Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-18
Minor Mention.

GEORGE dattOrd, brakeman, was Killed IN
railroad collision at Woodhaven, L. l.,
on the 14th.
At Concord, N H., on the 18th inst.
George L. Maxem, liveryman, and George
w. Blake, conductor, eloped with Mrs. A.
M. and Mrs. III. T. Dickerman. Both men
were married.
The President has left Washington for
months vacation in the Adirondacks. He
was accompanied by Mrs. Cleveland and
Mrs. Folsom.
DR.. VIM. j. Cruice, of Philadelphia, and
Vivian M. Shaw, of Morristown, N. j., lost
their lives while bathing at Spring Lake, N.
J., on the 18th inst.
Sells Bros circus tent was wrecked at
Edna, Mo-, on the 18th, and several peo-
pie injured.
Quebec dispatches of the 18th report that
Rome has finally spoken upon the question
of the Knights of Labor. The society is
unequivocally condemned by the Holy See,
and the bishops of the church are enjoined
to proceed against it as against all the Sc
cret societies under the Papal ban.
Christine Nilsson was married at Paris
on the 18th to Count de Casa Mirandi, of
Spain.
The city of Louisville, KY, was treated
to a genuine sensation on the 18th by the
publication of three-column ar ticle show
ing that when Col. R. M. Kelly, for thirteen
years pension agent, retired from office in
March last, he was $685. $50 short in his
accounts.
Louise Michel was sentenced at Paris on
the 18th, to four months Imprisonment
and fine of 100 francs, for ''seditious
language" and ''inciting to murder during
the rioting at Decazeville on last May"
Six persons were drowned in Boston Har-
Dor on the 18th, during squall.
England has proclaimed protectorate
over the Ellice Islands in the South Pacific
Ocean.
Adolphus Parker, the 16-year-old train
robber, was pardoned, on the 10th, by the
governor OF Arkansas.
Six men were killed by the collapse OF a
railway tunnel in process OF construction
at New Ross, Ireland, on the 18th.
Frank Fl. Hamilton, the distinguished
surgeon, who attended President Garfield,
died at New York, on the 18th, after an i'll
ness which had confined him to his bed for
two weeks. The cause of his death was pull.
monary hemorrhage.
A cable message OF the 18th inst, from
Sierra Leone, announces the death OF the
Rev. Moses A. Hopkins, minister resident
and consul general from the United States
to Liberia.
At Conneaut, O., on the 18th, Mrs.
Slough the wife of laborer, went to the
river to wash, taking her three children
with her. One of the little ones fell into the
water and in the effort to rescue it the
mother and all the children were drowned.
The Dungannon Patriotic Union, of Dub
lin, will send a deputation of Loyalist
orators to the United States and Canada
to address public meetings throughout both
countries in the interest Of the Irish oppo.
sition to Home Rule.
John Powers, a wealthy cattle man, fell
from fourth story window at the ST.
James Hotel, at Kansas City, Mo-, on the
10th, and was killed. He was worth about
$500, 900, and leaves q family.
Prussia and the Vatican have signed a.
convention terminating the religious con-
troversy between them so far as it related
to all secondary matters and regulating
the presentation of benefces and appoint
ments to ecclesiastical seminaries in the
kingdom Of Prussia.
United States Minister Pendleton has re-
ceived furlough from his government. He
will 60 to Switzerland.
Several Minneapolis flour mills have been
forced to shut down because of too little
water.
The President has appointed Daniel Ma
gone, of Ogdensburg, n. Y, to be collector
of customs for the port of New York.
Ex-Gov. John W. Stevenson, of Ken
lucky, died on tee 10th, at his home in
Covington, KY, after a brief illness, aged
IA.
E.. A. Anderson, a farmer near Clinton
Mo-, has fed, leaving $21 900 debts.
The New York Lumber and Woodwork
ing Company's factory in One Hundred and
Thirty-fourth Street, was burned on the
9th. Loss, 100000; insurance, 100000.
Edwin Alden & Bro, newspaper adver-
tising agents at Cincinnati, made an assign
ment on the 9th. Nominal liabilities
| $192, 900, and nominal assets $272, 900.
| Gen. Grants memoirs have so far
brought in nearly half million for his
| family.
| Mr.. Gladstone, who was returned to the
House of Commons by both Midlothian and
| Leithburgs, will sit for the former district