Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-10

WH1aIn DdkeF 0 20. y dry goods eHtab
lishment, at Trenton, n. j.. was leveled by
fire on the I'd inst. Loss $4,000.
Fire broke out at Grand Haven, Mich,
on the 1st inst, in the Detroit, Grand
Haven " Milwaukee depot. and despite the
most strenuous efforts, the structure to-
gether with the elevator and q large num-
Der OF freight cars, was destroyed. The
loss will reach $25OOOO. The books of the
company were saved.
Jones' Hotel and several other buildings
at Jackson, Miss, burned on the LIST inst.
Loss estimated at $65,OOO insurance,
$4,000.
Fire at Brentwood, Tex, on the LIST
inst, caused a loss of $55, 900. Nearly the
entire town was swept away.
Deeds OF Blood.
Alexander GRADER, aged 65, committed
suicide by the laudanum route at the
Metropolitan Hotel at Council Bluffs. Ia,
on the 9th. His room was forced open at
noon, when he was found unconscious. All
attempts to revive him failed. He had
been an employe Of the Union Pacific Com
pany as check clerk for fifteen years.
Benjamin Phillips, a veteran, aged about
80, living with relatives near Bowling
Green, north of Findlay, O., committed
suicide by taking morphine on the 9Th
AT Bridgeport, Conn.,, on the 9Th inst,
Leonard Wood, of the firm of Hailett 81
Wood committed suicide by hanging.
Mrs: Marie Branbher, aged SO years, COM
mitted suicide, by jumping from the center
span Of High Bridge into the Harlem River.
at New York. on the 9Th. She was made
desperate by long continued illness.
Capt. James King, of the steamer DR..
George Mackey, opposite Augusta, KY,
struck W. L. Thomas on the head twice
with a hammer, inficting injuries which are
supposed to be fatal. The men had an
alteration about skiff.
j. b. Graham, of ST. Louis, and William
Lamb, OF Chicago, both drummers. quar-
relied in the dining room of the McClelland
Hotel, Galveston, Tex, on the night of the
4th inst. A fight ensued, in which Graham
drew revolver and shot Lamb fatally.
The trial OF Henry and Edward Kohout,
at New York, on charge Of murder in com.
mlttlng arson, was concluded on the 3d.
The jury found them guilty of arson in the
trst degree and the prisoners were SEN
fenced to state prison for life.
John Ralston, foreman Of the Journal lob
office, Dayton, o., for twenty years, COM
mitted suicide, on the LIST inst, by cutting
his throat with razor.
At Dora, Ind, on the night of the 1st.
Charles Pavey walked into a church where
a revival was in progress and shot William
Oates dead. Oates eloped with Pavey's
sister two years ago, and the couple had
Minor Mention.
At New Castle, Del, with the mercury in
the neighborhood of zero, five thieves were
dashed on their bare backs and a forger was
placed in the pillory for an hour
The Adams Tobacco Company, of Mon
treal, with liabilities of $175, 900, has gone
into liquidation.
The brig George W. Whitford, now fast
in the ice off Long Island, recently picked
up in the gulf stream fifteen men from the
wrecked Norwegian bark Catharina.
Sey eral poor persons in the City Of Mex
leo have died from exposure to the unusual
ly cold weather prevailing in that quarter
During q heavy fog at New Orleans the
British steamer Castle Craig refused to obey
her rudder and swung about until she had
done damage to five other vessels amount
ing to $4,000.
The French chamber of deputies, by a
vote of 347 to 116, has rejected the propo-
sition OF the Radicals to extend amnesty to
political offenders
The 2 800 mile contest between Weston
and O'Leary was finished at Chicago on the
evening OF the 9th. O'Leary gave up four
days previous. The winner gets 1000
and a share of the gate money.
While Frank Bowler was hunting rabbits
near Indianapolis, Ind, on the 7th inst,
his gun was accidentally discharged.
%.
and he died in few hours.
The Rev. Father William Fennelly, pastor
of a Roman Catholic church, at Oneida, n
T., for twenty years, was struck by the cars
at that place, on the 9Th inst and died in
thirty minutes. Father Fennelly was SO
years old.
While a sleighing party consisting OF
fourteen persons were crossing the railroad
track near Edgerton, O., on the night OF
10 \, h.
train. William Harker was fatally and the
others seriously hurt.
Two express trains collided near Will
Evansville, Mo-, on the 9Th. Engineer
Wallace, OF the Memphis train, and his fire
men were killed. Engineer Walker, of the
st. Louis train, was badly injured.
Two brothers named HARRISON sold their
wheat at Bartlett, a small town near Devils
Lake, d. L. When they started for home
both were intoxicated. They lost their way,
and one was frozen to death, while the other
was so badly FROST bitten that it was found
necessary to amputate both legs.
At Dillon Falls, five miles west from
GAINESVILLE, on the Baltimore & Ohio road,
one section of freight train crashed into
another on the night of the I'd. Charles
Sisk, of Newark conductor of the train run
into, was terribly mangled. Ed Trott,
brakeman, had leg broken.
serious collision, caused by a misplaced
switch, occurred at Staunton, Va, on the
Chesapeake & Ohio road, on the I'd. Two
engines and a number of cars were wrecked
and several men were hurt, but none fatal
ly.
At Douglastown, N. B., Annie Ramsey,
aged years, while coasting, slid into the
river. Her brother Robert aged 9 years,
and Harry Hutchinson, in trying to save
her, were also carried into the river. All
three were drowned.
The bank of Ritzinger Bros, Indian
apolis, suspended on the LIST inst. The
liabilities are placed at $35O,OOO
Mrs. Bayard, wife of Secretary Bayard,
died at Washington on the 31st. The re-
mains were taken to Wilmington, Del, for
interment.
Mrs. Katie Jenkins, an insane woman,
was burned to death at Gable, Champaign
County, O., on the LIST. She arose early
and in some way set fire to her clothing.
When found she was half mile from her
home lying in q snow drift. All her clothing
had been burned off, and her flesh burned
to a crisp
A MISSING Will.
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