Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-12-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Mottvllle, Mich, has been held to the
circuit court in bonds of $1,000 on a
Sweetland's office with dynamite.
The lunatico inquirendo appointed
by the diocese of Chicago to act upon the
case of the Rev. Bishop Duggan, who
has been confined in st. Vincent's asy-
lum at st. Louis for twenty-siX years,
has declared Bishop Duggan to be in
sane. This is the first civil action taken
III Bishop Duggan's case and was for the
purpose of insuring to the Chicago do
cese the policy on the endowment plan
which Bishop Duggan had taken out on
his life.
Irene Perry Weber, an actress, has
begun suit at New York for divorce from
Albert Weber on statutory grounds,
naming Miss Crissie Carlisle as core
spondent. This is his second experience
in the divorce court. He is now in Chi
cago, and service by publication has been
ordered. Mr.. Weber was married be-
fore be met Miss Perry to the daughter
of DR.. j.. ". Cloves. She got a di-
vorce, and Weber was frequently called
to account for the alleged nonpayment
of his wife's alimony.
Mrs. Margaret Creighton Agnew,
widow of the late D. Hayes Agnew, M.
D., died suddenly at her home in Phila-
delphia.
Miss Lucy Petree of Jennings ceun-
ty, Ind. has sued William Nealis of Leb-
anon, Ind, for breach of marriage con-
tract, placing her damages at $4,000.
The directors of the American Sugar
Refining mpa have declared the reg
ular quarterly dividend of ~ per cent.
on the preferred stock and 3 per cent.
on the common stock.
Six men were injured by the ex-
plosion of d boiler in the engine house
of the New Athens Coal company at
0l1A-sl Il IaaaI IN-a.- go
Sands are not expected to recOyer-
John Cr;sman, an oil man of Geneva,
nd, while intoxicated, went into a liv-
cry stable and began mutilating the
horses. A negro attendant struck him
a fatal blow and has not been arrested.
Burlington, Ia, nearly killed the chief
of police, threw a man through a plate
glass window and was shot twice before
being taken, has been found guilty of
attempted manslaughter.
John NJ. Kinkade, a real estate deal
err of Denver, committed suicide by
shooting on a train returning from Grip
pie Greek, where he had been investigat-
ing some mining property. The of
the suicide is not known.
The board of education of New York
city will at its next session provide for
the opening of the branches of the penny
prOvident fund in the public schools.
There are now twenty stations of the
FUND in the public schools and they have
met with surprising success.
Acting under orders from the de-
partment commander at Denver, n troop
of cavalry has left Fort Bayard on a
ed murder Of a man INC woman near
Solomonville, Ariz., by renegade Indians
from the San Carlos reservation. The
soldiers will be joined by a detachment
from Fort Grant and the murderers pur-
sued.
A recent proposition of the senior
law class of the Missouri State universe
ty to invite Col. Robert Ingersoll to de-
liver an address next commencement has
brought about much trouble and dissen-
sion among the faculty and students.
President Jesse and a majority of the
faculty are bitterly opposed to the In
gerSOll invitation, n a number of the
students are with the faculty. The in
v~itation has not yet been rendered.
Mayor Pingree of Detroit has issued
an address to the people in which he
declares that to get a renewal of its
franchise the Citizens Street Railway
company must abandon its 5-cent fare,
sell tickets at eight for 25 cents day and
night, with universal transfers inter
changeable with the tickets of every
other road in the city, must allow joint
use of its tracks within half a mile of the
city hall by other roads, and must per-
nit municipal ownership of its tracks
at any time when appropriate legislation
can be obtained for that purpose.
The British bark Arabia, from Cal
cutta on October %, has arrived at Glas-
gov damaged by a fire which destroyed
500 bales of jute and several hundred
bundles of hides.
William Washington, a negro, has
hQnn q rTaStnH for 0nnonlj0itu in tho Init
ed States treasury Cancelled stamp steal
and has made q confession which shows
that the thefts had gone on for months.
The Rathbun and Mountain Iron
mines at Mountain Iron, Mimi, shut
down for the season. Two hundred men
are thrown out of employment and the
prospect is for a hard winter on the
Mesaba range.
The stationary engineers of Cleve-
land, o., are preparing to demand an
increase in wages next spring and, in the
event that it is not granted, to strike.
A recent investigation shows that some
of the engineers are working for 81 a
week.
DR.. Pindell of Cooksville, ILL.,, a
young physician recently located there,
was adjudged insane. He has been de-
voting a great deal of study to religion
and believed that he was the messiah.
Finally he declared that Chicago was
TIE u0W ENTHUSIASTICALLY, WucIGuDOu lie WIS ut
once taken into custody.
There is a very strong suspicion that
emissaries and agents of the Cuban rev.
dictionary party are at Hartford, Conn.
for the purpose of buying arms of the
Colts Patent Firearms company and to
see if Pratt & Whitney's people have
any machine guns that can be put to-
gether on short notice.
Chairman Caldwell of the Western
Lines Passenger association during his
visit to Minneapolis automatically evad-
ed committing himself or the railroads on
the city's demand for a cent q mile rate
during the Pythian encampment the last
week of next August.
Gen. Suarez Valdes has telegraphed
to Capt.-Gen. Martinez de Campos, COM
plimenting Lieut.. Winston Leonard
Churchill and Lieut.. Spencer, both of the
British army and following the opera
tons of the Spanish troops, for distin-
guished behavior during the recent en-
gagements.
The Rome correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle says that in the next is
sue of the Jesuit organ, the Civita Cat
tolica, the Vatican will publish an of
fetal note, blaming retrospectiyely the
chico 90 religious Congress and condemn