Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-12-11
MINOR NEWS NOTES


to Berlin and Vienna.
The Northern Pacific Company paid
Mme- Nelson $4,000 in settlement for
her suit for damages for injuries re-
| ceived in all accident.
| Casper Clispy killed his sweetheart
and her father and then committed
| suicide, at st. Louis.
Michael Schefer was arrested at Min
| neGpOlis and con essed to having COM
mitted double murder in Germany.
| Fire on the 9Th destroyed the five
Street, New York. Firemen Living
ston and Vincent were overcome by
smoke, but were rescued. Following
are the estimated losses: Simpson,
| Hall d Miller, dealers in silverware,
| 50 900; Dempsey d Carroll, printers
and stationera, 100000; Morse Kahn,
chocolate manufacturer, $4,000; F. w.
Staaier, importer of French satin, $780,
COO. The building, which is owned by
Henry Maillard, choc late manufAc-
turer, was damaged $25. 90. All the
LOSES are covered by insurance.
The large seven story Touring mill in
Lockport, N. Y, owned by Saxton &
| Thompson, of Troy, was destroyed by
bushels Of wheat and about Z 900 barrels
of flour in the mill. A big portion of
the wheat ran into the canal. The
canal bridge adjacent to the mill was
| ruined. The total loss is estimated at
$25o, 900; insurance about 100000.
The total shipments OF iron ore from
Lake Superior ports the past season
were 6.SO4 ,51l tons.
Ernst Prussing, Of Chicago, bequeath-
ed $1,000 to the National German
American seminary, of Milwaukee.
Henry r. Barker, Republican, was
cleo ed mayor of Providence, r. /.
The Dempsey Athletic Club, Of Fargo,
S. d., offers Sullivan $4,000 to fight
JACKSON.
The new Haytien minister to the
United States arrived in New York, and
denied the rumors OF an uprising against
Hyppolite.
| Commodore Mitchell, who command
ed the Wyoming before the war and
later entered the Confederate navy,
died at Richmond.
In a courtroom fracas at Dallas, Tex,
Alex. Pope, an attorney in divorce
case, was MORALLY, and two other at
torneys slightly wounded.
| Alfred Keudler, the head of the Wen
ma banking firm of that name, which
failed recently, has been arrested on
the charge OF embezzlement.
| W. lives NcIS lObb NV VIC
of the Minor House at East Tawas,
Mich.
| Three Apache Indians, who were to
be hanged at Florence, Ari., on the
9Th, committed suicide.
| The total amount of insurance in
volved in the Thanksgiving Day fire at
Boston as officially reported to date, is
81, 304 800.
| Duing snowstorm in Hungary five
| persons persisted on the river Waag.
S.r Percy Florence Shelley, son of
Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, is dead,
aged 20 years.
A large number of officials of strategic
| railroads in Russia have been dismissed
and their places tilleI with army Off
| GERS.
A sugar mill in the village of Swollen
loves, near Prague, in which 1850 tons
o. sugar were stored, collapsed. Eight
persons were killed and many others
| injured.
Fire started in the drying kilns at
Pullman, Ill.,, on the 4th and spread
| rapidly into other departments Of the
car works. Assistance was asked from
| Chicago, and the flames were soon got
ten under control. Loss, $100, 900; fully
insured.
Charles Richter, Chicago murderer,
was sentenced to seventeen years in
prison for manslaugL ter.
Moussa Bey, accused of committing
| outrages in Crete, was acquitted.
Judge David j. Brewer, of Missouri,
was appointed Justice of the United
States supreme court to succeed the
late Justice Matthews.
The factory and warehouse of the
Western Sash q Door Company, in
Kansas City, Kas., were destroyed by
fire on the Sd. The inflammable nature
of the buildings and contents rendered
loss is about $48 900; insurance, $50 600.
Mr. Whitelaw Reid and Mrs. Reid
have gene to the South of France. They
will also visit Rome and will be absent
from Paris for month.
There are $4,000 persons suffering
from influenza in st. Petersburg. The
malady affects the people more or less
in all towns in Russia.
One thousand Lynn workmen have
registered as out Of work. Thirty-seven
thousand dollars has been contributed
to relieve the sufferers.
A dozen Connecticut postmasters ar
rested for violation of the postal laws
by selling postage stamps on credit,
have been fined $50 each and costs.
Mrs. G.. P. Mills, vile of the Episco-
pal minister at Kalamazoo, Mich, ad-
ministered poison to her babe and then
Gu: her throat. Both will die.
Samuel Spencer cut his throat in Al
bany, n. Y, because he was poor. and
when he was dead $500 in gold and
bank credits for $4,000 were found about
him.
Cyrus Fillmore, brother Of ex-Presi-
dent Fillmore, died at his residence
near La Grange, Ind, OF typhoid fever.
aged 81 years. His wife, who is IS
years old, is dangerously sick. Mr..
Fillmore leaves large fortune.
DR.. Charles Stamford, late of Cam
bridgeport, Mass, was found guilty of
the procurement of criminal abortion
upon Miss Nellie Martin, from the eff
fects of which she died. He was
sentenced to prison for thirteen years.
New York was surprised on the I'd
when the district attorney stated in
court he had no evidence to convict
Josh" Mann and his mother. Mrs.
Swinton, indicted for conspiring with
Eva Hamilton to defraud Robert Ray
Hamilton. Mrs. Swinton swooned
when she heard she was free.
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