Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-10-09
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

tected in a scheme to escape by killing
his %jailer.
DIR. John D. Billings, retired surgeon
of the army, has accepted the position
of medical director of the University OF
Pennsylvania hospital.
William Stewart, who burned the
depot in Clinton, Ia, and afterward
broke Jail, has been re%captured and will
be sent to the penitentiary.
AT Kokomo, Ind, June Winburn, a
barber, was fined for selling liquor. He
kept long rows of bottles marked hair
oil filled with liquor in his shop.
At Elwood, Ind, the gas combine
pels consumers to sign an ironclad con-
tract hat they will use a from no
other company for n year.
The number of students enrolled at
the University of Michigan is close to
5000. The class of '99 will number
almost 600 students, among whom are
many boys from Chicago.
Commissioners General Herman Stump
of the immigration bureau, just returned
from an extended tour of inspection along
the Canadian frontier, said he found the
service in excellent condition.
In some portions of Denver six inches
of snow has fallen. At Salida and Bu-
'ena Vista considerable damage has been
lone to orchards, the damp snow break
ing many branches of the trees.
The sale of California fruit in Lon,
don was disappointing. Only peaches
and pears were put up.
The passage of the civil-marriage bin
caused a moi to tear up the books of the
registrars at Trztena Turdossin.
Women of Iowa will hold meetings
in all the towns of the state during the
winter to promote the cause Of equal suf-
frage.
Gov. Rich of Michigan has paroled
four prisoners under the new law.
Friends of the men will give them en-
ployment.
Henry Weaver, manager of the Plan
ter'S hotel. st. Louis, has filed a suit for
divorce. He says his wife left him with
out cause.
Jacob Serkes has been added to the
gang of counterfeiter arrested in Phila>
delphia. Greenberg has made a full
confession.
DIR. E. Licego of Mexico has been
chosen in caucus at Denver as the next
president of the American Public Health
association.
Troops are on guard in Morelia, cap
ital of the state of Michoacan, Mex, on
account of threatening opposition to the
reelection of Gov. Mercado.
George Reece, who planned the Jail
delivery at Toledo and escaped with
several other desperate prisoners, has
been captured in the Indian territory.
The grand jury at Washington has
been charged to report on the condition
OF the government printing office and
other federal buildings said to be unsafe.
At st. Louis Ignatz Goldman, an old
man living alone, was murdered. Nine
men and three women are locked up on
suspicion of being implicated in the
crime.
AT Brazil, Ind. Mrs. E. Fuller has
sued the Central Iron and Steel COM
pany for $4,000 damages for the death
of her son, who was employed in the
works.
DIR. Westerfeld, late president of the
Indiana SpiritualiStS, was buried at An
derson. The services were conducted by
Mrs. Colby Luther, who succeeds the
dead president.
The steamship St. Paul started for a
preliminary run over the official course
between Cape Ann and Cape Porpoise,
but abandoned the trial because of the
bad printing of the boilers.
Many orchard trees in North Colo
ma. Mich. have been forced into bios
som by the heat from the forest fires
that have been burning in that vicinity
during the past few weeks.
The westbound Texas & Pacific pas
senger train was derailed at Mez Station,
800 miles east of Ell Paso, Tex. Engineer
r. J. Hadlock. Fireman T. j. Ryan and
Express Messenger j. L. Langley were
injured.
The Peruvian Chamber of Deputies
has passed a resolution calling upon the
government for information as to whose
order it vas that resulted in the Ameri-
can mission being expelled from the city
of Cuzco.
The Russian mail steamer Tsarwena
has been wrecked neal Cape Tarkhan,
kut, on the coast of the Crimea. Her
passengers and crew were saved, but it
is believed that the steamship will prove
a total loss.
The physicians in attendance upon
Harry Wright, the veteran baseball
manager, at Atlantic City, n. j., issued
q bulletin that the patient was resting
more comfortably since the operation
was performed.
james II. Simpson, the assistant to
General Manager S. t. Grape of the
Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad COM
pany, has rendered his resignation and
accepted a responsible position on the
Southern railway system.
Hillary Bell has been officially ap-
pointed as the news representative of
the Spanish government in this country,
the appointment being made by the
Spanish minister, Senior De LONE. The
insurgent cause has direct relations with
the papers of the United States and the
Spanish minister has deemed it wise
that communication should be established
between the Spanish government and
the American press.
Coy. Chapleau of Quebec has been
offered a seat in the Dominion cabinet.
The condition of Harry Wright, the
veteran umpire, is considered more critic
al than ever.
AT Rochester, n. Y, because of the
tobacco war, cigarettes dropped in price
to twenty for 5 cents.
AT Norwalk, O., there was a strike
in the granite works because a man who
had worked in a ten-hour shop had been
hired.
1t is predicted by an eminent au-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the European
sugar crop will be 100000 tons short
of the average.
-Mendicants arriving in Caracas from
Antonio and Sebastian are being advised
to walk to Colombia, 1000 miles, and
work on the Panama canal.
1.-Two young men named Bennett and
Mott were arrested at Lyons, O., for
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