Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-09
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

THE First National Bank of Hammond,
Ind, has suspended.
Mrs. KANUTE JOHNSON is suffering from
leprosy at Des Moines, la.
RALPH MCALLIsTER, aged IS, suicided
by shooting at Morrison, I'll.
JUAN BURGER Is years old, died at
KokOmO, Ind, from cigarette smoking.
! THE estate of the late Father Mollin-
ger, of Pittsburg, amounts to $S4, 1871
THE w. II. Livingston Company, of
Sioux City, dry goods, has assigned.
| Debts. $4,000.
EDWARD JONES was shot and killed
! Thursday night at Birds Station, Ind,
! by Charles Griffin
THOMAS GULEIFoRD, of Chicago, was
drowned while bathing in the Missis-
sippi at Muscatine.
SHARpTowN, Ind, was visited by
cloudburst which destroyed crops and
drowned herds of live stock.
Mrs. CLARA GEE, dentist of Grand
Rapids, Mich, suffering from overwork,
drowned herself in cistern.
The clothing Of Mary Neiman, of ST.
Louis, 10 years old, was set on fire by a
boy and she was fatally burned
KANSAS strikers assaulted miners in
defiance of the injunction issued from
federal court. One man was hurt
DENyER's City Council has appropri-
ated $1,000 for the purpose Of employ
ing idle men at work on the streets.
Coy. RENFRow, of Oklahoma, has
ousted regents of the agricultural col
lege, charging malfeasance in office.
BOBBY TAYLOR, fighting under the So
briquet of the "SaiIor Kid was killed
| in a prize fight at Denver by William
| Robinson.
THE Lebanon, Pa, Trust and Safe De-
post Bank has failed It has q capital
Of 500, 900. 1t is believed the suspension
is temporary.
ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD, of Wellington,
New Zealand, who will attend the Cath
Ollie Congress at Chicago, has arrived at
San Francisco.
RAILROAD officials say there is an i'm
mense coal tonnage in sight and expect
| the business to be four times greater
than last year.
WHILE intoxicated j. B. Milliken sat
down upon the Lake Erie x Western
tracks near Fostoria, O. He was run
over and killed.
THE steamer Gibraltar while passing
through the Straits of Belle Isle was
struck by ice and completely wrecked.
Her crew was saved,
THE Michigan Peninsular Car Compa-
nv has laid off over l 800 men.
P. J. Moss. the well-known railway
contractor died at st. Louis, aged 80.
H. C. DITTMAR, the well-known turf
correspondent, died suddenly at New
York
Two men were killed and several in
jured by boiler explosion at Mount
JOY, O.
WILLIAM ALsoP escaped from the III
diana prison south by deliberately walk
ing away.
RAILWAY mail clerks, in convention
at St. Paul, ask Redistribution Of the
mail service.
Gov BOISE, of Iowa, has written
letter positively declining a third term
nomination.
AN artesian well struck at Chamber
lain, S. D., has a flow of 5000 gallons of
water per minute.
WORK has been discontinued at the
works of the New York Standard Watch
Company in Jersey City.
FELIX Poole was lynched in Ohio
County, Ky, for an assault on Miss
York, aged Is, a month ago.
f. CoBURN, father Of the chief of po-
lice at Pana, ILL.,, was struck and killed
by an Illinois Central engine.
The house of Samuel Vanderburg,
in Ransom, Pa, was burned and an
infant child persisted in the flames
GRAssToPPERs are damaging the crops
about Hillsboro, Ill. Many fields of
clover and corn have been destroyed.
CINcINNArI distillers have been given
one day of grace in which to pay to the
government 100000 in whisky taxes.
DAVID SIMPSON was overcome by gas
while repairing a we'll at Anderson,
I'll. He fell to the bottom and was
killed.
BOYS playing with matches caused
a fire in an Iron Mountain, Mich, tool
! house. One of the boys was burned to
} death. :
INSURANCE rates in Iowa have been
raised 10 per cent. and merchants have
been notified that they must meet the
increase.
SARAH PERRY, Is years old, died at
Montezuma, Ind, of poison. 1t is said
that dissipated father impelled her
to suicide.
ALL credit has been abolished in Col
orado and everything is done on a cash
basis. The plan favors large cities where
! prices are low.
THE Atchison has given notice that
after August 10 it will discontinue all
traffic relations with the Jacksonville
Southeastern Road.
STRIKERS at the Arkansas Valley
smelter at Leadville, Col, stoned men
willing to work. The Leadville militia
has been called out.
| A PROJECT is on foot at the City of