Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-10-04
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


scarcity of funds.
CLARE Robinson, the Normal safe
robber. was put under bonds of 5000
at VALPARAISO, Ind. In default of bail
lie was put in jail.
Mrs CLARK has secured 900 YER
dict against the Milwaukee & St. Paul
road at Cedar Rapids, Ia, for the kill
me of her husband.
PRoF. EDWARD L. BRIGGS, teacher of
mathematics in the Harrisburg, Pa,
public schools, has been dismissed for
drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
JEFFERSON REED, well-known citizen
OF Roscoe, H., was found hanging in an
old house in which he formerly lived.
It is thought he was mentally unbal-
anced.
BARRETT SCOTT, who embezzled $70,
eco belonging to Polk County, Tex, and
who was arrested at Ciudad Juare,
Mex, voluntarily returns to Nebraska
for trial.
john FEREN, boarding house keeper,
who had shipped a number of non
union sailors from San Francisco, was
severely beaten by union sailors at San
Pedro, Cal, and robbed of $50.
THE revenue cutter Rush has reached
san Francisco, bringing news that the
have been condemned by the United
States circuit court at Sitka, Alaska.
w w. WEBB, ticket broker at To-
peka, Kas, was arrested charged with
extending the time on.Santa Fe Railroad
tickets which had run out and signing
to them the name Of @. L. Nicholson.
INDICTMENTS for embezzlement were
returned at Pittsburg, Pa, against Peter
LaZarveits, Isaac Schaffer, and q. 7.
Tllipinni, bankers, who recently failed.
The first-named is in jail, and Schatfer
is missing.
S. DRYFUs, who claims to be Chicago
liquor dealer, was arrested at Sioux
City, Ia, charged with swindling peO-
pie in towns in Iowa and South Dakota.
1t IS said he has procured III small loans
on valueless rings 81 900 from people in
the trade.
MARTIN f. BoLAND, president Of the
Grand Rapids Typographical Union, COM
1nitted suicide at Grand Rapids, Mich,
by taking morphine. At one time he
owned and edited a newspaper in Kan
sas and was once a member of the Kan
sas legislature.
REVENUE COLLECTOR c. NJ. TAYLOR re-
turned to Knoxville, Tenn, from
4 successful raid on moonshiners.
Two stills of sixty gallons each were de-
stroyed on Cane Greek in Monroe
County. Near Ruralvale an eighty
gallon still was destroyed.
PRoF. ARTHUR c. McGoFFER, formerly
Of Lane Seminary, has been inaugu-
rated professor of church history at
Union Seminary.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN, a noted thief, was
arrested as ne stepped from the Joliet
penitentiary and taken to Boston,
where he IS wanted.
TURKEY has been compelled by the
United States government to make
PREPARATION for Outrages perpetrated on
American missionaries.
THE Bank of Halstead, at Halstead
S. D., was raided by three men who
took all the money in sight. There was
but $3.50 on the counter.
WILLIAM HUNT, an old soldier. was
found dead at Des Moines, Ia, with
evidences of foul play. The police are
investigating the case.
.. B. ALEXANDER, horse trainer and
driver, has been sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary from Bloom
ington, H., for forgery.
HENRY JOHNSON, a half-breed Indian,
who escaped from the jail at Indepen-
dence, kas., two years ago, has been
recaptured in Oklahoma.
WHILE the steamer Columbia, loaded
with Worlds Fair excursionists, was
coming down the st. Lawrence she
caught fire. No one was hurt.
JUDGES LONG and Willets and officer
hoerber stand chance of being i'm
peached for their connection with the
Jullans lynchlng IN Louisiana.
FRANK PHELPS, held as an accessory
to the assassination of Settler Mattson,
in Lyman County, South Dakota, has
been granted a change Of venue.
4. W. HEIDENREITER, a travelling
salesman handling diamonds has dis
appeared at Omaha. 1t is feared he
has been murdered for his samples.
RHODE ISLANDS champion fat man,
George Walker, is dead He was u
years old, weighed 5l3 pounds and
measured 2 inches around the waist.
BoNDsMEN Of G. T. Gale, defaulting
treasurer Of Laramie, Wyo., have made
a compromise with the City Council
Gale has pleaded guilty to embezzle-
III cnt.
SUICIDES: William McCoombs, bust
ness man at Wheeling, w. Va; David
f Williams, San Francisco business
man, at Boston; John Reardon, farmer
near Joliet, III.
THOMAS SHANNON, formerly cashier of
the Pittsburg & Western Railroad. at
Newcastle, Pa, has been arrested
charged with embezzling $1,000 of the
company's funds.
JAMES CALLAN filed a complaint with
the New York internal revenue collector
that Chinese Inspector Scharff had been
guilty Of gross conduct while acting in
official capacity.
COUNTY CLERK HoLT, of Pendleton
County, KY, is short in his accounts
more than 1000.
HARRY WILLIAMS escaped from the
county Jail at Columbus, Ind. He was
convicted of grand larceny.
Two burglars, escaping from Delphi,
Ind, were overtaken by posse and in
the battle one Of them was captured.
WARREN B. ENGLISH, of California, is
on his way to Washington to contest the
seat in Congress held by Samuel g. Hill
born.
DIPHTHERIA has again appeared in
Terre Haute, Ind, and citizens fear a
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