Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-07-05
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


$50 deaths from cholera in one day.
J. I. TIIIMAN, of Tennessee, will sue
ceed GOV. Rosecrans rs register OF the
treasury.
A MINER named Conn was torn to
pieces near Copper Creek, Col, by
bear he attempted to shoot.
BERT HORN, a 7-year-old boy, was
drowned while in bathing in the Peca-
tonica River at Freeport, III.
AT meeting of the council of Hope
College at Holland, Mich, Prof. G. j.
Kollen was elected president
By an explosion in the Clear Lake
coal mine, near Springfield, ILL.,, Charles
Whitaker was instantly killed.
MAURICE J. POWERS, recently appoint
ed shipping commissioner at New DIRK,
has declined to accept the position.
BURGLARS pried open a window of E.
F. Harris bank at Council Bluffs, Ia,
and stole 500 and a number of drafts.
THOMAS RICH was shot dead at Wi
mona, Mimi, by Jack Murphy. Rich
was assisting an officer to arrest Muir
ply.
THE cross of the Order of the Red
Eagle has been conferred on William
Steinway by Emperor William of Ger
many.
DR.. E. C. SIMMONS has been given $40,
600 for professional attendance on Sam
uel j. Tilden for eight years. He sued
for S143, 800
A New YORK paper claims to have
good authority for the statement that
an extra session of Congress will be
called to meet in August.
JOHN ECKMAN, general merchandise
dealer at Calumet, Mich, has failed.
He owes about So 900 to Chicago and
Detroit wholesale houses.
Miss MAGGIE WARD, of Galena. ILL.,,
was to have been married to Charles
Northern, of Dubuque. The guests as
sembled for the ceremony, but the
bridegroom did not come.
THE cashier of the Hartley Bank at
Jericho, Mo-, was taken from his bed by
armed men, marched half a mile to the
bank, and forced to open the vault.
The robbers secured $4,000.
STEPHEN NJ. Gotta, lecturer of the
Farmers Alliance in Kansas, has issued
an appeal to members Of the OrganiZa-
ton to contribute aid to the striking
coal miners of the Cherokee district.
JOHN SEAMoN, for ten years treasurer
of Wiltshire Township, Wiltshire Cor
pOratiOn and School Board, Iowa, has
SOilt away dIIOI dDOul tc,OCO VI tJtO14C
money is missing. He secured his
bondsmen before leaving.
THE State Fish and Game Association
of New York has just secured from the
encouragement an Interpretation of
the law which will make it the duty
hereafter of all fish and game protect
ors to prohibit fishing on Sunday.
JOHN J. LAMB, treasurer Of the Inter
national Machinists' Association, who
decamped with the funds of the associa-
ton while in session at Indianapolis
last month, pleaded guilty at Scranton,
Pa, to the charge of embezZlement of
s., 800. He was sentenced to prison for
one year.
THE famous mineral land case, in
vOlving iron land valued at s. 900, 900 in
Itasca and St. Louis counties, Mimi,
has been decided by the Minnesota
supreme court in favor of Robert Jami-
/ son, eX-county attorney of Minneapolis,
and a syndicate Of Eastern iron men.
The case has been before the courts for
over two years.
INQUIRY at the Treasury Department
disclOses the fact that about $4,000 re-
mains for the enforcement of the several
Chinese acts On July l the new APP
preparation of $50, 900 becomes available,
so that the aggregate fund available for
the carrying out Of the Chinese eXclu-
sion act, including the Geary law, on
July l, will be $50, 600.
AT meeting of the City Council of
Argentine, Kas., Mayor Willard and
| Aid. David West became involved in a
| quarrel over an unaudited bill. The
mayor smOte the alderman with his
cane and the latter wrested his supe-
rior's weapon from him and struck
| back, whereupon the mayor unstrapped
his wooden leg and using it as club
beat the alderman viciously.
SURVIVORS of the Black Hawk war met
in annual reunion at Pearl City, Ill.
THE Emerson planning mil at Detroit
was destroyed by fire. Loss, SO, 900.
FRANK SAMPSON, the forger wanted at
| Monmouth, ILL.,, was arrested at Quincy
| J. II. MANNING was defeated in his
suit for possession of the Albany Argus.
| Mrs MARY S. SICKLEs, stepmother of
| Gen. Daniel Z. Sickles, died at New
Rochelle. She was 81 years old.
To end a dispute over trivial matter
at Ottawa, O., Jacob L. Lyons shot and
killed bis wife and committed suicide.
THE wages Of the st. Paul fremen
will be reduced owing to the shortage in
department funds, and the members of
the department threaten to strike.
S. III. CHAPMAN, of Philadelphia
bought the original half-die from which
the Confederacy struck its half dollars,
for 81, at the Herman sale in New York
DAVID PRICE, Of Bond County. stabbed
and killed Robert Reed, formerly of
Atlanta, Ga, at East Alton, Ill. Price
confessed the deed, saying that Reed
| aggravated him.
JULIA FORCE was acquitted at Atlanta,
Ga, on the charge Of numbering her
two sisters on plea of insanity. She
will be sent at once to the State Lunatic
Asylum at Milledgeville.
THE negroes, Dan Barber and William
Pinkney, who were convicted of muir
dering Mr.. Bowie few weeks ago, will
be hanged soon at Upper Marlboro,
Md. Pinkney has made confession.
A HAIL STORM in the vicinity Of Ellen
dale, n. d., did severe damage to crops.
LANE SEMINARY may be abandoned as
a result of the trouble with the Presby-
terrain Assembly.
THE Chinese legation will probably
he tI1rDa6 ovar tO the new minister