Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-10-26

nFo y udSeS " Tile court OF Appeals, etc.
Leading men on both sides assure me
that the debt question is only a blind.
The real issue (and some of the news
papers are now urging it, is whether the
white man shall rule or not. The Bour-
bon Democracy are trying to raise scare
with the cry tNigger domination" The
negroes will vote with the Readjusters,
because it means equal rights for them,
and who can blame? It is the old fight
-Roundhead and Cavalier.
Rev. 7. NJ Croke, Archbishop of Cash
,el, Ireland, has issued manifesto to the
Land Leaguers, severely deprecatlng their
course and denouncing the present policy
as disintegrating and calculated to per
manently harm. He says: Against the
commital of the people of this country,
even under still more exciting and criti-
cal circumstances than the present, to
the doctrine Of non-payment Of rent but
for a certain specified time, [ must and
do hereby enter my solemn protest. At
no time an enrolled member of the
League, have been steadfsst, uncom-
promising supporter of its public policy
as whole, believing the same to be thor
oughly legal, constitutional, and calcula
ted to lead to great national results [
am precisely OF the same opinion still !;
but have invariably and unequivocally
stated that stood out for fair rents and
nothing more; for safe foothold of the
agricultural classes upon Irish soil that
they should be wholly fed, warmly cloth
ed and suitably lodged; but that abso-
Lutte reputation of rents, should it ever
find public expression in Ireland, would
meet with no sympathy from me-
At the recent presentation of a medal
to Ida Lewis, who has saved so many per-
sons from drowning at the Newport (R.
ID Custom House, Ex-Governor Van
Zandt being called upon by Collector
Cozzens, responded by giving some inter-
esting personal "reminiscences of the hero
Inc. He said he had first seen her when
she was little black eyed, dark-haired
girl, playing about the house when he
was endeavoring to get the position of
lightk eeper for her father. Afterwards
he had known her as an elGsh little Great
ure about the lighthouse. Suddenly he
heard that this child, as she seemed to
him, had gone out in the midst af dread
! ful winter storm, when the black waves
were rolling, to rescue great, strong, Draw.
ny men, land had rescued them 1t seem.
almost impossible, but soon he heard o.
other and similar achievements. '1t was
no hype bole to say, even after the late
war had made acts of bravery familiar,
that no one had ever shown more wom-
anly heroism, more real, genuine Chris
tian love of mankind than this kind
modest, self-sacrifcing woman who sits
here almost unwillingly to receive this
very highest public testimonial ever con
ferred in this country upon a woman
This simple scene, he felt, would live in
history, and it certainly would remain
forever in the hearts Of those who haC
witnessed it.
HEAVY FoRGERIEs AT KENosHA.-
KENOsHA, Wis.,, October 19.-H. NJ
Theirs, young lawyer and loan agent
of this city, has disappeared, and with
him about $65, 900 in cash that he real
lied in skillful manner by disposing
of forged notes and mortgages. E. &
L. Balm, Mr. Pennoyer, L. Baldwin, T.
G. Simmons, r. Simmons, and George
Yule are among those whose paper has
been forged the heaviest. The exact
amount of each cannot be obtained for
several days.
Theirs made duplicate of a mort
gage on E. Pennoyer for $14, 900, and on
Mr.. Guchardo, a farmer, he forged a
mortgage for $4,000. Theirs repre-
sented himself as an agent of Edward
Balm, and sold farm OF his for 81, 400,
forging the deeds. 1t is thought Theirs,
transactions cover a period of some
months, and embrace many OF the
wealthy farmers living in the back part
of the country, with whom he had deal
ings. Theirs left Kenosha this forenoon,
drove to the State line, faged the train,
rode to Waukegan, got off at that city,
and has not since been seen.
The revival of the system of paying
bounties on the scalps of wild animals
killed, is costing the state considerable
sum. The new law went into effect last
spring, and from that time until the close
of the fiscal year, September Both, last,
the state paid out $S, OF in bounties on
/ ,9O4 scalps. Grant, Dane, Crawford and
5auk counties continue to be the chief
centers of the wolf and fox-raising in
dustry-Grant having sent in 327 scalps
Crawford 173, Sauk 113 and Dane lO9.
TIE BOUND UNLoosED. Thomp-
son, Franklin Street, Buffalo, says: IL
have suffered for long time with con-
stipation, and tried almost every prlrga-
tive advertised but only resulting in tenn
porary relief, and after constipation still
more aggravated was told about
your Spring Blossom and tried it, I can
now say I am cured, and though some
months have elapsed, still remain so. [
shall, however, always keep some ON
hand in case of old complaint returning"
pr;oo So oor+s tr;oI hnttlas 10 cents