Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-29
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

The Langley flying machine flew 1000
feet at test near Washington.
Among the pyrotechnics at Kiel will
| be fiery portrait of President Cleveland
Gen. Schofeld is coy and will not
commit himself on the subject of presi-
Dental aspirations.
Reduced to poverty, John Mertens,
| Sc years old and deaf, lived for two weeks
| in cemetery at Detroit.
In a brush between cowboys and
| Apaches in Arizona. a squaw was killed
and an Indian wounded.
Hathaway & Co., lumber dealers, as
| signed at Lawton, Mich. Assets and
| liabilities not scheduled.
AT Birmingham, Ala, train of tram
| cars broke loose on a slope and killed two
men and team of mules.
Fire destroyed the plant of the De
| fiance Light and Power company, leay-
| ing the city in darkness.
Ezra Odds and his family escaped
| from his house at Brazil, Ind. which
burned, by jumping from a window.
The Rev. w. e. Hinshaw was indict-
| ed at Danville, Ind, for the murder of
| his wife, whom he said robbers had shot.
Prince Bismarck's neuralgia of the
| face has reached an acute stage. Other
| wise his health is in q satisfactory con-
dition.
|
| funeral at bingham, ILL.,, of Maude
Meyers and Katie Johnson, who were
| drowned in Knogga pond.
"A. h. Williams, a country merchant,
came to st. Joseph Mo-, to buy goods,
went to the hotel. blew out the gas and
| retired. He will probably die.
FLAMES in the penitentiary at Leaven-
worth, Kas., caused terror among the 800
convicts. Aided by TRUSTEES" the guards
got everybody out of danger.
Mrs. George Jordan was sentenced
at NlncenneS, Ind, to two years in pris-
on for setting fire to mill to spite her
husband, from whom she was divorced.
"A number of fatcars got loose and
ran down steep grade at the Pratt
mines near Birmingham, Ala, running
over and killing William Fields and Neil
Brandie.
Henry Disstan & Co, saw and file
| makers at Philadelphia, have advanced
wages 10 per cent.
Robert Haylett, a farmer living near
| Danville, ILL.,, was fatally stabbed in an
affray with a neighbor.
"A Louisiana sound money league has
been organized at New Orleans with
| Charles Janyier as President.
Walter w. Hatch, for thirty years
| one of the foremost lawyers of Blooming
| ton, died yesterday at Colorado Springs.
! eide in Atlanta, ILL.,, for fear, it is sup
| posed, of Indictment for illegal operation.
&C. S. Curtis, editor of a Center juno
| ton Qa) newspaper, has been arrested
| for deserving his wife and failing to settle
| with creditors.
! Mary Ramsey, aged %, daughter of
| Charles A. Ramsey, died at Hillsboro,
/ III, yesterday of consumption. She was
very popular in society circles.
| IN apcvcIical hoan iccua5 nv
| Pope Leo, in which Catholics are invited
| to pray for the union OF Christendom and
! that the spirit of error may vanish.
| Henry Watterson will not mix up in
the coming Kentucky fight.
William Price, a prominent business
man of Champaign, H.. is dead.
| Small mills in Kansas are shutting
! down because they cannot get wheat
The Ohio Steel company has advanced
wages 10 per cent. at Youngstown, O..
The Watts steel and iron plant at
Middlesboro, KY, has resumed operations,
giving employment to 700 men.
Miss Frances Girvan of San Fran
| cisco and Augustus Higginson of Boston
| were married at LennoX, Mass.
| Judge 2. ]. O'Connor, national presi-
| dent of the Ancient Order of Hibernians,
| initiated 800 members at st. Louis.
Noah Streyil. acquitted at Fort Scott,
| Kas., of the murder of his father, is reac-
cused by his wife in her suit for divorce.
Fire destroyed the large frame depot
| of the Hannibal & st. Joe road at Chilli
| cothe Mo-, with a quantity of freight and
baggage
Mrs. George Scott took poison and
| is in a precarOus condition at OWOsso,
| Mich. She separated recently from her
| husband.
p. J. Barr and J. c.. Stewart, believed
| to be the men who robbed the Cripple
Greek stage last April, were captured at
Denver after a hard fight
| The cold storage warehouse of Ar
mour and the Anheuser-Busch company
at Bloomington, H., were damaged $15,-
| 600 by fire; fully insured.
| Herbert Stone of Chicago, publisher
| of the Chap Book, was a guest at dinner
given by Mrs. Bayard, wife of the Ameri-
can ambassador at London.
! N NJ Cameron, the newspaper CORE
spondent expelled from Ann Arbor uni
| versity, was admitted to the bar and will
enter law office at Detroit.
The Merchants National bank of Sc
attic, Wash, failed.
The first fiIer on the Yankton land
grant was young woman.
Two big claims against the Stanford
estate have been compromised.
Frank Scott, dry goods merchant,
failed at Leavenworth. Kas., for $23,SOO
-Boos' meat block factory at Fiffing-
ham, ILL.,, was destroyed. Loss, $4,000.
Hereafter foreigners will not be al
lowed to witness tests at the navy prov
ing grounds.
In the debris of the fire at Gate City
Ala, the charred bones of two women
were found.
j H. Schneider, treasurer of Lyons,
Ia. has sued the Clinton Herald for $10,-
900 for libel
Harmon, the, professional diver, leaped
from bridge at Winona, Mimi. Y feet
into the Mississippi river.
AT Detroit, Mich. the Imperial Tea
company building and contents burned
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000
Fever is ravaging the French troops
composing the expeditionary force operat
ing against the Hoyas in Madagascar.
Minister Mariscal of Mexico will ap
point an arbitrator to represent Mexico
in the MeXico-Guatemala settlement.
A Paris firm has commenced sui
against the Carnegie company at Pitts
burg claiming an infringement OF patent
John G. Hussey, ex-clerk of courts il