Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-29
THE WORLDS WORK


Gov. Il. d. VANCE was elected u. S.
senator by the North Carolina legisla-
ture Jan. Ist. --,--.-.,--... .-.-....
The Governor of Michigan is about
to nominate from l 600 to 1900 persons
of both sexes for notaries public.
THE Indianapolis legislature elected
d. w. Voorhees, for U. S. senator long
and short term, Jan. Dist
a. A FIRE at Gaiva, ILL.,, Jan. 10Th de-
stroyed $4,000 worth Of property in
the Union block.
O. II. PLATT was nominated for y. S.
senator by the Connecticut republican
legislative caucus January 18th.
ARCH BISHOP PURCELL. of Cincinnati,
is in financial trouble with liabilities of
nearly half a million dollars.
Gov. HILL, of Delaware, and Coy.
Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, were installed
in Office Jan. 21st.
The Wisconsin State Grange met in
Milwaukee, Jan. 22nd. The order is
represented in q fourishing condition.
The lower house of the Louisiana
legislature repealed the charter of the
Louisiana lottery by vote Of SO to 20
last week.
GEN. JAMES SHIELDS, for the short,
and Col. G. Vest, for the long term,
were elected y. S. senators from Mis-
souri, Jan. Dist. .-..-............ .....
GEN. SHIELDS senatorial term to
which he has just been elected IN Mis-
souri,. will last only six weeks, expiring
March 4th.
JOHN A. LOGAN was nominated by the
republican members of the Illinois leg
islature, on the first ballot, for U. S.
senator Jan. 18th.
A FIRE at Grundy Center, Iowa, Jan.
II, destroyed eight business houses, in
Guiding two banks and the postoffice.
Loss estimated at SAC, 900. .~ .-..-
THE Omaha banks are glutted with
gold. They receive the deposits of the
Union Pacific railroad, which are now
made largely in the shiny metal. .-.
Roscoe CoNKLING was unanimously
nominated. for U. S. senator by the re-
publican caucus of the New York leg
islature Jan. Goth At the same time
the democrats nominated VIM. Dor
sinner. ....
Gov. CRossELL, of Michigan, in his re-
cent message stated that last year So.
$50, 1890 were spent on the public
schools in the state, the percentage of
attendance being only 81 per cent. of the
whole number enrolled.
GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN, in Illinois, Ros-
coe Conkllng, in New York, and Q. H.
Plat, in Connecticut, were elected q. S.
senators, Jan. 21st. Also upon the
same day the Florida legislature elected
Wilkinson, colored, senator, to succeed
Conover.
NEWFOUNDLAND was promised 81, OOO,-
900 of the fishery award before the
award was made, and that sum has
been placed to the credit of the Prov
ince in the Bank of England. 1t will be
used to build a railway across the island.
The new senator from Connecticut,
Mr.. Piatt, has only local reputation.
He has been in both houses of the legis-
lature, and speaker of the house. serv-
ing with credit in every Office he has
held.
A CINCINNATI dispatch of Jan. Goth
says that VIM. E. Coffin, for many
years teller Of the La Fayette bank, and
who has been missing for few weeks,
is a defaulter to the amount Of $40, 900.
THE Worth and Church streets fire in
New York city caused the suspension Of
six Or eight small insurance companies.
The block in which the fire occurred
was regarded as valuable, in goods
stored there, as any single block in the
city.
It's rumored in Canada that the
British minister at Washington, while
on his recent visit to the Marquis of
Lorne, conveyed to his excellency a de-
sire expressed by the Washington cahi-
net to renew negotiations for reciproc-
ity treaty with Canada. The story is
not credited in well-informed Canadian
circles. ~
THE stove manufacturers, in session
at Rochester, New York, last week,
adopted a resolution demanding a law
in all states forbidding the employ
ment Of more than one-tenth ofthe con-
.victs in prisons in any one line Of man.
ufacture, and ordered a petition drawn
embodying the same, to be sent to the
various. legislatures. New York was
selected as the place of next meeting.
A CONFERENCE between chief Red
Cloud and a member Of Gen. Crooks
staff occurred at Fort Robinson, Neb.,
Jan. Is. The object of it was te secure
the services of some Sioux warriors as
scouts in the expedition against the
rebellious Cheyennes. Red Cloud very
reluctantly decided to allow the United
States officers to enter his camps for the
purpose of securing recruits.
A SPECIAL from Riverton, KY, Of Jan.
22nd, says Solomon Johnson, a school
teacher, was brutally murdered near
Robinson's creek, in Pike county, by
James Bently, who failing to incite him
into a quarrel, smashed his skull with a
heavy club. Bently escaped. A large
number of country people are on his
trail, and it is thought that he will be
lynched if caught. ug..af -. ssa.r
AN Omaha dispatch of January
18th says: The captured women
men and children at Fort Robinson,
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