Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-02-08
NEWS PARARGAPHS S.

AN epidemic of measles has broken
out at Broadlands, Ill. Thus far there
have been two deaths.
AMsI BIDwELL, brother of Gen. John
Bidwell, of California, was killed by
falling tree at Arcanum, 0.
JACOB HUGHES, chief Of the Cincin-
natl fire department, has been dis
charged for alleged incompetency.
ENGINEERS on the Louisville & Nash
Vile road have been refused an in
crease in pay and threaten to strike.
THOMAS STEWART, a 17-year-old lad of
Burlington, Ia, is suffering from hydro
phobia. He was bitten two years ago
by dog.
HENRY NJ. MOORE, q son Of Col. Jesse
II. Moore, of Decatur, H., has been ap-
pointed United States consul at Three
Rivers, Quebec.
AN examination Of the accounts of
the Charles City, a., post-otfice is being
made to locate the responsibility OF
shortage of 5000.
THE Indiana supreme court decides
that the Big Four must pay it's taxes.
The decision carries with it cases in
volving 81, 100000.
THE California courts decide that the
Central and Southern Pacific railroads
sessment of 1887. ''"'i''l 'He ao-
SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFoTE, the British
minister, has in person handed the pa
pers in the British Behring Sea counter
cases to Secretary Foster.
EMIL SCHMIDT, one of the leading Re-
publican politicians of Southern Iii
nOis, committed suicide at Nashville, H.,
by shooting himself with a revolver.
The Nenia, O., paper mills burned.
Loss, S75, 600; insurance, $40, 800.
Mrs. WHITNEY, wife of ex-Secretarv
Whitney, is seriously i'll at her home in
New York.
JUDGE WILLIAM LINDSAY is the Demo-
cratic nominee tor senator to succeed
Mr.. Carlisle.
WILLIAM PFAFFLIN, wholesale notion
dealer at Indianapolis, Ind, has failed,
owing $50, coo.
The loss by the destruction by fire of
the Crawford steam engine works at
Duluth is $4,000.
A COMBINE of manufacturers of extern
sion tables in the United States has been
formed at Toledo, 0.
THE Osborne building at Columbus,
o.. was damaged $4,000 by fire. Mary
Taylor was burned to death.
The coal combine threatens to carry
no coal into New York if the antitrust
bill before the legislature become a law.
A COMMITTEE of the Pennsylvania leg
Islature is to visit points along the At
Iantic coast suitable for d quarantine
station.
EX-STATE AUDITOR PAvEY, of Illinois,
Will be prosecuted for Irregularities in
office. His boIdsmen are liable to the
extent Of $4,000.
PROF. BALDwIN's nomination for Judge
of the Connecticut supreme court has
been confirmed by the House in con-
currrence with the Senate.
BARON NATHANIEL RoTHsCaILD. of vi
emma, Is about to start on a six months
trip to Africa, merely as matter Of per-
sonai adventure and observation.
A MAN answering the description of
Sullivan, who is charged with the muir
der of Mr.. and Mrs. Leech, at Durand,
Mich, has been arrested in Belle River,
Ont.
The Countess Marie, of Flanders.
who IS q sister of King Charles, of Rou-
mania, has been robbed by burglars of
q jewel case containing gems of great
value.
IRA MULoCE, president Of the defunct
Bank of Florence, Col, died in
Mexico, where he had been exiled for
several years to escape criminal prose
cution.
DR.. FRANK GLASS, a physician OF
Greentown, Ind, has disappeared. He
lett note to his wife saying he would
never return. No cause for his leaving
Is known.
EVIDENCE in the inquest on the death
of Lewis Johnson, who was found dead
few days ago by the track of the Lake
Shore Railroad in South Bend, Ind,
points to murder.
IHE young woman found uncon-
sclous IN haystack at Clayton, Mo-. a
Jew days ago, proves to be Miss Electa
Forest, teacher of Huntington, Kas.,
who was abducted from her school.
ALL the mines Of the Delaware, Lack
awanna 4 Western Coal Company in
the Lackawanna and Wyoming valleys,
employing about $4,000 persons, have
been put upon eight hours per ay.
A PETITION has been submitted to the
Japan legislature, asking the expulsion
from the country of ali Englishmen.
The California legislature adopted a
joint resolution calling on the United
States to annex the Hawaiian Islands.
CHARLES PINGEL died at Milton, Mimi,
on the morning following his marriage.
He was taken sick at the wedding feast.
JoHN W. BURNS, a travelling salesman
of Detroit, is in jail on the charges Of
forgery and fleeing merchant out Of
money.
FIFTY-FoUR persons joined the church
during revival meeting just closed at
Virginia, Ill.,, by Evangelist Moore, of
Ohio.
A DYNAMITE explosion at Richmond,
Ind, injured John Snyder so that he
will die. b. c. Smith was seriously
hurt.
THE plants of the National Wringer
Company and the Muser Piano Com
pany, at Canton, o., burned. Loss,
$23, 800.
Col. PHoCIoN HOWARD, the veteran
Journalist and Democratic politician,
died suddenly Of heart disease at Dan
vile, III.
WhILE cleaning a cellar under build
ing in independence, Ia, that had been
used as saloon for thirty years, skele-
ton was found.
The will Of d. Edgar Grouse has been