Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-04-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Baltimore committee on the re-
organization Of the 3. & 0. railway has
decided to employ an expert to make a
! thorough examination Of the accounts of
the company from 1888 up to the pres
| ent time.
The Window Glass Workers asso-
citation, which is the wealthiest labor or
ganization in the world, may decide to
! tight the affairs on equal grounds by
erecting factories at various points to
be run on the cooperative plan.
The transmissOuri committee of the
Western Passenger association has de-
cided to place a joint agent at the vari-
Gus tourist terminal points, with whom
passengers must deposit the return por-
lions of their tickets until ready to start
for home.
Judgments aggregating $4,000 were
filed ct Pittsburg, Pa, against the whole
sale millinery house of J. Straussburger
q Co., and it is now in the hands of the
sheriff.
Severe frosts have caused much
| damage to fruit in the orchards in the
Fresno says that serious damage was
| done in vineyards there and that frosts
will cause 4 short raisin crop.
T. e. Congdon, late of Duluth,
Mimi, who became manager of Powers
opera house at Grand Rapids Mich,
last fall, threw up his lease, having lost
money during the season. The house
| will hereafter be conducted by j. W.
! SpOoner.
Gen. Booth has cabled to the Saliva
ton Army headquarters at New York
| instructing the officials in charge there
| to publish the letters in their possession
in regard to the charges made by Ball
ington Booth against the general and his
administration.
rIoc 10 raci01oJ
chairman of the Democratic state COM
mittee of Missouri, but will still remain
Il member of the committee nOtWlth-
! standing reports to the contrary. he de-
MES that he resigned as a result Of the
~Sedalia convention.
One hundred and forty-six street
waits from London have arrived on the
| steamer Scotsman, en- route to Bernard's
home in Canada.
United States manufa cturers are in
vited to send samples of their wares to
an exposition to be held in Guatemala
March Is to July Is, 1897.
The trial in Philadelphia of the own
er and officers of the Bermuda on a
charge of setting Oh foot a military expe-
dition to Cuba has been postponed.
Gen. |. y. Walker, commander of
the Grand Army of the Republic. has
arrived in Los Angeles, Cal. Gen. Walk
er's presence there is partly due to Off
C1dI uu-leS ana party 70 see the cOuH-
try.
The surviving members of the one
time famous regulators of Northern In
diana met at Ligonier, Ind, for the first
time since 1858, in which year they dis
banded after having suppressed crime
in Noble, La Grange, Whitley, Allen and
Steuben counties without any expense
to the taxpayers.
The New York Press club at its spe-
cial meeting adopted resolutions Of re-
greet at the death Of John A. Cockerill.
"A secret meeting of the steel rod
manufacturers of the country was held
at Cleveland for the purpose of effecting
a general pooling of interests The meet
ing adjourned after an all day session
! without having reached an agreement
and most Of the manufacturers left for
home.
Maud the eldest daughter Of Rob
ert Norris. who is said to be mentally
unsound, threw her 3s-year-old sister
from a second-story window at West
| Chicago, Ill. The child was badly in
| jured. This is the second time the child
has been thrown from the window by
| this sister.
The Dublin correspondent Of the
London Times says that the new land
bill has been received by the anti-Par-
nellite press there with disfavor, but
in less hostile spirit than might have
been expected. The Unionists Journals.
Oh the other hand. accord the new meas
ure friendly reception.
The select committee of the House
OF Commons on the rule of the road at
sea, by a vote of to 8 has adopted
the chairmdn's report in favor of rule 3.
suggested by the Washington conference
dealing with sound fog signals. This
was the rule upon which conferred the
main objection of British shipoWners and
nagigators to the series of rules of the
(3o1 Nv toO
conference.
Satolli left for Washington. The cardi-
nal was much pleased with the plan of
his entertainment.
The South Dakota Supreme court
has given prohibition a severe blow in it's
decision unfolding the Yankton city or
dinance licensing saloons.
1t is reported at Aldershot camp
that the Ninth Lancers have been or
dered to get ready to start for Egypt
and take part in the Soudan campaign.
The Amherst astronomical expedi-
ton, fitted out to take observations in
Japan of total eclipse of the sun in
August next, arrived in Seattle, Wash.
overland from New York
The annual dog show of the Phila-
delphla Kennel club opened today with
every promise of success Some of the
most famous prize winners in the coun-
try are on exhibition and the competition
for the prizes is keen.
The Mississippi river is rising rapid
~ at st. Cloud, MINI. The water rose
five feet and people living on the levee
north of the city were driven from their
homes at midnight, their houses being
surrounded by water and floating ice
The jam broke the pipes connecting with
the water mains on the east side of the
river. The water is still rising and more
damage is feared.