Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
Minor Mention.

jeffrey Gervier, of Gloucester. Mass, mas
ter Of the fishing schooner Racer, has been
arrested for barratry, on the statement OF
a lady passenger.
Capt. Howard. of the Connecticut militia,
who commanded the Gatling guns used by
the Canadian forces in the Rielrebellion, de.
MES the rumOr that he scalped g. dead In
dian, but admits that he clipped a lock.from
the head of young White Cap.
A coach containing seven ladies and
children was overturned, near Burlington,
VT, on the I'd inst, and was set on fire by
the breaking of kerosene lantern. All the
occupants were badly burned, Mrs. Revar
receiving terrible injuries.
The hay-rake factory of A. W. Coates &
Co., at Alliance, o., has been seized by the
sheriff.
Patrick Cain, boy ole, drank so much
whisky on New Years day that he died
from the effects the following night.
Early on the morning of the I'd inst, the
body OF a strange man was found on the
track of the Lake Shore Road, near Glen
vile, 0. The remains were terribly mangled.
In pocket was found letter in which the
writer said she had applied for divorce.
1t was addressed to j. B. Neal and signed
Annie Neal.
A dispatch from Eureka, CAL, of the LIST
reports the iron steamer City of Chester
aground off that place. The vessel was
valued at 100000. The passengers were
safely landed.
w. III. Mcneil president of the Lancaster
National Bank, Boston, has disappeared,
and is supposed to be in Canada. The bank
suspended on the LIST. Mcneil is accused OF
embezzling 100000.
Miss Elizabeth Van Worst. aged 65, a
member of prominent New York family,
was burned to death on the LIST inst, by
her clothing catching fire from the CRATE.
She was an invalid and was alone in the
room at the time.
Eph Beasley, wellto-do farmer of Will
son County, Tenn, accidentally killed his
son, aged years, on the 31st. Mr.. Beas-
ley, who is very near-sighted, was chopping
wood. when his son came in front of him
and was struck by the axe, splitting his
skull
William Baker, president of the Tappan,
McKillop Co., mercantile agency, Chica-
go, and publisher of the Journal of Com
merce, suspended on the 31st. His total
liabilities are placed at 100000.
Eugene Scharrer & Co., London. West In
dia merchants, suspended on the 31st.
Their liabilities are 100000. Assets, nil.
Hansel d Webster, dealers in sugar and
molasses, New Orleans, made an assign
ment, on the 31st, of their property to
their creditors. The liabilities are about
100000. The nominal assets are re-
ported to be somewhat in access of the liza
bilities.
: Conductor Meredith was killed and sew
eral Others injured by collision of freight
trains on the Wabash road at RENDERS
station on the both.
A New York policeman, named John
Leisner and a recently discharged member
OF the fire department, were arrested on the
goth, charged with knocking down and
robbing a drunken man. The crime was
discovered through the attempts of one OF
the robbers to negotiate for the return OF
the victim s gold watch.
Engineer James Rambo was fatally in
iured, and Geo. Mutt, fireman, seriously, by
the derailing OF freight train on the Balti-
more Central road on the BOTH
The fourth member of the Feldt family,
at Streator, ILL.,, a girl of IL years, died
from trichiniasis on the 2Sth. The father
is not expected to recover.
Mrs. John Bernaski was fatally burned
at Shamokin, Pa, on the night of the 9th,
by explosion of kerosene lamp. Several
Others were more or less hurt in jumping
from the windows. The house was totally
DESTROYED.