Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-06-15

man charged with causing the death of
the two young women IN Stamford
Street, about which there has been
much mystery. 1t is said that sensa-
tional developments may be expected
when the prisoner is arraigned.
LOUIS F. ANDERSON, for the last eight
years cashier in the Long Island City
office OF the Long Island Express Com
pany, is missing. So is a sum of money
said by the company to be 5000, but
reported by his fellow employees to be
s., 1000.
SYDNEY DILLON died at his residence
in New York on the 9th. He had been
lying i'll for several weeks. Mr.. Dillon
became we'll known as Jay Gould S
Fright bower" This was some years
ago. His wealth was estimated in 1854
ct S25, 100000 in railroad stocks and
bonds, and a few millions in govern
ment securities.
Anatole De La Forge, French jour
nalist, author and member of the Cham
Der of Deputies, is dead. He was born
April l, 1921.
A pleasure boat capsized in Bourget
Lake, seven miles from Chambrey
France, causing the death by drowning
of seven students, a priest and boat
man.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius,
which has been noticeable for some
time past, is increased in violence
Large quantities of lava are issuing
from the crater and flowing down
through the ATTIC Cavallo ravine.
The Car and the Kaiser had a per-
sonal conference, on the 9TH, in the cas-
tie at kiel.
Acknowledgement RosENDALE has
written an opinion, which, if sustained
by the New York courts, will increase
the taxes upon gross earnings annually
paid into the state treasury by rail-
roads, telegraph, telephone, express
and similar corporations doing business
in that state from 100000 to $500, 900.
| The opinion was in answer to an in
| curry of State Comptroller Campbell as
| to his right to impose, as tax upon the
corporate franchise and business in that
state, tax OF five-tenths of l per cent.
on tho earnings derived by such cor
pOrations.
THE outfit of the Negaunee Mich
Independent, a weekly newspaper es-
| tablished several months ago, has been
| shipped to Even, a new town some six
| ty miles west of that city. The pro-
| prietors, Stewart Bros, say they were
offered bonus of 500 to move to the
| new town.
JUDGE GARY. of the appellate court at
| Chicago, has handed down an opinion
confirming the decision of Judge Tuley
in the Crerar's will case. The latter
| denied the petition of some twenty dis
| tant relatives residing in Canada who
tried to break the will of the late John
| Crerar, by the provisions of which the
| bulk of his great wealth was donated
| to the city for the erection of a library,
to be known as the Crerar Library.
THE President has approved the act
granting pension to ex-senator George
w. Jones, of Iowa.
SAMUEL B. DURYEA, the great corn
starch millionaire, of Brooklyn, is
dead.
THE Russian government grain COM
mittee has decided to permit the gen.
eral expectation of oats, barley and
wheat.
RUDOLPH HACKER, cigar manufac-
turer at 227 West Division Street, Chi
| cago, and Mrs. Louise Plum, wife of
Jacob H. Plum. who keews bakery at
| 312 West Twelfth Street, were found
dead III bed in the woman's house at
| 114 North Halsted Street. The gas was
turned on full from two jets, and the
circumstances pointed to double sui
eide. subsequent developments went
to show, however, that during the past
few weeks strange relations had existed
between the pair. and the officers now
advance the theory that Hacker found
the woman asleep in the house and to
prevent her from leaving him, which
she was contemplating doing, he turned
on the gas and killed her and himself.
NEAR South Carroll, KY, the north
| bound passenger train on the Nashville
| q greensboro road collided with an ex-
cursion train filed with negroes going
south. Four were killed outright and
twenty were injured, seven dangerously.