Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-10-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

work for the time. Loss, $14. 900: in
surance, $4,000. Extra use of natural
gas caused the fire.
-~Slowness of collections forced the
State bank at G~othenburg, Neb., to close
its doors. The deposits amount to about
$4,000, while the assets are about S25.-
900, part of which, however, is uncol-
lectable.
Cullen Seals, an alleged nephew of
eX-Gov. Seals of Alabama, was jailed
at Tampa, Fla. He failed in attempting
to abscond with $3.50 of city tax col
l%ections. He was employed as clerk to
the collector.
New York state editors to the num-
Der of 100 attended the formal opening
of the New York state building at At
Ianta. A. O. Bunnell read an address
and there was a response by II. Caban-
Miss of the Atlanta Journal.
Col. Bradley, Republican candidate
for governor of Kentucky, is making q
campaign tour over the Lexington &
threatened to put Il bullet through a
picture of Gen. Hardin, displayed at one
of his meetings.
United States Consul Seymour, writ
ing from Canton, informs the state de-
partment OF the Inauguration of a war
or freight rates between Asiatic and
American ports by British steamers
reaching the far East from New York
via the Suez canal.
The bureau of navigation has issued
the signal code and list of seagoing yes
sells to American owners. This year for
the first time every American deep sea
vessel will be supplied. The list of mer-
chant vessels will be issued to the Gus
tom houses about the end of the month.
At Cincinnati the stage apparel of
EIIta Proctor was sold at auction for
$62.50.
The president of the Empire Brewing
company, New York, William H. Bea-
d~leston, is dead.
Duluth, Mimi, is working to have
a winter carnival and ice palace some
time this winter.
John l.. B~urlingame, a Chicago
horseman, secured a divorce at Fargo,
n. d., on the ground of desertion.
The annual convention of the. Assoc
citation of Collegiate Alumnae began a
three days session in Cleveland.
The attorney for the wife of ex-Con-
sui Waller is preparing papers to estab-
fish his innocence, which will soon be laid
before the President.
A Louisville, Ky, Resented Bros.
& Co., distillers, purchased distillery No.
297, with warehouses, ETC.. from Charles
Lennon for 100000.
At Elgin, ILL.,, in a street fight be-
tween boys, a young daughter of John
Ohlhaber was struck by a rock and
probably fatally injured.
At Peoria, Ill, Benjamin Riser was
sent to the state refOrmatOry for stealing
horses. His wife, II years old, was also
indicted for the same offense.
At Minneapolis a man giving his
name as trier and passing as a dele
gate to the Episcopal convention secured
the cash on a number of forged checks.
The Columbia National bank of Ia
coma, Wash, closed by order Of Comp
trOller Eckels. The action was expected
because of its connection with other
banks recently closed.
The senior medics at Ann Arbor uni
versity elected a Chinese girl, Miss May
Stone, otherwise known as MeiyI Shei,
as their secretary. G.. S. Mcintyre of
Woodland is president.
The board of health has lifted the
quarantine II Honolulu is once more Il
clean port. No cases of cholera have
been reported for over two weeks and
there is reason to believe that the trou-
bic has been eradlcated.
Judge Cox of the Indianapolis Qnd.)
police court in a test case held the Mich
olson liquor law constitutional. The
section in question was the one forbid
ding persons other han the s~aloonkeeper
n his family to enter the saloon III
prohibited hours.
". W.. dorsey.
charged with bank wrecking, was acquit-
ted in the federal court at Lincoln, Neb.
At Carrolton, O., Charles Knight
was shot, probably fatally, by Marshal
Jacob Miller, for riding on the sidewalk
on a bicycle.
AT st. Louis Gustav Kruger, a guard
in the Workhouse, is charged with caus>
ing the death Of Joseph Marcus by beat
ing him and setting his dog on him.
Tho orn1ioa HONS for J;-o,o - NF:oI:
gan were 30 per cent. greater in 1894
than in 1884, although the increase in
population is only 20 per cent. greater.
The Champion quartz mine, near Ne
vada City, Cal, has been bonded to the
representatives of French capital for
S1,25O,OOO. The first forfeiture OF
$4,000 has been paid down.
Rev. William Gordon, 81 years old,
of Michigan City, Ind, who was visit
ing his daughter in Worcester, n. Y,
dropped lead while attending prayer
meeting at Grace NJ. E. church.
George Swagets and Hugh Graham,
suspects under arrest at H~Oughton,
Mich, for completely in the Kramer dou-
BILE murder. have been released, as no
case could be established against them.
The dedicatory exercises of the he
role bronze statues of Gen. George G..
Meads and Gen. w. s.. Hancock, erect
ed by the state of Pennsylvania. have
been postponed until the first week of
June, 1896.
disturbances of a serious nature are
reported from Kerasun. The Turks at
tackled the Armenian inhabitants of
Sentus in the district of Mudania.
Twenty-four persons were killed on
both sides.
AT Moline, H., important changes
are being made in the government water
power wall by which power will be sup
piled by electricity to operate all the
factories in Rock Island, Moline and
Davenport.
A rumor is abroad in railway circles
to the effect that a movement is in prog.
ress with the object of uniting several of
the transcontinental lines into one sys,
TEN, extending from Chicago to the
Pacific coast.
Boston has been made the headquar-
tiers Of the secretary of the National Adj
visory council of the A. P. A.
At Grand Forks, n. d., e. w. Vel
ter, a prominent physician of New York,
secured a divorce from Agnes G. Veiter.
AT Kingston, Ont, a statue Of the
late Sir John A. Macdonald was IN