Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-10-26
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

THE Stewart iron works at Wichita,
Kas., were damaged $4,000 by fire.
DIR. WILLIAM II. CHEATHAM died at
Shelbyville, Ind. He was Y years old,
DIPHTHER1A is epidemic at Flint and
Bay City, Mich.
BRAINS OPERA House, at Farmer City,
r., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $1,000.
Insured.
SOUTH CAROLINA has been unable to Sc
cure the money necessary to refund the
state debt.
THE Protestant Episcopal Convention
has selected Minneapolis as the next place
of meeting.
The steamer Rio de Janeiro has arrived
at San francisco, CAL, from Hong Kong
and Yokohama.
FRANK WILKINSON, on t1ial at Rome,
Ga, for murder, has been convicted or vol
untary manslaughter.
Mrs. EDWIN NEUNLIST, of Louisville.
KY, was killed by gun-trap set for a
chicken thief by her son.
Col. j. III. II. WOOD, of dime museum
notoriety, died at Adrian, Mich, Of
BrightS disease, aged 70 years.
THE house of Michael Hansas, a mail
carrier at Manannah. Mimi, was burned,
and two OF his children persisted
SEVERAL students have been expelled
and others suspended from the Lehigh
University at Bethlehem, Pa, for hazing.
ANTON ERELPEDING, Iaborer, at
tempted to kill his wife at st. Paul, and
! then sent bullet through his own BRAIN.
IHE Stewart StuccO and cement works
at Colorado City, Colo, were destroyed by
fire. The whole plant was valued at SIS
900.
ALVIN WILLIAMS. captain Of Demo-
cratic campaign club, was shot dead by
Henry Allison at political row in Allln-
field, Ind.
WILSON d. SCHoOLEY, one of Indianas
most noted men, an author and inventor,
was married to Miss Lcttie S. Mace, Of
Boston, Mass.
Seward, Neb., was run over by North
Western train at Rockford, Ill. and man
| gled to pieces
EDWIN +. EARLE, Grand Army vet
eran, dropped dead of heart disease while
| passing the reviewing stand at Brooklyn
| on Columbus Day.
DENNIS T. HANKS, the early tutor and
| lifelong friend of the martyred President.
| Abraham Lincoln, died at Paris, ILL.,. aged
| 90 years month and days.
EDWIN GOULD, son of Jay Gould, and
| Miss Sarah G. Shrady, adopted daughter
| Of DR.. and Mrs. George f. Shrady, of New
York City, are to be married.
THE seal catch of British Columbia, for
| the season, is $4,000 skins, against 81 995
last year. Values have also reduced, MAX
ing the total falling Off about 81 per cent.
The young girl who was assaulted and
| murdered near Wilmington, Del, was
named Katie Dugan. Richard Riley has
been arrested on suspicion.
| G.. l.. BAINBRIDGE, agent for the Singer
Sewing Machine Company at Hot Springs,
| Ark, was convicted of embeZZlement and
his punishment fixed at one year in the
| penitentIary.
AT Letters. Ind, on the Chicago & Erie
road, a Wells-Fargo express train was
wrecked by broken switch. Engineer
| David Frederick and Fireman John Metz
were fatally injured.
A COLLISION occurred on a North Van
dalia switch, at Brazil, Ind. Several cars
were deraied, and Engineer William
| Burch, of the nOrth-bound freight prOba-
bly, fatally injured.
EDWARD GOoDACRE, member Of the
firm OF Kedfern q Co., has been arrested
by special inspectors at New \ Ork, on a
charge of smuggling clothes into this
country by women agents.
ROBERT WHITE, aged Is, son OF John
| White, of Walnut Level, Ind, was fatally
mangled by freight train at Muncle.
| The left arm was severed above the elbow
and the left leg was mangled at the groin.
r. BRUNSoN, a young Journalist who has
been IN san Francisco about a month, COM
mitted suicide by inhaling gas through q
tube from the fixture in his room. lie was
a native OF Germany, and was q years of
age.
THE barn and outbuildings on the farm
of William Bartholomew, near Valparai-
so. Ind, were destroyed by fire. Nine
| horses and large quantity Of hay and
grain were consumed. The loss will reach
$4,000.
JAMES FERGUSON, who was deputy post
master at Battle Greek, Mich, for twenty
years, fell down stairs at his residence and
was almost instantly killed. He was 20
years old and prominent Knight lem
plar.
Mrs. J. K. MCKINLEY, wife of mar
bic dealer at Dwight, ILL.,. committed sui
eide while insane, and, before taking her
own life, administered poison to her 2
year-Old daughter, which resulted IN death
shortly after.
THE body of F. G. Eldridge, a railroad
man, of Akron, o., was found In the lake
at Cleveland weighed down with two
coupling links. The links were attached
to the body by a rope, which was twisted
about the neck.
IT is reported that S. T. Halberstedt
general manager of New York life IN
Surance company agency IN the City, OF
Mexico is an embeZZler to the amount of
$4,000. and has fled. All his property
has been cOnfiScated.
| THE cOrOner'S jury in the railroad calam-
ity at HarrISon'S Station, near New Lon
don. when five men and four horses were
| Killed, hndS THOMAS j. Carroll, the night
operator, guilty of criminal negligence. and
cenSureS the Vermont Central Railroad
Company for making Carroll act as teIeg-
rapher and Switchman eleven hours night
for $3.50 day.
Mrs. CHARLES A. ZIMMERMAN, wife
of successful physician at Lafayette,
Ind. ended her life by taking two grains
of StrychEine and four grains of morphine.
Her maiden name was Matte Mason, and
her father is wealthy furniture dealer at
Richmond, IND, where the body Will be
sent for burial. She was Al years old, and
the mother OF four children.
QUIQUEREZ, the French African explor-
er, is dead.
FIVE top tiers Of seats collapsed in a
rink at West WinSted, Conn.,, during the
progress OF Columbus exercises. Three
hundred children fell to the floor, and
many had broken limbs and bad bruises.
| FRANK PLATTER, of the firm of Platter
q Sons, pump manufacturers, Anderson.
Ind, was fatally injured by natural gas
explosion. He was lighting CRATE fire
when the disaster occurred. The house
was wrecked.
The four children of Josh Matthews
living near Claremont, Sumter County. S.