Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-04-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Mr. Holt of the shipbuilding firm OF
Lamport d Holt, is dead.

more than quarter of a century rector
of Trinity Protestant Episcopal church
in Washington, is dead.
Israel NJ. King of Silver City, a
member of the New Mexico Legislature,
is in jail at Juarez, accused of stealing
cattle He will appeal to the Washing
ton authorities.
Mrs G. w. Wright was arrested in
White River Junction, n. H., charged
with having set fire to the Pratt man
sion at Oxford, after pillaging it Of some
$500 worth of silyerware, also $4,000
of securities and bonds. Mrs. Wright
confessed to the theft of the articles
The Swedish Lutheran Emanuel
church on Matilda avenue, st. Paul, was
struck by lightning during the snow
storm and badly damaged
The Hotel Bartholdi in New York is
to close its doors. No explanation Is
made.
Sir William Stuart. brother of Baron
Blantyre and late British envoy to the
King of the Netherlands. is dead at Lon
don. He was born in 1924.
Oswald Ectin, formerly of Mexico,
Mo-. a gambler, was killed in a fight at
Carrollton, Mo. One other man was IA
tally hurt and two badly injured.
The two massive boilers of the
Planters Oil mill at Greenville, Miss,
exploded, wrecking the mill property
Robert Torrey, for years with Buffa-
10 Bills show, while going through a lv-
cry stable at Valparaiso, Ind, was struck
on the head by bale of hay and killed.
Georgia Burke, colored, has been ac-
quilted of the murder of Ide Miller, an
eX-policeman of Terre Haute, Ind, who
was killed in a struggle for possession
of pistol.
William Brewster, secretary and
treasurer of the Erie and Pittsburg rail
way. was stricken with apopleXy while
at his office at Erie, Pa. His physician
thinks he will not recover
Probate Judge Robert G.. Pike of
Stafford county has been appointed asso-
ciate justice of the New Hampshire SUI
preme court to succeed Judge Carpenter,
who has been appointed chief justice.
Mrs. w. D. Sabin, a leading expo
nent of the doctrine of Christian science,
was stricken down with paralysis while
addressing Il company of ladies at her
home III Lansing upon the subject of the
cure of ills by faith.
The supervising architect of the
treasury has awarded to James Carlisle
4 Sons of Minneapolis, Mimi, for S20.-
| 9l5, the contract for constructing the
interior finish of the new postOtfice build
ing at Fargo, n. d.
The American schooner George w.
Whitford, Capt. Foote, was seized by
the Colombian gunboat Cordova while
leaving Porto Bello, department of Pan
anna. The charge against the vessel is
not made known. but it is believed she
carried contraband goods
Mrs. NJ. Ida Herrick was married to
A. Moore Berry in New York. The
bride was the widow of A NJ. Herrick,
who was for twenty-five years connected
with the New York Life Insurance COM
pany. Mr. Berry is lawyer of ST.
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books.
H. John Turner, who is described as
the intellectual head of the Anarchist
movement in England, arrived in New
York in the steerage of the ST. Louis,
and is about to enter upon a tour
through the United States prea ching his
ideas on the destruction of governments
! and rulers.
Emanuel Ninger was arrested at
New York and is confined in Ludlow
street jail in default of $4,000 bail Sc
creJ service agents believe they have
solved the secret of this mysterious
mans life and at the same time have
counterfeiter who has baff1ed all their
efforts for seventeen years.
No conviction was had in She United
States court at Detroit in the trial of
John c.. Bodewig, George W. Johnson
and Earnest NJ. Jewett. The men were
alleged to have been concerned in the
wrecking of Chicago & Grand Trunk
train at Battle Greek in July, 1894. dur
! ing the great American Railway union
strike.
The American liner Paris. which
went aground in New York harbor dur
ing heavy fog, was f1oated without diff
ticulty at high tide.
Charges have been preferred with
Gov. Halcomb of Nebraska against DR..
J. H. Mackay, superintendent of the
fol
The 500 photographers in New York
who struck seven weeks ago are jubilant
over the notification that they may re-
turn to work, pending the decision of the
committee on arbitration.
Mrs. NJ. A. Stockton, who was one
of the prominent figures in the recent
scandal involving Rev. G. o. Brown Of
the First Congregational church, San
Francisco, has been expelled from the
! church.
.-Anson B. Strong was arrested at
Rayenna, Portage county, o., charged
with the murder of Mrs. Alvin n. Stone
at Tallmadge The evidence on which
! the charge is based is largely circum-
stantial.
The London Times says: "The ru-
NOR that the government has decided
upon the gradual release Of the dynamit-
ers is unfounded. McUllagh has re-
Gently been liberated but it was only on
account of his health"
in an address at New York city.
Edward J. Phelps, ex-minister to Great
Britain, said he didn't believe boun-
dairy line between Venezuela and Brit
ish Guiana had ever existed. 1t was a
question for arbitration, he said
The Manufacturers club of Phla-
delphia held a special meeting at which
strong resolutions were adopted opposing
the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
The resolutions further expresses an I'M
willingness to barter with silver sena-
tors.
Gov. L. G. Hughes was assaulted on
the street by p. J. Clark. correspondent
at Phoenix for the Denver Times. Clark,
who had criticised the governors of
fetal conduct, claims that the executive
was instrumental in securing his
tClark's) discharge from another paper.
Hawaiian Consul Wilder stated at
San Francisco that under the treaty be-
tween Hawaii and the United States
the Hawaiian government can grant no
concessions, cede any territory or grant
permission to any foreigner to land a ca