Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-04-02


tea, has created a stir in the market, which
has been dull OF late. The tendency is to
wards higher rates. Most of the cargo wa
owned in New York, Mr.. E. W. Corliss havin;
25, 900 packages. The cargo was largely in
sured in New York and Philadelphia Offices
The Delaware Mutnal Company is reported t.
have O,OOO
JOHN A. MoFFAT suicided at Rushville, Ind
on Wednesday, by stabbing himself in th
breast with pair Of shears.
EMMA HATE, a waiter girl in the Fisher
Hotel, at Three Rivers, Michigan, took COLI
poison and died on Monday night.
THE steamer Sioux City sunk by ic,
near Fort Sully, Oh Wednesday.
A DAVENPORT telegram states that while th
down train on the Western Union road wa
nearing Cordova, on Tuesday afternoon, som,
scoundrel in the ditch alongside the track dis
charged the contents of double -barreleC
shotgun through the car window, numbel
of the shot penetrating a passengers back
who occupied the seat The train was stopped
and backed to the place, but the fellow had
vamoosed.
The defalcation which caused the suspen-
sion of the Bulls Head Bank. of New York
city amounts to $500, ,000 Its deposits are
said to have been 81 800, 900. Last year div
idcnd of sixteen per cent. was paid to stock
holders, and its STOCK has lately been quoted
at IOS 20
THE remains of man we're found in a ru-
ned portion of the st. James Hotel, Montreal
on Thursday. The body has been identified
as that of Mr.. Hyatt. travelling agent He
was found on the fifth floor, and had evidently
been suffocated.
COMMISSIONER DOUGLASS has instructed Col
lector Bailey to pursue the course he has
taken in the New York Central Railroad case
until property enough has been seized and
sold to bring to the Government the entire
amount Of claim due.
A GENERAL order has been issued from the
War Department thatno officer, either active
or retired, shall directly or indirectly, without
being called upon by proper authority, solicit,
aid on recommendation by members of Con-
gress for or against military offences.
AT Lampsan's MILL in Grand Ledge, Mchi-
gan, on Thursday, Frank Krupp, one of the
owners of the mill, was standing behind the
saw with his back to it, while it was running
full speed he stopped to lift a plank on the
carriage, when he was caught in the long,
hooking teeth of the saw and carried upon it,
cutting his body entirely in two lenghtwise.
MERRITT SMITH, of Cascade, Michigan.
whose wife and son were burned to death by
a kerosene explosion. few days ago, has
become a maniac, and his life is despaired of.
In the case of James Druyer, boy OF
twelve, tried in Chicago for the murder of a
Swede named Gustav Larsen, last winter, a
plea of self-defence was established and the
youthful ruffian acquitted. Fs..a
On Saturday VIM. Potter stabbed and
killed George Sheets, in dispute growing
out of debt of twenty-five cents, at Staunton,
Va.
WEDNESDAY night the harness trimming
factory of VIM. Waldron, and neighboring
buildings on Beekman street, New York, We're
burned. Loss about S23, 600.
The failure of the Bulls Head Bank, of New
York city, is announced s-
A SERIOUS riot between Englishmen and
Irishmen occurred at Wolverhamptown, near
Birmingham, Tuesday. At least 8, 1000 persons
were engaged in the conflict. -s-
vile. Ohio, was Gestoyed by fire on Tuesday.
Loss S35, 600.
The oil excitement at Saylorville, Iowa, still
continues. Many proprietors are digging
wells.
A THREE-YEAR old boy named Calm had his
neck broken at Chicago, on Wednesday, by a
wooden Indian placed before his fathers
cigar manufactory as a sign, which some of
the little fellows playmates pushed over upon
him.
IT is understood that the Consistory of the
Dutch Church in New York has voted to pull
down the old Fulton Street Church, and cover
the site thereof with buildings for business
purposes. It is here that the celebrated daily
prayer-meetings have been held for fifteen
years without interruption.
AT Rockford, Ill, on Tuesday, hotel keeper
named White was horse whipped by Mrs. Mil
der, wife Off Chicago capitalist, for an alleged
insult.
BOILER exploded in Young's saw mill at
Elm Grove, H., on Tuesday, demolishing the
building and killing man named Leander
Monken. The damage to property is esti-
mated at $4,000
Two negroes named Hugh Jordan and Alf
Stone, quarreled over game of cards il In
dianapolis. Stone shot Gordon through the
head, inficting a mortal wound.
SUNDAY nighta boy and girl, children of a
colored man, weae burned to death in house
two miles from New Albany, Ind, in the alb
sence Of the father. An elder boy escaped
from the building.
FIRE in Macon. Georgia, Tuesday morn.
ing, destroyed twenty-five frame buildings
twelve of which were stores and shops.
AMONG the appointments for Internal Rev.
enue Collectors made by the President, we
observe the name of Henry Harnden, for the
second district of Wisconsin.
The following persons have been appointed
by the President to attend the Vienna EXPOSE
ton Practical artisans. Lyman Bridges,
Illinois George A. Stanberry, Ohio. Seienti-
fc men-J. Lawrence Smith, Kentucky /; John
A. Wander, Ohio. A large number of honor
airy commissioners to the exhibition have also
been appointed.
MAT. PARPEY, who was lynched at Monter-
ey, California, made viii before his death in
which he directed that 81, 900 to be given to
Nicholson the husband of his victim.
JUDGE LEAvETr. late United States District
Judge for the southern district of Ohio, died
at Springfield, Ohio, on Saturday.
FIRE at Norristown, Pa, destroyed an old
Catholic Church and eleven other buildings.
Loss $50, 600. H
Abroad.
THE Spanish Assembly has unan imously
adopted law for the immediate emancipation
OF the slaves in Porto Rico.
The French and German Governments have
exchanged ratifcations of the treaty for the
evacuation of France.
The United States ship Mercury was at st.
Thomas March IA, with yellow fever on board.
Two deaths among the crew are reported.
A FIRE in Montreal at the St. James Ho te
caused the death Of three persons. i
Rio JANEIRo advices report from sixty to
seventy cases Of yellow fever occurring daily.
THREE shabbily dressed men, believed to be
Americans, were arrested in Cork, on Tues,
day, while attempting to deposit twenty thou
sand dollars in bank. They are supposed to
be the parties who recently committed the
frauds on the Bank of England.