Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-01-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

John A. Willard, Minnesota capt.
faIist, has disappeared mysteriously in
Chicago and his friends and acquaint-
.ances fear that he may have been MUIR
dered
John w. Russell, Clint Venters and
John Osborn, farmers living near Cen
terville. H.. became involved in a quar-
rel. Russell was beaten and kicked
about the head and left by the roadside
until found next morning. He died
from his injuries. Venters and Osborn
are in Jail.
Three men entered the store of W.
r. Williams at West Liberty, H., and
blew open the safe. The force of the
explosion destroyed the front of the
building and Jared houses a mile dis
tant The robbers obtained little money.
sheriff McWilliams left with bloodhounds
to track the robbers.
There was a wild scene IN the House
of Commons at Ottawa, Can, when Mr..
kenney, one of the two Conservatives
who represent Halifax, n. S., said that
Wilfred Iaurler had treacherOuSly con-
Spired to bring about annexation. Speak
er White, although conservative, arose
to instruct Mr.. Kenney to apologize, but
the member for Halifax retracted the
expression before the spea ker had issued
his order.
1t is believed that the Clyde and
through the mediation of Lord James.
-Whitecaps ordered w. NJ. Hertel to
discharge a colored employee in his fac
tory, near Lima, O. He did not do so
and all his property was burned.
Owing to the difficulty of obtaining
water the fate of the Italian garrison at
Fort Makaleh is sealed unless they are
able to capture and retain a we'll now
III possession of the Abyssinians.
The Duluth Gas and Water company
has been sued for $4,000 damages for
having, it is alleged, caused the death
of Harry W. Smith by furnishing impure
water full of typhoid fever germs.
Cardinal Satolli has nearly completed
his mission in America. DR.. Rocker,
the private secretary of the cardinal,
says that the cardinal would not remain
IL this country more than three or four
months.
A military company was organized at
Menomlnee. Mich. with w. d. Rea for
captain, Oscar Falk first lieutenant and
/. NJ. Nlillbery second lieutenant. Appli-
cation for admission into the state ranks
was made.
The three-masted schooner William
Wilson of New York went down Wednes-
day night off the Massachusetts coast,
half mile west of Pollock Rip light
ship. Lifesavers could find no trace of
the crew, but it is thought they were
saved by another vessel.
The destiny of the flying squadron
is still Il mystery. 1t was rumored at
London that the Queen would review
the squadron on its departure. The adj
miralty office was questioned as to the
truth of this rumor. but they replied that
they had nothing to communicate.
The first court ball of the season
at the HOfburg palace, Vienna, was
most brilliant. The presentations to
Emperor Francis Joseph and the arch
duchess. Maria Theresa, included Mes
DANES Dorst and Ereland, the wives of
ton.
The New York Children's Aid society
sent fOrty-fve boys and girls TO homes
in the West and South.
Official denial is made at London
that Zeilah, on the Straits of Babel
Mandeb, has been ceded to Italy.
The three men who fioated away
from Cleveland on an ice foe in Lake
Erie are believed to have been lost.
Masked robbers held up four passen-
gers III the Falls City, Neb., depot, re-
lieved them of their valuables and then
escaped
The Daily Item, claiming to have the
largest circulation of any afternoon
paper in New Orleans, has begun taking
the full daily report of the Associated
press.
Count Thun, governor of Bohemia,
has resigned and his resignation is
expected to lead to a healing of the
breach between the Young Czechs and
the Germans.
A telegram to United States Marshal
Nix of Guthrie, O. T., announces that
his deputies have captured Bill Dooln,
the notorious Oklahoma outlaw, at Eu-
reka Springs, Ark.
The American Society of Civil Engi-
neers in session at New York has re-
quested Congress to make nautical time
IL America conform with English and
French nautical time.
The Pacific Mail Steamship company
has issued a new tariff sheet announcing
an advance of 20 per cent or the freight
rate from San Francisco to New York.
The rate affects all important COM
m0dities.
As the result Of a conference be-
tween Elbridge Z. Gerry and President
Roosevelt it is probable the New York
police will abandon the employment of
children TO obtain evidence against sa-
loOnkeepers.
The Philadelphia Kennel club an
nounces that it will hold q bench show
after the one in Boston next April. The
club has leased $4,000 acres of land in
ThOmasville, S. c., for shooting and field
purposes.
The Michigan Millers' association
adopted resolutions at Lansing strongly
endorsing the principles of reciprocity
as enacted in the Mckinley BILL The ex-
ecutiye committee was instructed to CO.
operate with the national association in
urging Congress to restore the doctrine
to the federal statute books.
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