Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-17
General News.
FRANCE.

A press dispatch Of the 18TH says a
second manifesto has been issued by
President Mcmahon. Hedenies that the
republican constitution is in danger, or
mat the government is under clerical
influences Or inclined to a policy which
might endanger the peace, and appeals
TO electors not to plunge the country in
TO the unknown future of crises and
conflicts by returning opposition candi-
dates. The manifesto lays great stress
on the fact that duty forbids the mar
shall to forsake his post, and concludes
81 answer for order and peace
The Bureaux of the Senatorial Left
have issued a counter-manifesto, asking
the people to disbelieve those who de-
clare republican institutions not in
peril, and that the government do not
obey clerical influences. The official
candidates are enemies Of the re@
public.
The BEN Public says United States
Minister Noyes had. an interview with
the Duke Decazes to-day relative to the
case of Bedel, the American, who claims
he was expelled from France without
assigned reasons.
SPAIN
A Madrid telegram of the 18th inst.
says the Spanish government has paid
the American Minister $4,000 on ac-
count of claims for losses incurred by
American citizens in Cuba through the
revolution.
GERMANY.
A London telegram of the 18th inst,
states that the German bank in Pome-
rama, which suspended with 975O,OOO
liabilities, is the Ritterschaftliche, a pri-
vate bank Of Stettin. 1t did a large
business in advances on land and agri-
cultural products.
A Havana telegram of Oct. 18th
states that general feeling of democrat
lzatlon prevails among the insurgents -
During the week 1O4 surrendered with
their arms and baggage, and it is report
ed that General Prendegast has gone to
Lanzanlllo to open negotiations for the
surrender Of 500 more insurgents, the
greater portion Of whom are officers"
INDIA.
A dispatch from London of Oct 18th
says all immediate apprehension Of
famine in northern India next year has
passed away, though high prices and
some pressure ON the poor will remain
until the spring crop is assured. Emil
grants from the threatened tracts are al
ready returning home, and agriculture
IS active everywhere.
NEWFOUNDLAND
A telegram from Queenstown Of Oct
18th, states that the steamer COnsett,
from Antwerp for New York, arrived
here with her bows stove and the for
ward compartment filled with water,
from collision with the ship Jessore,
from Liverpool with passengers f6v
Melbourne, at 4 o'clock Wednesday
morning, 100 miles west of Fastness.
The Jessore sank. The Consett rescued
all hands
A New York dispatch of Oct y says
the announcement is made that Harry
Meiggs died at Lima, Peru, Sept %
He had been sick. for some three
months, having had two strokes of par
have been softening of the brain
l.
kill, n. Y. He made a fortune in the
lumber business in New York city, but
lost it in the panic of 1887. In 1913 he
went to San Francisco and engaged in
the same trade, employing large num-
Der of men His immense business was
Frustrated by the panic in that state in
1854, and to save himself, he resorted to
questionable proceedings which obliged
him to secretly leave the state. He
next turned up in Chill, South America,
where he took an enormous railroad
contract, making profit in two years
of $1,326,OO0 Subsequent enterprises
connected with railroad building in
Peru, increased his fortune, and he set
tied his Indebtedness in California. The
legislature of that state, by special act,
restored him to citizenship, and invited
him to return. His South American
railway contracts were on a stupendOus
scale, exceeding the most famous build
ers of Europe or America. In 1870 he
contracted with Peru to build six rail
ways for 1926, 100000, and was engaged
In completing the last Of them when
Frustrated by sickness. His demise may
increase the financial difficulties under
which Peru is now laboring.
GREAT BRITAIN
A London telegram Of the 18th, says
an explosion took place to-day in the
collier at Pemberton, Lancashire. Of
over forty miners in the pit, only five,
so far, have been rescued. Only two,