Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


Ex.Empress EueENIE has embarked at
ape Town for Europe.
A state of siege has been declared in
ii the Turkish provinces bordering on
Greece.
1t Is feared that navigation on the
1achine Canal cannot be resumed before
Monday.
The receipts of -four and grain in Chi.
cago for the past six months add up
total of SO SAG, 400 bushels.
The Secretary of the Treasury has paid
WILLIAM Fl. VANDERBILT, the interest on
ne-thirtieth of the entire bonded debt of
the United States.
The territory which the Berlin Confer.
ence proposes that Turkey shall cede to
Greece is estimated to contain 5000 in.
habitants.
7 Ten thousand people, principally
Kurds, have persisted from hunger In the
districts of Bayazid, Alashgerd, and Van,
Asia Minor.
1t is said that President HAYES will, on
his return from his trip. remove the army
and navy officers who have already reach
ed or passed the age of retirement.
A fierce wind and hail storm did con-
siderable damage to the crops and fruit
trees in the neighborhood of Mendoza,
ILL.,, Tuesday.
A st. Paul negro fell of building,
distance of thirty feet, to the pavement,
striking squarely on his head. He will be
around all right in day or two.
The insurgents at Buenos Avres made
proposals of peace with the national
forces on the 9th, and the negotiations
which followed have resulted satlsfac.
torily.
Mr.. HUBBARD, who was Controller of
the Currency under Secretary CHASE, was
one of the victims of the Seasoanahaka
disaster. Twenty.nlne bodies have been
recovered.
A Portland (Oregon) dispatch says that
Front and First streets are submerged by
rise OF the river; the damage to proper
ty In the city and up and down the Co.
lumbia will reach over 100000.
MAMIE DAcEY. the girl shot at Elkhart,
Ind, by her rejected sutton, appeared,
Monday, before the coroner's jury, sitting
in the case of her assassin, who commit.
ted suicide. Her wounds are serious, and
it is not expected that she will recover
At the scene of the wreck of the Seasoa.
nabaha disaster, in Little He'll Gate, some
horrible sights are to be witnessed; sew
eral bodies are found burned to crisp,
and others welded together in an indistin.
guishable mass, by the intense heat.
EDWIN Booth, the tragedian, sailed
Wednesday for Europe, from New York
One of the largest excursion boats in the
harbor, crowded with friends, accom-.
panied the great actor on his journey as
far as the light-ship.
Serious disturbances have occurred at
Haifs, near Mount Carmel, in Asiatic
Turkey, between the Christians and the
Mohemmedans. A British gunboat has
been dispatched to the Syrian coast to
protect the Christians.
The Minneapolis s. st. Louis Railway
has been completed to Fort Dodge, Iowa.
When a connection is made with the Des
Moines s. Fort Dodge road, the Inns from
St Louis to Minneapolis will be com
plete. This will be effected in few DAYS.
The diplomatic relations between the
Papal Government at Rome and the Gov.
eminent of Belgium have been severed by
the latter, owing to the officious inter.
ference of the Pope with the affairs of
Belgium.
Generals POPE and HATCH have had
conference. at Santa Fe, in regard to the
distribution Of troops IN southern New
Mexico. They agreed to scatter soldiers
in small detachments over the entire ex-
posed territory, and give Gen. BUELL.
nine hundred men for actual service.
Two soldiers named TAYLOR and Rob
INsoN, at Fort Stockton, qusrreled about a
woman, and ROBINSON shot TAYLOR dead.
The murderer was turned over to the
civil authorities, and the next day was
forced, under strong guard. to dig his
victims grave.
Forty-two cases of sunstroke were re.
ported in New York for the twenty.four
hours ending Tuesday evening, of which
thirty-one proved fatal. The temperature
continues to be extremely oppressive
throughout the East, attended by a severe
drouth.
The virtuous male residents of Tin.
mouth, Vermont, objected to Mrs HAR
RIET PACKARD, a grass-widow, serving
as house keeper in the residence of
widower, and, taking her from bed by
force, they treated her to coat of tar and
feathers.
Three hundred feet of the Suy levee on
Che Illinois side Of ths Mississippi river.
below Quincy, has been carried away by