Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-05-18
NEWS PARAGRAPHS 8.

on the 18th inst. by the blowing up of
an OIL ce building by bomb. No one
was hurt.
MEssRs. HAM, Mumford, Coates,
Griffith and Baker, American tourists,
have been awarded 81 POO damages each
by Swiss court in suit against the
federal authorities for false imprison-
ment. They were arrested at Bernc in
August last
DAN. CoUGHLIN, another life prisoner
at Joliet for completely in the Cronin
murder, IS IN the prison hospital, suffer
ing, it is believed, from quick cOnsump-
ton.
GEN. THOMAS A. RowLEY, VINO served
with distinction in the Mexican war and
the rebellion, was found dead in his
bed at PittsbuTg.
THE will OF William Astor has been
filed for probate in New York. 1t dis
poses of property valued at $65 900, COO,
but of this large amount Mrs. Coleman
Drayton, the testator's daughter, gets
nothing. Provision was made for her
in the original document, but late
codicii revokes all mention of her.
AT Fresno, Cal, the jury in the case
of F. W. Baird, ex-president Of the
Bank Of Madeira, who is charged with
forgery, has returned q verdict Of guilty.
THERE was riot on the 18th in the
town Of Sezemetz, near Pardubitz,
Bohemia. Five hundred workingmen
| out of employment, after vainly de-
manding work from the authorities,
sacked number Of shops, stealing all
the money and goods they could lay
their hands on, including large
quantities of brandy and tobacco. The
riot was quelled by gendarmes, who ar
rested the leaders.
! Ten THOUSAND foreign Jews in Odessa
| have been ordered to leave Russia
forthwith.
AT Memphis on the 18th inst the
new steel cantilever bridge, the largest
of it's kind in the world, was formally
opened for traffic in the presence of 30,
600 people. The main span is 794 feet.
THE upper leather tanners in the Bos-
| ton district have agreed to shut down
for sixty days.
| JUDGE NELSON, in the Unitee States
| district court at Boston, has quashed
the Indictment against officials Of the
great Whisky Trust.
THE tug Darlington, OF Duluth. picked
| up among the breaking ice in Lake Su-
| Derior dilapidated boat containing the
bodies Of three men. The boat is sup
| posed to have come from Two HarbOrs,
but has not yet been identified.
MUCH damage is reported on Lake
Huron by reason Of q heavy fog.
TIE heavy floods along the Missouri
and Lower Mississippi are reported to
be receding.
The contract with the Henry syndi-
cate for Worlds Fair water transporta-
ton was signed at Chicago on the 11th.
The company is to be stocked for $780,
600. One whaleback steamer $50 feet
long and one composite steamer are to
be built
THE will of Augustus Kountze, the
New York banker, gives his brother,
Herman, in trust, the "Kountze addi- |
ton to the Omaha Reserve Block" con-
tanning thirty lots, and $4,000 in cash.
This goes to the General Synod of the
Lutheran Church of the United States
for a theological seminary on the
ground.
THE pottery Of Thomas A. Mad
dox d Sons, at Trenton, n. J., san
1tary-Ware manufacturers, was de-
Stroyed by fire on the 18TH. Loss, S175,-
900; partially insured. Over $50 men |
are thrown out of work.
THE Pesther-Lloyd publishes particu-
lars Of terrible disaster that occurred |
near Brody, town in Austrian Galacia. !
While 100 Workmen. with their wives |
and children, were crossing the river |
near BrOdy on raft, the raft capslzed |
and all were thrown into the water. |
Sixty persons were drowned.
THE steamer Fuerst Bismarck has |
again lowered the ocean record, making |
the run from New York to the Needles |
IN days y hours and SO minutes, a re- |
duction of - minutes.
THE Ohio law on the subject calls for |
a detailed report from all schools, public |
Il or ~. 7.
church school at Toledo, failed to COM
ply with the law. The School Board
brought the case before the courts for
q judicial decision on the constitutions
atty Of the law. The supreme court
sustains the law.
JEALOUSY caused William Wilson, a
well-to-do farmer of Anderson County,
S. g., to kill his wife and himself with
razor.
w. ". FINLEY has resigned the chair
manship Of the Western Passenger As
ISOLATION
THE difficulties between Nat Goodwin
and his wife have been settled by di-
vorce in a New York court.
LONG JOHN ROBINSON, a well-known
figure in Wall Street, is dead.
WHEN the Queen recently visited
Darmstadt the German Kaiser failed to
call on her, and now the royal family
relations are strained.
RUDOLPH JAEGER. the defaulting chief
cashier of the Rothschilds' great bank
ing house at Frankfort-on-the-M Main,
Germany, whose flight was made public
on April 20, has been arrested in Il hotel
at Ramleh, Egypt. His defalcation is
estimated at l, 100000 marks.
THE French cabinet has voted the sum
Of 800, 900 francs with which to pay in
IDENTITIES for losses resulting from the
recent dynamite outrages.
THE London grand jury has returned
true bin against Patrick Greville Nu-
gent, who is charged with having as
saulted Miss Marion Lymetta Brice in
the compartment Of carriage on the
London Brighton & South Coast Rail
way on the night of April Is.
THE passage by Congress of the bill
granting an American registry to the
1nman steamers City of New York and
City of Paris is received with much
milling in London The Board of |