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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
MOrtuarY.

Daniel Barrett, supreme president of the
Catholic Benefit association of the United States
and Canada, died suddenly inNedina, N. Y i, on
the 23d.
60 years of age, died on the 22d.
Rev. 81. S. McNIurdie of London. Eng. pro-
fessor of moral philosophy in Mt. st. Mary's
college, at Emmettsburg, Md, died at that in
stitution on the 22d.
Commodore Horace G.. Blake, U. s. N, died
in New York on the 21st, after brief illness.
State Senator Morton, of Massachusetts,
whose leg was amputated on the 18th, to extir-
pate cancer, died at Boston on the 21st.
Ex-Governor Westcott, of Florida, who has
lived in Canada since the outbreak of the late
war, died on the Goth, in the Goth year of his
age.
Jules Favre, the eminent French statesman,
died on the night of the 18TH aged II.
j. Winthrop Taylor, medical director of the
United States navy, died suddenly of heart dis
ease in Boston on the 18th.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
Foreign.
Save the Rags.

The price of paper has been advanced
from 81 to 10 cents all over the country.
If this price is maintained, the public
will be compelled to pay more for their
newspapers. Many daily papers have
already increased their price from 20
cents to 80 cents per week, and weekly
papers from 81. so to $500.
The advance In paper can be stopped
if the people will save and sell their old
paper and rags. Three months saving of
rags and old paper by the entire popula-
tion, and selling them in the markets,
would check the advance in paper Rags
are worth to 81 cents per pound
Every newspaper in the land should
appeal to the people in this matter. And
they should also economic in the con-
sumption as much as possible.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28

THE measure of damages IN cases of injury
by railway accidents is made very liberal in
England. surgeon named Phillips was re-
Gently injured in a railroad accident SO as to
become incapable of pursuing his profession.
In a suit for damages the jury gave him a YER
dict for $4,000, taking into account the fact
that he had been earning $4,000 a year when
hurt On appeal the court laid down the rule
that a railway company, in contracting to carry
a passenger, contracts to carry his fortune as
well as bis person. The verdict was therefore
affirmed as reasonable
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28

Mr.. EDISON has encountered new difficulty
in his electrical lamp experiments, and one that
seems almost insurmountable. 1t appears that
although the heat disseminated from the glow
but one-ifteenth that of a gas jet, it is suffi-
cient to crack the glass by expansion of the
platinum wires running through. Twenty-Five
per cent. of his lamps have broken. A crack,
however minute renders them useless, as the
vacuum is Immediately destroyed. This is not
regarded as fatal to Lis scheme, but the in
creased expense occasioned thereby is an ele-
ment requiring consideration.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28

A MELANCHOLY picture is drawn by the cor
respondent of q Vienna paper of the condition
of the Turkish army in Albania. Begging, he
says, is no longer regarded by the Turkish sol
der as disgrace, and the streets of Junina are
full of soldiers who stretch out their hands to
the passers-by for aims in broad day. At night
they attack the peasants and rob them of all
their valuables. The Turkish soldiers are, in
deed, so much in want of money, owing to their
not having received any pay for more than
three years, that they often sell their arms, and
the military commandant has found it necessary
to issue decree strictly forbidding this practice
under severe penalties when discovered.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28

On March 2 there Will be celebrated at st.
Petersburg, with great pomp, the anniversary
of the accession of the Emperor Alexander to
the throne of all the Russias. The reason
why such programme of unusual display is
expected on the occasion is because the day Is
that of the czars half jubilee, or twenty-fifth
anniversary of his succeeding his father, the
late Emperor Nicholas. To render the cere-
monies all the more imposing, nearly all the
members of the imperial family will assemble
together, and the Christian princes of the
Balkan peninsula will be among the number of
guests hidden to st. Petersburg. The king of
Greece is also expected, the prince of Montene-
gro, too, and their consorts, it is thought, will
accompany them. It is rumored that the OPP
portunity will be taken fol- the formal betrothal
of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria, to Russian
DrTncesS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
Some Explosions.

Joseph Grant and Seth De Garno were killed
by the explosion of boiler in a saw mill at
Transfer, Pa, on the Oath.
At the explosion of a threshing machine boiler
at Clinton, Ont, on the 22d INST, two men were
killed and several injured.
A sugar boiler on d. r. CAROLS plantation,
on the Barrataria, La, exploded ON the Dist,
killing Arthur Porrier, chief engineer, Willis
Wright, (colored), and colored man, name I'M
known, and seriously wounding thirteen others.
The sugar house was damaged $4,000 worth.
The boilers of the Montgomery furnace, Port
Kennedy, Pa, exploded on the 21st. The loss
will be heavy, as the furnaces will have to be
put out of blast.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
Odd Fellows, Monument.

The Cincinnati Odd Fellows society, on the
23d inst, accepted the design and awarded the
contract for the erection of monument over
the grave of the society's unknown dead at the
Spring Grove cemetery, to Rbesso, Mundhark
& Co. The contract price is $4,000. The monu-
ment is to be 81 feet high, of bronze and Amer
lean gray granite, and completed in two years.
Ribesso is the artist of the Mcpherson monu-
ment recently unveiled in Washington.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
Rurned To heath.

Advices from Cherry Valley, Kansas, says the
building occupied by the Globe printing office,
and the sleeping rooms on the upper floors, and
a furniture store below, burned on the night of
and VIM. McClain, printer of the Globe COM
pany, persisted in the flames. An employee of
the st. Louis and San Francisco Railroad COM
pany, was seriously burned. Three other men
were sleeping in the building at the time, but
escaped by jumping from the windows.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28

One of the hfe-saving stations on the Cali
ifornia coast has been officially named the Mag
gle Geddes. This is q recognition of the bravery
Of Maggie Geddes, of San Antonio. She was
only nine years old. Seeing a younger play
mate fall down high embankment into mill
race she instantly jumped after her. The water
was deep and ran swiftly toward a large wheel,
out Maggie was good swimmer and by des-
perate struggle got ashore with her playmate.
Such GOODNESS and courage were deemed worthy
of special honor.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28

Advices from Panama, under date of January
22, state that recent freshet devastated the
Canca valley. The river rose yards above the
highest point heretofore known, innndating the
country for about three miles, sweeping away
villages, crops, cattle, goats and horses. Some
human life was also lost. AS the waters began
to subside the farmers in boats endeavored to
gather the cocoa crol, remaining on the trees.
They had to go armed to protect themselves
against the immense snakes which had been
driven down the valley by the torrent The
losses are estimated at 81 ZOO, 900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
Suicidal.

F. Wyatt Cook, formerly probate judge, sui
cided at Caledonia, Mimi, on the 23d, by shoot
ing himself. Dependency over loss of money
through speculation, and defeat at the last cleo
ton, was the motive.
James L. Simmons, formerly telegraph
operator, took dose of Paris green at St.
Louis on the Oath.
Fournier, high official in the French war de-
partment blew out his brains on the 18th, be-
cause he was summoned to produce his accounts.
Julius Metzler, young German, suicided at
Chicago on the ed, by taking arsenic. Motive
unknown.
Louis Bray, a Philadelphia drummer, suicided
at Murfreesboro, Tenn, on the 21st by taking
laudanum. Trouble with woman was the
cause.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28

If you was decent person" re-
marked shrill female voice ON the rail-
way, "you would shut down that window
and not expose me to the draft. !"
" Madam, was the reply, as the window
was softly lowered, 81 thought from
your face that you were over forty-fve
and therefore out of the draft" And
notwithstanding the fact that this wretch
was on the train the cars did not run off
the track or the locomotive burst it's
boiler.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
A Fearful Plunge.

On the morning of the Oath the engine of a
train on the New York elevated railroad, was
thrown from the track by a misplaced switch
and fell to the street, q distance of twenty-five
feet. Fortunately the four passenger coaches
of the train remained on the track. Five en-
ployes of the road were injured-two seriously.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
Gagged and Robbed.

On the night of the 21st inst, four masked
men entered the lodgings of q man named
county, ILL.,, and after knocking him down and
gagging him, secured $4,000 in cash from the
safe aud decamped. Weber was released in
the morning after night of terrible suffering.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
Another CoIsiery Calamity.

An explosion occurred in the Lycett colliery,
near Newcastle, Wales, on the 21st, by which
over seventy miners lost their lives. The part
of the Lycett coliery where the explosion oc-
Cured is known as ''Fair Lady Pit" and is the
same in which six men were killed last autumn.
The coal belongs to the Banbury or Fiery Seam,
in which all of the great Staffordshire explo-
sions have occurred
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28

A FASHION which is convenient and
elegant is that of wearing jackets of a
material and color different from the
dress. They are made in the casaquin
fashion, tight fitting and with deep
basques and square pockets. Those of
embroidered cashmere, brocaded silk or
fancy velvet are dressy and effective. -
Brooklyn Eagle.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
Wednesday, January %, 1880.
VARIOUS TOPICS.

BILL recently became law increasing the
pensions of the totally disabled from $50 to S72
per month. There are but 713 pensioners OF
this class in the United States. In order to be
considered totally helpless, man must be In
such condition as to require the attendance of
another person. Under the former law the full
amount could be drawn only by those who had
lost both arms or both feet, or had lost both
ewes, This restricted the whole number to 377.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
New Senators.

The Louisiana legislature on the 22d inst,
elected R. l.. Gibson United States senator for
six years, commencing March 4, 1883.
J. z. George was elected to the United States
senate on the 21st, by the Tennessee legislature
On the Goth inst, Arthur German, Democrat,
was elected to succeed Whyte in the United
States senate, by the Maryland legislature The
Republicans cast their ballots for James A. Gary
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
A Brush with the Indians.

Colonel Hatch's command had an engage
ment with the Indians on the 18th inst, in the
San Mateo mountains, New Mexico. Lieutenant
French was killed and two scouts wounded.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
Names Dilemma.

Up to the oath inst. nothing had been accom-
plished towards disentangling Names political
affairs The Republican Governor Davis occu-
pies the state house at Augusta, which is strong
" guarded by militia. A good deal of fierce
talk is INDUCED in, but as yet no blood has been
shed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
Drowned.

Three men belonging to Gloucester, Mass,
fishing schooner were drowned on the Oath by
the capsizing of dory while attending travis.
Two fishermen named Miller and Morgan
were drowned in Passamaquoddy Bay, on the
Dist by falling out of their boat.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
Fitz John Porter,s case.

On the Goth, the house committee agreed
upon bill to restore Fitz John Porter to his
rank in the United States army. The bill gives
General Porter the pay of major general from
january 2Sth, 1868, to September LIST, 1866, and
for a colonel from that date to the present day.
1t is roughly estimated that this will amount to
between $3.50, 900 and $16O, 1000, and is in lieu of
the $175, 900 at first proposed. Considerable
discussion is expected when the bill is laid be-
fore congress,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
Fatal Railroad Accident.

A construction train on the Virginia and Mid
land road ran of the track and down tifty-foot
embankment, at Rockfish station, eighteen miles
conductor Wilson, two brakemen and seriously
injurng FL. D. Lucket and six laborers. Six
cars were completely wrecked.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
a DlIGla

A Pesth dispatch reports that duel has been
fought between Baron Maytheny and Herr YER
hovay, member of parliament and editor OF
Hungarian political paper, In which the latter
WAS mnrtallY wounded bY pistol shot.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
Burr Robbins Badly Injured.

On the 18th, as Burr Robbins, the well known
short distance from GAINESVILLE, Wis, on Rock
river, in his steam yacht, and when approaching
bridge, he essayed to lower the smoke stack of
the tiny craft, he struck his head on the bridge
timbers with terrible force, badly crushing bis
skull At last accounts his condition was pre-
carious, although his mental faculties were I'M
impaired.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
Co,,pterfeiters Arrested.

A gang of nine counterfeiters were arrested at
Oswego, n. Y, on the 21st nst, while engaged
in manufacturing spurious coin. Metals, dies,
scids. ETC., besides 300 in spurious American
and Canadian coin, were seized.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28

The steamer Sardinia ran down the bark
Sarah E. Frazer off Halifax, and the captains
wife and a seaman were drowned.
The steamer Bavarian arrived at Boston on
the 22d inst, from Liverpool, and reports rum
ming down, off Queenstown, en- English
schooner. Her captain and two men were
drowned
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
Work of the Flames.

Whitman d Sons confectionery at Philad9l-
phia, burned on the 25th, involving a loss of
$4,000. Two hours later Chas. A. Doer &
Sons sash factory at West Philadelphia was
burned. Loss $4,000.
Dupuy's tannery at Ironton, O., burned on
the 23d. Loss $4,000; no insurance.
Robert b. Smiths wholesale drug house, at
Alton, III, buried on the 23d, together with the
EUening Telegraph Office and Beall & Danver's
job printing Office. Smiths loss is about $780,
900; insured for $4,000.
On the 22d inst, at Charleston, S. c., the car
shed of the South Carolina road was destroyed,
together with twenty-seven baggage and freight
cars. Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
At Evening Shade, Ark, on the 22d, the
Sharp county court house was fired by incendi-
aries and totally destroyed, together with all
the county records. Loss SIC, 1000; no insur-
ance.
A fire at GAINESVILLE, Mimi, on the Odd, de-
stroyed several stores and caused loss of $685.
600; insured for $4,000.
Gugarty's knitting mill, at Cohoes, N. Y,
was damaged $50, 900 by fire on the Dist.
The Claremont, On. H. paper mill was con-
sumed by fire on the 21st, causing loss of $780,
900; insured. "'.
Herr & Cissevell's -four mill, situated on the
canal above Georgetown, Va, was destroyed on
the 21st. Loss on building and stock, $50, 600;
insured for $38, 1000.
A fire in Toxic, Japan, on the Goth of Deem
Der, destroyed II, 900 houses.
Boyd's pork packing establishment, at Omaha,
Neb., was totally destroyed by fire on the even
ing of the 18th, together with stock of pro-
visions valued at 1918 1000. The buildings were
valued at $4,000. Insurance on stock, $1O,-
600; buildings, $25,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
a RIOoNy Riot.

The levy of an Objectionable tax by street
railway companies at Rio de Janeiro occasloned
a riot, the mob destroying the cars and tracks.
Three persons were killed and thirty wounded.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
Recent TRAGEDIES.


Frederick Kranja, Polander, aged II. was
stabbed and killed at Chicago, on the night of
the oath.
Henry Stevenson, a burglar, was fatally shot
at Indianapolis, Ind, on the 25th, while at
tempting to escape from policeman. t
Los Vegas, Col, on the 22d, killed the city mar
shall and two citizens, and wounded five Others
At Cave Spring, near Springfield, Mo-, on the
22d, young man named Sieger Williams play
fully pulled the chair from under his cousin,
Gemima Williams, letting her down on the
floor. The young lady became SO enraged that
she pursued Williams with shot gun and shot
him dead.
On the morning of the 21st, George Duncan,
living in Ohio township Kansas was found on
the prairie near his home, with his throat cut
He lived alone, and but little doubt is held but
that it is a case of foul murder.
At Newport, KY, on the night of the Dist
two citizens named Jacob Liekert and Jacob
Geyer quarreled when the former was shot by
Geyer perhaps fatally. Geyer went home and
gold friend what he had done, and asked if he
had not better kill himself. AS he has not been
heard of since it is thought he drowned him.
self. Both were men of family.
While resisting arrest at Alpine, Col, on the
night of the 10Th, Daniel Pickett was killed anu
James Lanch fatally wounded. Constable Stan
ton did the shooting.
Two prisoner, Patrick Guilfoil, alias Manning,
anu EuWMu Counouy, became involved III
quarral in the hall of the Newport, KY, jail on
the 21st, when the former slashed Connolly
across the throat with razor, almost severing
his head from his body.
At Scranton, Peoria county, ILL.,, on the 18th
inst, A. G. Barnes shot Matte Ford, his inamo-
rita, wounding her perhaps fatally, and then
sent bullet into his own brain. The woman
had led him on in his suit which she finally re-
fused.
A negro was lynched at Warrenton, Va, on
the 18th, for going off with white girl
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
An unreasonable Visitor.

The schooner Cherubim, from Miragoane,
December II, via Jacksonville, January Is, has
arrived at New York, having lost her captain
and mate, o. b. and nj. E. Lank, from yellow
fever.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28

The society of king-killers ought to
persuade their royal masters to wear
celluloid collars, and then blow putty st
their necks. The conclusion might blow
the majestic heads off-HorUord Post.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
DISAGREED.

The jury III the celebrated Hayden case, at
New Haven, Conn.,, failed to agree, and were dis
charged on the 10Th. They stood eleven for
acuuittal and one for conviction.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
Horrible,

Terrible distress prevails in Adrianople. Fiji
teen persons were found dead from hunger in
one day. and in some cases pieces of wood were
found in the mouths of the dead.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28

New YORK, January $3.50 P. M.-Cotton-
Quiet at 1890 for middling uplands. Flour
Dull; receipts 1000 bbls; sales 5000 bbls at
$5.50@7.56 for hoop Ohio. Wheat-Feve1ish
apvancing 1@2c on winter; spring nominal; re-
ceipts $4,000 bus; sales 1884, bus; No. 2 red
seller February at S1.241a. Rye-Steady at 80
@9019c for western and car. Corn-Dull; re-
ceipts 81, 200 bus; sales 10000 bus at 57@61c for
mixed western. Barley-Unchanged. Oats
Dull; receipts $4,000 bus; sales $4,000 bus at Al
@48c for mixed western state; 47@50c for
white. Pork-Quiet at $3.50. Beef-Steady.
Lard-Firm at $7.8714@790. Butter-Un-
changed Cheese-At 10@14Mc. Whisky
Unchanged. Sugar At 10c: Eggs : I'm
at TIC. Tallow-6 1916.
Chicago.
CHICAGO. January $500 P M-Wheat-
Active, firm and higher and unsettled; closed
February; 81. for seller March, Corn-Strong
and higher; $500 for cash and seller February;
415Sc for seller May. Oats-Firmer at &c for
cash; 33c for seller April; $500 bid for seller
May. Rye-At 75c. Straightforward. Provi-
sions Active, firm "a and higher; Porkaa At
for seller April. Ilard-At $7.40 for cash;
$7.5211s for seller March. Whislky-At $1.08.
Hogs-Steady and firm; receipts 49, 600 head;
light at $4.4094.55; mixed packing at 81. 400
4.6o; shipping at p4.60(G4.oU. CaUre-SteaOy
and Firm; receipts 1000 head
milwaukee.
MILWAUKEE, January $500 P. N.-Flom
Tame but steady; standard extras at $3.50
$50; choice extras at $5.75@6.00. Wheat
Firnner; No. 2 seller February at $1.151a@
LIT; seller March at 81. 16%@1. 1871 No. 2 cash
at $1.151a@ 1.165s; Ne. at $1.021s. Corn
No. 2 at $3.50; new at 1870. Oats-Dull at
$3.50. Barley-At Tic; No. 8 at 48c; No.
extra at SIC. Rye-Tame at 73c. Pc rk-Firmer
at $12.70 cash. Lard-At $7.55 cash. Hogs
Dull at $425@4.50.
Foreign.
LONDON, January 26-12:3n P. M.-Lverpool
wheat marke! opens very dull. Floating car
goes very heavy. On passage neglected; no
business doing. Mark Lane l shilling per
quarter cheaper. Good cargoes red winter off
coast, 53s; good cargoes No. spring wheat off
coast, 49s; good cargoes California wheat off
coast, 51@52s; good cargoes mixed American
corn off coast, 26s@26s Cd; fair average quality
No. 2 Chicago spring wheat for Shipment etc,
43s6d049s; fair average California wheat just
shipped, 52s; nearly due, Sis; arrivals off coast
for orders, wheat moderate, corn nil. French
country markets mostly turn cheaper.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Heavy Failure.

William McDain, prominent Canadian con-
tractor. failed at Toronto on the Goth. His LA
bilities are placed at $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
official Crookedness.

Joseph L. Crowell, former president of the
New Jersey state senate, and speaker of the as
sembly, at one time government printer in
Washington, and for many years city treasurer
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
THE MARKETS.
New York,

Reported by CHANDLER, BROWN 4. Co., Commission
Merchants, Milwaukee and Chicago.