Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-20


former in :01 81; the English cutter was beaten
little more than mile: in the second race of
the SERIES over ffty-nile course, the Puritan
won by l minute So seconds the Genesta led
for three-fourths of the distance and at
time wGs minutes seconds ahead. Jumbo,
the enormous elephant, was run down and
killed by rain of cars at st. Thomas, Ont,
while boarding ar. The seventeenth annual
reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cum
berland was held at Grand Rapids, Mich, Gen.
Sheridan presiding. A hailstorm, some of the
stones being ten inches in circumference, de-
vastated the country south of Granite Falls,
Mimi, on the 10th; drifts of hail three feet in
depth were found. Thirty thousand Poles
expelled from Posen, Prussia, and in retaliation
the Russian Government began the expulsion of
Germans from Poland. The Governor General
of Eastern Roumalia was deposed by the popu-
lace of the capital city, Philippopolis, who pro-
claimed q union with Bulgaria and established
provisional government. At Pittsburgh the
Coroner held an inquest on piece of bone one
inch long, all that was left of the body of John
Ostermeir, lad of IA; the unfortunate
in, and was ground to atoms The famous trot-
ter, Goldsmith Maid, ended her career on a
stock farm lear Trenton, N. j., at the age of %
years she had trotted in 1872 races, winning 49,
her earnings being nearly $240,000. On the 23d
inst, three inches of snow fell in the Derby
Line (Vt.) section.
OCTOBEK.
The work of demolishing Flood Rock in New
York harbor, was successfully accomplished on
the Goth inst. nine acres of solid rock were tun
neled nearly 900 pounds of dynamite were
consumed IN the explosion, and the shock
felt over the entire area of Manhattan Island.
Everett J. Warning, an intelligent mulatto was
admitted to the bar in Baltimore the first col
ored man ever authorized to practice law in
Maryland. TIE deums sung in Madrid
Spain, the 18th inst, as a token of thanksgiv-
ing for the disappearance of the cholera the
dread scourge caused over 100000 deaths during
its prevalence. Nearly foot of snow fell in the
Ishpeming Mich district on the Goth; trains
were blockaded. Lannie McAfee made run
of 6,004 points in a three-bar game of bill
n KoJiffl,
musician of Denver, became demented Invested
himself of his clothing on prairie, and crawled
back and forth through barbed-wire fence I'M
til death came to his release; his flesh was
found hanging in shreds Mrs General Grant
wrote a letter to Mayor Grace of New York, say
ing that Riverside Park had been selected as the
Generals burying place by his family because
of the agreement that she should ultimately
be inferred beside him, and that no change was
contemplated crazy Corsican named Mattel
attempted to assassinate M. De Freycinet,
French Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the streets
of Paris, but failed.
NOVEMBER.
The purchase Of the steamer Dolphin from the
assignee of John Roach, was consummated by
Secretary Whitney. The Andre monument
which Cyrus w. Field had erected on the Hud-
son River at Tappan, n. Y, was blown up by
dynamiters. Ferdinand Ward was put at work
shoveling ashes from under the engine boilers
at Sing Sing Prison. Subscriptions to the Grant
monument fund in New York were received
from Paris, Amsterdam and Hamburg Roach's
great ship-yard at Chester, Pa, resumed work
on the 9th, under the management of the United
States Naval Department.. The "Three Amer
icas' Exposition of Art and Industry opened
at New Orleans on the 10TH to continue through
the winter. On his Palo Alto ranch near Menlo
Park, Cal, Senator Stanford proposed to estab-
Hsh great university, which he is to endow
to the extent of $20,000.00O The managers of q
charity fair at Reading, Pa, created sensation
by refusing to let Hebrew women participate
Lewis Riel the leader of the rebellion in the
Northwest Territory, was hanged at Regina the
capital on the 18th in his last moments he dis
1nnn fAr41 H.
bravado about it. Earthquakes were reported
in the Pacific Ocean along the California coast,
similar to those which preceded the great up
heava1 in the island of Java several years ago
A jury at Sparta, Ca, sustained the viii of Da-
vid Dickson, leaving $500 900 to his colored mis-
tress and child, and disinheriting his heirs L.
b. Jones was fined one cent and imprisoned one
hour at Richmond, Va, for sending O. CHALLENGE
to fight a duel Thomas A. DOYLE was for the
seventeenth time elected Mayor of Providence
X. l. the Republicans threw him overheard, but
the Democrats made him their candidate and
varied him through Gen. Javanovitch, COM
manding q division of the Serv,a army, was
dismissed for disobedience, and suicided with
revolver.
DECEMBER.
Lima, Peru was surrendered to Gen Caceress
who appointed Eusebo Sanchez provisional
Governor. In the far East, King Theebaw, of
Burmah, surrendered to Gen Prendergast the
British Empire thus gaining control of about
loOOoO square miles OF territory at very small
cost. physician who attended Vice President
Hendricks for many years stated that death was
caused by clot of blood reaching the brair
Subscriptions to the Grant monument fund at
New York, up to the Sd inst amount to about
900. storm ON Lake Michigan on the 4th
caused the lake at Chicago to rise eight feet
above the ordinary line. A. j. Cassatt OF the
Pennsylvania Road, purchased the English racer
Tristan Americans are said to be rapidly &C
curing the best horses in Great Britain The
ceremony of christening the steel cruiser Chi
cago Launched at Chester, Pa.) was performed
by Miss Edith Cleburne, of Philadelphia
who broke q bottle of wine over the bow and
liberated canary, an Irish linnet and an oriole
reports were abroad in London that The Rev.
Mr. Sturgeon had permanently broken down
from heart disease. shower of young sme1ts
each half an inch in length, fell at Cumberland
Maine. for a radius of mile. Mr.. Thomas P
OConnor Mr.. Parnell's political lieutenant, de-
clared in an interview that what is sought for
Ireland is a government similar IL character to
that of Canada. The funeral of Herr Strassman,
President OF the municipal council of Berlin,
leading Hebrew, was made tho occasion to re-
Duke Jew-baiters the Emperor sent handsome
wreaths of flowers to the funeral, and the
was followed by thirty thousand persons. The
funeral of Louis Riel took place at ST. Boniface,
Manitoba, on the 18th, with seven hundred half
breeds in attendance, eight Of whom bore the
remains on their shoulders for six miles. Ben,
jamin Louth, ST., of Pittsburgh the inventor Of
g. process for turning old steel rails into nail
plate, sold his right to syndicate for $500 per
day for the next sixteen years. For purse of
$1,000, at New York, Joseph McCann defeated
w. =. Barnes in a type-setting contest; in four
hours McCann set S,062B ems, Barnes string
measuring 1851 the type solid minion. De
Lesseps, the famous civil engineer and canal
builder over eighty years of age, was presented
by his young wife with another daughter
Rumor5 of political combinations in Great
Britain pointing to the concession of home rule
to the Irish. The bill giving Mrs. Gen. Grant O
Congress.