Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-11-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NE WO U1 LIE WTEA.
The New York cab drivers strike
fattened out.
John Griff was arrested in Hancock,
Mich, charged with the murder of Blind
Kramer and his housekeeper.
-Klomitsz Bros. of Red Jacket, Mich,
arrested and tried for attempting to burn
their store on October 20, have been ac-
Quilted.
-Ex-President Harrison presided at
the Presbyterian foreign mission meet
ing held in New York and delivered quite
a lengthy address.
John D. Rockefeller has donated
land valued at $4,000 for reservoirs for
water for TarrytoWn, n. Y. He says
he will also build a water tower and lay
the pipes.
James G. Provost, defaulting register
of the British Columbia Supreme court,
pleaded guilty to the charges against
him and was sentenced at Victoria to
four years Imprisonment.
w. j. Foster, q travelling salesman
for Woodbridge 81 Co., dress trimmings,
OF New York. was found dead in bed
at the Gault house at Louisville, Ky.
Heart disease caused his death.
Claus S~preckels, the San Francisco
| sugar king, was visited by an insane
man who demanded 100000 in gold.
BY a subterfuge he was induced to leave
the room and was Immediately arrested.
1t was decided by the New York Su-
preme court that the heirs of Jay Gould
must pay taxes on $10,000,0 900 of person
al property, the valuation on which the
tax commissioners based their assess
ment.
The propaganda will appoint DR..
Kennedy to the post of rector of the
American college. The appointment
sent of Mgr. Satolli, and many of the
American archbishops.
Prof. William Osler of the johns
Hopkins university arrived at Montreal
to attend r. l.. Gault, the Canadian
cotton king, who is dying with Bright's
disease. AS a last effort to save him
TRANSMISSION of blood is being resorted to.
1t has been the custom for a number
OF years of the Union Pacific railroad
to sell it's employees coal at reduced rates.
This will be discontinued January y.
1t affects every man on the system and
the privilege has been given to every
body who could lay any claim to being
an employee.
The Derby cup of 1000 sovereigns
was captured at London by w. w. Full
toms Laodamia.
Senator John Sherman is suffering
from a cold and intermittent fever and
denies himself to callers.
The arrival of the revenue cutter
Bear at San Francisco is announced.
The Bear has been doing patrol duty III
Behring sea.
The Mexican government will soon
issue 20-cent pieces and call in the quar-
tiers in order to make the monetary sys-
tenn purely decimal.
The bark Ed~inburghshire, 225 days
from nn6nD with q pnicoo1lay oO1c oo, na
has arrived at Santa Monica, Cal. Capt.
Page died en- route at Valparaiso.
The ordnance officials of the navy are
about to resume the tests of machine
guns which were suspended some time
ago because several of the guns entered
for the competition were not ready for
trial.
Capt. NJ. A. Healy of the United
States revenue cutter Bear is preparing
to defend himself against the charges
filed at Washington by a number of
officers who were in the Behring sea
patrol this year.
-Rey. John @. Fee, founder of Berea
| college, who recently withdrew from his
old church at Berea, Ky, on account of
q disagreement with the members on the
mode of baptism, has organized a new
church, known as "Church of Baptized
Believers"
- AC AloI 1h1DO1SC VI III IuONC VI
civilization in Corea resulting from the
China-Japan war is noted in a dispatch
to the state department from United
States Minister Sill, transmitting a royal
decree establishing a system of schools
in that country.
"A fraud order has been issued
against the exposition information bu-
reau of Atlanta, Ga. This concern was
operated by a man from Illinois. who
advertised to furnish information of the
| exposition for 80 cents, but who never
replied to letters sent him.
The scale committee decided at
Youngstown, O., that the selling price
of bar iron during the past sixty days
had not reached a point Warranting an
advance in the wage scale, and wages
will remain the same for November and
December as they have been.
John l.. Lamson, second yice-presi-
lent of the New York Security and
Trust company, who arrived at Spokane,
| Wash, insane two weeks ago, will be
taken in a private car to New York, ac-
companied by his wife and brother and
a medical attendant. His condition re-
mains unchanged.
Mrs. Anna Cox committed suicide at
Charleston, ILL.,, by taking morphine.
She was only 16, and was separated
from husband, her father having driven
him from home.
The Marquis Manfred LAMA di Bro
10 of Palermo, Sicily, died at Washing
ton. He was an Italian nobleman and is
said to have been related on his mothers
side to the Queen of Italy, and he is al
SO a relative of the Cardinal of Naples.
Mrs. Poteat. wife of the Rev. e. NJ.
Poteat, at the Christian workers con-
~vention at New Haven electrified the au-
dience by saying in an address: 81 would
as soon send a son of mine to hades as
to Yale college. / would make this state
ment to President Dwight himself"
-Marcial Louis Nieto, who sailed
from New York to Costa RIGA, has filed
a claim at Washington for $4,000 dam
ages against the Costa RIGA government.
He was placed in Jail there and later in
an asylum for the insane because, as he
alleges, he loved the same girl as Presi-
lent Iglesias.
AT Omaha a banquet was given in
honor of Bishop Ireland by the Omaha
club.
The Americanists have been enter
tanned at Oaxaca, Mexico, with a revival
of ancient Zapotecan dances.
AT RCStoO tho p1o1o forpoorl-