Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-08-19
Minor Mention.

| NJ. de Brazza, Stanley's rival in Africa, is
to be MADE an officer Of the Legion ofHonor
| by the French government, and will prob
ably be given general charge of French
| colonial interests on the dark continent.
| A verdict of acquittal has been rendered
| at Boston in the case of Capt. Gilman E.
Parker and several merchants of that city,
| charged with conspiracy to defraud certain
| insurance companies. Capt. Parker is still
under Indictment for wilfully wrecking the
brig Mary Celeste on the coast of Hayti in
| January last, an OffenSe which is punish
| able with death.
| Two aldermen of Detroit have been in
dicted for accepting, and an ex-alderman
| for offering, brides. All have given bonds
| for their appearance.
| An order issued by the commissioner of
| internal revenue in regard to whisky trans
portation bonds virtually repeats the
| seven-months clause oft he circular Of Jan
uary 3, 1885, extending the bonded period.
| dozen inmates of the New Jersey ASYLUM
| for the insane, atMorris Plains, are i'll with
| typhoid fever. The outbreak is attributed
to defective drainage.
a skiff in which were six boys, ranging in
age from s to 13 years, capsized in the
| MOnOngahela River, at Pittsburg on the
| 10th. Four of the boys were drowned
While walking on a railway track at An
| derson, on the 18th, Thomas Crepps was
| assaulted by two tramps, who, having
| robbed him of his watch and money. bound
him to the rails and left him to his fate.
! He worked himself partially Free but a pass
ing freight train cut off one Of his fingers
The miscreants are still at large.
At Graham, Ca, on the 18th, the house
of Simon Ashley, colored, was burned, and
| the dead bodies Of his four children found
| in the ruins. 1t is thought they were MUIR
dered, and the building fired to destroy evil
dence of the crime.
Jasper W. Umberfield, New York bow
OF II, on the 18th, committed suicide at
the cottage of a relative in Port Chester
| after shooting and dangerously woundine
j. M. Carpenter, cousin of about the
same age. The tragedy is attributed to an
unbalanced mind, the result of overstudv.
DR.. Metcalf, superintendent of the Rock
ford (Ont.) Insane Asylum, died on the
18th, from wounds received at the hands
of an inmate Of the institution a couple of
days previous.
Failures in the United States for the week
| ending on the 18th inst, 151.
An excursion boat was upset at the town
OF ROyan, France, at the mouth of the
Gironde, on the 18th, and eight of the pas
sengers were drowned.
In an accident to the special train carry
ing the Forepaugh circus, near Eddyvilie.
on the 18th, eight circus employees were seri-
ously hurt.
The Central Pacific Railroad land office.
while making up map of railroad lands in
Idaho and Utah, made the strange discov-
cry that Idaho claimed one boundary line
and Utah another, and that a strip of land
two and a half miles wide, extending across
the northern part of Utah, was left, which
by the survey, does not belong to either
territory. The surveys used are those filed
at Salt Lake and Boise City.
Late news from Guaymas, Ecuador, re-
ports that the volcano of Cotopaxi is in a
state of eruption. Over hundred houses
have been destroyed by lava.