Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-04

having killed white man between Camp Sup
ply and the Cheyenne agency, burning the
body to prevent detection.zaay.=esss-.s.. ssaes -
The city OF Chicago has cases pending
against it in the various courts to the number
of $50, involving claims to the amount of
81, 53o, 375 OF. .
e. Hon RUFUS KING, of Cincinnati, has been
elected President of the Ohio Constitutional
Convention, vice Waite, resigned. &
ADv1cEs from the Plains state chat buff oes
were plentiful in December, and the Indians
successful in huntinsthem V
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Chicago looking
to the establishment in that city Of a museum,
which shall occupy the place filled by Woods
Museum before the fire. The location is not
yet determined. r.
A RESOLUTION has been presented in the
Iowa Legislature asking Congress to enact
laws in behalf of the Wisconsin and Fox River
Improvement. ,9blH 8&f0E
A MAN named Flaherty fatally stabbed Carl
Younkles in logging camp, in the town of
Eaton, Brown county, Wis. Cause A QUAR-
about tobseco-pipe. Fiaherty's plea is self
defense. 4,.l.s5. r. t..Tgtfeaa ..tleuTHa
WH1EE a party of young folks were S coast
ing" at Madison, Wis, a few days since, a
young lady named Minnie Phelps, niece of the
Hon. w. P. Lyon, Judge of the Supreme
Court. was instantly killed, and young man
was seriously wounded, by being thrown
against the trunk Of a tree. 50 Ef'f. @tf
W. R. BURT. Of East Saginaw, has just
closed the sale of "a 900, 900 feet OF logs to the
Mitchell & Rowland Lumber Company, of Cin-
cinnati, for $3.50 per thousand for the lum-
Der, and 81 per thousand for saving, making
$12.50 per thousand for the lumber on the
dock, or a $500, O00 dollar transaction in the
aggregate. This is regarded as the largest
sale of lumber ever made in the valley. The
sale was on basis of SIS so for culls. sl1 for
common and s35 for upper qualities.
AT Shelbyvllle. Ind, Wednesday morning,
a committee of ladies visited all the liquor sa-
looms and other places where liquors are sold,
and held prayer meetings, imploring the deal
ers to give up their traffic. At one or two
places they were treated rudely, but were gen.
orally courteously received.
CAPT. JOHN JOHNSON, aged IA years, had his
head cut off by an elevator in the Gibson
House. Cincinnati, on Friday. Johnson was
formerly steamboat builder in Cincinnati.
MICHIGAN has ZIG oranges, with member
ship of 10. 600. There are 10000 oranges in
the United States, with 900, 900 members.
Dr. J. X. RE1NFR died at st. Paul on Tues
day, from poison received through q scratch
in his hand when performing a surgical OPP
Grafton on patients Notifying arm, which
modification was caused by a bite on the
thumb received in fight which the patient
had with felow-lumberman. g.,
GOLD in limi ed quantities has been discov-
cred seven miles from Des Moines It pans
out 81 to the bushel of dirt. Some samples OF
quartz are shown containing small particles.
WHITE SPIRIT, young Winnebago Indian,
confined in the penitentiary at Lincoln. Neb
on sentence for murder, feigned insanity,
and attacked the warden and assistant, on
Saturday. On Monday he attacked man
named Carter with spade. Carter shot him.
| A sTAGE-CoACH with fourteen passengers
was attacked by five h1ghwaymen, forty miles
south of Little Rock, on Friday, and robbed
of $4,000 in money and valuables.
The death Of Mr.. Close, of Chatsworth, III.
who was found in well with sixty pound
"elShe UuChleu W HIS leet, Was aI uiSt sup
posed to be a case of suicide. Now he is sus-
pected to have been murdered, and further
Investigations are being made.
j. S. HORN, agent OF the Remington Sewing
Machine Company, was arrested at Blooming
ton. H., on Friday, for forging the names Of
/ three citizens Of Farmer City to his official
bond for $1,000. irrr" III l...
q hal Of how
paid out in Jacksonville, ILL.,, during the past
sixty days TO farmers Of Morgan county for fat
hogs. John T. Alexander, the cattle king of
Morgan county, has contracted for 1000 of
choice, fat cattle for April, May, and June de-
livery, at Sc per 100 pounds on the hoof. Mr..
Alexander is purchasing at this price for the
New York market. Tr -.t,.-Err f.uisl.
i s-..E AT Large. suaaa a.,
A STREET fight occurred in Liberty, Casey
county, Ky, few days since, in which one
man was killed, and two Or three others, in
Guiding the marshal of the village, were badly
wounded. The fight resulted from an old
family feud.
HAMILTON the defaulting treasurer of Jer-
sey City, 10 said to be on intimate terms with
that city, whom Walter r.. Montgomery, the
actor, married in London. Montgomery, on
| learning the character of the woman, commit
ted suicide. f.
GEN. S. B. MAxEY has been elected United
States Senator from Texas, in place of Reagan,
whose term is about to expire.
TIE House of Representatives, the Kansas
Legislature has passed bill to strike the
word ''White ;; from all laws and ordinances
SO as to do away with all discrimination on &C
count Of color.
A TRIAL of the relative merits of the Auto
matte and Western Union Telegraph Com
pani=s was had at Washington on January Is.
The Automatic Company sent from Washing
to New York the Presidents message and
Spanish protocol, numbering II ,13O words, in
60 minutes, against 70 minutes by the West
ern Union. The Automatic Company used
one wire with two operators, and the Western
Union had eight wires and sixteen operators