Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-10-02
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

leased wire service of the Associated
press.
The officers of the Ohio division of
the United Mine Workers of America
have issued circular to their men as
surfing them that an advance will be
granted in Pittsburg and that Ohio opera
tors will follow suit October 1.
Judge Thomas NJ. Coley of Ann Ar
Dor, Mich, who has been so seriously
ill for the last few days, suffering from
an acute attack of exhaustion, is rap
idly recovering and his physicians prom
Use to have him out soon again.
Judge Robert Desty, author of ''Des-
tvs Federal Practice" died at Rochester,
n. Y, aged SO years. Judge Desty was
the son of an eXiled French nobleman
| named DoestemauXvile who was forced
to leave France at the time of the revo-
luton.
Russell A. Alger appeared in new
role at Cincinnati, the local club, which
bears his name, lending it's countenance
to a discussion on the following propo-
sition: Resolved, that it is better for
women to wear boomers than the old
fashioned skirts" The affirmative won.
Freeman Graham, Jr., and julius
Graham, partners as Graham Bros
Rockford, ILL.,, assigned for the benefit
of creditors to John d. Waterman. This
does not affect the Graham cotton mills
corporation. Additional suits were
filed against the Grahams to the amount
Of $4,000.
Henry M. Stanley, the well-known
explorer and member of the British Par
lament has arrived at Vancouver, B. G.
He is accompanied by his wife and says
he is simply touring for pleasure.
George Smith, a tramp, elected from
a freight train, put two bullets through
| the hat of Conductor Morris ODonnell
at Chillicothe, O. He also attempted to
shoot the officer who arrested him.
The coroner's jury at New York
found Capt. Hulse and Pilot Allen of
the steamboat Perseus guilty of negli-
gence in the collision with the yacht
Adelaide, by which Robert w. Inman
lost his life.
One of the principals in the theft
of $4,000 ounces of silver which had
been shipped by Vivian & Co. of Swan
sea, Eng, to Sharp & Williams of Lon
don, has been arrested and portion of
the silver recovered.
w. T. Goodwin, a prominent and
wealthy citizen of Jackson. Mich, is
| of the constitutional convention in 1867,
and served two terms in the Michigan
! Legislature and one term in the state
| Senate.
| The trial of Edward Magg. charged
with the murder of Ernest A. Dram the
| 10th of August last, terminated in the
circuit court at Mount Clemens, Mich.
| when the jury, after being out twenty
hours brought in a verdict OF murder in
the second degree.
The great bridge across the Danube
| connecting the towns of Tchornavoda
| and Feresti, in Roumania, was opened
| in the presence of the King and Queen
| of Roumania and other royal person
ages, ministers and diplomats. The cost
Of +ba hri1 fro
| ($6,S00,000).
The steamer Alameda arrived at San
| Francisco from Australia by way of the
| Hawaiian islands. She did not stop at
| Honolulu, but lay outside the port an
| hour to land mails. The boat which
| put off from the island reported that
there were eighty-siX cases of cholera
on land. Forty have died, of whom
| three were Europeans.
The London Daily Chronicle, an or,
! gan of the Liberal party, states that
| the leaders of the Conservative party in.
tend to make he House of Lords an elect,
i've body, either by adopting the principle
already existing in relation to Scottish
peers sitting in the House of Lords or to
have the House of Commons elect an
upper chamber from the peerage.
Coy. Morrill, of Kansas has been
| compelled to go to his home at Hia-
watha for needed rest. He has been
| sick since his return from Chickamauga,
and his friends say that his condition is
| serious. He is suffering from a compli-
| cation of diseases contracted in the army
and which forced him to abandon CON
gressional life five years ago.
Richard w. Cardwell, bookkeeper of
the State Bank of Virginia at Richmond
has been indicted for making false en-
tries and allowing Samuel 3. Nelson to
| overdraw his account $4,000.
Regents of Michigan university have
begun mandamus proceedings to compel
Auditor General Turner to pay over to
them 1 per cent. interest on government
land money held in trust by the state.
The defense in the Hinshaw murder
trial completed it's case at Danville, Ind.
The unusual large crowd present was
greatly disappointed because the accused
was not placed on the witness stand to
testify in his own behalf.
1t is announced that the Japanese
captured Changhua and Taiwon Flu from
the Formosan rebels after severe fighting
in the latter part of August. The Japa-
| nese at last accounts were marching on
Anpig, where the rebels are concentrated
The wholesale drug firm of Hurlbut,
Ward & Co.. Des Moines, Ia, probably
the largest wholesale drug store in Iowa.
was closed on attachment of parties in
New York, from whom the company had
$4,000.
AT Yankton, S. D., the London &
Yankton Development company, repre-
senting $750,000 invested in fraudulent
school bonds and tax certificates, issued
by j. Z. M. Pierce of Yankton and Lon
don, has take npossession of Pierce's prop
| erty, including an unfinished railroad to
Norfolk, Neb.
Among the passengers by the EN-
press of India from China was Isabel
Hartford of Dover, n. H., one of the two
| adult survivors, of the fearful massacres
at Wha Sang near Ku Cheng. Miss
Hartford is still eager to prosecute her
| missionary work in China and intends to
return shortly.
Col. Herman Stump, commissioner
! of immigration for the United States,
is at Winnipeg en- route from British
Columbia, where he went to make in
quiries touching the number of Japan
csc entering. the. country. Col. Stump