Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24
Minor Mention.

stroke oil lightning at WatertOwn,
Conn.,, demolished q residence and killed
Sarah and Eliza McGaffey.
The case of the Knights Of Labor against
Rebecca Morgan, at Louisville, KY, has
been decided in favor of the plaintiff The
suit was to recover 50 900 insurance on the
life of Robert Morgan, which had been paid
to the defendant. It appeared at the trial
that Morgan had previous wife, to whom
tho money should have been paid, aud who
will now receive it.
Daniel Coyle, aged Is, lineman of the
Northern Electric Light Company, at Phila-
delphia, while repairing a broken wire, on
tho Goth received an electric shock which
killed him. Coyle was considered q careful
man.
The two.story residence Of Hill Branch,
at Brownwood, Tex, was destroyed by fire
az 8 year.o son of Mr.. Branch's per
ished in the flames. The father, in his ef-
burned that his life is despaired Of.
broken rail on the Erie G5 Wyoming
Valley Road, near Hoadley, Pa, threw q
passenger train from the track on the 2Oth
One man was killed and several seriously
injured.
A 6-year-old child OF Joseph Taylor, in
Clay County, Tennessee, shot and killed his
father while playing with pistol.
By an explosion OF natural gas at Muir.
raysvile, Pa, on the 10th, seven persons
were injured three fatally. The explosion
was followed by fire, which destroyed seven
dwelling houses.
Miss Abigail Bates died at Scituate,
Mass, on the 18th, aged 80 years. She
was one of the heroines who, during the
war OF 1912, prevented party of British
soldiers from landing at that place by hid
ing behind some bushes and vigorously
manipulating q fife and drum.
The remains OF Milton Fisher, of Column
bus, o., were Moderated in SIMPSONS
natural gas crematory, Pittsburg, on the
18th.
Chicago veterinarians anticipate another
outbreak of CHAMBERS in that city. A horse
belonging to Dyer 81 Clark, coal dealers
was shot on the 18th, and as the horses OF
the firm have been freely used, it is expected
the disease will spread.
The body of Aid. Smith, of Joliet, who
disappeared on New Years Eve in a mys-
terious manner, has been found floating in
a pond near the stone quarry of Porter &
Waters. His death appears to have been
accidental.
An order was issued on the 18th, placing
Gen. Pope on the retired list of the army.
W. B. GalDerath & Co., cotton factors,
ct Memphis, Tenn, suspended on the 18th.
Liabilities, $73, 900; assets, $1O1, 900.
The much talked of anti-Socialist bill and
Bismarck 8 spirit monopoly bill have both
Doen killed. IN Une herman ho1cnSCag.
Tuthill King, the recently Unmarried Chica-
go octogenarian, died at Thomasville, Ca,
on the 18th, of pneumonia.
The boiler used at Hicks coal shaft, on
the Pittsburg & Western Railroad, exploded
on the 10Th. VIM. Banes, engineer, and Jo-
seph Elsenor, fat trimmer were buried in
the debris. Elsenor died in a short time.
Banes was terribly scalded, and his skull
fractured. He cannot recover.
At Limetown, Pa, on the 18th, the boiler
of the pumping-boat at the Hilldale coal
works exploded, fatally scalding VIM Fare,
the engineer. The boat was badly dam
aged
Ex-Gov. William Irwin, Of California died
in San Francisco on the 18th, after a brief
illness.
A disease resem bling epizootic is raging in
the vicinity Of Canton, O. Over 8, 900 peo-
pie are afflicted, butno deaths are reported
| violent shock of earthquake disturbed
| Wiesbaden, the celebrated German water
| ing place, on the night of the 14th.
| Ex-Gov. Holm, of Louisiana, member of
the House of Representative, died suddenly
at Wizards Hotel, Washington, on the
morning of the 18th, from hemorrhage of
the lungs. He was under medical treat
ment.
| Madrid, Spain, was shaken by slight
earthquake on the 18th. The shock lasted
seven seconds.