Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-01-01


a ST. Louis institution Pra ctically the
entire trade will move to East st. Louis
to occupy quarters expressly htted up
for the purpose by the National Stock
yards company.
EDITOR Raker, the Gretna, Neb., ed
itOr convicted June II of Hbeling Job
Babbitt foreman of the last grand jury,
was sentenced today to one year in the
| penitentiary at hard labor. but the case
was taken at once to the Supreme court
and the sentence was suspended pending
arguments on an appeal.
The Duke of Argyle favors the alb
sorbing of Armenia by Russia.
The Mexican press support President
Cleveland and defend the Monroe doe
trine.
Cookers of Connellsville, Pa, have
received an advance of 10 per cent. in
| wages.
-Danziger & Co.'S department store
at Pittsburg, Pa, was closed by the
sheriff
-Lucius Wakeley is now general pas
senger agent of the Burlington lines in
Missouri.
John Winnegar, a laborer, fatally
shot his wife and then killed himself at
OttumWa, Ia.
the roof of the jail at Louisville, Ky, on
"Owney," the globe-trotting dog, has
reached New York, after having COM
pleted the circuit of the earth.
Joseph Cook, the lecturer, has
reached San Francisco from the Orient,
| broken in health and an invalid.
in an alteration over a girl at
Marshall, ILL.,, Charles Wilson shot an6
seriously wounded B. L. Logue.
odd Bill Vosburg, a green goods
convict, was allowed to go free in New
York under suspension of sentence.
Russell Brothers; jewelers.. of Gin,
cinnati, have given chattel mortgages to
satisfy claims aggregating $500
-Incendiaries burned the covered
bridge over the Scioto river at Chilli
Gothic, O., entailing a loss Of SIS, 900.
"A switch engine went through a
trestle at Charleston, S. c., killing
George d. Baxter and Clarence Fl. Turn
er.
Seven lives were lost by the sinking
of the steamship Nansemond by the
steamship Mexico. near the Dutch island
of Aruba.
The Lawrence reduction works, near
Victor, Col, burned. The value of the
plant was nearly $4,000, with $4,000
insurance.
William Cummin, a saloonkeeper,
struck a man named Shaw on the head
| with stone at Carbon, Ind, killing
! him instantly.
-Dalt and Henry Arnold, sons of a
! preacher of Frankfort, Ky, who were
reported drowned are said to be with
the Cuban army.
The Elgin Illuminating company at
Elgin, H., has made an assignment to
it's manager. with liabilities of $4,000
and assets of $4,000.
The Lewis Investment company at
Des Moines, Ia, has failed. Liabilities,
farm mortgages, $420,000
e. V. Debs has left Indianapolis for
Philadelphia.
The Illinois river has oyerfowed its
banks, and twenty families near Peoria
have been forced to abandon their homes.
The Calumet company's store
burned at Houghton, Mich, causing a
loss Of $4,000; insurance, $4,000. The
stock was owned by ]. II. Trealease of
| Chicago.
The United States Supreme court has
decided that United States circuit courts
| have jurisdiction in cases without regard
to the amount involved where the United
States is the plaintiff.
Dispatches have been received at Ha-
vana confirming the announcement that
the famous Cuban insurgent leader Mira
bel has been killed. 1t appears that he
tas, which was held by a few Spanish
soldiers.
"A. G. Newton, the young English
man who was charged with attempting
to sWindle Henry Irving by means of let
ters of Introduction purporting to come
from Sir Edward Clarke, was discharged
in New York, Mr.. Irving not appearing
to prosecute.
Aubrey c.. c. Newton, alias Densi]
Del Carstairs, well-dressed English
man, was arrested at New York for at
tempting to borrow money from Henry
Irving, the actor, upon the strength of
a forged letter of introduction purporting
! to have been written by Sir Edward
| Clarke, the distinguished English lawyer
The feud between ST. Adelbert Pol
ish Roman Catholic churches, Buffalo
and the dissenters who formed the
! Church of Holy Rosary has broken out
in a serious riot. The leading cause
of the outbreak was the action
of Father Flaezk of st. Adelbert's
! church in Selling by repleyin a banner
of Holy Rosary church.
"A revival meeting at Babylon chapel
at portsmouth, o., ended in a riot and
| probable murder. Denver Kent was
stabbed in the chest and neck and Har-
vey Bennett was fatally hurt. Others
We're more or less seriously wounded
Ira Hickman, who is accused of having
| NM
was the elimination of a neighborhood
| feud.
"A. D. Thurston, who in 1886 organ
lied the Order of Railway Photographers
at Vinton, Ia, and was its grand chief
for seven years, is at the police head
quarters at Clinton, Ia, with his wife
and six children destitute and cared for
by the city. He is helpless from rheu-
matism and was en- route overland tic
Springfield, narrowly escaping drowning
while camping near a small stream.
Some person at Mascoutah, ILL.,, as
yet unknown, has developed peculiar
mania for splitting on shop windows and
soiling fronts of business houses: The
despoier has carried his depredations to
such an extent that merchants and 9th
ers are thoroughly aroused and have
| instituted a still hunt for the miscreant
Mayor Bruegel has offered a reward OF
S25 for the arrest of the guilty person.
SUICIDE AT DENVER.