Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-01-13
NEWS ITEMS.

hen shot himself in the head.
The custom of kissing the bible at
| he Inauguration of state officers which
| las prevailed in Kansas since the adj
mission of the state into the Union will
lot be observed by the Populists.
-Lieut.-Col. John w. Newell died at
his home in New Brunswick, n. j., after
4 long illness. He was paymaster of the
| army of the Potomac during the war
| Col. Newell was born in Franklin, O., in
| 1920.
"A Bombay dispatch to the London
| Daily Mail reports that all of the leading
journals there describe the famine as the
most widespread of the present century
1t is the general opinion that the yiceroy
errs in refusing English aid.
George Legg, the defaulting treas
urer of Pike county, o., who embezzled
about ST 900 Of the county's money,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced TO
| eight years in the penitentiary md to
pay fine of twice the amount of the de-
| falcation.
Harry Sabin. 81 years of age. was
arrested while giving bayonet exhibi-
| ton in a saloon at San Francisco. At
! the city prison he admitted he was
| deserter from the United States army
| having left jefferson barracks, st. Louis
| SIX years ago.
james Anderson, ex-under sheriff Of
| Altoona county, Mich, and a well-known
| farmer, was shot and instantly killed by
Mrs. Robert Dobson of Haynes town
! ship. Anderson, it is alleged, had SIAN
| dered the woman and she became en-
ragged at his refusals to retract.
"A man named James McCue, "a
years old, whose home is at JohnstoWn,
| Pa, entered the sheriff's Office at Akron
! O., and voluntarily confessed to the muir
| der of Dick Spencer, who was found
| with his skull crushed, at East Akron.
| McCue says that about two years ago
| Spencer did him an injury.
Mrs. Clara Freeman of Denmark.
| Ia, aged 50, who was at Quincy, ILL.,, on
a visit. attended service at elm Street
| Baptist church. When the closing hymn
was being sung Mrs. Freeman, who sang
| With the congregation. fell back in her
seat dead Heart failure aggravated by
| religious excitement caused death.
"A warrant was issued at Bay City,
itch, for Father Pogacki, charging him
| With shooting Joseph Bartkowiak, the
eader of the riot He had gone to
irand Rapids to visit the bishop and
las not yet been arrested. A crowd of
100 people occupied the church prop
rty all day, but no violence was at
empted.
There is little doubt that Charles
Dougherty, eX-cOngressman from the
second district of Florida, has been slain
n Cuba. He is missing from Florida
md reports have been published from
Cuba about the killing of one Charles
Dougherty, an American citizen, who
vas identified by an autograph upon
gold watch found on his person. He was
IN ardent Cuban sympathizer.
Scott Wike, assistant secretary of
The treasury, has returned to Washing
-on after ten days absence in Florida
Mr.. Wlke says that outside of q number
of the leading cigar manufacturers in
Tampa. the sentiment throughout lFlOr-
da, both among Americans and native
Cubans, is almost entirely with the in
Surgents and that on This account the
government officials find it extremely diff
icult to make much Roadway in their Of
forts to suppress flibustering eNpedi-
tons.
Robbers at Chetopa, Kas., shot and
killed 7. w. Glass, son of Capt. T. NJ.
Glass, wealthy grain buyer.
Samuel NJ. Young, the oldest rail
road director in the world, died at To
edo, o., in his ninety-third year.
An American named Bass has been
arrested at San Sebastian, Spain, for
trying to cash Il forged draft for $4,000
Desetas.
Mrs. Shadley of Greensburg, Ind,
Smothered her 2-year-old babe by wrap
ping it too closely on the way to visit her
mother.
According to 8 Brussels dispatch to
he London Chronicle, DR.. Mennes of
Louvain has discovered an anti-toXin for
pneumonia.
Granville Fyke's sawmiil blew up at
Mt. Vernon, ILL.,, and killed his wife and
seriously and perhaps MORALLY wounded
Fyke and one child.
Allegheny Pa.) nurses have taken
the first practical step to supply the
revolutionary army in Cuba with a corps
of trained nurses.
"A violent windstorm in Louisiana
caused the death of four children at
Moorings Port. Several persons were
seriously injured.
Willie, Maud, Hall and an infant,
sons and daughters of Jesse Goodman,
were killed outright in train wreck at
clearinghouse, La.
Eugene Chapman of Des Moines and
@. L. Sherwood of OsceOla, Ia, were
seriously injured in a wreck on the Keo-
kuk q Western railway.
Robbers looted the state bank at
Sully, la. 1t is reported the robbers car
ried away an amount of cash estimated
at from $4,000 to $4,000.
-Ex-President Benjamin Harrison as
trustee for the first mortgage bondholders
of the Logansport division of the Wanda
liza system, brought suit in the federal
court at Indianapolis to enforce their
lien,
The general merchandise store of J.
II. Hanley of Applegrove, o., was en-
tered by burglars The safe was blown
open and about $4,000 in money was
stolen, besides stamps and valuable pa
pers.
DR.. H G. Adams of the Univer-
sity of Michigan has been elected presi-
dent of the American Economic asso-
citation. William Scott of the Universe
ty of Wisconsin is on the publication com
mittee.
The attempt Of Mrs Jessie Lonergan
of ST. Louis to break the will of her
father, A. III. Lohlker, has failed The
estate amounted to $4,000, and the
st. Louis daughter was cut off with be-
quest of SIS.
Capt Morlies, a member of the war
council and president of the court be-
fore which the Barcelona Anarchists
were tried, has committed suicide in
Spain. The cause for his self-destruction
is not known.
1t is stated that the British admi-
rally intends to introduce a new class
of torpedo destroyers of a minimum