Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

JAMES KIRKPATRICK, a young commits
sion man of Escanaba, Mich, commit
ted suicide by shooting. It is supposed
business difficulties led to the act. He
leaves wife and young son.
THE extensive plant of Buck e Sher-
wood, manufacturers of sanitary closets,
located at Detroit, was destroyed by fire.
Two frame residences were also burned.
The total damage will amount to $S5-,
900.
Mrs. TED DINEEN, wife of a young
birth to four girl babies weighing nearly
five pounds each. The mother is %
years old and weighs Ito pounds. She
and the daughters are doing we'll.
COL. E. 2. G. LEWIS, a millionaire and
ex- United States minister to Portugal !,
died suddenly at HobOken, n. J.
On the 4th, while E. S. Noble, q
prominent member o. the Elk Rapids
Iron Company, was starting out with a
party of nine friends for q ride on a
naphtha launch at Elk Rapids, Mich, it
exploded, seriously lnjuring the entire
party. Their injuries consisted of scaids
bruises and broken limbs. Had the
boat been very far from shore there
would no doubt have been many deaths
WHILE the work Of repairing the old
royal castle in Konigsberg, city Of
East Prussia, was going on, the scaffold-
ing suddenly collapsed, precipitating a
number Of workmen to the ground
Nine were instantly killed.
A TERRIFIC explosion of fire damp oc-
CURED on the 1st in the Agraffe coal
mine in Hainaut. The explosion caused
heavy coal fail that blockaded the
galleries of the mine, suffocating many
miners. Nearly all the men have been
accounted for. Some escaped unin-
]ured. Twenty-Five bodies have been
recovered and eight men are alive,
though very seriously injured, have
been taken from the mine by the rescu-
ing parties.
Ar independence, Ia, on the 81 st
Nancy Hanks, in the presence Of 5000
people, broke the trotting record of the
world by doing mile in 2:O54.
The Muncie Ind.) Architectural Iron
Works burned on the night Of the 31st.
Loss, $l75, 900; insured for $3S, 900.
A COLLISION occurred on the 10Th lust
outside the city of Brussels between an
Ostend express train and an Antwerp
tram. Two persons were killed ont
right and eighteen were seriously in
jured.
REDFERN, ALEXANDER & Co., mer-
chants and bankers of London, Aus
tralia and New Zealand, have failed,
with liabilities amounting to $3.50, 900.
News has been received at Berlin that
a banker Of that city named Broka and
two guides fell over a precipice while
ascending Mont Grivola in the Aosta
Valley, Italy, and that al three were
dashed to death.
AN American petition in favor of the
release from prison of Mrs. May brick.
which contains the names of Mesdames
Harrison and Bland has been present
ed to the Queen.
A NEWSPAPER of Lisbon announces
that portion of Portugal's colonies are
to be sold under reserve in order to
meet the interest on the exterior debt
of the country.
FIRE broke out on the night of the
18th in the kitchen of the residence of
Ell Potter, a merchant at the corner of
Eighth Street and State Avenue, Kansas
City, Kas. The house was entirely de-
stroyed, also the house Of William AL
bright, city clerk. The loss on Mr.. Pot
ter's residence is $4,000. Mr.. AL
bright's loss is SIS 900.