Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-05-03
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

1HE .NOful6, Ill, cldl6 Dduh Has VI
ganized with a capital stock Of $50 600.
THE bank of l. NJ. Strong & Son, at
Bancroft, Mich, is in the hands of the
sheriff
AN attempt will be made to show that
Townsend, who attempted Gladstone S
life, is insane.
The Second National Bank of Column
bus, Tenn, has failed. Capital 1000;
surplus $4,000
THE 10-year-old son of G. Matheny,
residing near Vandalia, ILL.,, was thrown
from horse and killed.
TESTS made Of the ores in the iron
beds west of Rapid City, S. D., show
81 per cent of metallic iron.
THE Western Association of Writers
will hold its seventh annual meeting at
Warsaw, Ind, June rs to June 80.
THE wife of A. J. Umbrell committed
suicide at Elwood, Ind, by swallowing
carbOliC acid. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
Gov. ALTGEID has committed to twenty
years the sentence of Pat Conner, who
was given twenty-five years for murder
in 1882
EDWARD r. BUNNEIL, aged 50, livingin
Oregon, killed his wife and daughter,
then himself, because action for divorce
had been brought against him.
THE schedules Of Egbert G.. Handy,
the real estate dealer who failed at st.
Paul a few days ago, show assets Of
$1,000 and liabilities of $4,000.
OFFICERS of the steamship Mogul deny
that there was smallpox among the
Chinese who recently landed in Ia
coma, part of whom are now in Chicago.
KEEPERS HULsE, Murphy and Glynn,
who We're ON duty at the time of the
escape of murderers Pallister and Roll
from Sing Sing, have been dismissed
from the service.
FROM Buenos Ayres comes a telegram
that NicePresident Unibart has re-
signed after a discussion with the presi-
dent and cabinet. Political matters in
the republic are unsettled
THE body of Everett Hammons, boy
who disappeared from his home near
Martinsville, Ind, several weeks ago,
has been found. 1t is thought that he
lost his way at night and froze to death.
c. L. EBERHARDT, president of the
Lutheran Theological Seminary and pre-
siding officer of the Synod of Michigan,
and for thirty years pastor of st. Paul's
Church at Saginaw, is dead, aged 50,
THE Belgian Senate, by vote of 81
yeas to l nay and with II dissertations
from voting, has approved the Nyssen
plan to establish universal suffrage with
plural voting based on the ownership of
property and the possession of certain
educational qualifications.
SOME anxiety is being felt for the
safety of the Allan liner Prussian,
Capt Calvert, which is fifteen days out
from Glasgow. The Prussian is bound
ultimately for Boston, its cargo being
for that place, but it has on board 500
immigrants to be landed at Halifax.
THE Sioux City & Northern road and
the Pacific Short Line have been sold to
the Great Northern and will form link
in It's new route to Denver.
HENRY KELLY, q lumber dealer at Lam
caster, O., whipped his daughter. The
girl put paris green in his coffee the
next day, and he nearly died.
FRANCE has landed troops in Siam
and the government asks the United
States if the action may be considered a
hostile move on the part of France.
THE New York grand jury has found
an Indictment against William E. ID.
Stokes and William r. Martin for pub
lishinga libel intending to Willy and de-
fame Edward Z. ID. Stokes.
FRANK SCHLEISINGER, of New York,
has disappeared. Mr. Schleisinger was
member of the New York dry goods
firm of II. \. Caesar & Co. Since April
If nothing has been seen or heard of
him. That day he went to one of the
steamship piers to bid good-by to a
friend about to start for Europe.
WALTER ALLEY advertised at Kalama-
zoo, Mich, for 200 hands for Chicago
promising all work upon payment of a
register fee. Many paid and when they
appeared for work Alley had fled the
town with the cash.
IT has been reported that the Penn
sylvania Railroad is arranging a cOnsid-
cradle loan from Drexel & Co., of Phil
adelphia, to take the place of an issue
Of stock which has been in contempla-
ton for some time.
AUDITOR JAMES II. BURNS, of Ramsey
County, Mimi, was acquitted at ST.
Paul on the charge Of presenting fraud
ulent bills as county printer. Heis held
on three more indictments, one being
for criminal libel.
AT Canton, S. d., Edward Wilson was
sent to the penitentiary for life for the
murder Of Otto Solquist near Elan
dIcd1, NOfCIllDC1 10, 1917. rev. L. y :.
F. Wilson, Methodist minister, was
sentenced to the penitentiary for fifteen
years for assaulting 13-year-old girl.
Ar a meeting Of the Detroit City
Council charges Of bribery were made
against W. H. Fitzgerald, manager of the
Detroit Electric Light and Power Com
pany. AS result, Manager Fitzgerald
is under arrest and others are being
hunted for in connection with the
bribery.
JOHN TRTcH, a wealthy and eccentric
philanthrophist, died at McKeesport,
Pa, aged rs years. He was a great
friend Of the poor and built houses
which he sold them on their own terms.
His secretary was instructed to send 10
per cent. of his monthly income to all
points in the world where there was suf-
fering.
TWELVE thousand miners in the Pitts
burg district will strike unless granted
an increase in pay.
AT Philadelphia $50 Cinnamon regis
tered in one day under the provisions
of the Geary law.