Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-02-05
He NEWS
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and the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad bv citi-
zens OF WarrensburG, sedalia, and other parts
on the roads, tor unjust indiscrimination in
freight charges. These suits involve over a
million collars.
IdE cashier Of the National Granite State
tank, at Exter, n. H, has absconded, leaving
defalcation of S125, Coo
THE Secretary of the Treasury has informed
Enquiress that the terms with the Syndicate
are the same as heretofore, with the addition
phat the financial parties have agreed to in
sure against loss in exchange. The arrange
ments VII 90 into effect February 26
An account OF the ravages of the late icefoes
and floods in many tributaries of the Della
ware river show that large amounts of Ium-
Der have been carried away dams DESTROYED,
and roads obstructed by immense deposits of
see left by the receding water. DR.. o. B. May
nard and wife, LansingvilIe, and Mrs. Jennie
Carringten. Of Hamden, were drowned by being
swept from bridge over the Little Delaware
River near Hamden.
TIE number Of small pox cases in Boston
during the week was 137; deaths 35--l decrease
Of more than 80 per cent. The number of
cases now in the city are 322
A DESTRUCTIVE fire at Darien, Ga, occurred
Saturday night in the Court House. The pub
&c records ana other property were burned
SENATOR SUMNER is still quite feeble. 1t is
doubtful if he viii appear in his seat in the
Sapate again this session. His attending
physician still visits him twice daily his last
calIbeing sc 10 O'Clock P. NJ, when he injects
9norphine into the Senator's arm to enable him
TO sleep.
FREIGHT TRAIN on the Boston and Albany
Road broke through bridge near Middle
field, Mass sachusetts, on Friday night precip-
itatiUg the train nto the Westfeld river
Eben Stebbins, engineer. was killed, as was
also the fireman. Chas. Garfield, brakeman,
was badly injured, and two other hrakemen
were wounded slightly.
TIE National Prison Reform Association will
hold its next annual meeting at St. Louis.
The foreman in the finishing shop of the
Cleveland spring works was K He'd on Thursday
by a large grindstone, being hoisted to posi-
tion by crane, falling on him.
The old market house in Davenport, Iowa,
was burned on Thursday night. Loss 81, 700.
FROM Bordentown, n. j., we learn that
three boys, Morris L. StTading, Robert B.
Grimshaw and James Mullen, who resided
there, were drowned at Horner's bridge.
Their bodies were soon after recovered. Their
ages were eight years each.
G. J. AcKLEY, the local express agent at
Fairfield, on the Hastings and Dakota Rail
road, in attempting to set on the train before
it came to stop at the station, missed his
footing and fell, the cars passing over him.
severing one leg from his body and otherwise
iniuring him. He lived but short time after
the accident.
BUoKINGaAfi Palace has been placed at the
disposal cf the Shah of Persia for his resi-
dence during his visit to England.
John COSTELLO was convicted at Peoria,
ILL.,, of the murder of John keenan,, and SEN
fenced by the jury to imprisonment for one
year.
THE steamer Edgar Stewart proceeded to
sea from Key West on Thursday night.
FRANCE and Italy threaten to withdraw
their representatives from Athens if Greece
refuses 20 submit the Larium mines question
TO arbitration.
Z WASHINGTON telegram states that DR.. w.
C. Tilden, Professor of Chemistry in Howard
University, was accidentally shot in the Ma
tional Hotel on Thursday. might, bv ball from
u 70
Wall, The ball entered the abdomen, making
a very serious wound.
A. D. WILLIAMS & Co., New York bankers,
report the loss. of 300 shares of w U. Tele-
graph stock in the name of E. B. Wesley, and
valued at s25, $50. The transfer of the stock
has been stopped
THEoDoBE MIcARs was hanged in Denver,
Col, en Friday, for the murder of Geo. NJ.
Bonacina, near Denver in August, 1871.
Four locomotives, attached to a freight
train going east on the Indianapolis, Bloom
ln5ton and Western Railroad, jumped the
track at Champaign, H., on Thursday night,
and ran into train Of freight cars standing
on the side-track. The engines were all bad
iy damaged, and three of the freight cars are
q total wreck.
THE trial of Eugene Wahrer and Max Wah-
Ter for the murder of their mother at West
Point, Lee county, Iowa, on Sunday, June
Both, 1872, was concluded on Friday in the
District Court CT Des Moines county, Iowa, at
Burin9 ton. The jury returned d verdict of
maHslaughter.
IHE Treasury Department has prepared a
bill, which viii be sent to Congress, making
Sioux City, Iowa, on the Missouri river, port
of entry
IT is stated that Hon. Schuyler Colfax has
decided to institute crininal proceeding
against Ames for perjury He swears posi-
lively that Ames lies, and that the check is a
forgery.
THERE is a ia r prospect that tn Presid n
viii veto the Rock Island and Pacific land
grant bill, which passe Congress on Friday,
but whether h vetoes or signs 1t there is a
moFeme t coEte nDllted or an Investigation:
Cha. ges continue to be openly made that the
lobby we're paid II push the bill through.
OWEN NoRroN 4 wO kman at the st. Louis
lead and oil work, while cling the presses.
was caught II the machinery and had his head
cut of.
Two NOTED bur8l rs were arrested in Buff
falo on Wednesday evening, with large
amount ofiewelry in their possession. Among
the articles are valuable gold hunting-case
chronometer watch, No. %, 1872 large gold
hunting, case watch, with the name partly
erased, bat supposed to be Annie or Alice
Funk, and a heavy gold cross set with pearls,
marked r. NJ. Burton
AT Evansville, Ind. On Wednesday evening,
six men attempted to cross the river in skiff,
tOLnII5, dppdltb lIOul UI66u IRIN6E HneH
opposite this city the skiff fell into the open
ice and was overturned. They were heard to
shout for help, crying that they were freezing
to death, but none of the steamers at the
wharf could get out to them, and their cries
ceased after a few minutes.
The recent flood in the Susquehanna dam
aged property at Havre de Grace to the
amount of $50 600.
On Friday family of nine persons were res
eued from Kenns' Island, opposite Havre de
Grace. Md, where they had been driven from
their home by the flood. They were nearly
dead from exposure.
The baggage car of "a train on the Grand
Trunk Railway, going eastward from Toronto,
Eri,lav rnorninoc canoht fire near Grafton and