Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-20

John Spencer, son Of Rev. Mr.. Spencer, cleri-
cal secretary, while skating at Kingston, On
tarlo, on the 18th, broke through the ice and
were drowned. -
Parks Lemalne and his two sisters. Clara
and Alice, were killed by railway train at
Upton Station, Pa, on the 18th. They were
returning home from prayer meeting and
walked along the track.
r Stafford's residence at Ironton, O., burned
on the night of the 18th. Miss Stafford per-
ished in the flames.
Two colored youths, aged about ID, took
refuge in large box of excelsior, at Memphis.
Tenn, on the the night of the 18th. They
were found next day burned to crisp. The
supposition is that they fred the infammable
material In which they slept with cigarettes.
A dispatch from Philadelphia, dated the
18th, says that while number Of persons were
skating on Abbott's Dam, near the falls of the
Schuylkill, the ice gave way and four children
were drowned.
The house of Singleton James, near Stock
bridge, Ga, burned on the 18th inst. Thomas
Knight and two children persisted in the flames.
VIM. Peck, a Union Pacific Railroad conduc-
tor, while hunting near Fillmore station, per-
lshed In the snow. His body was devoured by
wolves.
Gen. Sllas Kenyon, of Newark, n ] a DEM
ocratlc politician Of considerable note through
out New England, Vas killed by railroad train
at Elizabeth, N. j., on the 18th. 1t is sup
posed that Kenyon threw himself under
the engine with suicidal intent, as
bunch Of letters addressed to various friends
was found in his pocket.
thief in a theater at Barcelona, Spain,
raised false alarm of fire. Que person was
killed and eighteen injured in the panic which
ensued s....-
An oyster sloop capsized off Fort Meyers,
Fla, on the 9th inst, drowning three sons Of
John Bright, aged from to 13 years. 49,
The wife and child of a Russian Jew named
Gelanger, froze to death near Grand Forks, d.
t., on the It'll. .t ..-.f ..... .r.. ....
shanty used as a sleeping room by laborers
at Chatham, Ont burned on the night of the
4th inst, Three inmates persisted.
Two boys, named Arthur Lord and Patrick
Kane, were killed at Thompsonville, COnnecti-
cut by q special train conveying the Langtry
troupe.
A boiler in a paper-min at Mlddletown, O.,
exploded on the list inst, killing Adam For
ester and seriously injuring John Zeller.
BY the premature explosion Of a blast at Val
latama, Mexico, two men were killed and an
other injured.
Two children of Hiram BerkeypiIe persisted
in a burning house at Johnstown, Pennsyl-
vania.
A derrick used in constructing bridge at
Plattsburg, n. Y, fell on the Goth, killing VIM
Hetfermann and seriously injuring two other
wo kmen. James Murray is supposed to have
been knocked into the river and drowned.
1he family or iaborer named SULLIVAN we're
poisoned az San Francisco on the 18th by eat
ing fish. Two children were dead and third
not expected to live at last accounts,
William Wright and wife, residing near St.
Louis, Heard the report of gun III their house
while they were at work in q field. They soon
discovered that their G-year old son had play
fully drawn loaded shot gun upon his younger
sister actually blowing away her head.
On the evening OF the 25th as Rev. T. W.
Terrence with his nephew, aged s, and four
hired men were driving home near Danville,
Pa, one of the horses baked and precipitated
the vehicle down an embankment. All were
badly injured.
At Springfield, O, or the 10th D. II. Roche
and l. c. Case, railway agents went into the
vaults at the general office of the I. B. & w.
Railroad. Somebody had blown out the gas
and the accumulation of the combustible ex-
ploded on the appearance of the above named
gentlemen with lamp. Both were dangerous
~ burned.