Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-01-29
VOL. XIII.

found frozen to death in a skiff near Memphis
are alive and rell at osceola.
At Muscatine. Iowa, the jury in the case OF
the State against WiLmering. for killing his
father short time since, has lust returned
verdict of murder in the second degree.
DOCTOR JotEs, homeopathic physician at
Toronto, died suddenly on Wednesday, after
taking dose of chlorate hydrate, which had
been administered at his own request after a
painful surgical operation.
Rev. JOSHUA LEAv1yT, D. D., associate editor
of the New York Independent, died in Brook
lyn on Thursday from apoplexy, while at the
residence Of his son.
Rev. J. D. L. ZEUTER, ". D, editor of the
French Almanac, and Minister OF the Congre
gatlonal Church, died on Thursday, III Brook
Nn.
THE report Of finding bottle OF sEryehnine
in the cell lately vacated by Stokes Is er.o-
neou8. The drug was MR. uoniicG, and had
been medically prescribed.
The levying of tonnage dues on American
st Gamers, running between Bremen and the
United States having been stopped by Get-
many, the same course was adopted here, at
the New York Custom House, THURSDAY, by
order of the Secretary of the Treasury.
RLy. W. C. CLARK has been expelled from
the New York Conference of the Methodist
Church, for carrying on a lottery o5tenably
for the benefit of mission house and free
reading room. Clark continues to serve d
church of his own III BROOKLYN, apparently
successful.
A BOILER explosion on Wednesday. on the
Chatta hoochie river, killed two persons and
wounded several.
DEslssEsY, French Minister of War. has
written a letter to Marshal Mcmahon. prohib-
iting the circulation Of Bonaparte's addresses
in the barracks of French troops. and urging
the severe punishment on persons found dis
tributing such papers.
A sTARoH-ADEN canal boat at Glenccve,
Long Island, was sunk by ice on THURSDAY
night. Loss O,OOO
An important decision was made BIZ Judge
Boterlck in the Muscatine District Court on
Monday, dissolving an Injunction heretofore
granted restraining the collection Of a five
per cent. tax voted to the Musuatine Western
Pailroad Company, involving s13o,000 The
tax will probably be paid without further op-
Of the taxpayers ver concerned IN the suit
TEE brigantine Mary E. Jones, of the Clvde
river, has been lost at sea. Her crew was
saved, but two passengers, daughters Of Da-
vid Sutherland Of CLYDE river, we're drowned
IN the cabin
COOPER. REFS & Co. bankers Of Baltimore,
we're sTindled to the amount Of $4,000, on
Saturday last, By payment of bogus draft fol-
that amount, purporting to be drawn by Glib
Casanova s Co bankers, New York, and paw
able to the order Of R. S. Knox. Baltimore,
AMONG the amendments that passed the
House with the Appropriation bill was an I'M
portant one by McCrary, OF Iowa, which pro-
Wdes that hereafter no money from the con-
tingent fund of the House shall be paid to
contestantfor seat IN the House.
TIE committees Of both Houses have agreed
to report in favor Of giving the Kentuczv Salt
Company $4,000 for the destruution Of their
works near Manchester. Ky, by Gen. Buell., to
keep them from falling into the hands Of tine
rebels.
TUESDAY evening the planning mill Of Messrs.
Irimble, Mcintyre & Co., in Allegheny CITY.
together with Eve dwellings,, was entirely
NSot-OJ O1 " LiISs Nc tOtdl LOSE Is closDUU,
ou whicn there is a small insurance.
NEWFOUNDLAND journals announce the loss
of the schooners Elizabeth and Magnolia, the
first with the loss of her entire crew, and the
second with the loss Of her captain and four
men.
TIE Senatorial contest IN Kansas has mar
rowed down to PomeroY, Gov. Harvey and
Judge Lowe. Seventy-eight members are
pledged IN opposition to Pomeroy. Sixty seven
votes are sufficient to elect.
MATILDA HERON, who arrived in New York
from San Francisco few days ago. is an IN
mate of the Park Hospital, suffering from al
coholic hysteria. Her little daughter iy cared
for IN the same institution.
A NORWEGIAN named Ben Anderson was III
stantly killed in Chicago, on Wednesday, by
falling through a stairway hole i'll the new
Clifton House, distance of forty feet
WALTER HADsELL and Dewitt Ellis duarreled
over game of cards at Rock Island. on
Wednesday, when Hadsell shot Ellis through
the body, and escaped.
Abroad.
A GRAND display, religious. military and
civil, was made at Pottsdam on Sunday i'll the
Garrison Church. Eighty-six flags, captured