Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-08-08
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

new one undue OF superior steel.
Mrs. Frank Cantwell, wife of a leader
OF late tramp army, threatens to raise
another hobo band and march from Ia
coma, Wash, as far as the crowd will
go. She says COXey wants her to do so.
In making the arrest of J. K. Wilson
at Kansas City, the alleged ringleader in
the Colorado tar and feather case. an at
tempt was made to assassinate Gen.
Tarsney. A detective prevented the kill
ing.
The witnesses who appeared before
the LeXow Investigating committee are
being sorely harried by New York police
men. They are arrested Oh slight pre-
texts, and openly threatened with police
violence.
The secretary of the treasury has
awarded to John T. Walsh the contract
for the Garage Of customs merchandise
during the next three years in the city of
Chicago. The contract price is cents
package.
"A strong pressure is being brought to
bear on New York district messenger
companies to admit girls to their serv-
ice. The argument is advanced that
girls would do the work more quickly
and conscientiously.
Coy. Altgeld Of Illinois has pardOned
Kitty Adams out of the bridewell at
Chicago She was convicted in June of
this year of larceny and sentenced to the
brideWell for ten months and fined 500
Her Offense consisted in the theft of 81
Twelve Burlington railway machinists
were poisoned by drinking milk at their
boarding place at Havelock, suburb of
Lincoln, Neb. Suspicion points to a sery-
ant girl who had been discharged for
some delinquency and who made threats
that she would get even.
The New York police have stopped
the exhibition of the bullet-proof coat over
q human target.
Nine cars were demolished in a wreck
on the Chicago, Peoria & st. Louis road
at Glenarm. Ill.
Hundreds of bathing suits have been
destroyed at Asbury Park, \. J., by a
Jack the Slasher.
The gold reserve is below $54 100000.
Secretary Carlisle looks to prompt tariff
legislation for relief.
The old soldiers and sailors Of Cass
and Morgan counties held reunion pic
mic at Literberry, I'll.
Co. Fl, [. n. c., of Monmouth, ILL.,,
was given q banquet in honor of its re-
turn from the Chicago strike.
Cut rate tickets of Union Pacific
issue IN San Francisco may lead to a rate
war on western coast business.
Indiana Spiritualists, in session at
Anderson, are split by fractional strife,
and muscular warfare is feared.
Henry Cotton, waiter, ate sixty-two
CLAIMS at Rockaway Beach on a wager,
and will probably die as 4 result
Witnesses called by the LeXow com
mittee to testify against New York police
are being prosecuted by the officers.
John 2. Gushing of Mount Holyoke,
Mass, has been elected to the chair of
economics and history at Knox college.
Charles e. Griffith, editor of paper
in Taos, n. NJ, was terribly beaten for
publishing an article on the Penitents.
Freight trains collided on a bridge
at Sioux City and four cars were thrown
into the river. One man was injured.
-Trainmen at st. Louis, dissatisfied
with the American Railway union, are
organizing Il new association to super
sede it.
-Industrials released from the jail in
Nebraska are heading for Omaha. 1t is
supposed they will continue their march
from there.
Criminal carelessness is charged
against the manager of Title Seberns,
who was killed by a parachute leap at
Anderson, Ind
William c. Garvin, collection clerk of
the Carbonate National bank Of Lead
vile, Col, who pleaded guilty of embez-
zling $500, was sentenced at Denver to
five years in the penitentiary at Joliet,
III.
The leaders of the band of Coxeyites
VINO nave Deen III JAN at ha1SpeII, Mont,
for two months, pleaded guilty in the dis
trict court to conspiracy. Phair, the COM
mander, was sent to the county Jail for
six months and five others to thirty days
each.
President Diaz has named a com
mission of leading Mexican scientific men
to make a complete survey of the famous
volcano of POpOcatepetl. A company of
Philadelphia capitalists has been given an
option on the volcano for the sum of
100000.
Eight Indians who belonged to
Pawnee Bills wild west show at Ant
werp arrived at Philadelphia on the
steamer Illinois. All were destitute and
ailing. During the voyage one of the
squaws, named Walking Woman, died
and was buried at sea on July y.
Short in his accounts, his defalcation
discovered, requested to make good the
money he had taken and harassed by de-
mands for the payment of an old debt ii
Evansville, Ind, George n. Wells, ageL
At, boOk-keeper for the Royal Cigar com
pany of st. Louis, ended his life by tax
ing morphine.
The President has approved the APP
plicatiOn for retirement of Admiral Stan
ton to take effect July 30. This results in
the promotion of Commodore Eben, now
commanding the European station, to be
rear admiral and the assignment of Com
mOdOre Richard Mead to the command of
the North Atlantic station.
Sharp Nose, an Arapahoe Indian chief
of Wyoming, has been deemed by the
House pension committee worthy of a
pension of So a month for his services
to the government as a scout in leading
the attack on the village of hostile Chey-
ennes in the Big Horn mountains in No
yember, 1876, and on other occasions.
Sydney Bennett, described as an
American lawyer, fired a pistol at Edith
Mary Andrews q woman with whom he
had been living in London, Englanu,
and then shot himself. Bennett is not
seriously injured and the woman was I'M
hurt, The tragedy took place at the house
in Ederton des Gardens, where the
couple have been residing.
john NJ. Atkinson, a business man of
Mount Vernon, ILL.,, and half owner of
the Mount Vernon coal mines, was in
stantly killed by the explosion of a saw
mill boiler.
After twenty years continuous serv-
ice at Nincennes, Ind, the Rev. Thomas
j. Clark of the Christian church has re-
signed. He goes to Bloomington, Ind.