Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-08
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

men.
The Blake block, containing several
stores burned 1t Oakland, Cal. Loss,
$4,000
George Jones of Worthing, Ind. com
mitted suicide at Niagara Falls by cutting
his throat
Members of the crew of the cruiser
New York complain of Lieutenant Com
mander Swift
bault CAIinn.) rattan works. Loss, $780,
900; Insurance. $4,000.
In the Payne-Geiger breach of prom
Use case at Mount Ayr, Ia. the plaintiff
was awarded $4,000 damages.
The condition of the national treas
ury shows available cash balance, $780,
4S7 ,S67; gold reserve, $91, POP, 624.
The German steamer Albano picked
up on the Atlantic ocean fourteen sur
viyors of the Norwegian bark Marie.
Tucker Beverly Proudfoot, we'll
known colored man of Washington, d.
C., is dead. He was employed by the
Washington Post.
The molders' strike at Cleveland, o.,
IS ended, every shop in the city having
fully conceded the advance of wages de-
manded by the men.
$. ]. Brown, a Bedford City Wa.)
tobacco salesman, dropped out of sight
Il WISH Ut 11GftSllOfle, L. L. no
foul play is suspected.
Maj. Young of Louisville. Mo-, want
ed to make an eloping couple happy. so he
swore falsely to the brides age. Now he
is in jail on a charge of perjury.
-FOotpads in Nincennes, Ind. Waylaid
Guy Sheperd, a b0ok-keeper, beat and
robbed him. and then took him in a buggy
to his home. His condition is critical.
The French religious orders are pre-
pairing TO resist the new tax levied on
their property. and 4 conflict between
BILE.
Arrangements for the music at Yale
commencement exercises under the new
plan include great chorus of male voices
with the College Glee club and choir as a
nucleus.
Officers of Virginia. ILL.,, are after a
hghtning-rod agent and his five work
men, who swindled Paul Phillippi. a
farmer of Bluff Springs getting from him
a note for $500.
The present prospect for the peach
crop i'll Delaware is exceedingly good.
Another reduction of ) cents has
caused CONSERVATION among Chic oil pro-
ducers.
Clara Two. farmers girl near Win,
nebago, H.. tried to drown herself to
save disgrace.
Casey Dees, Il travelling salesman of
Macomb, ILL.,, mysteriously disappeared
three weeks ago.
The jury in the famous Field-Adkins
case at Barboursville. Ky, returned
verdict of guilty.
Floyd Cook of Vernon. ILL.,, young
farmer. was robbed of $1,000 on a south
bound train at Edwin.
Baltimore has been chosen as the seat
of the general conference of the NJ. E.
church south for its session in 1898.
-Elgin Qll) has a society of men who
are opposed to boomers, and they will
all wear white duck trousers this sum-
mer.
-Vice-President Stevenson says that he
shall remain at Springfield this summer
except possibly toward the end of the
heated term.
The commissioners of Donaphin coun-
ty. kas.. have ordered eX-Treasurer Nj
chael Bauer to make good a $50. 900
shortage discovered last fall.
Prof. Bischoff, the blind organist at
the First Congregational church in Wash
ington, has been ordered to pay his di-
yorced wife $1,000 Il year alimony
1t is reported that James BANTER and
Mrs William Lloyd of Springfield, o.,
have eloped. The former leaves Il wife
and children and the latter a husband
and two children.
Judge Sage, at Cincinnati 90 accepts
ed the resignation of John King, core,
ceiver of John Mccullough of the New
York, Lake Erie & Western railroad and
appointed Eban 3. Thomas.
AT Frankfort, Ky. ex-Chief Justice
Holt. special chancellor in the kentucky
Midland railroad case. has fixed Septem>
Der as the date of sale The road
must bring S320,000 at least.
A belated freight train on the Pan
handle discovered at Hartford City. Ind.
that switch had been broken and turned,
the evident intention being to wreck a
passenger train then about due.
The Northern Pacific railroad has
prepared a revised schedule of wages.
which viii soon go into effect. 1t en-
braces the entire system and adjusts in
eQualitieS of former reductions.
Postmaster II. A. Roething of Genoa,
Col. has been arrested Oh a charge Of
having defrauded the government by buy
ing goods with postage stamps which he
reported to the government as having
been cancelled.
David Kashner. a Canton (O.) saloon>
keeper was brought to Massillon and ar,
raigned before United States Commits,
siOner EOlger for making counterfeit
money. He was bound over to the Unit
ed States court.
Miss Sadie Oper, missionary among
q sudden and remarkable recovery from
nervous prCstratiOn on the day and hour
her friends at Beverly, Mass, had unit
ed in saying prayers for her.
Prof. L. L. Dyche of Kansas uni
versity has left for Boston, where he
will sail for the Arctic regions to join the
Perry expedition. Prof. DTche was on
the Cook vessel. the Miranda, that was
wrecked last year.
Judge House of the Clinton district
court Qa.) has decided in cases of saloons
with mortgages that the mortgage is prior
in attachment to the $500 muct to the
county, and saloonmen are preparing to
avoid paying the 5000
The AtchisOn, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad has announced q rate of 81 per
100 pounds on oranges from California
points to the seaboard. The rate here,
tofore in effect was $1.25. The reduc>
ton was made to meet the competition OH
oranges from the Mediterranean.
"A Frenchman wants to build a funic-
ular railway to the top of the Great
Pyramid.
-Ex-Congressman Robert Klotz, a
Mexican war veteran, died at Mauch