Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-03-13
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Michigan district.
More than half Of the Eastern lines
are cutting rates, paying commissions or
dealing with scalpers.
Secretary of State Gresham is con-
fined to his rooms by severe cold, which
has brought on neuralgia.
Bromley Bros. of Philadelphia have
granted their art square WeaverS an adj
vance of per cent. in wages.
The Erie has not earned it's semi-an-
nual interest, and it is believed foreclos-
ure proceedings will be pushed.
Bank clearings of the country last
week were 6.S per cent. larger than the
corresponding week last year.
Union Pacific reorganization commit
tee has disbanded and all securities depos
tied with it have been returned.
According to the March report Of the
secretary of state the Michigan wheat
crop for 1894 is already exhausted
-Dun's and Bradstreet's weekly trade
reviews unite in saying the general bust
ness situation shows improvement.
Vessels arriving at San Francisco re-
port having encountered a terrific earth,
quake at sea the morning of March u.
Assistant Secretary Curtis denies
| there has been failure in the gold de-
liveries under the recent bond contract.
Aldermen of Spring Valley, Ill, are
accused of "boodling," and a movement
has been started to force them to resign.
Harry Baldwin and William Scott
were arrested in st. Louis charged with
passing forged checks on a clothing
house.
The wholesale grocery firm of Arand,
Scheurmeyer q Huiker, Cincinnati, as
signed to A. Bruhl. Assets and liabilities
over $4,000.
Both houses of the Illinois Legisla-
EI1ro oHp Inf
hosting the national flag over the state
house every day of the year.
w. II. Mills, land agent of the Cen
trail & Southern Pacific railroad, says
the demand for town sites and lumber
lands is greater than at any time during
the last ten years.
In an explosion on the steamer
Bawnmore, at San Francisco, two men
were terribly bruised and burned. receiv-
ing what is thought to be mortal inju-
ries.
The postoffice at Portland. Ind, was
robbed yesterday of $500 i'll stamps and
cash.
The body of child was found at An,
dersOn in lime vat near tie Buckeye
| factory.
Three hundred negroes have started
from Mississippi and Arkansas to found
colony in Liberia.
Michigan Senate has passed a factory
| inspection bill. which remedies serious de-
| fects in the former system.
-Ex-Gov. Pattison of Pennsylvania
has abandoned politics and will resume
the active practice of law.
The Maine woman's suffrage bill has
passed the House by a vote of so to 90.
1t has yet to pass the Senate.
Bodies of five men frozen to death
on a Mexican ranch have been sent to
the authorities of Zinacantapec.
Sensational newspapers affect to have
discovered a verbal contract of great
! Importance in the bond sale.
! Open proof of widespread demoraliza-
! ton of Eastern and Southern rates have
! been obtained and may lead to war.
Nebraska Legislature has appointed
| a committee to investigate charges of
! cruelty to prisoners in the penitentiary.
In a speech at Canton, O., Senator
! PETER predicted that the PopulSts would
be absorbed by a new Anti-monopoly
party.
| AT Peoria a mortgage has been filed
| conveying the property of the Whisky
trust to the receivers as officers of the
courts.
The First Baptist church of Cincin-
natl has sued the ministers conference
of that city for $4,000 for alleged defa-
| nation.
1t is said that Edgar saltus, the
| Il
| countess.
Republican women of Chicago APP
peared before the Illinois Legislature and
| demanded the right to vote.
In message to the Legislature, Gov.
Altgeld asks that higher taxes be placed
upon school property in Chicago.
1t is not considered improbable that
England and Russia may engage in war
over the Chinese settlement.
Spain has demanded the recall of the
American consul at Cuba, presumably on
account of the recent revolution there.
"A hawk attacked a child of Charles
| Gates at Harrisburg, O., and severely
| injured it about the head before killed.
Propositions to impose hardships
| upon Hebrews were voted down in the
German Reichstag after bitter discus
| sion.
| Mexican authorities at Juarez will re-
| taHate upon Americans for securing the
! passage of the free zone resolution by
| Congress.
"A Cincinnati judge has granted a
minister's license to Mrs. Ballington
| Booth in order that she may officiate at
marriages.
Joseph Roberts, principal witness in
a murder case at Winston, n. c., was
| found dead and it is thought he was
| murdered.
Charles Hirst and w. J. Griffin lost
| their teachers licenses at Columbus
Ind, being charged with selling examina-
ton papers.
William Hanke fatally injured John
Buttenhager in saloon fight near Elgin,
ILL.,, but was exOnerated by the jury at
the inquest.
Fire at Graymont, ILL.,, destroyed the
postoffice, W. X. Landis' grocery store
and malthouse and Welches' blacksmith
shop. Loss $4,000.
Either Mr.. or Mrs. Albert Zilm of
Nevada, Ia, blew out the gas in a hotel
at Burlington, Ia, and it took physicians
all day to save their lives.
1t is reported at Rochester. n. Y
that the heirs of Frederick Douglass will
contest the probate of the will when it
is offered at Washington.
A miscreant set fire to st. Peters
Catholic church, Boston, during serv-
ices. There was stampede of the con-
gregation, but nobody was injured.
All the criminal suits against the fac
tons of the Order of Scion at Pittsburg,
Pa, have been withdrawn and the af-
fairs of the order will be wound up.
Henry Riddle of Saginaw, Mich.