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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10
TragicaI Tales.

John Taylor, a wealthy farmer, was killed
near Sacramento, Cal, on the 7th inst, by his
son-in-law, John POblitZ. The nlurderer's wife
had left him and returned to her father on &C
count of cruel treatment; this so enraged Pob-
litz that he committed the crime.
j. L. NOakeS, who was sOjOurnlng in the Orc
vile, CAL, JAIL awaiting his trial for the MUIR
der of an old man named Crum, was taken
from the Jail by mob on the morning Of the
| 7th inst. and hung.
| blacksmith named Payne shot and killed a
young man named Wood at Sipse Springs,
Texas. on the 18th inst. woman in the case
Grow Dog, captain of the police at the Rose
bud agency shot and instantly killed the In
dian chief Spotted Tail on the 9Th inst.
In a row at Tracy City, Tenn, on the night of
Street dangerously wounded. Several other
participants received slight wounds.
James Ross (white) shot and killed a colored
man named William Jones at Nashville, Tenn,
on the 18th inst.
In Washington County, Oregon, on the 9Th
inst, Geo. Algercheim, in fit of rage, shot his
daughter, inficting a dangerous wound, and
then fled to the woods, where he suicided
William Watts, city marshal of Tamoroa, ILL.,.
was instantly killed on the 5th inst, by James
Vaughn, coal miner, whom he was trying to
arrest.
A brutal murder committed at Lawrenceburg
KY, on the 18th of July, has just come to light
Arthur Ingram, 80 years OF age. was mauled to
death with rock by w. T. Grunt. Whisky
caused the murder.
Several prisoners broke jail at Folsom, CAL,
on the 4th inst, and were pursued by the
guards George Walker was shot dead, and
George Lupton was drowned in endeaEoring to
swim stream. One prisoner escaped.
James Baker, farmer living fifteen miles
south of Fort Wayne, Ind, shot VIM. Howell,
one of his farm hands, dead, on the 4th inst.
Howell had been engaged by Bakers wife to
stack wheat, but for some reason Baker object
ed to Howell's working, and because he refused
to leave the premises shot him dead. 10.
Frank Cheney and Bill Conner, colored, fought
duel with pistols at Atlanta, Ca, which re-
suited in the death of Cheney.
A. King, ex-marshal of Marion. Ala, upon
entering his gate on the morning of the Sd
inst. had his body riddled with bullets by I'M
known assassins His death was instantaneous
Six negroes have been arrested.
At McKeesport. Pa, in an attempt to recover
some stolen goods, Mr.. Mcclure, a hardware
merchant, was shot dead by the thieves, an
officer was fatally wounded, and two others
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10
MOrtHaFV.s

! OrviIle Grant, brother of ex-President Grant,
died at Morris Palms. N. j., on the 9Th inst.
John G.. Quinlan, financial editor of the New
! York Times, died on the 9Th inst.
Gen. Robert Patterson died at his home in
Philadelphia on the 7th inst, aged 80 years.
! John A. Clark, for the past twelve years land
commissioner of the Kansas City, Fort Scott
! and Gulf Railroad, died suddenly at Kansas
| City, on the 9Th inst, aged 81.
| Samuel Fosdyck, an old citizen and promi-
nent business man of Cincinnati, o., died on
| the 5th inst.
| The death is announced of Theo. Bergk. the
German lingl1ist and professor, critic and his
torian of Greek literature.
| Richard Begg, first assistant chief of the st.
Louis fire department for the past "a years,
died on the 4th inst
| William G. Fargo, president of the American
Express Company, died at bis home in Buffalo,
N. Y, on the Sd inst, aged 60 years.
Bishop Erastus Q. Haven died at Salem. Ore
| gon, on the I'd inst, He was go years of age.
| About year ago be was elected bishop by the
general Methodist Episcopal conference.
| James Clark, the oldest member of the Clark
Thread Company, died at Paisley, Scotland, Oh
the Sd inst.
Capt. James Davis, a well-known steamboat
man, was found dead in bed at the st. Charles
hotel, Wheeling, W. Va. on the morning of the
Sd inst, Apoplexy.
jeremiah Blodgett, prominent democrat Of
New Hampshire, is dead.
John Wiler, one tthe pioneers of Mansfield
O.. died at the age o 101 years.
DR.. John B. Chase, who died at Taunton,
Mass, devoted several years to compiling a
genealogy of the Chase family extending over
two hundred years.
James Robb, of Cincinnati, very wealthy
man and formerly partner with Samuel j.
Tilden, died on the 18th ult.
The wife of ex-senator Howe, died at the
residence of Col. Enoch Totten, at Washing
ton, on the 1st.
E. H. Rogers, United States consul at Vera
Cruz, died on the LIST inst.
Hon. Code Salisbury, ex-governor of Della
ware. died at Dover, that state, on the list inst.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10
A Duel i'm the Clouds

One of the most extraordinary duels
ever fought took place in 1903, between
two Frenchmen- Of course the quarrel
arose about a lady, certain Maosmoi-
sselle Tirevit, who. it appears, could not
decide which man she preferred; and
with some vague idea apparently of re-
vEvlng ancient custom, she agreed to
marry whichever woFsted the other. The
anGent lovers postponed their combat
fog month, that they might feel "quite
cooEs y and then agreed to fight in the
ART Two balloons were made exactly
alike and upon the appointed day the
rivals each with his second, took their
places and scared aloft, agreeing to fire,
not at each other. but at each others
balloon, for which purpose they were
armed with blunderbusses. The wind
was moderate, the balloons rose half a
mile, and then the preconeerted signal
was given One of the gentlemen
missed his aim, the other sent ball
through the rival balloon, which instant
" collapsed, and the car descending
with frightful rapidity, the duelist and
his second were dashed to the ground
and killed, and we are to suppose that
the successful rival was rewarded by the
fair hand of Mile. Tirevit.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10
Political Notes.

Gen. Chalmers has announced himself a
greenback candidate for the United States Sen
ate in Mississippi, in opposition to Lamar.
The democrats of Mississippi have nominated
Robert Lowry for governor and L. w. Sands,
for lieutenant governor.
John W. Daniels has been nominated for gov
ernor by the democrats of Virginia.
The North Carolina election.passed off quietly
on the Sd inst, and resulted in majority of
10000 against prohibition. The vote was a
light one. Heavy anti-prohibition majorities
were given in reputed prohibition strongholds.
The negroes voted solidly with the republicans,
who pronounced against prohibition.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10

A CURIOUS provision of the criminal code of
Germany, for which there is no analogy in
English or American legislation, makes delib-
crate homicide, where it is perpetrated at the
request of the victim, lesser grade of crime
than murder and places it within the discre
ton of the courts TO impose as low a sentence
as three years Imprisonment for the offense.
Under this law miller's apprentice of Berlin
has just been sentenced for cutting bis wife's
throat. He was out of work and money, and
he and his wife formed the resolution to COM
NIT suicide together by taking poison. His
wife, however, drained the cup containing the
mixture alone, leaving none for him, and after
a while begged him to kill her at once, to put
an end to the suffering that ensued. He COM
piled with her request by making several CASH
es in her throat. This state of facts was
deemed sufficient to warrant sentence of only
four years imprisonment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10

The absence of timber ON the grassy prairies
of America still continues to be matter of con-
troversy but in the light of accommodating evi-
.dence we can now come to positive decision in
regard to the question. The climate can have
nothing to do with it, because in these prairie
regions there are often large belts of timber land
under precisely the same climatic conditions, and
that the soil is not unfavorable has been proved
by the artificial plantations which have every
where proved successful. Another great gain
to our present knowledge is the aseertainment
of the fact that since the annual firing of the
grassy prairies has been discontinued by the
rapid advance of civilization. the timber is
everywhere encroaching on them. Large tracts
of land in Indiana and Virginia which. accord
ing to numerous traditions of early settlers,
were once grassy prairies are now covered with
a luNuriant growth of forest trees, and in view
of our present knowledge there is nothing in
nature, either now or in the past, to prevent
the gradual encroachmento of arborescent growth
over the grassy plains.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10
A Lazy BOYS Luck a..

A Vermont farmer had lazy, shiftless
son who everybody said ought to have
gone out and fed swine on small salary,
but who refused almost to feed himself.
Everybody agreed that he was a good
for nothing, and one day the old man
ambled him out OF the house with the
toe of his boot. The boy went away and
invented the lemon-squeezer, and in one
year had enough money in his pocket to
buy his old dad ten times over. He
made altogether $40, 900 from the patent,
and the man he sold to made 800, 900 in
three years. There are two morals here.
Kick your boy into luck, and then kick
him again to keep him from selling out
at too low price.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10
Work of the Flames.

The large wire and nail mills at East Taun-
ton, Mass, operated by the Old Colony Iron
Company were totally destroyed by fire on the
7th inst. Loss estimated between $3.50, 900 and
100000.
The rye -four mill of I. Laycy & Co., of
Cleveland, O., burned on the 9Th inst. Loss,
$4,000.
The business portion Of the town of Covelin,
Mendocino County, CAL, was destroyed by fire
on the night of the 4th inst The fire was
caused by the upsetting of lamp. Loss,
$4,000.
The steamer Royal was burned to the waters
edge at Fredericton, Neb., on the 9Th inst. No
lives were lost.
The Buffalo Greek Railway Company's engine
house, at Buffalo, N. Y, burned on the 9th
inst. with three engines. Loss $50. 600.
Friction of machinery set fire to the Lake
Erie and Western elevator, one mile from Ire
mont. O., on the night of the Sd inst. Loss
over $4,000.
fire broke out in a dance house in Truckee,
CAL, on the I'd inst, which spread rapidly, and
destroyed every business house in town except
three Many fine residences were also burned.
One life was lost. Pecuniary loss estimated at
$350,000.
Jacob Laure's planning mill on North Halsted
Street, Chicago. burned on the Sd inst Sew
eral adjoining buildings were badly damaged.
Loss, $65, 900.
Twenty-Five buildings in the lower part of
Deadwood, Col, known as Fountain City, were
destroyed by fire on the Sd inst. Loss, about
100000.
Fourteen buildings comprising the business
part of Augusta, Kalamazoo County, Mich,
furnished food for the flames on the Sd inst.
Loss, S25, 900.
Boyce's bagging and handle factories and fax
mills, at Muncie, Ind, were burned Oh the Sd
INST, causing a loss of 100000.
Burglars, after rifiing the safe in Fl. B.
Smiths grocery store at Detroit, Mich, on the
night of the list inst, set the place on fire.
Damage, $4,000; insurance, $21, 900.
Israel's linseed oil works and grain warehouse
at Mount Vernon, o., burned on the night Of
the LIST inst. Loss 800, 900; insurance, SIC, 000.
The Colorado Iron works, at Denver, with
nearly all the machinery, we're destroyed by fire
on the LIST inst. The loss amounted to about
$125,000, upon which there is 81, 900 insur-
ance. ....
The Milan distillery at Davenport, Iowa,
which has been closed for alleged crookedness,
was destroyed by fire on the LIST inst. Loss,
S25.000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10
BradAaalgEl Discounted.

Charles Bradlaugh, the English liberal, was
fOrcibly elected from the house of commons on
the Sd inst. He had been twice elected mem
Der from Northampton and twice refused his
seat. On the Sd inst. he attempted to enter
the lobby but was met by full force of police
and ushers and a regular scuffie ensued, in
which the pugnacious Bradlaugh's clothing Was
somewhat torn. At the close of the struggle
and when being thrust out in the yard below,
Bradlaugh almost tainted. The crowd outside
checked vociferously and were addressed by
the discounted Bradlaugh, who declared that
he would return to the house with sufficient
force either to effect an entrance Or compel the
government to arrest him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10
ParneIl ROunced.

An exciting time occurred in the British house
of commons on the list inst, when Parnell wa J
"named" for offensive language and for disre-
garding the authority of the chair. Gladstone
moved his suspension for the remainder of the
sitting, when Parnen arose and interrupted
him, saying he would not go through the force
of awaiting the vote, as the speaker interfered
with the freedom OF discussion, and then left
the house. The motion to suspend was carried
by vote of lS2to IA. Parnell's suspension was
caused by his perssting, in spite of the speak
er's ruling, in raising the question of Irish
political prisoners and declaring that the
authority of the commons was always on the
side of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10
August Nights.
EFrom the Youths Companion, !

CFrom the Youths Companion.l
The nights of August will be made
interesting by the presence of three
planets, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, all
drawing near opposition, when they are
largest, brightest, and best situated fol
observation.
They will soon be visible throughout
the entire night. They rise now be.
tween eleven and twelve o'clock In the
evening.
Saturn is the first to appear, five de-
grees south of the sunrise point, about
comes next, close to the sunrise point,
about twenty minutes before twelve
O'clock. Mars rises latest, one degree
north of the sunrise point, about mid
night.
At the end of the month these planets
will rise nearly two hours earlier, retain
ing the same order.
The reason the stars rise earlier every
night may be easily explained. They.
like the sun, seem to rise in the east and
set In the west, because the earth TURNS
on her axis once in twenty-four hours.
She is at the same time moving in hel
path around the sun, and this seems to
make the stars rise four minutes earlier
every night, OF two hours earlier every
month. The fixed stars never change
their position with regard to the other
stars, but the planets are always on the
move, as their name, meaning wander,
era, :" implies.
Their rising and settings are not
therefore strictly conformable to the
same rule, and it is not quite so easy to
follow their course. Astronomers, how
ever, map out their track SO plainly that
intelligent observers can easily trace
their paths.
Venus viii be a bright morning stal
during the month, rising nearly two
hours after her brother planets, and de.
creasing In brilliancy as she draws neal
the sun.
The August meteors are to be looked
for on the ninth, tenth and eleventh
when the earth encounters in her patti
the August nleteor-zone. Some of these
tiny bodies Will be sure to dash agains
ou1 atmosphere with tremendous force
and the conclusion will cause in ou1
skies display of shooting stars thai
never fails
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10

TEE programme of the Yorktown centennial
celebration, as finally agreed upon, includes
four days-the 18th, 10Th, Goth, and 2lst of
next October. The first day an address of well
come will be delivered by Governor Holiday, Of
Virginia. The cornerstone of the monument
will be laid with masonic ceremonies, and ex-
Governor Winthrop, of Massachusetts,, will be
the orator of the day; Colonel Hope, of Nor
folk, will be the poet, and Paul H Hayne, of
South Carolina, will conduct the rendition of
the national ode. On the 10Th President Gar
field has promised to deliver an address, but
will hardly be able. On the Goth grand mill
tary display of United States troops and militia
will take place, and on the 21st naval display.
There will be at least 10000 militia present
from different states, and over 5000 Masons.
The governors and stats of all the states will
be present, and representative of the French
government will be an honored guest.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10
IsHinOr MiShaUS.

W. d. Loze, of Kearneyville, w. Va. candi-
date for cadet engineer in the naval academy at
Annapolis, Md, WAS drowned while boating on
the 9TH inst
A thunder-bolt descended into q crowd of
twenty men at Darlington, S. c., on the 4th
inst, killing four and wounding ten of the
party. 4a iaa
A Mrs. Buncs and child and Miss Anna Skull
were drowned at Otte Landing. fourteen miles
from Louisville, KY, on the 9Th Inst, by the
capsizing of a skiff.
Two boys, the sons of William Henry. of St.
Louis, Mo-, whose family are spending the
simmer at Goderch, Ont, were drowned while
bathing on the 4th.
collision between hand-car and an eS.
press train on the Erie road at Bradford. Pa.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10

MAJOR MORRIS, the newly appointed collector
of customs for the district of Alaska, will go to
bis post fully determined to use influence to
have s territorial government organized for
this vast and comparatively unknown region.
Major Morris has made a close study of the
condition and possibilities Of Alaska, and is
now engaged in the preparation of an elaborate
and detailed report which will be elucidated
by maps, Illustrations and surveys, and pre-
scented to the consideration of the next con-
gress. Ee relies upon the cordial cooperation
of Senator Miller and the favorable attitude of
the President
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10
Business Failures.

The paper of Peckham, Roth & Co., hay and
grain dealers, Providence, r. l., went protest
on the 9Th inst. Liabilities estimated at $780,
900. .s5
Merr, Son & Co., bankers, Halifax. have sus-
pended payment. Direct liabilities estimated
at $4,000.
Stefd & Ney, wholesale dealers in liquor and
tobacco at Kansas City, have made an assign
ment, with liabilities aggregating $13O,OO
made an assionment for the hene6t IF it, red
tors.
James E. Blethen, mayor of Oakland, Cal,
has failed for 100000.
VIM. T. Croft. a New York builder who has
made on assignment but is endeavoring to
compromise, lost $75, 900 in Wall Street in four
weeks.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10

resulted in the death of Barney Guilloo and the
injury of a number of bis companions. There
were fourteen laborers on the truck at the
time
Miss Belle Runyen, young lady of Cincin-
natl, who had been visiting near Keokuk, Ia.
was accidentally killed on the evening of the
31st ult., by the falling of a carriage, in which
she was riding with two friends, over the en-
bankment of a canal The young lady fell a
distance of eighty feet, and was horribly
bruised. Her companions escaped without
serious injury.
Hon. G. J. Chadbourne, deputy secretary of
state in Maine, was drowned at Kent. r. l.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10

The most recent reports from the Moraviaa,
Mission stations, on the west coast of Green
land, dated at the end of March of the present
year. shows that the winter of 1SS0-'81 was ex-
ceptionally mild. Summer weather prevailed IN
January and February, the country was free OF
snow, the Esquin1aux were able to fish along
the coast and gathered berries on the shore,
and goats pasturedin the open air. The winter
season cid not begin until March; at the south
ern stations the thermometer did not go be-
low Il degrees R., q nd at the northern stations
only once stood as low as Is r. This state of
affairs may have some bearing upon the opera
tons CT the polar relief expeditions.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10

seriously. About two hundred persons are now
in pursuit of the murderer.
Three murders were committed in Chicago
on the night Of the LIST inst. Near the corner
of Twelfth and State Streets, Jerre Milligan,
colored, killed Dennis Mahoney, switchman.
and wounded James 'OMara, the alleged pro-
vocation being insulting words addressed to
Nlilligan and his woman. John Hammers,
stevedore, went to the saloon of his mistress.
Lizzie Cleveland, South Clark Street. and shot
her dead, the cause being jealousy. In a riot
GUS outbreak on Rebecca Street, in which sew
eral roughs fought the police, Tom Cahill put
bullet through the leftlung of Officer OBrien,
and shot Officer Ray in the hand. policeman
then shot Cahill in the left breast. Officer
OBrien's wound is fatal, but Ray and Cahill
will recover.
Near Magnolia, Ark, on the 31st ult., Joseph
Doyle was shot dead by Captain James NJ
Walker. Doyle had seduced Walkers daughter,
to whom he was engaged to be married, and
then deserted her.
Mike Wells, a negro, was hung by citizens at
Dyersburg, Tenn, on the 31st ult., for assault
ing lady.
Geo. NJ. Aesop, accused of forgery, killed
Constable J. S. Harrison, who attempted to ar
rest him at Valley Station, KY, on the I'd inst.
Daniel Shea was assaulted by thieves at his
home III New York city on the I'd inst Shea
seized one of the fiends, who plunged knife in
his body several times to make him release his
hold. The poor man fell exhausted, but re-
tanned the sleeve of the ruffan's shirt, by means
of which he was detected. Shea is dangerously
cut.
Mrs. Leach, widow living alone near Cedar
Rapids, Ia, was found dead in her cellar on
the LIST inst, having evidently been muir
dered.
A dog fight at Grand Rapids, Mich, on the
31st ult., terminated in a row in which John
McDermott shot Ed. Moran in the thigh, sever
ing an artery, SO that he bIed to death.
A street car driver named VIM. Fl. Collier,
shot and killed John and Thomas Carney at
Indianapolis, on the list inst. He claims that
the Carneys were attempting to rob him.
At st. Louis on the LIST inst, young man
named Charles SchGefer, made a murders as
sault on his mother and man named Louis
Giraffe, after which he put bullet through his
own head.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10

Nor contented with disfguring the streets
with their bare, stiff and unsightly poles, the
Telephone Company in Jersey City began cut
ting down the shade trees wherever these inter-
fere with their operations. The citizens had
the men arrested, but the sergeant of the police
discharged them. When the began their work
of destruction the citizens came to the rescue
with their shotguns and drove them of. 1T
will now be decided who has a right to til
shade trees in the street
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10
Suicidal.

J. 3. Osborne, sexton of the Fourteenth
Street. New York, Presbyterian Church, com
mitted suicide on the Sd inst, by suffocatine
himself with gas in the library of the church.
self on the morning of the 4th inst, in pecu-
liar manner. He went to the roof Of his house.
and when found he was dangling one hundred
feet from the ground, with clothes line around
his neck.
Robert Hollanger and Kitty Hill of Chicago
being opposed by their parents, concluded. on
the Sd inst, that if they could not marry thew
could die. They took morphine. Robert died
on the 4th, and Kitty was not expected to re-
cover. Both Is years of age. 90
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In is stated as proren fact that the looms OF

IT is stated as proven fact that the looms of
Paterson, N. J., and other places in this coun-
try where silk is manufactured produce work
equal to those of Lyons and Macclesfield. AT
present, over $4,000 hands are employed in the
various mills. There are 102 firms engaged in
the manufacture of silk and silk machinery, and
there are ~ silk mills. Over 81, 600, GG0 pei
year is expended in wages, the capital invested
is over $10.e00,0 600. and the value of the pro-
duction in G year exceeds s$12, 100000. 1t is
stated that fist class goods can be made in this
country as any where, although this statement
must be taken with some allowance.