Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-25
NEWS PARAGRAPHS,

at his home IN Samoa.
GEORGE DURR, of Steelton, Pa, was
run over by the Column bian express
train and instantly killed.
WILTON BENNETT, Of Port Jervis, n.
Y, was awarded 81 in his $25, 900 libel
suit against the Albany Argus.
The steamer Elder, which was
wrecked on the Isle of Wight several
months ago, will be reftted Tor service.
A PASSENGER train on the Missouri,
Kansas q Texas road ran into freight
at Sedalla, Mo. Engineer Thurber was
killed.
AN explosion Of giant powder at
Richmond, Utah, killed Benjamin
Lewis and seriously injured several
other miners.
SCOTT HARRISON, brother of the Presi-
dent, is seriously i'll at Kansas City,
where he is engaged in the real estate
business.
A SENSATION has been caused in Co.
lumbla College circles by the discovery
of a roulette wheel and outfit in the
basement of the School of Mines.
F. n. SAvILLE, forger serving a term
IN the Utah penitentiary, was killed by
falling from the corridor of the third
tier of cells to the steel floor below.
JACOB DAVID, defaulting treasurer of
the Chicago Building Association, was
arrested at New York as he landed
from the Aller, returning from Europe.
JOHN LOGAN, foreman of the hair and
main spring departments Of the Ameri-
can Wa!sham Watch Company, COM
mitted suicide at Waltham, Mass, by
shooting.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT has settled the
action brought against him by Eliza
CrGm, Oh behalf of her son, John
Crum, the boy who was run over by the
Vanderbilt carriage on the night Of
January last, by the payment Of $500.
1GNATIO SERRANO, a noted smuggler
and desperate, was killed near ella
Bend, in Maricopa County, Ariz. He
engaged in quarrel with another Mex
lean. and third one stabbed him in the
pack and through the heart, killing him
instantly.
THE hull of the schooner Vollant has
been towed into San Francisco, bottom
up. 1t was found near Point Gordo, on
the northern coast Of California. The
Nollant lett Eureka, Cal, for San Fran
cisco recently, and had on board a crew
of seven men.
MISS WINNIE DAVIS, Daughter of the
Southern COntederacy," and her moth
err, Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow Of the
leader of the "Iost cause" were among
the guests Of the Confederate Southern
Camp of New York at the annual ban
quet Of the camp at New York.
S. OHIO WILSON, the head of "Gid
cons Band a secret political oath
bound order, which is an OutgrOWth Of
the Populist wing of the Farmers Ali
ance organization, was indicted by the
i11ru Of ~
belonging to secret political organiza-
ton.
CHARLES ". THoRNE, of Kansas City,
lately messenger in one of the banks of
that city, and who left there recently
with $11 800 of the banks money, was
arrested at ST. Paul. At the time of his
apprehension he had IL his possession
all Of the money with the exception Of
$4,000 which he had sent to a sporting
woman in Minneapolis to keep for him,
and which was recovered.
DEMOCRATIC members Of the Indiana
legislature would not permit an adjourn
ment out Of respect to the memory of
ex-President Hayes.
The Washburn Moen Company, of
Worcester, Mass, has petitioned the
legislature for permission to increase its
capital to $l0,0Uc, 900.
JOHN LUNING, son of the late San
Francisco millionaire, has become in
sane IN France while on yachting VOy-
age around the world.
IT has become known that the autopsy
of Gen. Buffers body showed that the
brain was four ounces heavier than
that Of Daniel Webster.
THE National Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation decided to meet in Washington
every alternate year at the beginning Of
the long session of Congress.
GEORGE ROBERTS left Rutland, ILL.,,
twelve years ago. He returned few
days since, and found that his wife had
remarked during his absence
ANDREW CARNEGIEis expected to reach
Pittsburg within few days. He will be
petltloned to have the cases against the
Homestead strikers dismissed.
THE steamer Guiding Star was sunk
by ice in the Mississippi near New
Madrid, Mo. The steamer was valued
at $50, 600 and her cargo at $4,000.
THE mutilated body of a young En-
glish woman, who was a bold mountain
climber, has been found at the bottom
of a ravine in the daguerrean Alps.
THE iron steamer John Ena is sup
| posed to have been destroyed by fire
| in the Pacific off Panama. A burning
boat resem bling the Ena was sighted.
Mrs. ANN Mason confessed at Hast
| jnes, Neb., that she murdered d. S.
Cole. She says her husband, who is
under arrest, took no part in the killing.
ARTHUR BECKwITH, aged 4S, the Har-
| lem, n. Y, millionaire, who escaped
from Buell's sanitarium at Litchfeld,
Conn, October 10, has been found in
| Cuba.
AL. CHEATHAM and Jessie Woods,
colored lads of Cairo, ILL.,, loved the
same girl. To remove his rival from
his path, Cheatham shot and killed
| Woods.
THE captain of the American yacht
| Alert reported to the United States
consul at Nice that the owner had gone
mad and been taken to Paris by two
keepers.
In digging post-hole at Mount Pleas
ant, Ia, Farmer Riddle struck an iron
box which was found to contain 5000 in
gold.
A NEW trial will be asked in the
Harris-Potts murder case at New York
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