Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-12-08
The Bird Has Flown.

j
NEW YORK, Dec 4. A dispatch
was received at police headquarters
this evening, stating that William NJ.
Tweed has just escaped from the GUS
tody Of Warden Durham Of the Lud-
low-street Jail. Word was imAediate.
ly telegraphed to every police station
10 this city, Brooklyn, and peighbor-
ing cities, notifying the police to be on
the lookout Warden Durham sut-
ssquently called on Inspector Dixie,
at the Police Central Office, and stated
that he had accompanied the prisoner
to the resi1 ,nce of Mrs. Tweed, at
Madison avenue and Fifty-ninth street,
and while there Tweed requested per-
mission to see his wife privately. Dun
ham unhesitatingly granted the request
and Tweed went up stairs to bis wife's
apartments. leaving one of his sons to
entertain Durham and deputy. Af-
ter waiting about ten minutes Dun
ham became uneasy, and sent young
Tweed up stairs to tell his fa-
ther to come down Immediately
as they desired to return to the
Jail. In short time the young man
returned and informed Durham that
his father had gone. Durham at once
searched the house, but no trace of the
Boss could be found. Leaving the
deputy in charge of the house, Dun
ham hurried to the residence of Sher-
if Connor aud informed that officer of
the escape The police authorities
were promptly notified, and the Cen
tral Office detectives at once went out
securing the city in all directions but
| without success. It will be very diff
ficult to convince anybody that his
keepers did not permit him to get
away. 1t is probable that he is by
t'is time on his way 10 foreign
| land.
PENSION FRAUDS. WASHINGTON,
| d. G, December 3.-Pension 8. Com.
missioner Atkinson has discovered and
unearthed a gigantic ring, composed of
three prominent firms Of claim agents,
in Philadelphia, which has succeeded,
by fraudulent documentary evidence,
in getting through, during few years
past, many thousand pension. cases, in
volving over Sl.0OO.0 900 annually
/ The evidence as to the guilt of the
firms, which are Dewitt NCo, 'chil-
YER Frances and Register, and Ma
thew Paulson Co. is. of the most
positive character. The ring includes
one Deputy clerk at Philadelphia, who
affixed seal to all the papers sent to
him by the above firms A large,
number of persons, who appeared on
the rolls as pensioners. have made af-
fdavits that they have no disabilities
but were paid so much to sign papers
presented to them by the above firms.
Tue evidence was fraudulent, but ap-
peared genuine, and pensions were al
lowed which have been regularly
paid by the ring, under powers of at
torney.
! AsToR's PRoPERTY.-It is said
that the late VIM B Astor, in his
will, leaves the bulk of his property to
his two sons His daughters are am
| ply provided for in the Testament. A
petition has been filed in the Surro-
gate Conrt in the matter by John j
! Astor, aud a writ issued ordering all
interested in the will to appear before
Surrogate Hurchins on December l8
Lltest estimates put the property at
$50, 100000.
SMOKING TN THE BLRN.-"No
smoking" ought to be posted in every
barn. There is not much difference
of having horse-thief around the
stables and man cleaning eff horses
with a pipe or cigar in his mouth;
aud there is no hired man much
meaner than the one who, when his
employer comes round, slips his pipe
into his pocket or holds his hand over
it. All such fellows should be paid off
and started of. AS for the proprietor
| himself going into the barn with a
pipe in his mouth, no complaint can
be made; but if his establishment
burus up, nobody should cry, unless it
be the wife and children. Lightning,
and incendiaries, and spontaneous
| ombustion combined do not cause as
many barns to be burned as the pipe;
and, generally, at least, one good horse
goes also Spirit ofthe Times.
PRoF. SWINGS New DEPARTURE.
Last Sunday with sermon devoted
to the lessons of the life Of Wee
President Wilson, Prof. Swing closed
bis ministrations to the Fourth Pres
bvterian Church in Chicago, and step
ped out of the pulpit untrammeled by
an ecclesiastical affiliations, free to give
full expression to his religious ideas,
without the fear of trial for heresy.
Arrangements have been made by
guarantees of 81 900 each, by so citi-