Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-11-28
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committee which will vigorously prose
cute the election fraud cases.
| -Ihe indictments against the seventy
| i've striking miners of Birmingham, Ala
charged with riOting, were quashed.
! George NJ. Irwin, the Pittsburg discre-
tlOnary pool operator, was arrested in
New York. He was going to Europe.
| j. Edward Addcks. millionaire of
| Delaware, is credited with attempting to
| buy a seat in the United States Senate
1t is stated that the members of the
| cabinet are divided on the method of
| beginning reform in the country's finances.
| -Hester's Cotton exchange statement
| shows that the movement thus far this
season breaks all records by 10000 bales.
Western lines are SO unanimously in
| favor OF new passenger association
! that there is little doubt of its Organiza-
| ton.
Government authorities have decided
| that 1T is not necessary to send troops TO
the Indian territory to suppress the Cook
gang.
Strong competition by outside con
| Germs may cause the whisky trust to Sc
| cure more money or submit to reOrganiza-
| ton.
| New York railroad commissioners
| have refused permission for the building
of the Amsterdam, Johnstown & Glovers-
vile line
-1ue NdHSdS Du1EyInen s ASSOCIATION,
in session at Topeka, adopted a reSolu-
ton protesting against the sale of oleomar-
| garine in the state unless ii is labeled
and colored some color other than vel
| low.
Miss Laura Jordan has begun damage
suits at Vincennes, Ind, against 5. A.
Jordan and w. S. Lane for $4,000 EACH
alleging that they had slandered her
| by accusing her of burning their mill at
| Decker.
The Ohio court refused to interpose
| against the order of the Pennsylvania
| court, which gave a judgment for 1885,
against J. S. Coxey on notes given B. NJ.
| Everson when the commonWealers were
| in Pittsburg.
The government has begun suit at
| Minneapolis against the North American
| Telegraph company for alleged violation
! of the alien labor law in bringing Miss
Josie A. Phelan, an OPERATOR from Cana
da to Duluth.
William Gill, sheriff of Pottawatta-
ME county, O. IT,, S. J. Colt, Preston
Armstrong and Daniel FRESHMAN were
arrested at Guthrie on a charge of muir
der due to shooting of Steve Penasaw
| three years ago.
Arthur Musselman of Mendon Mich,
claims that Mrs. Solomon Dill encouraged
! his attentions and finally proposed mar
riage to him, but now declares there was
nc engagement between them. MusseI-
| man SUED Tor damages.
| AT a meeting of the state council at
! st. Petersburg the Gar created a highly
| favorable impression by a display of I'M
| expected oratorical fluency, and his mas
| terly grip of the political situations sub
nGtted for his judgment.
Rev Joseph st. John, rector of Cal
vary Memorial Episcopal church at Sagi-
nav, Mich married a widow with So,
| 600 and property at South Bay City.
! She has brought suit for divorce on
grounds of cruelty, and the minister has
| disappeared.
AS a result Of the crusade of Cleveland
ministers against indecent pictures, at
taches of the Star theater were fined $40
for displaying Objectionable Autographs.
The Citizens National bank at Spo-
| kane, Wash, will go into liquidation. Its
assets are S425,O0O; liabilities, $24O, 900.
| The bank closed during the panic of 1898.
| President Rockefeller and other Off
! GERS of the Standard Oil company were
indicted by the grand jury of McLennan
| county, Tex, and their surrender will be
asked for.
Frank E. Godfrey, acting assistant SUI
perintendent of the gymnasium of the
Boston Young Mems Christian union, fell
and broke his neck while working in the
gymnasium.
| Joseph X. Emmett, the actor, and
| Nav Higgins Stevens. whose stage name
| is Emily Lyton Stevens, the leading lady
of the Emmett company, were married at
| Davenport, La.
| Friends and connections of the Bar
! ings have taken over from the Bank of
| England the entire amount of the re-
naming Barring assets. All guarantors
| are thus released from any further re-
| SpOnSibility.
| Representative of all the big lumber
! ing firms operating on the upper Mssis>
sippi met at Minneapolis and took prelim-
mary steps in the formation of a pool
similar to that recently organized on the
| Chippewa river.
| j. S. Sanders, commander of the COM
monweal army from Cripple Greek, arrest
| ed at Pueblo, Col, on charge of stealing
a Denver & Rio Grande locomotive, was
discharged, the railroad company with
drawing the complaint.
-Ringleaders of the commonweal army
| who stole a Santa Fe train at st. Joseph,
Mo-, were convicted there of unlawful as
sembly and given one day each in Jail.
The will of James Hood Wright of
the firm of DreXel Morgan & Co., bank
ers, New York, leaves the bulk of his es-
! tate, which is estimated at 100000
to his wife.
"A commission from Manitoba has been
| sent to Duluth and Minneapolis to investi-
| gate the system of grading wheat 1t is
| alleged that combine has been discrim-
mating against Manitoba wheat.
Rev. Father Ducey of New York does
not recognize the right of Archbishop Cor
rigan to forbid the priest to attend the
meetings of the Lexow committee. The
matter has been appealed to Mgr. Satolli.
Herr Klesser, editor of the West
German Allegemeine Zeitung, charged
with ibeling Marschall Won Beberstein,
| imperial secretary of state for foreign af
fairs, was sentenced to two months i'm
! prisonment
The grand jury has brought in six
Indictments in blank for offenses growing
put of the recent labor troubles on the
| New Orleans leVee-three for assault with
intent to murder and one for assault with
dangerous weapon.
The 10th annual banquet of the
chamber of commerce of the state of New
York, held at Delmonico's, celebrated the
municipal reform victory, and did honor
to two of it's heroes, Rev. DR.. Parkhurst
and Mayor-elect William l.. Strong.
Sam Payne, who murdered Maude
Rubel Of Omaha, Neb., may get his free
dom because one of the jurors at his trial
| is not citizen of the United States The