Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-12-18
MINOR NEWS NOTES.

| suicide at Crow Creek agency by shoos-
| ing mself.
Nine cars of merchandise and stock
! were destroyed by wreck on the Chi
cago & Atlantic road.
| Frank B. Hyde, of Hutchinson, kas.,
| attempted to kill Mrs w. B. Ehler, and
| failing, committed suicide.
| The Roston Herald is DESTROYS of get
ting.up match between oarsmen tor
the worlds championship, now that
| Searle is dead. .s,.
Mrs. e. E. Doolittle, q dressmaker OF
| Cedar Rapids, a., swallowed poison
and died, because DR.. Raymer would
not marry her. She was insane.
Charles Marchant, of Kansas City,
Mo-, has been held by the coroner's
| Jury for setting fire to the Oklahoma,
in which q man was burned to death:
| Judge Ambrose Fl. Mcneil, of New
York, who was implicated as counsel
| with Sheriff Flack in his notorious dl-
vcrce suit, died from what is believed
to be grief over the affair.
G. B. Hamilton, president OF the
American Sugar Company. denies that
the company induced various Kansas
| townships to vote the company bonds
| to build sugar factories.
/ The Board of Health of Newton, l.. l.,
has made report as to the healthful-
| ness of q horse-fesh sausage factory 10
Gated there. finding that it is not null
sance, that the horse-f1esh used Is tree
| from disease, and that the sausage is
shipped to France.
An attempt was made to rob the
Great Falls National Bank, at Great
Falls, N. Ell. Just as Cashier Stickney
had closed the vault two men seized
him, and when he said the vault could
not be opened until the hour fixed by
| the time lock, they took his watch anu
So in money.
| An immense pilgrimage to Rome has
been organized by Dutch, Hungarian
and Austrian Catholics, the vanguard of
| which is expected to arrive at the vati-
can shortly.
Hattie Sang and Minnie Snyder, two
| girls of Is, were sentenced to two years
each in the penitentiary at Wooster, Q.
Recently they robbed store and being
asked for an explanation said they
wanted to do something devilish."
Johnstown, Pa, lost temporary
orldge and suffered slight damage to its
streets by an overflow of the Cone
| maugh.
Bismarck is said to be angry at the
vote exempting theological students
from military duty.
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him guilty of assault, not prize-fghting.
| Four men were killed near Wash
| ington by the Congressional Limited ex-
press.
Sir Randolph Churchill gives his sup
port to the eight-hour movement. Glad
ktone is non-cOmmlttal.
The Exchange elevator, Buffalo,
n. Y, burned with 100000 bushels OF
barley.
The Marquis De Caux, formerly the
husband of Adelina Patti, is dead.
The Swiss Federal Council has de-
clined to grant the request of the strik-
| ing printers to mediate between them
and their employers.
Great excitement has been caused in
Berlin by the arrest of woman occupy
ing an exalted position in society on
the well-sustained charge of being
procuress.
There has been an explosion in the
Belmez mines, in Spain. Fifteen in
iured persons have been brought to the
mouth of the pit. The number of dead
is unknown, but it is thought to be
large.
The strike on the Cascade branch of
| the Northern Pacific road is at an end.
Carer Wilkinson was hanged at
Plaquemine, La, for the murder Or his
wife
w. B. Allen, well-known engineer
on the Georgia Pacific Railroad, is dead.
The Star Distillery at Pekin, ILL.,, was
burned. The loss is $40, 900; insurance,
| $4,000.
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, during
the year past has lost 729 members. The
| receipts were $44,082.
10 trace of Boatman Dillon, who was
blown out to sea, has been found. Dill
lon Left a wife and four children.
Mrs. Jackson, sister to Dictionary
| Webster, is dead In Middletown, n. Y,
where her brother once taught school.
ent of public instruction of Pennsyl-
vania, died at his home in Lancaster,
| that state, aged 50 years.
The will of Thomas Cochran, the New
York millionaire. divides his estate
among relatives in different parts OF the
country. Two nieces in New York are
left 5000 each and valuable works of
art.
During the absence Of James Melon
aid, farmer living near Grand Rapids,
Mich, farm hand named Gilmore
strangled Mrs. Mcdonald and then COM
mitted suicide. Gilmore was In love
with Mrs. Mcdonald.
Despite the amnesty declared in Crete
| be ore the authorities there in chains
and beaten witk canes.
Edward Bradley, more commonly
known as Cuthbert Bede, is dead. He
| was contributor to nearly all the En-
glish periodicals.
| The conductors, switchmen and brake
men on the Cascade Division of the
Northern Pacific road are on strike.
| A late dispatch from Lisbon says Dom
Pedro will refuse to abdicate In favor OF
| his grandson.
Frederick Krupp, the head of the
great metal and gun foundry, has estab-
lished fund of 100000 to enable his
employees to build their own houses.
| 1t is reported that Russia will appoint
| Prince Louis Bonaparte TO a regiment
stationed in the Caucasus.
| The London Standard has infOrma-
| ton that Stanley will visit the Emperor
! of Germany in Berlin, in accordance
with the Emperor's invitation, imme-
diately after his return to London.
The American legation at CONSTANT
nople has decided to demand the trial
of Moussa Bey for the murder of mis-
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