Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-29

depot ticket Office at Eldon Ia, and pay
ment has been stopped.
The French government has decided
to ask Parliament for a special credit to
erect monument to the soldiers who fell
during the last war between France and
Germany.
w. J. Mccarthy Frank Williams and
Albert ByWater were arrested at Center
Grove, Ia, charged with having at
tempted to rob the mail carrier who rides
between Peosta and Centralia.
-Lieut.-Col John J. Rogers, Second
artillery, has been ordered from the de-
partment of California to the department
of the East. Maj. J. NJ. J. Sanno has
kOta.
Thomas Peeler died at Anna, Ill. He
was prominent in railway circles.
The rod mill at Joliet, ILL.,, opened
up with 200 men ready to resume work.
Nellie w. Pope is on trial at Detroit,
charged with the murder of her husband
C. p Huntington, president Of the
Central Pacific railroad, is going to Eu-
rope.
The Yorktown and Concord have
sailed from Che Foo, China, to Nagasak,
Japan.
The American Cigarette company is
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madam market.
Poverty palace, the knights of Labor
headquarters at Philadelphia, Pa, was
sold for $4,000.
Stevens & Co., large cotton dealers,
assigned at New York. Liabilities eSti
mated at $125,O00.
The fire and police commission at
Omaha, Neb., has refused to accept the
resignation of Fire Chief Ridell.
If has bonD prnod tO fry tho oov-
ernment's S15,O0O,OOO suit against the
Leland Stanford estate in June at San
Francisco, Cal.
The Tamarack Mining company di-
rectOrs at Boston declared a dividend or
"a a share, payable June % to stock
holders of record.
-Civil-service examinations for clerks,
storekeepers and gaugers will be held
i'll sixty three of the principal cities and
towns the latter part of June.
Cardinal Gibbons has sailed for Rome
Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle has
gone South.
New York silk workers ask protection
by tariff against Japan.
-Chauncey Depew is ex-senator War
ner's choice for president.
The Congress hall at Santiago de
Chill was totally destroyed by fire.
Patriotic Americans in London have
arranged to celebrate the Fourth of July.
Services in honor of the birthday of
Gar Nicholas of Russia were held III
New York
Mrs. Terry of st. Louis has sued an
engraver and a shoe firm because they
used her photograph.
James Smithson and two unknown
men lost their lives in a clearinghouse
fire at Gate City, Ala.
In a game of ball at English, Ind,
To oil GIN tha Will
the ball, crushing his skull.
The Detroit garden plan is working
| successfully in Omaha, Neb., and there
are 800 plats in cultivation.
President Thompson of the Bank of
Commerce of st. Louis has forbidden his
clerks to go to the horse races.
William Kimbick. a drunken negro,
was killed ut Jeffersonville, Ind, by a
policeman while resisting arrest.
County Judge Ballard of Chadron,
Neb., is charged with having ''held up"
and robbed Selah Abbott of $500.
Commissioner Lockhart, at Pierre, S.
D., has about decided to drop the Yank-
ton land cases, fearing costly litigation.
There was collision in Antwerp
between the Catholics and the Liberals
and the police were obliged to charge the
mob.
Amos Studebaker attempted suicide
by hanging near Logansport Ind. He
was cut down by his wife in time to save
his life.
-Gustave Stapf, city treasurer of
South St Paul, Mimi, was bitten by
mad dog. He will go to Chicago for
treatment.
The Rev W. n. Cleveland of Chau-
mont n Y, brother of the President,
says Grover is a believer-a religious
man, in fact.
All the officers and directors Of the
defunct Merchants bank of Watertown,
S. D.. were indicted for receiving deposits
after knowing the bank to be insolvent.
Senator Littler again was the only mem
Der of the Illinois Senate present and he
acted as presiding officer and the whole
body of the Senate, adjourning over Sum
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