Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-02-24
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Frank Frink and George Peyton
were overcome by gas at Centerville,
Ind, while repairing a crude Oil tank
belonging to the gas works. Their re-
covery is doubtful
Fire at East Grand Forks Mimi,
destroyed seven frame buildings. Five
saloons and the council cafe were in
Guided in the loss, which exceeds $50
900, only partially insured.
ELIAS Servoss, Jr., was killed at his
home in Whitneyville, suburb of New
Haven, Conn. The indications are that
murder was committed, but the motive
for such crime has not developed.
-Dur1ng a row at Cincinnati among
some boys John SchWanecke, aged 16,
was shot and killed. While it is believed
to have been a deliberate murder the of
ficers have failed to find the boy who did
| the shooting.
r NJ. Livingston of ListowelI, Ont.
fell off a Canadian Pacific railway train
east of Winnipeg and was killed. His
body was terribly mutilated He was
nephew Of DR.. Livingston, the famous
African explorer.
Samuel B. Campbell, one of the
leaders in the American green glass
workers association of the United
States, committed suicide at Millville, n
J. Family trouble is said to have been
the cause.
Kentucky distillers will keep their plants
closed this year. During the next regu-
lar session of Congress an effort will be
made to reduce the whisky tax from
$1.1O to 80 cents.
Howard G. Benham, the banker of
Batavia, n. Y, was held to- await the
action of the grand jury, being charged
with murder in the first degree. in having
caused the death of his wife, Florence j.
Benham, by means of poison.
Miss Mary Church, aged 26, a school
teacher, was sent to an asylum at
Muneie, Ind. Being disappointed in love
| several years ago. she applied herself
closely TO her work. She overworked
herself and became violently insane.
State Senator G. J. Bronston of
Lexington, KY, and Miss Belle Wisdom,
daughter of the recently deceased mil
lionaire, W. W. Wisdom, of Paducah.
| eloped to st. Louis and were married.
! Senator Bronston is a widower of 45.
Col r. II. Mclean, until lately COM
mander of the Hawaiian army, has ar-
rived in San Francisco on his way to
New Work. Col Mclean resigned his
| commission early in February and will
remain permanently in the United
! States.
w. Grayson, a Sewer county farmer,
was called from his house near Knox
vile, Tenn, and shot to death by re-
| ported gang of White Caps. Pat Ma
| lnGNSy UIOLuoI-Iu-ldW OIL AJEdy SOH- w as
arrested, charged with leading the as
| SasSins.
Mrs Hulda New, aged 81 years,
died near Columbus, Ind, last Sunday.
| She was a cousin of John c.. New of
Indianapolis, ex-treasurer Of the United
States, and also of the late Jephtha D.
! New, ex-congressman, eX-circuit judge
! and ex-appellate judge of Indiana.
"A young men named Jones shot and
killed his aged father, under a SUPPOSE
ton that he was a burglar, near Bart
lett, Tenn. The father had gone to the
pump for drink Of water after the fam
lily had retired, and was shot when he
! attempted to enter the house.
The Philadelphia Engineering COM
pany will in q few days ship overland to
! San Francisco and thence to Japan, an
immense steel plate smokestack to equip
a large new electric light plant in Yoke
hama. The stack is a huge affair. being
It's feet high and Z feet inches in
diameter.
Marion Low and John Walker farm
ers. residing two miles south of Shoals,
Ind, met and renewed an old quarrel,
when Low shot Walker in the left
breast Walker than raised his shotgun
! and enptied it's contents into Lows
bowels, tearing his body in Il fearful
| manner.
"A twin baptism of war vessels at the
Union Iron works at San Francisco on
or about March II will be the progress
of an unusual naval event to be wit
messed by delegations from West Vir-
ginia and Ohio, as well as by crowds
from this city. The Wheeling and the
Marietta are the names to be given the
two boats as they glide from the ways
into the water at the same instant
Mrs. William Swan OF Elkhart, Ind.
is dying Last summer a bug lodged in
her ear. Her suffering was intense, but
physicians could not dislodge the insect
A council of physicians has now dis
covered large quantity of larvae III her
head. the interior of which is alive with
insects Mrs. Swan became deranged
from pain, but will soon be relieved by
death.