Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-03-17
LATE KILOGRAMS CONDENSED

Judge Foster of the United Stales
district court at Topeka, Kas., granted Il
temporary injunction restraining the
| Kansas City Stockyards company from
putting into effect the rates fixed by the
legislative act which has just become Il
| law.
Deputy United States Marshal Nicely
| and five officers have arrested Ava and
Joseph Simons near Beloit, Kas., and
confscated 800 gallons of illicit whisky
said to have been brought from Rock
Greek, WyO.. where one of the men had
| q saloon.
BY a vote of AZ to q the Washing
ton House passed the Cent? bill 10 re-
duce the telegraph tolls in the state.
| Unable to get work, Charles Denner
| a cigarmaker. and James Murphy, who
lives across the street, have become in
| sane.
Miss Eva Ballington Booth, COM
mander of the Salvation army forces in
Canada, is dangerously i'll, and her re-
covery is doubtful.
George w. Holt, fire Insurance adj
juster of Brooklyn, was indicted yester-
| day by the grand jury in thai city as an
accessory after the fact to the crime Of
| arson.
The rumor circulated in Seattle that
| disaster had happened to the Empress of
China and that she foundered and 600
by Canadian Pacific railway officials at
Vancouver.
1t is announced that the National
| Storage company is about to erect q
grain elevator at Bayonne, n. j., which
will be the largest in the United States,
having an intended capacity Of $780,,
900 bushels.
Many of the cotton mills ia EAST
ern Canada have decided to curtail pre-
duction until the market improves.
Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago has
leased the II. R. Pratt cottage, on Belle
vue and Parker avenues, Newport,
which she occupied last season.
John Macdonald, a veteran press
man, formerly employed on the Times
and other Chicago papers, fell down
| stairs at Dubuque, Ia, and broke his
neck.
-Elwood 0nd.) factories will be af-
fected by the enforcement of the new
child-labor law, and the chimney facto
| ries, bottle works and box factory will
replace the boys under Il by other
hands.
Smallpox is not so prevalent in Hong
| Kong as a few months ago. but in Japan
it is still raging fercely and the Hong
Kong board of health recommended that
the government declare Hiogo and Kobe
infected ports.
Gov. Black of New York has signed
the knockout drops" bill which makes
it felony for any person other than
| a licensed druggist or physician to have
in his possession or to administer to any
person a drug or narcotic.
| The trusted book-keeper of the New
| buryport (Mass.) Merchants National
bank, Percy Dane, has left town after
confessing to the embezzlement Of $500
of the funds of the bank, which amount
| has since been made good by his friends.
10, hoc
among the rural population in the neigh
borhood Of Salsak bay near Foo Chow.
| China, by the extraordinary boldness of
tigers prowling about there night and
day. Two men have been carried CT by
the animals.
Recent holdings of the Supreme court
have increased the value of tax titles
materially in Michigan. In an opinion
filed, in the case of Mersereau against
! Miller, the court holds the tax law con-
stitutional, and gives the holder of a tax
title possession Of the property.
The Bullion-Beck mine, Utah, has
declared Il monthly dividend of $4,000
and the Mercur Mining company has de-
clared it's regular monthly dividend of
$4,000. These dividends will make the
| total amount paid by the Bullion-Beck
$2,117,O0O and the Mercur S65O.O00.
President A. B. Spreckles, Secretary
W. s. Leake, Vice-PresideEt II. J.
| Croker and Director w. S. Hobart have
sent in their designations as directors OF
the Pacific Coast Jockey club, which cs-
tablished the fine Ingleside track.
After years haggling the Grand
/ lodge of Massachusetts, r. and A. NJ,
| has decided to erect new building Oh
| the present site, fremont and Boyleston
streets, or to remodel the old temple,
which was damaged by fire September Z,
1895. The directors were given full
10 0af flao
expend being limited to 100000.
Two hundred railway postal clerks
who arrived in Chicago from North.
| South and East left Chicago in special
train over the Burlington road to attend
the annual convention Of men of their
vocation in San Francisco.
The body of Mrs. Henry Ward
Beecher arrived IN Brooklyn from SIAM
| ford, Conn.,, and the remains were re-
| ceived by Sergt Alderman and de-
| tail of Co. D of the Thirteenth regi-
| ment and taken to Plymouth church
| chapel. Alternate detachments of the
regiment will continually watch the body.
! Ten years ago the body of Henry Ward
Beecher was watched by details from the
| same regiment.
The monitors Amphitrite and Terror
steamed out OF Charleston and proceeded
to sea for practice with their heavy guns
as we'll as for fleet evolutions.
United States Minister TerriH in a
| communication to the state department
| from Constantinople incloses Il note from
the ministry of foreign affairs calling at
| tenti0n to the necessity for Americans
travelling in Turkey to provide themselves
! with passports
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Mckee, who
live four miles west of Marcellus, Mich,
| were instantly killed by a fast west
bound train on the Grand Trunk railroad
at that place yesterday afternoon. Their
| 7year-old grandchild was thrown several
| feet but ESCAPED injury