Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-16
NEWS PARAGRAPHS,

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ment advertised for 100 girls to take
the boys places. The boys will return
| to work.
COUNTY CLERK NJ. S. BURR, of Kansas
City, Mo-, resigned his office in prefer
ence to furnishing an increased bond,
as ordered by the court, when alleged
shortage in his accounts was being in
vestigated.
A. @. WHEELER and G. H. CANA, of
New York, have commenced suit to es-
tablish their title to 10, 400 acres Of land
in Lyon County, Ia, against w. H.
Goodrich and Daniel Butterfield, of
| New York
JUDGE ANDREW S. DRAPER, superin-
tendent Of the public schools of Cleve-
land, o., has resigned and will accept
| the call that was made to him about a
month ago to the regency of the Uni
versity of illinois,
THE police at Bay City, Mich, I'M
earthed q gang of juvenile thieves
among Polish swill gatherers. They
found bicycles, tricycles, lawn mo Yers,
| hand sleds, lap robes and that..class Of
goods in profusion.
IT is reported one Of the results of
the meeting of the grand officers of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen at
indianapolis will be to expel all fremen
who joined the American Railway Union
strike on the Great Northern, contrary
to the laws Of the order.
A SUIT for divorce has been brought
by Mrs. Green B. Raum, Jr. Mrs
Raum was Annie Irredell Rogers.
daughter Of the late w. D. Rogers, and
the wedding occurred here four years
ago, while the young husbands father
was at the head of the pension bureau.
S. J. HAYES, representing himself as
travelling man, induced Dentist Clark,
of Mendoza, ILL.,, to permit him to ex-
hibit a new dental device The dentist
claims that instead he was hypnotized
and commanded to draw a check for
$500, and also to furnish Identification
at the bank, where $50 was taken in
cash and New York draft for the re-
mainder. Hayes was arrested.
Two cases of smallpox are reported at
Aurora, Ill.
FIRST mortgage bondholders of the
Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield
Railroad bought it at auction in New
York for 81, 100000.
CHARLES HINKLEY, q st. Louis travel
ing man, disappeared from Burlington,
Ia, q week ago, and his friends now
think ne was drowned.
A SEARCH of the Pitts farm was made
at Cabery, H., but no trace Of the body
of Tony Pitts, who is supposed to have
been murdered, was found.
ADMISSION to the Midwinter Fair at
San Francisco will be reduced soon
from 80 to % cents Sundays, and to %
cents week days after p. NJ.
FINS f. DOWNING was selected as g.
candidate for Congress by the Demo
Gratis in the Sixteenth Illinois District
Several hundred ballots were taken.
TUE Ohio Senate finance committee
has agreed to recommend for adoption
the Cannon resolution providing for
adjournment of the legislature May p.
THE Columbia Hotel and saloon
burned at Greenup, III. The loss is
$4,000. Z. w. HAN is missing and is
supposed to have persisted in the
flames.
A CHICAgo & ALTON passenger train
ran into a landslide near Louisiana,
Mo. Several cars were demolished
Later a large rock fell and crushed the
chair car.
GEORGE Z. MILLER, OF Clinton, Ia. is
suing the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul Railroad for $4,000 damages for the
death of his father in an accident two
years ago.
A SEVERE wind and electrical storm
visited Akron, 0. Several buildings
were badly damaged. An unknown
colore6 man WAS struck, by lightning
and killed.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY II HNILIN, Of the
Treasury, it is said is going to, San
Francisco to personally investigate
charges of wholesale 1raud in the
custom-house there.
JUDGE THOMAS c.. FULLERTON, Of OF
tawa, liz, whose name has been men
toned i'm connection with the depart
ment cOmmanderShip of the Gr.. N r.,
in lettex states that he is not a canGli
date
THE annual conference of the Ne
| braska ENWOrth League closed at Bea
trice. The Rev. +. A.Schen > of Chiaago,
general secretary OF the league, dallv-
cred an address. l.. o. Jones WAS
elected president.
THE poems of the-late Geaa KIng Will
be printed in book form,
THE dog show of the. Louisville Ken
mel Club opened with 54z dogs entered.
J. L. BaIToN was caught inl the act OF
| setting fire to the school house at Seney,
Ia
| The quarantine of the smallpox in
| fected district has been raised at Plym-
Outh, Ind.
IHE RseY. G1rard PATTERSON, OF I4lntOn,
Ia, and Miss Mae Fee We're married at
Adrian, Mich.
| THE miners of Coal Valley, near
Princeton, ILL.,, have decided not to
join the strike.
CoLnRED Masons of the Monmouth,
| Ill.,, Jurisdiction have organized a lodge
of Mystic Shrinexs.
! CREDITORS of Davis & Foster, of Eos
toria, O., agreed to accept 90 cents on
the dollar in settlement of all claims.
Mrs. Harry j. Stanley, of Freeport,
H., has instituted suit against the Hi
nois Central for $4,000 Tor the death OF
her husband.
Two strangers, giving the names of
John Brannum and John McBrier,
were arrested at Shelbyville, Ind, for
stealing cattle.
JUDGE BA1LIEs, of Chicago, has Sc
cured the street railway franche at Gel
vein, Ia, and will begin the work of
| construction to-day