Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-23
MINOR NEWS NOTES.


voted in favor of taking May as a
holiday.
The Irish National League will hold
convention in Baltimore If Parnell con-
sents.
Reports for the past nine months
show that assertions from the army are
diminishing.
Four persons were fatally and many
others seriously injured by the fall OF Il
bridge at baptism at Springfield, ..
A general strike throughout Austria
for an elght-hour day is imminent.
Mrs. w. S. Johnson, of Chicago, was
robbed of $500 worth OF jewels III
Pullman car.
The strike agitation begun at Ostrau is
extending to Prussia. Cavalry ere
guarding the frontier Czech aeitators
have been arrested on Prussian soil. 1t
Is believed that Austrian and German
Anarchists are IN London raising money
tor the agitation. At Mulhausen II 800
splnners and weavers are idle, and a
total cessation of work in all factories is
expected tomorrow.
dispatch from Fort Worth, Tex,
says that Jay Gould has been there
again, and that he had become largely
interested in the beef packing and re-
frigerating works at that point.
u. ~ AClSO, Lulu Ill LuC COuAGf Jdll, al
Fayetteville, Tenn, on the charge of
arson, was hanged by mob OF 100 men.
Bourke, Australia, was flooded by the
overflow of the Darling River.
Lord Harrington, who has been In
Egypt, has returned to London.
VIM. O'Brien, NJ. P, has become en-
gagged to the daughter OF NJ. Ratalvitch,
a Partisan financier.
Germany will impose new takes to
cover the military changes. The
changes will be submitted to the Reichs-
tag in 1892.
Gen. Piescoto assumes the war port
folio OF Brazil, in place of Gen. Con-
slant. who becomes minister of the new
Department of Education, Posts and
Telegraphs.
Reynolds brothers. dry goods house,
at Charolette, Mich, WAS Quilted by fire
and badly damaged. Loes $37 ,00V; in
surance so, 900.
At Oneida, Madison county, n y,
fire destroyed the Empire drug store,
Devoix block, and opera house and Far
nam's hardware store. Total loss $45,
000, tw o-thirds insured.
At Pitsburg, Pa, pretty 16-yearold
Mary Stewart. of McKeesport, is under
cooked soup for dinner. All the Jam
lily except her partook and were imme-
dlately seized with violent pains. Ply
s1clans pronounce the cases arsenlcak
poisoning. A 4-year-old bov died and
three others of the family arc in serious
condition.
Capt. John r. Richardson and his
wife were murdered at their country
residence, eight miles from Madison
vile, Tex. Robbery is believed to have
been the motive. The supposltion is
that they were murdered by strangers
who had accepted their hospitality for
for the night.
A battle between state troops and
band Of outlaws took place near Har-
Ian court house, Ky.
Dr. WindhOrst asks for the creation
Of q Catholic section IN Prussia ecclesi-
astical department.
A contract has been signed by which
the St. Paul and Rock Island roads will
run solid trains into Omaha.
The Union Stock Yards Company, of
San Francisco, has been incorporated
with capital Of So 800, 0G0, to esta blish
stock yards for collecting stock Of all
kinds for sale to number OF packing
houses to be esta blished IN various coast
cities.
Fire, on the 18th, destroyed the fol-
lowing property at Newton, N. H.:
Dow & Greeley's shoe factory, with con-
tents; R. Peaslee's shoe factory; {. H..
Peaslee's carriage factory, and Hoyt's
Hotel. The losses will aggregate s25,-
600. The cause of the fire is unknown
A number Of farmers living near Atch-
ison, Kos., report that sort OF wire
worm is doing great damage to the
wheat. The worm ID about an inch
long and the tn ckness OF u fine wire,
and o. dark brown color, Wherever
If Tho w he G0np Wlfhpra
Matthew Harris, member Of Parlla-
ment for East Galway, is dead. He
was Nationalist.
Mir. Parnell consulted with Mr. Glad
stone prior to deciding to move the re-
lection of the land purchase bill.
1t is said that sarah Bernhardt has
contracted for tour of the world, be-
ginning in America in September.
The Emperor and Empress Of China,
have returHe,. to Pekin IRON their Visit
to the Eastern mausoleau.
Two members Of a catholic church in
Plainfeld, n. j., were communicated
becau they married in Lent.
Lawrence Barrett is suffering from %.
return of the humorous fnl nations on
bis body
The machine shops and round house
of the Northern Pacific in EiIensburg,
Wash. burned.
David s. Wegg will be made president
of the Chicago & Great Western road.
Senator Cameron has declined to
serve as member of tie S oux commits
sion.
The Iinseed Oil Trust, of Chicago.
has ceased to exist. and IL its place
stands the National l. ~. ed Company.
Owners of toity-nine linseed mills, a.
number o: elevators and transportation
lines are interested. TIE capital stock
is $l8, 900 UH,.
Ernest Leon Dickinson, Of the Fresh
man class at Trinity Coll. ge, Hartford,
Conn, has just received news of his ac-
cession to Al fortune OF about S3,G00,t0J
through the death of an utG( e in France.
He will probably go abroad at once.