Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-04-10
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

II Ire uoSlrOyGu the NTrdDu opera
house at Goderich, Ont. Loss, $4,000.
Cattle raisers of the West will form
a combine to fight the dressed beef crowd
There were many serious accidents
in the sham battle at the City of Mexico.
Carl Browne will be arraigned at
Massillon, o., on four charges of criminal
libel.
An attempt was made to blow up the
vault in the county treasurer's office at
Elyria, 0.
"A great granite hotel will be erected
at Atlanta, Ca, on the site Of the old
capitol
j Linville, deputy county treasurer
at Pittsfeld, ILL.,, is $4,000 short He has
been arrested.
More than half the physicians in
Georgia have failed to register in accord
ance with law.
The government has decided to ex-
tend the photographic service to the
great lakes at once.
Dispositions in the Merritt Rockefeller
S1,O00,O00 suit will be taken in New
York instead of Duluth.
DR.. r. II. Lee of st. Adams was
elected commander of the West Virginia
Grand army at Chareton.
Two hundred foreigners from Spring
Valley and Ladd took out their natural,
iZation papers at Princeton, I'll.
"A special jury has been called at
Palmyra, Mo-, to try John Nelson, who
has been in jail for eleven months.
The Massillon co. Coal Operators
association is fighting over wholesale and
retail rates, and may be disrupted.
A bill has passed the Tennessee
House limiting the rent on telephones
in that state to not over So per month.
w. S. Richmond, J. L. Crawford and
j. w. Muft1y of Des Moines, Ia, have
been indicted for using the mails to de,
fraud.
Commissioner Chambers has reported
that there are few Americans in Samoa,
and that United States interests are in
significant
Sylvester Heaton committed suicide
at Goshen, Ind, by taking poison.
The Newfoundland confederation del
egates have arrived at Ottawa, Ont.
The postoffice at Springfield, ILL.,, was
robbed of about $4,000 worth of stamps
-Ill-health caused Mrs Mary Gilman,
aged %, to hang herself at Fairbury, Ill
david Nighswander was probably ia
tally injured in runaway near Tiffin, o.
Mrs. VIII Harris, wife of a promi-
nent farmer at Clifton, o., has disap-
peared.
Arrangements have been made at
Boston for 800 miles of electric street car
mail service.
George Cummings, colored inspired
by jealousy, shot and killed his wife at
Champaign, Ill.
Reports of Illinois banks show the
state to rank fourth in the matter of in
dividual deposits.
Six hundred tramps have created a
reign of terror in the towns of Bivalve
and Port Morris, n. J.
Fears are entertained that John Nc
Bride, president of the Federation of
Labor, may not recover
Jacob Kreitzer, aged so, died at Wa
pakoneta, 0. He helped build the first
log house in that section.
Maj. George l.. Torbert, formerly
postmaster of Dubuque, Ia, died sudden
ly at the age of Ga years.
People of Boston have sent a second
steamer load of provisions to suffering
citizens of Newfoundland.
President Cleveland is said to be very
much annoyed at the result of the mu-
nicipai election in Chicago.
The Senate of Illinois passed the
Torrens land title BILL but three votes
being cast against the measure.
British steamer Ethelred was fired
upon and examined by Spanish gunboat
while passing Cape Maysi, Cuba.
The strike at the Kelly axe factory at
Elwood, Ind, was declared off, the com
pany agreeing to the mems demands.
England has given the United States
to understand that she desires no inter-
ference in the Venezuelan settlement
Insurance companies are canceling
policies on indianapolis saloons, fearing
the new temperance law may incite to
arson.
-Congratulating Chicago for adopting
civil service, Theodore Roosevelt pre-
diets it will eventually obtain every
where.
The Anacosta Street Railway COM
pany at Washington, d. c., stopped a
strike by agreeing to pay the men the
old wages demanded.
Eight persons were arrested in a troll
ley-car collision at Camden, n. j.
1t is probable the boilermakers' strike
at Cleveland, o., will be amicably settled
in a few days.
Catholic Knights of Pythias at Terre
Haute, Ind, have refused to obey tie
order to quit the society.
Joseph West and his wife are seri-
Ously i'll at Warrensburg, Mo-, from eating
polk root for horse radish.
Someone fired a rifle ball into a
passenger train at Cairo, Ill A search
was made but it was fruitless.
Gov. Holcomb will ask the Nebraska
Legislature to add $4,000 to the appro>
priation for the drouth sufferers.
-COrOner'S investigation at Elkhart,
Ind, proves that Milton Kehres did not
commit suicide, but was murdered.
-Havemeyer & Elders great sugar re-
finery in Brooklyn, employing thousands
of men, closed because of over-produc>
ton.
The suit against the Homestake Min
ing company by Samuel Allerton of Chi
cago was withdrawn at Sioux Falls,
S. D.
The Chinese. it is said, will hand
over two towns to the Japanese as a
guarantee that they will respect the arm
istice.
The John Rucker will case at Deca>
tur, ILL.,, has been decided in favor of the
grandson, Edwin Ewing. He will get
$4,000.
John Y McKane, who is in Sing Sing
prison, is reported WE'LL DR.. Robert
Buchanan, who is to be executed April
%, is breaking down.
Gases against 7. S. Bennington came
up at Sioux City, Ia, but were continued.
He is charged with robbing the county
while serving as district attorney.
1t is reported from West Burlington,
Ia, that mad cat attacked and bit