Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-10-05
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Paris on the I'd after enduring intense
suffering from congestion of the lungs.
AT Evansville, Ind, at Miller's club
house, Charles Johnson, a young attor-
ney. and son OF the wealthiest man in
the city, shot and Instantly killed Jacob
App. an Air Line engineer. Johnson
was drunk and attacked App with q
cane. When the latter tried to defend
himself Johnson poked a revolver to his
breast and fired. The bullent went
clear through App.
WILLIAM s. HURLEY, of Brooklyn, n.
n, has sued William Miles, bis uncle,
formerly the head of the Six-Penny
Savings Bank, for S350,000 for the al
legged forgery Of his fathers name.
LORD WALTER S. BEREsFoRD, alias Sid
ney Lascelles, the noted English torger,
was sentenced to six years hard labor in
the penItentlary, at Rome, Ga.
WABD FARNHAM, living near Traer,
Ia, while temporarily insane picked up
a shotgun, fired at Alice Campbell, his
cousin, and fatally wounded her.
THE London Chronicle says that Sir
William HarcOurt and LORD Rosebery
were divided on the Uganda question,
the latter being III favor of backing the
company.
SEvENTY-SEyEN per. cent. Of the master
cotton spinners of England have de-
cided to enforce q reduction Of per
cent. in the wages OF their employees.
The men stubbornly refuse to accept
the proposed reduction, and intend to
strike. The decision to reduce wages
affects 100000 spindles using cotton.
THE twenty-five prisoners Implicated
III the Bukoylna customs trauGs at
Vienna were all found guilty. Five OF
,lx1,- -
wears each, and eleven others to one
year. The balance were discharged.
THE London Economist says that a
crisis exists IN the Scotch mineral oil
trade, owing to the disagreement with
the American scale producers and can
dle-makers' committee III the matter of
the proposed pooling of accumulated
stocks of solid paratfine.
IN an election to fill vacancy for
South Bedfordshire in the British Par
lament the Liberal candidate was
elected, but by largely reduced ma
jority on account of the temperance
question and pledges OF the Liberal.
A JURY in the district court of Wyan-
dotte County, kas., returned a verdict
awarding $4,000 damages to Lille L.
WYATT, an lI-year old girl who brought
suit for 5000 against the Kansas City
Consolidated & Chelsea Park Railway
for personal injuries. Lille Wyatt was
run over by al electric car and had q leg
cut of. The jury found that the acct
dent was caused by gross carelessness of
the company's employees.
WHILE workmen were operating a
derrick near Anderson, Ind, it caught
a freight car and threw it over upon
some laborers. Charles Cunningham
T-l1 4o%o
" hurt and four other WOrkmen serl-
ously injured.
THREE valuable trotting horses and
twenty-five hogs of good breed We're
killed by freight wreck near Wal
than, Mass.
EMIL HABERKoRN, leader of the Du-
quesne Theater orchestra, Pittsburg
and recently divorced husband of Mar
garet Mather, the actress, was married
on the 1st inst. to Miss Emma Smith
Foster. of that city. Miss Foster was
formerly engaged in missionary work in
the Southern states.
MAINS large axe factory at Altoona,
Pa, has been shut down, throwing a
large number OF men out of employ
ment.
THE Webb family, who number about
1000, and who descended from Lozam
and Eli Webb, who settled at Webb's
Prairie, H., in 1912, had reunion
at that place. Fully 800 were present
John Webb, as the eldest living de-
scendant, was presented with gold
headed cane, and Mamie Page, of Ham
ilton County with rocking chair Their
ages are respectively II and IS years.
THE record Of Maud S. was tied by
Belle Vara also by Vatican at Terre
Haute, Ind, on the 30th.
THE official figures Of the Maine guber-
material vote of the last election, every
city, town and plantation included, give
Cleaves, 81 .535; johnson, 80, 073; Massey
Pro-, 1871; Knowlton (Lab.), 1850;
Bateman (Peo.), 3,005; scattering, II.
Total, 129, 629; Cieayes' plurality, y, 512.
4 FIRE which at one time threatened
the entire dry goods district OF
New York, broke out in the
fve-story building, % and a
silks and embroideries, occupied the
third, fourth and fifth floors and
the mansard roof The first and Sec
ond floors were occupied by Otherman,
Dyer 4 SouthWick, WOODEN goods. Dam
age, 100000, mostly to Paul Gurnbin-
ner.
THE New York Chamber of Com
merce cholera emergency fund was
probably the largest fund ever collected
III that city in SO short time. The
fund is now practically 100000.
FIRE at the Union stock yards, Oma-
ha, burned about 1000 sheep sheds
and smothered about 900 head of sheep.
Loss, $13, 900. Fully insured.
WELSH newspapers declare that Mr..
Gladstone has invited an eminent Welsh
ecclesiastic TO draft bill disestablishing
the church in Wales They add that
the bill will be prepared in a manner
that will be acceptable to the Welsh
clergy.
THE board of directors of the Suez
Canal have decided to reduce the tolls
on January I, 1898, by half a franc.
THE foot and mouth disease has brok-
en- out among the cattle in the province
Of Hainault and the districts round
about.
THE British steamer North Flint had
a collision with a passenger steamer in
the Bosphorus. The passenger steamer
was stove in and had to be beached