Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-04-17
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

questing it to provide a proper exhibit
for the coming Cotton States exhibition
in Georgia.
Mr. ard Mrs. Benjamin Flora of
Huntington, Ind, have been sued for
$4,000 by J. w. Smith, their son-in-law,
on the charge of inducing his wife to
leave him.
Willie Bellamy, aged 10, son of
George Bellamy of Detroit, Mich. is re-
ported to be missing from Toledo, o.,
where he was visiting He is said to
have been kidnapped.
-Four members of the family of j. l..
Crawford at Hickory Flat, Miss, were
poisoned by negro girl i years OF age.
Mrs. Crawford and Walter, aged 10, are
in critical condition.
John McNulta, receiver of the whisky
trust, has employed as his stenographer
Miss Belle Blue, a young cOlored woman
of Bloomington She has gone to Chi
cago to assume her duties.
--Forty-five Ohio and Michigan lumber
dealers met in Cleveland and appointed
a committee to draft a constitution for
al association which will enable them to
Go business on q uniform basis.
The case of Mrs. Frances Stark
against Edward Bindley, a wealthy citi-
zen of Terre Haute, Ind, is on trial IN
Brazil. The plaintiff sues for $4,000
damages, alleging malicious prosecution.
ruled former decisions in holding an act
ing assistant or contract surgeon during
the civil war has not performed such
military service as entities him to a pen
sion under. the act of June q, 1890.
Miss Eunice Williams of Muskegon
Mich, has begun suit to regain posses
sion of a farm Willed by her brother,
Nathan Douglas, to his wife, who, with
George w. King, is accused of poisoning
Douglas.
John Kelvee, leader of the mob of
strikers that attacked the Pratt mines in
Alabama last July, precipitating fight
in which a deputy sheriff and four negro
miners were killed, was convicted Of man
slaughter and sentenced to one years
imprisonment.
"A new organization among negroes
is being established in North Carolina
under the name National Equal Rights
Council of the United States" Its main
purpose is to secure equal rights" for
colored people at hotels and all public
marry white women.
The Cornell Law school has length
ened its course to three years.
j. J. J. Jones. the Omaha lawyer sup
posed TO have killed himself at Norfolk,
is at home and we'll.
Ext President Harrison was elected
an elder in the First Presbyterian church
at Indianapolis, Ind.
James Mcdonald, said to be the muir
derer of Detective Moore at Denver,
is alleged to be under arrest at Pocatello,
Ia.
"A tramp shot and killed a negro
Pullman ear porter at Howard, Ia. The
porter had elected the tramp from the
car.
Farmers south of Elwood, Ind, have
purchased two bloodhOunds to be used
in tracking thieves numerous in that sec
ton.
Chief of Police Seavey of Omaha,
Neb., who was suspended pending an in
vestigation into the police force, has re-
signed.
William Goken has been given a YER
dict against the Monon railroad at Del
phi, Ind, of $4,000 for being elected from
a train.
Mrs. A. Jeffries and Mrs. w. McSher-
ry of HubbardSton, Mich, claim to be
two of six heirs of a $2,5OO,0O0 estate
in Buffalo.
Lambert Cheney of Upper Sandusky,
o., instead of treating the party which
serenaded him sued one Of the party for
trespassing. He lost the suit.
AT Wolcott Ind, fire destroyed Burke
& Smiths livery stable, Charles Affairs
saloon and Andrew Johnson's undertake
ing establishment. The loss is $4,000.
At oWolcott, Ind, fire destroyed
Burke & Smiths livery stable, Charles
Affairs saloon and Andrew Johnson
undertaking establishment The loss is
$4,000.
The ceremony of washing the feet of
twelve poor persons was performed in the
Dubuque Qa) cathedral by Archbishop
Hennessy, nearly all the priests of the
diocese being present.
"A barn belonging to David Halliday,
fo n yI-ar II oh &c
said to be occupied by u ghost. The
farmer offers $500 to any person who will
spend night in the barn.
The O'Sullivan bill, providing that
transportation companies shall give free
transportation to policemen and fremen
while on duty and that they shall use tele-
phones free, has passed the New York
Assembly.
w. o. Borley of English, Ind, COM
mitted suicide by taking poison
-Effie M. Hunt ended her life by poi
son at Hartford City, Ind Illness caused
the act
Peabody & Penman's sawmill at
Akron, Ind, burned. Loss, $4,000; no
insurance.
r. II: Moore committed suicide by
taking poison at Peoria, Ill. Dependency
was the cause.
Jesus Fuentos Munoz, ex-minister of
finance of Mexico and director Of the
Monte Pio,' is dead
Gen. Duchesno, commander of the
French expedition to Madagascar, has
started for that island.
"A. Cashing & Co.'S large mill at I'm
ion Point, n. B., was burned. Loss, $780,
COO; insurance, $4,000.
The Missouri grain elevator at st.
Louis, Mo-, was badly damaged by fire
Loss, $4,000; fully insured.
Joseph Pierce, aged GO, committed sui
eide by drowning at Beardstown, ILL.,
Business reverses caused the deed
James H. Garfield, chancellor of the
University of Nebraska, was elected pres
ident of the Ohio State university.
The Oregon Democratic central com
mlttee has sent protest to President
Cleveland against the retention in office
of Republicans.
-Hardin county Ia, has been sued for
$4,000 damages for the death of Theo-
dore Tholen, who fell from the county
bridge at Steamboat Rock.
"A boiler in mill at Veedersburg.
Ind, owned by Mathew Stevenson, eX-
ploded, completely wrecking the mill and
fatally scalding John Dawson.
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