Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-12

$50 600 the other buildings $4,000. Partial
insurance.
THOMAS CHAPLIN, OF Union, Rock county,
Wisconsin, shot himself through the body
with revolver, last Sunday, and died on the
following evening. @
SHERWOOD & Co.'s extensive printing estab-
lishment, corner of Gay and Baltimore streets,
in Baltimore, was burned on Friday.
Snow DRIFTS cut off all railway communica-
tions west of Quebec OF Tuesday. Some of
the trains are snow-bound in out of the way
places. four days storm ceased Tuesday,
the severest witnessed in manysyears.
NEAR Greenport, L. l., the schooner Jury,
of Trenton, n. J., went to pieces on the 21st.
All on board were drowned. Four bodies have
been recovered.
The engine house of the indianapolis Bloom
ington and Western Railroad, at Indianapolis
was destroyed by fire last night, together with
two engines, which it was found impossible
to remove. The loss will be about $4,000.
The Girls Industrial Home, but better
known as Sc White Sulphur Springs six miles
west of Lewis Centre, Ohio, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire Monday afternoon. Loss be-
tween forty and fifty thousand dollars. The
members of the General Assembly were there
making an examination at the time the fire
broke out. ..-..
A BILL is pending in the Legislature at AL
bany to incorporate the Young Ladies' Chris
tan Association of the city of New York. The
object of this corporation is stated to be =" the
improvement of the temporal, social, mental,
moral and religious condition of the young
women of the city of New York" a
A YOUNG lady named Mckay was killed in
the machinery of the Gould & Curry mine, at
Virginia. Nevada, on Friday.
The body of Conrad Rechel, German tailor
of Cincinnati, who disappeared six weeks ago,
was found in the southwestern part of the
city, on Tuesday, mutilated in such a manner
as to lead to the impression that he had been
a subject for dissection in some medical col
lege.
TWEED has given bail on four of the sixteen
late indictments against him.
A DOMESTIC named Margaret MCGOWAN was
burned to death at the residence of Mrs. W.
G. Fargo, Jr., in Buffalo, on Sunday night,
by the ignition of her clothing from burning
newspaper with which she intended lighting
fire.
An old lady named Hearle was burned to
death at Quincy, ILL.,, on Tuesday evening, by
a lamp explosion.
WEST, the murderer of Msrk Newbury, in
Oswego, Ill, has been sentenced to imprison-
ment for life.. .---s s1
AT Port Huron, on Monday night, fire de-
stroyed Masonic Hall, and the liquor store of
Burt & Co. Loss $4,000.
The saw-mill of Crosby & Son, in Montcalm
county, Mich, was destroyed by fire on Sun
day. Loss $40, ,0O0--no insurance.
A FIRE at Listowell, Canada, destroyed sew
eraI business houses. Loss 900. At Lon
don, Canada, an oil refinery was burned Loss
$4,000 - ---T
The high school building at Port Huron
was burned Monday evening. Loss $40, 600
insurance S25, 900.
The destruction by fire of the residence OF
Richard Green, near Logansport Indiana, is
reported. Loss 10000.
Abroad.
The ship Chacabuco, from San Francisco
and for Liverpool, ran into the ship Torch, in
the Irish channel. The Chacabuco sunk in a
few minutes after the collision, and twenty
four of the ships crew were drowned. The
Torch also went down but all on board were
saved, =.E. -.e
The discovery has just been made of frauds
on gigantic scale on the Bank of England
committed by one Warren, alias Horton, an
American, through series of successful for
geries of the names of Rothschild and other
great financial houses. A reward of 91. 900
beo baap offarad for -biu
ADvIcEs from Victoria say that the steamer
G. S. Wright is supposed to have been lost
near Cape Caution, few days since, with all
on board-eighteen or twenty souls. Portions
of the wreck were picked up upon the beach.
One piece contained the name of the steamer.
VICTOR EMMANUEL's health is preoarious.
and his death at any moment would surprise
no one who knows him. The Crown Prince.
Humbert, is the victim of disease, and his
son the four-year old Prince of Naples. is in
such condition that his life can be protracted
only by something like a miracle. These
three lives are all that stand between Amadeo
and the Italian crown, and even should Victor
Emmanuel die, and Humbert die before the
baby Prince of Naples expires, Amadeo would
have claim to a Regency, which would be,
IN fact, sovereignty. 1t is surmised that
these royal possibilities in Italy had some
weight In determining Amadeus to abdicate.
ENGLISH papers announce the death of the
Countess C&dogan.
The Carlists claim to have 81. 900 men in the
field.
a COLLISION is reported in the harbor of Ar
cadia, Gree ce, between the ships Marias and
Cllase. Particulars of the disaster is not re-
ceived, but it is stated that ninety persons
were drowned
ADyIcEs from st. Petersburg state that
preparations for the Khivan campaign are 60
ihg on without interruption. The report that
the expedition has been abandoned in conse
quence of the submission of Khiva has no
foundation. H
DON CARLOS is reported to be near Bayopne
France. Families continue to fly from Spain
IN large numbers. A vessel crowded with The
refugees arrived at Port Vendres.
NUMBER of Americans had an interview
with the Pope on Friday.
Snow fell to great depth in the north Of
France Thursday.
IHE telegraph feet at London will com.
mence laying the Anglo-American and French
cable the first week in May.
AT meeting of the Liverpool Peace Socie-
w. On Friday evening, Gen. Fairchild, U. s,
consul spoke in favor of International colven-
tlons as means of settling disputes Fair
| chlid, however, justified the recent civil war
in the United States.
IHE steamship Grecian. from Liverpool TO
Palermo, with forty hands on board, is SUD.
pose to be lost. =
IhE leading governments of Europe have
agreed to protect Portugal against aggression
from Spain.
HE London Times publishes the diplomatic
correspondence between the English and Rus
sian governments regarding affairs in Central
ASIA, which closes with concession on the
part OF the Russian government of the imme-
ula'e point IN dispute, the boundary line laid
oown by England being accepted.
IHE Austrian Government is disposed to act
with Prussia and Russia in regard to the new
govern nent In Spain. 1t considers that the
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