Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-11-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

80 1NpO1IO At O1S VI oAN
III Carelmapu. Many Adventures are
tocking thither. The government has
sent an armed force there to preserve
order.
Robbery is believed to have been the
motive of L.. Montgomery, who is under
arrest III Brownsville, Or, for the murder
of his father and mother and Daniel V.
McKeercher.
Authorities of the Congo Free state
charged with the irregular execution of
Stokes, is to be tried before a Belgian
cOurt-martial.
An immense c%oncOurSe of fashionable
people and artists attended the recep-
ton at the Lyceum theater, London, in
honor of the ninetieth birthday of Mrs.
Robert Kelley, the veteran actress.
Patrick Thomas, foreman in charge
of a derrick hauling material to the top
of a fourteen-story building at Detroit
lost his footing and fell nine stories to
an adjoining building and was killed.
George Steele, a prominent citizen OF
Cooper county, Mo-, while attending a
revival meeting, fell in an apoplectic tit
and died half an hour later. The at
tack is attributed to religious excite
mem.
The schooner smack Cornelia M.
Kingsland, Capt. Maitland, hailing from
Greenport. l.. l.. returning from a fish
ing trip with $4,000 Goldfish on board,
went aground on the Romer Shoal, off
Sandy Hook.
South Dakota officials have completed
apDraisement of Defaulter Taylor'S lands
and find there is still a shortage of $14O,'
900. Bondsmen will lave to make this
up, and actions will be begun against
them at once.
Secretary of State John w. Headley
created a small panic in the courtroom
at Georgetown, Ky, by attempting to
stab Attorney John Brand. The men
were on opposite sides in a case on trial
and Quarreled.
the interior, in his annual report rec
ommends legislation which would define
with more certainty the pensionable
rights of minor children under the act Of
June 81, 1890.
Nearly all hope for the safety of the
schooner Edna NJ. Champion, which
sailed from Philadelphia, October II, for
Port Tampa, Fla, is gone She carried
a crew of iii men.
Judge Riner, in the federal court at
Cheyenne, WyO., released under a writ
of habeas corpus Race Horse, a Ban
mock Indian, arrested for violation of
Wyoming game laws in Jackson's Hole.
The court decides that the Indians have
the right under their treaty to hunt in
Wyoming.
The trial of ex-Priest Dominick
Wagner at st. Joseph, Mo-, resulted in a
verdict finding him not guilty of embez-
element. Three others charges are pend
ing against Wagner, but they will be dis
missed. After the trial he announced
his intention of remaining in st. Joseph,
where he will study law or do newspaper
work.
The Rev. Mr.. Elmquist of Rockford,
Ill, chairman of a committee appointed
by the Free Congregational church at it's
last conference to investigate charges of
SANDER brought against the Rev. Mr..
Davis of Minneapolis, Mimi, by Prof.
Princell of that city, reports that the de-
PENDANT has been found not guilty, and
no trial will be held. There is a posi-
bility that counter charges may be
brought against Prof. Princell at the
next conference of the church.
Father O'Connell of Boston has been
chosen by the propaganda to be the new
| rector of the American college at Rome.
The nomination of Father O'Connell will
be submitted for pontifical sanction.
When Gov. Altgeld closed the Evans,
ton industrial school Charles Powers of
Lacon, ILL.,, left for the institution to
bring back his daughter, who was con-
fined there. He was robbed in Chicago
of all his money, and, being unable to
borrow funds, walked with the girl from
Evanston to Lacon, a distance of 100
miles. He arrived almost exhausted.
-Guayaquil, Ecuador, telegraphs that
fOrty-three prominent members of the
Conservative party have been arrested
there and in Quito, charged with being
implicated in a conspiracy to assassinate
AlferO and his cabinet, as we'll as other
government officials. A ministerial crisis
reignS in the republic and one minister
has resigned.
w. A. Porter, convicted in Jackson
county, ILL.,, of assault and given a years
sentence, went to the penitentiary unat-
tended, voluntarily surrendered to the
authorities and is now serving his SEN
tence. This fact only came to light
when the warden received a letter from
Jackson county, stating that Porter had
disappeared and his bondsmen were anx-
ious.
The st. Petersburg Gazette semi-of-
icially that cholera has APP
| peared there.
"A Sister of Charity in st. Vincents
asylum, st. Louis, has been appointed a
notary public.
The Choctaw Legislature has reject
ed the Dawes commission proposition 70
accept lands in s%everalty.
Two pretty New York women are 60
ing to Atlanta in a twenty-foot row
boat. They are making the voyage to
win a bet.
Chairman Caldwell was for the third
time elected chairman of the Western
Passenger association. The vote was
unanimous.
Five theaters on the Midway at the
Atlanta fair have been closed on account
of immortality. The proprietors were
fined 500 each.
A Salvation army invaded a Muncie
Qnd.) theater and changed the variety
| programme to a religious service. -Four
converts were made.
The trials of the notorious Scatter
field whitecaps ave begun at Ander-
son, Ind. Another attempt to kidnap
Miss Hudson, the states principal wit
ness, has been frustrated.
Retail druggists of Kansas City will
manufacture all the patent medicines
consumed by the local trade in order to
fight those manufacturers who supply
patent medicines to department stores.
AT Lake Bluff, ILL.,, B. J. Cloes has
sold seven acres of land on the lake front
bluff to a Chicago and New York syn
dictate for $4,000. 1t is reported the
buyers intend to erect a summer hotel.
Assistant Secretary Reynolds of the