Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-12-04
MINOR NEWS NOTES.

CITY, Mo-, under the Christian Science
treatment.
The residence of ex-Mayor Thomp-
son, of Detroit, was Quilted by fire. The
loss is $4,000.
Samuel Wilkinson. secretary of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company,
died in New York OF heart failure.
Medicine Bird was fatally cut with
Ratchet by Tom Thompson, another In
dian, on the reservation opposite Cham
berlain, S. d.
dwelling near Belle Isle, was burned
with $4,000 gallons of wine. Loss. $45,-
600, with SIS, 900 insurance.
Mai. John d. Rogers, solicitor of the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, died at
Lexington, Va, from injuries received
in railroad collision in August last.
China has given an order for thirty
six new guns for her northern forts.
A plot to assassinate Herr Tisza, Hun
garian prime minister. has been dis
closed.
The public debt decreased during No
vember $4, S69,672.
Nineteen of the crew of the American
ship Cheeseborough were drowned In
Chinese waters.
A large meat packing establishment
will be started at Buenos Ayres by an
English syndicate, to be managed by
George Brougham. Chicago packer:
Prot. Zdekaner, one of the leading
his belief that the influenza now preva-
lent in st. Petersburg is the forerunner
of cholera. Similar signs, he says, pre-
coded the Last five cholera epldemics
there.
The Russian minister of the interior
la preparing a scheme to check the In
creasing immigration into Russia, espe-
cially of Germans.
The North German Lloyd Steamship
Company will start freight service be-
tween Bremen and New York in March
next. Eight steamers will be placed on
the new line.
The London Times is devoting good
deal OF space lately to an agitation of
the Alaska seal fishery question. The
government is urged not to acquiesce in
States which will completely exclude
British interests from the benefits Of the
sealeries. The claim of the United
States that Behring Sea is American
water solely is deliberately contradicted
by the Times, the old arguments on the
opposite side of the question being
brought forward in strong array.
The annual report of Admiral Porter
shows that mos ot the ships Of the navy
are in good condition.
The Pacheco Athletic Club, of Cali
fornia, has offered John L. Sullivan
$50, 900 to fight Jackson.
The Truth building at Toronto, Ont,
was Quilted by fire. Loss 500, 600.
Prot. Gilbert Levette, ex-state. geolo-
gist of Indiana. committed suicide.
Ill n OF
the castle at Breslau. Emperor William
was present. and proposed toast to the
Count.
The Gear and Czarina are suffering
from influenza, which is epidemic at st.
Petersburg.
A brick building, five stories high and
800 feet long, belonging to the Hartford
Carpet Company's plant at Thomp-
sonville, Conn.,, was destroyed by ire.
The loss is $4,000 with insurance of
$175, COO. The cause of the fire was
spontaneous combustion.
The police of Winnipeg have discov-
cred that a man named lngils, who act
ed as custodian of the relief fund raised
in Spokane Falls at the time of the big
fire there, was in that city few days
ago. Inglis skipped out with $40, 900 or
more of the funds last summer and ls
now scattering his i,l-gotten gains in
Canada. He put in few lively days in
Winnipeg and started Tor Toronto.
Michael Kennedy killed his wife with
an axe at Syracuse, n. Y.
The Pacific Express Company's safe
in the Office at Fort Worth, Tex, was
robbed of $500.
Eight men have been arrested at Ard
more. l. T., for the robbery OF che Santa
Fe train Monday night.
A tremendous landslide occurred at
Sentenberg. Brandenburg, completely
choking up two SHAFTS and entom blng a
number of miners, whose rescue alive
is doubtful.
There were $50 persons present at the
American Thanksgiving DINNER in Ber-
lin.
The Bristol dockmen have struck,
owing to the merchants having given
notice that they would lock out the
timber runners ii they refused to work
with foreign crews.
There are 1900 dockmen and lighter
men on strike The trade of the port is
paralyzed.
The Invalide Russo, of st. Petersburg,
says that Russia is forming two flying
mortar artillery parks and two field and
two local mortar parks.
A explosion took place in a colliery at
Bochum on the 28th. by which ourteen
persons were killed ard tour injured.
The editor OF the Pctsdsmer Zeitung
is being tried for insulting the emperor
in stating that he recently rode in a
second-class CAB.
Whites drapery establishment at
Aldershot WAS burned on the 18th. The
loss is 100000.
Count Arco- Valley, the German min
lister to the United States. is g guest of
Prince Bismarck.
DIR. Volckmann, the famous surgeon
of Halle. is dead.
Alfred NJ. Hoyt cad others, Of Chica-
go. obtained judgment Of So, 799. 46
ainst the st. Paul road.
The bark Germania was wrecked of
Long Branch and the captain and eight
OF the crew drowned.