Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-10-05
kicked and upset the boat. He leaves
a widow and two children

kicked and upset the boat. He leaves
widow and two children.
URIAH f. WAsHBURN, president of the
Peoples Bank of BaverstraW, n. Y,
dropped dead at the West Haverstraw
station Of the West Shore Railroad
while waiting for train.
THE WOODEN mill of Sayles & jerks, at
Warren, Mass, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $500, goo; insurance, $270,000.
THE steamer Whitney, valued at $780,
600, and carrying cargo valued at $780,,
coo, was run down by tie Ottoman, at
Boston, and sunk. The crew were all
rescued.
d. L. Nun and William H. Holt were
killed by an explosion in the Watson
mine, at Watsonburg, Col.
THE faculty of Yale College have pro-
hibited the annual rush between the
sophomore and freshman classes.
The five tons of stone ballast brought
from Greenland in the Kite, which went
to the Arctic regions to relieve the
Peary expedition, have been presented
by Capt. Pike to the Church of Our
Savior, of Camden, N. j., and will be
used in the construction of that build
ing, which WORK is now in progress.
THE steam whaler Mary d. Hume is
on her way to San Francisco from
Dutch Harbor, with 5000 pounds of
whalebone, valued at $240,0 The
Hume left San Francisco two years ago,
and since then has taken SO whales, over
100000 worth of bone having been sent
down last November from that vessel.
This together with oil and other prod
ucts, brings the value of the Hume's
catch TO about 800, 900, the most sue
cessful on record.
THE Irish lord chancellor has appoint
ed six new magistrates for the city of
Cork, all Of whom are McCarthyites.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has conferred the
grand Gordon of the Order of the Red
Eagle upon the Khedive of Egypt.
A MAN named Szemoidy, who, while
under arrest III Pressburg, Austria, COM
mitted suicide in his prison cell, has
proved to be the perpetrator OF a series
of murders and robberiss in Vienna.
A ST. PETERSBURG correspondent de-
scrlbes the horrors ofannual sacrifice to
the god of their tribe by the Tartars of
the Malmuick district, as recently wit
messed by him. A peasant was hanged
up by his feet and his head half severed
from his body. The breast was then
opened and the heart plucked out, with
which the face of the god was besmeared
as men danced around.
DR.. FRANCIS CHARLES ScoTT SANDERS,
the former proprietor of the Lyric
Club, London, who is charged with
forging the name of the Earl of Londes-
borough to bills for e3, 733, was commit
ted for trial. 1t is said he has at var
1ous times procured the large sum Of
81, 900, 900 by forging other persons
names.
DETROIT police have arrested r. L.
Montgomery. of New York, and Sam
Moy, a Chinese merchant of Chicago,
on a charge Of smuggling Cinnamon
into the States from Canada.
STEFFEN ZECHA, young Bohemian,
formerly of Winona, shot Mary Mend
lick, aged 10, in a jealous fit, at St. Elmo,
Mimi, and then killed himself. The
girl will live.
WILLIAM TANKERsLEE and Joseph Pax
ton carved each other IN a fight over
girl at Kansas City, Mo-, and the former
may die.
CHARLES WINES, colored has been
sentenced to be hanged at Boston, Tex,
November IL, for the murder OF Deputy
Sheriff JEFF Morgan last spring.
WALTER WEST, a convicted shop-lifter,
al Upton, Ind, has made a confession
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Hamilton and Upton counties.
Ex-JUDGE GEORGE f. CoMsToCK is dead
at Syracuse, n. \.
Mrs. THOMAS MAUD was killed by
lightning at lockwood, Ont.
Four persons were killed and ten
injured in the gale at New York.
THE New York Statz-Zeitung has be-
gun the issue of l-cent evening edi-
ton.
THE Minnesota Worlds Fair auxiliary
voted in favor of keeping the Worlds
Fair open on Sunday.
THE estate of the late George William
Curtis, according to the will filed in
court, was about SIC, 900.
SToNININGToN, Conn, officers, have
revived the ''blue laws" by prohibiting
the use of profane language.
THOMAS L. GREMIR, a Chicago thea
trical manager, has bought the Coup
railway circus and museum.
THE Chesapeake & Nashville road has
been sold by the sheriff to r. Weber, of
New York, for $50, 900.
WILLIAM DURGAN, the smallest mem
Der of the Masonic fraternity known,
being only 40 inches high, died sudden
ly at his home in Shellsburg, La.
KELLUM & GLENNIs' retail store at
Mount Clam, Tex, was blown up by
spark from a cigarette falling into
powder barrel. A boy was badly hurt.
THE President has appointed Prof.
Thomas Z. Mendenhall. superintendent
of the geodetic survey, as the United
States commissioner of the Internation-
al committee which is to settle the
boundary line between Alaska and
British Columbia.
Mrs. GROVER CLEVELAND, wife of the
ex-President, sued for possession of
blacksmith shop at Omaha, Neb., and
was beaten.
THE McKahn Sugar Refinery Com
pany mas been organized at Philadel
phia to combat with the sugar trust.
Capital 100000.
FULLY twenty square miles Of timber
has been destroyed from Tin Cup to
Texas Greek, in the Rocky Mountains.
The damage is enormous.
LENA ScHMITT, a German woman, of
Bordentown, n. j., murdered three
small children by choking them to death
in her house. One of the victims was