Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-01
HISTORY OF THE WEEK
MISCELLANEOUS.

Gardner, I'LL, were destroyed Dec. Goth.
SAMUEL EMERY killed James Coombs
in drunken row In Washington Christ
mas.
EZRA WILSON of Boston, first killed
his divorced wife and then shot him
self Dec. 25tn.
Snow fell to the depth of four feet in
Western New York on Christmas and
all railroads we're blocked. '..
The Chicago and Northwestern freight
depot at Fond du Lac, Wis, burned on
Christmas. The books were saved.
'FoREFArHER's DAY" was generally
observed by New England people all
over the country Dee. 23rd. "~"i.
Two men were killed and five wound
ed by boiler explosion in the Domin-
ION paper mills at Kingsley Canada,
Dec. 25th.
The court house and nearly all the
county records of De Kalb county, Mo-,
were burned Dec. Goth. Loss estimat-
ed at 100000. .,...... i.
CHIEF Moses and ten of his principal
supporters have been captured in Ore
gon. The backbone of that Indian re-
bellion is broken.
..,. Hon. ALPHEUs S. WILLIAMS, member
Of congress from the Detroit district, Of
Michigan, died in Washington on the
morning of Dec. 21st. .te. dt
THE Globe and Niagara Touring mills
at Black Rock near Buffalo, burned on
Christmas. Loss $4,000; insured for
about $40, 900. .:
THREE engines and snow pillow ran
off the track of the New York & OswegO
Midland railroad, near Fulton, n. T.,
Dec. Goth, and killed two employees.
BEVERLY B. DOUGLASS, congressman
from Virginia, died in Washington Dec.
22nd within twenty-four hours of Viii
liams' death Whisky was the cause of
his death
- S, d. RICHARDS, the murderer Of nine
Nebraska people, was captured at
Steuhenville Ohio, December 23rd, and
confessed to hideaus record of crime.
A Boston telegram under date
of December 9th says: Rev. Leonard
Woods, at one time president of Bow
dom college, and author of many vol
umes, is dead.
THE people of Kansas City distributed
provisions and groceries to the needy
poor of that place on Christmas. The
whole city, nearly, joined in the splen-
did charity.
A FIRE in Cleveland Dec. Oath des-
troyed property belonging to the
Standard Oil company amounting to
100000. The fire was incendiary.
IGNATIUs DoNNELLY has served a
formal notice upon w. D. Washburn
that he will contest the latter's right to
a seat in congress from Minnesota.
The contest is based upon nine allega-
tons.
AN engine of the Lehigh Valley road
while rounding a curve near Hazel
ton, Pa, Dec. Goth, jumped, the track,
killing the fireman and brakeman and
badly scalding the engineer, and a
trackman.
The latest reports from the
revenue raid in Fentress county,
Tenn, is to the effect that forty
six illicit distillers have been arrested
and bound over to the United States
circuit court, and illicit concerns valued
at $4,000 destroyed.
A VICTORIA, British Columbia. dis
patch of Dec. 9th says, on the 18th
of December, John Boyd killed in a
cowardlv manner Thomas O'Brlen, at
Fort Wrangel, Alaska. The citizens
tried him by jury of his own selec-
ton, found him guilty and hung him
next day.
/. A. PHILADELPHIA dispatch under
date of December 9th says: Exon
gresham Owen Jones started from his
residence at Winnewood, last night, to
visit a neighbor. and was found before
midnight frozen to death by the road
side. The deceased represented the
9Th district in the 45th congress.
THE extreme cold weather that visit
ed the northwest Christmas week, was
accompanied in many places by VIC
lent snow storms. The snow fell two
feet deep in Chicago, while trains were
everywhere impeded. The coolest
weather was west Of Sioux City where
the thermometer fell to thirty degrees
below zero.
A Boston telegram of Dec. 9th says
One of the boldest highway robberies
which ever took place in this vicinity
is claimed to have occurred late last
n'ghts in East Boston, when Edward
Revert, pawnbroker, was knocked
down by two unknowniruffians and rob-
bed Of $3.50, and jewelry, ETC., valued at
$500 more. He says he lay four hours
in the street before he regained con-
sciousness, and was nearly frozen.
The long and notorious trial of Mrs.
Belinda Mack, of GAINESVILLE, Wis, in
dicted for numbering her husband in
company with the hired man. Frank
Dickerson, ended Dec. Goth, with a YER
dict of guilty of murder in the first de-
gree. She was sentenced to states pri-
son for life. Dickerson, who swore he
had held improper relations with Mrs.
Mack, and who turned states evidence,
will be tried later.
MAJ. MORRILL,, of the Engineer Corps,
has written a letter for publication, in
which he shows that Capt. Eads is not
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