Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-03-12
THE WORLDS WORK.
MISCELLANEOUS.

license ticket.
THE Wisconsin legislature adjourned
sine die March 9Th. .-.. i
The national greenback convention
met in Chicago March 4th.
The supreme court Of Iowa meets at
Council Bluffs on the 18th inst.
THE City bank of Oswego, N. Y, las
gone into the hands of a receiver.
The California constitutional conven-
ton after long session, adjourned sine
die March 3rd.
A BOILER explosion at Stockton, Cali
fornia, on the 22nd of Feb, resulted in
the death of six or eight men.
The amount of claims alreauy nlo>.
against Archbishop Purcell amount to
So, 100000.
The net earnings of the Union Paci-
ic railroad for the year ending Dec. 81,
1873. were $7.931,672.
THE presidents veto Of the Chinese
bill is strongly denounced by the Cali
fOrnia press.
THE Lincoln public school at Ottum-
wa, Iowa, was destroyed by fire March
4th. Loss $40, 900; insured for $l1 900.
AN explosion of sulphuric acid near
Pottsville, Pa, March 9Th, resulted in
the death of three men.
The new director Of the mint, Hon.
III. G. Burchard, of ILL.,, took possession
of his Office March 9th.
Gov. ROBINSON, of New York, has
-, al, nC
against the state superintendent and
recommends his removal.
AN anti-liouor license ticket has been
nominated for city officers at Cham
paign, ILL.,, headed by Colonel Frank
Wilcox for Mayor.
CALIFORNIA will not be represented ia
the lower branch of congress at the ex-
ira session, the election for members
not being held until next September.
NOTWITHSTANDING the women Of Sa-
bula, Iowa. labored hard in unison with
the temperance men, to elect the tenn
perance ticket on the 4th inst, the
license men carried the day.
REV. SANFORD Hunt, of Buffalo, has
been chosen senior book agent and pub
Usher in charge of the Methodist Book
Concern, in place Of the late Rev. Reu-
ben Nelson.
1T is reported from Winnipeg that
the Dominion government are going to
prevent American boats running In the
Canadian waters of the Red river this
summer.
The Irish Catholic societies of Toron-
to, Canada, resolved to walk as usual on
St. Patrick's day this year, and intend
inviting all Irish Protestants to join the
procession.
THE academy at Lake Forest, ILL.,,
preparatory department of the Lake
Forest University, north Of Chicago was
destroyed by fire March LIST. Loss
about $4,000.
A Dies MONIES special of March 4th
says the city and town elections held
yesterday, so far as heard from. show
decided gains for the license party over
the prohibitionist, this generally being
the work Of exciting local questions.
A "CENTENNIAL SAFE containing lot
&C III o+oS,-~rl- - >-uIouIIlguIsned III..n,
was locked up at Washington the other
day, and it is not to be opened till 1876
and then by the president of the United
States.
By the bursting of kerosene lamp
at Fond du Lac, Wis, last week, a
young woman by the name of Josephine
| McHugh was fatally burned and died
| In horrible agony. She was an employe
Of the Patty House.
The very Rev. Martin Kundig, vicar
general of Milwaukee, died Of conges
ton of the heart in that city March
9th, aged "A. He was born in Switzer-
land, came to Milwaukee in 1912, and
had been vicar-general Is years.
New HAMPSHIRE will be represented
by only one senator in the extra session
of congress, unless the governor shall
appoint senator to act until the legis.
lature can elect successor to Mr..
Wadleigh, whose term of office expired
March 4th.
IT is said that the Texas Pacific lobby
will move On the new congress, and en-
deavor to get. a bill passed at the extra
session. The leaders assert that the
new congress will be more favorable to
their scheme than the one which has
just expired.
The republican state convention of
Michigan met at Lansing March 9th,
and nominated the following candidates:
For associate judge of the supreme
court, the present incumbent, James
V. Campbell,of Detroit; for regents of
the university E. 0. Grosoenors, Of
Jonesville, and James Snearer, of Bay
City.
In the Illinois senate nineteen bills
are pending for the regulation of gas,
express, telegraph, and other compan-
les, in most of which the power of the
legislature to regulate, suspend and
oversee, as we'll as to fix specific rates of
charges, is asserted in the most decided
terms.
A RICHMOND, Va, dispatch says the
state-debt-paying party in the legisla-
ture was forced to yield, and the bill was
killed. Nothing can therefore be done
toward paying the debt until another
legislature is convened. 1t is thought
the governor will call an extra session.