Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-16
Minor Mention,

Mrs. Theo. Rowland was killed and her two
daughters seriously injured by lightning, near
Springvllle, Ala, on the 18th.
George Sloan, Chicagoan, was knocked
from g. st. Paul train near Wauwatosa, Wis,
on the morning of the 18th, and was so badly
injured that death soon resulted.
The Second Street bridge. Racine, Wis, an
old structure, broke IN two on the 18th. A new
bridge will be constructed as sooR as practic-
able, the cost of which will be at least $15, 600.
An old man named Patrende and his son were
killed and Joseph Mascotte fatally injured by q
powder explosion at Catlin's stone quarry, near
Burlington, VT, on the 18th inst
One man was killed and four injured by the
upsetting of a car Of gravel on the Lactawanna
Railroad near Boonton, N. j., on the 18th.
Jasper E. Sloan. a Clark Center, Dak., stu
dent at the Western Telegraph School, James
vile, was drowned in Rock River on the night
of the 10th inst. His body was recovered.
Hon. Chas. Fox Washburn, of Minnesota,
son of the late ex-Gov. Washburn, died
at Portland, Me-, on the 18th inst.
A heavy rain storm accompanied by light
ming, on the 11tb, did damage at Baltimore
to the extent of 100000. A 3-year-old child
was killed by lightning.
A saWmiI and million feet of lumber, the
property of w. J. Williams & Son. burned near
Jefferson, Tex, on the 10th. Loss, 1926, 600.
The Lorain Planning & Lumber Company s
works burned at Lora,n, O., on the 10th. Loss.
$780, 900: insurance, ,00O.
Abner Rice, John Klmus and Borie Spone-
mitz were fatally injured on the evening of the
10th inst. by the premature explosion of q
blast at Centralia, Pa.
William Black, a prominent young farmer of
Donnellson H., was killed by lightning en- the
10th. t4ta
The discovery was made on the 10th that the
late W. R. McGiD, president of the Cincinnati
& Eastern Railroad, who was killed short time
ago by falling from train, had been raising
money by fraud. The total amount will reach
$780, 900. Hints CT suicide are now made
The proprietors Of the hotel at Livingston,
Mont, made an assignment on the 9th. Liza
bilities $4,000. ~
S. and J. Somnerich, millinery, New York,
failed on the 9th inst. Liabilities $4,000.
Twenty five cases OF CHAMBERS were discovered
in the livery stables at Leavenworth, Kas, Oh
the 9Th.
A brakeman and two tramps were burned to
death in the debris of a freight train wrecked
by the fall of s. bridge over Elk Greek, Kas., on
the 9Th.
n. Schufeldt, at Oconomowoc, Wis, on the
night of the 7th inst, and took $1,000 worth
of silyerWare.
Carrie G. johnson, an actress was killed by
q runaway horse on the street in New York on
the 9th inst.
At Eniots landing, near st. Louis, on the
9Th inst, the boiler of the steam tug III. c.
Coleman exploded. Three white men and
four negroes were killed.
frankie Hastwig. aged z, was drowned at
Oshkosh on the 9th inst. by the capsizing of a
boat.
Floyd Minor. John Strong. John Spokesman
and Robert Gibson, were drowned on the 7th,
by the cspsizng of sail boat at st. Ignace,
Mich.
A cloud-burst did great damage in Berks,
Lebanon and Montgomery. counties, in Penn
syIyanla, on the 9th inst. Bridges and roads
were washed away and crops uprooted.