Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-11-20

him with having attempted to bride Con
gressmen Sayers, Grain and Paschal.
Mrs. l.. d. Hopkins, wife of the SUI
perintendent of the Missouri Pacific, died
in the st. Louis sanitarium, where she
had an operation performed for Appendix
citis.
Mrs. Helen M. Cougar, recently de-
feated in her SANDER suit against Con
gresham Morse, says it is a triumph for
libel, political corruption, malice and the
liquor traffic.
The German warships Irene, Prin-
cess Wilhelm, Coloran and Kaiser have
suddenly anchored off Annoy, China, and
will occupy the island of Quemay as a
coaling station.
-Gov.-elect Bradley Of Kentucky was
the guest of honor of a big excursion
from Louisville to the Atlanta exposi-
ton. He will deliver the principal ad-
dress on Kentucky day.
AT Ch|alchuahua, San Salvador, a
wealthy farmer and five other persons,
including two women, were shot on sus-
picion of being engaged in a conspiracy
against the government.
The annual report of the Great
Northern railway is gratifying to a high
degree and shows c~onclusively that the
general conditions along the line are bet
ter than most people supposed they were.
The artists of Germany are to have
a show of paintings and scriptures at
the same time that Berlin makes her
exposition of industrial objects, to COM
memorate the 200th anniversary of the
foundation of the Royal Academy of
Arts.
"A Pensacola-Liverpoo water line has
just been ~lnaugurated by the Louisville
& Nashville Railroad company. 1t has
expended $150.000 in extending its
.wharves, building new warehouses at
Pensacola, increasing its facilities for
loading vessels quickly with cotton and
grain.
Crowds of people stood about Mason
City, Ia, watching a strange sight in
the heavens. The planet Jupiter, al
though in close proximity to the sun,
was visible all of the day. The super
stitious members of the community are
certain the b%rilliancy of the planet fore
tells some great event.
Col. Bill Cody, General Manager
Holdredge of the Burlington and eleven
other capitalists interested in the con-
struction of the Shoshone canal in the
Big Horn basin nave left Billings, Mont,
for the scene of the canal construction.
The canal will cover 100000 acres of
exceptionally fertile land and will cost
81 1000.
Henry Wyman, receiver of the Globe
Investment company at Boston, has filed
his report. 1t shows not only that a
double set of books was kept in order
that the company might be given a bet
ter showing OF examinations, but also
that loans amounting to at least $780,
600 were never paid over to the holders
of the paper on which they were paid.
According to Commercial Agent
Moore at Weimar, Germany, there were
constructed in Europe during 1894, 4109
miles of new railways, Russia showing
the greatest gain with 67S miles. In
fast express trains England leads with
an average speed of 51.75 miles per hour,
with Germany a close second, 01.25
miles, and Austria lowest of the great
nations with 41.75 miles.
The Bank of Montreal of New York
has received from Kootenai, British Co
lumbia, the second largest block of gold
that has ever passed through the New
York assay office. 1t weighs 243o
ounces and is valued at $41,S57. The
gold comes from the Caribou mines.
The bank has also received, from the
Horsef1y mine, in the section, a gold
brick weighing 1511 ounces, valued at
SOC, 154.
Starvation to a large extent prevails
in the district of ST. Elizabeth, Jamaica,
On account of the failure of crops, caused
by drought and a visitation of caterpil-
lars. The poorer people are living on
plants and mothers are offering to give
their little children away to save their
lives.
The countries named being now free
from contagious diseases the prohibition
of the importation of cattle and hides
from Norway, Sweden, Holland, Great
Britain, Ireland, the Channel islands
and the countries of North, Central and
South America, including Mexico, has
been removed.
Prof. Otis T. Mason, a distinguished
scientist of Columbian college and the
CT -.
some time ago caused the arrest of Mrs.
Johnson Hartman, a servant, on the
charge of stealing a handkerchief. Now
she has brought suit against him for
$4,000 damages for malicious prosecu-
ton.
-Alva Udell, a Los Angeles (Cal) at
torney, is in Sacramento for the purpose
of securing warrants for the arrest of
| the United States soldiers who killed
Charles Stewart in Los Angeles during
the railroad strike a year ago last July.
Stewart was not q striker, but was shot
when he refused to halt when ordered to
do so by the soldiers.
DR.. w. Holmes of the Field Column
bian museum at Chicago has been elect
ed q member of the National Geographic
society, along with DR.. Theodore g..
/ Hoech, royal Prussian inspector of public
works, attached to the German embassy;
Gen. l.. 2. Graham, United States ar
my, and fifteen others, making the mem
bership of the society exactly 1900.
Two hundred and fifty home seekers
are in camp in the vicinity of Julietta,
Id, waiting for the opening of Nez Perez
reservation November Is. Several fami-
lies have just arrived from the East.
Many are leaving here daily to look over
the land and make their selections.
Those who are returning are elated over
their prospect. Several town sites nave
been surveyed.
a man who, it is alleged, ctole a
sample case of gold watches and jewelry
at the Robbins house at Charlottesville,
Ind, has beer caught. When seen by
the police he started to run and would
have escaped had it not been for Bounc-
err, q fierce bulldog and station pet, who
overhauled and gave him rough usage
before the police reached them. He reg
istered as Harry c.. Howard of Colorado
and was placed under $4,000 bonds.
BY HORSELESS WAGON.