Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-12-28
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


PERMISSION has been granted for the
making of boringS on the line of the pro-
posed tunnel under East River at New
York.
ROBERT KUEHNERT, attorney for six
building associations IN Cincinnati, has
disappeared. He was q member OF local
suicide society.
CLEVELAND denies that the Office of
chief of the government secret service has
beeu offered TO Supt. ByrneS, OF the New
York police department.
1t is SAID that DR.. Herr, WHO'S connected
with the Panama Canal scandal III Paris,
secured 100000 on forged paper While
resident Of San Francisco
MIKE NORTON and Abe Lloyd, who
fought with gloves in Newport, KY, we're
both held III 81, 600 to await the action OF
the grand jury. Both are in jail.
lie Nez Perces Indians refuse to sell
their lands to the government, and the
Federal commission has returned TO Lewis
ton, Idaho, from the council
THE will of Asa Z. Churchill, of Bos-
ton lust filed. provides that the requests
for his daughter Will be invalidated Ii any
of it is given to the Catholic Church.
SAMUEL, TYRENT, of Chicago, collected
several hundred dollars from the people OF
Windsor. Ont, for tickets IN the Vera Cruz
lottery, which proved to be fraudulent.
BURGLARS broke into the house of War
den Louis ID. PilSbury, OF the penltentlary
on Blackwell'S Island, and stole big ce-
dar chest containing 81, 500 worth OF sill
VerWare.
SUIT has been instituted at Boston to
wind up the affairs of the Order of Sons
and Daughters of America. The ndebt.
edness is $450,0O0, and the cash on hand
$1,000.
AN attempt was made at Mount Pleas
ant, Utah, to aSSaSSinate Andrew Nielsen,
&c hiar of the Mount Pleasant Rank
Neilsen's son, Peter, is charged with the
crime.
THE Standard Oil Company will furnish
! 81 900, 600 to be used for building the Du-
| Iuth, MeSaba IL Northern Railroad to
Omaha and for building ore docks at Du-
| luth.
THE Rev. Mr.. Piston, pastor of the
Lutheran Church III Albuquerque, n. NJ,
! has been removed from his pulpit for
drunkenness. He was formerly located in
4 Chicago.
! c. c. ANTOINE, the cOlored lieutenant
governor of Louisiana under Gov. Kellogg,
has been cleared of a criminal charge
brought against him as result Of an IN
VOlyed real estate deal.
! MANY distinguished people attended the
services at llaverhill, Mass, III memory OF
the poet, John Greenleaf Whittier.
The Ebbitt House will be the home Of
Vice-PreSidentele Stevenson while in
Washington prior to the inauguration.
FIVE Cinnamon were sentenced to thirty
days Imprisonment at Suspension Bridge
for illegally entering the United States.
E. A. PECK has resigned the position of
general superintendent of the Big Four
Railway, and the Office has been abolished.
JAMES S. CLARKSON is at the head of q
syndicate which has purchased the City OF
Mexico street railway service for SI,O00,-
coo.
THE United States consul at Hamburg
will not issue clean bills OF health to
steamers clearing from Hamburg for the
United States.
WILLIAM GRUN, in jail at Canton, o.,
for larceny, hanged himself after having
been prayed with for an hour by ". G. 7.
L. members. e
THE revolutionary sentiment in Rio
Grande do Sui. Brazil is SubSldlng. 1t Is
now known that he federal government
intends to interfere.
S. W. SAWYER. a banker at Ell Reno, Ok.
has been indicted for rObbing his bank OF
$4,000. He claimed that the Dalton gang
had committed the robbery.
HENRIETTA PREMIER, who sued FREQ
X. Schrieber IN the city court, Brooklyn
for $4,000 damages for breach OF promise o
marriage, got verdict for $1,000.
THOMAS CASTOR, captain of the police
shot and killed w. {. Strickland, at Jack
son. Tenn. Strickland charged Castor
publicly with corrupt official acts.
FEDERAL authorities have made a com
. plete investigation, and the result Show
tie report that the Mexican soldiers were
held as prisoners at san gnaclO Is false
A FREIGHT train and an express trair
cOllided on the Memphis line at Merriam
Mo-, and Engineer George fOueIl wa
killed and several other persons were in
jured.
b. T. WHIPPLE, q Kansas City capitalist
has been sued for $3.50 Tor not voting
The action is under a charter provision
which fixes the penalty named tor failur
; to vote.
Mrs. ANNA NJ. SMITH, the slayer of Au
gust Hoppe, who was convicted at st. Pau
Of murder in the third degree, was sen
fenced to twenty-five years III the stat
prison.
THE Canadian Express office at Sarnia
Ont, was entered while the agent was a
dinner, and $1,000 stolen from the safe
The safe was opened with duplicate key
, | There is no clue.
} IT has been decided to complete the Du
luth Pierre q Black Hills Railroad be
tween Aberdeen and Rapid City, vi
Pierre. This will involve an immediat
outlay of 81, 100000.
THE carpet establishment OF D. P. Otte
. heimer and the store of the Little Roc
Grocery Company, at Little Rock, Ark
600; insurance, $50, 900.
CHARLES FORT, convicted at Marion
Ind, OF manslaughter, was sentenced t
twenty years III the penltentiary.
WILLIAM A. SHULTZ was drowned a
Valparaiso, Ind, by being thrown ont O
a wagon while driving across a bridge.
DAVID MAILMAN, serving ten years il
Joliet prison, on conviction OF burglary
has been pardoned. He was innocent
TIE trial of Henry Foster, for killing ez
Congressman j. B. Morgan, Of fernando
Miss, has begun at Water Valley, Tenn.
TWENTY state fish commissioners frOr
various states and Canada, met at DetrOl
to discuss a uniform law for close fisI
season.
A COMPANY has been formed at ST
Louis, with 81 300 DOC capital to build an
other bridge across the Mississippi at tina
point.
4 The ThOmsOn-Houston Company ha
purchased the Syracuse, n. Y, street raj
way system. the property is valued a
$1500,000.
IHE Union Bank OF South Carolina an
4 London will be established at Columbia, :
G., with $2O,O00,0OO capital. It is an En-
glIsh concern.
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