Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-10-16
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

At Clark City, ILL.,, the tower of the
Wilmington coal mine burned. Two hun-
dred men are thrown out of employment.
Loss $4,000.
The wholesale crockery house of Ha-
zen " Latspeich, at Knoxville, Tenn, was
destroyed by fire. The loss is covered
from insurance.
The Indiana Supreme court has ruled
that statements made in a proceeding in
law do not constitute libel, even if they
are true and damaging.
November 6 has been fixed on as the
date and st. Thomas church the place of
the marriage of Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt
to the Duke Of Marlborough.
j. B. Brewster & Co., incorporated,
of New York manufacturers of carriages,
made an assignment for the benefit of
creditors to JOIN A. Carver.
A Detroit court decided that a man
whose jaw was broken by a dentist in re-
moving q tooth could not collect insurance
carried in an accident association.
John f. Soule and other old settlers
on lam near Aberdeen, Wash, value at
S1,OO0,000, have won the suit brought by
the Northern Pacific Railroad company
to eject them.
1t IS said the smuggling investiga-
tons at St. Johns, n. F., if followed
up, will involve several prominent public
officials.
The reorganization plan of the Green
Bay, Winona & ST. Paul railway has
been declared operative, and the commit
tee that a penalty, yet to be
determined, will be imposed upon all sub
sequent deposits.
Col. w. Jasper Blackburn, ex-mem-
Der of Congress from Louisiana, is Sc
riously III at Little Rock.
The Toledo & Ohio Central coal docks
st Toledo were destroyed by fire. The
loss is about $4,000.
AT Akron, o., fifty heirs to the Ed
wards estate met and discussed their
chances of securing the property they
claim IN the downtown district of New
York. No definite action was taken.
Acting Secretary McAdoo denies that
warships are to be entirely withdrawn
from Hawaii.
The London Standard predicts fail
ure for the fruit-growing project in Brit
ISL Columbia.
Mrs. Emma Marquardt of Toledo, O.,
committed suicide by drowning in a els
tern. She left no explanation.
AT Liberty, Ind, Johnson Orr was
killed by a train. One thousand dollars
in money was found on his person.
John Wanamaker of Philadelphia
was elected president of the Sabbath
School association at Williamsport, Pa.
Officers of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen are considering bids for
the permanent location of headquarters.
Detective Frank Geyer is in Cincin-
matt serving notice on the witnesses to
appear at the Holmes trial in Philadel-
phia October %.
Mr.. Kurino, the japanese minister at
Washington, denies that Japan has any
designs looking to the control of the
Hawaiian islands.
AT Washington, D. c., the knights
of the Golden Eagle decided to move the
office of the Grand castle from Philadel-
phia to Washington.
Alexander Bull, the violin player, son
of the Norwegian artist, Ole Bull, ar
rived in New York on the Friesland and
was welcomed by a number of his
friends.
A Civic Federation has been organ
lied at st. Louis with J. Charles Cabane
president. Representatives of every po-
litical party and secret organization in
the city are members.
At Nashville, Tenn, Mccarthy ca.
z. A. is 250 votes ahead of Guild, Dem
ocrat, for mayor, with four wards to
hear from. The proposition to subscribe
500, 900 to the State Centennial eXposi-
ton is ratified.
The Cincinnati board of trade has ap-
pointed a committee to select an agent to
travel in Mexico and appoint agents in
the City of Mexico and in all the Mexican
states to foster trade relations between
Mexico and Cincinnati.
1t was reported that Louise Michel
is coming to this country to lecture in
December. The money which she earns
by lecturing is to be used for founding a
home in England for political refugees
from the continent of Europe.
Thieves in Adams county, O., have
been stealing water for two months. The
drought has been SO severe that farmers
have had fn h1J1i VV1tpr tO stock from Civ
to ten miles. Water is selling here at
from % to 40 cents a barrel.
Fox & Co.'S oil well supply factory
and foundry at Pittsburg, Pa, was de
stroyed by fire at a loss of $4,000. Other
losses are: The Pittsburg Molding com-
pany, $4,000; Patrick Devlin, damage to
his dwelling, $4,000; all insured.
"A stay of proceedings has been grant
ed in the case of Father Flaherty, under
sentence at Geneseo, n. Y, for assault
ing a young girl, and the prisoner was
liberated last night under $4,000 bail,
pending an appeal for a new trial.
Russia is said to be planning to run a.
line of fast steamers from VladivostOck
to Shanghai.
The Patton Trading mpa deal,
ers in shoddy and waste at Philadelphia,
made an assignment.
The official count places the majority
of Thomas Taggart Dem.D for mayor of
Indianapolis at 1922.
H. Maitland Kersey denies that the
yacht Valkyrie III. is to be taken back
to England before spring.
Members of the Twelfth and Tween
ty-ffth Michigan infantry are holding u
reunion at Benton Harbor.
William Whipple of Charlottesville,
Ind. was waylaid by sandbaggers, who
robbed him of 5000 and beat him badly.
The 16-year-old son of W. e. Kintz
of Decatur, Ind, was drawn into a cane
mill he was operating and fatally in
jured.
1t is officially denied at Berlin that
DIR. Van Boettischer borrowed large
sums from bankers while minister of the
interior.
Under a recent order of the Della
ware, L~ackawanna q Western there will
be no card-playing of any kind on its
trains hereafter.
Julius Chambers, managing editor of
the New York Recorder, is to become
city editor of the Journal under the
Hearst management.
AT Council Bluffs. Ia, Richard B.