Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-07

ANO" AoAhs OoP OhIC CO'i1o ulCu VII WIG
9th inst.
Ex-Governor SEYMOUR, of New York,
has written letter under date of May
LIST, declining te be a candidate for
governor of New York next fall.
A MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, special under
date of April 29th says the miilers
of Minneapolis are on strike on &C
count of a reduction of wages 20 per
cent.
The wife of Secretary Sherman, their
daughter and Miss Denison sailed, May
1st, for Europe, in the steamer Adri-
attic. The secretary and some friends
Of the family in a revenue cutter &C
companied the tourists down the bay.
THE steamer Rio Janeiro was run
down and sunk on the Goth, in a fog, by
the bark Velocity. The captain and
ten of the crew succeeded in climbing
on board the steamer by the anchor
chain, but the steward and boy were
drowned.
A SAN FRANCISCO dispatch of April
Goth says six thousand Cinnamon
are now employed in the construc-
ton of the Southern Pacific rail
way of California, which is being
pushed forward at the rate Of three
miles day. The track is laid to Mari
cOpa.
A CHICAGO special of May I'd says the
Farmers Loan and Trust company Of
New York filed a bill to foreclose a
mortgage on the Western Union rail
way, a corporation of Wisconsin and
Illinois, which radiates from Milwaukee
in several directions; the amount Of
the mortgage is 100000.
A LOUISVILLE special of the I'd
states that the democratic state
convention nominated for governor
DR.. Luke P. Blackburn; for lieu
tenant governor, Jas. E. Canrell: attor-
ney general, P. Warding; auditor, Fay
cite Hewitt. No other nominations
have been made and as yet no plat
form has been adopted.
A ST. LOUIS dispatch of the 2Sth says
that Judge Cady, of the GRIM
inal court, to-day, fined about
fifty lottery vendors, from five to eight
hundred dollars each, for selling lottery
tickets of the Missouri state lottery, and
committed them to jail till the fines are
paid. The aggregate fine amounts to
about $4,000.
A BISMARCK special under date of
April 2Sth says: General Sheridan and
General Terry left this morning on the
steamer Big Horn, on a visit to Forts
Yates, Bennett, Sully, Hale, and Ran
dali. They will come out at Yankton.
Sheridan will also take notes as to the
conduct Of the agencies on the river.
The New York Tribune of the 26th says
the friends of Col. Jno. Groesbeck,
brother of the Hon. VIM S. Groesbeck,
of Ohio. and brother-in-law Of Gen.
Joe Hooker, are greatly distressed over
] his unaccountable disappearance from
the Fifth avenue hotel, in this city,
where he has lived for many years. He
left the hotel two weeks ago, saying he
was going west, and since that time all
trace Of him has been lost. His per-
sonal effects be left in his room.
A CHICAGO dispatch Of May 1st says
the presence here Of VIM. II. Wander
| bilt, his three sons and other railroad
magnates, and their proposed trip over
the Northwestern railroad, has revived
the report that Vanderbilt has secured
the control Of that great corporation Of
2,155 miles of rail connection. The
party departed for Omaha. this morn
ing, by special train. It is stated in this
connection that the present officials of
the Northwestern railway will in any
case be retained. ,* -ts
A WILKEsBARRE, Pa, telegram Of
| ~ Il
tombment, the miners imprisoned at
Sugar Notch by the fall of the roof Of
the mine, were released this morning.
The men sustained life by the meat Of
mule, which the boy sent to give them
warning had fortunately taken with
| him, and stream running through the
mine gave them water. The reliefs Of
the laborers have been constantly at
work, night and day, and fnally these
have succeeded in making a
channel through fifty foot of black coal.
These men suffered little from confne-
ment, and they and their rescuers were
loudly cheered as they reached the sur
| face of the mine.
A CINCINNATI special telegram of the
| Goth says that the case of G. @. Wash
burn, Of Minneapolis, MIMI, against
| the Western Insurance company, is on
trial before Jury. The suit is one of
seven begun in this court to recover in
surance on the famous mills in Mime
apolis. The seven insurance companies
that have been sued here contest their
liability on the ground that the fire oc-
cured after the explosion. Testimony
has been introduced, however, to show
| that smoke was seen issuing from the
windows of the mill before the explo-
sion. The present trial is understood
to be a test case. The amount of the
policy is $1,000. .Ha e4# #a 81
The Chicago Union Veteran Club at
its meeting April Goth, adopted the fol-
lowing esolution:HH HE ga8 eoJfA4H
Resohed, that the Union Veterans
club, of Chicago, most heartily approve
of the manly moral courage exhibited
by our distinguished comrade Senator
Logan, in declining to accept the code
dttesIo as means of refuting vile
calumny which needs no refutation,