Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-11-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Judge ROyau Iyler uleQ at bFaIue-
boro, Vt, after a brief illness, aged 81
years.
%. w. Peabody of the well-known
banking firm of Kidder, Peabody & Co..
died at Boston.
Frank Huntley died at Wahoo, Neb.,
of stomach trouble, caused by OVerexer-
ton on his bicycle.
%. p. Morgan, a guard at the peni-
tertiary at Fort Madison Ia, committed
suicide by blowing out his brains
The death is announced of James
Pierce Maxwell, ninth Baron Farnham
of England. He was born in 1913.
In a pitched battle between railroad
detectives and tramps near Cincinnati,
Michael Ryan, tramp, was killed.
Mrs. DR.. J. B. Ellis, a well-known
and popular physician of Elkhart, Ind,
died at Hot Springs, Ark, where she
had gone for her health.
Miss Maude Hatfield, 10 years old,
was accidentally shot in the arm by
Frank Lewis at Kingsley, Mich. The
limb was amputated.
An unknown man dived forty feet
from McCOmbs' dam bridge in New
York and rescued Henry Muller, who
was drowning in the Harlem river.
The Sac and Fox Indian agency,
sixty miles southeast of Guthrie, Ok, was
held up and looted by the same gang OF
bandits that looted the town Of Carney,
last week.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
has decorated the duke of Orleans, who
is to be married to the Archduchess
Maria Dorothea, with the Order of the
Golden Fleece.
Emma Field, victim of Robelia
Starke, who shot her because she re-
fused to accompany him home from a
political meeting, died at her home at
Jeffersonville, Ind.
While cleaning carpets with gasoline
at Peoria Mrs. j. e. Vaughan of 527
Malone avenue was frightfully burned,
her death resulting within a few hours
after the accident.
Charles Johnson, negro, under
conviction of rape, has been sentenced
to be hanged at Ardmore |. L. This
promises to be the first lawful hanging
in the Indian territory
Among the passengers who arrived
at New York by the American line
steamer Berlin from Southampton was
Lars Anderson, secretary Of the United
States embassy at Rome.
"A traction engine exploded on he
farm of Thomas Lutz at Little Washing
son, and probably fatally scalding
Thomas Lutz, aged 20 years.
Mrs. Kate Basson Of Clinton, No.
killed herself and her 4-yearold son at
q lodging house in Oak street Wednesday
night by closing the door and windows
of the room and turning on the gas.
Great deposits of seventeen-year 10.
Gusts are being found around Anderson.
Ind, within two feet of the surface of
the earth. Men working in a trench for
a gas pipe line dug up locusts two inches
long.
Reports are current on the other side
that the japanese are secretly aiding the
Manila rebels against Spain and the
matter is now being made the subject of
official inquiry.
Pablo, a Ute Indian, under sentence
to be hanged this week for the murder
of a squaw of his tribe and her lover
and brother. died in the Colorado penl-
tertiary of consumption.
William w. Newton, Jr., aged 20,
only son of the. pastor of Plttsburg
On. " church, has married Mrs. Hen
rietta A. Richardson aged 40, whose
daughter was recently married.
j. H Embree, a prominent Lebanon
q. ID farmer, was shot and killed just
outside Marietta by one of two outlaws
who stopped Embree and a neighbor on
the roadway. a number of deputies are
in pursuit.
Joseph W. Hamburger, a wealthy
business man of Harlem, n. Y, drank a
pint of carbolic acid and killed himself.
Mr.. Hamburger was 81 years old,
member of the Columbia club, and reput-
ed to be worth 100000.
Father libra, well-known Roman
Catholic missionary who came to Canada
from France more than forty years ago
with Bishop Charbonnel and who la
bored in the vicinity of Lake Simcoe for
a quarter of a century, is dead.
"A car on the Pittston Electric rail
way crowded with passengers who had
come to Wilkesbarre, Pa, to witness
,oo1,+ DO tln t1o.I OF
Plainsyille Three women are reported
fatally and a score seriously injured.
"A severe rain, wind and thunder
storm, which passed over New Orleans,
caused one death and did other damage.
The lightning which was very heavy,
struck five houses Albert Trahina, an
occupant of one of them, was instantly
killed.
Mrs. Mary White, a stranger who
went to Indianapolis from Chicago Sep
TENDER %, took eighty grains Of NOR
phine and died. Doctors were unable
to do anything for her, as she had taken
the drug several hours before it was
discovered.
The citizens Of Mt Pleasant. Ia, are
indignant over the insult offered the city
council by the hanging of Aid. Davis in
effigy to a telegraph pole in the public
square. The entire night police force
will be dismissed for neglect of duty in
not removing the efigy.
The flagship Philadelphia has been
ordered to prepare for a cruise along
the South American coast. She will
leave this port in about three weeks and
it is thought the flagship will spend most
of her time during the coming winter III
ports along the Peruvian coast
The Venezuelan government has for
warded to Washington the brief prepared
at Caracas by commission of five
eminent jurists on the British Venezuela
boundary question and it will be submit
ted to the United States commission
as soon as the translation is completed.