Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-09-04
Miscellaneous News Paragraphs.


A PLEASURE barge on the Connecti-
cut river was struck by lighting Thurs
day evening. Two persons were killed
and forty injured.
A TELEGRAM from the Olney, H.,
says that on Saturday last Jefferson
White and Henry HOultz had a dis
pute while working at a th1eshing ma
chine near that place. White went to
his house a quarter of a mile distant,
got his gun, returned and shot Houltz
in the abdomen Just as he was mounting
his horse to leave the place. Houltz
died IN a few moments. H0ultz'S wife
was so terribly shocked at the event
that she died Monday night. White
gave himself up Saturday evening.
Intense excitement prevailed in the
neighborhood Sunday and Monday,
and about l o'clock Tuesday morning
a large crowd of men broke open the
jail, took White out, and hung him TO
a tree IN the Courthouse yard.
THE Executive Committees set forth
their liabilities incurred for the Peace
Jubilee at $3.50, 900, and the receipts at
$40, 900, leaving dlfcit of $210, 900.
To meet this, and give substantial
testimonial to Gilmore, it Is proposed
to give a grand concert and ball, on
October 10, with 100000 So tickets,
six Of which, drawn by lot, will draw
the Coliseum and its appurtenances.
A MAN named Osborne was arrested
twelve miles northwest of Marysville,
Mo, on Tuesday, who was travelling
with team and covered wagon from
which an intOlerable stencil proceeded.
Upon examaining the wagon five dead
bodies we're found. Osborne confess
ed, at the end Of rope, that the MUIR
ders were committed by one Williams,
near Holt0n, Kansas, and that he
(Osborne) was employed to take the
bodies out of the way. He confessed
that he had travelled with the load five
days. From a memorandum found on
the body of one of the victims, it is
inferred that they were a party of
movers, consisting of Mr.. Oms, has
wife, and two children, and a young
man named Dickinson, who is suppos-
ed to be brother of Mrs. Oms. The
party had travelled from Minnesota to
South Kansas, and were probably on
their way to Nebraska.
A TERRIBLE storm passed ever Rock
well, Ellington and vernon, Conn,
Thursday. The tobacco was mostly
destroyed. Glass in the Windermere
Mills at Rockwell was broken-damage
IS, ZOO. The car house at Rockwell,
and engine house at the Vernon depot
were blown down. Many trees were
uprooted and the damage is very great.
Two French boys, aged IA and Is,
were killed by lightning, during the
storm in Wallingford.
ALBERT SCHRENER, butcher. Henry
COursey, a sailor, and Samuel @.
Waters, the latter of Queen Ann
county, Nd were drowned at Balti-
more on Thursday.
The Clinton FIGURING Mills at Ro-
chester, n. Y, were burned on Friday
morning. Loss S75, 00O-partially in
sured.
A LARGE number of cases Of sun
stroke occurred in New York, last
week, many of which proved fatal.
For a number of days past the ocean
kilograms have been burdened with
accounts of religious riots at Belfast,
Ireland. The civil authorities became
powerless to quiet the disturbances
and called upon the military for aid.
The latter have in a measure succeeded
in suppressing the outbreaks, although,
at last accounts occasional fighting was
still going on. Several persons were
killed and a large number wounded
while the city was in the hands of the
Emob. Church and school property
valued at $780, 600 has been destroyed.
Riots also occurred at Droghedan and
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