Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-05
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

reorganize the AmaIgamated Associa-
ton IN the Schuylkill Valley.
THE bail of Sutton and Beecher,
charged with negotiating forged whisky
warehouse receipts at Louisville, KY,
has been fixed at $4,000 each.
THE American Press, an organization
for the gathering and dissemination Of
news, has filed articles of incorporation
at Trenton, n. ]. The capital stock is
50, 500, 900.
By vote of the stockholders of the
Edison Electric illuminating Company
of New York the capital stock of the
company was increased from 6,500,0 900
to $10,000,000.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will open the
Worlds Fair on the lst day of May.
He has definitely decided to do this,
and will send his acceptance to the Chi
cage committee in day or two.
Two diplomatic appoint ents are ex-
pected to be made shortl They are
Hannis Taylor, of Mobile, Ala, to be
Allen, OF New York, to be minister to
Italy.
ALL but five of the engineers, fire.
men and switchmen employed at
Peoria, H., by the Rock Island road
were discharged for frequenting sa-
looms. The five men not discharged i'm
mediately quit.
The state Of Nebraska has begun suit
against ex.State Treasurer John E. Hill
and his bondsmen to recover 1926, 364.60
which has, SO it is alleged, been col
lected, but not turned over to his sue
cussor in office.
IT is claimed that many officials con-
nected with the Behring Sea Commits
sion are receiving from SIS to SIS per day
in addition to their regular salary. The
matter is being investigated by Secreta-
ries Gresham and Carlisle.
IT is said that three years ago Elliott
F. Shepard tried to effect $500, 0OO insur-
ance on his life. Three companies re-
fused the risk because of alleged evil
dence Of Bright's disease, while fourth
company passed him and issued a pol
icy of 100000.
THE symphony prize in the first an
nual concourse of the National Conserv
atory of Music at New York was award
ed to Henry Schoenfeld, of Chicago.
JOHN VALLMER, Of Bremen, Ind, was
arrested on charge of forgery. He
gave bond for $500 and forfeited 1t, fail
ing to appear when the case against him
was called.
Mrs. ED. PATTERSON, of Warsaw, Ind,
started down stairs with her baby in
her arms, missed her footing and fell
to the stone pavement below. Both
were killed.
THERE IS q rumor current that Sir
Charles Upper, Canadian high COM
missioner in England, has rendered his
resignation because the Dominion Par
lament did not ratity the French treaty.
THE President is quoted as saying he
had information which led him to be-
lieye that the force of clerks in the pen
sion office could be reduced by about
400 or 500 to the benefit of the govern
ment.
The cablegrams announcing cholera
in Austria and Russia do not create any
alarm in official circles at Washington,
but the United States government is
prepared for any ordinary emergency
that nay arise.
THERE seems now to be no doubt that
the guard, Gill, was the dupe rather
than the accomplice OF murderer Lati-
mer, whose recent escapades have
caused all eyes to be turned toward the
Michigan penitentiary.
WILLIAM w. REYNOLDS, so years old
of Brooklyn, shot Miles Y. Kelly, rs
years old, in the store of Hartley &
O1O O1OdU way Now 1OIhs
killing him instantly. Reynolds then
shot himself. Reynolds was insane.
UNION sailors at Vancouver, B. c., at
tempted to blow up the British steamer
BaWnmore with an internal machine.
4 union sailor had been heavily SEN
fenced for outrages on the vessel. The
machine was discovered in time to pre-
vent an explosion.
W. A. CooTE, who is in this country
as the representative of the National
Vigilance Association Of Europe, de-
clares that girls are being enticed from
homes in England and sent to various
cities in the United States and to Ha-
vana. 1t is said that the agents, embo1d-
ened by their success, have been organ
izing grand importation for the Worlds
Fair at Chicago.
Two churches and sixty-tive dwellings
were destroyed by fire in the mining
town of Kearnton, Germany. Fifteen
persons are said to have persisted.
Two Norwegians among the passen-
gers of the steamer Lake Superior, at
Halifax, we're taken violently i'll. Ru-
mors were current that the disease was
cholera.
THE parsonage at Swedesboro, N. J.,
occupied by Father Tracy, the priest
who rebelled against Mgr. Satolli and
who was excommunicated, has been
stripped of furniture.
SEVERAL members of the family of
Henry Byrd, in Prince George Coun-
ty, Va, drank from we'll in which
poison had been placed by unknown
parties, and all died.
A BILL is before the New York legis-
lature providing for an appeal in muir
der cases where a new trial has been
refused. The measure is intended to
save the life of Carlyle Harris.
w. f. LESLIE, st. Louis accountant.
disappeared after threatening to suicide.
1t is learned that he is Lord Leslie, last
of the English house of Leslie, and has
been living under an assumed name for
years.
w. NJ. SPEER has bought half the
stock of the Albany, n. Y, Argus. 1t
is believed Editor Manning will be re-
tired and the paper become state
Democracy organ instead Of a Cleve
land organ.
Miss LILLE JOHNSON, who was indicted