Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-01-24
NEWS PARAGRAPHS

son, was lynched in West Feliciana
Parish, La, He killed one Of the at
lacking mob.
SHERIFF j. P. BooTH and his prede-
cessor, f.. G.. Seymour, of San Bernardo
no, Cal, were indicted for charging
double fees.
AT Rockford, ILL.,, Jeremiah Mahony,
q farmer was convicted Of the larceny
of a wagon and sentenced to one year in
the penitentiary.
TODD M. PETTIGREw, embezziing cash
ier of the First National Bank of Sun
Dance, WyO., was sentenced to five
years imprisonment.
For taking two cigars from an office
into which he had broken, Thomas Ben
nett, Of MascOutah, ILL.,, was sentenced
to six years in prison.
THE wages of the section men on the
Grand Trunk Railway between Mon
treal and Island Pond have been re-
duced 10 cents per day.
ANOTHER unidentified body was taken
from Newton Creek, the scene of the
Long Island bridge disaster, making
eight bodies SO far found.
AT Rockford, ILL.,, Jeremiah Maho-
nev, farmer, was convicted Of the lar
ceny Of a wagon and sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary.
The conference between hatters and
bosses at Danbury, Conn, resulted in
no agreement, as the men refused to
agree to temporary reduction.
AT Purdue University, Indiana, the
Heavilon shops, designed for the use of
the mechanical engineering department
and costing $l80,0O0, were dedicated.
CHARLES G. GINGER, well-tO-do farm
er of Winamac, Ind. while hauling logs
to saw mill was instantly killed by the
chain breaking and the log rolling on
top of him.
THE jackson Coal Company has
closed it's Brazil, Ind, mine, and it is
asserted the Brazil Block Coal Company
will close two mines soon. Lack of
orders is alleged.
WILLIAM RARADAN, residing near
Brazil, Ind, was frightfully mangled by
an explosion Of dynamite cartridge
He was digging well and had inserted
the cartridge under a large stone.
EIGHT more patients suffering with
typhoid fever at Bermuda have been
transferred to the hospital from H. NJ.
s. Canada. Eleven of its crew are sick
| with the fever at Barbados and twenty
at Bermuda.
NEWS has been received at st. Mary's
Seminary, Baltimore, Nd, of the cleo
ton of Father Capier, procurator Of
the Sulpitian Order at Rome, to sue
coed the Rev. II. J. Icard as director
general of the order
GRAND MASTER WILKINSON and Chief
Sargent of the railway trainmen are in
Columbus, o., for conference with
President Waite on the reduction of
Hooking Valley trainmen's wages of 10
per cent. No strike is anticipated.
AT Princeton, w. Va, Sheriff Hall at
tempted to arrest the Mullen brothers.
The sheriff and both desperadoes were
killed.
JOHN HALEY SPEARS, of Jacksonville,
H., is dead. He was one Of the
founders of the Republican party in
Illinois
ORvILLE SIMMONS, son of Benjamin S.
Simmons, Of Winchester, Ind, is under
arrest at Anderson, Ind, charged with
forgery.
GEORGE SCoTr was stabbed to death
in a drunken row at Ivan, Mich.
Charles IL. Ferguson was arrested for
the crime.
Gov. MATTHEWS, of Indiana, has reap
pointed Murray Briggs, of Sullivan,
president Of the State Normal School
trustees.
FRANK BENNETT has been held at Du-
buque, Ia, for counterfeiting nickels.
He conducted a bicycle repairing shop
at Waterloo.
ROBBERS broke into the Chicago &
Great Western ticket Office at HolComb,
ILL.,, and stole a number of tickets and
some money.
Mrs. HATTIE p. EVANS, wife of H. K.
Evans, county attorney of Wayne Coun-
ty, Ia, has been admitted to practice by
the supreme court.
HENRY BERNJUs, who assaulted Louis
Jensen at Cedar Rapids with an ice
pick, has been arrested at Clinton, Ia.
His victim may die.
THE body of Fred White, a we'll
known Seymour, Ind, citizen, aged "A
years, was found. Paralysis is supposed
to have caused death.
JOSEPH f. PRrTcHARD, convicted Of
bigany at Mascoutah, H., and sentenced
to one year in the penitentiary has
been granted a new trial.
CHAIRMAN CUTCHEoN, of the Minneso-
ia Democratic State Central Committee,
has resigned, owing to Cleveland's delay
III making appointments.
TIE Board of Kent County, Mich.
Supervisors now offers a reward OF $500
lOI Iu6 arrest OF Une murderer OF muir
derers of Mrs. Miles Mcken drick.
DIR. f. 0. MATTHEWS, a spiritualist,
was sentenced to fourteen months in the
penitentiary for selling bogus claim in
the Cripple Greek, Col, mining camp.
THE grand jury of Valparaiso, Ind,
has returned twenty nine indictments,
some of which it is thought will cause
sensation. The cost to the county is
$500.
THE board of trustees of Eureka Col
lege at Eureka, ILL.,, has decided to re-
build Lidas Wood, the woman's board
ing hall destroyed by fire. The build
ing will cost $4,000.
a SEIZURE Of opium valued at 81 200
was made on the steamer Walla Walla,
which arrived at San Francisco from
Victoria, Is. G.
HENRY Bowen, an Adrian, Mich, ice
dealer, BACKED seventy-six pairs of
boots on challenge and gave the re-
ceipts to charity.