Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-02-26
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suddenly Ou 1AuFsia9 lfSts Ol ucdFE UlSedS6.
His estate is valued at 50, ,G00000.
a CONVICT at the penitentiary at Joliet, ILL.,.
hung himself with his susrenders THURSDAY
evening.
A FIRE in Geneseo, Ill, on Friday night de-
stroyed several buildings. Loss, ss,00O
GEN. MoARTHBR, the new postmaster o.
Chicago, took formal possession of his Office
on Saturday.
ROBERT EMMETT, son OF Thomas Adds EN-
nett, the Irish patriot, and nephew Of th.
celebrated Robert Emmett, died at New Ro
chelle, n. Y, on Saturday, The deceased wa,
for long time an eminent lawyer in New
York.
HE text of Judge Davis decision, granting
writ OF error and stay in the case of Stokes,
says that the exceptions are Of such grave i'm
portance, and there being doubt as to the coz.
rectness OF one portion Of the charge to the
jury, it became his duty to give the prisoner
an opportunity to present them. The case
will now go to full bench for a hearing,
This viii probably involve delay Of couple
ofmonths. The news had cheering effect
on Stokes.
AT Morristown, New Jersey, David Moore,
charged with the murder of his wife, eas
found guilty of murder in the second degree.
MICHAEL. ALBANIA pledges himself to give
toward the cause to free Cuba an amount equal
to that contributed by the rest of his country
men in the United States. It is expected
5000 600 will be collected within few weeks.
OFF1JERs of the Pan Handle Road have dis
covered a swindle practiced by conductors
and ticket agents, and several desirable
situations viii be vacant in few days.
The Inauguration ceremonies on the 4th of
March will prob bly, be the grandest display
ever witnessed in Washington.
The Pension and Indian appropriate on bills
have received the approval of the President
The American Register, printed IN Paris, is
informed that the French Government pro-
hibited NJ. Pardonnet, Kansas Emigration
Agent from lecturing in Belfort.
IT is reported that from the wreck of the
Atlantic Mail Company new line of American
steamers will be organized, to run between
New York and Havana.
JOSEPH SAvY, JR., has been reelected State
Treasurer, and Charles Wilson elected Super
intent of the State Prison, by the Legislature
of New Jersey.
CHAs. VANNEss Train Master on the Jack
SOD, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad, wa
crushed to death on Thursday at East Sag
inaw, between two cars, while directing the
shunting of cars.
An unknown man, name supposed from his
papers to be J. b. Giller, was run over and
killed at Birch Station, on the Flint and Pere
Marquette Railroad, while endeavoring to get
on the train while in motion
DISPATCHES from Montgomery, Alabama,
state that great excitement prevails in legisla-
tive circles in that state, owing to the attempt
ed assassination, on Wednesday, of N. s.
MeAfee by j. W. Mayberry. The proYocation
is al eyed to have been speech made by
McAfee in the House Of Representatives Wed
nesday. Mayberry IS said to be one of the
bogus Senators from Barber county, who was
ousted from his seat by the late compromise
between the conflicting legislatures. McAfee's
wounds are represented to be fatal
president GRANT recently pardoned VIM.
H. Carrick, who was convicted of rebbing the
mails while Route Agent on the Iowa Central
railroad, some two years ago, and received
sentence for ten years at hard labor.
The officers of the Cleveland Society for
Savings publish card stating that a clerk in
their employ has embezzled funds to the
amount of twenty thousand dollars The
amount has been made up to the Society
The name of the guilty party is not men
toned.
The town of San Vincente, in Salvador, has
been destroyed by an earthquake. The houses
being chiefly of adobes, are easily shaken to
pieces. No lives are reported lost.
FIRE broke out on Tuesday morning in
the married soldiers; cJartarC E'or+
ler, and destroyed the row Of buildings, con-
sisting of fifteen tenements.
YOUNG man named Winslow Simonds, com
mitted suicide on Tuesday, in Chelsea, Mass,
Y throwing himself from the window.
The retort and friedrich factory of Geo. C.
Hicks, at Locust point, Baltimore, burned
Thursday evening. Loss $4,000.
A BERLIN dispatch says that the Prussian
Ministry have required of Councillor Wagner.
the proto6e of Bismarck, an explanation of
his conduct in permitting concessions Of the
tuIhllments Of state railway contracts by which
rauds were coramitted on the government.
Several designations have already occurred.
JOHN GAFFNEY was hung in Buffalo on Fri
day, for the murder of Patrick Fahey.
The freight depot of the New Haven and
",
ed on Friday, together with adjoining build
ings. Total loss 800, 600.
The wooden ware factory of VIM. Brown, in
st. Louis, was burned on Friday. Total loss
$50, 900.
The Erie officials say that the laying OF
third rail will commence in the spring, and
that it is probabI9 that a sum greater than
the ten millions already raised win be neces-
sary for the undertaking.
CHARLES READE has began a suit against
the London Advertiser for libelous criticism
of one of his plays, laying his damages at
E1,O00.
IN the vicinity Of La Salle ILL.,, on Tuesday.
a son OF Mr.. Ralph Brewster, a farmer-a lad
10 or 12years old, got possession of a pistol.
and while handling it, the weapon was dis
charged, the contents taking effect in the per-
son of his little baby sister, aged three and
halfyears, causing her death shortly after.
SEVERAL American naval officers who visited
the Pope of Rome, on Wednesday, were asked
how he would be received in America. The
officers replied that that country would regard
his taking up his residence among them as
great honor.
DIsFATCH from Salt Lake City, Utah. saws:
1t has been showing here all day, the heaviest
fall of the season. A dispatch from Alta,
Little Cottonwood, says it showed all last
night and still continues. It is twelve feet
deep on the level. The roads are all blocked.
At Evanston, on the Union Pacific. there is
two and half feet of snow, and drifting, but
the monster plows are IN constant motion and
keep the track clear. The Utah Northern
Railroad is again blockaded.
The mandatory OF the Erie Knitting Com
pany, owned by Wm. More, was burned on
Friday. Loss so, 0,c00-insurance 1000.
THE party who deirauded the Cleveland So
ciety for Savings, out OF S2OO, 600 was Frederick
g. Martin, son of the Treasurer of the insti-
tution
Two HUNDRED uncompleted bonds of 81 1000
each OF the Toledo, Ctnada and Southern and
Detroit Railroad Company were stolen from
the office Of the company in New York on
no ,,3ay.a Ii, l.