Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-23
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

a DOZEN buildings were UeSCfOyeu ny
fire at Benton, H., causing loss of
S150,000.
LOIS ARMSTADE, out Of employment at
Toledo, o., committed suicide by taking
laudanum.
THE body of John Oleson, an Oswego,
H., farmer, was found in the road with
a bullet in the head.
THE residence of J. w. Ellis, at New
port, K. l., was entered by burglars and
robbed Of jewelry worth $4,000.
JOHN M. LowERY, a prominent citizen
of Hot Springs, Ark, was shot and
killed by dalryman named Wilson.
BURGLARS cracked the safe in the
Missouri Pacific freight office at Neb-
raska City, Neb., and secured $4,000.
JOHN w. CASTELAR,, the painter, a
member of the National Academy since
1901 and an associate since 1880, is dead.
JOHN BOYD and George Terry resisted
arrest at the hand of sheTiff's posse at
Winslow, Ark, and Boyd was shot
dead
j. B. BRUNER, treasurer of the com
bined Masonic lodges of Omaha, Neb.,
is alleged to be 81, 200 short in his ac
counts.
WILLIAM McMA1N, a miner of Donald
sOnville, Ind, was badly crushed under
falling slate and died soon after being
taken out.
THE German-American Bank at st.
Paul will resume business.
CONGRESSMAN DUNN, of New Jersey, is
seriously i'll with heart failure.
CYRUS BROWN, aged so years, shot and
killed his wife near Columbus, Ind
THE Sons of Veterans have adopted
black belts instead of belts of gold
color
The steamer Weser from Naples has
arrived at New York with 1000 passen-
gers.
MALIGNANT diphtheria has broken out
IN tlndlay, O., and the town has been
quarantined.
S. NJ. DoRR & Son, in Western bond
and mortgage business at Rutland, VT,
failed. Liabilities, S142,S75.
II has been necessary to call out
troops to prevent riOtlng at the scene of
the miners strike in Wales.
MILTON SWAIN, postmaster at Radnor,
Ind, fled on the day he was to have
married Miss Mary Hattery.
BYFoRD f. CUNNINGHAM, a conductor
on the Ohio x Mississippi road, was
killed by falling from his train.
JAMES FLORA, charged with shooting
and robbing Clement Reyes at Flora
Station, Ind, is in jail at Delphi.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad shops in
Altoona, Pa, employing 5000 men, will
be working on half time hereafter.
THE Irish Catholic Benevolent Union
met at Pittsburg and decided upon
York, Pa, as the next meeting place.
PRESIDENT LAWRENCE and Cashier
Schrader, of the failed Peoples Savings
Bank at Denver, are accused Of FRAUDS.
STATE SENATOR BOYD, Of Indiana, was
tried and acquitted of the betrayal
charge brought by Mrs. Ida May Davis.
WESTERN KANSAS politicians want the
capital removed from Topeka to their
section. Mcpherson is the town sug-
geSted
THE wholesale lumber irm of j. c.
Ihmsen & Co., Pittsburg, Pa, has as
| signed. Liabilities, $4,000; assets.
| 100000.
ST. LOUIS merchants have asked SEN
ator Cockrell to withdraw opposition to
the measure to permit banks to issue
currency.
THE National Bank of Marion, Kas,
has suspended.
MINISTER BLoUNr has left San Fran
cisco for Washington.
f. ?. JOHNSON, farmer, was killed by
his team running away at Oakland, Ill.
THE private bank of Levi Hall at
OsWegO, ILL.,, was forced to close its
doors.
A YOUNG railroad man named Wilken-
son, aged 20, was killed in switching at
| Quincy, Ill.
The Cleveland rolling mills will re-
sumo operations in a few days, employ
ing 5000 men.
Mrs. S. T. j. TRABUE was instantly
killed in a runaway accident near
Frankfort, Ky.
PITTARD, CASE & Co., dealers in mer-
chandise at Galesburg, ILL.,, have failed.
Liabilities, $1,000.
Mrs. E. S. ScHUMANN, 81 years old.
| dropped dead at Presbyterian soci-
able at Sedalia Mo.
AMOS BACHMAN was accidently shot
and killed at Niles, Mich, by Harry
| Glenn, a companion.
GEORGE OCHs was shot and killed bv
Harry Manfuid, an Italian, at St. Clair,
Pa. Manfuid is in jail.
| SECRETARY HoKE SMITHS paper, the
Atlanta, Ga, journal, has come out for
the free coinage Of silver.
THE body of lO-day-old boy baby,
supposed to have been hurled from a
car window, was found at Elida, O.
J. V. KELLEY, cashier of the New
York Club, is under arrest for the en-
bezzlement of club dues paid to him.
UNTIL proclamation of the arbitrators'
decision the United States will exercise
jurisdiction over the seals in Behring
Sea.
THE contract for heating apparatus of
the Chicago public building has been
awarded to Farrell & Merker, Chicago,
at $6,975.
STUFF & Sons general store at Middle
burg, Ind, was entered by masked
burglars and robbed of $500 worth of
merchandise.
Mrs. TRABUE, wife of S. f. j. Trabue,
retired lawyer and politician, was in
stantly killed in runaway accident
near Frankfort, Ky.
SENATOR BRICE, of Ohio, who has been
i'll for some time, has SO far recovered
as to be able to leave the city for sea-
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