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

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new tabernacle to be erected for DR.
Talmage in Brooklyn.
A reception given to the New York
Base Bail Club at the Broadway The
alter netted $4,700.
The Rev. A. ]. Barrett, of Rochester
n. Y, died on his way to church.
The Lewis House, at Escanaba, Mich.
burned, with several adjoining build
ings, on the goth. causing LOGS of $780,.
600.
Two students at Yale College have
died of typhoid fever and several 9th.
ers are sick with the disease.
An unsuccessful attempt was made tt
assassinate Count Okuma, minister Of
foreign affairs in Japan.
There are 1900 cases on the docket o.
the United States supreme court and
new cases are accommodating faster than
the old ones can be disposed of.
Up to the 10Th inst. 800 talesmen had
failed to pass muster in the Cronin trial
Prince Bismarck, it is said, received
from the Car assurances that he would
not precipitate war.
Nearly $13, 600 was found in the trunks
of Miss Lena Weinberger, who commit.
ted suicide at Winona.
Mr.. V. Loubat, of New York, has or
O016Q a COLOSSAL Stdtu0 Ol rope Leo lOI
the Catholic University.
Cyrus P. Berry, employed in ma
chine shop at Biddeford, Me-, has been
left $1,0OO,O0o by an uncle in Calilor-
MIA.
By the wreck of 6 construction train
near Conceivable, Pa, two men were
killed and many injured.
John Barnett, aged a, was sentenced
to twenty-five years in prison, at Fort
Wayne, Ind, for killing his aged wife.
The Rochester City q Brighton Street
Railway, of Rochester, n. Y, has been
sold to New York capitalists for $2,175,-
600.
Two Spanish women, who were pre-
pairing to fire, in duel with pistols. in
the city of Mexico, were arrested by the
police.
Claus Spreckles denies the report
that be will not open his refinery in
Philadelphia, or that e is associated
| with a sugar trust.
Mrs. Louisa Smith, wife of 3 hack
driver, of Sacramento, Cal, was fatally
wounded by her husband who commit
ted suicide.
Conductor Brown, of the Houston q
Texas Railway, was shot and killed by a
man whom he put off the train for nom
payment of fare.
Brooklyn defeated New York, II to 10,
in the first game of the worlds cham
pionship series.
The National Board of Trade opposes
change of the interstate commerce
law.
Much opposition is being made to the
introduction of electric lights in Lon
don.
The steamer Wisconsin brought 1876
Mormon converts from Europe.
The schooner Imperial foundered in
Georgian Bay and is total loss.
The directors OF the New Orleans
Board of rade voted in favor of Chi
cago for the worlds fair.
Six persons were injured in railway
wreck near Dodge City, Kas.
Residents Of lshpeming, Mich, are
much elated over the discovery of a
marble quarry in that vicinity.
The pope's apostolic benedictlon to
Cardinal Gibbons on the occasion of the
Catholic centennial is published.
The copyrights of Boucicault's plays
were sold at auction in London on the
18th. "London Assurance" fetched
Gl57; "Flying Scud," ESQ; "Arrah Ma
Pogue," 9152; Long Strike" e42;
"After Dark e70; "Formosa," G54,
and the others small sums.
The German government has begun
! the construction of tour new lronclads
at Stettin.
The North German Gazette says it is
not unlikely that Germany will refuse
to recognize Mataafa as King OF Samoa,
and it must be assumed that the other
powers parties to the Samoan treaty
have similarly expressed themselves,
because at the conference recently held
~ Do IL oil hn fof
, that Malietoa should be king.
Mail advices from Samoa report that
when ex-King Malietoa was being
brought back to Apia by the German
gunboat Wolf he was not told what
was to be done with him, and in despair
he Jumped overheard twice, but was
saved. He remained in mortal terror
of the Germans until he was set free in
his own home.
The report of the mutiny of Turkish
soldiers at Canea, Crete. is confirmed.
The officers were beaten and wounded.
Chakir Pasha, the governor, is helpless.
The objection of the troops to being en-
ployed in roadmaking was the cause OF
the outbreak.
A contract has been signed for Ethe
construction of steel steamship In CHI
cago to cost $500
Henry VlllaTU pIdu lOI VIC ic6u0 "
$3.50, 100000 per cent. Northern Pacific
bonds was adopted at a meeting of pre-
ferred stockholders.
The refusal to accept Catholic jurors
for the trial of Father McFadden at
Marybor Ireland, led to riot in the
courtroom.
Thomas Manning, a oot-pad, was
sentenced to thirty years in prison by a
Missouri Judge for assault.
R. F. Pettigrew and Judge Moody
! were elected to the United States SEN
ate by the South Dakota Legislature.
Bismarck has been ordered to refrain
| from work until he RECEIVERS from the
fatigue of his journey to Berlin.
Sergeant Nogues has been sentenced,
at Paris, to imprisonment for life for Of
fering to sell Lebel cartridge to Count
| Won Moltke.
An election was held in Paris on the
| 10Th to fill sixty vacancies in the munic-
| ipal government. The Republicans Sc
cured forty-nine, winning eleven seats.
Advices from Constantinople say that
Prince Dolgourki, before mis- departure
| from Sofia, had a conference on behalf
of Russia with Regent Stamboulof on
| the subject of expelling Prince Fert =