Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-12-25
CURRENT EVENTS.
MISCELLANEOUS.

destroyed $4,000 worth of property.
a FIRE at Cincinnati Dec. 1Sth burned
nearly $50 hogsheads of tobacco worth
$50, 900. 8 #
GOLD sold at par in New York Dec.
18th all day. The first time for seven
teen years.
The banking house of G. F. AIDE &
Co., of Cincinnati, suspended Dec. 18th.
Liabilities $7SO,OOO; assets nominally
100000.
The representative of thirty or forty
railroads met in Chicago Dec. 10th
and agreed to pool on all business from
that city. This, of course, means high
er rates.
Ice was running so rapidly in the
Mississippi at St. Louis Dec. 10Th, that
ferry boats made their trips with great
difficulty. Several boats not laid up
for winter, were dangerously situated
AT San Francisco Dec. 2Sth Lawrence
Otis Hall, clearing house clerk of the
London & San Francisco Bank, stole a
$4,000 package of greenbacks and
absconded, as is supposed, on the Oceanic
for China. a,fra s# .Hs
On Dec. 18th a true bill was found
by the grand jury against Samuel l..
Ludlam, who is charged with setting
fire to his hotel, the Ocean House, at
Cape MAY and with thus causing the
memorable conhagratlon Of Nov. ..
Ex-PREsIDENT MORTON, of the Phila-
delphla Market street railway company,
and Samuel B. HUM, who pleaded
guilty to fraudulently over-issung the
stock Of the company, were sentenced
each to ten years i'm prisOnment IN the
eastern penitentiary Dec. 18th.
JACK KEHoE, the infamous leader of
the Molly Maguires in Pennsylvania, was
hung at Pottsville Dec. 18th. The
crime for which he was convicted, was
committed June IA, 1852, when be
killed, or assisted in killing, F. W. S.
Langdon. Retribution was long de-
ferred, but it came at last.
IT was reported at Nashville, Tenn,
Dec. 18th, that q fierce battle occurred
a few days previous between a small
force of revenue officers under Capt.
Davis, and a band of moonshiners under
the notorious Campbell Morgan. Five
or six men were killed on both sides.
Full particulars were wanting owing to
the remoteness Of the fight.
THE steamer Cinabrio that arrived at
New York Dec. 18th had on board two
little German children, a boy and girl
who were among the passengers saved
from the wreck of the steamship Pom
merania and Unidentified as the children
of Mrs. Steihl. The body of Richard
w. Clymer, son of Mr.. William B. ely
mer, who was lost. and nephew of Con
gresham Hester Clymer, of Pennsylva-
MIA, is also on board the Cnbria.
THE directors of the Northern Pacific
railway met in New York Dec. 1Sth-19th
Proposals for the construction Of the
Missouri River division of. the
road were opened, and the lowest bid
for the first one hundred miles to be
completed by the LIST of November next
was accepted, and the board ordered 9
revision of the surveys of the second
one hundred miles to the Yellowstone
preparatory to letting work on that.
Gov. CARRIER, of Nebraska, on Dec
18Th offered a reward of $4,000 for the
apprehension Of the gang civilians who
burned Ketchum and Mitchell alive in
Custer county last week. Additional
information received from Borden
county stamp the outrage as the worst
ever known to have been perpetrateC
by civilized men. The two men were
chained to d pole extended horizontally
with their feet barely touching the
ground. In this manner they were
slowly burned to death. People in the
western part of the state are fearfully ex.
cited, and the country will be secured
for the apprehension of the gang.
THE trouble between the Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul and st. Paul &
Sioux City railway companies culmi'
mated In an agreement between the
two companies Dec. 10th, by which
they retain joint ownership Of the
tracks and gain mutual right of way
for a short line to Minneapolis. A
meeting Of Representatives of nine
railroads centering in St. Paul was held
at which union depot and
transfer company was formed, with a
capital Of half million, with author
ity to handle and transfer all freight
build side tracks to all industrial estab-
lishments, and to form connection with
any roads that may be built hereafter
The new company will build union
depot 100 by 500 feet. 1871.
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