Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-22
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


adopted the plan of promotions on proba-
ton.
Bandits held up a stage near IIal-
math Falls, Or, and got considerable
money
"A small cannon on an excursion
steamer at Pittsburg exploded, manning
six persons
Two murderers under sentence Of
death were baptized in the river at Muir
physboro, Ill.
Anarchy prevails in the northern part
of the Island of Formosa and riots are
of daily occurrence.
Henry Bier, leading fnancier, was
convicted of perjury at New Orleans in a
municipal investigation.
The strike at the rolling mills at Jo-
liet ILL.,, is nearly at an end. 1t is expect
ed the entire plant will start up June l.
"A crowd of Lawrence county (Ala9
mountaineers who deserted their wildcat
distillery during a storm were killed by
lightning.
The Order of Railway Conductors
postponed for two years the question of re-
moving headquarters from Cedar Rapids,
Ia, to Toledo.
Dick Christian stole the daughter Of
Jap Pierce, and Oklahoma farmer, and
succeeded in Guiding a mob Of armed and
angry relatives.
ated panic on the streets of Batavia,
Ill.,, with q revolver. He was arrested
and taken to jail at Geneva.
The window glass manufacturers
have decided not to form trust.
The San Juan and Kings rivers in
California are oyerf1owing immense areas
and doing much damage.
Marshal Clark of Unionville, Ia, has
been indicted for killing Al. Todd, who
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ter.
One fare for the round trip will be
the rate on Western roads for practically
all the larger excursions of the coming
season.
Albert Hall, who murdered his cousin.
Volney Baird, for the latter's attentions
to his (Halfs) wife, was acquitted at
Lexington Ky.
The regular spring roundup, covering
100 miles square of territory and includ-
ing over 100000 head of cattle, has begun
near Pierre. s. D.
Henry r. Thurber, President Cleye,
lands private secretary, will occupy the
Waters cottage at Silver Shell beach at
Marion, Mass, this summer.
Coy. Turney of Tennessee has issued
a call for an extra session of the Legisla-
ture to meet Monday, May ~. The limit
of the session is twenty days.
The statue Illinois Welcoming the
World has been presented to the state
by the Illinois Woman's Board of the
Worlds Columbian exposition.
AT Los Angeles w. H. Thompson.
was sentenced to be hanged at San Quen.
tin for the Roscoe train robbery. Thomp,
son protested his innocence in court
Prof Edward Lee Greene, professor
of botany at the University of California,
has resigned to take a similar position in
the Catholic university at Washington,
d. C.
Senator Hill of New York and Sec
rotary of State Hinrichson Of Illinois
deny that any correspondence on the sub
ject of free silver has passed between
them.
Twenty-Five farmers, who were har-
assed by claim contesters in Woods coun-
ty, Ok, and organized for protection,
using white-cap methods, have been ar
rested for conspiracy.
Guy Helm, sentenced at Ottumwa,
Ia, to eighteen years for murder, made
dash out of the courtroom. He was
surrounded by friends, but officers drew
! their revolyers and brought Helm to bay.
Society had its living pictures in New
York city under the name OF ta6leaux
vivants. The pictures were good, but
wobbly. The posing was at the Fifth
Avenue theater for the kindergarten and
Potted Plant association.
A meteor frightened farmers near
Niles, Mich.
Joseph Whitaker, founder of Whit
takers almanacs, died in London.
The Herrick cannery at The Dalles,
Or, has begun to pack horse meat
Taylor Doris was killed near Ben
ton, ILL.,, by a runaway team of horses.
Francis Conkley, aged Z, was thrown
from a horse and killed at Clinton, Ia.
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head has arrived at Algiers from Naples.
If there is no unexpected delay the
Worlds fair medals will be ready for
delivery in August.
-Advices from the territory of Chitral
state that the natives are again attack
ing the British posts.
Homer James was arrested at Ram
sey, ILL.,, charged with stealing $3.50
which Barney Hanley had hid in the
ground.
Secretary Carlisle has declined, for
lack of time, to address the Cincinnati
chamber of commerce on the money
question.
John Schmidt, farm hand, was run
over and injured fatally by a train on
the ST. Louis, Chicago & st. Paul rail
road near Alton, Ill.
Simeon Berry was fatally injured
and James, his brother, seriously injured
! by runaway at Peoria, ILL., Their
| horses ran into a tram.
Sam and Adam Mckee, aged IA and
| Is respectively, were held in $500 bonds
each yesterday at Galesburg, ILL.,, for
attempting to rob a farmer.
George Preston, young Norwegian,
has completed a tramp of 22S9 miles
in sixty-nine days. He went from Brook
Ign to Minneapolis and return.
Five men were injured, three of them
probably fatally, by the giving way of
the inside work of q cotton mill in pro-
cess of erection at Atlanta, Ga.
The tug Mogul of Victoria, B. c.,
valued at $4,000, was sunk off Cape
! Flattery while attempting to recover
heaving line worth rs cents from a
| schooner.
John Calvin and William Dunn, who
cowardly assassinated Newcombe and
Pierce, the Oklahoma outlaws, were kid
mapped by friends of the latter and
lynched.
Burglars looted every store in Pulas-
XII, Ia, and escaped with wagonloads of