Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-30
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


john TRAUTMAN escaped from the City
Hospital at Evansville, Ind, and killed
himself by hanging in the park. He
had twice tried to commit suicide, once
by drowning and again by shooting him
self. He was to have been tried for
insanity.
FRED. SWANSON, of Campbell, Mimi,
agent for the Northwestern Elevator
Company, of Minneapolis, is under ar
rest charged with embezzlement. 1t is
said Swanson has given checks in pay
ment for wheat when the company gave
him the cash, and that the entire
amount of his irregularities is 81 500.
CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW has received a
letter from Paul Harchez, rich Cuban
planter, in which the foreigner says
that he is suffering from an incurable
ailment and that in his will he leaves to
Mr.. Depew one-half of his estate, valued
at s., 100000. This is in return for $500
years ago with which to develop an in
vention for crushing cane sugar.
FRUIT in Delaware was greatly dam
aged by the storm.
THE liabilities of Hotchkiss & Co., of
New York, are $567 $40 and the assets
$544.S11.
The Iowa Prohibition state conven-
ton will be held at Des Moines on Sep
TENDER 6.
THE Raub Locomotive Works, en-
plOying $500 men, have located at Ell
wood, Ind.
WILL WOLFE, arrested at Martinsburg,
Ia, for disturbing religious meeting,
committed suicide.
FREDERICK Sem, of Mendon Center,
Monroe County, n. Y, suicided by
shooting, owing to financial troubles.
WILLIE RIPLEY, L years old, was acct
dentally hit on the head with a stone by
his cousin near Oakland, ILL.,, and fatally
hurt.
W. w. WENTWORTH. book-keeper of
the Victoria Hotel at New York, is
under arrest charged with embezzling
S., 500.
Two hundred German Baptists, ex-
cursionists from Louisville, were strand
ed on sandbar, where they remained
all night.
Mrs. FRANK Young, of Salina, Kas,
attempted to commit suicide by taking
morphine. Slight hope is entertained
OF her recovery.
CLIFTON ARMSTRONG, Is years old, was
drowned while bathing in a small lake
at Highland Park, a pleasure resort
near w OOSUef. ".
WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD, JR, grand
son Of Secretary of State Seward, and
Miss Anna Dennis Myers, were mar
ried at New York.
DIR. JOHN w. MCKINNoN, a dentist of
Decatur, H., married an heiress of
Philadelphia, Pa, st. Louis, Mo. 1t
is said to be an elOpement.
THE increase in national bank circula-
ton during the month has been more
than $4,000, 900, and since January l
last more than S30,0O0,00O.
THE Fourth National Bank of Louis
vile, Ky, has resumed.
IT is denied that Miss Florence Pull
man is to marry Prince 1senberg.
A. V. BLYTHE, sheriff of Miller Coun-
ty, Ark, is $40, 900 short in his accounts.
BARON Won SAURMA-TELsTCH, the new
German ambassador has arrived in New
York.
FOREST fires surrounded Michigan
City, Ind, threatening the destruction
of the city.
THE Harvest Home picnic for Southern
Michigan at Devils Lake was attended
DO 10000 farmers.
Il. w. PARKER, under arrest in San
Francisco for embezzling in Chicago, at
tempted suicide by shooting.
GEORGE UHL, 20 years of age, of
LOganspOrt, Ind, was drowned in Lake
NIinnetonka. His boat capsized.
THE state of Minnesota has $1,000, 900
tied up in the eleven banks in st. Paul
and Minneapolis that have suspended.
SPEAKERS at meeting of unemployed
in New York made Anarehistic speeches
and the police broke up the gathering.
SEVERAL shots were exchanged at Nc
KEGS Rocks, Pa, between strikers and
non-union men. One man was wounded.
SEVERAL encounters occurred at Wen
IA between strikers and the police. A
large number OF persons were wounded.
GEORGIANs express an opinion that
Minister Blount will receive the Demo
cratic nomination for governor Of GeOr-
gia.
MOLLIE BIGFORD, a pretty 1S-year-Old
member of the Wilbur Opera Company,
died at st. Paul from a criminal opera
ton.
BrOWnstOWn, Ia, by being blown out of
a we'll in which he was digging by dyna-
mite.
STUDENTS of the Indiana Normal
School have decided not to return I'M
less President Parsons is removed.
A MOB Of unemployed laborers at
Denver drove away seventy-five men
who were working on a sewer at 81 20 a
day.
The New York Board of Trade has is
sued call for convention Of business
interests at Washington about Septem-
Der /.
Ten Italian tramps captured a stock
train on the Fort Wayne road at Valpa-
raise, Ind. The conductor was serious
ly injured.
Missouri regulators took 14-year-old
girl from her home near Warrensburg
and after administering a whipping
ordered her to leave.
A. H. NELSON, manager of the Ogden
Building and Savings Association, of
Ogden, Utah, is wanted for embezzing
$4,000. He has disappeared.
JOHN REINHART, a life convict at the
Northern Indiana Prison at Michigan
City, died of paralysis. He was SEN
fenced from Lafayette for murder.
EMPLOYEES of the Evansville q Terre
Haute road threaten to strike against