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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01
One Hundred and One.
From the Boston Globe.1

Last week Patrick Reagan, of 500
East Eighth Street, South Boston, OBJ
served his one hundred and first birth
day. So well does he wear his years one
could place his age rather among the
eighties. Tall, in his youth standing
nearly six feet, with broad full fore
head made more prominent by the long
gray hair being combed straight back.
and long, white whiskers, he has the ap-
pearance of patriarch who has but
lived into the present generation to show
what paragons of strength the old men
were. Mr.. Reagan came to this country
eleven years ago With his wife who has
been his helpmeet to him for over sixty
years. Mr.. Reagan was born in the Isle
OF Man in 1871, January 16. Shortly
after his birth his parents moved with
him to the County Wexford, and he
passed his boyhood days near Vinegar
Hill, or Hill of Tara, as it is sometimes
called, so celebrated in the history of
Irish revolutionary outbreaks. When
20 years Old he shipped in the English
navy. and saw service in the great
struggle made by Napoleon to regain
power. which ended SO disastrously at
Waterloo. To him Wellington is god
like hero, second only to Admiral Mel
son. In 1922 he was appointed one of
the coast guards and assigned to the
Cork district, the coast of which was in
tested with smugglers. For forty years
he did coast duty, and for this service he
now receives a pension of 934 per
annum. Mr.. Reagan had eight children,
four of whom are dead. He and his
wife now reside with an unmarried
daughter. Mr.. Reagan regularly takes
a morning constitutional, and in good
weather on Sundays he is first to greet
the sexton of the Gate of Heaven Church
as at $50 o'clock he opens its doors to
the worshipers. He has never yet re-
quired the attendance of doctor and
wonders how SO many of that profession
obtain living.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01

duty. Business was then suspended and the
house paid tribute of respect TO the memory
Matt. III. Carpenter. Eulogies were delivered
by Williams CWis-), Caswel, Humphreys,
Hazelton Qa.), Dunnell Mimi, Orth Gnd. }.
Robson On. j., Tyler (Vt.), Butterworth CO.)
and Deuster wis :. The house then, ont Of
respect to the memory of deceased, adjourned
THURSDAY, January 26.-Updegraff presented
petition OF 5000 citizens of Ohio asking the
establishment of an alcoholic liquor commits
sion. referred. "A bill was introduced to
appropriate 81, 100000 for the reclamation of
marshes IN the harbors of Washington and
Georgetown; also one calling on the secretary
OF the interior for information as to what ap-
preparation will be required annually to paw
PENSIONS during the next twenty-five years, if
all claims for pensions arising from the war of
the rebellion shall be adjUdcated within seven
years after period terminating June 80 1883,
and If, at the end of that time, survivors of
the war with Mexico shall be pensiOned AFT "a n
month. The senate bill granting an additional
pension to the widow of President Lincoln was
passed. .. "A resolution from the committee on
foreign affairs requesting the President to OBJ
tain from the British government list of
American citizens imprisoned in England, was
taken up, and Robinson On. Y.) spoke thereon
He finished by expressing q desire to offer
resolution condemning the act OF the United
States government in saluting the British flag
at Yorktown; but Orth refused to yield for that
purpose. The house then took recess until
evening, the session being for debate only.
Six members were then present. Speeches
were started, but the speakers asked and OBJ
tanned leave to print them in the record :. Ad-
journed
FRIDAY, January 27.-Townshend Gn.) offer
ed resolution reciting the charges that certain
residents of territories known aB MOrmons are
melting the Piute and Navajo Indians in
Arizona to outbreaks and lawlessness, and call
ing upon the secretary of the interior for any
information on thesubject on file in his depart
ment. Adopted. =. .Orth asked further consid-
Grafton of the resolutions reported by him from
the committee on foreign affairs requesting the
President to obtain list of American citizens
confined in English prisons. An objection led
to postponement of the resolutions. After
session in committee Of the whole on the
private calender the house adjourned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01

destroyed. At the former place, the works of
the Zylorite Company were demoralized to the
extent of $40, 900. at Cheshire the Housatonic
Companys ice houses were RACED and Bard
wells ferry demolished. A four-story factory
building at Newburyport, Mass, was thrown
two feet out of perpendicular, causing panic
among the workmen, in which one of them was
fatally hurt. The large exhibition building of
the Rochester On. Fl. } Fair Association, filled
with carriages, was overturned by the force
of the wind and the stock more less damaged
At Lewiston, Me-, chimneys were blown down
and horse car capsized; at Rockland the gas
house was decapltated, and at Gardiner an ice
house was laid fiat. The Burlington and
Louisville depot and the cotton mill at Burling-
ton, VT, were unroofed. The Ice was swept
out of Lake Champlain and Burlington Bay IN
an instant, the lumber yards being sufferers
therefrom. 1t is feared the shipping along the
New England co asst suffered severely.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01
ErR0eGIeSs

The Irish constabulary found in bags III
Loughmask, sunk by means of huge stones,
the bodies of Hudy, the process-server, and
his nephew, who recently disappeared from
Ballinrobe. Twenty arrests were made by mill
tary at Athenny and Loughrea for secreting
arms.
Mrs. J. L. Connors, of Washington, wife of a
well-known contractor, was shot dead, through
the window of her home on the evening of the
28th ult. A drunken driver, named Miller, has
been arrested on suspicion.
While out hunting near Pittsburg. Pa, on
the 9th ult., young man named Lee encount-
cred two young ladies and for some reason
which will never be fathomed deliberately fired
at them, inhicting painful wounds. He imme-
diately fled, and on being pursued and hard
pressed blew the top of his head off.
j. A. Helm, residing near Wapello, Ia, shot
his wife dead, on the Goth ult., and then sui
cided. Cause. domestic unhapplness.
James Minock. residing near Detroit, Mich,
surprised his hired man, James Carr, in the act
of stealing his money, on the 25th inst. A fight
ensued, in which Minock killed the would-be
thief with pocket-knife.
Alfred d. Gee, constable, shot and killed
DR.. Moeller, travelling dentist, at Washington,
Texas, on the 23d inst.
An unknown person assassinated John Smith,
a farmer residing near Shelbourne, Ont. on
the night of the Odd inst. The fatal shot was
fired through window.
John A. Leach was killed by B. B. Hunt at
Caldwell, Texas, on the 22d inst. Hunt claimed
that Leach betrayed his sister.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01

wheat, cheese, and pork undersold by
American produce, the "deplacements
d'industrie ct de commerce" occasioned
by arrivals from the New World, I'M
hinge everything. [ told how we had
heard from a German grand seigneur
that his fine Saxony woods were ruined
by the produce of Australian sheep,
which was not nearly 50 good, but was
preferred by the manufacturers of cheap
wares, and of the distress thus caused in
Germany. My neighbor said that the
dislocation of trade was, he believed,
now universal; probably as population
increased in America, and the cost of
production with it, an equilibrium
would be found, but there will be much
distress in Europe first. There are
other very serious dangers In France.
The phylloxera is very bad and wide
spread, and no cure has yet been found
against this almost microscopic insect
but to plant the American vine, whose
bark is tougher and cannot be gnawn
away; but two or three years must go by
before the plants will bear, ana how can
the small cultivator wait SO long? Then
the silk industry has quite died out with
the disease in the worms, and Lyons is
using Chinese and japanese silk as
cheaper. Also in the south whole dis
tricts had depended on the cultivation of
the Garance, used among erthings as a
dye for the red trousers of the French
soldier. Now gas tar dyes had taken it's
place, and the farmers growing madden
were ruined. France is SO large and her
productions so various that no one hears
much O. = stranger of all this, but the
distress was very real ....
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01
Terrible ExnhAST0nS

The boiler in the Kennebec Framing Com
pany's mill, at Fairfield, Me-, exploded with
terrible force on the 28th ult., killing young
man named Noah Rice, John Avery, the fore
man, Isaac Farkey, the engineer, and J. Lemar,
a fireman. Two others were dangerously hurt.
On the morning of the 9th ult., as Engineer
James Tonhill was engaged in inspecting a
boiler at machine shop in Oil City, Pa, the
on top Of it at the time, through the air and
killing him instantly.
A boiler at the shaft Of the Canon City, Col,
Coal Company's mine, exploded, on the 25th
third. The boiler shell was blown distance
of three hundred yards.
The tug H. P. Harrington exploded her
boiler at Haverstraw, N. Y, on the 23d inst,
killing Albert Hennyon, engineer, David Col
ton, fireman, and Lawrence Connolly, clerk.
Chas. F. Lacy, an engineer in Shaw Bros
tannery at Jackson Brook, Me-, was killed by
the explosion of a boiler on the 23d inst.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01
AMERICAN COMPETITION.

Much has been written of late con-
corning the effect of American COMPETE
ton Oh English agriculture, and the de-
cline of farming in Great Britain has
been pictured in all its phases. But in
the calculations concerning the effect of
Americas wonderful fertility on the
progress of agriculture abroad, little
thought has been given France, probably
because of her proverbial thrift, which
naturally places her out of harms way
IN superficial reflections. However,
sunny France feels the strain, and her
agricultural difficulties are pictured in q
cerulean hue by Lady Verney, in the
Contemporary Review. She says: The
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01
The Fire Record.

A fire at Northport, Mich, on the 9th ult.,
destroyed the court house, together with all
the probate records of Leelenaw county and a
valuable law library.
The old Murat mansion at Tallahassee, Fla,
occupied for many years by princess Murat,
widow of Prince Charles Murat, son of Ma
poleon's favorite, the King of Naples, burned On
the night of the 9th. It was owned by Gov.
Bloxham since the death of the princess.
Carey & Moentz's steel wire works, New
York city, we're damaged to the extent of $751;
900 by fire on the 9th.
The magnificent residence Of George HI.
Bend, near Kings Bridge, New York, was dam
aged by fire to the extent of $80,000, on the
18th inst.
Scott's Keystone Wheel, Spoke and Hub
Works, on Canal Street, Philadelphia, burned
on the 26th. Loss 100000.
A fire at San Francisco, CAL, on the Goth, re-
duce0 flour mill and macarOni factory to
ruins. Loss 900.
The building occupied by the Inquirer Pub
fishing Company, at Lancaster, Pa, was de-
stroyed and several adjoining structures badly
damaged by fire, on the Goth. Loss $135 600.
A 100000 confagration occurred in the
manufacturing portion of Athol, Mass, on the
night of the Oath.
A wooden mill at Carthage, Mo-. was reduced
to ruins on the 25th, entailing loss of 100000.
Insured for $4,000.
At Woonsocket, r. T., on the 25th, the depot
of the Providence and Wooster Railroad and
the Talcot machine shops were reduced to
smoking ruins. Loss $190,000. Two firemen
were injured.
By the destruction of two car-sheds and
their contents at Aurora, early on the morn
ing of the oath inst, the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railroad lost $4,000 worth of
property, including number of fine passen-
ger cars, a directors car and dining car.
The Turbine Wheel Campany's works at Or
ange, Mass, burned on the Oath inst. Loss
$55, 600; insurance, 1872 900.
Ravens & Geddes' notion store at Terre
Haute, Ind. was partially destroyed by fire on
the 23d inst. Loss over $40, 900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01
MOrfHaTXa

Hon. E. w. Webster, representing Page
County in the Iowa legislature, died at Dss
Monies On the 27tb ult.
Joshua Clements, a magistrate of the city of
Louisville, KY, for the past thirty years,
dropped dead on the streets in that city on the
26th.
TheOphilus Parsons, professor at Harvard,
died at Cambridge, on the 26th, aged IS years.
Gen. Robert B. Mitchell, ex-governor of New
Mexico, died at Washington on the 26th.
Moses Lane, city engineer of Milwaukee,
Wis, succumbed to stroke of paralysis on the
25th inst. Deceased was considered one of the
best civil engineers in the country.
Edmund Burke died at Newport, n. H., on
the 25th. He was commissioner of patents
under President Polk, and served in congress
from 1889 to 1916. He was also at one time
editor of the Washington Union.
Judge Henry D. Barron, prominent in poll
tics in Wisconsin, died at Taylor's Falls that
state, on the 23d inst.
Major Seth G. Otis, died at Ann Arbor,
Mich. on the 23d inst. aged 81. He was one
of the most active and prominent citizens of
Chicago, over thirty years ago. He was the
founder of the Chicago Young Mems Associa-
ton. He was the United States consul at
Basic. Switzerland, from 1910 to 1916.
C. S. Whitbeck, one of the proprietors of the
Russell House, at Detroit, and widely known
among hotel and travelling men, is dead.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01
WATERFOWL, WIS.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1882.
ARID LAND.

The vast area of fertile country In the
northwest yet unsettled, and the newer
fields being opened IN the British pos
sessions would seemingly present such
inducements to immigrants as to make
them over-fastidious in their selections,
and act detrimentally to those portions
of the already settled west where re-
clamation and improvement is neces-
sary. The individual interests of states
and territories, however, avert the eff
fects of the roseate prospects IN the
newer fields, by forcing schemes to
render fertile the barren lands within
their borders. In Colorado, Represent
alive Belford has proposed a new policy
In regard to arid land. There is in all
the Pacific States and territories much
land that is valueless for agriculture
until it can be subjected to system of
irrigation. The inaugurate this neces-
sary work would require an immense
outlay of money. This land has been
unoccupied except by herds of stock.
Belford's Desert Land Act affords any
one an opportunity to take it up in $40
acre sections, at the usual government
price, but even this inducement has not
SO far been sufficient to bring any very
considerable quantity under cultivation,
owing to the cost OF reclamation. Mr..
Bedford proposes that stock owners be
allowed to lease such land from the
government, in 500-acre tracts, for terms
of ten years, at merely nominal rental.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01

In the trial of the three murderers of the
Gibbons family at Ashland, KY, now in pro-
gross at Catlettsburg, in that state, the jury on
the oath inst, after being out only seventeen
minutes, gave verdict of guilty of murder in
the first degree against Neal, whose trial has
just closed. This means hanging. 1t was one
of the most horrible of the many bloody
crimes in the annals of Kentucky within few
years past. the murderers having outraged and
killed two young girls, and then killed boy
who CHANGED to be witness of their diabolical
deeds
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01

Camp, Morrill, & Camps dry goods store, at
Jackson, Mich, was raided by burglars on the
night of the 25th, and SIC 900 worth of silks
and satins stolen.
Safe-bowers entered Mclaughlin and Lewis
store at Reynolds, Rock Island County. H., on
the night of the oath, and rfled the strong
box of $4,000.
Masked men secured $500 from farmer
named Charles Hinneberg, near Akron, o., on
the 24th.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01
A Had Pupil.

The scholars at public school three miles
outside of West Jefferson, o., created dis
turbance on the Goth ult., when the principal
Mrs. High. called on John Butler. one of the
directors of the institution to aid her in quell-
ing the outbreak. The ringleader named
George Scott became SO enraged at Buffers in
crushed the latter's skull. The injured man
must die. Scott, the murderer, is 10 years of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01
Guiteau,S Trial.

Fifty-second Day.-The court room was
crowded to suffocation on the 23d inst, and
when the doors were closed about a thousand
people were left outside. At the opening Gui-
teau told about some tender letters he had re-
ceived from ladies, and warned Judge Porter
not to attempt to mislead the jury. Porter
then opened his argument, the current of
thought increasing as he warmed to his work,
and until adjournment there poured upon the
prisoner a resistless torrent of denunciation
and rebuke. Guiteau broke in number of
times but his vaporings failed to break the
spell of Porter's eloquence.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01
A New England ZeDhvr.

A heavy gale from the west and northwest on
the 9th ult., inflicted great damage in portions
of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and
Vermont, At Pittsfield, Mass, one church
spire was blown down and another almost
ruined. Three persons were injured, one of
whom, Mrs. Godfrey, it is thought fatally. At
North Adams and Cheshire in the same state,
thousands of dollars worth of property were
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01

A freight train jumped the track at Lawn
dale, H., Oh the 9th ult., killing BENZ. Pickles,
the engineer, and injurlng number of pas
sengers who were in the caboose.
Near Cumberland Md, on the 9th ult.,
freight train ran into rock slide, causing a
fearful wreck. Engineer Frank Taff1e and fire.
man Baker were fearfully scalded. A brake
man had leg fractured.
One freight train ran into another standing
on the New York Central track.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01

A NEW law of New Hampshire requires
selectmen of towns to cut off the ears of
hawks and crows presented to them for
tie state bounty before paying it, the
same as in the case of wolves, etc. The
Granite State evidently has some careless
Lawmakers, too.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01
A Deadly Bath.

-Four men met their death in a horrible man
ner at an iron foundry at Burlington, VT, on
the Goth. A ladle of molten metal in charge of
Patrick Donneliy, Benz. Wright Thomas Crow
ley and James Hayden, capsized, the seething
contents overwhelming the unfortunate men
and causing their death.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01
a Wind FRHE.'

Widow Croft and her two sons, very poor
family residing near Greensburg, Pa, received
notice on the 9th ult., that fortune of $780,
600 had been left them by the death Of a
brother in-law in Sweden.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01
Held RESPONSIBLE.

The coroner's Jury in the case of the Hud-
son River railroad disaster at Spuyten Duyvil
finds those in charge of the Inflated train and
the railway officials, guilty of sc criminal care
lessness," and responsible for the loss of life
from the collision. The parties are being ar
rested to await the action of the grand jury.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01

The bark Rainier, bound for Honolulu, was
lost west of Cape Blanco. Capt. Wolf was kill
ed when the vessel capsized.
The steamer Valley City, bound from Tampa
for Pensacola, was lost on the night of the 22d.
Fortunately all on board were saved.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01
Wholesale POiSOning.,

At Corinth, KY, on the 28th ult., whole
family named Romano, were Frustrated from
the effects of eating corn bread in which it is
thought arsenic had been placed. At last &C
counts five of the family were lying at the point
of death
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
a Bloody Massacre.

dispatch from Vienna announces that ten
gendarmes were surprised at night by band of
insurgents in Herzegovina and massacred in a
most frightful manner.
The Portland daily press., 1882-06-13

MOUSE, Stable and Garden on Willis street now
HI owned and occupied by G. W. Smith. Suita
for one or two tenements. Come and see it.
jus diff
The Portland daily press., 1882-06-13
THE HARVEY MILLS.
Further Information Concerning Disas-
trous Collision.

A letter from the ship Harvey Mills of
Thomsston, Me-, which was run into by the
British barque Eta on the 2lst Of May, about
sixty miles south of Cape Clear, states that the
Harvey Mills was struck on the stern with the
strength of a battering ram, carrying away her
jibboom, bending her planking, and opening
her seams SO badly that she was only saved
from sinking by incessant work at the pumps
for days and nights in succession, her own
crew being relieved at intervals by men from
the sunken barque, the water all the time
gaining upon them. After the most exhaust
ing labors by all on board, the ship was finally
worked into Crookhaven, where the services
OF thirty men were required to assist in keep
Queenstown for tow boats to take the ship to
Cork, at which port she arrived May 18th, the
men, nearly exhausted, never leaving the
pumps from the time of the collision. When
the crash occurred the conclusion was so great
that everybody on board supposed for mo-
ment that hurricane had struck the ship. In
stantly there was deafening crash, and before
the men on either vessel had chance to know
what the cause was the heavy iron foremast OF
the Eta, together with everything attached
thereto, struck the deck, smashing everything
in its way. tearing the woodwork like SO much
tissue paper, knocking large holes 10 the
damage that the Eta soon after went down,
nothing whatever being saved from her but q
few effects Of little value belonging to her cap
tain and crew, who managed to save them
selves only after the most hazardous expert
onces.