Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-09-12
minor Mention.

Wassy Aibesson, aged ten years, died in
Philadelphia on the 7th inst. from hydro
phobia. He was bitten by dog in October
last.
Six of the eight defenders of Baltimore in
the war of 1912 held reunion in that city on
the 9th INST None of those present were I'M
der IS.
Three miners named Powers. Johnson and
Mosier were killed in a mine at Deadwood, D.
T., on the 9Th by q cavern.
Dispatches from Reading, Pa, of the 7th
inst, record the death from injuries received
in a railroad accident of an old man named
Heffner, at the age IF 81 years. He had been
married three times and vas the father Of forty
two children. ,.. ... .-....
Mrs. Julia P. Smith, the novelist, was
thrown from buggy and killed at New Hart
ford. Conn, on the 7th. r -.
Miss Martha Johnson was burned to death
near New Castle, Ohio, on the 7th inst, by
her clothiag taking fire from q stove,
Three persons were burned to death in the
destruction of the dwelling house of John
Everts, Eear Springfield, H., on the 9th inst.
A-dispatch from Halifax of the 9th saws:
The steamer Lamport, bound from Baltimore
to Liverpool, is at that place IN disabled con-
dition. She lost 40 head of cattle overheard.
Low water caused the explosion of the boil
or of steam thresber on q farm in Dauphin
County, Pa, on the 9Th. Two men were
killed.
Two brakemen were killed and about dozen
cars wrecked by collision in Ohio on the 9Th.
Jay GoUld's yacht ATLANTA cut tug boat
squarely in two at New York b8rbor on the
afternoon of the 4th. No lives were lost.
Rev. Thomas K Beecher has been nominated
for the office of secretary of state by the New
York greenbackers.
An unknown man aged about 81 years, was
run over and killed by an engine at the Chicago
stock yards on the evening of the 4th inst.
Prof. Marley, noted electrician, who was as
ISOLATED with the company that laid the first
Atlantic cable, is dead.
The opening exercises of the American Ex-
position at the Manufacturers and Mechanics
Institute, Boston, took place on the 9Th inst.
A fy-wheel in a planning mill at Chicago,
burst on the Sd, killing Albert Dobbrett.
The death is announced of Ivan Tourgueneff,
the Russian novelist.
Marwood the English hangman, is dead.
Curme, Dunn & Co., tanners and horse col
lar manufacturers, at Richmond, Ind, failed
on the 4th. Liabilities S35, 900; assets $50, 000
A sporting character named John Bagley,
was fatally wounded by the accidental dis
charge of a revolver in the hands Of a bar
tender at Kansas City saloon on the night OF
the Sd.
AT Adarville, Ca. on the night of the 1st
inst, as au old farmer named William Leck
was walking about his yard at late hour, he
was taken fer an intruder by his son, who shot
him dead.
small sailing yacht was capslzed by O
squall near POrtchester, n. Y, on the Cd
Homer L. Gilbert, broker, of New York, and
railroad newsboy, we're drowned.
Frank Schamer, young clerk, tumbled out
of a boat at Cleveland on the I'd inst, and was
drowned.
Three men were killed by a railway collision
on Long Island on the I'd.
Duripg heavy thunder storm near Naples
on the Sd the foundations of building were SO
undermined as TO cause its fall, burying eleven
people in the ruins.
One person was killed and four injured in an
anti-Jewish riot at Seigyetvar, Hungary, on
the %. Much property was destroyed