Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-11-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

-JOnn .. CreVlef, q real estate uedief
of Hoboken, n. j., committed suicide by
shooting himself. Crevier's home was in
Mont Clair.
The will of John Il. Porter was filed
for probate at Rockford, Ill. He leaves
an estate of $4,000, all Of which goes to
his widow without restriction.
Gov. Sheakley of Alaska believes af-
fairs on the British Columbia frontier,
IN the Yukon gold mining district, will
soon call for the presence of troops.
-AntOinette Sterling (Mrs. job
Mackinlay), the w%ell-known contralto,
will sail from Southampton on the steam
err New York for the United States.
Owing to the lateness of the season,
the proposed attempt of the Big -Four
to break the single track time record for
passenger trains has been abandoned.
Newton Lane, slayer of Col. Henry
G. Rodenbaugh and son James, was in
dicted at Versailles, Ky, on two charges
of murder, and his trial will come up
next week.
The torpedo boat Gushing made two
successful attacks upon the torpedo sta
ton at Newport, r L., getting within
torpedoing distance despite the powerful
searchlights on the island.
Judge Stone at Escanaba, Mich. has
set aside the verdict giving Henry Bras
sell $1,000 in his suit against the 500
w braSS6l mas D0en gwen Il YER
dict three times in succession.
j. O. Heron, second mate on the st.
Louis-Clarksville steamer Belle of Cal
houu fell overheard near Alton, Ill, and
was drowned. He resided at Hannibal,
Mo-, and leaves a large family.
-Four million feet of lumber was de-
stroyed at Dauphin, Pa, involving u loss
of $4,000.
The Pickaninny band, travelling to
raise funds for the negro school at Pc
tersburg, Va, is stranded at Cincinnati.
AT Washington, Ind, 400 miners en-
plOyed by Cabel Il Co. struck OIL ac-
count of the screens used. Others may
follow.
A heavy snowstormis raging through
out the Saratoga On. W foothills. At
Gloversyille, n. Y, the ground is covered
with snow to a depth of several inches.
After four days taken up ii the eX-
animation Of 40 men, twelve jurors
ave been selected to try the riot case
against the Italian miners of Spring Val
ley, Ill.
Fred Johanssen, who killed a COM
panion at Bryant, Ia, while returning
from a dance, was sentenced to sixty
days in the p~enitentiary and fined 5000.
He appealed the case.
At Green Springs, O., Albert Fox
shot himself after he thought he had
succeeded in shooting his wife and her
brother. The couple were married a
month ago. The woman cannot recover.
All of the Sc, 600 advanced by
London capitalists to the Baltimore Il
Ohio on its recently acquired Valley
and Cleveland terminal properties will
be expended for betterments, largely i'll
Cleveland.
In addition to the fifty locomotives
ordered a few days ago the Lehigh Val
ley railroad has awarded contracts for
2000 new cars. OF these the United
States Car company of Chicago will
make 1000.
The monthly coinage statement
shows the coinage executed at the Unit
ed States minis in the month of October
to have been as follows: Gold, S7,21o,-
700; silver, $4,000; 1-cent pieces, $23,-
500; total, $S,059,20
Moses Rosenberg & Co., dealers in
dry goods and notions in New York, have
failed. The liabilities are estimated at
$751; 900 and the nominal assets at S125,-
900. The firm has been in business
about thirty-iye years.
The village of Henderson, Mich,
was nearly wiped out by fire, the work
of a tramp.
AT Vienna Jacob Hertzka, a we'll
known broker in the mining market, COM
mitted suicide.
AT Vera Cruz patriotic Spanish com
mittees have raised $4,000 for the Span
ish cause in Cuba.
AT Rockford, ILL.,, DR.. E. E. Gould,
a dentist, who is under Indictment for
arson, has disappeared.
The fire that broke out in the British
steamer Bendo at Bremen has been eX-
tinguished without great loss.
At Palermo two nephews of Cardinal
Rampolla have run away to escape arrest
on the charge of forging a will.
At Coldwater, Mich, an unknown
man passed a $50 counterfeit greenback
on the opera house ticket seller.
AT Aurora, ILL.,, George e. Howe
was fined $50 for employing children IN
der fourteen years in his cotton mills.
At Jacksonville, Fla, twenty-five
Cuban clubs combined in a meeting
which was addressed by r. II. Davis of
Chicago.
Philip NJ. Griffith, a retired police
sergeant in New York, committed sui
clde by jumping from a window of his
residence.
Because his wife deserted him, Ira
Cripps, Il section boss at Rensselaer,,
Ind, threw himself Under a train and
was killed.
-Ex-President Carlos Ezeta OF San
Salvador has lost all his money at Monte
Carlo and the government has confiscated
his coffee estates.
J. J.. Bowles, general merchant at
Readsville, Ark, has failed, owing about
$4,000. He is an extensive planter and
ran a large store.
AT Wichita, Kas., Maj. John Cor
man, an officer in Gen. Franz Sigel's
command, fell from a scaffold on a house
and broke his neck.
Rev. Peter Bansch, a professor in st.
Mary's college in Northeast, Pa, is dead.
He was formerly consultor to Cardinal
Gibbons.
The Supreme court of Indiana has de-
cided that Ralph Drake, the slayer of
Ida Ward, is a and must serve a life
sentence.
Edward Flynn, an alleged crazy mar
who has been terrorizing women and
children in Kansas, was captured at
Neosho Rapids.
Comptroller of the Treasury Bowler
has decided that congressmen-elect are
not entitled to government stationery
until they have taken the oath of Office.
The Harvard faculty refused to
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