Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-06-22
NEWS PARAGRAPHS 8.


AN association has been formed in
Berlin with the title Allegemeine Deut-
scher verband, the object of which is to
reconcile France to the loss of Alsace-
Lorraine by securing to her the posses
sion of Egypt, and by other quixotic no.
tons.
| FRED ECKSTEIN, enc of the foremen
| in the American White Lead Trust, met
his death at Cincinnati by falling down
the elevator shaft in his new building
at the corner of Fifth and Elm streets,
distance of eight stories.
A FIRE at Alexandria, La, destroyed q
square of buildings. Loss, $1,000; in
surance not stated.
DAMAGE of $4,000 resulted from the
burning of business block at Elizabeth,
n. J.
THREE terrible storms swept through
| Dubuque in tWenty-four hours. An i'm
mense amount of rain fell, doing great
damage to the crops. During the storm
| four men were struck by lightning.
Three of them have recovered.
HENRY ABBEY has signed a contract
with Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry
and their entire company to make
| tour in the United States in 1898. The
| tour will occupy thirty weeks, and the
play that will be presented will be
''King Henry WILL" which has had
successful run at the Lyceum, London.
LADY ELIZABETH LOUISE MoNCK, wife
of Lord Monck, who was governOr-gen-
eral of Canada from 1861 to 1867, is
dead. She was the daughter of the first
Earl of Rathdown, whose title is now
extinct, and was married to Lord
Monck July %, 1914.
A CORRESPONDENT at Rio Janeiro tele-
graphs that there is every evidence of
q serious ministerial crisis. The min
lister of agriculture has resigned, and a
strong Undercurrent Of discomfort pre-
walls,
the resignation of the president of
Venezuela. The federal council has as
sumed executive power until Congress
meets to elect a president. The situa-
ton is quiet.
! Four Italians were lynched at the
camp of Smith Bros, on tie line of the
Monte Christie Railroad, near Seattle,
Wash, because of the murder of John
A Nelson, a white man, who was fore
man over a gang of Italians in which
the four worked.
| WHILE at Copenhagen, recently, the
Gar expressed his intention to attend
the wedding OF the Crown Prince of
Roumania to Princess Marie of Edin-
| burgh. 1t is expected that the wedding
will occur in England. One result,
therefore, will be meeting of the SOW
ereigns of England, Russia, Germany
and Roumania.
WILLIE SWANSON, aged IA, while play
ing about freight cars fell under the
wheels and was killed on the St. Paul &
Duluth road at st. Paul.
FIRE in the Y. P. Southworth Grocery
Company's building at Cleveland caused
a loss of $780, and in Woods, jerks &
Co. s planning mill loss of $500, 900.
WILLIAM H. PAINToN, the murderer of
| Mrs. Michael Stromenger, was hanged
at York. Pa, on the 10th.
JOHN BoRCHETTI, the Italian wife muir
derer, was taken to Menominee, Mich,
| by the sheriff of Dickinson County, for
safe-keeping pending his trial in the cir
| cult court.
THE Kearsage rock house and boiler
house, at Calumet, Mich. burned. with
little or no insurance. 1t will stop the
mine for some time.
DIR. E. w. JOHNS, formerly medical
purveyor-general of the Confederate
states armies, is dead, aged IS years.
He had resided in Maryland. MISSISSIPPI
pi and Tennessee since the war. When
his health gave way he went to Rich
mond, and lived SO quietly that but few
people knew that he was resident.
A WICHITA, Kas., dispatch of the
18th saws: "No such convention since
the peoples uprising In this state two
years ago has been seen in Kansas as
| the one which nominated Jerry Simp-
son by reclamation yesterday to succeed
| HIMSELF
| THOMAS II. SHERMAN, United States
consul at Liverpool, has resigned.
THE Queen has appointed Lord Han
nen, an eX-president of the divorce
court, and Sir John Thompson to repre-
sent Great Britain in the Behring Sea
arbitration.
SENATOR ALDRICH, of Rhode Island,
has been reelected to succeed himself.
FIRE at Dehodia, Mo-, destroyed the
car repair shops of the st. Louis &
Suburban Railway. Loss, $50, 900; part
ly insured.
Two lads were drowned at Muscatine,
Ia, while playing on raft.
Mrs. JULES LEROY, wife ola coal miner
at Imperial, Pa, tried to hasten the
breakfast by pouring kerosene on the
kitchen fire. An explosion followed,
and Mrs. Leroy and her two children,
aged 3 and 10 years respectively, were
burned SO badly that the youngest child
died in an hour, and the mother and
other child cannot recover.
THE clothing firm of Fred Eversman
& Co., of Toledo, failed. The liabilities
are SIS, 900, while the stock is estimated
at $4,000.
One of the largest fires that ever Wis.,
| tied the water front Of Baltimore start
! ed few minutes after o'clock on the
18th, on the Old Bay Line wharf at the
loot Of Union Dock. The loss, as near
as can be estimated, is nearly 81 100000.
THE tenth annual convention of the
Association of Master Plumbers of the
United States met at Washington on the
18th, with 237 delegates present. Near
| ly all Of the important cities in the
country were represented.
The Danube River has risen fourteen
| and q half inches IN ono MONT A+Pooh