Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-23
REDUCING TELEGRAPHIC RATES.

! line StlanClc anu faclnc IeleSrapn
Company has reduced it's rates to
Philadelphia to Is cents, in order to
compete with the new Continental
Company. 1t was announced on
Saturday that the opposition telegraph
line of the Western Boards of Trade
had been opened between Chicago
and Milwaukee at the rate of 5 cents
per message. The Western Union
Company has reduced its rates to the
same figures between Chicago and Mil
waukee. The Board of Trade lines
are to be extended to this city, and
when they are completed it is under.
stood that the rates between New York
and the West will be greatly reduced
Ne,0 York Tribune, October IA.
James H, Slater, the newIy-eected
United States senator from Oregan,
was born IL Sangamon County, I'll in
1926. His early education was limit
ed one. Having studied law, he was
admitted to the bar, and removing to
Oregon. he was elected, in 1857, to
the territorial legislature, and again, i n
1858, was chosen as a member Of the
first legislature In 1866 he was
elected district attorney of Oregon for
two years. His next place was in the
house of representatives., where, in the
forty-second congress, he served on the
committee on public lands.
1NsURRECTIoN -NATCHEz, Miss,
October l5.-A courier who arrived
from Waterproof, La, this evening, re-
ports that $500 armed negroes sur
rounded Waterproof to day. They
threatened to burn and sack the town
1t is supposed they burped J Sanego's
place, on Lake ST. John, four miles be-
low W aterproof A call for armed as
sistance was made on Natchez, and 100
men will leave here on the ferry-boat
to aid the whites at Waterproof, if
nceded.
A TwENTY-Slx MILLION SU1T.-SAN
Francisco, Oct 15.-J. H. Burke, a
stockholdei Of the Consolidated Vir-
g'nla Mining Co., has brought suit in
the 23d district court to recover from
j. G. Flood, j. Mickey, J. G.. Fair,
and the Pacific Mill & Mining Co. for
$4,000, 900, alleged to have been
wrongfully diverted from the stock
holders of the Consolidated Virginia
by the defendants in the manipulation
! nf no & A.
of the company.
! 1t is gratifying fact to Americans
that the American exhibits at the
Paris Exposition were rewarded $50
prizes, a number larger than was re-
ceived by any other nation. The
number Of awards to American pro.
ducts is greater than the entire mum
ber OF exhibits at the former French
exposition or the Vienna worlds fair
This result is creditable. and is fully
In keeping with the advancement of
American industries. The result of
the high position awarded will be pro.
ductive Of beneficial results, and will
add largely in extending the foreign
demand for American machinery, i'm
plements and other products. The
Paris Exposition has had the effect to
carry forward the work begun by the
Centennial Exposition and show Ameri-
can productions as of a superior quail
ity, with which the markets of the
world can be supplied.
A Foul MURDER.--DETRoIT, Oct.
l6.-A murder of a most horrible
character was committed in this city
early this morning. Mrs. Matte
Farrell, a widow, 66 years old, living
in what is known as the "Potomac"
quarter of the city, was found beside
her bed with great clots of blood ooz-
ing through her hair. An examina-
tion of the body showed a cash four
inches long on the right temple, head
and face considerably bru1zed, and
neck broken. Henry Language. a
worthless character, and son of Mrs.
Farrell by her first husband, has been
arrested on suspicion. An inquest is
now IN progress.
The following changes have just
been ordered in Wisconsin postoAices:
John Duncan is appointed postmaster
at Westboro, Taylor county, vice Alpe-
US Tucker, resigned; H. Won Lilen-
thai, postmaster at Harrisville, Mar
quette county, vice o. A. Stebbins,
resigned. The postofice at Crawford,
Marquette county, has been discon-.
tinued, for the reason that it is no
needed. The papers 60 to Liberty
Bluff. The name of the postofice at
Dixon, Columbia county, is changed
to Arlington, and George Mcmillan is
continued as postmaster.
WILL NOT SroP.--ST. LOUIS, Oct.
16.-A Topeka, Kansas, dispatch
says: "Reports to the effect that work
upon the New Mexico and Leadville |