Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-18
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9. T. Pickard & Co.. importers of jewelry,
failed on the 18th, at Montreal, Que. Liza.
bilties, 100000.
At Austin, ILL.,, on the 18th, fire destroyed
block OF twelve buildings, including no.
tel, the inmates OF which had q marrow es-
cape. The loss is not estimated.
At Tralee, Ireland, a band of moonlight
ers on the 18th attacked the house of Cur
tin, president of the National League, OF
Molahaffe, and during the melee, Curtin and
one of the moonlighters were shot dead.
Horace B. Claflin, prominent business
man OF New York, died on the 18th inst,
at his country residence, in Fordham n. Y.
of paralysis.
At Philadelphia, Pa, on the 18th, a
large three-story furniture factory, to-
gether with it's entire contents de-
stroyed by fire. Loss 100000; insurance
not known.
The boiler of F. j. Brownell's Touring
MILL at Hopkinsville, Ky, exploded on the
morning of the 18th inst. j. P. Brining,
the miller, Nelson Metcalf, fireman, and a
boy named George Weirling, were killed.
The pecuniary loss is Sis, 900.
Failures to the number OF 100 were re.
ported in the United States during the
week ending on the 9th.
The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Furniture
Factory collapsed on the 18th, killing
Henry Epping instantly. No one else was
injured.
About 800 miners in the Shawnee Valley,
Ohio. struck on the 18th for an advance in
wages.
While attempting to escape from the JET
fersonville, Ind, prison, on the night of the
18th, William Mcbride fell and was fatally
hurt.
Nine students of the Wesleyan University,
at Cleveland, have been suspended for at
tending performance of Richard III.
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rested daily and brought to Fort River,
Kas. Many are again released on a sort of
parole.
Owing to a broken wheel, four freigh tears
on the Grand Trunk Railroad were thrown
from the track at Cardinal, Ont, on the
18th, and badly wrecked. Alexander Milne,
switchman, was killed.
Horace Began and Fred. Shorey were
buried by the caving in of a well at Dover,
N. H., on the 18th. Shorey is, believed to
be fatally injured.
An explosion of gas occurred at Reading,
Pa, on the 18th inst. Three men were seri-
ously, if not fatally, hurt.
Capt. M. A. Mcguire, a wholesale trunk
dealer of Cincinnati, was drowned in the
Tennessee River near Coulterville, Tenn, on
the 18th. while duck hunting.
While five men were at work painting a
high building at Montreal on the IL tn inst
the scaffold gave way. Two were instantly
killed, another died in a short time, and
the other two will not recover.
George Schaefer, banker and cotton deal
er at Hampton, Ca, suspended on the
10th. Liabilities $4,000; assets $780,
900.
DR.. William Benjamin Carpenter, LII d.
f. r. S., an eminent English Psychologist
died in London on the 10th inst, from the
effects of burns caused by the upsetting of
lamp while he was taking a vapor bath
for rheuma tism.
A private telegram from Rangoon, under
date of the 10th, states that war between
Burmah and the Indian government has
been formally declared
William M. Carpenter, vice-president Of
the Peninsular Stave Company, was al
most instantly killed at Detroit on the 1 9th,
by being thrown from buggy.
A dispatch of the 9th says the big strike
at Galveston and Houston has been settled
to the satisfaction of all parties. No par
ticuars are given.
N. B. Haynes, proprietor of large whole
sale millinery house in Chicago, made an
assignment on the 9th inst, with liabilities
to the amount of $50, 900.
The New York dry goods commission
firm of Watson & Barlow failed on the 9th
inst. Their liabilities are estimated at
100000.
Mr.. and Mrs Michael Kehoe, of Wilkes
barre, Pa. were found on the 9th inst. in a
dying condition from coal gas. MIR. Kehoe
was a prominent citizen of the place.