Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-12

A Copenhagen dispatch states that it is feared
the Oscar Dickson, with an exploring expedi-
ton, has been lost in the Siberian polar sea.
The British steamer Farnley. which left Saw
annah. Ca, on the 9Th ult. for Revel, has beef
lost at sea off Fenwick, Denmark. Bales Of
cotton and boats marked 'sFarnley of New ,oas-
tie, have been washed ashore. One of the boats
contained two dead bodies.
The bark Happy Home, of Halespo<t> N. s..
was wrecked on Trinity Ledge. twelve, miles from
Yarmouth, N. S., ON the night of the al Tnst-
The captains wife, daughter, ana one man per
ished. The remainder were r.scued next dav
in q badly frozen state.
The steamer Brazilian Tsent on the sands
while entering the Mersey Ola the 4th inst, and
almost Immediately pared amidships. AS she
is high and dry at low tide her cargo of live
stock was saved, but the grain will be total
loss.
Two heartend1ng shipwrecks are described
| in Baltimore special. The British bark
| Fontabelle, from Jamaica for London, was
| struck by hurricane on the 18th of December
and wrecked, and the sufferings of those who
survived are wildly detailed The second dis
aster was the bursting of the boiler of the
steamer Isabel on the Magdalena river. De-
cember 10th, by which thirty-two of the
passengers and crew were killed.
DR.. Arnold Ruge, the well-known philosopher
\ lysd
as the father of the German revolution OF
| 104S, is dead.
| Emily J. Harrison, one of the most prominent
members of the Society of Friends, died at Win.
chester, Ind, on the 7th.
| DR.. Charles McDermont, formerly surgeon
| general of Ohio, died at Dayton on the 7th inst
Geo. B. Carpenter, the well known musical
manager, is dead. "
DR.. E. M. Wright of the Tennessee board OF
health. died at Chattanooga on the 9Th inst.
| George Brent, associate justice of the Court
of Appeals, Baltimore, died on the 9Th.
Robert G. Robb, captain in the United States
navy, and afterwards in the Confederate service,
| is dead.
Mrs. Harriet N. Cooper, negroes, who died
at Cheltonham, Mo-. on the 4th inst. was 115
years of age, weighed 400 pounds and was the
mother of % children.
ablest officers in the Spanish civil service is re-
| ported by CABLE
Intelligence was received ut Toronto, Canada.
on the 9Th inst, of the death of Chief Justice
| Moss in the south of France.
| The wife of John Russell Young died in Now
York city on the 9Th inst, from malarial fever
contracted in California about year ago.
Gen. Charles b. Stuart the eminent civil en-
| gineer, died at the Forest City house, Cleve-
land, on the 4th inst, after brief illness.
The Right Rev, DR.. Thomas Atkinson, Bishop
of the Episcopal diocese of North Carolina,
died at Wilmington, n. c., ON the 4th inst.
LeFuel, the noted French architect and Reg
nier, archbishop of Cambria, are dead.
| The death is announced from London of
John Stinhouse, LII d., F. r. S., the chem
list, John Thomas Towson, the scientific writer
on navigation, and Baron Simon Won Open
helm, head of the great banking firm of OPP
! penhenH & Sons.
Wm Soper, ST., one of the pioneers of West
ern Kentucky, died at Henderson, that state.
on the Sd inst, aged Sc.
Mrs. Eleanor Littlejohn, mother OF the bishop
of Long Island. passed away, at the age of 81,
at Allegan, Mich
The Rev. FL. III. Kellogg, the first president
of the Knox College. died New Years Day at
his home in Mount Forest, Ill.