Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-09-11

loOnist, had narrow escape from death
at the Midland Central fair at Kingston,
Ont When 200 or 300 feet in the air
he dropped with his parachute. but it
would not open. and he fell to the ground
with terrible force. He was seriously in
jured but will live.
"A large number of Indians who had
been employed at Deer River. near
Grand Rapids, Mimi, by Frank IL.
Vance to harvest his hay crop, went on
a strike for 81 a ton, and because their
demand was not granted surrounded
Vance and threatened to scalp him and
burn him at the stake.
Miss katherine A. Hickey, the old
est daughter Of Daniel G. Hickey, who
was chairman of the New York state
Democratic committee. has sued her
stepmother, Mrs. Ellen Hickey, and
Clarence y. Mcclellan in the Supreme
court for compensation for services rem
dered her father in nursing his invalid
mother Daniel Hickey was worth $780,
600.
The Mexican bullfghters under ar
rest at Colorado Springs pleaded guilty.
Michael Finan, the outgoing treas
urer of Paulding county, O., has a short
age of S2S. 1924 to account for.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher has re-
turned to New York from her trip to
Port Townsend, greatly refreshed and
invigorated.
The daughter of ex-Goy. Ames Of
North Easton, Mass, was thrown from
a carriage while out riding and her skull
was fractured.
Marshall Field of Chicago and the
Rev. D. Brooke HEREFORD are passengers
on board the Cunard line steamer Gailia
from Liverpool to New York.
Experts are at work on the books of
Alfred w. Fitz, the missing treasurer Of
the Chelsea (Mass) Wire Fabric COM
pany, who disappeared August II.
-Ex-Senator Gordon E. Hayes Of
Portland, Or, is to be prosecuted on a
charge of having coerced Mrs. Melcher
into surrendering an insurance policy.
"A carriage containing four men was
held up by road agents in true Western
style in a suburb of Omaha. The plum
| der amounted to several hundred dol
lars.
Chief of Police Mertz of Spokane,
Wash, has been removed from Office by
the city council. The action of the eoun-
Gil is supposed to have been based on
political reasons.
Mrs. Conklin, the wife of George
| Conklin, the elephant tanner, who is
now in charge of the animals in Barnum
& Bailey's show, now in Chicago, is
missing from her home in New York.
The organization of the United
States Cordage company has issued a
call for the fourth installment Of s.
per share on the guaranteed stock, $2.5O
! per share on preferred stock and S1.2J
! per share on common stock.
The Cotton States International ex>
! position authorities have received advices
of the arrival in America of Kee Ow>
| yang, the cOncessionaire of the Chinese
village, with 204 boy actors and 300 cases
of merchandise from Hong Kong.
-Hellmuth Loescher, the engineer OF
the Hotel Gumry at Denver, was re-
| leased from custody by Chief of Police
! Goulding. City Attorney WhitefOr,
! jury, authorized Loescher's release.
A Canadian fleet of fishing cruisers is
Selling all the Newfoundland vessels
found in Canadian waters. A portion Of
Labrador belongs to Canada and q por>
| ton to Newfoundland fishermen, and
each country usually fishes in the terri
tory of the other without interference.
Mrs. Hanna G. Gerry, mother OF
Elbridge L. Gerry, president of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
! Children, lies very i'll at her residence,
800 Broadway, New York.
At Hamilton, O.. the Methodist Epis-
copal conference suspended for one year
the Rev. W. K. Dudley, former chaplain
of the Ohio penitenitary, for obtaining
money under false pretenses.
The province of Loiap Ecuador, has
surrendered to Gen. Alfaros forces with>
out resistance. Alfaro's victory is prac>
tically complete and the war in Ecuador
may be regarded as drawing to a close.
james II. Rolls. a Republican politi-
clan, and his son Thomas were prose
cuted at English. Ind, and fined 800
each for disturbing religious services.
They threw the preacher out of church.
The chief of police of Cairo, III. re-
Gently released a recaptured convict from
the Arkansas penitentiary and Attorney
General Moloney has instructed the
states attorney to bring the matter be-
fore the grand jury.