Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-09-12
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Mary A. Henderson secured a verdict
for $4,000 at Oquawka. ILL.,, in her suit
against j. Schneck for $4,000 for defa-
nation of character.
The directors and officers of the Iowa
Central railroad were reelected at the
annual meeting. Net earnings for the
year increased $4,000.
Charles Osborne of Chicago was
elected second vice-president of the Ma
tional Association of Stationary Engi-
neers at Baltimore
Speaker Crisp and Secretary Smith
addressed a mass meeting at Atlanta,
Ga, the former devOting himself to the
tariff. the latter to finance.
The trustees of the Methodist Episco-
pal church at Dubuque, Ia, have decided
to build q new edifice. Dr. Staples sub
scribed $4,000 and others $4,000.
The British steamer Samuel Tyzack,
which has reached Baltimore from Ha-
vana. is believed to have n case of yellow
fever aboard and has been ~quarantined.
A strong Japanese force has occupied
a large island in Society bay, ten miles
northwest of Port Arthur, and will make
it a base of operations. The landing
was not opposed.
A call has been issued by the Peoples
party of Kane and Du Page counties,
Ill, for a convention to be held at Turner
September 10 for the purpose of placing
a senatorial candidate in the field.
Col. J. II. Keatly, commandant of
the Iowa Soldiers home, and +. L. Wells.
the adjutant, have been suspended by
the board of commissioners pending an
Investigation of the affairs of the home.
George +. Work, the Philadelphia
banker and financier who was sentenced
in February, 1891, to serve four years
in the Eastern Pennsylvania penitentiary
for fraudulently taking and confiscating
bank securities, has been released.
Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota is
i'll at Sioux Falls.
Coy. Mellette of South Dakota was
given q reception at Muncie, Ind, his old
home.
1t is said the war department has
decided to make an artillery station of
Davis island.
p. f. Banco of Quincy, ILL.,, was ar
rested for selling cigars bearing a counter
felt union label.
Peter Diego, postmaster at Moriah
Center, n. Y, was arrested, charged
with rihing mails.
Howard White, a bicycle dealer of
Trenton, n. J., is missing, and is said to
be heavily indebted.
Elizabeth Tippett of Elyria, O., has
sued Josiah Scott of Sunapee, \. H.,
for breach of promise.
Efforts are being made by the stock
holders of the Peoria. Decatur u Evans
vile railroad to reorganize it.
John Reese of Ligonier, Ind, a self
confessed barn-burner, escaped from the
officers while being taken to Jail.
Lafayette Thompson, arrested at
Muncie, Ind. confessed to committing a
score of burglarieS in that vicinity.
The bishop of Urgel has denied the
Suzerainty of France and proclaimed him,
self ruler of the province of AndOrra.
1t is thought DR.. w. A. Conklin of
C~assopolis, Mich, has been killed to pre-
vent him testifying in a murder trial.
On Democratic day at the Auburn,
N. Y, fair speeches were made by Gov.
Flower and Congressman Harter of ohio.
Martin German of Chicago was killed
by the cars at Whiting, Ind.
Levi Mckinney, mine foreman, was
killed by a Burlington train at Abba, Ia.
Police Sergt. Nicholas Sheehan was
shot dead at Cleveland, o., by two burg
lars.
The Des Moines conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church met at Shen-
andOah, Ia.
During a quarrel over a woman Joe
Red Cross, Ind.
w. c.. Melville was killed at Quincy,
ILL.,, by being caught in the machinery of
the Crescent laundry.
Clever swindlers secured f4S00 from
a London banking house on a forged draft
on the Credit Lyonnais.
Gabriel Dumont, Louis Riel's old
lieutenant, is stirring up an Indian uprlS-
ing at Fish Lake, n. w. t.
The Old Settlers association met at
Muscatine, Ia, and J. P. Walton, presi-
dent, delivered the chief address.
Stormy Jordan, the once wealthy
liquor dealer who spent a fortune in fight
ing the Iowa prohibition law, is penniless.
Gov. Mckinley of Ohio addressed the
old soldiers at the Cayuga county fair.
His speech was nOn-pOlitical in character.
Mrs. Charles Haiti of K%ankakee, ILL.,,
has brought a damage suit for $4,000 and
costs against c.. G. Parker, alleging SLAM
der.
Nathan A. Weston, an instructor in
the University of Illinois, and Miss Annie
Gayman were married at Champaign,
Ill.
Judge Coolidge decided the election
I illegal by which st. Joseph, Mich, Sc
cured the county seat from Berrien
Springs.
Joint debates nave been arranged be-
tween w. D. Owen and w. R.. Myers,
opposing candidates for secretary of state
in Indiana.
The Women's Christian Temperance
union of the Thirteenth congressional dis
trict opened the annual convention at
Urbana, Ill.
The nominating papers of the PeO-
pies party of Illinois have been rejected
by the secretary of state and a test suit
will be brought.
Gus Cornell, alias Jones, Bill Nc
Comb and Bill Clemens were arrested at
New Albany, Ind, on a charge of passing
counterfeit money.
All the glass factories in Muncie, Ind,
are preparing to resume work. The Flint
Glass company will start with thirty
blowers and 100 hands.
Two prisoners escaped from the Jail at
Carlyle, ILL.,, the jailer being Overpow-
cred.
"A. +. Walker, the new receiver of the
Santa Fe railway, has returned from
Europe.
Gen. Grants old regiment, the Twen-
ty-eighth Illinois, held a reunion at Kill
mundy, Ill.
Secretary Carlisle expresses the opin-
ion that it will not be necessary to again