Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-01-17
NEWS PARAGRAPHS

destroying OF Uerel1ctS are penang De"
tween the United States and Great
Britain.
NOTWITHSTANDING the protests of the
students, Murray Briggs will be reap
pointed a trustee of the Indiana Nor
NAL School.
A COLoRED man named Adams sued
for damages at Salina, kas., for the
lvnching of his son. He was awarded
81 by a jury.
JOHN KREPs is under arrest charged
with the burglary of the house of
Charles Bitner, a general merchant OF
Lincolnville, Ind.
WILLIAM HILDEBRAND was arrested in
Fort Wayne, Ind, and confessed to
cashing forged checks, bat refused to
tell who forged them.
GREGORY, who attempted to defraud
Fort Wayne, Ind, storekeepers by us
ing the name of Sprague, Warner d
SAM MATHER, a farmer and stock
raiser of Homer, ILL.,, while breaking q
pair of colts fell beneath them and
was kicked so severely that he will
probably die.
ALBERT SMITH, who one year ago last
September killed James Startling at
Madison, Ind, the grand jury refusing
to indict then, as self-detense was al
legged, has now been indicted for MUIR
der and arrested.
DR. w. T. GEMPP, of St. Louis, COM
mitted suicide by shooting.
TRAMPs robbed the post-office at
kouts, Ind, of S25. They escaped.
SPRINGFIELD was selected as the per-
manent site of the Illinois state fair.
LAWRENCE SULLIVAN, cashier Of the
Asheville, n. c., National Bank, is miss
ing.
f. A. FERRIN, an insurance agent at
Ottawa, Ill, is in jail, charged with lssu-
ing forged notes.
DESIGNER HERREsHoFF, of the Nigilant,
has received a present of $1,000 from
Morgan and Iselin.
Mrs. HANsBRoUGH, wife of Senator
Hansbrough, Of North Dakota, is crit
ically i'll in New York.
JOEL BRYANT was given a verdict of
81 1899 against the Baltimore q Ohio
Railroad at Newark, o.
AT Burlington, Ia, man named Aid
son, of Galesburg, was run over by
freight train and fatally hurt.
LEWIS REDwINE pleaded guilty at At
lanta, Ga, to embezzling 100000 from
the Gate City National Bank.
GEN. TORRES, of Mexico, has asked
Gen. McCOOk to cooperate with him III
suppressing the border troubles.
MARSHAL WESTON, Of Bellevue, Ia,
arrested four men believed to have
robbed the general store at Cascade.
SECRETARY CARLISLE will be compelled
to issue BONDS under the law of 1875 I'M
less Congress enacts new legislation.
BURGLARS broke in the store and post
office Of J. A. Davis at Miner, H., and
stole $50 in money and $500 in stamps.
Dr.. FRANK MENoUGH, of Brazil, Ind,
took by mistake q tablet Of hichloride
of mercury and is not expected to live.
j. c. HAND was convicted at Ypsilanti,
Mich, Of the murder of j. Z. Pulver,
and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
SUIcIDEs-Dr. c. E. Loucks, at Ash
land, O.; Mrs. William Rashke, at
Boone, Ia; William Barth, at Cincin-
natl.
THE Rev. P. J. Donahue, rector of the
Baltimore Cathedral, has been created
bishop of the Wheeling, w. Va, do
cese.
BENJAMIN HERBERT, Of st. Louis, al
leges his mother was placed in All in
sane asylum by his father, though en-
tirely sane.
THE Hamburg-American and North
German Lloyd Steamship companies
have decided to consolidate their Med
iterranean lines.
PETER B. GALLAGHER, a Detroit attor-
me-, was bound and gagged and robbed
of 81, ia. The robbery was committed
in Gallagher's office.
IN the Tn ted States court at Spring
field, H., George Castleman was sem
fenced to year in the penitentiary tor
passing counterfeit money.
WILLIAM CARDRAY, Portland, Ore,
was fatally shot. His brother John,
theatrical manager, was in the room
and ssys it was al accident.
The body of William H. Harlan,
Denver miser, was found in La Ike
Charles, near New Orleans, where he
was drowned Christmas day.
OFFICERS at Rockford, H., who threw
William Dickinson into q cell while
drunk, in which state he died, have
been exonerated by the coroner's jury.
EDWIN u. BARTHOLOMEW, Of Decatur,
Ill.,, wholesale and retail dealer III glass
ware and china, has made an assign
ment. The assets are $46,972 and the
liabilities S73,969.
VARIOUS associations OF manufacturers
Of Pittsburg will be represented in
Washington in q few days. Delegations
will work to defeat the Wilson bill, cen
tering their forces on the Senate.
WINDOW glass manufacturers of the
West. in conference at Pittsburg, de-
cided to close all plants on February 10,
indefinitely SO as to curtail production.
No action was taken on the wage Ques-
ton.
THE workmen at the Riverside Steel
and Iron Company's plant at Wheeling
w Va, have accepted the new scale,
which in many cases provides for re-
duction of nearly 80 per cent. Work
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