Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-07-06
NEWS PARAGRAPH 8.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
WILLIAM ABBOTT, b. A.. of Downing,
Cambridge University, VINO recently
took his honors in mathematics, has
been sentenced by police magistrate
to eight months Imprisonment for
stealing books from the university
library.
WILLIAM JAMES, a fish dealer, drowned
in a muddy pool near Iron Mo ntain,
Mich, while attempting to save his
was mired. James was dragged into
deep water, and both were drowned.
JOHN Rock, an insurance agent of
Flint, Mich, left two weeks ago under
peculiar circumstances. 1t has been
discovered that he took $1,000 belong
ing to the Union Central Lie Insurance
Company, of Cincinnati.
THE President has approved the sem
tence of suspension in the case of Com
mander Graham, recently tried by
court martial, and there is no longer any
block to promotions in the navy.
FIRE at Guthrie, Ok, destroyed half
dozen stores and frame dwellings. The
loss is $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
THE general merchandise store Of
Beach Bros, Pontiac, ILL.,, has been
taken possession of by sheriff under
attachments aggregating $1,000. LA
b1lities, possibly $4,000. The stock is
estimated at $4,000.
THE Broadway and Newburg Street
Railroad strikers at Cleveland have
agreed to go back to work on the same
terms as were accepted by the East
Cleveland men.
A RowBoAT containing eight persons,
who were out on the river for pleasure
at Cologne, sprang a leak and sank.
Five girls and one man were drowned.
A SCARLET fever epidemic prevails in
London. Already 1860 cases have been
reported. The asylums board is caus-
ing huts to be hastily erected on the
grounds of hospitals for the reception
Of patients suffering with the disease.
AT Boston, Mrs. Susan Sewell, aged
%. in an insane fit, threw her 9-months-
old baby from fourth-story window,
and then jumped out herself. Both died
in short time.
SAMUEL DossA, wealthy citizen of
Trinidad, Col, threw himself in front
Of fast train and was instantly killed.
Ill-health is ascribed as the cause Of sui
eide.
Mrs. MARION HUMPHREYS, wife of the
vicar Of Warrior, England, has been
sentenced to three months at hard
labor on charge of brutal treatment of
a servant.
A DISPATCH Of the London Times from
Buenos Ayres states that the Chamber
of Deputies, by vote Of 40 to 4, has ap-
proved a decree raising the state of
siege that was declared some time prior
to the holding of election for preside nt
because of the threatened radical revo-
luton.
JOHN F. ROCHE, a machinist, was run
over and fatally mangled by an electric
car at Sault Sc. Marie.
HENRY w. FULLER, brother OF Chief
Justice Fuller, died at his home at New
Rochelle, n. Y, on the 29th, aged 81
years.
THE Red Star steamer Wasland was
detained at quarantine in New York
harbor on her arrival on the 29th, on
account of a case of smallpox on board.
DIR. J. SUDAN KNOX, one of the most
distinguished physicians in this coun-
try, died at his residence in Chicago.
The deceased was specialist on chill
dren's diseases.
THOMAS BATES, who murdered his wife
in Bedford County, Tenn, was taken
from Jail at Shelbyville and lynched
within fifty feet of the prison. Two
hundred men dragged him from his
cell. Mrs. Bates was found in her gar
den with her throat cut. Her husband
was arrested and there was such strong
proof of his guilt that the people con-
Guided to lynch him.
A COLORED character about town
named Brooks Trout rushed into res
taurant at Rock Island, Ill.,, where his
vile was eating supper with man, and
shot her twice. Escaping through the
back way, he hurried to the steps Of the
Y. M. c. A. building, where he ended
his own existence. The woman will re-
cover.
DR.. ARTHUR B. Rose, president of the
South Carolina Agricultural Society, and
president of the Phosphate Miners En-
change, of Charleston, S. c., suicided
by shooting himself. No cause i5 as
signed for the deed.
PAUL LAyOI, brakeman, was instant
ly killed in collision al Norway,
Mich. The yard crew were taking an
engine to the coal dock on the side
track for coal, the crew being ordered
to take a special to Iron Mountain.
When near the main track it collided
with two freight cars. Lavoi was on
the foot-board of the yard engine, and
the bumpers caught him, cutting him
III two.
ENGLAND has obtained from Spain the
minimum tariff on British goods i'm
ported into Spain and her colonies with
out granting any concessions in return.
IT is reported at Berlin that the
Queen Of Spain has signed a decree
granting minimum tariffs to Germany.