Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-08-28
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

TdSdIStII pier.
Edward Leslie the comedian, saved
a boy from drowning at New York and
we'll nigh lost his own life.
1t is said six people will corroboratc
Durrant's alibi statement in his trial for
murder at San Francisco, Cal
Marco Aurello Soto, one of the for
mer presidents of Honduras has reached
New York on his way to Paris.
Max Bierbauer, a Philadelphia brok
ter, was robbed of three diamond rings
valued at $1,000, at Atlantic City, n. j.
The jury of experts decided that the
cause of the Ireland building collapse at
New York was the imperfect foundation.
Discovery of will left by the prin,
cipal in the Mora claim, is likely to cause
a change in the prosecution by the heirs.
Official reports of the captains of the
SeafOrd and the Lyon concur that the
collision was una voidable and was due to
the fog.
Friction between the Pennsylvania
and Baltimore & Ohio railroads has led
to threats of a rate war on passenger
business.
Henry Briton of Duluth began an ac-
ton against the Northern Pacific road
to recover $4,000 as personal damages
for injuries.
J. n. Woolscroft & Co., grain and
provisions commission merchants of Gin
cinnati, assigned. Assets and liabilities
$4,000 each. No preferences.
The will Of Prof. J. L. Nichols of
Naperville, H., gives $4,000 for a Ii
brary there and sum for the CONNER
cial department of the Northwestern col,
lege.
DR. Charles Longle of Kansas City,
Mo-, became insane over Spiritualism
and committed suicide.
1t is reported that Lieut.-Gov.
Schultz has been entrusted with the work
of settling the Manitoba school troubles.
A thousand pounds of nitro-glycerine
exploded at Franklin, Pa, blowing
horse and wagon and the driver to atoms.
Seventeen of the tWenty-three riot
ers were convicted at Winston, \. c.,
and sentenced to work on the county
roads.
The secretary of state from the Eng
lish home department has promised to
take up the case of Mrs. Florence May
brick.
Two thousand dollars in fines has
been taken in from violators of the eN-
else law in the court of special sessions
in New York.
Capt. Wynne and two other officials
Of the Cumberland railroad were shot
while trying to quell a fight at negro
excursion near Middleboro, Ky. All yill
recover.
The Rev. ". J. Cleveland has left
South Dakota for the scene of the recent
Indian trouble at JacksOn's Hole, WyO.,
to investigate the causes leading to the
difficulty at the request of the Indian
Rights association of Philadelphia.
The will of Diamond 10" Reynolds
widow has been filed in Clayton county,
La. She makes requests of $1,000 to
$500 to several and gives the residue of
her estate to her only brother. Jay Nor
ton of Rockland Sullivan county, y. Y.
The stoppage of the railway by
French Warships causes great excitement
at st. Johns, n. T. 1t is felt that this
is Il crucial point where England must
make determined stand against French
aggression or else sacrifce NewfOund-
lands prosperity.
At the Universal Peace union at
Mystic, Conn, William Lloyd Garrison
deplored the growing military spirit of
the nation, and resolutions Were adopt,
ed condemning the war department in its
treatment of the BannOck Indians and
against capital punishment.
The Louisville &. Nashville railroad
has perfected negotiations for the inau
guration of a steamship freight service
between this country and Europe, the
vessels to ply between Pensacola and
Liverpool.
Laura Jackson Arnold, aged 70
years, sister Of Stonewall Jackson and
residing at Columbus, O.. has gone to
attend the reunion at Buckhannon of the
Fifth West Virginia Union cavalry, OF
which she is the mother" having been
a Union woman during the war.
The sailing schooner George r.
White, which left Seattle, Wash, July II
with fourteen men on board, has been
given up as lost. It's captain was J. NJ
Wheeler.
A passenger coach of train No on
the AudumOn branch of the Rock Island
Of A To To[
Clark of Des Moines was fatally injured
and some others were hurt.
"A severe earthquake has shaken the
town of Coin in Andalusia, Spain, TWEEN,
ty-one miles west of Malaga. Serious
damage has been done. Coin has
population of about 10000.
Frank Bott who eloped with Berth
Iigh, the daughter of rich farmer at
Logansport, Ind, has returned home I'M
married. The couple being under age
could find no one to marry them.
George Wilkinson. 40 years of age
q merchant of Kingston, Ont, died Of
delirium tremens on board the White
Star steamer Britannia, which just ar,
rived from New York. His body was
landed here.
While Eddie McAfee, aged Is, was
filling lamps at East Dallas. Tex, some
boys poured kerosene over his head and
shoulders and then set fire to his hair.
death relieved him.
Much that has been said of the sue
cess of the electric motor in the Balti-
more tunnel must be taken back. The
motor HIS not been accepted by the Bal
timore q Ohio and will not be until it
works more satisfactorily.
Two more swift launches bought by
Spanish agents to be used in the rivers
of Cuba for oyerhauling flibusterers
the John e. Throop and the Sparkle
were put aboard the steamship Ardanhu
at New York, bound for Havana
An attempt was made to blow up the
home of Prof. Moffett at Decatur Ind
a dynamite bomb with half burnt fuse
was found on the front porch Mr..
Moffett has been warned several times to
leave, but never supposed the matter to
be so serious.
AT Iowa Falls, Ia. Judge Weaver
decided that a death policy in the A O.
L. w. for $4,000, in which the benefi-
ciary had been changed from the wife
of the member to the name of a person
not in existence, must be paid to the