Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-07-19
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

An army of crickets is devastating
Wyoming of every sort of vegetation.
DAVID LAVENDER was denied bail at
Chattanooga for the killing of Roll Reed.
JOHN BURK, patient in the asylum at
Ottawa, Ill, decapitated himself with
razor.
FIRE in the lumber district at Keo-
kuk, Ia, caused a loss of $40, 900 to Taber
& Co.
FIVE Knights Of Pythias were injured
In wreck at Nincennes, Ind, one of
them fatally.
OTIS FULLER, Of St. Johns, Mich, has
been appointed warden Of the state
house OF correction.
CROOKS at Cincinnati chloroformed
and robbed an aged painter of $110 in
cash and several checks.
THE Monon has met the Big Four's
cut in the Worlds Fair rates by reduc-
ing all tickets to one fare.
PROF JOHN B. STEPHENSON, Of Brook
Ign, Mich, 50 years of age, has eloped
with Ida Culver, % years old.
JOHN NETHRow, farmer, shot and
killed Lawyer Dan McCarty. The
trouble was over mortgage.
ALKALIEs, turned into the Mississi-
newa river in Indiana by a paper mill,
have killed thousands of fish.
j. X. ARMSTRONG, a defaulting county
treasurer of 1ndirna, has turned all of
his property over to his bondsmen.
W. B. HOPPER, one of the wealthiest
stockmen in Southern Kansas, dropped
dead from sunstroke in his harvest field.
By the accidental discharge of a po-
licemans revolver, Judge Fleming, Of
Burlington, Ia, was seriously wounded.
OFFICERS of the Pension Department
are investigating alleged frauds at AL
buquerque, where the muster rolls were
stolen.
LIVE stock commissioners of Kan
sas, alarmed at the approach of Texas
fever, have taken steps to keep it out of
the state.
UNSETTLED condition of business has
caused the Benson Magnetic Iron
Works, at Little River, to suspend oper-
atoms.
ANTICIPATING q raid by robbers, of
ticials of the Missouri, Kansas q
Texas have placed armed guards on
trains.
EDDIE BRAKES, assistant cashier of the
Toledo Savings Bank, was drowned in
the Iowa River, near Long Point, while
fishing.
OOl1N A'lNtLEION, ii COlOItu DON, 10
years of age, has confessed that he
caused the Broadstreet-Thurb fire in
Minneapolis June 6.
THE long overdue steamer Red Sea
has arrived at New York.
a BANQUET was given at Englewood,
\. j., in honor of eX-Minister Phelps.
THREE children were hurt, one fatally,
by an explosion of nitro-glycerine, at
Washington, Pa.
THE Tennessee Bar Association met
IN annual session on the summit of
Lookout Mountain.
FRED. WILCOX, s years of age, while
fishing from raft near Pekin, ILL.,, fell
IN and was drowned.
A MASS meeting at Des MOines, Ia,
adopted resolutions strongly in favor of
free coinage of silver.
THE constitution Of Belgium has been
SO changed that the government can
annex Congo Free State.
THE loss by the burning of the Logans-
port Manufacturing COmpany's plant at
LOganspOrt, Ind, is $4,000.
COL FRED d. GRANT, ex-United States
minister to Austria, is visiting Gen.
Harrison at Cape May Point.
FARMER BLANKENsHIFT, of Mountains
burg, Ark, was bound over for deliber-
ately drowning his 6-year-old son.
NEGRO Baptists of Illinois. in session
at Galesburg, protested in resolutions
against the spread Of mob violence.
SAMUEL WOOLNER has yielded up his
establishment and the whisky com
blne war is for the present at an end
ANNA WAGNER the Indianapolis SER
want of the kOesters, has been in
81 For, r 1 l,N
a STRIKE of 800 employees of the Irwin
plate glass works at PittsbuTg is threat
ened. The men oppose a cut in wages.
Two timber explorers, Thomas Craig
and William Shannon, were drowned in
Rainy Lake, Mimi, by the capsizing of
boat.
BISHOP McQUAID, Of Rochester, n. Y,
celebrated his silver jubilee.
AUSTRIA prohibits the expectation of
fodder owing to the shortage of crops |
QUEEN REGENT CHRISTINE is suffering
with a tumOr. She is in no immediate |
danger.
BUFFALO bankers met and adopted |
resolutions for the repeal Of the Sher-
man law.
HARDWARE men of the Missouri and |
Mississippi valleys are in session at |
Lake MinnetOnka, MINI.
CHoRIsTERs and singers left a Sunday |
school meeting near Celina, O., because
OF objections to fiddle.
EMMA yADERs, the actress, is insane
at New Yoak. She was with Keene
last season as leading lady.
RELIEF has been offered to the city of |
Indianapolis by the New York Life In
surance Company taking its bonds.
F.. JOHN Donovan was released at Wa
bash, Ind, his plea tha.t he shot his
brother in self defense being accepted.
TIE main building of the John Morell
Company's packing house at Ottumwa,
Ia, burned. Loss, $4,000; fully in
sufed.
THE federal authorities at Portland,
Ore, have filed additional libels against
the steamer Haytien Republic for snug
Cling opium.
THE town of Luckey, O., was partly
destroyed by fire: Loss, $1OO,OGO in
surance, $40 600. The fire was in the
business district.
THE PODuliSt government Of KoDCoC |