Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-02-20
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the United States show a total increase.
Tor the week of 81 per cent
Manuel Rus Gorilla, the noted Span,
lSh Republican, has accepted the terms.
OF amnesty and returned to Barcelona.
The Nesbraska House passed a spe-
| cial seed bill calculated to furnish re-
lief to the destitute farmers of the state.
The Minnesota House has adopted a,
resolution looking to the removal of the
state capital from st. Paul to Minneapo--
! lis
Navy department. is advised that the
! war ships Charleston and Yorktown are
rescuing American missionaries at Che
Foo
Several cities in Spain have been
inundated by the swelling rivers The
royal palace at Aranjuez is in great dam
| ger
1.-The warehouse of the Waters-Pierce-
O1l company at Dallas, Tex, containing
| 3OO,OOO gallons Of oil, was destroyed by
| fire
limited Mine Workers in session at
Columbus. O., will ask Gov. AItgeld to-
! pardon miners convicted of riots in Hi
! nOiS.
"A bill has been introduced in the Hi
nolS Legislature providing pensions for
| school teachers in cities Of 10000 popu--
! latiOn.
The attorney for Hetty Green, the
| richest woman in America says Executor
Darling scrifced her fathers Chicago
property.
-BradStreetS reports that miIder
weather has failed to bring about the eX-
pected improvement in orders for season,
able goods.
-Rioting miners at Rathbun, Ia, were
quelled by the sheriff without the aid Of
the state militia.
Considerable stock has already per-
ished on the ranges of Colorado in conse-
quence of the cold.
In the crush to get out of a burning
schOOlhOuse at LemOnt, Ia, two children
were seriously injured.
In the Illinois Legislature a bill has.
been introduced to punish train Wrecking
and rObbing by death.
Three miners were seriously injured
by an explosion at Odin, ILL.,, over 200
men in the shaft escaping.
The receiver of the Bellevue bank at
NOrWalk, O., which failed eight years
ago, paid the last dividend.
Emperor William of Germany has do
mated 10000 marks to relieve suffering
among the Silesian hand-WeaYers.
William Willis was arrested at Jeffer-
SOnville, Ind, charged with receiving Stol-
en- goods from an organized gang.
The Lady Of the Lake. one of the
oldest steamers on the Potomac, burned
at her wharf in Washington, d. G..
-Gothenburg saloon at Ida Grove, Ia,
modelled on Swedish system, has been
enjoined from operating by Judge Church.
Barney Hamel of Shutdown, 60.
years old, received his pension money at
Logansport, Ind, and has not been seen
since.
More than 1000 bills will be intro
duced for consideration by the Legis~
lature of Michigan at the present ses,
sion.
Church women who began a crusade
by singing and praying in Sioux City,
La, saloons, were roughly used by hang
erS-On.
Turkish commission, investigating the
Armenian outrages. has decided to visit
the Sassoun district in search OF evil
dence
John Dernberger, an attendant in the
asylum at Pontiac, Mich, was stabbed
and badly wounded by G. G. Cadman,
a patient
In the British House of Commons
Secretary Grey announced that England
favors the international control of the
Nicaragua canal.
Marks Bros Bee Hive dry goods.
store at Birmingham, Ala, has been
closed by the sheriff on attachments ag-
gregating $1,000
Three men were discharged at Butte,
Mont, from lack of evidence that they
tried to blow up a train during the rail
road strike.
Cen and Mrs. Lucius Fairchild and
Capt. and Mrs Eugene Cary were given
an informal reception by the Minnesota
Legislature.
Members of the left in the Norwegian
Storthing have formulated a reply to the
letter of the King regarding the forma>
ton of a cabinet.
James Roach, Richard Foreman and
Charles Sledd were indicted at Mount
Sterling, KY. for taking part in the
lynching Of Blair.
Former residents of Newfoundland,
at a meeting in Boston. Mass. decided to-
raise a fund to relieve the distress III
their former home
The Rev DR.. Glen, who has just
died at Baltimore. was the oldest Metho-
dist minister in Maryland and a cousin
of Edgar Allen Poe.
Miss Frances Willard and Lady
Henry Somerset are i'll at Boston and
are threatened with fever.
B. 0. Evans, state liquor dispenser
at ST. Matthew's, S. c., is said to be
$2375 short He was arrested.
AT the dinner of the Republican
club of New York Senator elect Thurston
paid his respects to anglomanlacs.
The bill designed to increase South
Dakota's divorce business to its former
dimensions passed the state Senate.
While working in the Salem Garfield
mining works at Salem, O., Eli Stanley
was crushed to death by shale-slide.
Gainesville (Tex.) business men have
boycotted the Santa Fe road, alleging 1t
discriminates in favor of Fort Worth.
Eight buildings in the business por-
ton of McComb, a village in Ohio, were
destroyed by fire, causing loss of $13,-
900.
The Avondale public school at Mum
Gle, Ind, was burned during the noon re-
cess. A boy was trampled on IN the
panic.
Mrs. Louisa Murray of Toledo, o.,
was awarded $1,000 against Frank Cava-
naugh of Danville, ILL.,, in a breach-of-
promise suit.
Isaac Scholer of Kenton, O., was Sc
riously hurt by boiler explosion IN the
straw-board mill and the building was
damaged $1,000.
Coy. Mckinley and Chauncey NJ.
Depew paid tribute to Lincoln in adj
dresses at Albany, n. Y. and Burlington,
VT, respectively.
-Lemont 0ll.) citizens gave the pupils