Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-01-31
NEWS PARAGRAPHS

PRISONERS in the county jail at Ottum-
wa, Ia, were caught tearing out q wall
in an effort to escape.
MICHIGAN's supreme court has con-
tirmed the constitutionality of the gen
eral banking law of the state.
AsBIIL was introduced in the Ohio
Senate which provides that a parent
may not disinherit a child.
w. H. BRADSHAW was cowhided in q
Cripple Creek, Col, hotel by a wolnana
who claimed he had slandered her.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER ROOSEVELT
addressed the annual convention for
good city government at Philadelphia
C. P. JOHNSON, of SPRINGFIELD, was
elected president Of the Illinois Ameri-
can Protective Association after hard
fight.
INSANITY will be the defense in the
Hart murder trial at Rockford, I'll.
One OF the states witnesses has disap-
peared.
Don M DICKINSON, who is in New
York, is said to be at work to secure
confirmation of Peckham as associate
justice.
BECAUSE of opposition to the re-
organization scheme, foreclosure of the
Reading road is being considered by the
receivers.
FANNY DAVENPORT, who was injured
| two weeks ago at Denver by fall down
a flight of steps, is still unable to appear
on the stage.
CAPT. J. f. STUART, A. w. Machen
and r. L. Spangler have been appoint
ed to examine the needs of the Chica-
go post-otiice.
FIVE new cases of smallpox and one
Il
POPE LEO is at work upon an import
ant address on Italian affairs which he
will shortly deliver. -,
IN the English House of Lords the
parish councils bill passed the second
| reading without a division.
JOHN BRoDIE, at Valparaiso, Ind, was
fined for denouncing the grand jury
system to the body and court.
THE three burglars who robbed the
Atchison depot and G.. Fl. Barkers store
at Girard, kas., are in jail there.
DUBUQUE, Ia, knights of Pythias gave
a farewell banquet to Past Grand Chan
cellor Duncan, who goes to Salt Lake.
SECRETARY of the Treasury Carlisle adj
dressed the House judiciary committee
upon his proposed issue of government
bonds.
CHARLES NoRD shot and killed him
self at Jacksonville, H. He was de-
spOndent over business affairs.
A. B. CHENEY, Sparta, Mich, bank
er and ex-legislator, has been arrested
on charge of breach OF trust.
THE case of Mayor Il. 7. DUNCAN, of
Huntington, Ind, has been postponed
indefinitely and will be dropped
THE steamship Andes, which ran
aurOunH nnor :ttlo Raanb Ii
station in New Jersey, has got off
THE Wabash Railroad station at Ro-
anoke, Ind, was robbed of several
hundred dollars in money and tickets.
ALoNzo THOMPSON, q barber, cut the
throat Of his mistress, Mollie Mentlow,
at Chattanooga, Tenn. She lived an
hour.
CHANCELLOR GIBSON was expelled from
the Knoxville, Tenn, Grand Army post
on charges brought by Congressman
Houk.
Coal miners in the Des MOines, Ia,
district will return to work, the Oper-
ators having agreed to the proposed
scale.
A JURY was secured in the Hart trial
at Rockford, III. The murderer's
mother tried to shield him in her testi-
mOny.
C. H. NICHOLS, alias H. NJ Cook,
under arrest at Denver, Col, is wanted
in Cleveland, O., on several forgery
charges.
AN attempt to enforce the dispensary
law led to a riot at Charleston, S. c., In
which the lives of two spies were
sought.
has been arrested for trying to wreck
Pennsylvania trains.
THE directors and officers of the
Pittsburg q Lake Erie Railroad were
reelected at Pittsburg.
AROUSED by the frequent acts of law
lessness, Pittsburg. Kas.y residents will
form a vigilance committee.
OHIO capitalists are considering the
feasibility of building an electric line
south from Norfolk to Fairfield.
SPRINGFIELD, O., Methodists are split
over Pastor Bartel's accusing Miss War
neF of irregular dealing with church
funds
THROUGH an anonymous letter an al
legged plot to burn Danbury, Conn, hat
factories was discovered. Police are on
guard
TWELVE boys escaped from the re-
formatory at Laurel, Va.
THERE are four cases of malignant
diphtheria in Champaign, LII.
The Cincinnati, O., Gas. Company has
increased It's capital stock $500, DOC.
SIX prisoners filed and dug their way
out of the county Jail at Searcy, Ark.
TWENTY thousand cigars that had been
stolen were found buried at Omaha,
Neb.
ONE HUNDRED Kansas editors attended
the meeting Of the state association at
Hutchinson.
A MAN named Agile from Chicago has
been stricken with smallpox DIT New
Hampton, la.
TIE Elkins trial was ended at Bryan,
o., and the prisoner was sentenced to
life imprisonment.
JOHN SILVA, Italian, unmarried, was
killed by fall of rock in the Santa Fee
shaft at Frontenac, Kas.
john W. REM has been appointed by
the encouragement to prosecute the
indianapolis bank Wreckers.
| In Quarrel at Atlanta. Mich. John