Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-24
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


son accident, died at New London, Conn.
Assessments in Brooklyn this year
are from SS,00O,000 to S10,000,000 great
er than they were last year.
Fred SjOlund was held to the grand
jury at Duluth. Mimi, for killing Peter
Gordon in fight few days ago.
BY the will of A. n. Towne at San
francisco, Cal, all the property of the
dead railroad man is left to his wife.
&C. NJ. Ward, husband of the actress
Fannie Batchelder, has been acquitted of
the charge Of forging a check for S221.
Assignee Markell of the Bell estate
at Duluth, Mimi, has decided to raise
money and carry the contested case into
court
Lightning struck the dry goods store
of 'McGrath & Wilcox at Amboy, ILL.,,
setting it on fire and causing loss Of
$4,000.
Mayor Hughes of Clinton, Ia, dis
charged all but four policemen in the in
terest of economy. Business men con-
denim the action.
IL Elias Boyer. living near Bluffton, Ind.
mas had the hlccOughS for nine days. AS
he is 10 years old and in poor health it is
feared he may die.
Burglars entered the home of Link
Pitzel at Sunnydale, Kas, chloroformed
Pitzel and his wife and left with S275
and gold watch.
A man supposed to be c.. 0. Davis,
the defaulting bank cashier of Peru, Ia,
was arrested at Aspen, Col. He claimed
he was ID. Marion of New York.
Miss NJ e. Maltby, formerly teach
er in the high school at Massillon, O..
has obtained the degree of doctor of
philosophy at Goettingen university, Ber-
Charles Morris of Cincinnati, clerk
at the Hotel Porter, Niagara Falls, has
left the city, taking with him about 5000
OF his employers funds. He was y
| years of age.
Secretary Hoke Smith left Washing
ton for his home. Athens, Ga While
state on the financial question, beginning
at Gainesville.
DR.. Fraker, the alleged insurance
| swindler of Kansas, is said to be in Hol-
land.
-Liston Houstis of Mobile. Ala, was
stabbed twelve times by Roman Boyd
in a quarrel over Il girl.
Mrs. Anna Richards, aged 80, took
| too much chlorOform for stomach trouble
and died at Decatur, III.
"A reunion of ''Mosby's men," that
| famous Virginia cavalry company, is to
be held at Marshall, Va.
|
st. Joseph river, Mich, to deepen the
channel for river steamers.
! Philadelphia Irishmen sent another
$1,000 to aid the Irish national federation
| IN the Parliamentary elections.
The Delaware peach crop is estimated
| at 1,o0O.000 baskets, worth $3.50, 600
! greater than it has been in ten years.
Domestic coal at Birmingham, Ala,
has gone up % cents and steam coal 10
| cents as a result of the recent combine.
-Supt. Byrnes' old detective bureau
| in New York is to be wiped out. The
new men selected are young, strong and
! honest.
| The Sampson building in Dallas,
! Tex. which has been undergoing repairs
! fell in. burying a number of the work
men beneath the debris.
The Canadian government will insist
| upon the British government removing
| the schedule against the importation of
cattle unless slaughtered at port OF de-
| barkation.
1T is believed at Washington that the
injury sustained by the torpedo boat
Ericsson on her speed run consisted of
! the wrecking of the starboard engine
| Fears are expressed that repairs will
consume q long period of time.
In fire at Sedalia, Mo-, which did
| $4,000 damage three tremen were serl-
ously injured.
&C. H. Stevens of Turner \. D., was
arrested charged with smuggling cattle
across from Manitoba.
The Puget Sound National bank,
Everett, Wash, has closed its doors.
The liabilities are $4,000.
Twelve square miles are under water
at East Ell Paso, Tex, and the damage
already aggregates $4,000.
A highwayman who was caught near
! Lemont. ILL.,. was severely drubbed and
then thrown into the canal.
Bolivia has Gained down and the
boundary line troubles will be amicably
settled, owing to papal mediation.
William Steers was shearing a mule at
Fairbury. ILL., The animal kicked. the
shears cut an artery, and Steers died
-Four hundred of the 700 ventilated
fruit ears ordered by the Southern Pa
citic have been delivered and are now in
use.
The United States war vessel Mon
terey has arrived at Panama from Peru
After cOaling she will sail for San Fran
cisco.
Scarlet fever has again become cpl
demic in West Duluth, Mimi, and the
physicians are being kept busy night and
day.
The crisis in the choice of a new Chill
ian ministry remains without solution
Congress has been forced to take a re-
cess.
Massachusetts, Populists nominated
G. Gerry Brown of Brockton for gov
ernor and reaffirmed the Omaha plat
form.
The use Of electricity in the B. & O.
tunnel at Baltimore is success. The
electric locomotive outpulled two steam
engines.
Sig. Moncenni, the italian minister Of
war, has resigned owing to the rejection
by the Senate of his proposal of certain
economies.
The great heat in Kansas broke a
couple of rails on the Santa F'e line and
a wreck was barely averted
Secretary Hoke Smith has declined
to approve request for pay for work
done Sunday by government employees.
Cashier L. t. Parrish of the Farmers
bank Of Orrick, Mo-, is missing 1t is
said $4,000 Of the banks money is also
gone.
Mayor Hills of Des Moines, Ia, has
been Investigating the drug stores there