Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-01-03
NEWS PARAGRAPHS,

| children were burned to death at Har-
| rOdSburg, Pa, IL fire that consumed
| their home.
JAKE HOLMAN, a deputy returning
officer at the elections at Winnipeg.
Man, has been committed for ballot
box stufing.
SAM HAIL, a society man, started
fashionable restaurant at Atlanta, Ga.
Fashion failed to pay the bills and the
restaurant closed.
AT the annual meeting Of the State
Forestry Association in Denver q reso-
| luton was passed calling for the passage
of the McRae bill.
PEARL MORGAN and Mamie Young.
aged II years old, are missing from
Greensburg, Ind. They were traced as
far as indianapolis.
JOSEPH WOLF, Of Cleveland, O., was
sentenced to two years in the prison
North at Valparaiso Ind, for burglary
and resisting arrest.
Mrs. JOHNSON CLEVELAND persisted in
her burning home near La Grange, Ga.
! Mrs. Cleveland was closely related to
President Cleveland.
A MOTION for new trial for Cyrus
Brown, Columbus, Ind, wife murderer,
was denied, and he was sentenced to
be hanged April 20, 1894.
AMAEK LAMBERT shot and killed him
self at Cincinnati, O. He was % years
old. His parents live in New York.
No reason is known for the act.
GEORGE W. WoODRUFF, the farmer Of
Ross Township, Ind, who went sixty
five days last winter without sleep, is
again afflicted with this strange malady.
JOHN ?. RADBURY has sued the De
Paw Plate Glass Company at Elwood,
Ind, for $4,000 damages for injuries
received while working for the COM
pany.
TIE traffic arrangements between the
Sioux City 4 Northern, the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids 4 Northern and the Chi
cago, Rock Island q Pacific have been
broken.
J. f. KNIGHT was elected superin-
tendent of the LapOrte, Ind, schools
to succeed w. w. Hailmann, recently
appointed superintendent of the Indian
schools.
JOHN w. STRAIGHT, of Logansport,
Ind, injured in the Pennsylvania
Railway wreck last February, has COM
promised with the company for
$4,623.50.
JUDGE BAILEY, of Canon City, Col,
sentenced William f. Roberts, banker,
charged with receiving deposits when
to three years III the penitentiary.
ALLEGED crookedness of mortgages
given to the Old Mems and Widows
Home at Cincinnati is said to have eX-
tended also to the Cincinnati Savings
Society. The grand jury is still investi-
eating.
THE body of Miss Yeargin, the young
lady who, with Prof. Merriam, was
drowned in Cayuga Lake, N, Y, while
rowing on November Is, has been re-
covered. Prof, Merriam's body has not
been recovered.
IT is believed that Judge Giffen will
sustain the validity of the assessment
made by the authorities of Cedar Rap
ids, Ia.
By an explosion in paint factory at
Birmingham, Ala, Thomas SWope was
fatally burned and the entire plant de-
stroyed.
BURGLARS looted five stations on the
line of the Pennsylvania roads New
York division, securing money and
| tickets
Miss HELEN WARREN, daughter of
! Bishop Warren, of the Methodist Epis
copal Church, was married at Denver to
DR.. John R. Van Pelt.
YAQUI Indians are committing depra-
dations in Northwestern Mexico.
| Santa Maria they killed a WOodsman
and wounded two others.
THE jury returned verdict of not
guilty at Taylorsville, ILL.,, in the trial of
| Dennis Kennedy for the murder of Mat
thew Leonard, December rs, 1892.
THE river steamer John Graves,
| heavily laden with sugar and other
merchandise, sank twenty-five miles
south of Camden, Ark. The cargo is
well insured
The twelfth annual meeting of the
American Society Of Naturalists, the
Society of Morphologists and the Society
! of Psychologists was held at Osborn
Hall, Yale University.
Two weeks ago Patrick Hickey, sla-
! ter, disappeared at Cincinnati. His
| body has been found on the roof of the
Presbyterian Church at Silverton, o.,
where he had died while at work.
AT Resale, Tex, Ben Hamilton got
drunk and meeting Thomas Bush shot
him through the breast. AS Bush was
falling he sent bullet through Hamil-
toms head. Both died on the spot.
A MAJORITY of the Episcopal bishops
have formally confirmed the Rev. A. Z.
\. Halls election to the bishopric Of
Vermont. His conservation is expected
to take place in January at Burlington.
HENRY NJ HENDERSON asks that the
partnership of Phillips & Henderson,
boot and shoe dealers at Bloomington,
ILL.,, be dissolved. He alleges that
Phillips, his partner, has taken over
81 900 more of the firms cash than be
was entitled to.
SILAs STUART, dealer in diamonds,
watches and jeWelry at New York, made
an assignment.
THE body of Jerry Leary, entombed
in the East Bear Ridge, Pa, colliery,
was found under tons of coal.
INDIANA temperance workers propose
to begin a crusade to force saloons out
of residence sections.
KATE JOHNSON, charged with counter
feiting, viciously attacked her accuser
in an indianapolis courtroom.
MURDERER Wilson Howard, of St.
Louis, has been granted a stay Of execu
ton from December 20 to January 10.
Miss ESTHER NJ. THURBER, of Chicago,
! Of IN