Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-31
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

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The Henry county OLD oats crop av-
eraged only fifteen bushels to the acre,
and it is poor at that
Mrs katherine Roberts, who is 100
years old, broke her arm in a fall at To-
peka, Kas. She is expected to recover.
Comment is made on the fact that
Bulgaria does nothing towards the arrest
of the suspected instigatOrs or the muir
derers of StambuloH.
AS a result of a lucent drop in the
price of oil the last few days wildcat
ting" has been stopped and the oil boom
is considered ended.
The Federal superintendent of Indian
schools before the coast convention Of In
dian teachers at Tacoma, WASH advOcat-
ed merging the Indian into the public
school.
John Brady, who robbed the Oregon
express four months ago and is suspected
Of having murdered Cornelius Stage at
1nsleside previously, was captured near
CORTLAND. Cal.
A train crowded with pilgrims return,
ing from the shrine of St. Dauray,
France, was wrecked near the town OF
ST Bricuo today Twelve persons were
killed and twenty-five injured.
Section hands clearing the right of
way on the belt tracks near Indianapolis
discovered thirteen sticks of dynamite,
y
would have been discharged together.
H. Clay Merritt is a seller of game
at kewanee, ILL.,, but he is said to have
saved only $1,0OG,0O0 in this way. Now
he is in imminent danger of beng lined
S14 100000 for infringing the game laws
of the state.
-Abram c.. Bernheim of the New York
banking firm of Skehar & Bernheim is
dead
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land, O., has decided to boycott all grocers
and dealers who sell nonunion bread.
The st. Louis Smelling and Refining
works at Leadville, Col, narrowly es>
capped destruction by fire. Loss, $1,000.
Alabama Populsts and free silver
Republicans will hold joint silver con-
vention in Birmingham in November.
Two negro murderers, Whit Ferrand
and Anderson Brown, were executed at
guilt.
of A. NJ. Miller & Co. at Bay City,
Mich, 125,OO0 feet being destroyed. Loss,
$4,000.
Charles Heff1inger of Muncie, Ind,
wants divorce because his wife threw
I've in his eyes and chopped him with a
Ratchet
-Kenna's Oil factory and Bentley's
Chemical works were burned at Brooklyn,
the fire being started by the upsetting OF
q pan of oil.
Robert E. Rivers, principal owner of
the Pickwick and Royal hotels, New Or
leans, and of half-dozen sugar planta
lions, has failed.
The Colorado, Utah & Wyoming
Railroad company has filed articles of in
corporation with the secretary of state
The capital stock is S5,000.00O
John Bodewig and George Johnson
were held in $1,000 bonds at Lansing,
Mich, on a charge of obstructing the
mails on the Grand Trunk road during
the strike last summer.
Miss Alice Wheatley of Bunola, Pa,
a girl of 10, was assaulted while return,
ing home from visiting a neighbor. Posses
are hunting for her assailant, who, if
caught, may be lynched.
AT Fort Wayne, Ind, a horse fell on
the depot platform of the Pittsburg road,
and bystanders thought it had come from
the sky 1t was a runaway horse which
had jumped over the depot shed.
Mrs. Nellie Pringle has disappeared
from her home in East Tawas, Mich.
under circumstances which indicate sui
eide. She left note reproaching Mrs.
George Pringle for embittering her life.
A newspaper from Belliso, British
Honduras, brings the news of a seizure
on Honduras river, between Honduras
a quantity of logwood belonging to Brit
ish subjects.
Benjamin Radcliffe, convicted of the
murder of three school trustees at Jeffer-
son, Park county, Col, was sentenced to
be hanged at the penitentiary at Canon
City some time during the week beginning
August u.
Thomas D. Steen, a Panhandle coal
operator at Pittsburg, was held in $1,000
L - i a.,o1 II, !
ing his miners by short weights Secre-
tary William Warner of the Miners union
is prosecutor.
The firm of Nesslage, Colgate & Co.
of % Wall street dissolved partnership
The firm dealt largely in silver bullion
and has recently been exporting gold to
Europe. 1t is not yet known whether
a reorganization will take place.
-Thirty-two kegs of cOntraband beer
were turned into the cutters at Topeka,
Kas.
The King of Belgium walked out on
foot IN the crowded streets and was
cheered
Mrs Josephine Kievel is accused by
her neighbOrs at Patterson, n. j., of be-
ing a witch.
The Columbus. O., Artificial Gas com
pany has introduced profit sharing with
its employees.
james Copely was sentenced at
Princeton, Ind, to seven years in prison
for the murder Of Tip Givens.
Rains have put an effectual check
to forest fires in Michigan. This is the
first rain of any consequence in two
months.
Emmett Divers, negro, who as
saulted and murdered Mrs. j. w. Cain
at Fulton, Mo-, has been captured at
Mexico, Mo.
Rose Garden, dissolute woman,
killed Mary Sullivan and Lizzie Brown
at Barboursville, Ky. A mob is pursu>
ing her with a rope.
Provision for 10000 visiting Knights
Templar has been made by the local
committee at Boston, where the trien-
NAL conclave is to be held.
A strange sinking Of the earth fol-
flowed the digging of a we'll at Kirkwood,
ILL.,. and the town seems to be in danger
of dropping through to China.
The board of managers of the West
ern pennsylvania Humane society, pro-
tests against the proposed Spanish bull
fight at the Atlanta exposition. .
A calf Is not q farm nrOdT1ct This