Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-06-08
NEWS PARAGRAPHS s.

j. NJ. DoMENGUEz was shot down in g.
side street Of San Francisco by I'M
known persons. Frank Borrego, an
old enemy, has been arrested on sus-
picion.
BOB JACKSON, a negro, assaulted the
daughter of John Mcmahon at Port
Jervls, n. 7. Tie crime was witnessed
by number of young girls and also by
two young negroes, who were prevent
ed from Interfering by Jackson's revol-
yer. The brute was captured later, and
| the same night he was taken rom the
jail by mob and hanged
IN London Slavin defeated Riorden
IN nineteen rounds.
WHILE out driving in the vicinity oftbe
Niagara whirlpool, coachman. named
Messner, with the horses and carriage.
belonging to Mr.. Slater, of Niagara Falls,
backed over the bank, distance of 200.
feet, into the rapids. All were lost.
Mrs; HENRY THOMAS, Of Cadiz, o.,
sent her 9-year-old son, Willie, TO a
| store to buy snuff. Later the bow was
found dead near bis home with his
mouth full Of snuff. It is supposed that
he had undertaken to use it and was
strangled to death.
DAVID kISTLER, farmer OF Adams
Township, O., and his 1S~year-old
daughter were run down by & west
bound passenger train on the Nickel
Plate road near Green Springs. Kist-
Ter was killed and the daughter fatally
injured.
Rev. THOMAS DIXON, JE., pastor of the
IWenty-thlrd Street Baptist Church,
New York, was held in So, 900 bonds. on
the charge of criminal libel, preferred
by Excise Commissioner Joseph Koch,
who claims that the reverend gentle
man Hbeled him criminally in one of
his recent sensational sermons.
THE bank Of Pueblo. Col, assigned to
A. j. Quaid, formerly cashier. The
amount of the liabilities are unknown.
Fred. Rohner is the owner Of the bank.
The cause is due to extreme dull times
and inability to make collections on
overdue accounts.
The Board of Supervisors of Hough-
ton County, Mich, have authorized Jaw
A. HubbeD and I. L. Chadbourne to
bring the legislative division Of Hough-
ton County into representative districts
before the supreme court. M8ndamus
proceedings will be served on the secre-
tary OF state, asking for another division
OF the county. If the supreme court
grants this petition the effect of the
mandamus will probably be to nulIify
the apportlonment law now IN force
The House of Commons, after refus-
ing to adjourn for the Derby, could on
ly muster thirty-fve members and was
compelled to adjourn.
TIE town of Uilanow, in Galicia, was
the scene Of disastrous fire. Two hun
dred houses were DESTROYED and two
persons were burned to death.
w. r. WHITNEY, Of Boston. Mass,
who was recently accused Of immortality
and who was tried behind closed doors
at Berlin, has been honorably acquitted.
FIVE persons concerned in the recent
riots at LODI have been banished to ST.
IBERIA. Thirty Germans and twenty-five
Austrians suspected Of being agitators
have been expelled from Russia with
out warning.
AT Mason City, Ia, on the 31st, sixty
two business houses were closed on ac-
count Of the religious awakening"
sweeping over that city. During eight
days there have been $50 conversions.
Evangelists Munhail and Birch, assisted
by Drs. Parsons, Millken and Johnson,
are conducting the work.
FIRE destroyed sixty houses in Mos
cow. A report that the Nihilists were
trying to destroy the city led to the
police reserves being called out and
several arrests we're made, but the re-
port proved unfounded.
DIRECToR-GENERAL DAVIS has aboi-
ished the New York Office Of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition, leaving
the Eastern interests of the fair IN the
hands Of the New York state commits
sion.
The Barney & Smith car works at
Dayton, O.. have been sold to syndi-
cate for 81, 600 cash. The plant COW
ers twenty acres and employs 1900
men.