Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-11-03
Marine Disasters

The barge Thomas A. Scott, laden with A.
600 bushel of corn. run into by the pro-
peller Avon, of the Union Steamboat company
while lying at anchor i'll the bay at Milwaukee,
Wis.,, on the night of the Doth ult., and sunk.
The schooner Sweetheart, with a load of iron
ore, sprung aleak on Lake Huron and sank in
about three fathoms of water one mile from
the mouth of st. Clair river, at Port Huron
Mich, on the 31st ult.
The Austrian bark Leander. from Leghorn
now at Boston, reports that on the 10th nit.
when off Pernembuco, bearing to the south
west 200 miles they picked up the first officers
and one of the crew of the bark County of
Richmond. They report that on October 18th
they encountered a terrific hurricane from the
northeast IN which the vessel foundered. They
were on raft six days without food or water.
The captain and the rest of the crew were
drowned. The County of Richmond, Capt
Mcdonald, sailed from New York October 4th
for ST. Thomas. .t
In the recent great storm on the inland lakes.
seventeen vessels were lost and sixty-six dam
aged, involving a loss Of over half a million of
dollars. Ninty-three persons lost their lives
Over one hundred vessels of all sizes were
wrecked in the late storm III Europe.
The British bark Margaret, from Mobile for
Greenock, Scotland, was abandoned at sea, dis
masted ana capsized. Two lives were lost by
the disaster. The steamship McKaf landed the
SURVIVORS at Southampton
A schooner entering the harbor of South
Shields. Eng, on the night of the 9th,
foundered and all hands except the mate were
lost. The steamer Traveller capsized while
entering the same barber, drowning twelve
persons. t
At Plymouth, Eng. on the 28th tho big John
May, from Bull River, S.. c.. for Fredsrickstadt,
driven on the breakwater Captain
Mitchell was drowned. if.i .1
The steamship Timsah. from Galveston to
Liverpool with 300 bales of cotton, took fire,
on the 26th, while 200 miles south of Port
Eads Gulf of Mexico. The matches were
battened down, a steaaa Jet turned into
the hold and the vessel headed for Port Eads
She arrived at New. Orleans on the 9th, with
the fire still smouldering. She VIII discharge
her cargo.
The steamer Trader, a small craft plying be-
tween Memphis, Tenn. and Shawnee village,
burned on the 26th. Her captain narrowly es-
capped with his life. ti ".a-s
The steamer Inchermarie arrived at Balti-
more, Nd, on the Goth with eighty passengers
and nineteen Of the crew of the French schooner
Mathllde Granville, abandoned at sea- They
had been in a hopeless condition fer several
days. r., ti 1 NC.
Tragkcas. .s-
In the course of street fight at Cincinnati,
on the 31st ult., in which number of persons
were engaged, Charles O'Neill was fatally
wounded. lf a U@st as -
Wilhelm Fritsch, a German shoemaker, killed
his wife at San Francisco, Cal, on the 31st ult,
by cutting her throat. The woman made des-
perate resistance, but was overcome After
killing his spouse, Fritsch stabbed himself a
dozen times in the breast and stomach inf1ict-
ing probably fatal wounds. a.
Deputy Sheriff George Hebef was shot and
killed at Sturgis City. Dakota, by Sylvester Mer-
rift. who acted in self defense.
Tom Belts, colored, killed H. T. Moore. white.
near Jonesboro, Ga., on the 23th Moore was
an old citizen of Clayton county. The dispute
was about the proceeds of the sale of cotton.
! Belts was arrested. ~
! Between the afternoon OF the ed and the
morning of the 25th five different murders oc-
CURED at Danville, Va. Barton Smish shot his
paramour. Mary Mitchell. John Rannev quar-
relied with Daniel Maroney about a dog. and
Daniel was shot dead, David Graves SUSPECTED
Ed. Coleman of undue intimacy with his wife.
and Coleman paid the penalty with his life.
Scott Hankins dead BODY was found in a river
bearing marks OF violence. A peddler named
H. ggerty put AN end to the existence of a
brother peddler named Conrad, with a club
Michael OHearn, man of considerable
wealth, who resided at Pittsheld, Mass. stabbed
his wife to death on the Goth inst. and then
committed suicide. O'Hearn and his wife lived
nnhappllY. He Was addicted to drink and when
under its influence he was exceedingly cr,1el and
brutal. His estate is Vafned at $40. 00l - ~
Pafr1nh Daley farmer living near poastown.
Butler county. o., was shot at Middletown on
on the 9th. He had been put out of Mike
Riley's saloon, where he had quarreIed with a
man named Cummins. Thomas johnson. a.
friend OF Cummins, followed DALEY TO the