that he now has the
proposition under advisement.
GEORGE HENRIoUEs, late Vice-President of
the New York Stock Exchange, died on Sun
day
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY refused to interfere
with the sentence of McNulty, the wife mur-
derer. The Supreme Court has refused to
grant a supersedeGs He will be hung next
month without doubt.
The ship Chas. II. Marsha Il, from Liver
pool, reports having experienced heavy
weather during the entire passage. Three
men were washed overheard.
An old man, over sixty years eff age, by the
name OF Howe, was found frozen to death in
snow bank near an old school house, in Man
istee, recently.
HE Leayenworth, Lawrence and Gulf Rail
road depot at Independence, Kansas, was
burned on Friday. Loss $25, 900.
Mrs. JOHNSON, wife of David Johnson, of
Macoupin county, ILL.,, lost her life by acci-
dental drowning, day or two, ago. She was
crossing Hodges creek on the ice in a wagon
when the vehicle broke through, and she was
swept beneath the ice.
MRS MARY A. WALKER, widow of the late
Robert J. Walker, died in New York on Sun
day. She was granddaughter of Benjamin
Franklin.
PIERRE JoLE's wholesale grocer was de-
stroyed by fire in Montreal on Saturday night.
Loss $3.50, 900.
Abroad.
TIE steamer which ran down the emigrant
ship Northfeet, in the English channel proves
to be the Pelayo, bound from Antwerp for
Havana.
The committee on the arbitration of slavery
in Porto Rico has declared in favor OF grant
ng owners an average indemnity of $3.50 per
lave.
MEssRs. ONsLow and Whalley, members OF
the English Parliament, have been fined 500
each for publicly accusing Sir John Duke Cole
ridge of eonspiring to deprive the Tichborne
claimant of his rights.
The brigantiue Strickland, which left Prince
Edwards Island for Halifax in November, and
was given up as lost, has arrived disabled at
West Indies.
A NEW constitution has been adopted in
Guatemala, Central America, which provides
that electors must be q years of age, able to
read or write, or in lieu thereof be worth
81, 900.
AT puplic meeting in Birmingham, on
Wednesday, resolutions were passed condemn
ing the slave trade in Africa, Polynesia and
Cuba. A resolution was also adopted urging