Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-09-25
MINOR NEWS NOTES,

cow glass plants in Illinois, being those
at Rock Island, Ottawa and Streator.
The United Company will operate these
works hereafter.
The German government will soon
notify England that Germany regards
herself bound by the stipulations of the
London Sugar convention, unless the
In which case Germany reserves the
right of acting for her own interests.
A Portland, Ore, dispatch of the 22d
says: During the past thirty hours
heavy rains have prevailed generally
through the valleys and have extln-
guished the forest fires which have been
raging around Portland in several locali-
ties.
The British warship Lily sank off st.
Johns, N. F., on the Goth, with seven
men.
Marshall Field has subscribed 100000
to the Chicago Worlds Fair guarantee
fund.
The steamer City of Detroit, with 200
passengers on board, came very near
laundering in storm on Lake Erie on
the 10th.
The steamer Florence foundered in
the Irish Sea on the Goth, while en-
route from Garston to Belfast. Nine
persons were drowned.
The marquis of Londonderry, the re-
firing lord-leutenant of Ireland, in a
speech at Stockton. said that he be-
lieved twenty years of coercion would
pacify Ireland.
John Burns and other leaders have
signed a manifesto on behalf of the Ma
tional Federation of Labor Unions invlt-
ing all workmen to join in order to pro-
tect themselves against the masters
com binatlons.
Lawson TAFT, the eminent gynecolo-
gist, in an interview said he was of the
opinion that the Whitechapei, Chelsea
and Battersea murders were committed
by the same criminal, probably luna
house, and subject to fits Of epileptlc fu-
ror.
The Iowa Democratic state conven-
ton, which met at Sioux City on the
18th, nominated Horace Boies, of Wat
erloo, for governor; S. L. Bestow, Of
Charlton, Lucas County, Tor lieutenant
governor; Judge w. Fl. Brannon, of
Muscatine, for supreme Judge, long and
short terms; Th omas Irish, of Dubuque,
for superintendent of public instruction,
and David Morgan, of Poweshiek, for
railroad commissioner.
1t is reported that Miss LIE Caron, the
daughter of the English spy, has writ
ten letters to a young man in Chicago,
in which she declares that the real MUIR
derers of DR.. Cronin have not yet been
caught.
The death at Purvis, Miss, of Robert
L. Scarborough, bondsman for Sullivan
and Kilrain, will require the making of
new bond.
Miss Louise Shoemaker, who had
been missing from her home in New
Orleans for over year, was found
prisoner In the rear room of negrO's
barber shop.
DIR. 2. III. Curran, senior guardian of a
Clan-na- Gael camp III Chicago, has re-
signed because he thinks the money of
the order is being used to defend the
murderers of DR.. Cronin.
The Kennebec Ice Company's dam
at Gainesville, Del, burst, overflowing
the Brandywine and doing great dam
age.
A letter signed slack the Ripper"
mas Eeen received at London news
In about week another murder will be
added to the list of Whitechapel hor-
rors.
The Bontin Sugar Refinery in Bor-
deaux was burned on the 18th. Three
hundred thousand Kilograms of sugar
was damaged. The loss is placed at L.
100000 francs.
Ex-Queen Natelie, of Servia, who is
going to Belgrade to visit her son, the
youthful King Alexander, arrived at
Odessa from Yalta on board Russian
gunboat. She was received with royal
Lonors. She will proceed to Belgrade.
The Rt. Rev. John Fielder Mackar-
ness, d. D., lately Bishop of Oxford, is
~ . O.ln
and was brother-in-law to Lord Coler-
idge.
1t is stated that the engagement be-
tween Prince Hatzfeldt and the adopt
ed daughter Of G. p. Huntington, the
American railway magnate, has been
declared off, owing to the disagreement
about the settlement OF the Princes
debts and the brides dover.
A large number of suits for damages
have been begun at Antwerp In connec-
ton with the recent disastrous explo-
sion.
Lorenzo Krug, who poisoned Lucy
Heldlemeyer at Chicago, is dead. Krug
wss suspected OF having poisoned three
different wives previous to the Heidle-
meyer tragedy in order to obtain the
insurance money on their lives. He
WAS not tried on these charges, but for
lHc muTueT VI lie 1oluIemoy0T WOMAN.
He was convicted and sentenced to the
Joliet prison for eighteen years. Krug
had rapidly declined in health, con-
sumption ending his career.
The stage between Forest Hill and
Auburn, CAL, was stopped on the 18th
by one masked man, who demanded
the Wells, Fargo & Co. treasure box.
The box was given him and he escaped
with it. 1t is not known how much it
contained.
The Nicely brothers, under sentence
Of death at Somerset, Pa, fatally shot
the deputy sheriff and escaped from
jail.