Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-07-25
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


Lime water emanating from a paper
mil at Muncie Ind, is poisoning all the
llSh III the MississineWa river.
Allen Myers, an alleged negro cOnjur,
ISL, was set upon by mob of his kind at
jackson Miss, and murdered.
-Dun's Review of Trade says business
IS still paralyzed by the two recent great
strikes ana slow work in Congress.
The Peoples party of tba Seventh
Missouri district have nominated G. e.
Tippin of Springfield for Congress.
Bank cearings for the PRINCIPAL cities
of the United States show a total de-
crease of 10 per cent. for the week
Judge i. O. Hatch of the Thirteenth
Iowa district died at McGregor from in
Jurles received in q fall last january.
Tired of exorbitant coal rates. resi-
dents of California are moving to secure
q change in the control of the Central
Pacific.
While delivering a sermon at Portage
Center, o., Rev. Mr.. Ravencroff, a Meth
odlSt divine, was assaulted with q volley
of eggs.
An unknown man was found in a
dying condition on the beach at Cleveland
", having been assaulted and thrown into
the lake
inability to pay q mortgage caused
Louis Sauter, a farmer of New Jersey,
to blow off his head with a dynamite
cartridge.
William Saunders was shot and fatal
ly wounded by Richard Medley while tres
passing on the latter's property at
Charleston, w. Va.
Peter Davis, Dan Washington and
Charles Ezell, all colored, were hanged
on the same scaffOld at Montgomery,
Ala, for murder.
Alexander Billeke, a contractor of
Elkhart, Ind, was killed on the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern railway by
q passenger train.
1t has been discovered that thirty sa
loOnkeepers near Sioux City, Ia, are do
ing business under forged permits.
Further Withdrawals of gold for ship
ment have reduced the treasury reserve
to S62, 100000, the lowest point yet
Congress will be asked to investigate
certain financial transactions by United
States Judge Kicks of Cleveland, O.
Russian oil merchants have failed to
come to an agreement with the Standard
Oil company and q fight is expected.
-Coxeyites who called upon Senator
Voorhees, were advised to cease tramping
and begging and seek honest employment.
1t is believed that Andrew d. White,
late minister to Russia, will be nominat-
ed for governor by New York Repub-
Hcans.
Seven negroes have been imprisoned
at Hamburg, Ark, the charge being that
they robbed and burned the town of Port
land, Ark, last November.
Unknown persons made an attempt
to wreck a Big Four passenger train near
Muncie, Ind, but the obstruction was
discovered and removed.
In the Senate joint resolution au-
thOriZing the acceptance of Painter
Watts picture, Love and Life" by the
government was agreed to.
The Indian appropriations BILL as
4
includes S1S,75O for st. Joseph Indian In
dustrial school in Wisconsin.
Albert Brady of Urbana, H., who
short time ago made repeated attempts
to kill himself, has been adjudged insane
and sent to the asylum at Karkakee.
Lizzie and Edward SpiIlman, chill
dren of e. Spillman, director of the Par
lament buildings at Victoria 3. c., were
drowned while bathing at Jericho.
The Rev. J. 2. Henson of Brazil,
Ind, the Methodist preacher who re
turned week ago after mysterious dis
appearance, has gone violently insane
An epidemic of diphtheria prevails
near Sioux Falls, S. D. William Kruse.
a prominent farmer and merchant, had
a family of eleven children; seven Of
them have died and four others are very
sick.
"A discharged employee of the cotton
factory at Dallas, Tex, named II. L.
less and seriously wounded John w. Nick
less, his son.
The men arrested in st. Joseph, Mo-,
for the murder of Express Messenger
Drummond at Holdredge, Neb., were re
leased at Hastings, Neb there being no
evidence against them.
Andrew Cairns, proprietor of the no.
tel of that name and the Chautauqua no
tel at Devils Lake. n. D., INDUCED in a
scuffle with a boarder after supper and
u few minutes later dropped dead.
Mayor Pardee of Oakland, Cal, has
issued a riot proclamation in which he
orders crowds off the streets and requires
that people keep indoors, leaving home
only in the pursuit of their legitimate
business.
g gorge P. Wentworth, young farm
err living near Mortified, Mass, tried to
kill his father by hitting him with gun,
but the butt of the weapon struck a door
and the charge killed the would-be patri-
eide
w. A. Carlisle of Buffalo, n. Y, of
the firm of Dunbar & Sullivan, dredge
contractors. started to ride his bicycle
canal and fell off into the canal. He
was drowned.
John Crossley & Sons, Brussels man
ufacturers of England, have purchased
the big mill of Horner Bros. in Philadel-
phia The mill gives employment to
800 hands. The price paid is said to be
81 100000. The new purchasers viii
take charge in September.
Gen. Sanders commonwealers, doing
time in the Topeka, Kas., jail, will be re-
leased in squads of three. They say
commonwealers doing time in various
jails are under compact to meet in Kan
sas and proceed to Washington in
body.
The National Amateur Press associa-
ton met at Boston and elected the fol.
lowing officers: Charles r. Burgur of
New Jersey, president: yice-presidents,
w. f. Mellenger. Chicago; j. II. Dey,
Jacksonville, Fla: recording secretary,
Miss Emma Hauck, White Plains, n
Y; corresponding secretary, o. w. Kiss
enger, Reading. Pa: treasurer, Truman
J. Spencer, Hartford, Conn
Coy. Stone has asked Senator George
to investigate the claim of Chief Hazen
that the special warrants being issued
by Mississippi violate the law against
counterfeiting.
The excursion steamers Cetus and
CeDhus cOllided in q fog off COney island