Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-10-24
Minor Mention.

Gibraltar, the British Mediterranean strong.
hold, has been shaken by an earthquake.
Ten persons had legs or srms broken by the
collapse of platform at the Harvard scrub
races on Charles River, Mass, on the 29th. A
student named Mead had his skull fractured
and both legs broken and will probably die.
E1-MayOr Clark, of Appleton, Wis, died
suddenly Of paralysis at his home in that city
on the 21st. He was SO years old.
Ships have been sent to the Grecian Archi-
pelago with supplies for the earthquake suffer
ers.
Frank. an almost unknown trotter, covered a
mile IN Oil at New York on the 18th.
The ninth annual session of the Y. NJ. G. A.
Of Wisconsin, was begun at Eau Claire on the
18th.
In fight Of one hundred workmen from a
Hood IN the Severn, England, tunnel, on the
18th, two we're killed.
The diamond miners at Capetown are on a
strike. Two were killed by constables in SUD-
pressing disturbance
While digging clay near Amboy, N. Y, on
the 18th Jasper Van Schaik was buried alive by
the fall of q bank.
The sessions bribery case, on trial at ALBANY
n. Y, closed on the 18th with a verdict of ac-
quittal.
Newburg, n Y, celebrated the centennial
anniversary Of the disbanding Of Washington's
army on the 18th inst.
Suit was begun at Madison, Wis, on the 18th
James company, for refusing to grant it q
license.
A loose truck ditcbed the engine and
mail car of a passenger train near
Vandalia, H.. on the 17th. Louis Mills.
the engineer, and Lincoln French, the
fireman, were killed. None of the passengers
were hurt.
The national association of Wholesale drug
gists began its ANNUAL meeting at New York on
the 18th inst.
A passenger train jumped the track near Ha-
gerstown, Ill, on the 18th killing the fireman
and wounding the engineer.
A young man named Weatherby had his
lower jaw torn off by the accidental discharge
of gun in his own hands, at Constantine,
Mich. on the 18th, and will die.
Dietrich SuthOOf was caught in the machin-
cry Of sugar refinery at New York, on the
18th, and ground to pulp. He is dead.
The boiler of q freight engine exploded near
OskalOosa, Iowa, Or the 18th, wrecking nine
teen cars and killing Engineer Edward BagIey.
Fireman Charles and Brakeman Elmer Blanch-
ard, were probably fatally injured.
The 10Th annual reunion of the army of the
Tennessee began at Cleveland on the 18th.
Among the distinguished military men present
were Gems. Grant and Sherman.
Joseph P. Hale, the well-koTn New York
piano maker, died on the 18th.
Two freights on the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia Railroad collided on the night of
the 18th. Both engines were wrecked, and
several men injured, none fatally.
An engineer and two firenen were killed near
Chattanooga on the 10Th by the collision of two
freight trains.
Three children and young lady were run
over and killed near ConnelsvllIe, Pa, on the
18th.
The Erie ferry boat Panonia collided with
the Hoboken ferry boat Weekauken in the Hud-
son River at New York, on the night of the
18th. The latter boat was badly damaged and
several passengers were injured.
Irving Bishop, the mind reader, made sew
eral exasperated failures at an exhibition at
Dublin Gu the night of the 18th, and is now
dangerously i'll with brain fever.
The city of Evansville, Ind, has repudiated
her debt and as a consequence Indiana NUM-
cipal and county bonds are at discount,
4 number of children were badly injured in
a fire panic at a school in Waterbury, Conn.,, On
the 18th.
The Chinese have abandoned their intention
of massing troops on the Tonquin border.