Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-18

Iuo VI, D. % ". people are greatly IN
censed at this matter. 1t is not known
what action the express company will
take
Ex-Governor B1aLER, of Pennsylvania,
| is dead.
! DIR. TANNER now eats, drinks and is
merry. The food he eats and the wine,
milk and beer seem to set we'll on his
stomach, and he is gaining in weight
every hour.
Turkey is making active preparations
to transfer the Dulcigno district to Mon.
tenegro, as required by the powers; 1900
British troops have departed for the dis
trict. Turkey is also DESTROYS of AMIGA.
bly, settling the Greco.Turkish frontier
question and will submit suggestive
plan.
GLADSTONE is getting we'll. He visited
Windsor, Monday will return to London,
Friday, and then 60 into rural retirement
for time, the guest of Sir EDw. F. L.
COVER, M. p, at Helmburg, Sussex.
The opposition press of Madrid COM
ment strongly upon the royal decree in
the Official Gazette intimstiDg that if son
is born to the Queen he will take the title
of Prince of the Austurias, but if the
child be girl the title will be Infanta of
Spain.
At Oswego, Labelte county, Kas., the
supposed RENDERS have been examined,
and were, on Tuesday, discharged. 1t
seems they are impostors, and only played
murderers in order to get free ride to
Kansas. That they know something
about the RENDERS and their crimes,
however, is quite evident.
CHARLES SIMMoNs and wife and their
daughter, Mrs. DAVIS, of Westfeld, Mass,
have been fined $15 for horsewhipping a
DR.. LEVY for alleged SANDER. They have
appealed to the State Supreme Court
The remains of beheaded man have
been found In the woods near Locust Val.
ley, L. l. Detectives from New York and
Brooklyn are at work on the case.
CLICK, the Tyro, N. c., somnsm bulistic
murderer, has been discharged from Gus
tody. He went to sleep with merchant
who anticipated raid on his store by
burglars. Some time during the night
CLICK got to dreaming of fight with ne
groes in which he was killing them right
and left, when he awoke and found him.
self standing over the dead and mutilated
body of his companion. Many previous
somnambulistic exploits, not, however, of
a fatal character, were told of CLICK by
bis acquaintance. 1t is probable that he
will not hereafter be In demand as bed
fellow.
The grand jury in the Seawanahaka dis.
aster report that the inspection of steam
vessels and the licensing of engineers
thereof have been conducted in an afro
ciously reckless manner; most of the en-.
| gineers licensed exhibit the g-ossest ig.
norance of the effects of steam and are in
competent to figure out the amount of
steam in a boiler, in case there is no steam
gauge.
The total loss by the great lumber and
vessel fire at Hunters Point, N Y, Tues
day, will foot up about 100000, mostly
insured.
In Montreal, Tuesday afternoon, NAPo-
LEAN BRoUssEAUs -four and feed store.
house collapsed from the great weight of
! bran on the second floor, and buried 10
lads employed there; one was seriously,
the others more or less injured.
20 ovnoofoI fbof xp;11 +abo fo,,r
weeks to reach the bodies of the men
entombed in the Hudson river tunnel
more than fortnight ago.
During a portion of last week the
weather was 40 cold and rainy in Tennes-
see and Mississippi that overcoats and
| fires were comfortable.
Congressional nominations, Tuesday:
Democrats, First Michigan district, VIM
G. MAyBERRY; Republicans, First Maine
district, THos B. REED; Democrats,
Twenty. second Pennsylvania district,
JAMES Fl. HOPKINS; Twenty.third dis.
trict, GEO. T. MILLER; Democrats, First
Ohio district, w. G. CLoRDY.
! At the annual meeting of the Texas Pa
ciic R. R, at Philadelphia, Tuesday, the
directors reported for the year ending
! May 81 1880: Number of miles of road
used, 4,400; company also has 43 miles of
sidings; transportation receipts, $685..
221; expenses, $1,543,517; net transports
tor year, $1,045, 7O4; passenger receipts,
$456 O54; freight receipts, $2,054,0
against net receipts there are charged
$685., TAO for interest on bonded debt and
for sinking fund, leaving a surplus of
$51 ,296 80, to which is added $50. 213 the
| difference between balance OF income,
accident and taxes on lands, and interest
on old Immigrant bonds; total surplus,
$543, 076; assets outside of railway prop
erty and lands, and current liabilities,
$890,9l6; total liabilities, $470, 4C0; excess
of assets over liabilities, $42O,507. Board
Of Managers elected: Thos. A. Scott, j.