Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-07-04
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Sioux City, Ia, elected William Remer
of Deadwood, S. D., president, Sherltfs
of Wyoming, Wisconsin, Kansas and Ne
braska were admitted to membership
The Portuguese government has mani
tested its willingness to allow United
States Minister Caruth to act Tor Bra
lillian subjects during the suspension OF
diplomatic intercourse between Portugal
and Brazil. The request came from the
United States government.
The Turkish authorities have seized
the English steamer Science which was
CARRYING guns for the British warshlp
Cockatrice, which is stationed at Salina.
The officers refuse to allow the vessel to
pass through the Bosphorus unless the
guns are delivered to Turkey.
An anarchistic proclamation signed
Alabama Miners is being sent out lib
orally in Alabama. 1t is addressed to
Gov. Jones and calls on him to settle the
strike by July 1. 1t demands that the
making of wholesale arrests be stopped
and the non-union men be shipped back
home. The proclamation says the men
will not be tempered with and If the
terms are not complied with the demands
will be enforced by force of arms.
The fan steamer Unioner collided
with an iceberg. in midocean and arrived
at Dieppe almost q total wreck.
d. c.. Cable of Jacksonville was
elected state commander at the encamp-
ment of Sons of Veterans at Fostorla,
o. s. A. Dickinson was elected senior
vice-commander and Z. ii. Palmer, Jf.,
vice-cOmmander.
A request for troops subject to call
has been forwarded by Secretary Smith
to the secretary of war on the ground that
prospecting parties are preparing to over
run the Black Feet Indian reservation IN
Montana. The interior department has
determined to allow no prospecting on the
reservation.
A novel suit has been commenced
in the Champaign county, ILL.,, circuit
court 1t is a result of the Gallagher
Taylor murder trial at Clifford last Feb
| ruary. Gallagher was acquitted on the
ground of self-defense. Taylor's family
for $4,000 damages.
Duluth took a day off to celebrate
the laying of the cornerstone of its new
board of trade building. Masonic rites
were observed.
-Ex-Gov. Green has been appointed a
rors and appeals, succeeding the late Will
lam Walter Phelps.
A motion for a new trial has been
made for Gus Menkhausen. the eX-police-
man under death sentence at MascOutah,
ILL.,, for numbering his wife.
BY vote of over three to one Sioux
City sanctioned the appropriation of
SOfO,UUU TO ala III Ino COuSlruCllOu VI u
bridge across the Mississippi.
Another prominent Western states
man is about to make a summer residence
| near New York. This is eX-United States
| Senator Thomas w. Palmer of Michigan
and president of the national commission
| of the Worlds fair. Mrs. Palmer has
just purchased the Lockwood place at
LarchmOnt.
The grand stand at the Williams
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down.
The steamer Plymouth was 'stilted"
off the rocks near Roses island. Long
Island sound.
John L. Donovan. Jr., a prominent
young lawyer of Kankakee, H., is mystic
| riously missing.
-Senator-elect Martin of Virginia is
engaged to Miss Lucy Day, daughter of
| Col. Fenton Day.
Thomas A Edison, the inventor, was
seriously injured at Ogden, n. Y, by
| falling from chair.
Wheat harvest has begun in Mont
gomery county, III. The yield promises
to be the largest IN ten years.
| Beers, eXasperated at a demonstra-
| ton in Transvaal, threaten to attack the
| English residents of the colony.
The faculty of Yale has approved the
report of d committee recommending
exercises.
Judge Barrett at New York has
| granted Erastus Wiman a stay until Fri
| day, to avoid going to Sing Sing for the
| time being.
There will be no opposition on the
part of the railroads to adoption OF the
Patterson amendments to the Interstate
commerce act.
California fruit Gamers have formed
a trust.
Three prisoners escaped from jail at
| indianapolis, Ind.
The steamer Plymouth is still on the
rocks off Long Island coast.
Gen" COXey delivered two political
addresses at Philadelphia on Sunday.
The tenth annual encampment of the
| Missouri division, Sons of Veterans, met
| in Sedalia.
The Clinton county, Illinois, Teach
| erS' institute finished two weeks session
| Saturday.
The annual meeting of the Southern
| Michigan spiritualists at Lake Cora, near
| Decatur, is ended.
Montreal jewelers. were swindled by
| a young man who represented himself as
| Phil. Armour, Jr., of Chicago.
The cruiser New York arrived at
| Gotham after a six months cruise. She
was in the harbor while yellow fever
! ragged at Rio.
-Baccalaureate sermons were deliv-
cred at the University Of Michigan by
President Angel and at Yale by Presi-
dent Dwight.
Little or no attention was paid to
the Sunday closing order of the mayor
at Peoria, Ill. 1t is believed the ordi-
nance will be repealed.
Philadelphia police leutenants,
charged with extortion, were summoned
before ont
| pleas of not guilty.
The armor plate frauds were de-
| nounced at a meeting of the Farragut
Post g. A. r., in Omaha. Confscation
of the Carnegie plant was recommended.
"A case of smallpox developed on the
tug Ella NJ Smith at Bay City, and the
authorities anchored the boat in the bay