Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-23
Minor Mention.

Seven men wers buried by the caving of a
we'll at Durham, N. c., on the 10Th inst. Three
were recovered-one badly injured; the Others
perished
VIM. Childs, night fireman at the Body
House, Toledo, o., was caught in the betting
of 8 stationary engine on the night of the 18th,
and instantly killed.
A boiler used in sinking gas wells near Mt
Vernon, o., exploded on the morning of the
Goth, killing two tramps who were sleeping
near.
Samuel Smith and 13-year-old daughter
were struck by a train near Shoner, Pa on the
Goth, and both killed.
An accident near Mendoza, Wis, on the 2Otb
inst, resulted in the death of Engineer Phil
Barry, of BGraboo.
BY o collision of freight trains on the Penn
sylvania Railroad, near cambridge, on the 18th
twelve cars and an engine were wrecked. No.
body injured.
A son of u. s. Consul Pratt was drowned
while boating at Queenstown on the18th. An
other son was rescued but may not recover.
Henry Bloom, Baltimore Il Ohio express
messenger, was arrested at Pittsburg on the
18th for the theft of q package containing
$4,000.
Mrs. Edleston, an American lady, was killed
III the railway smash-up near Permission, En-
gland.
and several others seriously injured by the fall
of the roof of burning livery stable at To-
ronto on the 17tl.
B. N. Benedict, who has been postmaster at
Palmyra, for the past twelve years, resigned on
the 10th, on account OF old age.
1t is said the Postal, Bankers & Merchants
and the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph compan-
les have formed pool for twenty-five years.
On the 17tb, Thomas Bingham, a farmer re-
siding near Whitewater, Wis, mistook dish of
ant poison for custard and died in one hour
after partaking Of it.
in the elevator shaft of the Badgley & Went
worth Manufacturing Company, at Milwaukee,
on the 18th.
Burglars entered the post-office at Swanton,
VT, on the night of the 18th, and secured $500
in cash and 800 in notes.
Robbie Ingles, aged years, was drowned in
the mill-race at Lake Geneva, Wis, on the
14th.
Rev. L. o. Thompson, his son and boy
named Bishop. all from Medina. N. Y, while
fishing in the Illinois River at Henry, ILL.,, on
the 10th inst, were drowned by the upsetting
of the boat.
Mrs. A. Lincoln Phelps, the authoress, died
at Baltimore on the 10Th, aged 81 years.
A boiler explosion in Carter's mill, Bloom
ington, Ind, on the 18th, killed four men and
severely wounded several others.
An unknown man, while intoxicated, jumped
in front of moving train at Eau Claire. Wis,
on the 14th inst, and was instantly killed, his
body being horribly mangled.
The body found in the lake at Milwaukee
on The 14th, which was supposed to be that of
Lizzie Biebow, has been identified as the re-
mains of Lizzie Lofty, domestic. The case is
mysterious one,
Joseph Evarts, of Racine Wis.,, was found on
the st. Paul Railroad track near that place on
the morning of the 10th. with both legs cut off.
1t is supposed he fell from a train. He will
probably die.
A young man named Taylor was decapitated
In Hox o1D,-,n TIL D.
on the 14Jh inst, by red hot bar Of iron fall
ing on his neck in some unexplained manner.
While saving stock from a burning barn at
Roaring Greek, near Ashland, Pa on the 18th
inst, two SONS of Thomas Lee and man
named Kohler were killed by lightning.
James Reilly, a snake charmer, died at New
York on the 14th from rattlesnake bite received
the day previous.