Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-01-08
VOL. XIII,

ABOUT 100 feet of the roof of Whitney's rail-
road car wheel factory, on 18th street Phila-
delphia, fell in by the weight of the snow on
Thursday Five workmen were buried in the
ruins, but rescued with slight injuries.
Two serious fires occurred in Chicago On
Sunday. One destroyed row of wooden
buildings on West Lake street, damage S14,-
900. The second destroyed three brick dwell
ings on Cottage Grove Avenue Loss $780,
G0O
IT is stated, upon the authority of Whitelaw
Reid, that the reason why Mr.. Colfax declined
to edit the Tribune was because Fir. Orton
wished the paper to be run in the interest of
the Western Union Telegraph Company.
DURING the cold snap of Saturday night wa
ter froze in the pipes in many buildings in
Cincinnati, Cleveland and Harrisburg. In
the first named place four4exploslons of cook
ing ranges occurred, fatally injuring one per-
son. a girl named Kate Connor. In Harris
burg Mrs. Samuel Knox was killed DIV the ez-
plosion OF a. range. In Cleveland range es>
ploded, demolishing fixtures, but injuring no
one. .'
SEVERAL towns west of Boone, Iowa, are re-
ported suffering from want of COAL and have
to burn furniture to keep from freezing. This
is especially the case in Carroll, Iowa.
GEORGE CATLIN, the celebrated American
Indian painter and traveller, died on Monday
in Jersey City, N. j., aged IS,
YOUNG man named Charles Kendall was
found murdered in some woods near New JEFF
ferson Iowa, on Monday. It seems to have
been done by shotgun in some unknown
persons hands. The deed is shrouded in
mystery, and nothing definite can be learned.
TIE model of the Franklin School Building
in Washington, and one of the finest in the
East, is being prepared for the Vienna Expo
sition. The model will be made in sections SO
that it can be taken apart. The building will
be represented just as it is, and the system of
heating and ventilation will be fully demon
strated. One of the rooms will contain all the
school furniture in miniature.
A DISPATCH from Bordeaux says that the
Allen Line Liverpool, Havana and New Or
leans steamship Germany, went ashore on
Saturday evening, during violent storm, on
a sandbank at the mouth of the river Gironde.
The water soon began to break over the ves-
sci, and the passengers and crew were COM
PEELED to take to the rigging, from which so
persons were washed away and drowned. The
remainder, after passing an entire night in
their perilous position, were rescued on Sun
day morning by French steamer.
The daily returns from internal revenue are
reaching toward the close of the year, quite
six hundred thousand dollars per day, and
show in the aggregate an increase so far
above the estimate as to fully justify Congress
in further reducing taxation by abolishing the
stamp tax on checks and matches.
: Abroad.
The Paris Gazette says Prussia is treating
with Portugal for accession to the former
power of Delazoa Bay, an island of the Indian
Ocean, in Southeastern Africa.
A PARIS tradesman has been sent to prison
for two years for displaying in his shop pla-
cards containing remarks insulting to the
National Assembly.
PRESIDENT THEIRS visited the English En-
bassy in Paris on Saturday. On leaving the
building he fell and suffered slight confusion
Of the hip and elbow.
NJ. BoURGoING, French Minister to the Papal
Court, has resigned because some French
naval officers in Rome lat the beginning Of the
holidays, called on the King and Pope on the
same day, and rendered the compliments of
the season.
VERY REV. EDWARD BANNERMAN BAREsEY.
Dean of ST.. Johns Cathedral, Edinburgh, is
dead.
GEORGE KING, who confessed he murdered
Pook, at Greenwich, England, has been dis
charged from custody, having been found in--
sane.
The North German Gazette denies the
that Germany has consented to CO.
operate with Austria in an effort to effect a |
settlement of the Laurium silver mines dis |
pute.
The Spenersche Zeittmg strongly opposes |
the decree of the Brunswick Council Of Minis |
tiers, issued on the 9Th ofDecember, providing
that On tine demise of the present sovereign, |
who is unmarried, Duke William First, the
ox-King of Hanover, or his son, shall succeed |!
to the throne:
HE volcano of Santa, IN the northern part
Of San Salvador, is efupting, and it is feared
many valuable coffee plantations Will be de-
stroyed.
BOGoTA has been seriously inundated many /
people being drowned, and much property de-
stroy ed,
TIE election for municipal officers at Tam
pieo, Mexico, Is reported as disorderly. Dur
ing the counting of the votes disturbance |
arose, and eight persons were killed ard |
wounded. Great excitement prevailed Both
parties, called Tampiconoes and Tametipeces, !
claimed to have won the election.
GENERAL. PIELrAIN will probably be an |
pointed Captain General of the Island of
Cuba.
APLEURo-PNEUMoNIA epidemic is raging III |
the villages of Prussia and Belgium. near
the line separating those two countries.
PANAMA papers state that revolution ia in |
progress in the Cauca, headed by the Bishop
of Pasto, against President Mosquera, growing
out of the latter designating General Santa
Colloma as his (Mosquera'sl successor. Col !
Iona is ia command Of the Government
troops, and it is reported an engagement has
already occurred.
ADvICEs from Havana report important suc-
cesses for the insurgents. They raided the
towns of Mayare and Holquin, killing num- |
Der of Spanish officers and soldiers. Seven
teen insurgents surrendered at Trinidad on |
Friday.
SENIOR PUENFE, President of the Spanish
Bank in Havana, is dead.
Absence of Fear i'm Wild Creatures:
In letter from the Galapagos Is
lands the writer rom a rlyS tha upn5arf,,l /