Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-07-12
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Patrick RILEY & Son, leather dealers
at Newark, \. j., have assigned. The
liabilities are 100000.
LITTLE favor is shown the attempt to
resurrect the National Board of Health.
1t is said to be useless.
PRACrICAL men will be given prefer
ence in the treasury promotions. Secre-
tary Carlisle has SO declared.
INSURANCE rates in Illinois have been
+ increased 10 per cent, according to the
report of the state auditor.
INDIANAPOLIS is practically penniless
through the failure of New York firm
to take its refunding bonds.
No contractor employing convict labor
can bid on government work, according
to an order from the supervisor.
A sTEERAGE passenger named keely
died Of apopleXy on the Cunarder Cam
pania on her last eastward voyage.
BASIL LOCKWOOD, the colored hero of
the Ford Theater disaster at Washing
ton, has been presented with gold
watch.
EDWARD NJ GADsDEN, of Georgia has
been appointed superintendent of the
money order service, Post-office Depart
ment.
THE Arkansas State Bank of Stuttgart,
and the Arkansas Farmers and Trad
ers' Bank of Dewitt, Ark, have closed
their doors.
FINDING her daughters prospective
Mrs. Lane, of HillsbOro, Ill, horse
whipped him.
LOUIS SCHULTZ, ex-senator, confessed
to having killed George Artanasin at
Stockton, Call, July 4, to avenge his sis
ter's downfall.
THE Mayor and Council of Kansas
City, Kas., have. concluded to order the
electric lights turned off on account of
the city's poverty.
Gov RICH, of Michigan, has is
sued his first pardon. The subject Of
executive clemency is V. O. Harrison,
who was sentenced to ten years in 1891.
ANXIETY of the State Department to
get vessel III Samoan waters is to pre-
vent war rather than to look after
American interests after a revolution
occurs.
GREAT damage was done by hail
! storm near Pembine, n. d.
WAR has not vet broken out in Samoa
! but the situation is still critical.
! DURING June forty six deaths occurred
at IrOnWOOd, Mich, from typhoid fever.
| A WAREHOUSE and granary burned at
| Hamburg, causing a loss of 500, 900
marks.
! THE report of the master in chancerv
in the MonOn Railway case is against
that company.
GEORGE H. LUCE, jeweler, was arrested
at Columbus, O., on charge of operat-
ing 4 fence.
HAWAIIAN lepers are in rebellion and
have killed an officer. They object to
being removed to Molaki.
DAVID LAVENDER has been arrested
for the murder of r. II. Reed at Chat
tanooga. He has confessed.
THE Rev. c. J. Sandport, Lutheran
| minister known throughout the United
States, died at Evansville, Ind, aged II
! years.
THREE men held up an International
! x Great Northern train near Palestine,
Tex, and secured $500 from the express
safe.
LOWER transcontinental rates are
! promised. The Union Pacific will re-
duce the tariff from San Francisco to
the Missouri.
JACOB LANDED, an old settler of Rob
erts, H., was killed by the accidental
discharge of pistol in the hands of
Albert Sandstedt.
GEORGE HARTMAN, of Wheeling, w.
! Va, engaged in a drunken quarrel with
! his brOtherin-laW, George Pond, and
was fatally stabbed.
! }. +. ST. JOHN was appointed superin-
tendent of the Michigan Industrial
! School for Boys at Lansing to succeed
Supt. Wood, resigned.
ANDREW DEBNEY, a farmer of Genoa.
Neb., shot and killed his wife and COM
mitted suicide by drowning. Mrs. Deb
ney had sued for divorce.
! THOMAS ST. CLAIR, murderer of Kate
Fitzgerald on the bark Hesker at sea last
January, was sentenced at San Francis
co to be hanged October 6.
HUGH d. SMITH, a farmer, was fatally
injured at Batavia, Ia, by being run
into by train as he was crossing the
Chicago, Burlington q Quincy tracks.
THE Bank of Florence, at Florence,
Col, closed its doors.
A. L. JONES & Co., grocers at Syracuse,
n. Y, have failed for $50, 900
THE President will prepare his mes
sage to Congress while at Buzzards
Bay.
THE anti-Whisky Trust distillerv of
Woolner Bros, at Peoria, H., has re-
sumed operations.
THE Crossley hose company, of Cory,
d., 1Oh C1Sl G1c -OO- AStIu NOIlU > IoCOIU
from % Is seconds to 223.
RAILWAYS centering in Cincinnati have
decided on cat rates to the Worlds Fair
as each line may determine.
5. w. CUNEY, the colored collector of
customs at Galveston, Tex, has re-
ceived official notification of his re-
mOVal
A 10-YEAR-OI.D child of CITY Clerk Nc
Donald, of Brazil, Ind, dram a teacup
full Of coal oil and is lying in precari-
Gus condition.
JOHN NELSON was murdered at Carney,
Mich. John Blemquist, for whom Nell
son worked, has been arrested, charged
with the crime.
SECRETARY HOKE SMITH will take a trip
! through the West, visiting Yellowstone
Park and the Indian reservations in
Washington state.
STARR and Wilson, the desperadoes
captured at Colorado Springs, will be
taken to Fort Smith, Ark, for trial on a
charge of train ROBBERY.
In response to the demands of En-
gland the Sultan of Turkey has ordered