Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-04-28
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

1.-Two elderly women were knocked
down and robbed in their home III Gin
cinnati by three men, who escaped with
jewelry valued at $1,000.
AS the result of landslide near
Sheep Greek, Is. c., on the Red Mountain
railroad six men were killed and num-
Der Of others seriously injured.
Wells Finch, -four broker and mem
Der of the New York Produce exchange,
accidentally shot and killed himself while
cleaning q revolver in his Office in the
Produce exchange building.
The navy department is in a ferment
over an order to Lieut.. Peary. the Are
tic explorer, to leave the New York navy
yard and take up his station at Mare
island, Cal.
The barkentine City of Papate, just
arrived at San Francisco from Tahiti
brought news confirming the report that
Queen Namae of the Raiatea islands was
captured by the French and sent into ex-
lie with her husband and the principal
chiefs.
Mrs Maryia Ewing Martin was
awarded $1,000 damages from the Third
Avenue Street Railway company of New
York city for the death of her father
Gen. Thomas Ewing, who was knocked
down and fatally injured by cable car
January 26, 1896.
A train on the Detroit, Grand Rapids
& Western railway at South Lyon. Mich
struck a vehicle, instantly killing Harry
Clark, son of Rev: d. z. Clark, Presby-
terrain minister of that city, and Miss
Sarah Fisher of Ypsilanti, who was visit
ing friends there.
j. J. Marston, aged 81, a leading
physician of Cheyenne, Wyo., was found
dead in his office, death being caused by
heart disease. DR.. Marston served as
army surgeon under Sheridan in the In
dian territory campaign, and with Crook
co m on IN nd
Montana.
The appraiser of the estate of Maria
Louise Vanderbilt, wife of William III
Vanderbilt, filed his report with the sur
rogate at New York. The value of the
personal property is found, after deduct
ing expenses and paying certain debts,
to be S625, AIS. Under her will she gave
S25O,OOO to ST Bartholomew church.
Baron Max Won Grotthus, a Russian
nobleman and lieutenant in the Cars
guard. who lived too high in his native
country and went to Montana in 1886 to
begin life anew, died at Clarke's ranch,
in Teton county, Mont. He was well
known in Washington and New York So
ciety His body will be sent to ST. Pc
tersburg.
Five masked men broke into the resi-
dence of John Quinlin at Niles, O., and
| after gagging and binding him, ransacked
the house and secured $1,000 in currency
| besides lots of valuable jeWelry.
Frank Evans, lightweight pugilist,
died at San Jose, Cal, of conclusion of
| the brain caused by a right-hand blow on
the chin delivered by Matt Semichy, in
| the fourteenth round of a fight before the
| San Jose Athletic club.
An attempt has been made TO assas-
sinate the President of Uruguay, Senior
| Jidiarte Borda. He was shot at by
the would-be assassin; but the bullet
| missed its mark. The Presidents as
salant was arrested.
Among the passengers who arrived
| at New York by the Columbian line
steamer Finance from Colon, was Senior
| r. Irrazaval, Gillian minister to the
United States and representative to the
| postal congress at Washington.
AS result of bloody battle be-
tween two convicts in San Quentin Cali
prison, one is dead and the other dying
Each had knife and they had been
carving each other for fully a minute be-
fore the guards could interfere.