Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-04
YIinOr happenings

HENRY KELLNER; a son of the editor of the
German Democrat, OF Philadelphia, was
drowned at Bordentown, N. j., on the 1st
inst.
DEATHS from cholera at Damietta, Egypt
on the 1st inst, 109. 1t is said that most Of
the doctors have fed from Damietta. It is
officially denied that there is any cholera at
Carlo. The sanitary cordons in Egypt have
been ordered to shoot ali persons attempting
to pass throughth lines.
MAJOR PHIPPs, formerly superintendent Of
the Philadelphia almshouse. who perpetrated
heavy forgeries and fled to Canada, from which
country he was extradited, has been sentenced
TO i've years solitary confinement IN the
county prison at hard labor.
By the capsizing Of boat off Prince Edward
Island on the Goth, one man and five women
were drowned.
A Lafayette, Ind. man named Bierlein, who
was on his way to Germany. died suddenly ON
the train near st. Thomas, Ontario on the
18th.
The deaths from cholera at Damietta, Egypt,
on the 18th, numbered 107.
Three men we're arrested in New York on the
29th, charged with selling bogus Missouri state
bonds. They unlOaded to the amount of
about 100000 before the authorities caught
On.
A little girl named Percy Jeffers was suffo-
Gated in grain elevator at ShelbyyilIe, Ind,
on the 28th
At Muskegon, Mich, on the 28th, dock on
which was piled 800. 900 feet Of lumber gave
way, carrying into the lake twenty men who
were piling lumber Frank Barhardt was
crushed to death, and it is thought three men
we're drowned.
The bridge of the North Western Railroad at
La Crosse gave way under 8 freight train on
the 28th, dropping the engine into the river.
The engineer was drowned.
One man was killed and another fatally in
iured by railroad accident at CharlestoTn, S.
c., on the 28th.
A number Of arrests we're made in Germany
on the 9th, Of persons who are believed to be
connected with conspiracy to ketray secrets
relative to the German military organization.
By the ditching of an engine at Chicago on
the Goth. Engineer Thomas Kelly was killed,
and fireman named Murphy seriously in
jured.
The elegant passenger steamer Rothesay
plying on the st. Lawrence River, struck a rock
and sunk on the 9th. The passengers were
saved.
Lake Michigan gave up four more bodies at
Chicago, On the Goth.
Six prisoners overpowered the jailer at VAN
dalia, ILL.,, on the evening of the 25th, and
made their escape.
Two persons were killed and twelve injured
by colliery explosion at Cardiff, Wales, on the
25th.
The lake at Chicago is giving up the victims
of the recent storm. Five bodies were recoy-
cred on the 25th.
A dispatch from st. Johns, N. B., chronicles
the loss of a fishing boat with six~hyes at Ire
possy on the 25th.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady STAN
ton delivered addresses st a wOman's rights
meeting in London on the evening of the 25th.
The supreme court of Ohio on the 26th de-
cided that the Scott whisky law was conStltu-
tional.
News was received on the 18th, of cyclone
which passed over the village of Elberton, Ga,
on the 23d, killing one man and destroying
sixteen buildings.
At Lancaster. Wis, on the 18th, While bath
ing with party of friends, James Lowe was
seized with cramps, and drowned before as
sistance could save him.
By railroad collision near Havana, Cuba,
on the 18th, eight persons lost their lives, and
q large number were injured.
Lynch alias Norman, the informer, was re-
leased from Jail at Dublin on the oath.