Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-04

Qhe Rspublifa'l.
WATERFOWL, WIS.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Treasurer Confessed.
John C. File, late treasurer of the Luz
theran Orphans Home, at Philadelphia,
is defaulter to a large amount. He
has confessed to the finance committee
of the Board of Directors The en-
bezzlement will reach over $50 900.
Nearly Hundred.
The coroners' jury on the Tongue
Pointe Asylum fire, near Montreal, in
their final report say they cannot tell
how the fire broke out. Ninety-one in
mates are missing instead OF fifty, as re-
ported heretofore, six men, five sisters
and eighty women patients.
A Startling Discovery.
A sensation has been caused in Berlin
by the discovery that the Russian baron,
Wessilski, is the owner and conductor
of a Russophile news agency in the Ger
man capital. Coupled with this discov-
covery is the equally startling revelation
that the Baron's wife, who is of Ameri-
can birth, is an intimate friend of the
Countess Won Waldersee, with whom she
has exchanged frequent visits of late.
Sent Up for Life.
John Popoff, the convicted murderer
of Marie Petrikofsky, his sweetheart,
was sentenced at New York to state
prison, for the term of his natural life,
by Judge Fitzgerald. The crime was
committed on the night of January %.
Popoff had been boarder in the house
for several months, and had bothered
the girl with his attentions. She had
repeatedly refused to marry him, and
he killed her.
Must be Hard Up.
The Illinois secretary of state has re-
corded a mortgage made by the Chicago
& Northern Pacific Railway Company in
favor of the Farmers Loan and Trust
Company, of New York, to the amount
of $50, 900, to cover outstanding in
debtedness against certain branches,
and to secure funds to develop and COM
plete new lines. The bonds will run
until 1910, and draw 5 per cent. interest
PAYABLE semi-annually.
Ohio Incendiaries.
Early on the morning of the 9th an
incendiary attempt to destroy the town
of Bowling Green, the county. seat of
Wood County, o., was partly successful.
This is the third incendiary fire within
two years, and all serious conhagrations.
At $50 fire broke out in several parts of
the town, and several terrific explosions
occurred, scattering the fragments of
buildings in every direction, many per-
sons receiving cuts and bruises. The
total loss is $50, 800, with insurance of
$4,000
Caught in the Act.
During the past month there have
been a series of daring robberies COM
mitted at Peoria, H., that baffied the
police. Safes without number have been
opened as easily as though the operator
possessed the combination. Through
mere accident, at 1:30 on the morning of
the 29th, the thief was captured in the
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wholesale liquor store. There was
great sensation when it was discovered
that the burglar was John Spelman,
oldest son of Ed Spelman, the distiller,
and the defendant in the Third Ward
Alderman contest in that city.
Money and Freedom.
Two prisoners escaped from the state
prison at Trenton, n. j., on the 18th.
They are Henry Jackson and Thomas
Thomas, fre-bugs, sentenced in Feb
ruary, 1884, to thirty years each. They
were trusted convicts who waited on
the prison clerk and Keeper Patterson's
family. While most of the keepers
for convicts these two sand-bagged
Doorkeeper Charles Parker, bound and
gagged him, robbed him of $500, and in
clothes belonging to the deputy keepers
made good their escape.
Striking Cops.
London householders are very uneasy
at the prospect that the metropolis will
be without police protection within
few days. A dispatch of the 10Th says:
The recent agitation in the force has
eliminated in a secret meeting, which
forwarded an ultimatum to the chief
commissioner and home secretary, call
ing for an immediate redress of griev-
ances, failing to obtain which local
strike of 10000 policemen has been or
ganized in London The men demand
an increase of pay, which is now a
shillings week, and pay for overtime.
1t Stopped the Festivities.
The Texas Spring Palace, at Fort
Worth, was burned to the ground on
the 30th. One life was lost, and FIVE
persons were injured. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000. President Burbage,
with Editor Sleicher, Of Leslie's, and
Russell Harrison, were talking in the
big building of its inf1ammable char
acter, when a scream was heard, then
women's cries and the cry of fire
went up. As the exhibition was to
nave closed on Sunday, and grand ball
was the closing event Of the evening,
several thousand persons were present.