Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-08-14

and III. F. Decon. Detroit, have been
awarded scholarships for study in the
American colleges at Athens and Rome.
Continuous rains have ruined the rice
crops III many parts of Japan and a fam
inc is feared. Many lives have already
been lost and the damage done is enor-
NOUS.
The bread riots in Tabreez continue.
"A MOB has wrecked the house OF the gov
ernor, who has resigned his authority and
promises a reduction in the price of
bread.
Female whitecaps of Liberty, Ind,
beat George Johnson and then gave him a
coat of tar and feathers. His attentions
to married woman had aroused indigna-
ton.
Miss Susan B. Anthony is much bet
ter and will soon be able to resume her
lecture tour.
The Good Citizenship league of
Wichita, Kas., has taken steps TO start
a daily paper.
Twenty prisoners were injured
by a falling bridge in the penitentiary
at Jefferson City, Mo.
.Plows are being operated by cleo
they could be by steam.
The proprietor Of a family hotel in
New 1Ork, who was arrested by RooSe-
yelts mlnions, is going to test the eX-
else law.
The bodies of Coates and Stilson,
two of the three men drowned at South
Haven, Mich, three weeks ago, have
been recovered.
The largest stakeholder in the new
bank at Guatemala, it is stated, is Presi-
dent Barrios, who is reported to have
S250,0O0 invested in it.
fo A 10 boa
secured the contract for equipping the city
of Toxic, Japan, with water pipes, which
are to be shipped to Toxic via Liverpool
The appeal on the demurrer of the
Stanford estate to the suit of the United
States for SIS, 100000 has been set for
hearing at San Francisco September 10
An eight-oared shell from the Yes
per Boat club of the Schuylkill navy is
in training at Philadelphia for race
with the navy of Pennsylvania eight at
Indianapolis, Ind.
Illinois is out of money to all practical
purposes.
"A bishop of Hawaii has been work
ing" the brethren on the Pacific coast.
-Drouth and grasshoppers have in
terfered with New York's milk supply.
Fire at Joliet, H., damaged the
Lambert & Bishop wire mill to the eX-
tent of $4,000.
Eugene Taylor in Denver has made a
new record of 76,300 ems minion in eight
hours on a linotype machine.
There is talk of a strike Of the union
carpenters at Atlanta, Ga, which may
cripple the exposition concessionnaires.
Cramps, the shipbuilders, want a
trial trip made by the Minneapolis
They think she can beat the Columbia.
Evangelist Moody paid for special
train in Massachusetts to fulfill an en-
gagement without travelling on Sunday.
The counsel in the case of Consul
Waller have united in an appeal for as
sistance for Mrs. Waller and her chill
dren.
The organ of the Russian sympa-
thizers at Sofia, Bulgaria, suggests
George of Greece as a successor to Prince
Ferdinand.
State officials whom he had criticised
kidnapped Editor Perez of OaXaca, Mex,
and impressed him in the Yucatan army.
He finally escaped.
George Allen, one Of the men who
kidnapped Lawyer Cottle of Buffalo, has
been captured. He alleges that Cottle
robbed him of an estate.
The Brooklyn bridge will be closed
against trains and street cars for twenty
four hours, for the first time since it was
built, to allow repairs on the New York
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