Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-08-01
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

employ negroes in its Roslyn mines in
Washington, the white miners refusing
to accept the reduction in wages.
The fremen on the Wyoming division
of the Union Pacific road are being dis
charged for their part in the recent strike.
Some engineers and conductors are being
dismissed also.
Lieut. Evan NJ. Johnson, Jr, has left
the chair of military science at Mount
Union college, Alliance, o., and will be
succeeded by Capt. Day of the Ninth Uni
ted States cavalry.
E Reed James A Miller and print
er and engraver were arrested at Port
land. Or, for cOunterfeiting Chinese reg
istratiOn certificates. A man named Min
to, the principal cOnspiratOr, escaped to
San Francisco.
At Connellsville, Pa. bomb was
thrown at the home of John Bailey. &
non-union coke worker. the missile strik-
ing a tree in front of the house. 1t eN.
ploded with q deafening report, ,natter-
ing the windows and splintering the tree
Prairie fires are raging between Hunt
ington, Ind, and Fort Wayne. For two
or three days they have been burning
over several thousand acres of wheat
oats and hay fields and stubble fields
Whole families in that section were out
fighting the fire.
Police Officer David Bernberg had
battle with desperate burglar at st.
Joseph. Mo-. and was compelled to shoot
him before making his capture The Of
ficer was at home asleep when he was
awakened by the thief He was heavily
armed and made desperate efforts to kill
the officer. The prisoner gave his name
as John O'keefe. He was shot in the
arm.
Many deaths from the heat are report
ed in Berlin.
The Burlington depot at Pacific June
ton, Ia, burned.
The Lerch block at Sioux City, Ia,
was damaged $4,000 by fire.
1t has been decided that another oper-
alton is necessary on Mr. Gladstones
eyes.
Coy. Patterson of Pennsylvania has
left Buffalo on the steamer Saranac for
Chicago.
The miners at Minonk stuck. but
later decided to return to work at the
Columbus scale.
Revenue officers have unearthed an
illicit distillery in New York having q ca
pacity of 1000 gallons daily.
Reports from all Western states in
dictate the hottest weather ever known.
Great damage to crops will result.
Il. G. Griner, travelling for Il Chicago
portrait company, is under arrest ut Lin
coin, Neb, for abducting young girl.
-Populists Of the Eleventh Illinois
district, in convention at Streator, nomin-
ated William Hirchey for Congress.
The Kentucky Midland railroad has
been levied on for taxes due the city of
Frankfort, and no trains are being run.
The gold reserve is down to S5S.000,-
600. Secretary Carlisle will take some de-
clded action when it reaches r--,,vJ 600.
Richard Brown and William Buck
have been arrested at st. Louis for cauS
ing a wreck in the Missouri Pacific yards.
Miss Susan Sherman, who testified
to gross abuses on Wards island, New
York, has been dismissed by the officers in
charge.
The Peoria Sylvan park summer
opera house with all of the Andrews
company's apparel, was destroyed. Loss,
$4,000.
Frank S. Sturgess has been elected
president of the reorganized cordage
trust.
Burglars broke into the postoffice at
Woodruff, Ill. and stole a small sum of
money.
Thomas. Smith, resident of Porter
county, Ind, fOrty-nine years, is dead OF
Valparaiso.
Leo Fitzpatrick, assistant librarian of
the Indiana Supreme court, is mysteri-
ously missing.
Henry Bennett, colored, was hanged
at Memphis, Tenn. for the murder Of his
wife in May, 1898.
Mayor Fitzpatrick and members of
the common council of New Orleans are
charged with accepting brides.
Henry c. Ward of Kansas City has
keen appointed receiver of the property Of
j. j. Mastin d Co., to settle a dispute.
George Sparkling, the founder of the
summer resort at Lake Senachwine, is
dead at Princeton, III.
The Chicago & Alton road is letting
go many old trainmen who took part in
the strike and who did not report for duty
as usual
-Massilon co. coal operators have de-
cided to pay GO cents a ton Or nothing,
so there seems no prospect Of a settlement
of the strike.
The Rev. G. W. Gelvin will be tried
at Patriot, Ind, before a church court
today for clipping with the wife of a
Presbyterian clergyman.
Thomas E. Mitchum took charge Of
the Sedalia, Warsaw q Southwestern as
receiver. 1t is q narrow-gauge road
owned by the Missouri Pacific.
Miss Ida Lanhan committed suicide
at Brian Bluff, ILL.,, by taking strychnine
Disappointment in love is assigned as
the cause of the act
franchise for electric lighting was CON
frmed by the citizens of Fort Dodge, Ia.
by a vote Of two to one.
The troops Of the department of the
Platte have seen SO much active service
during the strike the orders for practice
marches have been countermanded
Mrs. Sarah Postles has filed a divorce
libel at Wilmington, Del, against Gen
J. Parke Postles. She charges him with
undue intimacy with other women.
The Kansas City, Fort Scott & Mem
phis railroad shops at Kansas City, Mo-,
closed on account of the strike, have
been reopened, giving work to 800 men.
Levi Wrinkle. a roll hand in the Wa
bash rolling mill, Terre Haute, Ind shot
and killed Charles Williams, who charged
him with alternating his wife's affections.
A letter from Supreme Justice Ste
phen J. Field to California judges states
that he will decline the offer of transfer
to the New York circuit and remain in
the Pacific coast circuit.
John E. Diamond, national bank ex-
aminer of South Dakota, has resigned
j. Leslie Thomas and A. ID. Tinsley of
Sioux Falls are aspirants for appoint
ment to the vacancy.
C. A. Calgrove, a saloonkeeper al
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