Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-08-21
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Andrew Ruff, prominent merchant
and old resident of Union City, Ind, fell
from the second-story porch Of his resi-,
4Ience to the pavement below. He can>
not live.
Father Wilson of the Terre Haute
Catholic church says that if he meets any
of the lady members of his congregation
;attired in boomers, on the street he will
not recognize them.
Coy. Holcomb of Nebraska refuses
to join Congressman Hunter of Kentucky
in an effort to break the solid South by
making Kentucky Republican. Hunter
asked the governor to raise a fund III
Nebraska.
A. J. Salisbury, the postmaster of
Clay county, w. Va, who eloped with
Mrs Cross and is also charged with the
theft of $4,000 from registered letters,
has been captured.
w. Bourke Cochran of New York
announces that in the future he will not
be connected in any capacity with lam
hany hall. He says he will not af-
filiate with the organization or accept Of
fee as Tammany hall candidate.
Sir Edward Clarke had an interview
with Lord Salisbury and declined the
offer of the solicitor generalship, which
he has had under consideration for some
time, because he would not be allowed
to continue his private practice while in
that office.
The Otis Elevator company, retailer
and wholesaler of oats and corn, has
closed its elevator at Cleveland. The
substitution of electricity for horses on
street cars and the displacement of horses
by bicycles has SO changed conditions as
to make it impossible to conduct the bust
ness at a fair profit.
&c. p Huntington has at last deter
mined to move into his 100000 house
on Fifth avenue, New York, as soon as
he possibly can. Mrs. Huntington is
credited with social ambitions which
were not realized 70 their full extent
during the life of Ward McAlliSter, al
though her daughter is the Princess
Hatzfeldt.
The Russian department of COM
merce has issued a note calling upon
merchants to send samples Of their wares
to the Russian consul at New York,
who is organizing an exhibition Of Rus,
sian goods, with prices, etc, with the
view to meet frequent inquiries upon the
part of American importers.
The New York police commissioners
are much pleased at the knowledge that
half q dozen soldiers, young men with q
military education. are in the lot of re-
cent applicants for appointment. There
are at least three former West Point
cadets who for one reason or another did
not complete their service.
p D. Armour arrived at New York
on his return from Europe.
Thomas r. Howard, a st. Louis
broker. is under arrest charged with
having poisoned two women to get their
estates.
Marie Willard, the actress, now at
Boston, confirms the report that she is to
be married to Count Raoul de Brabant of
France.
A case of yellow fever developed on
the Ward line steamer Seneca from Ha-
vana. The steamer was Quarantined
at New York.
The jury in the case of Frank Annis,
charged with causing his wifes death
by burning their home at Flint, Mich,
returned a verdict of not guilty.
H. r. Powell, night operator of the
Chicago & Alton at Marshall, Mo-, was
held up and robbed by masked man,
who covered him with a pistol. The safe
was unlocked, and the robber secured
$40 and escaped.
The Avery heirs have entered suit
against Gustav Ranger of Galveston,
Tex, and Solomon Ranger of New York,
to cancel the lease Of the salt mine prop
erty at Bayou Petit Anse, near New
Iberia, La, and for damages aggregat'
ing $500, $50.
William GlldehauS. q veteran cloth
ing dealer of COvingtOn, Ky, was forced
to assigne by the sensational discovery
of a plan to burn his building. The pO-
lice discovered an elaborate arrange
ment of buckets of coal oil and strips
Of cloth connecting with piles of cloth
ing.
The indictment against c.. 2. Hunt
ington, president of the Union Pacific
Railroad company, for issuing an inter
state pass to Frank M. Stone, a poll
the United States district court at San
Francisco on motion of the district at
torney.
Robert Ross, Eli Lucas, Lucian Ad-
kins and John Albright were lodged in
jail at Huntington, W. Va. They took
possession of a church during services
and cursed the congregation while in
prayer. Pulling out a pack Of cards
they INDUCED in a game of poker while
the services went on.
R. e. Moreheads widow, a Catholic,
would not permit members OF the a. t:
A.. with which order her late husband
was affiliated, to attend the funeral at
Cincinnati.
John Morris, rs years of age, a
wealthy farmer of Glendola, n. j., was
shot twice in an encounter with a
masked burglar who awoke him. put a
revolver to his head and demanded his
money, of which the old man was known
to have a large sum in the house. Nor
ris finally got the best of the rObber.
John Edward Addicks wired from
Wilmington, Del, to exUnited States
Senator w. d. Washburn of Minnesota
at Minneapolis, demanding an immediate
explanation of the statement he made
to a New York newspaper correspondent
to the effect that a man like Addicks
is pest to any community and ought to
be killed.
The American District Telegraph in
New York has put it's messengers on BIZ
cycles
"A fireworks explosion not down on the
bill caused two possibly fatal injuries at
Thornton, Ind.
Gov Budd of California, who has
been i'll for some time, suffered q re,
lapse and his condition is critical.
Six indictments have been returned
at New Orleans against Maurice j. Hart
who controls municipal legislation there
IS. H. Sullivan. late assignee of the
Columbian Fire Insurance company, shot
and killed himself on his farm near Elk
ton, Ky.
United States Minister Ransom de-
MES that he has given any offense to
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