Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-08-15
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b. f. King, q trainmaster, was cut to pieces
by the cars near Wheeling, W. Va, on the
10th inst.
/ A little boy named Carter was buried alive at
Quincy, ILL.,, on the 18th, by the fall of a sand
bank in which he was playing with a number
of companions.
circus was wrecked by breeze at Paris,
KY, on the 10th inst.
bad railway smash-up occurred at Leslie
Run, Pa. on the 10th. One man was killed.
freight conductor named l.. P. Taylor died
at Omaha, Neb., on the 10th, from the bite of
a spider.
John W. Thompson, mayor of Davenport,
a., died on the 18th, aged 60 years.
Mrs. James Wilkins, wife of a prominent
citizen of Canton, Dakota, fell down stairs and
broke her neck on the 18th.
The remains Of VIM. Brown, a missing bar
Der, have been found in the ruins of the burned
Mitchell House, at Thomasville, Ga.
Three men walking on the Baltimore and
Ohio track near Demler Station. at midnight
on the 10th, run down by an express
train and all were killed.
The Atlantic and gulf coasts are BOW closely
quarantined against cholera and yellow fever.
Boston and New York are doubly guarded.
The original and only Oscar arrived in New
York on the 18th. Those who saw him say he
has become civilized.
The nationalist of New Jersey have nomi-
mated Benjamin Urner for governor.
A curious case has arisen in Baltimore,
where the disposition of property to the value
of $4,000 hinges on the priority of death of a
murderer and suicide anG his victim-hs wife.
At picnic near Huntsville, Ala. on the 10th
inst, young man named William Jones fell
from a swing and broke his neck.
Thomas Williams was fatally aud Hugh
Edwards seriously burned by an explosion of
fire damp on the 10th inst. at Packer Colliery
No. 4, of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, at
Shenandoah, Pa.
Commissioner Marble, of the patent Office
at Washington, has resigned, to take effect
September 1st.
The body of an unknown man was found on
the beach at Port Washington, Mich, on the
10th inst.
Capt. Anderson, Of the schooner Sarah
Lavinia, his wife and two children and a
sailor named Leavitt, were drowned on the
10th by collision of the vessel with the
steamer William Lawrence, near Baltimore.
The rest Of the crew were rescued.
Philander Walcott was gOred to death by
bull nesr Green Village, Ohio. on the 10th
inst.
A company was licensed on the 10th inst
TO construct an elevated railroad in Chicago.
Seventy inmates of the National Soldiers
Home at Dayton, Ohio. were bounced from
that institution on the 10th inst. No cause
is assigned in the dispatches.
Prof. Dindorf, the London critic and
philologist, is dead.
The late Thomas Hoyne, of Chicago, left
property valued at $386,000.
gunsmith named Ballard accidentally
shot himself in the abdomen on the 8th inst.
John Fisher and girl named Butler were
drowned at Quincy, Mass, on the 9Th, while
taking pleasure sail.
Two railroad men were killed near Masslllon,
Ohio, on the 7th inst. The train ran into an
open switch and was completely wrecked.
son of George Brumer, of KilbOurn City,
was drowned at that place on the 9Th inst.
while bathing. He was thirteen years old.
There were 627 deaths from cholera in
Egypt on the 8th inst. The total number of
deaths now reported is 16,445.
Chas. Brun, the French minister Of marine
has resigned on account of i'll health.
Within four days 80 of the 270 inmates Of the
| Cairo alms-house, died of cholera.
Susan Shuetz, a school girl, broke her neck
at Erie, Pa, on the 8th inst, by fall while
| jumping from low building.
| Fred A. Cramer, ex-superlntendent of water
works at Rock Island, H., was jailed on the
| 18th inst, on @ charge OF embezz1nS S2,OUO
| collected for water rents.
Wreckage on the beach at Grand Haven tells
| the tale of another disaster The name of the
| schooner Nellie and Annie appears first among
| the surnliSes.
The telegraph office at Bismarck, d., was
mobbed by strikers on the night of the 18th
| inst. and a new operator who had been en-
| ployed was forced to quit work.
Paul Gersternkorn. aged 10 years, was
drowned while bathing at Portage, on the 9Th:
James McDermott, an American arrival at
Liverpool on the Oh, was arrested on charge
of conspiracy to murder English officials.
A Polk City, Ia. citizen had the temerty TO
denounce the recent lynching Of Hardy al
Harlan, and was compelled to retreat before
shower of eggs.
A freight elevator in the St. Adams House,
New York, fell on the 7th INST, inJurlng four
men. one of them fatally.
One case of yellow fever was reported al
| New York on the 7th inst. The Vletlm was
sent to the quarantine station.
Charles s. Allen, brakeman, Was killed by
the cars near London, Ohio, on the 7th inst.
Rueben Robinson, a wealthy citizen OF
,Sturgis, Mich, 40 years cd, was killed on the