Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
Minor meaar1nn.

Peter Goust, was struck by an engine on the
Baltimore and Ohio Road near Wheeling, w.
Va, and instantly killed on the 4th inst.
Hollenshead, Tetley & Co., coin brokers,
Liverpool closed their doors on the I'd inst.
Liabilities probably G100, 900.
The Rock River Paper Company, with mills
at Beloit, Wis, and Rockford ILL.,, failed on the
I'd inst, with liabilities o the amount of $780,
900.
John Carver, Darbysbire & Co., merchants
OF London and Manchester, have failed. La
bilitieB Et20, 600.
Business failures throughout the United
States and Canada the seven days ending on
the I'd, number 215 against 2I8 the previous
week and 243 the week before.
Diphtheria is epidemic at West Bolyston,
Mass, and the schools have been closed
Garret Huyck was accidentally shot and
killed at military armory in Chicago.
Articles of incorporation of the Racine Reap
or Company, capital 100000, have been filed at
Madison.
-Four young men were drowned at Erie. Pa,
on the ID inst, by the upsetting of a sail boat.
The steamer San Bias arrived at San Fran
cisco, on the 31st with yellow fever on board.
The postoffice at Haverbill, Mass, was
robbed OF $500 in cash and $1,000 worth of
stamps on the night OF the 31st.
The vault of the county treasurer at Vir-
Rlnla, Nevada, was mysteriously robbed of
$8, 600 OH the night of the 31st.
Mrs. Mary Welsh and her seven-year-o old
grandson, were suffocated by fire in their
dwelling, in suburb Of Cincinnati on the lst
inst.
The schooner Sophia Minch went ashore
early on the mornlng>of the 1st inst, at CIeve-
land. The crew was faken off with great risk
by the life savers. 81
Two children of John Earnest, aged and
years, were suffocated by smoke from their
burning home at Middletown, o., on the LIST
inst
An old building in process of demolition at
New York fell on the 1st, killing man and
two children.
Swarms of locusts are at work in Sc state
of Pueblo, Mexico.
The schooner Mary Nau, ashore at Grand
Haven, Mich, is a complete wreck.
The barkentine Jane Hunter was lost ON the
coast of New Brunswick on the night Of the
Both. All hands but two persisted.
By a collision between coal trains near
Lebanon. Pa, on the 31st, an engine and forty
cars were wrecked and an engineer injured.
Albert Stewart, wife and daughter were run
down by train at Richmond, Ind. on the
3lst. Stewart saved the ladies, but was him
self cut to pieces.
At Ishpeming Wis, on the 31st school
boy named Jerwequist was hit by plank which
fell from building In process of erection. He
died in few hours.
Geo. Ruggles and his sister drove off a
bridge near Terre Hsute, Ind, on the 3lst.
rescue his sister both were drowned.
By an accident on the Northeastern Railroad
near Charleston, s. c., on the 30th, an engi-
neer named Stratton was killed and two other
men injured. Several cars were burned.
Cyrus Sargent, a wealthy Grant County
farmer, fell from straw stack and broke his
neck.
The loss by tho fire consequent upon the
recent bombardment of Port au Prince Hayti,
Is estimated at 81, 900.
John @. New, assistant secretary of the navy,
has decided not to resign.
Boorman, the missing Pewaukee miller, has
materiaized at st. Louis.
by the breaking of dam on the 10Th, the
town Of Vincennes Ind, was inundated, and
the tracks Of the Vincennes and Wabash Rail-
roads were considerably damaged. The plat
forms of the railroad depots were three feet
under water.
At Dubuque, Ia, on the 29th, carpenters
scaffod fell, killing two men.
Gustavus V. Fox, assistant secretary of the
navy under Lincoln, died at his home IN
Lowell, Mass, on tbs 18th. He was 81 years
Old .- $50
The Chicago police made a big haul of gam
bers on the night of the 18th. a'----
John Reister, of New Albany, Ind, got full
of tangie-leg on the 18th and drove over a cliff
sixty feet high. He is dead, but the horse es-
capped with slight injury.