Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-09-19

live OF the men indicted Tor mufuef
in connection with the Little mine riot
were placed on trial at Pekin, Ill.
Mexican war veterans held a reunion
at Galesburg, ILL.,. and after listening to
addresses participated in banquet
Marion Hickman, a young farmer,
was sentenced to two years Imprisonment
at Noblesville, IND, for criminal assault.
The United Association of Lumber
men, in convention at Denver, elected
officers and listened to papers on yellow
pine.
Two masked men 'held up twenty
men in PeabOdy's gambling room near
Helena, Mont, and secured several hun
dred dollars.
Disappointed in love, John Wright of
Massillon, o., shot and killed himself.
People near Defiance O., are hunting
for bear said to be roaming about that
section
G. c. de Bronkart, the Belgian consul
at Denver, Col. died suddenly while Wis
iting in Chicago.
-Drouth has left an epidemic of ty-
phoid fever through all the upper Miami
valley in Ohio.
AT Benton Harbor, Mich, 200 dis
| eased peach trees in one orchard were or
dered cut down.
III. Hartmann, prominent farmer at
Eldridge, north of Davenport, Ia. was
found dead at his home.
Baltimore celebrated the anniversary
of the defeat of the British at Fort Nc
Henry and North Point in 1914.
Marshall III. Abbott, an extensive real
estate operator at Salem, Mass, has
failed, with liabilities estimated at $780,,
| 900.
The trial of Robert Gapen, charged
with the murder of Luke Ellsbury in
saloon affray in Greenfield, Ind, was be-
gun.
Five hundred inmates of the Southern
Ohio insane asylum were conveyed on
a special train to Woodsdale island for an
outing.
II. p. Heating was nominated for
governor and c.. E. Gignoux for con-
gresham by the Nevada Democratic con-
vention.
DR.. Dougan Clark of Richmond, Ind,
has been removed from the Quaker min
lstry because he submitted to the rite of
| baptism.
Holders of rebate vouchers of the
| whisky trust met in New York and APP
pointed a committee to look after their
| interests.
The general offices of the Mason City
& Fort Dodge railroad will be removed
from Mason City, Ia, to Fort Dodge,
Ia, October 1.
Andrew II. McGinnis of Cedarville,
| u, was run over and killed on the Balti-
more & Ohio Southwestern railway near
| NlncenneS, Ind.
Arguments were concluded in the man.
damus proceedings brought at Springfield
to secure judicial Interpretation of the
Illinois ballot law.
In the suit of the Farmers Loan and
Trust company against the Grape Greek
Coal company compliments were given
verdict for S379,64S.
The Middle Georgia & Atlantic rail
road was sold under foreclosure at At
lanta. 1t was bought in by representa-
tlves of the stockholders.
The Mehrkon Brick Manufacturing
company of Little Ferry, \. j., has gone
into the hands of a receiver. The liabili-
ties are given as S127,5O0.
"A manifesto was issued by the Brock
lnridge executive committee in which
Owens is charged with duplicity and the
vote-challenging rule upheld.
The American Terracotta and Ger
emic works We're burned at Elgin, Ill.
Loss, $4,000. The fire was started by
the explosion of barrel of oil.
At a meeting of the Duluth Gas and
Water company proposition was made
to sell the gas and water plant to the
city on a valuation of 1924, 900.
Private information from Rome is
that it Mgr. Sat0lli is made cardinal
Mgr Tomnasi sub-secretary of state at
Rome, will succeed him in America.
The Rev. Father Cooney, president
of st. JOseph's college in Dubuque, Ia,
for ten years, has resigned, and will be
succeeded by the Rev. John Carroll.
Unknown negroes at Akron, O., bound
Mrs. Wahlhustur, put her in the cellar
and set fire to her house, but she was
rescued.
Officers of the United States en-
bassy have secured the release of e. J.
McAvoy, arrested in London for various
Offenses.
Supervisors at Charleston, Ill, will
bring suit against the county officials
for ten years back to recover alleged
shortages.
were arrested at st. Louis charged
with number Of robberies in Southern
Illinois towns.
The postal department exhibit shown
at the Worlds fair has been set up in
the old .postotfice at Washington for edu-
catiOnal purposes.
The annual reunion of old settlers of
rock Island county, H., was held at
Moline, III. S. w. McMaster was elected
president for the coming year.
Irving Montgomery, the strong man,
who is IN Cincinnati, wants to compete
against Sandow either in a college exam
lnatlon or in feats of strength
DIR. Parkhurst has commenced a Wig
orous warfare on Recorder Smythe of
New York, alleging that he is either ig-
norant or guilty of police corruption.
j. c. Durham, publisher of the East
ern llI"ols REGISTER in Paxton. H., has
sued Edwin Beard, publisher of the Iro-
quls County Times, for $1,000 for libel.
The Canadian government has de-
clded to become a party to the conven-
ton agreed upon at Dresden in 1895,
Whlch considers measures to prevent the
introduction and spread of cholera and
adopt certain rules.
The board of supervisors at Charles
ton, ILL.,, passed a resolution to bring suit
against nearly all county officials for ten
years back for alleged shortages. Elk
perts have been working on the books
for several months and find the county Of
hcers short in sums from $500 to $1,000.
Mayor Gilroy of New York has re-
turned from Europe