Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-21
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

sons escaped with difficulty.
The Ottawa government has decided
to prohibit the importation of rags from
Great Britain, by the passage Of an or
der that no rags from abroad can be i'm
ported into Canada. -.
A WRECK occurred at Lodi, O., on the
Wheeling q Lake Erie Railroad at 2
O'Clock on the morning of the 18th,
passenger running into q freight The
accident was caused by fog obscuring
the signals. The passengers were
roughly shaken up, but the only serious
injury was to Engineer Mills, o. the
passenger train, who broke his leg by
jumping from his engine. !.
JOSEPH TELLER, Emil Stranke, Paul
Stranke, the 2-year-old son of Emil, and
an unknown man were drowned in
Lake Michigan, off Sixteenth Street
pier, Chicago. The skiff in which they
were riding was capsized by the waves
OF passing steamer.
A REAR end collision occurred be-
tween two sections of G. A. r. excur-
sion train on the Baltimore & Ohio
road at Kent, O., on the 18th. Two
sleeping cars were badly damaged and
several passengers were hurt, though
not seriously.
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Phoenix, Ari., workmen have broken
into burial p lace of prehistoric race
and the find will settle many questions
heretofore disputed by scientists. The
fact that they cremated their dead is
proven by the finding Of several urns
containing the ashes of the bodies, to-
gether with the teeth and pieces of
skull.
NJ. ?. BYNNE, recently from Milwau-
kee, shot and killed himself in his room
at the Sherman House, Chicago.
INDICTMENTS have been returned
against tWenty-nine of the Duuuesne
rioters.
LIZZIE PEAK, aged % years, was MUIR
dered at Mount Holly, n. j., by Wesley
Warner, with whom she had been liy-
ing in Brooklyn for three years. The
deed was committed in a fit of jeal-
ousy, and while the woman was being
accompanied home by two young men.
Warner was arrested The murdered
girl was sister of Barclay Peak, now
in states prison for killing Katie An
derson.
A MOB at Bonita, La, lynched black
James Patton for numbering Eli Lind
sey, white.
Mrs. Fl. E. BEPPLE took rat poison at
her. She will die.
THOMAS ALLISON, murderer of three
men in Sullivan County, Tenn, was
lynched by a mob at Dodson.
BUDD BLUNT, the desperate who was
to have been hanged at Pineville, Mo-,
has had his sentence committed to life
imprisonment by the governor.
IT is reported from Belgrade that
body of peasants, led by Ranko Taisich,
have revolted, captured the communal
house at Stephany, and killed Judge.
Many on both sides, it is stated, were
wounded. The Servian government is
trebl1ng the patrols at Belgrade, and
taking other precautions.
THE War Department has instructed
Gen. Miles, of the Department of Mis-
souri,, to send troops to McAlister, In
dian Territory, to be ready in case of
an uprising OF the Choctaws.
The United States government has
been sustained by the United States
court ofappeals in the celebrated goats
hair case. The decision involves many
million dollars and affects the rights of
manufacturers and importers all over
the country.
Miss MARY ALGER, daughter of Gen.
K. A. Alger, was married to William E.
bailey. OF Seattle, Wash.
GEORGE MEYERS carriage factory, 225
and 227 East Thirty sixth Street, New
York, burned with loss of $1,000
MINNEAPoLIs elevator companies will
hereafter withhold reports of stock of
grain on had from commercial period
icals.
A RAILROAD car at Columbus, O.,
struck sagged wire stay rope of high
derrick, causing it to fall on a mass of
wires, including heavily charged street
car trolley wire, which burned the tele-
phone, fire alarm and police switch
boards out, and stopped all of the street
cars. William Mclaughlin was killed.
DAVID BRUCE, the retired type-found-
er, died at his residence in Brooklyn
Mr.. Bruce was 81 years old. He in
vented the machine for casting type,
which is still in use. By his method of
typemaking the cost was reduced three
fOurths.
A FREIGHT train jumped the track at
Cincinnati and dashed into row of sa-
looms and small stores, damaging them
considerably. Two men were injured.
CHARLES Fl. WARE, who for the last
twenty years has been associated with
the house Of Marshall Field & Co., Chi
cago, and in charge of their retail up
holstery department, died suddenly of
apoplexy.
TWELVE persons were injured by the
wrecking of an Illinois Central train
near Lincoln, Ill. The wreck was
caused by washout.
THE wall of sand pit caved in at Gin
ton, ILL.,, crushing to death Ernest
Mitchell and Walter Eli, two young men
who were loading wagon.
THE SILICA Sand Works, located near
the village Of Millington, ILL.,, burned.
Loss, $4,000.
BARON Won GARTNER-G RIEBENow, sec
rotary of the German legation at The
Hague, and Marquis de Valladareo,
secretary of the Spanish legation,
fought duel, the Marquis receiving
wound in the leg.
The report that the Grand Duke Mich
olas is to marry an untitled widow is
confirmed. She is immensely wealthy,
and lives on the estates near BURN, left
her by her husband, who was a tur
dealer. The Grand Duke will renounce
all his special rights in order that he
may marry her.
THE municipality of Rome has APP
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