Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-02
GENERAL NOTES.

June 23rd.
NEARLY all the Chicago railroads run
ming west restored their old freight rates
June Goth.
IHE senate confirmed the nominal
ton of Joseph S. Smith, collector of
customs at Bangor, Maine, June Goth.
A STRIKE of great proportions was in
augurated by the Fall River, Mass,
spinners on the 25th inst
In the intercollegiate boat race June
9th at New London, Conn. Harvard de-
feated Yale by twenty lengths.
The body of Madame Roland recent
ly drowned while visiting Niagara Falls
on her bridal tour, was found June 9th.
ALB ERT Weber, the piano manufac-
turer, died in New York, June 26th.
He leaves a property valued at from
$500, 900 to $750,OOU.
The alarming report of the appear
ance of malignant cattle disease
among the Colorado herds was denied
on June 23d by the president Of the
Colorado cattle-grOWer's union.
Miss MARTHA PEET, one of the most
prominent women in Wisconsin, sui
cided by hanging at her home in Beloit,
June Oath. She was cultured woman
and won great distinction in her man
agement of the Wisconsin Women's
Centennial Commission. She was
widely known and respected.
A SALT LAKE, Utah, telegram of
June 9th says: The anti-poly-
gamy society have prepared q
letter to Pres. Hayes, exposing some of
the misstatements in Delegate Cannon's
letter and asking that Reynolds, con-
victed of bigamy and now serving a
term in the penitentiary at Lincoln,
Neb., be not transferred to the Utah
penitentiarv.
A SOUTHERN telegram Of June
25th says: Better health than
usual at this season of the year pre-
tary regulations can suggest has been
accomplished towards preventing re-
currence of the last years epidemic
Quarantine regulations have been es-
tablished, ready to be enforced should
an exigency arise.
AT Rochester, n. Y, June 23rd
Professor Swift discovered a new comet
at o'clock in the morning in con-
stellation Perseus, right ascension, two
minutes thirty seconds; decli nation
north, ffty-eight degrees. It is quite
bright, of a strong condensation, and
has a short tail, moving about one
degree per day, east of north.
A SPECIAL from Fort Buford dated
June 24th, says that scout justin
from Sitting Bulls camp, north of the
line, says that the old man is forcibly
inclined. Long Deer, with seven hun
dred lodges OF warriors, is coming south.
He will probably be met by Gen. Miles
exp edition. A bloody fight will be in
evitable. The Indians are we'll armed.
The Grow and Sioux tribes along the
Missouri are very hostile toward each
other, and a general determination is
in progress. Lack OF rations is the
cause.
The convention of nationals who
withdrew from the recent mbus,
Ohio, convention, met at Toledo June
Oath. Ten of the twenty congressional
districts were represented. The Hamil-
ton county delegation in vote by
themselves resolved to support both the
platform and ticket put forth at
Columbus. The remainder of the con-
ventlon voted to support the Columbus
ticket but not the platform. No
straight state ticket was nominated and
after several speeches the convention
adjourned.
, A PITTsBURG, Pa. special of June Goth
says the lamp-chimney makers strike,
which mas existed for eighteen months
or two years, is almost at an end. The
blowers struck against the task for the
days work, and also against the patent
crimper, and 50 stoutly did they hold
out that two firms engaged in making
chimneys had to remove to Chicago.
One hundred thousand dollars of CAPT.
tai invested in the gas and lamp CHM
hey houses has been dormant for nearly
two years, and the suffering of the men
has been very great. Quietly negoti-
atoms have recently been going On for
resumption, the employees agreeing to
work the crimper, and tomorrow there
is to be general m Getting Of the Chin
nev-makers to consider the matter,
and their decision will be submitted to
manufacturers on Saturday. If &C
eepted, the resumption of all chimney
factories will take place at once.
SAYS Davenport dispatch of June
9th: This vicinity is having its annual
visitation of tramps and harvesters.
They began to come from the south on
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
trains couple of days ago, and since
then have been pouring in by the
hundred. Wednesday night 200 of
them got to Rock Island, and last
night 400 came on one train
and 800 on another. By this mornings
steamboat from St. Louis 200 came in.
Large numbers of the fellows are har-
vesters, but there are very many thieves
and roughs among them, who rob the
more respectable ones. AS soon as they
reach Rock Island the police of that city
drive them over to Davenport, conse-
quently this city is overrun with them.
FITZNOODLE in America: Don't know
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