Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-02
NEWS PARAGRAPHS,

| the ct. Louis COXey army.
THE attempt to organize a common
veal army in Buffalo has failed.
GRAYsoN's commonweal army has ar
rived at Fort Morgan, Col, 100 strong.
THE unemployed and striking miners
at Jellico, Tenn, are organizing an in
dustrial army.
J. w. FICKEY, of La Porte, Ind, be-
ing in financial difficulty, attempted
suicide, but will live.
JACK BELLEw has been indicted at
Fort Dodge, Ia, Tor the murder of Joe
Tiffany a fellow gambler.
ONE man was fatally injured and sew
eral others seriously hurt by a freight
train wreck at Bucyrus, O.
THE Washington state Coxey armies
have failed to capture train. Every
thing is quiet at Troutdale.
GEN FRYE and bis 400 men are still in
| Indianapolis. The city authorities will
drive the army out of town.
APPLICABLE, the stranger who robbed
a store at kempton, Ind, was sentenced
to seven years imprisonment.
THE jury in the trial of Robert Smith,
charged with setting fire to hotel at
Louisville, H., failed to agree.
JOHN kELLAR, under arrest at Schen-
| andOah. Ia, for criminal assault on Mary
Owens at Galesburg, ILL.,, is being eX-
tradited.
The Texas Medical Society has me-
moriahzed Congress for protection
against contagious diseases other than
cholera, smallpox and yellow lever.
EVIDENCE has been found showing
that Lawyer A. 7. Beck, of indianapolis,
was struck with a sandbag before he
| No have hnnn
THE Northwestern industrial army
has left Seattle. 1t will march to Puy-
allup, where an attempt will be made to
| capture train. The army numbers 100
men.
| DR.. LANDER KNAPP, of Ann Arbor,
Mich, disappeared at Chicago on Feb
ruary Is. He has been heard from in
St. Louis, and says he was travelling in
be West.
Mrs. EDWARD WHARTON shot an I'M
known man al Huntington, Ind, who
was peeping through the blinds of a
neighbours house. The man was
wounded but escaped.
THE United States marshal of Idaho
has been given orders similar to those
sent to the marshal of Montana, in view
Of the threatened seizure of trains in
the Ceur 'Alene districts.
THE illinois auditor of public accounts
| has issued permits for the organization
of the Fulton Bank at Fulton, White
side County, and the Farmers and Mer-
chants Bank at Cerro Gordo, Platt
| County.
JAMES MCNAMARA, a fruit dealer who
was arrested in Chicago, was taken to
Freeport, ILL.,, where a charge was made
against him of assauIting the 12-year-
old daughter of Mrs. Fred Kohler, of
that place.
The Vacuum Oil Company, of Denver.
! Col, which has controlled the sale of
two-thirds Of the lubricating oil con-
sumed in the West, will be consolidated
May l with the Continental Oil Com
paDy, the Western representative OF
the Standard trust
The governor of Massachusetts, has
signed the bill doubling the require
ments for the starting of mutual fire
insurance companies in that state.
AN order was issued by which the
service of 200 men employed in the
shops of the $500" road at Minneapolis
will be thrown out of employment.
The state convention of United Mine
Workers at Springfield, ILL.,, decided to
hold the annual state convention the
first Tuesday in February hereafter.
ABOUT POO miners from along the Mo-
bile q Ohio road marched to the Valley
and Gulf mines at Sparta and per-
suaded the miners there to Join the
strike
WILLIAM J. ELLIOTT, who is in the
Ohio penitentiary for murder, attempt
ed suicide by poison. Elliott was editor
of Columbus paper when he was con-
| victed.
THE annual commencement of the
Western Theological Seminary was held
at Holland, Mich There were two
graduates-John Sietsema and J. P.
Winter.
c. c. MATHEWS, superintendent Of the
| Alexandria Pipe Line Company, has
sued the Lake Erie q Western for 81, DOC
damages for being put off train by a
conductor.
REPRESENTATIVE of the Order of Rail-
way Conductors and the Brotherhood
Of Railway Trainmen for the Wabash
system are holding a conference with
officials in St. Louis to consider the 1C
per cent. reduction scheduled
The civil damage suit for $40, ZOO
against Mrs. Augusta Schmidt for killing
her tenant, Oscar Walton, has been
compromised for 5000. Mrs. Schmidt
has begun serving her ten-year term.
JEFF r. SToUGHToN was convicted at
Louisville, H., of killing Cynthia A.
Stark and sentenced to one year in
prison.
DIR. w. F. WILSON, veterinary sur
geon, committed suicide at Quincy, ILL.,,
by taking morphine. He had been
drinking heavily.
WILLIAM PRINCE, a citizen of the
United States, was assassinaIed in March
at a gold mine near Ayama- Pampa
province Of Chayanta, department OF
Potosi, Bolivia.
WILLIAM JOHNSON, aged only "a years,
has been taken to the Northern Indiana
prison to serve his third term, being
sentenced for four years for burglary
and grand larceny at La Porte.
FORTY days have passed since Frank
Woodruff. wealthy farmer near War
saw, Ind, has slept. He was afflicted
with the same strange malady two years
ago, when he went eighty days without