Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-07-27
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

A BIG building used as temporary
barracks by q large gang of laborers Oh
the Chicago gas pipe line at Iogansport,
Ind, collapsed on the night of the 21st,
killing two and injuring fifteen of the
sleeping inmates.
FIRE at Moosup, Conn, destroyed sew
eral buildings, including the depot of
the New York q New England Railroad.
Loss 100000.
HENRY J. GARDINER, Massachusetts,
oldest living ex-governor, died on the
22d at his home in Milton. He held the
Office from 1866 to 1858.
ACCORDING to the school census, Chi
| cago's population is now ,42S, 1908.
THE depot, Kings Hotel, Masonic
Hall and two dwellings were burned at
Moosap, Conn.
E. c. KNIGHT, the millionaire sugar
refner, died at his cottage, Cape May
Nd, aged IS.
S. r. & G. ". HOWELL, lumber mer-
chants, were convicted at St. Joseph,
Mo-, of conspiring to 'defraud the rail-
way company by underweighing lum-
Der shipments.
Four men were asphyxiated in the
tannery of Louis Huck & Sons, Chi
cago. Charles Steinert, John r.
Ebachek and Frank Speckowsky are
dead. Albert Schleger, it is thought,
cannot recover.
SEWER COUNTY, Tenn, is excited over
wllful murder. An aged and respect
able man named Robert Lewis was shot
to death by Thomas Reed. An effort
was made to lynch Reed, but the mob
failed.
A New YORK paper says Mrs. J. Cole
man Drayton sailed on the steamer
Aller for Bremen. John Jacob Astor
her Oft. Her name was not on the pas
senger list, and every precaution was
used to keep her departure quiet.
THREE boys, John Mckay, Joe Wran-
zen and Joe Sandberg, aged Il, were
playing cards under car on the side
track at Atlantic City, Ia. During a fly
ing switch the car was struck. McKay's
body was cut in two, Wranzell's right
leg was cut completely off, and Sand
berg. who Rugged the ground, was so
badly cut that he will probably die.
AT Jefferson City, Mo-, w. j. Stone,
of Vernon County, was nominated for
governor by the Democratic convention
on the nineteenth ballot.
The schooner Argo, from North
Wales, foundered mile off Douglass,
Isle of Man, and her crew Of four men
were drowned.
AT the Benduff slate quarry, in
County Cork, while the quarrymen
were at work, a portion of an over
hanging bank of earth and slate COL
lapsed, and ten men were buried be-
meath the debris. Nine of them are
dead.
IT is reported from London that the
Prince of Wales will certainly visit the
Worlds Fair.
EARL ORKNEY and the notorious con-
cert singer, Connie Gilchrist. were mar
ried in All Souls Church. London.
Only half dozen people, intimates of
the parties, were present.
The American Pharmaceutical Asso-
citation, IN session at Profile House, n.
H., awarded the association prize to
Prof. J. .. Lloyd, for his paper on "Ap-
proved Method of Assaying Alkaloidal
Chemicals" which was presented at the
last annual meeting.
THE Cleveland Stock Yard buildings
were destroyed by fire. The only thing
saved is the Stock Yards Hotel. Loss.
$l50,000. Two hundred head of hogs
were burned.
RECEIVER BEAL, of the Maverick
Bank, Boston, has received the papers
from Acting Comptroller of the Cur
reGcy Nixon ordering an assessment Of
$4OO, 600 on the stockholders of the.
bank. The assessment is for the full
limit allowed by the law.