Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-11

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WATERFOWL. WIS.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Taken to the Frontier.
President Carnot has granted par
don to the Duke of Orleans, who was
sent to prison in February last for vio-
lating the decree of exile issued against
tie members of his family. The Duke
will be conducted to the frontier during
the night.
A Foot of Hail on the Ground.
A dispatch of the eth from Nanhori,
Tex, says: The conductor of the east
bound train tonight reports hail a foot
deep fifteen miles west of here, and as
the train passed Sierra Blanca it was
storlning. This is the first rain in the
county in more than a year.
Manitoba Crops.
Land Commissioner Hamilton, of the
Canadian Pacific Railroad, has just re-
turned from an extensive trip through
In
and reports all crops in very promising
condition The increase in cultivated
acreage over that of last year is 20 per
cent.
A Democratic Governor.
The Oregon Republican state central
committee concede the reelection of
Pennoyer Dem for governor by 500 to
1000 majority Both branches of the
Legislature are Republican by large ma
iorities. Hermann's (Rep.) majority
for Congress is estimated at from 5000
to 5000.
Swept the Town.
Meager reports from Bradshaw, a
hamlet of 400 or 500 inhabitants, and
fifty miles west of Lincoln, Neb., state
that the town was swept away about 6
O'Clock on the night of the Sd, by cy-
clone. Six persons are reported killed,
and twenty-five or more injured. Tele-
graph wires are down.
Bloody Battle.
A bloody encounter has taken place
between Arnauts and Servians, on the
Servian frontier. The Ottoman and
Servian governments have sent tele
graphic orders for a prompt inquiry in
to the affair. The Arnauts killed fifteen
Christians, wounded thirty-five others,
robbed the dead and violated a number
of women.
Accident on the Louisville & Nash
vile.
The Wagner through sleeper from
Louisville to Boston via Cincinnati, over
the Louisville & Nashville, was wrecked
near English, KY, at t O'Clock on the
afternoon of the 9th. The town is fifty
miles out from Louisville. Eight per-
sons were seriously wounded, two of
whom will probably die.
$40, 900 and a Woman.
Frank McIlvaine, cashier of the Sui
phur Deposit Bank, at Sulphur, KY,
has fed, and it is believed he is $4,000
short in his accounts. 1t is state bank,
and was in measure started for Nell
vaine when he graduated from Harvard
College Mrs John Watkins, wife of
the proprietor of the hotel at Sulphur,
is reported to have gone with him.
Mrs. Watkins was a village belle when
McIlyaine was III school.
State Univer stty ex-Fresident Miss
ing.
The friends of DIR. s. s. Laws, ex-.
Of Tho NJ;CCo,,ri S+o+o TTni-
Versity, and man prominent in bust
ness circles in Kansas City, are greatly
exercised over his disappearance. He
had been noticed to be acting strangely
for some time, and his friends fear that
he may have become insane over a
business reverse which he suffered
some time ago.
In the Magazine.
At 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the
Sd lightning struck powder-house one
mile east of Mansfield, O., owned by
Tracy & Avery, which contained over
5000 pounds of powder. A terrific ex-
plosi on followed, that was felt distinctly
in all parts of the city. All windows
within a radius of half mile were
shattered, and one adjacent house was
crushed, Mrs. Henry Roose being fatally
injured and two of her children killed.
Miners Strike.
Advices from Siberia state there have
been revolts in the gold mine belonging
TO the Russian millionaires, Basilewski
and Bartaschoff. The miners, who
were goaded to rebellion by starvation
wages and maltf eatment, killed two SUI
perintendents named Risanoff and
Bastrikoff, and demolished large num-
Der of buildings. A troop of Cossacks
were beaten off by the men, and now
two regiments have been ordered to the
scene.
Churches Unite.
The General Synod of the Reformed
Church in America, in session at Asbury
>ark, n. j., adopted the report of the
nittee on union with the Reformed
ID in the United States, which rec
led federal union with that body.
e only five votes in opposl-
united churches will num-
ag to the data of 1889, 269,-
1icants, 407, $50 baptized