Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-01-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

! lea, is dead at his home at MOHtclalr,
| \. j., aged GA years.
| "A thief who tackles a wagonload of
| forcite and escapes with his life is lucky
enough to grow rich carrying a bod. This
is what an enterprising thief did in New
! York city. At last accounts he was
| alive and doing well.
Erie train No 5, the New York and
Chicago vestibuled limited while run
ming forty miles an hour, struck an open
with locomotive in the New York and
Pennsylvania yards. Fifteen persons
were hurt.
Several st. Paul and Minneapolis
banks have been victimized to the extent
OF some $4,000 by a clever forger. He
Charles e. Rhodes, and did the work
chiefly by means of bank cashiers
certihcation stamp.
Richard Croker left New York very
quietly for Chicago. After attending
to some private business there he will
| thOrOughbreds, and will then go to the
winter home of the Dwyer brothers on
Indian river Fla, for several weeks.
The Claim Street Baptist church of
Aurora, ILL.,. celebrated the new year
by burning its mortgage.
William Forsythe, wife and child
were Frustrated at Youngstown, O., by
eating poisoned mince pies. The mother
and son are recovering but the husband
is in q dangerous condition.
The Ems, which left Genoa, Deem
Der 10, arrived in New York, but re-
ported nothing of the Anchor line steam
ship Italia, which left the Mediterranean
seven days earlier than the Ems.
"A new process in the solution of
arithmetical problems has been evolved
by Peter Lawyer of Indianapolis, who
|
among the school men of Indiana and
| who resides now near Atlanta.
The Chicago fast mail train No. 1,
| on the Illinois Central struck q mule
two miles north of Holly Springs. Miss,
derailing the engine, baggage and mail
cars and three coaches. The two Pull
man sleepers did not leave the track
| The fireman was fatally injured.
The Click Comedy company's effects
were attached at Lacon, ILL.,, to satisfy
the claim of w. H. Haggerty of Engle-
wood. Blanche Belleyille, the soubrette,
saved her wardrobe by wearing no less
| than ten costumes. The company dis
| banded.
! A San francisco paper says the gov
eminent is preparing to prosecute the
conspirators who perjured themselves to
aid James Addison Peralta-Reavis in his
mythical claim to 100000 acres of
land in New Mexico worth SIS, 100000.
! Nearly every WITNESS VINO CeSClQeQ IN the
| case will be indicted.
London Truth in a long article today
defends President Cleveland's attitude
on the Monroe doctrine, and asserts it
is as legitimate as the European con-
! cert.
The sentence Of death of Valentine
| Shorts, who shot two men at Valley
field, Que, last spring, has been today
committed to Imprisonment for life as a
criminal lunatic.
The Constantinople correspondent of
! the London Times hears that an trade
! has been issued for the grant of the pc
troleum monopoly to the Russian COM
! pany, but no confirmation of the report
| is obtainable.
in an address before the American
| Economic association at Indianapolis,
Prof. Gray of the Northwestern univer-
| sity, Evanston, used some plain language
! in talking about ChicagOs corrupt coun-
Gil.
Three of a party of seven or eight
| United States soldiers from Fort Mead
have been incarcerated by the authorities
at Sun Dance, Wyo., for violating state
! game laws. The party was hunting and
killing deer. Those arrested were fined
! S25 and costs. Having been notified not
| to pay their fines, they are now in Jail.
james Stevens Chaffey. who was ar
rested with nearly .$150,000 worth of
stolen property in his possession, much
| of which was believed to be the plumber
of the notorious William Barrett, plead
ed guilty at Boston to the charge of re-
! ceiying stolen property and was SEN
| fenced to Il term of ten years in the state
| prison.
Aid Frank J. LIGHT of Detroit says
! that he has been approached by agents
of the Citizens Street Railway company
and offered loans "Of large sums of mon
ely if he would cast his vote in favor of
the ordinance passed by the council Civ
| ing the company a siXteen-year extension
of its franchise in return for eight tick
| cts for a quarter"
Judge Moer settled the famous Men
denhall divorce case at Duluth by declin-
! ing to grant a divorce to either party.
He found no proof of cruelty or desertion
! by either party. Mrs. --endenhaIl had
shown herself to be of a jealous and
morbid turn of mind. He found letters
which showed that they agreed to sepa-
rate by mutual consent, SO there could
| be no desertiOn.
The q. S. S. Boston has received
orders to proceed from San Francisco to
! the China station. The order had been
| foreshadowed by dispatches from Wash
ington and was in fact being awaited.
Coy. Richards of Wyoming has gone
! to Washington to make protest against
| the invasion and depredations of the
| Gree 1uuldIS JTOlu Odudud. L lie Od-
madam authorities refused to act in the
matter and the governor decided to APP
peal to Washington.
Charles III. Stuckey, the defaulting
cashier Of the State bank at Duluth, was
held to the grand j;.--J at his examina-
ton. His attorney did not make any de-
Tense but asked a number of questions
which seemed to indicate that an attempt
would be made to place the blame for
wrecking the bank on the shoulders of NJ.
O. Hall, its president.
Judge Finn at Hancock, Mich, sen
| fenced Charles Conlette to twenty days
Imprisonment for gambling. The game
was poker. The deal was Conlette's and
the other player, Julius Schubert, backed
four kings to the extent Of 5000. Con-
| lette held four aces. The judge held
that two such hands in one deal was
prima facie evidence of gambling on the
part of the man who held the aces.
Sculptor ]. Massey Rhinds' heroic
bronze statue of John @. Calhoun is
ready for shipment to Charleston, S. c.,
and will be sent from New York at once.
| This statue of the famous Southern