Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-07-26
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

OFFICERS of the Kansas Farmers Ali
ance have conceived the plan of loaning
wheat to destitute farmers until next
year.
A LETTER from the captain of the
Alexandria totally disproves the rumor
about the Mohican having been fired
upon.
LEE JONES, of Indianapolis, convicted
of the murder of Thomas Moody in
1872, has been pardoned by Gov. Mat
thews.
HARPER & BROTHERS have been warned
by secret service men not to portray
government money on books published
by them.
CHARLES GREEroN, a 17-year-o bicycle
bankment with his wheel near Leb-
anon, O.
THE engagement of DR.. Albert Shaw,
editor of the Review of Reviews, and
Miss Bessie Bacon, of Reading, Pa, is
announced.
THE jury at Fresno, Cal, in the case
of Richard Heath, charged with the
murder of L, B. McWhirter, was I'M
able to agree
BANKER LITTLE, who killed Attorney
Johnston at Kansas City, Kas., has been
held for murder in the first degree by
corOner's jury.
OWING to the economical policy of the
Nebraska legislature there are no appro-
priations to meet current expenses of
state institutions.
PENSION officials, in purging the rolls,
have cut Oft Supreme Judge Charles
Dean Long, of Michigan, who lost an
arm in the service.
The steamer Paris made the west
ward run from Southampton to Fire
Island in 8 days, 8 hours and 80 minutes,
breaking the record.
THE ST. Louis Wood and Pump Com
pany has failed.
ALL the banks at Gutherie, Ok, are
experiencing runs.
THE Yorktown has sailed from New
York for the Pacific station.
IN a fall from a scaffold at Elgin H.,
Edward Dewey was fatally injured.
A RECEIVER has been appointed for
Truth, the New York publication.
THE Burlington Railroad decides on
general reduction in its working force.
WILLIAM SCHWARTZ, because of dOmes-
tic trouble, took poison at Decatur, Ill.
+. II. TAYLOR, the Frankfort, Ky,
distiller. made an assignment. No
figures,
WELLS, FARGO & Co. will establish
bank in New York with q capital of
100000.
The silver convention at Topeka, Kas.,
is all but failure. There is scarcity
of big men.
The First National Bank at Harrison
vile, Mo-, failed with $780, 900 assets and
1000 liabilities.
Miss WINNIE DAVIS is slightly i'll at
Narragausett Pier, but no apprehension
is felt by her friends.
THE Hotel Vorceili, at Boston, has
gone into the hands of an assignee
The debts are $50, 900.
Mrs. w. c. HOLMES was buried at
Mattoon, Ill. She was cousin of John
Bright, English commoner.
ABOUT 900 boile~makers and helpers
are on a strike at st Louis for nine
hours day at ten hours pay.
A LARGE consignment of tobacco was
seized at Philadelphia. Importers had
placed an undervaluation upon it.
THE First National Bank at Cannon
City, Col, and the First National at
Grand Junction, Col, have failed.
CoNvICTs in the Ohio penitentiarv at
Columbus were detected in the act of
digging tunnel through the walls.
JACOB kABERICK and wife had a des-
perate fight with a robber at Hillsboro,
Ill, who failed to secure their money.
ANDY MANDEBACH, aged II, was fatal
ly shot by a boy named Littell, aged Il,
while frog hunting at Washington, Ind.
BILL Mccoy and Joe Haygood, Star
gang outlaws, are under arrest at Den
nison, Tex Others will soon be caught.
FRANCE demands 100000 francs from
Siam.
a STORM played havoc with the Con-
netticut Valley tobacco crop.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has returned to
Gray Gables from a yacht cruise.
THE army worm is playing havoc in
the northern part of Cass County, Ill.
THE National Federation of America
cabled $1,000 to the Irish National party
THE story that the Mohican was fired
on by q pOaching sealer is officially de-
MED
Mrs. BAILEY, one of the famous long
haired Sutherland sisters, died at Lock
port, n. Y.
The Mech Bros, Of the Academy of
Music, Buffalo, \, Y, made q general
assignment.
CONGRESSMAN F. T. WHITE, ofIowa, de-
clines to be the Democratic candidate
for governor.
ARTHUR KENNY, shoe manufacturer at
New GOrk, has confessed judgments ag-
gregating $50, 904.
THE Alton road has made a 5O-cent
cut in the Worlds Fair excursion rate.
A war may result.
JOHN McCARrY, a farm hand of Tip
ton, Ind, 81 years of age, fell from a
fence and was killed.
JOHN SwARToUT, of Morrison, ILL.,, in
dicted for the murder Of his father, died
in jail of consumption.
r. L. COCHRAN, a prominent Demo-
cratic politician, committed suicide by
shooting, at Franklin, Pa.
ORDERS have been received from head
quarters to close down the Centennial
mine at HOughton, Mich.
A SMALL son of Peter Christian was
burned to death at Bucyrus, O. He
was playing with matches.
STARVING miners in Kansas are grow
Il 70 Il I