Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-25
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
FOUNDERED AT SEA.


says: The bark Carlo has arrived with
1853 officers and the crew of the Spanish
frigate PiedlTo foundered at sea. The
PiadTT0 was hOmeward bound. She
left St. Georges, Bermuda, on the 9Th
for Faval, and sprang leak
during hurricane on the 10Th.
The water rose rapidly anu put out the
fires. The vessel was kept afoat for
two days by battling, and, when she
was sighted by the bark, her crew was
completely exhausted. Her crew came
off in toats at 7 a. NJ, but did not reach
the bark until four P. NJ, when they
were in such an exhausted condition
that they had to be hoisted on board
MOONsHINERs SEEK REVENGE.
A Nashville special of the 18th says
An attempt was made at Tracy City to-
dav to assassinate United States Deputy
Collector ]. M. Davis, who has been the
leader of all the revenue raids in Mid
die Tennessee during the past six years.
He had been attending court in answer
to charge of having killed
Joseph Haynes near that point last
May while on raid, and was walking
to dinner, when some unknown party
fired at him from cover, the ball pass
ing into the thigh of James Spears, an
other revenue man at Davis side, ia
tally wounding him. The Judge i'm
mediately referred the matter to the
grand jury, telling that the assassin
must be found and punished.
MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICANS.
A Worcester dispatch of the 10Th says
the republican state convention met
permanent chairman. A resolution
was offered and referred to the commit
tee on resolutions, demanding that cor
rupt, incompetent and unnecessary Of
fcers and employees entrenched in the
Boston custom house and other public
offices in the state shall at once be dis
charged, and such places as the public
good requires be filled with honest,
God fearing, capable and law-abd1ng
citizens.
Benz. F. Butler received two votes on
the informal ballot that gave Talbot
S51, and when Buffers name was read
it was received with misses and laughter.
On motion of Nichols, the informal
ballot was made formal, and Hon.
Thos Talbot declared the nominee for
governor, with but one dissenting
voice. s....L .-..-H ...
Jno. d. Ling was nominated for lieu
tenant governor, Henry T. Pierce for
secretary Of state, Hon Chas. Endicott
for treasurer, and Hon. Geo. Marston
for attorney general.
OREGON SENATORSHIP.
A Salem dispatch under date of the
18th inst, says this morning the demo-
cratic legislative caucus nominated j.
II. Slater for United States senator.
A ballot in each house of the legisla-
ture resulted in Slater's election. Slater
in being interviewed said he was not in
sympathy with the inf1ationists, but adj
vocates the substitution of legal tenders
for national bank notes, and opposes
fiat money and demands currency shall
be on a gold basis. H'-- -
BODY sNATCHING.
A Cle1 Gland dispatch under date of
the 18th inst says that on Saturday
morning last Edwin French, an old and
well known citizen of Cleveland died at
the residence Of his son-in-law, in Will
loughby, thirteen miles east of here.
The funeral services were held yester-
day afternoon, and the remains inter-
red in the Willough5y Gem etery. This
morning early it was discovered that
the grave had been robbed Detectives
were at once set at work, and this after
noon the body was foundin tank I'M
derneath the floor of the no.
m@opathic medical college of this
city. The grave had been robbed be-
tween one. and two o'clock at night,
and the body brought to the city in
carriage and thrown into the tank, the
floor put back and nailed down. Mr.
]. E. French, son of the deceased, i'm
medlately sWOre out warrants, and
nearly q dozen people, including the
dean and members of the faculty, jan
itor and several students of the college,
were arrested r The faculty disclaim
all knowledge Of the body snatching
and say they are entirely ignorant of
the whole affair. ) - al Egf3I'S
. POWDER MILL EXPLOSION. III
a special from Dubuque, Iowa,
Bands powder mill dry house at Platte
vile, Wis, blew up, yesterday after
noon. The terrific conclusion shook
the earth for miles around. McGraham
a workman was seriously injured. Other
mills were, badly wrecked. Loss $4,000
to So, 900. No lives lost. E
A WHOLE FAMILY MURDERED.
The following account of a most hor-
rible murder is given in dispatch of
the 10th from Houston, Texas: The
wife Of George Lynch, respected citi-
zen of Berkeley, Texas, died some
weeks ago, leaving an infant. Lynch
had seven other children. the oldest,
Clemie, being II years of age. On Fri
day night the family retired as usual,
the lamp being left burning in the main
room. At midnight, the father was
awakened by a pistol-shot and ball
striking him in the breast. He sprang
up and saw a masked man In the mid
die of the room pointing a pistol at
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