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

and instantly killed, and John Mcintyre,
his slayer, also received Il bullet IL his
right hand.
Lansing W Banctcr. who enjoyed
the distinction of being the oldest living
clown except Dan Rice died at the Phil
adelphia almshouse. He was about 10
years old.
AT Kavanaugh chapel Lawrence
county, Ky. Bill Morrow entered the
church as the distribution Of presents
was in progress and amused himself by
emptying two six shooters, fatally
wounding others.
Elmer Russell, the famous boy bari
tone, has been dismissed from the Elsie
Adair company at Honolulu and re-
turned to San Francisco. Russell IS but
IA years old, but is accused Of having
robbed the residence Of Capt. SearIas ut
Honolulu, besides having shot and Sc
riously wounded two Japanese. The
facts not being discovered at the time, he
escaped on the steamer.
Fire destroyed the plant Of Francis
Valentine q Co, one Of the largest print
ing firms in San Francisco. The loss
was $4,000.
In duel with pistols, fought near
Stuttgart, Germany, between Baron Won
Wangerheim, secretary of the German
legation at Copenhagen, and Lieut..
Count Won Gyllenband, the former was
wounded in the kidneys and the latter in
the abdomen. Both combatants we're
taken to the HOSPITAL.
Edward Rosa, who made his home
with his brother, Gale Rosa, Il we'll
Known ranchman near Forest City, :.
D., shot and killed his sweetheart, Miss
Mary Brehl, at the home Of her sister,
Mrs. Stewart, in Forest City. After
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brains. They had been to dance
| Christmas, and Rosa believed he had not
been given proper attention by the girl.
The twenty-five cayalrymen at West
Point who were suffering from ptomaine
poisoning are recovering slowly. Wilde,
Hoffman, Bincki and Krlessman, whose
condition was most serious, are much
The unused portion of the meat of which
the soldiers ate, has turned a greenish
black. An analysis is being made.
"A London Chronicle dispatch from
Berlin reports that DR.. Bchring, the dis
coverer of the antitOxin for diphtherla,
has married the daughter of Spinola, the
director of the charity hospital.
A warrant has been issued at Osceola,
Ia, for the arrest Of Joseph Wilyerton,
son Of Il local physician. lie is charged
with having been connected with the
death of Mrs. Mary Gilltillian.
"A Frenchman named Fabian has
lodged claim at Berne. Switzerland,
for 46,O0O,O00 francs some time ago
against Venezuela on account of a denial
Of justice by the Venezuelan courts.
Newton Widner shot and instantly
killed his brother-in-iaW at NeWtOWn,
Mo, thus ending an old family feud.
Widner is in jail at Princeton. Excite
ment is high and a lynching is feared.
i ,pa Rurr q lad living of Orient IN
accidentally shot and killed himself. He
was shooting pigeons and the gun
snapped He looked into the barrel and
it exploded, the ball entering his brain.
The San Francisco police are salts
fed that they have succeeded in tracing
Robert J. Mueller, young medical stu
dent, into a suicides grave. The parents
of the young man reside in Philadelphia.
"Details have been received of a mas
sacre by Spanish guerillas under Pienon
to at small hamlet near Pinar del Rio,
Cuba. The inha bitants were searched
for valuables, and two young women
were numerically dashed for resisting
the soldiers advances. About twenty
men and women and two children were
killed in a volley following an attack ny
the inhabitants after the whipping Of the
women.
The will of the millionaire bachelor,
John Snyder, who died at Cincinnati, re-
veals the fact that the deceased left a
son, Charles Brussman by name. The
latter is 81 years of age and has always
led a more or less dissipated life. Sny-
der, in his will, leaves Brussman S25, 600
in United States bonds, tie interest on
which he is to have for eleven years. Ii
at the end of eleven years the son saves
one-fourth of his total income for The
period, then the whole SO, 000 is TO be
turned over to him.