Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-12-04

-Englishmen are employing hunters to
capture and ship elk, deer and moose
from Wyoming to England to stock
game preserves.
"A leper in whom the disease was
well advanced was found in the street
in New York. He was taken to the of
fee of the health board and examined
by DR.. G.. e. Benedict of the Bureau
of Contagious Diseases. DR.. Benedict
ordered the man sent to the reception
hospital.
In searching the Jail at Carrollton,
Mo-, on hearing of a reported plot to
escape by the Taylor brothers, accused
of numbering the Meeks family, Sheriff
Stanley found two saws made from
small steel strips, such as are usually
found in shoes. One of these was III
George Taylor's coat pocket.
-Twenty-eight captains and fifteen
lieutenants in the regular army and If
teen civilian lawyers have applied for
the vacancy in the list of majors in the
judge acknowledgements department of
the army. There is also a vacancy in
the list of regimental %chaplains. and as
this is also a place to which civilians are
eligible there are many applications from
ministers in private life.
Judge J. f. Taylor, formerly the lead
ing Democrat in Southern Illinois, has
turned Republican on account of the
money question.
The Swiss referendum and the adj
visibility of adopting it in this country
will be the subject of his years debate
between Yale and Princeton.
in secret session Bolivia's Congress
approved the CHILEAN boundary treaty.
This may involve the final disposition of
the provinces of Tacna and africa.
Commissioner Stump of the immigra-
ton bureau in his annual report will rec
ommend that Congress enact radical leg
islation for the suppression of the pa
drOne system.
Willis H. Bishop, the brick mason,
who mysteriously disappeared from his
home in Pana, Ill, and was believed
to nave been murdered, has been located
at Crawford, Tex.
DIR. G. E. Johnson, secretary of the
board of health at Hammond, Ind, at
tempeted to commit suicide. Oven indul-
gence in liquor and cigarettes is supposed
to have been the cause.
The report of the collision between
the Turkish troops and the Christians
of the island of Crete, has been fully
confirmed. 1t is estimated hat thirty
persons have been killed.
j. Sterling Morton, secretary of agri-
culture, has paid a visit to st. Louis and
has said that it's cattle market stands
higher abroad than any other in the coun-
l1Ss oA1u IiON OnICdSO 10 cnNIOuS.
A Nebraska sa~loonkeeper who served
five months in prison for assault claims
that he is entitled to q five months extern.
sion of his license in consequence. The
matter will be carried into the courts.
The attempt of the seniors to inter-
fere with the election of the junior class
officers at the University of the City of
New York led to the vigorous use of fists
and chairs and the police had to be called
in.
Paul Glucksman, one of the mer-
chants arrested at Purcell, L. T.,
charged with having applied the torch
to his stock of goods and store building
during the fire last Tuesday morning,
has committed suicide.
-Rumor in New York has it that the
attitude assumed by Commissioner Grant
in the police board has so displeased his
colleagues that Mayor Strong will en-
deavor to prevail upon him to resign
from the board and take the place of
dock commissioner.
"A sensation was created in the
Twelfth Street Zion A. NJ. E. church at
Louisville, KY, when, Immediately after
his sermon, the pastor, Rev. Robert Sey-
mour, was arrested charged with as
sault at Fort Scott, Kas. The pastor
emphatically denies that he is guilty.