Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-03-19
CURRENT EVENTS.
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE Kansas legislature adjourned
sine die March 10Th.
THE iron trade is booming, so say the
Pennsylvania manufacturers.
The Manhattan Savings bank of New
York, which was robbed q few months
since, resumed business March 18th.
THE amount Of claims already nle!
against Archbishop Purcell amount to
So, 100000.
The republicans elected q mayor of
Bangor, Maine, on the 10th inst. by 146
majority.
THREE suits were brought against
Arch Bishop Purcell of Cincinnati on
the 10th inst.
The remains of Bayard Taylor reach
ed New York. on board the GiNeqt,
March 18th.
The Indiana p1ohibitionists will hold
q STATE convention May Dist to put In
nomination a full state ticket.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS candidate
for mayor of Biddeford, Maine, was
elected by seven majority on the 10th
inst.
THE secretary and treasurer of a local
fire insurance company IN Vermont Is
$125, 600 short IN his accounts. HIS
name is A. G. Woodland
Ara fire in Georgetown, near Wash
ington, last Saturday night, three color
ed children named Martin burned to
death.
So many attempts having been made
recently to burn the city Of Columbus,
O., the citizens have formed a vigilance
committee and patrol the city nightly.
O'LEARY broke down utterly on
March 18th i'll the championship walk
at Gilmore's Garden, New York, and SO
lost the race.
A DISPATCH from PASSPORT, Maine,
says the ship Turkish Empire went
ashore on Big Duck island one night
last week and was completely wrecked.
The captain and six men were drowned.
No tidings having been received of
the fourteen fishing vessels which went
out from Gloucester, Mass, to Georges
Bank, it is believed the whole fleet was
swamped in the recent gales, and that
all on board have persisted.
The regular session of the Indiana
legislature failed to make the appropria-
tons necessary to carry on the state
government, an extra session WAS call
ed by Gov. Williams to meet on the
18th.
A DISPATCH from New Orleans dated
March 18th says that the Bonnie
Lee, with eleven hundred and fifty
bales Of cotton, sank In Red River. A
wrecking boat has gone to her assist
ance.
MEMBERS of the Michigan legislature
propose to make a grand excursion to
Lake Superior in August next, rendez-
vousing at Chicago; then going by rail
to L'Anse, by steamer to HOughtOn,
and by the Mineral Range road to Calu-
met.
GENERAL SHERIDAN, accompanied by
Colonel Forsythe, Captain Gregory,
General Crook and Lieutenant Bourke,
has gone to Camp Robinson to investi-
gate Indian affairs and to select the site
for a new military post on Snake river,
in northern Nebraska. .e..
Mrs. GEN. THOMAS w. SHERMAN died
of consumption at Newport, &. L.,
March 10Th. At the time Gen. She
man himself was very i'll and his recov-
cry seemed doubtful. He was not in
formed of his wife's death lest the blow
should be too great for him.
A LETTER received at Ottawa, Canada,
March 18th, from Mr.. P. Breeland, a
Manitoba trader at the Moose Noun
tain, near Sitting Bulls camp, states
that the snow is disappearing and the
buffalo are moving north. There Is
strong talk Of joining the American hos
tile tribes in the spring.
The monthly statement shows that
twenty-five western railroads increased
their earnings in February 100000. Of
the roads which make returns, the larg
est increase is made by the Central Pa
clfc, the Kansas Pacific, the Wabash,
and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas.
One Or two Chicago lines figure among
the roads which show a heavy falling
off.
THE floor of Mechanics Hall in
North Berwick, Maine, gave way while
a town meeting was being held on the
10th inst, and precipitated the mass of
people to the floor below. Many peo-
pie were severely, and some fatally in
jured. Public sentiment 81 is bitter
against the builders of the hall -.
A NORWICH, Connecticut, dispatch Of
March 18th says that Mrs. John Tay-
lor and two sons, Willie, ten years old,
and Johnny, five years old, were drown
ed in the Mantle ice company's pond,
at Mantle, to-day. The children went
for pail of water and fell in, and Mrs.
Taylor hearing cries, ran to their assist
ance and also drowned.
IT is thought that the fishing vessels
lost in the storm off the Massachusetts
coast Feb. Goth number fully IA. Such
long time has elapsed since the storm
that all nope of ever again hearing from
the vessels is lost. By this disaster 146
men have died at sea while Al widows
and 100 orphans are left without sup
port st5as uG
4 FIRE in East st. Louis, on the 9th
inst. commencing in wagon shop
owned by Mrs. Henrietta Bousch, des-
@roroI - lo,,+ o10 600 mouth Oc