Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-10-19

| fOhIION VI lu0 WORKINGS III CO6 SL.
Belpirite mines, in the department of
Rhone, France, has collapsed. A num-
Der of miners were caught under the
| falling debris and three of them were
killed. Several others were badly in
jured.
CHOLERA riots have occurred in the
town of Ostrovo, in Poland. A san
culinary conflict took place between
Christians and Jews, and the situation
| assumed such threatening aspect that
the authorities were forced to call upon
the military to put down the rioters.
ANOTHER case Of mutiny exactly SIM
| liar to that which occurred q few DAYS
| ago at Windsor, has occurred at Ports
| mouth. The Thirteenth Company of
the Army Service Corps stationed there
has been compelled to attend number
of extra drills. During the night the
harnesses belonging to the horses of
| the company were so badly cut that
they are worthless.
The national officers of the Union
Veteran Legion of America, as elected
| at Indianapolis, are: National COM
mander, William Il. Tucker, Indianap-
oils; senior vice-commander, James
| Beggs, Cincinnati; junior vice-com-
mander, II. K. Sloan; surgeon-general,
DR.. Winfield NorcrOss, Lewiston, Me. ;
| chapi6in-in-chief, John A. banks, Pitts
| burg.
The Missouri State Republican Cen
| trail Committee has decided that all
electoral candidates who were office
| holders or candidates for office are in
eligible as electors, and must resign
from the ticket.
MAJ. O.. @. BEARDSLEY, of Grand
Forks, has completed the survey of the
boundary line between North and South
Dakota. The original survey is found
to be almost entirely correct. Mai.
Beardsley erected $50 granite mon
uments between the west line of Min
nesota and the east line of Montana.
A MOB of natives attacked the English
| missionaries at Kieng Yong, in Fukien,
China. The residence of the Rev. Phil
lips was set on fire by the mob and
completely destroyed. Mr.. Phillips
and his wife had a narrow escape from
death.
LOUIS MARX, of the clothing firm of
Marx Brothers, of McKeesport, Pa,
shot and killed himself. Financial
troubles form the supposed cause. He
was "a years old. Marx Brothers also
have large store in Huntington, Ind.
CHARLES G. DOOLITTLE was fatally shot
IN mysterious manner at Cincinnati.
Some say it was suicide and others
murder. Doollttle had his life insured
for large sum the week previous. He
leaves a wife and two small children.
DR.. W4EsCHER, professor of theology,
committed suicide by shooting himself
with revolver at Bornhoven, Schles-
wig Holstein, because he could not
reconcile his personal beliefs to the doc
trines be had to teach.
FRAU THEREsE VoGI, who was the IA
vorite prima donna of the late Inflated
King Louis, of Bavaria, has just hidden
farewell to the public. Nine. Yogi an
nounces her intention to spend the re-
mainder of her days in the Castle of
Dierelfut, on the shore of Starnburg
Lake, the spot where King Louis so
tragically ended his life.
PRESIDENT CARNoT, of France, has be-
slowed the cross of the Legion of Honor
on Henry Harris, an American, in rec
ignition Of his high literary qualities,
he being the author of numerous
learned and interesting works on the
life, discoveries and times of Columbus.
The coroners' jury at Victoria, B. c.,
in the case Of J. w. Conrad Cox, of New
York, whose body was found near the
George Road, returned a verdict of sui
eide while IN condition of temporary
insanity.
HENRY B. RYDER, formerly American
consul at Copenhagen, who was ar
rested for frauds in connection with the
administration of estates entrusted to
him in his official capacity, has been
released in the sum of $1,000.
THE young Jesuit astronomer, Prof.
George A. Fargis, S. j., of GEORGETOWN
University, who some time ago invent
ed the photo-chronograph for measur-
ing star transits, has made novel and,
it is claimed, very valuable application
of his discovery. By it he has been
able to determine latitude and longi-
tude.
JEROME Township, Madison County,
ILL.,, is one big hospital Every school
in the township is closed, and it is es-
timated that within a radius of four
miles there are 300 cases of diphtheria.
Scarcely family has escaped. All the
surrounding country has quarantined
against the township and patrols guard
all the roads. Not paaticle of business
is being done, and all farm work is
suspended.
E. W. HOWE, late traffic manager of
the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas
Railway, has accepted the position of
chairman of the Mexican Freight Asso-
citation, with headquarters in Mexico
City. The compensation he will receive
is said to be $4,000 per annum.
THE medals authorized by the act of
Congress for the officers of the jeanette
Arctic relief expedition have been pre-
scented. OF the ten officers, but two are
living-Commodore Melville and r. S.
Newcomb, naturalist. The medals fo1
the dead will be presented to their fam
lilies.
c. d. BUDDECKE, one of the wealthiest
grain merchants of New Orleans,
drowned himself in the Clayborne
Canal. Cause, excessive drinking.
ALICE GRANGER a Chatham, Ont,
school teacher, who was worried by un-
ruly boys, poisoned herself with NOR
phine.
JULIUS VoLLBRACHT. aged 81, commit
ted suicide in jail at Quincy, Ill.,, by
taking morphine.
MATTHEW BROWN was fatally shot at
Crescent City, o. T., by ''Kid" Huntley,
whom he tried to whip.
CHARLES BERKHEIMER was fatally shot
by Frank Schultz, a rival for a pirl's