Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05

Hon. Charles Kirtley a prominent lawyer and
politician died suddenly at his home in Mt.
Vernon, O., on the I'd inst aged 60.
.Ex-congressman Nm. Writ, died at Boston,
Mass, on the I'd inst, of pneumonia.
MaJ.-Gen. Helnlzelman, who commanded
a division at the first battle of Bull Run and
whose gallant conduct throughout the war, as
well as his many aniable qualities, endeared
him to the soldiers of the Union army, died at
Washington on the list inst. Gen. Heintzelman
suffered much in recent years from chronic
rheumatism.
Col. Joseph E. Egan, United States arbitrator
on the American and Spanish claims commits
sion, dropped dead on a steamer while Ell route
from Norfolk to Washington on the 30th ult.
Samuel M. Janney, prominent Quaker, and
died at his home i'll London county, Va, on the
3Oth ult
Col. VIM. Hemphill Jones, clerk of the COM
mittee on ways and means, died at Washington
on the Both ult.
James Cook, equestrian director for P. T.
Barnum, died at New York on the 18th, of pnell-
mona.
Ex-state senator VIM. Hiner, died at his home
in Fond du Lac, Wis, on the 29th, aged So
years.
D. ". Middleton, clerk in the Supreme Court
Of the United States, died at Washington, on
the 9th, from govt in the stomach. He had
been connected with the Supreme Court of the
United States for over so years and filed the
position of clerk to the court for nearly 90
years.
Dr.. Joseph T. Webb, a well-known citizen of
Cincinnati. and for two years a resident of
Minneapolis, Mimi, died suddenly of apoplexy
at the latter city on the 9th. He was brother
of Mrs. Hayes and brother-in-law of Hon.
Stanley Matthews.
Judge Trigg, of the United States Court for
Tennessee, is dead.
Joseph Seiigman, senior member of the firm
Ct J. & w. Seigman & Co., bankers, New York,
died suddenly of heart disease on the Goth.
James 0. Durff, connected with the Memphis
AUalanche for the past fifteen years, as river
editor, died on the 25th.
A Bloody Record.
Adam Waggoner, an old man living on farm
in Gala county, O., was shot and killed in his
field on the first inst, by bis nephew Phil.
lWaggoner. They had quarreled about lands
| At Paterson, N. j., on the 3D., as the German
societies were making pilgrimage to the crest
OF Garret mountain to greet the rising of the
| sum- as usual on the first Sunday in MAY, one
Dalzell, farmer, refused permission to a party
to cross his premises, and upon their persisting
| to do SO, he shot Joseph Van Houten dead. The
excited Germans Immediately fired the build
| lngs on the premises and were about to hang
| DalZell when he was rescued by detachment of
police.
Frank Burke was shot dead at PHILADELPHIA,
! on the night of the Goth ult., by Policeman
William Shields. Burke was hurting stones at
the officer, having been ordered off the corner.
Mrs. William Stokes, living apart from her
husband with an aunt in Brooklyn, was shot
dead on the night of the LIST inst, by Edward
Kennedy, who boarded in the same house. Mrs.
Stokes refused to marry Kennedy Kennedy
also shot himself, but not fatally; he had shot
himself on a previous occasion, when rejected
| by Mrs Stokes.
Henry Long was fatally shot by mob at
Esquire Bosten's Office, Blue River township.
Harrison county, Ind, on the Both ult.
In a quarrel at Pennington, N. H., on the
30th ult., between w. Kennedy and his wife.
their son Samuel interfered to protect his
mother, the father seized butcher knife and
stabbed Samuel, killing him almost Instantly
An orphan girl named Meeker was poisoned
by her uncle, Altman Meeker, who was also her
guardian, at Duxbury, VT, on the 23d ult. The
wretch piloted the officers to where her BODY
was buried, on the Both ult. He confessed that
the girl being cross she was given dose of
strychnine and started to the Waterbury River
valley. On the road she died and was buried in
| q swamp
]. j. Hoover, who killed a saloon keeper
named Bennett, in April, 1878, was taken from
jail at Fairplay, CAL, on the 2Sth, and hung.