Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-02-22
NEWS PARAGRAPHS,

tation.
ADoLPH BUIRMEIsTER shot and killed
John n. Davidson at Walnut, Ia. The
trouble between the two men grew out
of q saloon row.
The Michigan Assembly unseated two
Democratic mbers-Griffina and Rusch
and seated Davock and Schellenber-
ger, Republicans.
THE Pennsylvania Worlds Fair exec
utive committee has decided to dedi-
cate the state building at Chicago on
Saturday, April %.
DEATH has claimed two more victims
of the Cedar mine disaster, which oc-
Cured near Abba, 1a.-James Graham
and John Robinson.
THE boiler Of Big Four locomotive
exploded at Covington, KY, and two
men-William Menefer and Isaac Rob-
inson-were killed.
E. H. ROBERTS, assistant treasurer Of
the United States, has been elected
president OF the Grand International
Bank of New York.
WILLIAM E. Helm, aged IS, has been
convicted of grand larceny and bur-
glary at Utica, n. Y, and sentenced to
twenty years imprisonment.
A DECREE of divorce has just been
granted at Sioux Falls, S. d., to Fl. Price
Collier, the celebrated Brooklyn divine.
There was no contest in the case.
FRANCIS STEWART JONES, Of the State
Department, has been appointed an at
tache to assist the representatives Of
the United States in the Behring Sea
arbitration.
ATTORNEY GENERAL MILLER will prose-
cute all sugar firms who refuse to sup
ply information to the census bureau.
THE New York League Of Republican
Clubs will hold the annual convention
at Utica the third Wednesday in July.
The Rev. Mr.. Woodahll, of Golden
dale, Wash, persisted in a blizzard. His
body was found partly eaten by coy
Otes.
DEMPSEY LAMB, who assisted recently
to rob train on the East Tennessee
Railway, was arrested at Paint Rock,
Tenn.
n. r. THOMPSON, slayer of Mrs. John
Bitten, at Arlington, S. D., last July,
has been found guilty of murder in the
first degree.
NICK LAND, q stock buyer, of Remser,
Ia, fatally shot a farmer named New
enswander. The trouble grew out of
an old feud.
THE Washington Assembly has passed
bill making it unlawful to BUY, sell Or
give away, or manufacture cigarettes or
cigarette paper.
A RECEIVER has been appointed for
the Alliance cooperative stores at
Aberdeen, S. d. The liabilities may
amount to 100000.
THE monetary conference probably
will not re-assemble next May, as Eu-
ropean governments are convinced that
nothing would come of it.
GEN. RoELIFF BRINKERHoFF, of Mans
field, o.. will succeed the late R. B.
Prisoners Aid Association.
The Holland minister demands an in
vestigation into the representation
duced to settle at Alamosa, Col.
FLORENCE f. DONOVAN, the New York
City official charged with causing the
dered. He furnished $4,000 bail.
THE Rev. DR.. Huntington, of New
York, may succeed Bishop Brooks.
IT is announced that the Phillips
Brooks memorial fund exceeds 10000.
THE quarantine bill has become law,
having received the signature of the
President.
The safe in the post-office at Ne Wton,
a., was blown and $500 in money and
stamps taken.
E. J. ATKINSON, travelling salesman for
a Chicago firm, committed suicide at San
Francisco by shooting.
BARNEY JARRETT, of Celina, O.,
whipped pony and the pony kicked
the life out of Mr.. Jarrett.
SMALLPOX has broken out near Hills
boro. Ill. Three cases are reported.
There are fears of an epidemic.
THE Germanla Powder Company's
works, near Manchester, n. j., were
blown up. A dozen persons were in
ured.
DAVID SUTTON died in Ottumwa, a.,
from bullet wound received the night
before. 1t is believed to be case of
murder.
w. E. MOORE and N. C. McCleary,
business men of Inman, Neb., were
killed bya snow pillow on the Sioux City,
O'Neill q Western Railroad.
FIRE at Birmingham, Ala, destroyed
the stores of the Alabama Gas & Fix
ture Company and q. W. Harris, wall
paper, causing loss of $4,000.
WHITELAw REID and D. O. Mills, of
new OrK, are IN San FRANCISCO. IheY
will spend the winter at Milbrate, their
country place in Marin County.
SCARLET FEVER has broken out among
the Normal College students at Y psilan-
ii, Mich, and twenty cases have already
been reported to the health officer.
MYRoN D. PARKER has been appointed
a commissioner of the District of Col
umbia by President Harrison.
THOUSANDS of acres of bottom lands
near Evansville, Ind, have been inun-
dated by a rise IN the Ohio River.
SECRETARY RUsK has put an embargo
on cattle from Texas and the southwest
on account Of Southern cattle fever.
SEVERAL firms were burned out at
Fort Smith, Ark. by the destruction OF
the Wyman block. The total loss is
SIS, 5000.
JOHN ]. WYNN, a convict who escaped
recently from the penitentiary at
Sioux Falls, S. D., is in custody at Shell
don, Ia.
The Mexican government has author
lied a search for 100000 said to be
concealed In the old Convent of the