Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-03-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Capt. Wagner. from Manzanillo, Cuba.
with sugar, has arrived at Boston. Her
officers confirm the report that she had
been stopped by Il Spanish gunbOat i'll
Cuban waters and searched.
James I. Matthews, a brakeman of
Danville, Ill.,, committed suicide Oy tax
ing morphine in hotel at Mount Car
mel, Ill.
AT China Springs, Tex, julie Evans
and Henry Wilson, farmers who had
long nurSed a feud, fought with Win
chesters, receiving wounds resulting IN
DEATH
"A S. Seer, president of the Theat-
rical Printing company of New York,
committed suicide by shooting. Ill-health
and financial troubles are supposed to
be the cause.
The resolution to resubmit to the
people of Iowa the prohibition amend
ment was defeated in the House. This
ensures Iowa's being a dry" state for
the next five years.
The Paris Raphael says that Brazil
recently asked permission to float a loan
in France; but the request was refused
until the frontier dispute between the
two countries is settled
The Nicaraguan government forces
have begun to advance upon the
Departments in revolt against President
Zelaya. The town of Nagaraoto was at
tackled and taken by storm by the govern
ment troops.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlbor-
ough and w. X. Vanderbilt have arrived
at Monte Carlo.
Wheat seeding is in progress in por-
tiOnS of South Dakota. the ground being
in excellent condition.
AT the Carlisle Pa) Indian school
there were twenty-five graduates, the
largest class in the history of the school
Gen. Baldissera has been appointed
to replace Gen. Baratieri in the chief
command of the Italian troops in At
RIGA.
The Cady planning mill and the Santa
Clara Manufacturing companys plant in
Omaha, Neb., were burned. Loss, $780,
600.
The Spanish Cortes has been dis
solved.
Thomas 2. Morgan, ex-commissioner
of the District of Columbia, died at his
residence in Washington.
Princess Amelie Rives Troubetzskoy
formerly Amelie Rives Chandler) is seri-
ously i'll at her fathers nome near Char
lottesville, Va.
The centennial census returns give
Dayton, o., a population of $1,000 not
including the Soldiers home 5000 and
outlying suburbs.
Henry Augustin, who robbed the
IoSloHlce SdEluSS DdHh Ut IaleSud, Del
GUM and fed to this country, has been
taken back in charge of officers.
In the trial at Bessemer, Mich. of
Mike Savant for the murder of Matt
Bolander last November the jury rem
dered a verdict of manslaughter.
j. s. Hamilton, jeweler of Chicago,
was drowned at Canton. Ia. He was on
his way to Beloit, Ia, to visit Il daugh-
ter. He leaves a wife and child in Chi
cagO.
L. L. Bull, a conductor on the Royal
Blue line of the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road, was arrested at Philadelphia,
charged with breaking into and robbing
express cars while they were going at
full speed.
M. p. Desmet Denaeyer, the minister
of finance of Belgium has been appointed
premier in succession to NJ. ]. De Burlet,
who resigned the presidency of the coun-
ell of ministers yesterday. Mr.. De Bur
let is going to Lisbon as Belgian minis
ter to Portugal.
The Ohio House passed yesterday
the Avery bill fixing the age of consent
from IA to 16 years, and it is now a
law. The Whittlesey bill requiring all
cheese not made wholly of milk or
cream to be labeled imitation" also
passed the House and is law
Mr.. and Mrs. Coils P. Huntington's
new residence, at the southeast corner
New York, which was taken possession
of by it's owner only few days ago, was
the scene Of the wedding of Mr. Hunt
ington's niece, Miss Carrie D. Hunting
ton, daughter of the late Scion Hunting
ton, to Edmund Burke Holiday of San
Francisco.
joe Ullman, the well-known Chi
cago bookmaker, is critically i'll at Hot
Springs, Ark.
"A representative of Russian cotton
mills is in st. Louis purchasing cotton
for shipment to Russia.
-Falk & Tamley, wholesale liquor
dealers of Fort Wayne, Ind, have failed.
Liabilities nearly $4,000.
Col. and Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant
gave dinner party at New York in
honor of Mrs. Grants sister, Mrs. Potter
Palmer of Chicago.
Col. +. w. Blees, millionaire and
Democrat, will decline the nomination of
both the Democrats and Republicans for
mayor of Macon, Mo.
Agents of the Liberian government
are at work in Oklahoma securing col
Ored emigrants for that country. Six
colored men left for Charleston to take
passage and more will follow
.-Commandant Herbert Booth said
that IT the American Salvation army
separated from the army in England he
thought the Canadian army would re-
main Ia1tnful TO Gen. Booth.
-Twenty-six Protestant ministers.
constituting about half the membership
Of the local Ministers alliance in Kansas
City. Mo-, adopted a resolution asking
the board of education to restore the
Bible to the public schools.
-Ihe iron steamer Bermuda, flying the
British flag, was boarded and seized by
revenue officers off Liberty island, New
York. a large party of Cuban filibusters
was arrested and much ammunition in
tended for the insurgents was seized.
Among, the captives was Gen. Garcias
son and several other prominent Cubans.
-Four bags of gold were seized
The steamer Kantzler, from Ham
burg to Delagoa bay, which grounded in
the SueZ canal at Ismailia, has been
1oated. Her grounding had practically
blocked the passage of the canal and
nearly fifty steamers were detained by
the accident
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