Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-03
Miscellaneous News
INDIAN TROUBLES IN TEXAS.

WIS dlIaCkcu Nv luulttllS ldSl ulSuI Hear
Pecas river and one passenger wounded
seriously the stage escaping This is
! the first time the large stage has been
attacked in this vicinity, but it is not
unexpected, as the Indians entirely
ignore the presence of the military
whom they neither fear nor respect.
. REMOVED. ... ..-...
A dispatch from Omaha, of June 81,
states that Gen. Crook has removed
the headquarters of the department
of the Platte to Omaha barracks, three
miles from that city, in accordance with
the provisions of the New army bill.
RAILROAD DIVIDEND.
The Chicago & Rock Island Rail
road Company has declared its usual
quarterly 2 per cent. dividend, payable
August l.
.-. TRIAL OF GENERAL PORTER.
A West Point dispatch of the
9th of June says that the board Of
officers in the Fitz John Porter case
decided that it devolved on the record
er to act as counsel for the government.
Mr., Choate then began reading the vol
ume If printed evidence taken in the
general court martial of 1868.
A dispatch from ST. Louis of
June 9th, says that the notorious
Halter, the paid agitator of the social
istic labor party of this city, has been
removed from his position by the agita-
ton committee on the alleged grounds
of his opposition to the eight hour law
and other measures deemed to be of
great benefit to workingmen.
THE CHARTER OAK LIFE INSURANCE co.
A telegram from Hartford, Ct,
of June 25th says new and par
ticular information as to the charge of
conspiracy against Furber, Wiggin ct
al, the indicted ex-Officers of the Char
ter Oak Life insurance company, was
filed to-day and the parties rearrested
and bonds continued. The case goes
over till August.
AN ODD CRIME. ...
A dispatch dated Boston, June
26, says that Henry A. Pard, who
arrived from st. Johns, n B. yes
terday, has been arrested on charge
of murder on board the steamer Chesd-
peake, from New York for Portland, in
December 1868. Pard was one of the
II passengers who took possession OF
the Chesapeake in the name of the con-
federacy, shooting the second engineer
and throwing the body overheard.
THE INDIANS.
ASilver City dispatch says the assault
made by Bernard upon the Indians at
was surprise to the savages, about 40
,f IL
were very cool In the charge. The In
dians' force present Yves estimated at
seven hundred, but was probably not SO
large. The Indians retreated to their
stronghold in the Stein Mountains.
Howard, with the forces at his COM
mand, making As miles day: will
effect junction with Bernard tonight. |
1t is estimated that the whole force Of
savage warriors numbers 1000. One |
hundred and three camp-tires are
counted. The Indians will be pursued,
and there Is every prospect of a pro-
tracted campaign. The Stein Noun
tain country is we'll adapted for de-
fensive operations.
VANDERBILT AND THE RAILROADS.
VIM. II. Vanderbilt, president Of
the New York Central railway,
contributes a communication to the |
Times on the present railroad sit
uation, reviewing the great number of
bankrupt roads and the uncertain future
for all roads unless there is a change in
their management, and favoring the
pooling plan. He says superior natural
advantages, better management and |
great volume of business will neces-
sarlly keep some solvent much longer
than others, but every bankrupt line
tends to drag others down. Such a road
pays nothing to stockholders or bond
holders; it has no responsibility to own
ers, patrons or the public; it does bust
ness comparatively for nothing; it's prop
erty deteriorates, and the country
through which itruns will in the end ex-
perience the disastrous effects of its
carelessness and responsibility. If all
the great trunk lines were brought to
that condition, not only would INN ense
properties be destroyed, but the credit
and trade be SO paralysed that every in
terest IN the whole country would be
irreparably injured. The pool tries to
avoid this. The only danger that can
be urged against 1t is, that it may estab-
fish exorbitant prices; but this is impos-
sible. The public have become used to
very low charges and will submit to no
other. The best skill and most prudent
and the utmost good faith
cannot provide for more than living
prices. The whole. effort of the pool
cannot raise or keep the rate Of trans
portation to a figure SO high but what
the most rigid economy and the ablest
will be required, to enable
.he companies to live. The railroads
now existing, if crowded to their fullest
capacity, could do four times the bust
ness of the country. If there were
only two rates during the. wear, a sum-
mer and a. winter one,
and all shippers knew ea just
what to expect, and were fairly dealt
by, it would add imm easurably to the
and stability Of our com
10 cree. Combinations heretofore made,
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