Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-03-06
Ghe RepnbHrar.

The Eplscopal convention OF clericai
and lay delegates, at Quincy ILL.,, for
the purpose of etecting Bishop for
the new Quincy Diocese, adjourned
Wednesday, having on the forty
fourth ballot elected Rev. DR..
Alexander Burgess, of Springfield,
Mass.
The drouth has been very severe in
some portions of Australia, and parts OF
Queensland have been without rain for
eighteen months In the Hawaiian
Islands, also, the lack ofrain is causing
much alarm The crane crop is par
TALLY destroyed on the Island of Maui,
and the stock is dying for waut OF
food.
Says Neenah correspondent: "One
of the gypsies stopping here this win
ter went down to Oshkosh one day last
week, to have a little fun with the
boys trading horses. Mr.. jim Brown,
our livery man, accompanied him
The gypsy traded horses three times Ia
Oshkosh, getting 800 to boot in the
three trades, aud in the last trade got
back the horse he took down with him"
BERTHA, THE WALKIsT. -PITTs-
BURG, Pa, Feb. 27.-Miss Bertha
Won Hilern completed her 100 mile
walk in % hours tonight, with s;z
minutes and half to spare. The i'm
mense hall was densely crowded an}
the lady was greeted on her last round
with loud and prolonged cheers. Dur
ing the day Miss Won Hillern received
numerous kilograms of encouragement
from other cities where she is known
The last ten miles were walked 10 three
hours and sixteen minutes, the best
time Of the entire walk being made on
the last mile, which was walked In
eleven minutes and forty-fve seconds.
4 FAMILY IN A TIGHc PLACE
The Maxwell family's adventure, near
Fort Bozeman. was like an incident in
an Indian dime novel They number
ed six men and two women. and were
travelling In d wagon on their way to a
border settlement. Seeing the ap-
proach OF band of hostile savages
they decided to select favorable posi-
ton in which to defend themselves
and soon found spot that was bound
ed on two sides by deep, wide gorge
They hastily built a barricade of the
wagon, stones and earth, working all of
one night at it In the morning II e
Indians made an attack, but the men
In the fort. armed with breach loading
rifles, repulsed them. During two
days the fighting was kept up, and
then rescuing party of soldiers ar.
rived. hight Indians were killed aud
one of the white men was injured
AN IMPORTANT WEDDING In PRos-
PECT.-A Washington dispatch says
that the engagement of United States
Senator Johu Dobald Cameron. of
Pennsy lyania, and Miss Lizzie Sher-
man, daughter of Judge Charles Sher-
man, of Cleveland, O., and niece of
General Sherman and the Secretary Of
the Treasury. was announced at lunch
party given at Secretary Sherman's
house Saturday evening. Miss Sher-
man has been in Washington since the
beginning of the season visiting the
family Of her uncle, the Secretary OF
the Treasury. She is about % years
old, and has been very popular In
Washington society Her elder sister
is the wife of General Miles of the
regular army. The date Of the mar
riage has not yet been made public.
ENGLAND's PREPARATIONS LON-
DON, Feb 20.-It is confidently stated
that $4,000 troops are ready to start
from Bombay at short notice. The
Elswlck ordnance works were recently
ordered to manufacture one hundred
torpedoes for the government with all
possible speed. The order has been
increased to eight hundred
LONDON, March 1.-The morning
papers abound in details of the warlke
preparations. Some militia colonies
have been warned that their regiments
may be required for permanent duty.
The militia will be armed with Henry
rifles.
In the House of Commons to- night
Sir Stafford Nortbcote, replying to a
question stated that the government
was still uniformed of the final terms
of peace, but if they injuriously affect
British interests the government would
take the proper course to vindicate and
protect those interests. This declara-
tlon was received with loud cheers.