Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-09-18
MINOR NEWS NOTES.

MINOR NEWS NOTES.
The main hall of the st. Joseph (Mo.)
| Exposition burned, with all it's contents.
Loss, $250,000.
The unexpended relief fund for John
stown, Pa, amounts to 81 $3.50, 456.
| The Chicago exposition was damaged
$40, 900 by fire, on the night of the 18th.
| While Sunday school services were
being held in a small frame church, five
miles south of Columbia City, Ind, on
the 10th, lightning struck the spire and
coursed down through the roof, striking
and instantly killing two girls, both aged
II, who were sitting together in the
center of their class. The other ten
| children in the class were badly
stunned, but not seriously injured.
A committee of fifteen appointed at
YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, for the purpose has de-
cided to ask Congress for aid in clean
ing out the rivers III the vicinity. On
an average two bodies are found a day.
The Wild West show in Paris is in the
fifth successful month, and is turning
people away at every performance.
The attendance at the Paris exhibition
now averages 10000.
During the past few days twelve per-
sons have died from trichinosis in the
town of Eiseleben, Prussian Saxony.
Eighteen others are reported to be dy-
ing from the same disease.
Searle, who defeated O'Connor on
Monday for the sculling championship
of the world, has challenged O'COnnOr
to meet him again and has also issued a
| challenge to Gaudaur.
| The latest government report con-
corning the wheat crop of France shows
that 100000 hectares were sown this
year, against 6,97S, 1874 hectares last year.
It is estimated that the yield will be
| Ill ,460, 218 hectolitres, against SO, 740, 728
hectolitres in 1888.
The Vatican will publish the COR
| respondence of Pope Plus TX. with Ma
poleon III. and the Prussian govern
ment in 1870 with reference to the Ital-
| ian occupation of Rome.
Twenty three Hungarians who took
part in the riot at Uniontown, Pa, were
each sentenced to q year in the work
| house.
Joe McAuliffe defeated Pat Killen in
a fight which lasted seven rounds at
San Francisco on the 11th.
The approximate gross earnings of
the Atchison Railroad system for Aug
ust were $2.3l7 ,S7l, against 81, 305, 9O4 for
the same period in 1888.
| a scheme is annouced for the con-
struction of ship canal between Edin-
burgh and: Glasgow.lJ he capital is placed
at s7 100000.
mob of 100 men broke open the jail
at Morganton, n. c., at o'clock on the
morning of the 18th, took out Franklin
Stack, a white man, and David Boone,
a negro, and hanged them. Stack am
pushed Robert Parker, q student at col
lege, who killed Stacks brother, some
months back, and Boone shot and
killed man at camp meeting. The
people of Morganton propose to ferret
out the lynchers and punish them.
| M. c. Mcdonald has entered suit at
Chicago for divorce from his wife, Mary
G. Mcdonald. who ran away with Father
| Moysant, a Catholic priest, and went to
Europe. The bill charges adultery with
Moysant at divers times and places pre-
vlOus to her elOpement; also gives par
| ticulars of her abandonment of home
| and declares her woman unit to care
| for the two children, the custody OF
| whom the complainant asks the court to
grant him.
Agitator Burns complains because the
American workingmen have sent no
aid to the London strikers.
The Democrats of New Jersey on the
10th renominated Leon Abbott for gov
| w. T., Samuel Wheelwrlght, of Tacoma,
and Thomas G. Griffiths, of Spokane,
were named for Congress, and ex-Gov.
Eugene Semple for governor.
| The London Chronicles Berlin CORE
spondent says it is reported that the
new German army bill will involve the
expenditure of 2UO,0OO.0O marks.
A dispatch from Vienna to the Times
says confrmatory advices have been
received there concerning the reported
massing of large forces of Russian
l.
ish frontier.
| The annual returns show that 1884
| persons emigrated from Ireland during
the past year.
1t is known that the official report of
the explosion and fire in Antwerp un-
| derrated the mum Der of those who lost
their lives. There were l06 persons
killed and 70 wounded. Many of the
oldest windows in the cathedral were
destroyed by the explosion. The bod
, les ofnumerous victims were blown to
pieces, including those of five English
visitors to the city.
gave banquet on the 9th in honor of
Mr.. Thomas A Edison. The affair was
brilliant success.
Eight thousand Czechs in wilma, Rus
STA, have recently forsaken the Roman
Catholic faith and joined the Greek
Church.
The Shah of Persia has bestowed the
grand cross of the Order OF the Sun and
of the Lion upon M. Alphand, the dis
tingueshed French engineer. M. Bou-
ward has been appointed grand officer
of the same order.
Mrs. Langtry gave the initial perform
ance of her provincial tour at Wolver-
hampton, England, on the 9th. She ap-
peared in Esther Sandrasse," and was
accorded an enthusiastic reception.
RELIGIOUS RIOTERS SHOT.