Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-10-13
NEWS NOTES.
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The Central railroad buildings at Ma
con, Ga, were destroyed by fire. Loss.
$4,000.
In the suit Of G. J. Hammer against
Downing, Hopkins q Co., Chicago board
of trade brokers' with branches in Seat
tie and Spokane, a jury at Portland, Or
awarded the plaintiff Judgment for ST.
$3.50, the full amount sued for
Two men at the points of revolvers
stopped a cable train one mile south of
Kansas City, Mo-, on the last run at
night, secured what small change the con-
ductor had and escaped.
Word has been received that ex-May-
or Fred Cope Of Vancouver, B. c.,
drowned in a creek on the Skaguay trail
while fording it with a horse. He
slipped and was instantly washed away.
Sachs & Morrison, wholesale cloth
iers, Cincinnati, assigned to Max B. May.
Assets stated to be $4,000; liabilities,
$4,000. Chattel preferences were given
to the amount of $500.
Fire supposed to have been started
by tramps destroyed the stock barn of
Burgess Bros at Winona, Ill. Thirty
horses, many of which had taken premi-
| ums at the recent state fair at Spring
field, were destroyed. Loss, $4,000;
insurance on barn alone.
Cyrus A. Hall, formerly of Chicago,
but now of Princeton, Ont, has, after
many weeks of legal battling with the
police and his former employees, been dis
charged on charge of forgery preferred
against him by his employers, Hays &
Walker, real estate dealers and cOntrac-
tors, Chicago.
The Norwegian fruit steamer Belyer-
non arrived at New York from Port Nor
ant, Jamaica, after a tempestuous voyage
lasting six and half days.
Thomas Fielden, Conservative mem
Der of Parliament for the Middleton di-
vision of Lancashire and a noted sports
man, died suddenly near Dunkell Scot
| land, while out shooting.
Edward McElroy, a gambler, shot
and perhaps fatally injured his wife, and
| then shot himself in their room at Kan
sas City, Mo. There are but small
chances of either recovering.
Jacob Howard, Republican nominee
for circuit clerk of Harlan county, KY,
was killed in politica1 fight on Straight
creek. John Milton, Democratic candi-
date for jailer, was mortally wounded.
Half a dozen persons were seriously
hurt in a collision between two cars on
the Toledo & Bowling Green CO., electric
road. Miss Mary Waite, daughter of
the late Chief Justice Waite, is seriously
injured and may die.
Guy Nickalls, the famous English
oarsmen contradlcts the announcement
Oxford and Leander Fights of the past
two years, are going to the United States
in order to coach the Yale crews.
President Mckinley has decided to
allow A. BenZinger, an artist who resides
at Drummer, Switzerland, and who has
studios in Paris and New York, to paint
his portrait The portrait is to be the
property Of Vice-President Hobart.
-Zephaniah Jones, one of the oldest
contractors in Washington, D. c., was
killed by injuries resulting from a col
lision with middle-aged bicyclist named
clerk in one of the branches of the gov
eminent printing offices. Mr. G cay was
arrested
The Canadian Pacific express over
the southern division of the Boston q
Maine railroad met with an accident at
West Medford, Mass, in which nearly
thirty people were more or less injured,
but none, it is believed. fatally hurt.
-Rukeyser & Bash, manufacturers of
neckWear, have failed, with liabilities es-
timated at 100000. The sheriff took
charge of their place of business On an
execution. All the stock had previously
been removed, only the plant, fixtures
and safes remaining for the sheriff 10
levy upon.
1t is reported that Max Stewart the
American eX-Confederate soldier who
SnOT ana killed. II pOllceIudH IL TdFFel.
Mex, some time ago and was sentenced
to death for the crime, will be shot with
in q few days.
The government of New South Wales
asserts that it has found such difficulty
in placing i'll England an order for 1000
tons of steel rails of high carbon quality
that it has been compelled to place the
order in America, where the manufacture
ers have readily undertaken the contract
at $25 a tom
Alfred Scott, boy OF ii, murdered
his brother, Benton Scott, at Greenfield,
Ind. The latter was very quarrelsome
and few days ago he whipped Albert
numerically. The latter SW0re he would
be revenged. and seized the first oppor-
tunity He struck his brother three blows
with a pumphandle. They proved fatal.
A big fire broke out in the Black
fairs road London, and did enormous
damage. 1t originated in Pascalls con-
fectionery store and spread rapidly to the
Saunders bacon-curing establishment and
then to the adjacent premises occupied
by the Perciyals, Well-knoWn government
contractors All these large structures
were virtually destroyed.
j. II. Bissell, who some years ago
became prominent in Chicago because Cf
his daring real estate speculations, IS re-
DOrted rs violently insane in Toronto.
Canada, and is locked in Jail there. Mr..
Bissell is a son Of Col Bissell who Or
ganized the Engineers regiment at st.
Louis during the war and who also
served on Gen. Grants staff.
Harvey Cherry, who had just re-
turned from Nebraska, where he had
sold his farm and had $4,000 OH his per-
son, was waylaid at Washington, Ia, by
three footpads, knocked insensible and
robbed of the money and valuable gold
watch.