Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-11
GENERAL NOTES.

THE New Hampshire legislature Or
gained on the 4th inst, by the election
of Challenger, republican speaker.
Advices from lake ports of the End
inst. give numerous accounts of wrecks
of vessels on Lake Michigan during the
storms of Saturday and Sunday.
THAT strange little fish that only puts
in an appearance during about ten days
in year, began to run at Geneva Lake
Wis, June 3rd. A great many were
caught but the sport soon ended.
AN Appleton, Wis, special under date
Of June 9th, states that the Wisconsin
Editorial Convention to meet at Oshkosh
June 18th, promises to be the largest
ever held in the state.
THERE seems to be serious trouble
| between the iron manufacturers and
employees at Plttsburg Advices of the
4th state that no terms can be agreed
upon, and it is expected that the statv-
ing out process will continue.
A ST. PA1n dispatch of June 9th an
nounces the sale of the 100 miles of the
ST. Paul & Pacific railway extending
from ST. Paul to Morris. The road was
sold under foreclosure for $250,OOO. It
is expected that the other lines of this
road will be sold soon.
A Dies MONIES dispatch of the
court, of Iowa, has decided con-
stitutional and valid the law prohibit
ing the sale Of wine and beer within
two miles of the corporate limits of any
municipality where such sale has
been prohibited by vote of the peo-
| pie, or within two miles of any voting
place at any election.
A New YORK dispatch of the End
states that the whole story Of the Man
haitian bank robbery which occurred
| last October has come out through the
confession of one of the parties. The
robbery was planned three years ago
and failed twice through the arrest and
conviction of some of the gang for
other crimes before the day set to rob
the bank.
AT a meeting of the Chicago &
Northwestern railway officials in Chi
cago June 9th a statement of the earn
ings and expenses was made
for the year, which statement
shows gross earnings $14, $780,
SIG, expenses $50, 312,633; net earnings
$2,269,863, equal to per cent. on pre-
ferred and 5 per cent. on common stock.
The present officers were reelected at
meeting of directors held subsequently.
The judicial election in Cook county,
ILL.,, on the I'd inst, resulted as follows:
Demo 3O,321; McAllster,
25,916; Moran, 1851; Barnum, 1928;
Tulley, 23,O17. Republicans Booth,
10 ,546; Buell., Is, $40, Rosenthal, Is. 468
Williams, 1929; Reed, 1902. The
average democratic majority is 1928.
For supreme court judge, the majority
of Dickey, democrat, over Dent, repub-
lican, is 1854. In the 18th judicial cir
cult, the republicans elected all their
judges.
New YORK advices of the 5th inst,
state that Captain Lee of the schooner
Cecile, from Cape Hayti, reports that
when his vessel was in the channels off
the island of Great Inagua, one Of the
Bahamas: on May "a, boat from the
shore came alongside and said the cap
tain and all the crew Of the schooner
Hattie Howes, of Providence, lying off
the island, were sick with yellow
fever, and one man had died. This
vessel had previously lost it's entire crew.
except the captain, and had shipped
new crew at Baracoa, May II. Cap
tain Lee said there was little hope for
the recovery of those on board, for the
old crew had died in hospital, and now
the vessel was full OF the disease, which
seemed to get into the wood and could
not be got out of it.
PANAMA advices of the End inst. says
the sessions of the house have been