Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-08
CURRENT EVENTS.
MISCELLANEOUS.

The first narrow gauge through train
started over the Erie road Dec. 3Oth.
THE Chicago and Northwestern freight
depot at Fond du Lac, Wis, burned on
! Christmas. The books were saved.
DIPHTHERIA is subsiding at Cedar
Rapids. Iowa, where 1t has been raging
with great fatality for several weeks. a.
BLOOMINGTON, Ill, has experienced
considerable fright over the appearance
of smallpox there. ..s.a -, ..r. q
The board eff inquiry resumed inves-
tigation in the Fitz John Porter case at
West Point, January I'd. ...r. 'H..
A SALUTE was fired at Des Moines, Ia,
Dec. 2Sth in honor of the thirty-second
anniversary Of the admission of that
state into the union. 1912. .,..
THE Canadian parliament h as been
prorogued until February Sth, and will
not then be called for the dispatch of
| business.
JUDGE HENRY SMITH, of Memphis, an
ex-iudge of the supreme court of Ten
nessee. dropped dead at his residence
Dec. 31st. '@.s.a
CALEB CUSHING, the distinguished iur-
| ist, died at his residence IN NeWbury-
port, Mass, at il o'clock P. NJ. of the End
| inst. ." au
| A FIRE at TT. Howard, Wis, Dec.
30th destroyed the Grand Central hotel
and barn valued at $1,000. Fully in
sured.
JUDGE CHAs. T. SHERMAN, formerly T..
S. district Judge, and brother Of Gen.
and Secy. Sherman, died at Cleveland,
| Ohio Jan. lst. ....-..
THE New York gold room was
closed as medium ofspeculation Dec.
51st. At the clearing house there will
no longer be gold exchanges.
The sub committee of the Potter in
vestigation committee, and also the
yellow fever congl essional commission,
met in New Orleans Dec. 30th.
| THE schooner Ellen, from ST. John for
| New Haven, was wrecked on the coast
of Maine, Dec. 26th. The captain and
| three seamen were drowned. ..
THE new state capital at Lansing,
Mich, was dedicated Jan. LIST, and
thrown open to the public. The legis-
IL
| day.
? THE Mexican government has made
arrangements for the payment of the
third installment. 100000 indemnity,
to the American citizens, due this
month.
A Boston telegram OF Dec 2Sth says:
| The Emerson piano company's factory
burned tonight. Loss 100000 In
sured. So men are thrown out Of en-
ployment.
THE Manitoba wave that swept the
whole country, beginning on New
Years day, was the most remarkable
one for years. AS far south as Mem
phis the Thermometer was fifteen de-
grees below zero.
DURING the past year 917 failures
were reported in New York with liabiii-
ties of $65, 950, 403, and assets at S1S,-
| 695, 531. This exceeds the record of
any former year, but large number is
due to the repeal of the bankrupt act.
A New YORK telegram of December
31st says: One hundred and
eighty dealhs the past week from
scarlet fever-an increase Of so upon
the previous week-impels the board of
health to take action.
The Jury in the case OF VIM. Chase,
of Chippewa Falls, Wis, on trial for
numbering Frank Goodhue Dec. 31st,
brought IN a verdict Of murder in the
first degree, ana the prisoner was SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life.
A SANTA BARBARA (Cal) dispatch of
Jan. End says that at 9 P. NJ, in the
midst of a storm Of wind and rain, a
tornado struck the city from the south
east, and, occupying a narrow path,
tore through several blocks, unroofing
and blowing down houses and outbuild-
ings and uprooting trees. ......
| THE Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad company, made a sweeping
reduction IN passenger fare, to take eff
feet Jan. 1st. The rate is reduced
to cents per mile on the main line
and all branches in Kansas, Colorado
and New Mexico. This Is a reduction
over 33 per cent.
| A PHILADELPHIA dispatch Of Jan
uary End says: The resump-
ton of specie payment in this city
caused no stir whatever. Inquiry at
the prominent banks showed the de-
mand for gold, up to noon to day, very
| limited. At the Office of the assistant
United States treasurer gold is not being
paid out except for interest and gov
eminent obligations, while the business
Of resumption for the present Is being
centered at New York
MAJ. MORRILL,, of the Engineer Corps,
has written a letter for publication, in
which he shows that Capt. Eads is not
the inventor of the jetty system, but
that it has been used by our military
engineers for fifty years. He also ques-
tons the success Of the jetties at the
mouth Of the Mississippi, as Capt.
Eads' contract looks for depth of 80
feet, and he has thus far obtained only
a depth of 25 feet, although be has
been paid in advance for depth of IS
| feet.
TIE Manhattan Savings Institution