Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-02
MINOR NEWS NOTES.

The free school question is to be agi-
tated in England to harass the party in
power.
Ten men were killed by an explosion
in colliery at Hamburg on-the- Rhine
on the 2Sth.
Admiral Kimberly has arrived at
Honolulu. He will make the Nipsic his
| flagship.
| Nellie Ewing and Mamie Lee, each
aged Is, of Mount Vernon, O., eloped
with boy companions.
Capt. w. r. Jones, general manager
| of the Edgar Thomson Steel Works,
died from injuries received in the re-
| cent accident at that plant.
Secretary Rusk says the new process
| for making sorghum is not a success.
c. A. Plllsbury denies that a syndi-
| cate has purchased the Pllsbury mills.
A syndicate has been formed to man.
| ufacture steel rails at Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Two London syndicates have invested
000O,O QUO in industrial enterprises in
the United States.
The Brotherhood of Base Ball Players
leased grounds in New York at an an
nual rental of $24, 900.
The investigation of the Rochester,
Mimi, asylum resulted in Supt. Bow
ers' exoneration and his resignation.
The Illinois Steel Company is talking
of connecting :ts plant with the harbor
by means of q ship canal.
At Waterloo, Ia, on the 29th, Law
yer Billings was again found guilty OF
the death of handsome young W. l..
Kingsley, the alleged paramour of
Billings wife. This was the second
trial. The verdict is murder in the Sec
ond degree, with penalty of imprison-
ment for at least ten years.
Ignatz N. Morgenstein, general secre-
tary of the Polish National Alliance, has
embezzled $12, 900 of the funds of the
order.
Five persons were drowned in pond
at Fall River, Mass, on the 9th, by the
| upsetting of boat.
The st. Louis express train was ditched
near Palatine, N. Y, on the 9th, and
several persons killed.
At Baltimore on the Goth, the Mary
land Democrats nominated L. Victor
Baughman, of Frederick County, for
state comptroller.
The Duke of Coimbia, brother of the
king of Portugal, is dead. He was born
November 4, 1847, and was a general OF
division and inspector general OF cav
| airy.
The Mexican Consul at Antwerp, who
com mitted suicide recently, was ruined
by losses at the gaming tables.
There is sadness in Switzerland be-
cause of the wholesale destruction of
the grape and tobacco crops by an I'M
timely frost in the valleys.
Four Italians have been arrested at
Trieste on suspicion of having been con-
cerned in the recent bomb explosion.
Three men were killed by an expios-
ion of a powder mill near Pottsville, Pa,
on the 26th.
Cormick were married at Richfield
Springs, N. Y, on the 26th.
By the fall of n furnace Of molten
| metal at Carnegie's works at Pittsburg,
on the Goth, eighteen men were terribly
burned.
The Paris municipal commission has
decided that the votes cast for Gen.
Boulanger, In Montmartre, in the recent
elections are null and void, and has de-
clared NJ. Joffrin, the labor candidate,
who received the next highest number
of votes, elected. The commission has
also nullified the votes cast ior Henri
Rochefort, in Belleville. The commits
sion confirmed the election of Count
Dillon for the department of Morbihan.
The New York Republican conven-
ton at Saratoga nominated the follow
ing ticket: Secretary of state, John I.
Gilbert, of Malone; comptroller, Mar
tin w. Cook, of Monroe; state treas
urer, Ira w. Hedges, of Rockland; at
torney general, Gen. James M. Var
mum, of New York; state engineer,
William P. Van Rensselaer,, of Seneca;
judge of the court of appeals, Judge a.
Haignt, OF Buffalo.
Massachusetts Republicans on the
25th nominated-J. q. A. Bracket tor
governor and Henry B. Pierce for Sec
rotary of state.
James r. Chalmers is the nominee OF
the Mississippi Republicans for COVER
nor.
European newspapers fear that the
conference of Americ states at Wash
ington will result In giving the United
States monopoly OF South American
trade.
Edward M. Walworth descended in
balloon into lake near CooperstoWn,
N. Y, and was drowned.
The parachutist, LIE Roux, in descend
ing from balloon at Revel, on the Oath,
tell into the sea and was drowned.
The Leeds News says that Mr.. Will
lam Ell. Smith, the first lord of the treas
ury, anonymously paid for church re-
Gently at Portsea, the cost of which was
s22, 600.
A bill has been introduced in the
Dutch parliament allowing vessels en-.
gagged in the coast trade in the Dutch
East Indies, and sailing under a foreign
flag, to ship cargoes of sugar cane.
A fire broke out at noon on the 23d in
the lumber yards of Buckley & Doug
las, at Manistee, Mich. The entire city
and mill fire departments were called
into service. Nearly 100000 feet of
lumber and other property was con-
sumed.
The secretary of state of Illinois has
issued a License to incorporate the
Electric Street Railway Company, at
Chicago; capital stock 100000; to build
and operate street railways.
The will of the late S. S. Cox has been
filed for probate. The instrument gives
all his estate, real and personal, to his
widow.
The third annual corn palace carnival
at Sioux City, Ia, opened on the Esd
with the usual tirst-day attendance.
The formal opening occurred in the
evening with an address by President
Erwin, of the Corn Palace Association,
and J. M. Thurston, of Omaha, tempo
rary chairman of the last Republican
national convention.
The emperor of China and his council
are debating a memorial for the ex-
pulsion of Americans from the empire.