Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-02-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

| or the ONO House. III connection with
the proposed appointment of peniten-
! tiary guard, began taking testimony.
! Witnesses testified that Mr. Spear had
solicited them for money promising them
| his support in their efforts to secure state
| Offices.
Trouble between the Venezuelan gov
! ernment and the management of the
! English railway running from .JuanIa
! to Barcelona has developed Owing to
| the dizziness of business SuDt. White has
! suspended the passenger train service
! Minister of Public works BOugal Sierra
has issued strong order, threatening to
revoke the annual concession to the road
unless traffic is reopened Immediately.
Judge Kellams resignation rs chief
! justice of the South Dakota Supreme
court has caused profound sensation
at Pierre, because no official statement
| has been made as to the reason for the
step. 1t has been bruited about today
mat mat the resignation was requested. A
! local daily makes sensational report
limiting that Judge Kellam's past will not
bear searching inquiry.
"A jury in the circuit court at Rock
ford, ILL.,, brought in a verdict in favor
Of Mrs. T. X. Ernst for 1878 against
the Rockford Gas company, the claim
being made that the gas which ESCAPED
from a street main killed FIVE shade
trees belonging to the plaintiff 1t was
the first case of the kind ever tried in
the state, and the result establishes a
precedent.
George A. Anderson, member of Con
gress in 1886 from the old Twelfth dis
trict of Indiana and the Adams county
candidate IL several conventions since.
died at Quincy of cancer of the stomach.
He was A years old and was born in
Hancock county. He had been city at
torney of Quincy and was one of the
most popular and prominent Democrats
of Illinois.
The annual report of the minister
of militia now before the Canadian Par
lament gives the total expenditure for
militia last year as S1,574,013. The per-
manent corps has been reduced to 800
men. Only 20,S17 put in their annual
drill Of twelve days last year, the small
est number since confederation. The
Acknowledgement calls attention to the
obsolete rifles with which the force is
equipped.
"A novel and hitherto untried plan of
transferring sailors from the NorfoIl,
navy yard to the Pacific coast will be
inaugurated when a draft of 159 men
will be sent from the receiving shin
Franklin to Mare island for the coast
defense ship Monadnock. A special train
will be utilized, made up of tourist AMI
baggage cars. The men will utilize their
hammocks in the tourist care hunks.
slowing them in the baggage car.
President Diaz Of Mexico was given
an enthusiastic reception at Vera Cruz.
The Cunard line officers explicitly
deny that the Campania went ashore at
the time the st. Paul grounded.
AT Patton, Ia, the grain elevator
burned, dumping $4,000 bushels of oats
upon the adjoining railroad tracks.
The packing and shipping of Cali
fornia oranges has commenced Five
cars of fruit was sent East the first
night.
Representatives of Denver com
pany have jumped the town site of Co
lumbine, Col, and serious trouble is
threatened.
The Michigan Grand lodge of Masons
has voted down proposition to accept
the management of the Masonic home at
Grand Rapids.
The government of Newfoundland
has provided $4,000 to relieve the distress
in ST. Johns, pending the beginning of Il
regular system of relief work.
Gov Hastings of Pennsylvania par
doned Hugh +. Dempsey, the Pittsburg
labor rioter, III accordance with the rec
ommendation of the board of pardons
DIR. John A. Brooks of Memphis.
Tenn, has received a call to the London
tabernacle. In 1888 DR.. Brooks was
nominated for Vice-president of the Pro
hibitionists.
C. NJ. Ball, cashier of a bank at
Coffeyville, Kas., narrowly escaped
death from an explosion which followed
his opening of the vault, in which gas
had collected
The department of physical culture
of the w. G.. T. L. is sending petitions
to Washington protesting against the
passage of any measure providing for
military instruction IN the public schools.
The passengers of the Cunard steam
FOL lof e.
York on board the steamer Braunsch-
weig, according TO adYices received at
the Cunard Steamship sompany's office
in Boston. The Catalonia will be towed
to Liverpool for repairs to her broken
shaft.
The lumber storelouses of r. C.
Pingree q Co. i'll Lewiston, Me-, burned
Loss, S200,0OO; insurance small.
The boiler of the lumber mill of the
Southern Pine company at Offerman,
Ca, exploded, wrecking the mill and
killing four employees
The arguments in the Stanford es-
tate case were concluded in the United
States Supreme court. A decision is not
expected before March.
Gen. Arthur Ducat died at Chicago
OF recent years he was best known in
connection with insurance affairs, in
which he was prominent figure.
-EX-Goy Silas WoOdson of Missouri |
has been baptized into the Roman Cath
Ollie church at st. Joseph. The ceremony
was performed by Bishop Burke and
Father Newman of the cathedral
In the United States circuit court at
Pittsburg Judge Burlington appointed the
Union Trust company of Pittsburg re-
ceiver for the Pittsburg Steel and Iron
company of Duluth. The Indebtedness
is about $4,000.
1t is believed that upon the reas-
semblng of Parliament formal an I
nouncement will be made by the home
secretary that the appeal for clemency
for Mrs. Florence Maybrick cannot be
consistently recommended.
Fred A. Lapham of Millbury, Mass,
a prominent wool manufacturer and
president of the Windle Cycle company
of Worcester, has assigned to Samuel
Bull of Millbury, representing the Mill,
bury Savings bank and Albert d. Cur
tbs of Worcester.
The missionaries who were expelled
some time since from Cusco and who
sought to hold the Peruvian government
raSnOnS h1a for the Ol1traoa have 1acidad