Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-02-05
MINOR NEWS NOTES.

Nathaniel Reeves, living in basement
in Kansas City, died Of injuries inf1ict-
ed by rats.
Riley and Nye have dissolved part
nership, and all contracts have been
cancelled. This was due to Rileys in
temperate habits.
An English syndicate has been formed
to work the silver mines in the Thun-
der Bay District, Ontario.
Representative Stephenson, Of the
Upper Michigan Peninsula, will intro
duce bill providing for preliminary
survey for. canal TO connect Lakes
Michigan and Superior.
The Sears building at Boston, worth
$2d0,OO0, was destroyed by fire.
Treasurer O'Reilly's league accounts
were Mound correct by the auditing
committee.
Booth and Modieskas receipts from
fourteen performances in Boston were
Sal ,0G0
The report that Silcott is in Terre
bonnie, Can, Is denied.
The public debt was reduced ST., 245,-
S95 during January.
John M. Clark was confirmed by the
Senate as collector of the port of Chi
cago.
Richard Stockett Matthews, a lead
street car.
The name of the St. Paul, Mime
apolis & Manitoba road has been
changed to the Great Northern.
Portugal has ordered the opening of
the Delagoa Bay Railroad to the from
tier of the Transvaal
Five warships Tor the Turkish navy
have peen launched at Constantinople.
One OF these was q corvette, three were
gun boats and one was a torpedo boat.
The minister of marine and many MILL
tary civil officials were present.
Charles j. Lochbyler, bond clerk in
the Detroit custom house, is missing.
He has embezzled 5000.
An unknown man seized Miss Schu
mann on street in Burling ton, Ia, and
cut of her luxuriant growth of golden
hair.
Samuel w. Garness, broker Of San
Francisco, died from bullet wounds in
fiicted by D. H. Arnold, a wealthy resi-
dent OF Colusa County. The shooting
was the result of scandal.
The Union Pacific and North w estern
roads have withdrawn from the Inter
state Railway Association.
Charles Edward Lester, an Abolition
list, died in Detroit. aged so.
The National Builders Association re-
scinded its action on the eight-houf
day, leaving it with local unions to de-
eide.
AT Grimlinghausen, on the Rhine, a
ferryboat was capsiZed, and seven per-
sons were drowned.
1t is stated thai the Duke of Aosta
bequeathed to his three sons 81 800, 900.
Capt. Schuettler, of the Chicago po-
lice force, fatally wounded William Glib
bons, q Cronin witness, in row In sa-
loon.
instructed the priests of his diocese to
add prayer for the removal Of the in
t1uenza to every mass.
Ex-Gov. Bross, of Chicago, and Gen.
Lester B. Faulkner, of New York, are
dead.
Ex-senator Blanche X. Bruce was
nominated for recorder of deeds of the
District of Columbia.
Speaker Reed caused commotion in
the House. on the 29th, by deciding to
count a quorum, including Democrats
who refused to vote.
A long list of presidential nominations
were confirmed by the Senate on the
29th.
The House passed a bill providing
that in cases of pension claims of de-
pCAOOAt pdISuCS III Sud1l NC uSCCSbdIJ
only to show to the pension office that
the parents are without other means of
support than manual labor.
The nomination of Richard Guenther,
to be consul-general to the City OF Mex
leo, was confirmed.
The Senate on the 2Sth passed the di-
rect tax bill by vote of A to 7. Mr..
Morrill, called the bill up, and Mr.. Sher-
man stated that the bill was the same,
word for word, as that which passed
the last Congress, and as it
had the unanimous vote of the
finance committee he hoped that
it would be passed without dissent.
Mr.. Vest remarked that he had already
spoken several times against the bill,
and did not care to trouble the Senate
now. He would not ever ask for the
yeas and nays on the passage of the bill,
but, if the yeas and nays were called be
would record his vote against it. 1t
was then passed.
Republican members of the House,
in caucus, decided to take up the con-
tested election cases without waiting
for rules.
The Senate committee on the census
reported bill for the the collection of
farm mortgage statistics.