Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-23


and attempted suicide in the same man
ner.
The bakers at Newark, N. j., are on a
strike.
st. Paul will have an ice palace,
weather permitting.
Natural gas wells have been struck at
Salem, S. D., and at Charters, Pa.
Fifty persons were injured in col
lision of trains near Omaha on the 10Th.
The twenty sixth annual convention
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers began at Denver on the 10th.
Ex-President Hayes was reelected
commander-in-chie of the Loyal Lee
gion of the United States.
James q. Blaine. Jr., confessed ludg-
ment in New York for 1928. 65, for med
ical attendance for his wife.
During his visit in Berlin, the Gar
gave 1U0, 1000 marks for the poor of Ber-
lin.
Emperor William witnessed the per-
Torrance of Wilbrandt's play, MAR
grave Waldemar," in the Berlin Thea
ter on the 10Th. He sent for the actor
Barnay and conversed with him for
twenty minutes in the royal box. He
praised the efforts of Herr Barnay to
make historical, and especially patriotic
plays, known to the people.
The Gar and Grand Duke George
went to Neufahrwasser on the 10Th and
walked on the quay, from which the
public was excluded. During the pass
ing OF the Gar through Stettin the rail-
way station was closed and traffic was
stopped in the adjoining streets. which
were occupied by troops.
Vice-Admiral Bartsch has written an
article for the Hamburg Correspondent
advocating ship canal to Berlin. 1t is
stated that Count Won Moltke approves
the project.
The Nebraska Democratic state con-
venton nominated the following ticket:
For judge of the supreme court, John
H. Ames, of Lincoln; for regents of the
State University, w. /. McKenna, of
Adams County, and P. w. Hess, of
Platte County.
At New York, on the 18th, Luigi
Mrs. O'Brien and babe fell from the
roofs of tenements and were instantly
killed.
Congressman Nutting, of Oswego, N
Y, who resigned few days ago, died
on the 14th.
Leasing, Solomon & Rosenthal, q
wholesale dry goods firm at Waco, Tex,
failed.
Claude Marks and Sidney Woolfe,
proprietors of the Mining Record, and
Mr.. Maux, writer of the Financial
Times, London, have been arrested on
warrant charging them with threaten
ing to publish libel with intent to ex-
tort money.
The floods in the Tyrol have in
creased, causing enormous damage. In
consequence Emperor Francis Joseph
has been obliged to postpone his jour-
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Sir Julian Pauncefote says that he
will call on Secretary Blaine to discuss
the Canadian fisheries and Behring Sea
interests.
Paul Mcbride, son of a st. Louis law
yer, shot and killed Frank Lotus, a
member of the fire department, for
some fancied insult. Mcbride was
drunk.
BY the capsizing of the schooner
Laura in the East River, New York,
William Jackson, James Hughes and
Alexander Christie were drowned, and
Capt. Mclean and James Lawler severe
ly injured.
The Central Railroad of Guatemala is
in course of sale to a French syndicate.
Quartermaster Stowe, of Admiral
Conn.,, is short s., 600 in his accounts.
There is great excitement at Pelee
Island, Lake Erie, over case of small
pox. Over 100 persons have been ex-
posed.
Ex-Mayor Lester Green, of Bloom
ington, ILL.,, eloped with Mrs. Baker,
the wife of a locomotive engineer. The
couple took about $500 with them.
Both leave families.
Harry Franklin, prisoner confined
in Jail at Hillsboro, ILL.,, made desper-
ate attempt at escape. He attacked the
sheriff with slung-shot made ola towel
and powdered glass. The sheriff kept
franklin from killing him by using his
from loss of blood and was carried to his
cell.
DR.. Tett killed E. G. Collins, at Mich
olson, Miss, and Collins brother-in-law
killed Tett.
A banquet was given in Berlin to the
Princess Sophie, who is about to marry
the Crown Prince of Greece.
It has been decided to make October
18. the birthday of the la:e Emperor
Frederick, national holiday in Ger
many.
At Winchester, KY, on the 14th, Rich
ard Clark, son of James Clark, who died
while governor Of Kentucky, was sent
to the poor-house. He has been for
years q COuuTuGu NIuuk&TO. SldIk 1S ~
brother-in law Of Senator Beck and is a
man of fine education.
The Italian government has declared
protectorate over Abyssinia.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British min
lister, and family, has arrived in New
York from Liverpool.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will establish line OF steel steamers be-
tween Duluth and New York.
New York was left in almost total
darkness by the shutting off of the cleo
trio lights by the electric companies on
the night of the 18th.
The Swiss Federal Council is on the
track of various official abuses in high
places and to remedy one of them has
introduced bill making it unlawful for
a member of the Council to hold any
other salarled Office. The bill will be
passed at once.
The entire upper portion of the Prov
ince of Corinthia, in Anstro- Hungary,
has been inundated by foods rush ing
from the mountains and the important
city of Klagenfort, the capital of the
province, is under water to the depth of
several feet.