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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
CHEAP HOSPITALS.

The subject of reform in hospital
structures has just been brought promi-
nently before t he public IN paper pre-
pared by DR.. l.. W. Baker, an eminent
New England practitioner, and read be-
fore the last meeting of The State Medi-
cal Society, held IN Boston, Mass. DR..
Baker advocates the system substantial
~ in use in the United States army in
the erection of post hospitals, which are,
as rule, wooden structures, two stories
high, mounted on piles driven into the
ground, SO as to give free passage of air
underneath and prevent the accumu-
lation of noxious vapors. Structures of
this kind, capable of accommodating
from forty to fifty patients, can be
erected and equipped at small cost by
the authorities of any country town, and
would prevent great deal of suffering
among the poorer classes. Under the
present system of large and costly struc-
lures small cities cannot afford the
luxury of hospital, and the result is
that no proper provision is made for the
cure of the INDECENT SICK. According to
DR.. Baker, the system that he advocates
has been thoroughly tried in Great
Britain, where the first such hospital
was established at Crawleigh in 1859.
Since then no fewer than two hundred
and fifty such buildings have been erect
ed in different sections of Breat Britain,
and about fifty thousand patients have
been treated. The propriety of resort
ing to such structures for the care of the
insane, instead of expanding hundreds
ofthousandg of dollars on immense build
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06

The Planters Hotel, Cairo, Ill.,, was reduced
to ashes on the Sd inst. Loss $15, 900.
fire at Harrisburg, Pa, damaged the
Chesapeake rail-wOrks to the amount of $780,
600. Several stores at Harrisburg, III , valued
at $25, 900, were burned by an incendiary.
The Hotel Brunswick, the Pleasant House,
Central Hall, and dwelling, burned at Old Or
chard Beach, Me-, on the 1st.
The new city hall at Iowa City, Ia, was en-
tirely destroyed by fire on the 31st ult.
The gunt oat Algernon, entirely con-
sumed by fire in New York harbor on the 31st
ult. Loss $35, 900.
Brewer & Co.'s desk factory, New Yo CITY,
and the Nashua Cotton Mills. Brainards, N.
Y, were destroyed by fire on the Goth. Loss
by the former, $4,000; the latter 1875, 900.
The Bee Line oil sheds at Cleveland, O., in
which were stored 300 barrels Of refined petro-
leum, were fired by sparks from a tug oa the
night of the 29th The fire communicated to
an adjoining saloon and from there to an oil
laden railway train, all of which property was
consumed. The frey stream ran through a
sewer to the river where it struck the schooner
James Wade, damaging the vessel to the extent
of about 81, 600. The loss approximates $780,
900.
The major part of the town of Farmersville,
La, was reduced to ashes on the 29th. Loss
$50, 900.
Other fires on the 29th: Several manufac-
turing establishments at HaverhiIl, Mass.
100000; st. James Hotel and three stores, Mt
Pleasant. Mich, $25, 900; mill and ice-house at
Lehigh Pa, $25, 600; Bishops Opera House,
Red Oak, Ia, $35, 900; the Sierra Lumber Com
pany's mill at Red Bluff. Cal, with heavy loss
mill valued at $4,000 was destroyed by
fire at Hubbardstown, Mass, on the 18th.
Bauman's pork packing establishment, Osh-
kosb, Wis, was consumed by fire on the 18th.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 6, 1882.
INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE TREATIES

Among the resolutions passed by the
association for the reform and codifica-
ton of the law of nations at the confer
ence just held at Liverpool was one for
the appointment of special committee
to urge upon the government of Great
Britain the importance of negotiating
with foreign countries treaties regulat-
ing the marriage of subjects of different
countries. This step is intended to re-
form an existing evil OF a serious char
acter 1t is a general principle that
marriage valid in one country Is valid in
all others. But cases are constantly aT1s-
ing in the courts of every nation which
show that this is rule with many I'M
portant exceptions. Cases are not rare
in which woman married to French
subject in England finds that she is not
a lawful wife In France, and children of
parents lawfully married on the contin-
emit have been declared illegitimate by
the English courts. Similar difficulties
and anomalies have been brought to
public notice in our own legal tribunals
in dealing with foreign marriages. The
mischievous consequences flowing from
this state of things would be avoided by
a uniform marriage law and ceremony in
all countries. But this is impracticable.
The difficulties may, however, be large
ly overcome by such treaty as has been
proposed a.f
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
HercuIaneum.

The first building excayated at Her
culaneum is an oil merchants shop with
tanks In the marble counters and inef-
faceable green stains from the copper
coins left by the fleeing owner, to be
pocketed by the antiquarian despoiler
LOO years after. An eating house, it's
little tables still standing, is near, and
beyond is the principal building exca-
waited, the house of the argus, SO named
from iresco that was found there. A
beautiful dwelling it must have been, it's
gayly-frescoed rooms opening, upon a
colonnade about an open court now
fresh and smiling as of old, with luxu-
RANT garden, gay and sweet-scented, and
in it's midst the marble seat that stands
as of old, fitting reminder that the
Italians of old, as their descendants,
loved to repose as well as to work under
the open sky. The colors on the stucco,
faded somewhat in Pompei, are here
brilliant as if it were but yesterday that
they were disclosed, for wind and wealth
er, whose prying fingers have been busy
at Pompeii. stood helpless before the
rock-bound doors of Herculaneum.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
Hallway wrecks

Passenger trains collided last evening near
Newport, Arkansas, Oh the Iron Mountainroad
and John Browning, an engineer, and his fire.
man were killed.
collision on the Wabash road, near Mil
mine, ILL.,, wrecked an engine and twenty-five
freight-cars and fatally scaIded two firemon.
An engine and eighteen cars left the track at
Okalona, o., on the 1st The engineer and a
tramp were severely injured.
A freight train was wrecked near Danville,
H., on the LIST. A number Of cars were demol-
ished and small boy crushed to death.
A freight train on the Canada Pacific road,
between Montreal and Ottawa, hada car thrown
from the half-mlle iron bridge over North River.
The effect was to send span of $50 feet into
the water. The engineer put on the utmost
pressure and broke loose. sending five cars into
the river and leaving twelve standing on the
brink of the chasm. No lives were lost.
A cattle train left the track at Highland
Greek, near Toronto, on the 28th- Nine cars
were wrecked and 100 head of cattle killed.
The train men saved themselves by jumping
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
The Poetry of Cremation.

Augustus G. Cobb, in " Earth Burial
and Cremation" an article in the North
American Review, quotes an eyewitness
as giving the following pleasant account
of the spectacular effect of crematory
funeral: "When, in obedience to his
own dying request, Isaw the door of the
cinerator taken down, it's rosy light shine
forth, and his peaceful form, enrolled in
white, laid there at rest amid lowell
ness that was simply fascinating to the
eye, and without glimpse of flames or
fire or Goals or smoke, said, and say so
still, this method, beyond all methods [
have seen, is the most pleasing to the
senses, the most charming to the mag
nation and the most grateful to the
memory"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
SATISFACTORY PROGRESS OF THE GO N
TRY

With a justifable pride the New York
Indicator says that our industrial re-
sources are developing into broader
basis than those of any other country,
and that in many things we are far in
advance of Europe. In mining we fur
all the world combined, in agriculture
we can nearly supply the needs of the
world and in man ufactures we are not
only reaching aposition of independence,
but one in which, in some instances, we
can compete with the older nations. In
reviewing the situation the Indicator
points out that in 1881 we made 346, 900
more tons of pig iron, 1,000,0 600 more
tons of rolled iron and nails, exclusive of
rails, and 100000 tons more of Bessemer
bars than during the preceding year.
While we cannot, says our contempor-
airy, produce iron and steel as cheaply as
some European countries, on account of
the advantages they possess in cheap la
Dor, we are not excelled in the skill dis
played by our workmen, or in the me-
chanical and scientific economies prac-
ticed in any of the branches of it's manu-
facture. In fact, it may be said that In
economical improvements In certain
branches of manufacture we have devel-
oped an aptitude and skill such as is not
known abroad. The worlds production
of pig IRON amounted to 1858, 500
gross tons in $780, The share of the
production pertaining to the United
States was 3, S35, 191 gross tons and in
the following year the American output
reached 4, 500, 900 tons.
The United States leads the world in
production of Bessemer rails, and the
Indicator asserts that with respect to
the quality of the production there is
no dispute. The capacity to produce
is largely in excess of production, and
for this reason there is no necessity for
importation. During the year under
consideration we exported l04 locomo-
tives, a gain over 1880. That this bust-
ness will increase can scarcely be doubt
ed. In the nail industry we turned out
1874, 206 kegs of nails, of 100 pounds
each, in 1881. The Indicator has good
reason to think that the present year
will see Us surpass Great Britain Id the
production of steel Of all kinds, as we
have already surg sssed her in the con-
sumption Of 81 iton and steel products
The Indicator mentions the interesting
fact that the United States has nine
teen miles of railroad for every 10000
of population, while Europe has only
three miles to the same number of peo-
pie. At the close of 1881 this country
had 100, 900 miles of railway and Europe
LOG, 900 miles, and all the rest of the
world 45, 900. 1t will thus be seen that
we have built nearly as many miles of
railway as Europe and have used quite
as much material. Thus far in the
present year we have constructed about
5000 miles of railway, and will prob
ably increase this to 10000 before en-
tering upon another year. Our cotem-
porary has good reason to brag Of the
country's progress.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
SUIcida

In sleeping car on the Boston and Albany
road, early on the morning of the 3D. a wealthy
farmer of Malta, ILL.,, named Enoch Chappell,
killed himself with pocket knife. He was es-
corting his daughter to g school in Connecticut,
and seemed to have insane fears for her
safety.
Daniel N. Sherwood, route agent on the
North Carolina road, having been detected III
rifing letters, confessed that his robberies
covered period of ten years, and soon after
ward committed suicide by poison.
At Thelford. Mich, on The 28th, in fit of in
sanity, Mrs. Charles Hovey bound her 5-year-
old child to herself and then plunged her head
and that of the child in washtub. Both
drowned.
The death by suicide of Archbishop Nestor,
of the Russian Church, who was the prelate in
charge of Alaska, Is announced from San
Francisco. The Archbishop took passage on
the steamer St. Paul at st. Michael's for San
Francisco, the latter being his place OF resi-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06

Several days after the preparation of the
robbery of the First National Bank at Kewa-
nee, H., one Edward WEIGH, Chicago travel
ing agent, was apprehended while in New York
state and taken to Kewanee, where he was
made confession to the effect that DR.. J, S.
Scott, of st. Louis, formerly a resident of Ke-
vance, planned the robbery. although he took
no direct part in it; that Pratt, the acting cash
Ter was o party to it, and that instead of the
large sum in gold missing being carried away
in the valise with the other money, it was Platt
himself who carried it off previous to the Gay
when he (Welch) and his companion Locked
Pratt and Miss Harris in the vault and carried
away the nder-mostly in paper money.
The guilty parties are now all under arrest.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
horrible Orgies.

A dispatch from Calcutta dated August %,
says: . Fearful rioting between Hindoos and
Mahommedans has occurred in Salemow. An
eve witness of the disorders says he saw the
disemboweed body of a Mahommedan infant
lying on the ground. It's arms were also torn
off. The headless cOrpses of Mahonmedan
men and women were lying on every side. The
houses of Mahommedans were burned and the
principal mosque almost RACED to the ground.
Dead pigs have been thrown into the wells with
the corpses of Mahommedan children. The
Mahommedans are small minority of the
pODulatlOn.n
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
A Canoe Crank,

A young Norwegian named Frederick
Norman, according to the Kolniche-Zei-
tung, proposes to cross the Atlantic
Ocean in a rowing-boat which he is
having built for his own use. 1t Is
twelve feet in length, four feet wide, two
to two and a half feet in depth and has a
covering before and behind. A so-called
aoating-anchor will, it is said, serve to
keep the bow of the boat IN position
when the occupant of the craft is asleep.
He think the Gulf Stream will help him
considerably in bis journey. He will
not. of course, be able to cook during
the voyage. His victuals will consist of
biscuit, preserved meat and vegetables,
condensed coffee and fifty gallons of wa
ter,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
Deadly DisOrd erS.

Three hundred deaths from cholera have &C.
CURED at Manila, Philippine Islands, N short
space of time. Most of the victims were
natives.
The Siberian plague, or ''black death, " is APP
pearing to an alarming extent in remote quar-
ters Of European Russia.
A cable dispatch from Yokohama, states that
IT'S cases of cholera occurred within twenty
days, 572 cases proving fatal. AT Toxic about
80 cases and so deaths are reported daily.
Yellow fever continues at Brownsville, Tex,
and Matamolas, Mexico, on the RIO Grande.
Its temperance is also reported at Pensacola,
Florida
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
MOrtuarys

Major Chas. w. Wingard, q. s. A., died at
Fort Douglas, Utah, on the LIST inst
James Archer, leading citizen of Denver,
died on the 18th. Deceased had been connect
ed with the Union Pacific and various railway
enterprises.
VIM. H. Allen, president Of Grard College,
Philadelphia. passed away on the Goth.
j. G. Crawford, solcitor-general of the pro-
vince of New Brunswick, died on the 28th,
aged SO years.
Mr.. S. A. Kicker, well-known pork-packer
and grain-dealer of Chicago, died on the 29th.
aged IS. He was a childless widower and mil
honaire, and his property will be distributed be-
tween surviving bl others and sisters.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06

THERE is church in Michigan which
has been struck by lightning dozen
times, and now whenever the preacher
shows signs of getting long winded and
passing from his seventhly to an
"eighthly." the organist slyly initiates
the sound of approaching thunder on
the pedals. The way that preacher
dives into the conclusion, and rushes
through it and starts the doxology is
caution. The congregation would not
part with that organlst for million
dollars
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
Trouble in Dublins

Dublin, Ireland, was in high state of fer
ment on the list inst. caused by insubordin-
alton on the part of the police. who deserted
their posts and left the city to be protected by
troops WHO were immediately summoned. It
seems that 234 of the officers received their dis
This so incensed their comrades that they
struck. Several mobs we're dispersed at the
point Of the bayonet. 1t is said that The ex-
police officers will emigrate to America
en- masse. There are nearly a thousand of
them.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
Another War.

A collision between Turkish and Greek
troops occurred along the frontier from Zorbas
to Degani. 1t seems that the Greeks crossed
the frontier and cut the telegraphic communi-
cation between a Tuskish post and military
prison. In order to secure supplies the Turks
were obliged to pass through Grecan territory,
when the collision occurred. A number were
killed and wounded on both sides. The Porte
and the Greek government are in conference in
regard to the outbreak
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
Fatal Floods.

AS the rivers in Texas recede, the effects Of
the recent flood are made manifest. It is esti-
mated that %, 600 sheep, beside horses and cat
tie, have been swept away by the flood. From
sixty to seventy-fve persons are known to have
been drowned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06

Richland Springs, N. Y. was the scene of an
exciting single scull race between the two pro-
fessionals, Lee and Courtney, on the list inst.
The latter won in the unprecedented time of
1917. Lee followed over the line IL
lengths in the rear. His time, 1855.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06

Snow storms are reported in the southern
portion of the Rocky Mountain regions of Col
orado and New Mexico. The mountain peaks
are white with snow. This is a very early win
ter even for those high attitudes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06

The amount of the August reduction Of the
national debt is SIG, 1913, psi. Total debt less
cash in the treasury, 81, 658, 1885, III.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06

Apaches are raiding the country in the vlcln-
ity Of Calabasas, A. t. Miners and ranchmen
have fed from their habitatlons. Seven people
had been massacred at last accounts.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06

dence, and is supposed to have jumped over
board shortly after leaving st. MicEael's. He
was SUBJECT 90 rush of blood to the head, and
is thought to have been temporarily insane at
the time.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06

Particulars Of the insurrection in Corea have
been received. On July 23d an organized band
of insurgents attacked the royal residence and
the japanese legation at Sioule, the Corear
capital. The king alone was spared out of the
inmates of the palace. The queen murdered
the kings heir and the latter's betrothed, both
children, by poison forci5Iy administered. The
japanese legation retreated to the coast, being
repeatedly assaulted on their way. Four were
killed, three wounded, and several are missing
Japan has sent feet to the scene. afta..
Secretary of the Navy Chandler has received
a telegram from Admiral Clitz, commanding
the United States naval force in Asia. announc.
ing that Commodore Shufeldts treaty with
Corea had been rejected and requesting that 8
ship Of war be sent to Corea:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
EgVDlIan Affairs.

General Wolseley, the commander of the
British forces in Egypt, telegraphs that the re-
suit Of engagements with the Egyptians on the
oath and 25th was more important than at first
supposed-that the enemy was completely
routed and fled in confusion. He also announces
the capture of Arabi's chief engineer and mill
tary advi- er, who IL now L prisoner. The ap-
palling discovery WAS made that the Egyptians
had polluted the waters of the canal by filling
one Of the locks with corpses of soldiers and
dead horses. Gen. Wolseley's troops were de-
pendent on the canal for their drinking water.
Arab has flooded the country on both of his
TANKS The Bedouins continue to harrass the
Inhabitants at Meks and the British intend to
cut the dykes at that point, in order to inun-
date the dry bed of Lake Mareotis.
On the night of the 28th, the Arabs attacked
the British positionsat Kassasin, and were re-
pulsed with heavy losses, the fight going on by
moonlight. The infantry we're hotly pressed
by the Arabs. when an opportune charge by the
British cavalry put the natives to fight in con-
fusion. The losses on both sides were quite
heavy.
Up to the 4th inst. no engagement had taken
place since the moonlight skirmish at Kassas-
sin lock. Arab Pasha has formed q camp
which threatens the Suez canal and the Brit
ish TANKS. General WolseIey has asked for
more troops as he has to reinforce the troops
at the front constantly, owing to inroads by
sickness. The British man-of-war Minotaur,
shelled force of Egyptian infantry and caval-
~ between Ramleh and Aboukir. The khe.
dives ENJOYS at Ismailia have already arranged
with BedOuin chiefs to bring over a considera-
BILE number of their people. A wounded Arab,
captured at Kassassin, states that hardly had
the British cavalry disappeared when horde
of Bedouins came up, killing the wounded and
robbing the dead. The peasants are being en-
cOuraged to bring IN supplies to be sold to the
army British veterinary surgeons have been
sent to Italy, Spain, Smyrna, and the United
States to inspect mules. .r.,r sEE.5o. ea
| De Lesseps declares that Arab Pasha has the
whole of Egypt at his back, with a force OF
| 5000 to 10000 Arabs and arms for 200, 000
! The khedive, he says, is a prisoner, and will
rever be able to govern the country. ~
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06

The Base BAH Cham pionsnIp.
The following table indicates the position of
the various clubs in the contest for the cham
pionship:- u .".3F...-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
ATrasicaI Record.

Otto Green, a farmer in the vicinity of
Mexico, Mo-, shot his two children, aged and
5years respectively, and after riding to a neigh
boris he put bullet through his own head.
Green was divorced from his wife, who resided
at her fathers with the children. It was Gus
t0mary for Green to meet his children about
Oce each month at the house of some friend
and it was at one of these meetings that the
crime was committed. 't E..sr.
Col. Hopper, railway employee, resisted the
village marshal at Carbonate, ILL.,, on the Sd,
and was killed by the officer.
Woodbury. Berry, of Exeter. N. H., was muir
d.red and robbed by unknown persons.
A mysterious murder and suicide excited
South Evanston, near Chicago, on the 3rd inst.
Itseems that Oscar Anderson and Lars Eek
land, (brothers-in-law) started on the End
to visit another brother-in-aw named John
Rand, at Chicago Eckland did not put in
an appearance at the big city and Ander-
son said they had quarrel and his COM
panDn had remained home. During the
nigh, at. Rand's house, Anderson attempted
to Kill himself but only inflicted serious
wound. He said he had murdered Eckland and
wished to go to South Evanston to deliver him
self mp. Rand accompanied him. They walked
distance of five miles to the house of an Off
GER, when Rand went in leaving the wounded
and conscience stricken murderer outside.
When Rand came out Anderson was minus and
later his body was found hanging to tree.
His dothes were wet, showing that he first at
tempted to drown himself. Eckland's body
was found in the woods, covered with blood,
and With three bullet wounds in 1t. The mo-
tive for the killing is unknown.
Edward SchwerZman. residing near Paris,
Logan County, Ark, took his three chndren,