Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-11-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

be announced in three weeks.
Thomas II. Mcdonald of Lawrence,
Mass, has been sentenced to nine months
III the workhouse for aldermanic bribery.
The Buffalo club gave a dinner to
Chauncey M. Depew. He eulogized Buff
falo and then talked of the Debs strike.
Owing to a dense fog, the American
line steamer Indiana, from Philadelphia,
was unable to land her passengers at
Queenstown.
Joseph B. Witcher of Saginaw,
Mich, was arrested at Cincinnati for en-
b~ezzling $500. He has confessed II
is on his way back for trial.
The services at Louisville over the
remains of Mrs. Eustis, wife of the am
bassador to France. were very simple
and were conducted in a heavy rain.
AT Washington, D. c.. aboard the
steamer Norfolk, just before it left the
wharf, w. H. Collier shot and killed
himself. He is thought to come from
California.
In a railroad accident in the province
OF Minas, Brazil, a number of passen-
gers, including Bishop Gasagua, chief of
the Silesian order of monks in South
America, were killed.
AT Pittsburg, Pa, the Supreme court
affirmed the decision of the lower court
forcing Mayor Warwick of Philadelphia
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honey as receiver Of taxes.
Mgr. Satolli denies that the Pope
has granted a ~dispensation to Count Bella
Itchy and Miss Mabel Wright, divorced
wife of Fernando Yznaga, as the church
does not recognize divorces.
Grand Juror II. @. Summerhayes, ac-
cused of disclosing testimony in the
w Westinghouse patent case at
San francisco, was sentenced to six
months in Jail for contempt of court.
Viola Ward and Blanche Woods,
aged Ito and 10 years, have mySterlOuSly
disappeared from their homes in Chari-
ton, La. Miss Woods was an exemplary
young person, being q m of the
Christian church and the Y. p. S. c.. e.
Miss Ward has been counted wild for
several years, and it is thought that
she influenced the other girl to leave
home.
AT st. Johns it is reported there is
great restitution along the south and
west coast of Newfoundland.
The finance committee of the Atlanta
exposition has turned over to the di-
rectory 100000 on the floating debt.
Samuel Inman gave $4,000.
The Canadian Pacific railway has is
sued an order refusing future package
freight from the West for shipment by
water route from Fort William.
Dispositions in the divorce suit of
Col. S. 2. Colt will be taken at North
Conway, n. H., application of the colonel
tor more time having been denied.
At Mobile Southwestern lumbermen
are in session devising plans to do away
with commissions to Eastern and Eng
llsh brokers on South American trade.
An old plan of the "cold water" peo-
pie is now under advisement by the ex-
else board in New York-to reduce the
number of saloons in this city by one
half.
Friends of DR.. Fraker, in Jail at
Excelsior Springs, Mo, charged with an
attempt to defraud insurance companies
of $4,000, have abandoned hope of Sc
curing bail.
At Baltimore the police claim to have
convincing evidence that Jerome Concell,
a 19-year-old boy, is the murderer of his
adopted parents, Capt. Frederick Lang
and his wife.
The Rev. William Hinshaw was
taken to the penitentiary at Jefferson
vile. He will be put at work in the
shoe shop and will be made principal of
the prison school.
The International Navigation COM
pany has libeled the Netherlands-Ameri-
can line steamship OLDHAM, which was
tOWed into Halifax with her shaft brOk-
- - ~ VI PAOO3OOO"
William II. Houston, travelling agent
for the Crane & Breed Manufacturing
company of Cincinnati, and whose home
was in Austin, ILL.,, died at a hotel in
Kalamazoo, Mich, after a months sick
ness.
Secretary Morton is now engaged
in the preparation of his annual report.
1t is understood that he will dwell at
length upon the question of the extern
sion of tho fnpnIOD r1orlynfc for. A m n1I
can products.
Thomas F. Bayard, United States
ambassador to Great Britain, delivered
a lecture before the Philosophic society
at Edinburgh, Scotland, on Individual
Liberty, the Germ of National Progress
and P~ermanence."
The examination of the battleship
Texas, in drydock at New York, has
verified the theory of Engineer-in-Chi HE
Melville as to the cause of it's failure
to attain it's estimated horsepower owing
to hot condensers.
Helene Josephine Mansfield is again
free, the French courts having granted
a divorce from Robert Livingstone
Reade, her latest husband. Reade first
met the Mansfield woman at Carlsbad
in the summer of 1891.
Three masked men entered a saloon
in New York and ordered the six occu-
pants W IIlIOW UP luc1E udiluS. 6lCQaru
Pope instead attempted resistance with
a chair and was shot dead by the leader
of the bandits, all of whom escaped.
-Abner Monday of Knoxville, Tenn.
who is experimenting his fathers work
Oh the Sevierville courthouse. has been
notified by whitecaps he must work like
other laborers or leave. He is also
ordered to quit wearing tan Shoes"
Detective Dubois, the Peoria Gid
officer who went to Hamilton, Ont,
to take Sidney Slocum back, was at
tackled by thieves and robbed Of his gold
watch, several valuable diamonds and
money, the total loss being about $500.
AT Pratt City, Ala, Mary Hager
shot and killed herself because she was
Tilted by her sweetheart.
The police at Berlin confiscated the
issue of the socialistic paper Vorwaerts
on the ground that it contained matter
which was calculated to do harm.
The auditor of Indiana has been in
quiring into accounts presented by coun-
ty sheriffs and finds that many of them
haye been Systematically sWindling the
state.
At Zapaluto, Mex, the collector of
customs orrnStnd several Venezuelan cat +