Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-01-06
NEWS ITEMS.

has died of malignant diphtheria.
DR.. PitZer of Orlando, Fla, set fire to
his house when his wife died. and shoot
ing himself, was cremated with her.
-Pottsdam, n. Y, was visited by a
100000 fire OF Sunday, which DESTROYED
a large part of the business section.
Capt. William 2. Barlow, secretary
Of the EX-COnfederate Home associa-
ton of Missouri, is dead at St Louis
Antonio Zononc, New York barber.
was murdered on Friday. and it is be-
licycd that it was the work of the Malta
Mrs Anna Hanson Dorsey, the pio-
nCcr Of Catholic literature i'll this coun-
try, died at Washington, aged So years
Charles +. Parrish, one Of lie Oldest
ard Wcalthicst coal operators in Penn
sylvania, died suddenly at Philadelphia
Joseph D. Weeks. editor of the Amer
lean Manufacturers died at his home in
Pittsburg from the effect Of stroke of
! paralysis.
Lewis Klusman, patrolman of the
Cincinnati police force, lost his life in
saving that of another man, by stopping
| Il runaway.
Judge Charles d. Kerr of ST Paul
is dead. He died at San Antonio, Tex
Judge Kerr was we'll known throughout
the Northwest.
in Kentucky shooting ARRAY Hen
ry Medley was killed and Frank Harris
fatally injured. They qualTeled at a
! Christmas dinner.
Mrs Elizabeth Brown, wife of the
Ex-Governor and Senator John Brown,
died at her home in Atlanta, Ga. She
was 70 years Old
--Wysenan Marshall, an old-time
actor and dramatic instructor, died at
his home in Boston, after a protracted
illness, aged so years.
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miners at Hinton, " Va, John and
Richard Legg were killed and James
! Moore fatally wounded.
Prof Emil Heinrich du Bois-Rey-
mond, NJ. D.. T. +. S, is dead. He was a
member and perpetual secretary of the
Royal Academy Of Sciences at Berlin.
--Gottlieb Hirner, baker, employed
| by Joseph Child Of Redbank, n. j., was
drowned in an attempt TO win a wager
that he could cross the river on the ice.
johnson Howe, a 15-year-old negro
boy fatally wounded Policeman Lacey
at Cynthiana Ky, on Christmas eve,
when the officer attempted to arrest him.
Rev. r. II. Vaughn, president of
! Saule Colleg at Dodge City, Nas., after
an ecclesiastical trial lasting a week, has
been deposed from the ministry for lying.
f NJ. Johnson. 4 merchant, was
! killed ana Alonzo johnson, colored, seri-
/
| fountain in burning building at Miami,
| Fla.
Chester r. Faulkner, the private sec
! rotary Of Senator Voorhees, of Indiana,
! was knocked down by street car in
! Washington and died at Providence hos
/ pital.
Simon Brauer of San Francisco at
! tempted suicide by hanging himself in a
! well. The rope broke and he fell to the
bottom of the we'll, where he was res
cued.
The car barns and repair shop of the
! Cleveland. gainesville q Eastern Elec-
| tric railway a Wiloughby, o.. burned
| Saturday evening. Loss, $4,000; in
| sured.
Edward Rogers his son frankie, and
| a domestic Miss Minerva Robinson,
| trying to cross the st. Lawrence in an
! ice punt
August Beck, saioonkeeper at Red
! Jacket. Mich. cut his throat while in
| sane from kick received in the lower
! part of the abdomen the day previous.
| He will not recover
Carl Montgomery, a student of the
! Kansas City Medical college, Mortified
the people of Broughton by boiling the
| flesh from the corpse of Il man in his
fathers backyard.
b. II. Hunsacker. for six years past
chief train dispatcher of the Missouri,
| Kansas & Texas railroad, committed sui
! eide at Parsons, Kas., by shooting HIM
self with revolver.
AT Rathbunville, n. Y, W. G. Myers
| shot and killed William Allen and VIII
liam Harrington who came to his house
to take away a buffalo robe over which
they had quarreled.
Mrs. Frank Watson of Memphis,
| Tenn. was found dead in her residence.
| A babe Il few months old was found
| walIowing in its mothers blood, where
| it had lain all night.
| Oliver llaghan, foreman of a gang
of twenty men employed III cutting tim
! Der ut Riceville Switch, Col, was shot
! and killed by Iumberman named Stem
| ger, with whom he had quarreled.
Jack Keel an old German who keeps
| q small store on the Beardstown road,
near Springfield, H.. was subjected to
! torture by fire by two masked men TO
make him tell where his wealth was hid.
Benjamin Tess, aged, 16, an inTeter-
ate cigarette smoker, died at South Bend,
| Ind, from the effects of smoking cigar
cites.
Conrad Sphers, one OF the eight
| baltimore boys who was bitten by a mad
| dog a month ago and afterwards treated
! at the Pasteur institute, New York, died
! at his home in Woodbury. Of hydropho-
| bia.
Gustav Hinrichs the well-known mu-
steal director, and Miss Katherine Mont
| gomery Fleming were married at the
| home of the parents of the groom in
Alameda. Cal, on the evening of De
cember II.
Roscoe Finley. the tax collector in
Greenfield township, Erie county, Pa,
was waylaid Saturday night, beaten into
insensibility. robbed and then hauled into
his barn, which was fred by the high
Waymcn.
Peter Welcome, who in April last
achieved notoriety in Chicago by at
tempting to kidnap his child when in Gus
tody Of its mother, shot and killed Ar
thur Eieau at Welcomes ranch in kib-
by, Mont.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bechtel of Reading
! Pa, was nearly suffocated By disease
of the tongue which caused it to swell
until it closed her throat and protruded
from her mouth. 1t was finally relieved
by lancing.
Charles W. Hoffman, L. L. D., libra
rian of the United States Supreme court
from 1873 to 1893 died at. his home
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