Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-12-01

shot and killed at Yokohama, Japan on the 5th
inst, while cleaning gun. He was buried with
Masonic r1tes.
During slight fire in clearinghouse at
154 Grand street, N. Y, on the night of the
26th ult.,' James Dewitt was suffocated while in
bed. Mary Hawkes. threw her child out of the
second-story window and leaped after it. The
child was caught in the arms of a fireman and
was uninjured. The woman WAS only slightly
hurt the firemen having broken her fall.
At Lakewood, N. j., on the 26th, as the family
carriage of James johnson, q wealthy resident
was crossing the New Jersey Southern railroad
track, it was struck by q freight train. The car
riage was completely demolished both horses
were killed, and Mr.. Johnson, his daughter-n-
law and her infant child were thrown into q
snow bank 20 feet distant. The injury of john
son and his daughter will probably be fatal.
The child is but slightly hurt.
Two men were killed and three seriously i'll
iured by the falling of scaffold at the Harlem
railroad bridge, New York city, on the 26th
John Dolan, night Waterman of the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad, was crushed to
death by freight train, at Memphis, Tenn, on
the Goth.
Henry Nichaus, so years old, employed at
Hartzelrs telling works, Cincinnati, o., was
caught in the shafting on the Goth. and instant
ly killed
On the 2Gth, the body of an unknown woman
was found in the back yard of house on
Butterfeld street, Chicago, frozen stiff, and by
her side also nearly frozen man named
John Kean. from Green Bay. Both had drunk
to excess the night before, and became helpless
from liquor and cold. Kean claimed to have
known nothing OF his companion, who was o
strang to the police. but evidently dsspated
! character.
| Mrs Martha E. Lehbach was burned to death
| at her home in New York city, OF the 26th.
| Suspicion is aroused that the burning was not
/ accidental
| Edward Simmons, workman employed on
the Chicago and Tomah railroad near Galena,
! H., was killed by the fall of an embankment
on the Gath. Peter Lilly, Jr;: fellow work
wan, was seriously. and 1t is feared fatally. in
jrre1, and three others received very severe
| brdlses.
| Mr. ]. C. Luker's house at Summit, about
| eight miles from Bradford, Pa, was destroyed by
fire on the night Of the Gath. Mr.. Lukers fam
! lily made their their escape from the burning
building en- dishabiNe. One little boy was so
seriously burned that be died in few hours
after his escape.
The bodies of three men, frozen to death.
drifted past Montreal on the oath inst, on an
ice cake in the st. Lawrence.
Mrs. Anna Coleman. wife of n farmer near
Jonesboro. H., was on the Oath gored to death
| by bull
John Conk. aged SO years. was found frozen
to death at Long Branch, n. j., on the 23d.
At the American hotel, Allentown, Pa, on the
23d, three-vear-old son Of Is. F.. Jones' was
lighted gas jet during the absence of its mother
and ignited its clothing.
Mrs. Fred Choteau, and Miss Amanda
Gregoire, two prominent and estimable ladies
Of East Dubuque, Ia. attempted to cross the
river on the ice from Dubuque, where they had
| been shopping, on tie 23d. When about a
| third of the way across owing 70 darkness, they
| fell into hole and were drowned.
Mrs. Levi Hulseapple, whose husband is en-
ployed in the mines near New Vernon, Sullivan
! county, \. Y, placed cartridge of giant pow
der in the oven to warm it. An explosion fol-
lowed, blowing the stove 10 fragments and en-
tirely demolishing that portion of the house.
Mrs. Fulseapple was seriously if not fatally in
jured by the flying pieces of the stove.
| Byron Gilmore Pierce cadet midsbipman Of
| the first class. died at Annapolis, Nd, on the
28th ult., OF rleurisy aggravated by erysipelas.
! Gen. George B. Crittenden, who served with
distinction in the rebel army during the civil
war. and in the federal army during the Mexi-
can war, died on the eth, at Danville, KY.
General Hiram J.. Brown, collector of GUS
toms at Erie died on the 25th. from wound
received at Gaines Mills, eighteen years ago.
| Can't r. B. Lowry of the United States NAVY
died at the Naval Hospital at Brooklyn, on the
25th. He was born in South America in 1926,
| and entered the Annapolis Academy from Penn
| sylvauia in bis 14th year. He rendered distin-
| guished service to the Union cause during the
war.
Alfred Gather widely known III business
circles. more particularly throughout the South
and West, as a member of the Board of Manag-
| ers of tie Adams Express Company, and long a
| resident of Cincinnati. died at New York on the
18th.
| Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, the London
| chemist is dead.
| William r. Floyd. well-llnown actor and
manager of New York, died on the 18th.
David Nicholson, an extensive wholesale
grocer of st. Louis, Mo-, passed away on
the 25th.
Samuel c. Carey, general passenger agent Of
the Chicago, st. Louis and New Orleans rail
road, died at New Orleans on the Goth.
| The deaths are announced of Samuel /. Bar-
tranft. father of ex-Gov. Hartranft, of Penn
sylvania; of Charles Rutledge, southern CORE
spondent of the Louisville Commercial; of
| Mrs. Eotella Anna Lewis, the author of ''Sap-
pho " and other poems; of Hon. William Fow-
Ter, of the first settlers at st. Joseph, Mo-,
and of John Emery, an old citizen of Fond du
Lac, Wis.
Leon Cogniet, the French painter, has passed
away.
Prof. James E. Watson, of the Wisconsin
State University, died at Madison on the Esd,
of inflammation of the bowels. He was one of
the most distinguished of modern astromers.
Thomas Fl. Newton d. D., LII. D., a we'll
known and aged Presbyterian divine, died near
Wave@ly, Sussex county, Va, on the night of
the 18th.
Marine Disasters.
The propeller SImcoe, which left Chicago on
the 18th ult., with a cargo of pork, grain, and
corn meal, for CoIlingwood, has been lost in
Lake Huron, off Mlchaels Bay, with her entire
crew of eighteen people.
The bark Moselle, of Prince Edward Island,
fir m Montreal, with a cargo of grain for Ham
burgh, disrnasted in the Gulf, recently.
One of the crew died from exposure and four OF
i've others were badly frozen. Bark Oranio,
from Quebec for Montevideo, lumber laden,
was totally wrecked in the same gale. Bark
Alice, from Quebec for Montevideo, with a
cargo of lumber, was roughly handled by the
storm and had four of the crew badly injured
The schooner L. and D. Fisk, of Bath, Me-,
stranded on the outward Diamond shoal, coast
of North Carolina, on the 22d. Out of a crew
of seven but one was saved.
Further reports of disasters on the north At
lantlc coast during the late terrific gales con
tinue to be received. Onthe north side of Con
cepton bay six vessels were totally lost A
other points along the coast seven other vessels