Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-18
HEinOr Happenings.

An aged lady named PbiIs. her daughter and
the latter's child, we're killed while attempting
to drive over railway crossing at Roanoke, N.
Y, on the 18th inst.
A farmer his wife and daughter, and the
daughter Of a nel9hbor were drowned in the
RappGhannOck River, Virginia, on the 18th, by
the caps ing Of q boat.
Intelligence has been received of the loss of
The barque Pir1pOa, near Fayal. Out of crew
of - and % passengers only the mate, cook
and one passenger were saved.
The store of Mr.. Weaver at MOntoursville,
Pa, was burgIarjzad on the MIG hit of the 18th,
of $4,000 in Catawissa Railroad bonds. $780,
600 i'll miscellaneous securities and $500 in
checks of 5000 each.
Tom Thumb, the famous dwarf, died at his
home IN Middleboro, Mass. on the 18th inst
His Lr0p.r name was Charles Haywood STRAIT
ton,
The Dupont Powder Works, at Wilmington.
Del. blew up on the morning of the 18Th, kill
ing two men.
Mary Stultz attempted to reach bcr father
who was employed or q high sc9ffo3d 1T Erie,
Pa, on the 18th inst, when she fell and broke
her neck.
A shingIe mill near Custer. Mich. was blown
to pieces by boiler explosion on the 18th inst.
John. Mcintosh was killed and several others
injured.
The directors of the suez Canal have unani-
mously approved of De Lesseps' arrangement
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canal
An unknown man who shipped as deck
hand on the steamer Sheboygan, at Milwaukee,
was drowned at Chicago on the 18th inst. He
was about 20 years of age.
little boy named Joseph Rogers died from
hydrophobia at Sag Harbor, N. Y. on the 18th
inst. He was bitten in the cheek by pet dog
in November last.
An internal machine was found concealed on
the 18th INST, in the house at Birmingham oc-
cupied by Whitehead, recently sentenced to life
imprisonment for connection with the dynamite
conspiracy.
| At Chicago on the 18th inst, a runaway
horse dragged a buggy with four occupants
into the river. One of them, Stephen Check
was drowned.
A little boy named Eddie Carroll was drowned
at Fond du Lac on the 12th while boating.
| Five carpenters were seriously injured by
tie fall Of a scaffold at the shlpyard of Neafe
| q Levy, Philadelphia on the 18th inst. One
| of them. named LeCOmpte, may die.
| Stiles. Colby q Mcmahon, a Chicago COM
mission firm failed on the 18th, with liabilities
estimated at $4,000.
| Cetewayo, the Zulu chief, is Oh the war-path
! again. He defeated the forces of Diam and
captured the latter chief.
Paul de Cassagnac has been suspended from
! the French chamber of deputies for fortnight
for declaring that the Tonquin expedition was
o part OF stock jobbing operation.
a masonic excursion Train ana freight train
collided near jamestown, Pa, On the 18th.
The conductor.aud brakeman on the freight
train were instantly killed and another brake
man fatally injured. None of the excursionists
were hurt. Both engines and number of
| freight cars were wrecked.
Oh mas been discovered in Washington
County. Ohio Seven wells have been sunk
thus far, producing in the aggregate about
| 70 barrels day.
| Jack Madden, who murdered Herman Meis-
! ter, at dance in the town of Granville over
three years ago, has been pardoned out of the
house of correction by the governor.
Kerr, the defaulting assistant cashier Of the
| banking house of Preston, Kean & Co., Chi.
| cago, arrived at San Francisco on steamer to-
day III charge of Que of PinkertonS men. Kerr
got away with $50, 600 in January last.
Barton Benson was instantly killed on the
9th inst, by freight train on the North West
ern road at Chicago.
AS a result of too much calamity Juice Viii
liam Clanssen, in a fit of melancholy shot him
self at Chicago on the 9th. He will probably
die.
Francis B. Webster of Cambridge Mass,
was arrested on the 10th inst, on a charge of
swindling the Alta Gold and Silver Mining
Company, of New Mexico, out of 100000. He
was committed in default of $150 900 bail.