Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-09-13
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

WALTER SCoTT, member of the drug
firm of c.. W. Rogg & Co., and prom
inent in society at Des Moines, Ia, has
been found short in his accounts about
$500,
FRED PERKINS, son of a police judge
at Hennessey, Ok, tried to pass forged
drafts aggregating 81 900 on the Bank of
kiowa, Kas. He was arrested and con-
fessed
IT develops that Mrs c. H. Hallock,
who deserted her husband in New Y DIRK
and committed suicide in Chicago, had
married the man Poppert with whom
she eloped.
THE Delta, Col, bank robbers and
murderers are members of the Nc
Carthy gang, one Of whom robbed Bank
President Moffat, of Denver, Of $4,000
two years ago.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has ordered that in
view of the loyalty manifested by the
people OF Alsace-Lorrane during his
visit, all exceptional laws enforced in
the two provinces since the war shall
be abolished.
THE United States Railway Mail
Clerks Mutual Benefit Association
meeting at Boston elected J. II. Nightin-
gale, of Faribault, Mimi, president,
and c. f. Lagrave, of Chicago, secre-
tary and treasurer.
ELIAS GATLING was recently elected
school treasurer at Northtield, Mimi.
His opponents held another meeting and
elected a man named Swardont. Each
claims his election is legal and each is
preparing to enfore the claim with bull
lets.
GREAT pressure has been brought on
the Interior Department officials by the
oil TO
cure a change of the townsite of Enid,
in the Cherokee Outlet. Commissioner
LamoreuX, however, has decided that
no change will be made.
Four drunken men driving near
knightstOWn, Ind, fired at Mrs. Ed
ward Elliott and her children, who were
passing them. Mrs. Elliott was danger
ously wounded but reached the house
of friends. A posse of armed men
started in pursuit Of the four men, but
were unable to overtake them.
TYPHOID fever prevails at Champaign,
Ill.
A WATER famine prevails at Decatur,
| Ill.
UNION Pacific employees decide not to
accept cut i'll wages.
SEVERAL boats were driven ashore at
Long Island City by gale.
FIRE at Joliet, H., destroyed half
! dozen buildings, causing loss of s. 900
A MEETING has been called for Sep
TENDER Is to dissolve the Standard Oil
Trust
! REPAIRS have been completed on the
battleship CamperdoWn, which sunk the
Victoria.
TWELVE of 10 deportation warrants
against Chinese have been served at
Redlands, Cal.
A MASS meeting at Jacksonville. Fla,
took action toward assisting the South
Carolina hurricane sufferers.
FRANK COLLIER, the Eccentric" Chi
cago lawyer, wants to be a trustee of the
| Kankakee, ILL.,, insane asylum.
RUMoRs of a ten million issue of Chi
cago Gas Company stock was denied by
officials. Still they are believed.
NEAR Lima. O., an unidentified man
was found wandering. 1t is thought he
was robbed and pushed from train.
LYDIA THOMPSON, adopted daughter of
farmer Johnston, has left Jacksonville,
ILL.,, with Marcus Hiney, neighbour
hired man.
THE race eastward across the Atlantic
was won by the New York, her mails
arriving in London three hours earlier
HENRY c. IDE, Of Vermont, has ac-
cepted the position of chief justice of
Samoa, and expects to leave for his
post on the October steamer.
A RESOLUTION recommending the es-
adjustment of a government depart
ment Of health was introduced in the
pan-American medical congress.
JAMES M. PENNoCK. under arrest at
| / hos Of
the men who robbed the st. Louis &
San Francisco train near St. Louis.
GEORGE H. THOMAS Posi- No. 5, of Chi
cago, won the competitive flag present
ed by the citizens Of Indianapolis for
the largest number in line on parade.
EIGHTY-FIvE students, eight professors
and five women of rank have been ar
rested at Moscow on suspicion that they
were Implicated in a Nihilist plot against
the Cars life
THE employees Of the mechanical de-
partment of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad Company are still out and the
indications are that they will remain
out unless the company makes some
concessions.
ALoNzO BRoOKsHIRE, a Kentucky des-
perado, doing life term for wholesale
murder, died in the Kentucky state
prison Of typhoid fever. There is an
epidemic Of typhoid and humps among
the convicts.
DESTRUCTIVE forest fires are raging in
Washington in the Dosewalips Valley,
west of Hoods Canal, an arm of Puget
Sound, in the northwestern part Of the
state. Ranchers are fleeing down the
valley to the beach.
| The United States court at San Fran
| cisco has held that the confscation of
the schooner Louis Olsen is no longer
bar to the prosecution of her owner for
smuggling Chinese.
SEVEN of the condemned Choctaw In
dams, over whom the dispute occurred,
between the Federal and Indian Terri
tory authorities, have been released on
their own recognizance.
LEVI HALL, the banker at Oswego. H.,
who failed recently, tried to commit
suicide by taking dose of laudanum,
but the physicians saved his life. De-
spondency over his financial troubles
led to the act.
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