Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-03-27
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

was killed by a train at Pontiac, Ill.
Jim French the incendiary, land
Jumper and thief, has been captured at
Walden, Mo.
Arizona Legislature adjourned in
fight, the general appropriation bill fail
ing of passage.
The barkentnes Frances and White
Wings sailed from Baltimore on a 5000
mile race to Rio.
-Senor Canovas del Castillo has been
requested to form a cabinet by the Queen
Regent of Spain.
Baron Won Thielmann is said to have
been appointed German ambassador to
the United States.
Retail druggists of Cincinnati have
combined to fight persecution for selling
adulterated articles.
-Dun's review of trade notes strong
er demand for money and other evil
dences of improvement in business.
Mine operators in the Springfield
CID. district have reduced the scale Of
wages, and a general strike is likely.
Henry Reddick was placed on trial
at Lancaster, Ky, charged with burning
hotel, in which three lives were lost.
Bank clearings of the principal cities
in the United States show a total in
crease for the week of 1873 per cent.
Because Of competitors the Bell Tele-
phone company has reduced rates in st.
Joseph, Mich, from $4S year to $1S.
Henry Gardner was arrested at JEFF
fersOnville, Ind, charged with robbng a
drowning woman instead of aiding her.
-General Electric and Westinghouse
companies, who have been fighting for
years, have decided to form a combine
Madison county, Ind, is being ter
roriZed by lawless men and farmers will
employ bloodhounds to hunt them down.
81, I
indicted City Collector Gilbert and eX-
City Auditor Tierpan for malfeasance in
office.
In the New Jersey Legislature the
Newark butter trust endeavored to pro-
hibit oleomargarine sales, but was de-
feated.
The boot and shoe stock of Slick g.
Co, st. Paul, valued at $4,000, was
ruined by fire and water.
Meat packers of Chicago and Kansas
City are endeavoring to kill a very dan
gerous bill in Minnesota.
Emperor William closed the sessions
of the state council at Berlin and praised
the members for their work.
An incendiary started fires in ST.
Patrick's and st. Dominic's churches in
Washington. No damage was done.
-Sybil SaEderson. the opera singer,
and Antonio e. Terry, the wealthy
Falls
a-England has assured the United
States that she does not desire to ac-
quire any territory in settling with Mica
ragua.
-Slatin Bey, who recently escaped
from Omdurman, was received by the
hhedive of Egypt. Slatin was made a
pasha.
"A decision at Findlay, O., makes the
r,o iotp Of 70 II +bo q ~,
premises liable for money lost at poker
in the cafe.
Dispatches from Madrid state that
Senior Muruaga. Spanish minister to
the United States, will resign and fore
stall dismissal.
"A forest fire that has already burned
over twenty-five acres of valuable timber
is raging within two miles of Egg Har-
Dor City, n. j.
The Johnston liners Baltimore and
Mentmore and the Dutch tank steam
ship La Campine are three weeks over
due at Baltimore, Md.
English bondholders of the Grand
Trunk railway of Canada are dissatisfied
with the management of President Tiler
and want him removed.
Mrs. Joe Mix has begun suit at An
derson, Ind, for a divorce from her hus
band. Mrs. Mix was sold by her husband
to Joseph Badgely for $50.
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Off
Gals deny the road has Withdrawn its
notice Of withdrawal from the presidents
agreement.
Mrs. Ballington Booth of the Saliva
ton Army performed the marriage cere-
mony for two members of the army at
Cincinnati, 0.
Id, has failed. It's president, I. G. Hat
tabaugh, who was county treasurer, owes
the state $17,G00.
United States Senator Jones of Ar
kansas is dangerously i'll. He was vac
cinated, a high fever followed and he is
eXpectorating blood.
The case at O'Nei1. Neb.. against
men accused of numbering Barrett Scott
has been nolled and warrants sworn out
at Butte for their arrest.
The Illinois Senate passed the civil
service reform bill, and it was signed
by the governor after an amendatOry
measure had been promised.
Anthony Comstock raided Steve
Brodie's saloon on the Bowery, New
York, and seized seventy pictures al
legged to be of an improper character.
The Torrens land transfer bill was
advanced to third reading in the Illinois
House after it had been amended to pro-
vide for its submission to vote of the
people.
j NJ Kimball, division superintend-
ent of the Pennsylvania company lines
at Erie, Pa, has resigned to become
superintendent of the company's coal
business.
A farmer discovered that bridge on
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
road, near Burlington, Ia, had been
burned and warned an approaching pas
Senger train.
The Waukegan GID council granted
the Osborne company of Chicago a fran
chise for a fuel, gas and carbon dioXide
plant for lighting, heating and refrigerat>
ing purposes
Mrs. Henry Seukes of Canton, O.,
while washing lace curtains in three gal
Ions of gasoline n her kitchen, was horri-
bly, burned by an explosion, and is not
expected to live.
Miss Carrie Pollard of Memphis,
| Tenn, entered st. Elizabeth's hospital at
| Lafayette to become a nun. The next
day she ran away and sent an attorney
! after her clothing.
"A sl1iff containing Ike Lasher and an
other travelling salesman, descending the
| Ohio rivor was hntwQaO ,noC-