Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-01-22
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Il Co., OF New York city, to recover one mil
lion dollars. capias was issued commando
ing the Marshal to take the defendants and
keep them to answer for the amount of the
suit.
ADAM BATsHE suicided at South Bend, Ind,
on Friday, by eating the ends of birthstone
matches. f -# L-5sL ~ y
II IS reported that large coal companies de
cldedly controlling the trade of New York and
the eastern states are about forming COM
bInation to secure a reasonable advance on
tbe present prices. xs sasA
The Hope woolen mills at Jacksonville, ILL.,,
were burned on Friday morning. Loss esti-
mated at $10o 600; insuf fanee S12, 900.
ssss LIE steamer Cherokee, from Pine Bluff for
! New Orleans, with $50 bales of cotton saved
4rom the wreck Of the steamer Little Rock,
sunk in Silver Lake Wednesday, and will
prove total loss. She was valued al SIC. 600.
THE Committee of the Society Of the Army
of The Cumberland ON designs and location Of
the Thomas equestrian Statue have deter
= mined to invite artists of. the country to sub
init naedels and specifications with estimate oI
cost to the committee at Pittsburg on the 18th
of September next.
THR schooner Congress foundered at sea
sixty miles of Roekport Texas, not long since.
and all hands except two were lost.
The Board of Underwriters of Oswego have
Increased their rates of insurance 80 per cent.
TO take effect Immediately. This is an Increase
ever the tariff adopted On the first of January.
The jewelry store of Efeurster & Co.. 7O1
South Haisted street, Chicago, was robbed on
Thpksday night of seventeen silver watches,
enc gold watch. and $500 in jewelry.
S. WELLS, a cattle dealer from Ohio was
robbed of 81, 900 In cash at Chicago, on Th1rs-
day night
The boiler Of steam mill at Huntley, Nc.
s Henry County, Illinois, exploded Friday morn.
ing, killing W. Benedict, the engineer, and
badly iniuring Phillip Sehatfner, the owner 0.
the mill Loss on mill $4,000
CHIEF of Engineers Humphreys reports thai
tWenty-eight acres of Goat Island can be re.
llnquished by the government to aceomno
date the wants of commerce, without impsltin ~
the power of the coast defenses projected fol
that island Neither viii there be any injury
to the harbor of San Francisco by the erection
OF railroad or other bridges connecting with
the shore at Oakland
THE cost office appropriation bill, as COM
pleted, appropriates about thirty million dol
lars, and authorizes the Postmaster General
to readjust the compensation for railroad mail
services according to the prc scIibed schedule
The President has recognized P, Fl. Hart
mann as Consul Of the Netherlands at Gin
cinnati, for the states of Chic, Indiana and
Kentucky.
FIRE at Lebanon, Pa, Tuesday, DESTROYED
the Lebanon Manufacturing Company sworks.
Loss SIS. 600.
DETECTIVE LEE has lett San Francisco fo1
the East, to arrest Arnold and others indiete d
for the diamond swindie
PROCEEDINGS have been commenced against
j. J. Marks and Jasper O'FarreI. Harbor Com
m1ssloaers of San Francisco, for alleged nar.
&clpaton IN extensive harbor Frauds.
Sx-MAYoR halls of NewYork, slipped and
broke his ankle Sunday night.
New YORK was visited by a storm of yainand
sleet, on Sunday, which cut the city OF from
tetegraphie communication with the outside
world, and did much damage to property.
HE express oomeany's safe ON the tram re-
Gently wrecked near Bowling Green, Ky, con
ealned $500 government bonds, which
were re1ueed to cinders. They have been
sakep to Washington for redemption.
! snow STORM prevailed over a large part of
Missouri and Kansas on Friday and Saturdar
which was the heaviest known for over twenty
years. The snow fell froD' one to two feet
deep on level all through Central and North
west Missouri.
Abroad,
1HE Empress Eugene will soon Issue a pr0-
'elamatlon to the French people, announcing
that she assumes The Regency. being the
Princes mother.
IHE creditors of Bowles Brothers in london
have proved in the Court of BanIzrrnfcv cIairno
against the firm to the amount of $50 0no
THEIRS has inst ucted the Marquis de
Bonneville, French Ambassador at Vienna, to
convey to Prime Minister Andrassy an expres-
SION OF the deep regret of the French Govern
ment at the indiscreet publications. of the
Duke de Grammont
MARSHAL Mae oIARoN reports TO President
ihlers that the armEis not affected by the
death Of Napoleon. There arc. Bonapartlsfs
among the officers. but 40 party which san
ports the NapoleonIe dynasty in the armv.
BODY OF Carlist insurgents was defeated at
Pampelona, Spain, on Thursday.
The Independence Beige publishes a letter
from Count Won Beust in answer to the asser-
tions of the Duke de Grammont The Count
shows that Austria tried to dissuade France
from going to war with Prussia, and reserved
her right to remain neutral. France, after
war was declared, asked an alliance, and Ans
tr1a refused it.
IN the French Assembly, on Tuesday. an a
tereatlon occurred between NJ. Laurent
PIchola, Radical, and NJ. De Cases, a Conserv-
atIve, which it is thought viii lead to duel
RUPTURE has taken place i'll the Left Cen
ter OF the French Assembly. At a meeting Of
deputies belonging to that part NJ. Chris
tophe, radical, was elected President. where
upon N. Cassimer Perier and his friends inn
mediately withdrew and joined the Right. It
IS said that the Bonapartist Deputies will
also unite with the Right.
Moro, japanese minister, is in recent of
information from his government to the effect
that the western calendar viii be adopted in
Japan, beginning with the first of January.
Though the names of the months and days
are changed 10 correspond with those of the
western calendar, the government adheres to
then old names for years, the present year
oelns known as the sixth year of Meidi.
lHE cable expedition will return to Eng
land, as the effort to recover the Aspinvan
eahie has been abandoned for the present.
He Pope, III speech on Thursday, alluded
70 the prosecutions OF the church and decIar-
ed that the cities of Europe were dancing on
perilous grounds.
IHE Cortes OF Portugal lmet on THURSDAY
kipg Louis announced tie treasury in pros
porous condition.
HE municipalities Of Navarro are raising
volunteers to fight the Carlist bands now
roaming through that province.
KING AMADEUsis heartily in favor of the bill
abolishing slavery in Porto Rico.
LIEUT.. GENERAL YoN KAMEcBE VIII succeed
Won Room as Minister Of War for Prussia
The latter is to be made a Field Marshal s.
NEW Imperial flag has been adopted in
China 1t Is tTianplTIal hU.,fin9 deaf, valJ,,,-