Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-10-17
Minor Mention.

Two professional burglars and fine kit of
tools were captured by the police of Fond du
Lyc on the night of the 18th.
Twenty-three horses were killed by the ex-
gas to q brewery at Cincinnati, on the night of
the 14th.i
Three men named Martin Kroch, Chas.
Schwashorn and Henry Carson were instantly
killed at CASTILLO, Ohio, On the night of the
18th, while endeavoring to drive across rail-
road track ahead Of an Indiana, Bloomington
and Western train. A boy named Thomas
Lamar, who was in the wagon with the men,
was badly hurt
Spain has got q new ministry.
William Phillips fell on q saw in mill at
Etna Green, Ind, and had his body severed in
twain on the 18th.
A canal boat with an unpronounceable name
and a cargo of corn was sent to the bottom of
Chicago River by collision with the steambarge
Dunbar on the 18th inst.
The bark Sarah M. Smith, Of ST. John, N. B.,
was run down and sunk by the steamship
Salier, on the 18th. Her crew was rescued and
taken to New York.
Pine Polish students were arrested on the
18th, charged with writing for the Socialist
paper, Proletorial.
The Spanish ambassador to France has re-
signed.
A Russian has been arrested for sketching
forts on the German frontier.
ed by a collision on the North Western road
near Hanover Junction, Wis, on the 18th inst.
Secretary Folger has accepted the offer of
Heelng, of Chicago, to compromise the $50, 900
whisky ring Judgment against him for $27, 900.
A carp enter named George Cromer fell be-
tween the rafters of building at Lancaster,
Pa, on the 18th inst, and was caught by the
neck and strangled.
Edgar A. Marble, commissioner of patents,
has resigned and the position has been tend
cred to Hon. Ben. Butterworth, of Ohio.
Snow out west on the night Of the 10th inst:
Six incher at Denver. four inches at Sidney,
and between one and two inches at Cheyenne.
It is reported that the Black Flags have quar-
eled with the Chinese troops.
All imphcatedin the recent rebellion at Cairo,
Egypt, have been granted amnesty, except
those convicted of murder and outrage.
A coal miner named Benjamin G. Williams
was killed and VIM. Cartwright seriously in
jured by the premature discharge of a blast In
the Cooperative Mine at Springfield, Ill.,, on the
10th. -
Midnight mechanics operated at Arcadia,
Wis, on the night of the 9th, but did not earn
much.
The sunken steambarge Oakland has been
found ten miles off Erie, Pa, with her bow
eight feet out of water. The parties who pur-
chased her on speculation will net handsome
profit.
The residence of G. J. Handbloom, at East
Des MONIES, Ia, was entered by burglars on the
night of the 9Th, and despoiled of property to
the value eff over 5000.
Mrs. Thomas Cooch wife of wealthy re-
tired powder manufacturer, died at Pottsville,
Pa, on the 10th, from burns received week
previous.
An engineer and fireman were probably fatal
ly scalded by the explosion of switch engine
at Augusta, Ga, on the 10th
Surgeon General Crane, u. s. A., died at
Washington on the night of the 9Th.
Articles of association OF the Milwaukee and
Missouri LithOgrahpic Stone Company, were
filed at Madison on the 9th.
Will Steiner, of Tower City, Dakota, at
tmpted to take gun from a wagon on the 9th
inst. The effort resulted in his instant death.
He leaves family.
A report from Paris under date Of the 9th
inst, says Gen. Campenon has been appointed
minister of war.
John Ries. an old man of IA, was missed
from his home near Madison Ind, for several
days. On the 9th inst, bis body was found in
a frightfully mangled condition in the woods,
having been crushed by falling tree.
The fourteenth annual session of the Ameri-
can Woman Suffrage Association opened at
Brooklyn on the 9thinst Among those present
were Julia Ward Howe, Mary A. Livesmore and
others.
Several persons were badly hurt at Chicago,
on the 9TH, by the derallment of one of the
cars of the dummy route, westward from For
tieth Street.
Safe crackers secured $500 in money and $50
in postage stamps from the treasury box of
Dorman Bros, of Buffalo, Iowa, on the night
of the 7th.