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


assembled on the 10Th. The Niagara River was
covered by an ice bridge nine miles long and ex-
tending two miles into Lake Ontario The
lower house of the Michigan Legislature killed
@ bill requiring the securing of licenses to
marry. New York and Chicago merchants
drilled their employees in street-fghting tactics
anticipating socialist outbreaks. The Washing
ton Monument was dedicated on the 21st.
tramp secured a place on the Cincinnati
Hamilton and Dayton Road by saving
the special train of Vice President Waite
from being wrecked broken rail
Wood-choppers at Gallon, Ohio, beheaded a
corpse while at work on g. hollow tree; $780, O.
pair of revolvers, and some burglars tools were
discovered. A huge meteor, throwing off smoke
and flames, and Kissing loudly, passed over Vic
toria, b. c., and was seen to plunge into the Sea
of Haro, throwing up cloud of spray. Judge
Advocate General Swain was contaminated
at Washington for conduct preJudiciaI to mill
tary discipline, and suspended from rank for
twelve years, with the forfeiture of half his pay
New York telegram of Feb g. based on relia-
bic authority, stated that Gen. Grant was very
sick man, and that the fact should no longer be
concealed from the country that he would not
be long among the Living.
MARCH.
President Cleveland took the oath of office on
March 4, in the presence of an assembly estma-
ted at 10000; about %, 0C1 people in organized
bodies escorted him from the Capitol to the
White House, to the music of 100 bands, and TO-
uUO devUtees OF TerpsichOre danced at the inaug
uration ball sixteen regiments of Pennsylvania
militia, headed by ex-Gov. Hartranft bore off
OF Congress was the passage of bill putting the
name of .. S. Grant on the retired list with the
rank of General; President Cleveland's first of
hc1al act was the commissioning of his Cabinet;
his second was the signing of the commission
OF q. s Grant as General on the retired list
The Chinese Government ordered home all it's
subjects studying in French schools. Andrew
Carnegie, the Scotch millionaire of Pitts
burgh was blackballed when nominated for
membership in the Reform Club of London.
President Cleveland issued proclamation for
bidding the invasion of trespassers upon Okla
hOma, and ordering all unauthorized pOsgesSors
of land to withdraw. The Supreme Court of
Iowa decided unanimously that the prohibitory
law is constitutional in every particular. The
Delaware River was frozen over at Easton Pa.
On March % the sgnal-service observer on
Mount Washington, n. H., reported gale of 100
to 140 miles an hour and temperature of 4S de-
grees below zero On the 26th, Queen Victoria
called out SO, 600 reserves of the regular army
and 100000 militia for permanent service. Maj.
Crozier, of the Dominion frontier mounted police,
with force of 100, encountered several hundred
rebels commanded by Louis Riel at Duck Lake,
Manitoba, and after hard fight Crozier de-
feated, with II killed and IL wounded. The ami
versary of Ponce de Icons landing at ST. Angus
tine Fla, in 1912, was celebrated with elaborate
ceremonies at that place March %.
APRIL.
Mahlon Van Horn, of Newport, R. l., who was
chosen as member of the General Assembly of
that State at the election on April l, the first
colored man ever elected to that body. On the
Sth, the Prince and Princess of Wales and their
eldest son, Prince Albert Victor arrived in
Dublin, being the first members of the royal
family to visit Ireland for many years they
received a cordial welcome particularly the
Information was received at the Rus
sian War Office that Penjdeh, in the dis
puted Afghan territory, was occupied by Rus
sian troops on the I'd inst. The New York Pres
bytery decided to retire Rev. Dr. Burchard, of
"Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" fame, ON a
pension of $500 A snow-storm was general
throughout Illinois and Wisconsin on the 14th,
the snow drifting badly in many places; snow
fell also in Michigan and Northern Indiana
Orson P. Arnold, leading Mormon of Salt Lake
City, pleaded guilty to unlawful cohabitation
and was fined $500; he promised to obey the laws
and abandon polygamy. The twentieth ami
versary of the death of Abraham Lincoln
April 15l was marked by memorial services at
the Capitol at Springfield, III. Veterans of the
Texan army of 1886 met at Sherman April 81.
and celebrated the forty-ninth anniversary of
the battle Of San Jacinto, by which Texas es-
tablshed her independence. The Ohio Legisla-
ture passed an act requiring all executions in
that State to take place within the walls of the
penitentary. Margaret Coleman died at Bonus
ILL.,, having tasted forty-fve days, for five days
preceding her death refraning from partaking
of water The 321st anniversary of the birthday
of Shakespeare april 23) celebrated with
much ceremony at Stratford-on-A
MAY.
The resignation of U. S. Treasurer A. U Wv
man made it necessary to count all cash and Sc
curities in the public vaults at Washington,
task of great magnitude; on the 1st inst. 100
clerks began the work and consumed about
three weeks in accomplishing it. James r. Os-
good q Co., well-known Boston publishers,
failed; liabilities, between &150,000 and 5000 000
Capt Lord, OF the steamer Critic, which arrived
at New York on the 14th, reported en-
countering miles of solid ice, with
merous bergs 200 to 800 feet high.
Prof OdIum leaned from the BROOKLYN bridge
135 feet to the river beneath and was killed. In
the Illinois Legislature on the 10th inst Gen.
John A. Logan was elected United States Sena-
tor on the 10th ballot, thus ending a memora-
BILE contest of four months duration. The Brit
ish evacuation of the Soudan commenced on the
21st day OF May. The bill to restore the death
penalty failed in the Michigan Senate. Propel-
Ter lines running from Chicago to Buffalo offered
to carry wheat at one cent bushe1, the lowest
price ever known. On the Gath inst Queen Vic
toria's siXty-sixth birthday was celebrated in an
elaborate manner; but nine of the fifty-five SOW
ereigns who have preceded her on the British
throne have attained an equal age BY direction
of Gen. Terry Gabriel Dumont Reil's lieuten-
ant, was released at Fort Assinaboine, Montana.
The Brazilian Government adopted a pro-
gramme for the abolition of slavery. A dis
patch from New Mexico stated that mo Indian
raid for the last ten years equaled the present
outbreak for cruelty" IS whites were known to
nave been murdered; women We're outraged and
their bodies pinned to the earth by wedges
driven through them into the ground men were
terribly mutilated, and one little girl was hung
up alive by meat hook stuck in the back of her
head. Louis Reaume, a French Canadian be-
came o raving maniac Wabash train from
the West for Chicago, and on reaching that city
killed Officer Barrett and badly wounded Lieut.
Laughlin, who were waiting at the depot to re-
ceive him; the maniac received three shots in
the back.
James Mccain, of the Herald defeated Ira
Somers, of the World, in a type-setting contest
at New York the former piled up 6,342 ems of
so1d minion in three hours, the latter 6.O32
Snow fell at several places in Maine June TO-
An English insurance company sent il rue
tons to a ST. Louis agent to investigate the
Maxwell-Preller murder at the Southern Hotel
IN March, the company stating their belief that
the body found in the trunk was q medical
subjects; that Preller, before leaving England
had his life heavily insured that his relatives
We're anxious to get the money and that Preller
was still alive.
The anniversary Of the fall of the BastiIe
July la was celebrated at Paris as a general
holiday. The Niagara Falls Park was formally
dedicated to the public on the 18th july with
appropriate ceremonies. John Reach the ship
builder, made an assignment with preferred
claims amounting to 1922, 900. Princess Beatrice
youngest daughter of Queen Victoria was mar.
ned July %, to Prince Henry of Batten-
burg. Appalling news from Spain; NOR
tally from the dreadful scourge of choI-
era averaged 1000 daily in the kingdom.
Sixty Russian criminals, while en- route to ST.
beria made break for liberty; twentv-three
We're killed by the soldiers, and thirty of the
survivors made good their escape. In the Brit
ish House of Commons q petition mile and
half long, and containing 900 signatures was
presented, urging the passage of a law for the
protection of girls. A amt To he