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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
A QUESTION OF INTEREST.

A question of interest has recently
been made more interesting to non-resi-
dent borrowers of money by decision
of Judge McCrarv, of the United States
circuit court Of New York. It has long
been the custom of capitalists in the
older states, where the rate of interest
is fixed at a low rate by law, to seek in
vestments in the western states, where
money is more scarce and the rate of in
terest much higher. The legality of the
transaction has often been called In
question, and the plea of usury has
sometimes been set up to avoid pay
ment.
In tbs case, as stated by the Herald,
a citizen of New York lent money to
citizen of Nebraska when the legal rate
of interest was per cent. il the former
and 10 per cent. In the latter state. The
agreement was made in New York. The
loan was secured by mortgage on lands
In Nebraska. The bond and mortgage
were executed in Nebraska and then sent
to the lender in New York, where the
money lent was paid over. It was
agreed that the rate of interest was to be
TO per cent. The Nebraska man failed
to pay the interest, and when sued set
up the defense that the contract was void
under the New York statute limiting the
rate of interest to per cent.
Upon the statement of these facts, the
opinion of Judge McCrary has just been
published. If the agreement was New
York contract, governed by the New
York statute, it was Illegal, and could
not be enforced. If it was Nebraska
contract, and governed by the Nebraska
law, it was valid. Judge McCrary holds
that it was the latter, and, therefore,
legal. He says:
Although certain preliminary negotiations
we're held In New York, yet the contract was
consummated, SO far as Miller was concerned,
when he executed the bond, and executed, &C
knowledged and recorded the mortgage in Ne
braska, and deposited them in the post Office,
directed to his brother in New York, to be by
him delivered to complainant. That is the
place where the signature was put to these
papers, which in fact. completed the contract.
1t is said that tine delivery was in New York
and that the contract was not consummated
until the papers we're delivered. But the
proofs show that the parties agreed that the
bond and mortgage should be executed III Ne
braska. that the mortgage should be recorded
there and that, after recording, the papers
should be sent to New York to the complainant
Under these circumstances I think that de-
livery OF the mortgage to the recorder for
record was a sufficient delivery to the grantee.
The court goes a step further, and
holds that citizen of one state may lend
money to a citizen of another, and the
rate of interest be taken which is allowed
by law In the state where the mortgagor
resides. The decision is of great in
terest to large class of borrowers in
the west, as well as to their eastern
creditors.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
RoiIWaY Wrecks.

At Alma, Co.., an engine and car were
thrown from the track and the conductor and
two unknown men instantly killed. A. hand
car near Chilicothe. O., was run into by
train, one of the occupants being killed and two
seriously injured.
An eastbound New York express on the Chi
cago and st. Louis Railroad ran into COW at
Pana, ILL.,, on the 10th. The engine, baggage
car and one coach LETT the track, killing a fire
man and lnjuring the engineer.
Near Chattanooga. Tenn. on the 10th inst,
a collision occurred on the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia Railroad. between a
freight train and a passenger train. Engineers
James N. Waters and John Hobbs were killed
and their bodies terribly burned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
Political,

The result of the election in Ohio on the 10th
nst., proved great surprise to all parties and
more especially TO the democrats themselves.
Who least Of all expected Sc overwhelming a
defeat OF their opponents. The heavy gains
came from republican strongholds, counties
which gave Foster nearly 2,000 year ago re
tordlng democratic majorities. Estimates put
5he democratic majority in the state at $4,000,
Ind makes the congressional delegation stand
Is democrats to republicans. The democrats
elect Follett, Jordan, Murray Lefevre, Seney,
Hill, Campbell, Hurd, Neal Converse, Geddes,
Warner, Wilkins, Paige and Farran. Che re-
publicans eecG Mccormack Updegratf, Taylor,
Kefer, Mckinley and Robinson. Several of
the district; are very close and an official count
may change the above result somewhat.
Returns from the West Virginia election show
republican gain Of probably 1900. The
democrats elected three out of four congress-
men, Gof Qep.) being successful in the First
District.
Toward Carroll, q well-known writer in the
New York Times, was to day placed UPON the
republican state ticket for congressman at
large vice Hepburn declined Mr.. Carroll is
al out-spoken civil service reformer.
Dispatches from Wheeling represent that
John W. Mason, republican, was elected to
congress from tbe second district by major
lty ranging from twenty-five to fifty. This
makes gain of two congressman by the re-
publcans. Heretofore the Virginia delegation
has been solidly democratic.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
Heavy Declarations,

Franklin L. Chase. prominent Chicago law
yer, has proven defaulter for large sum,
variously estimated at from $4,000 to $780,
geo. The money he appropriated was entrusted
to HIM by clients who reposed perfect conf
dence IN his integrity. Vine and women are
charged with the lawyers downfall. His
friends are making efforts to raise the money
necessary to make his embezzlement good.
Mayor Esinhart, of Iberville, Quebec, and
formerly member Of the Canadian parliament
was arrested, charged with defraud1ng the
Bank of st. James out Of $1O,0 600
The mayor of Long Island City has been in
dicted by the grand jury of Queens County, n
Y, on charge of disposing of city bonds to
the amount of $780,, 600 and making no return
Of the proceeds to the treasurer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
A Mustache War.

Some time ago the hotel-keepers of
Berlin made and carried out an agree
ment requiring all their walters to dis
pense with mustaches. A month ago
they held meeting and resolved that
after October 1 the same restriction
should be imposed upon their house SER
wants. The latter promptly rebelled.
and In great excitement inquired why
cooks should be excepted from the rule,
urging with much force that a mustache
was at least as Objectionable in the
kitchen as anywhere else. This was too
much for the lofty dignity of the cooks,
and they unanimously resolved that
they would sooner sacrifice their posi-
tions than their mustaches. At last ac-
counts strike was impending and the
prospects of female cooks was CORE
spondingly bright.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18

farmer named Davidson killed his wife and ia
tally injured his son.
Chiffon Simmons was fatally stabbed by
Charles Irwin at Georgetown, o., on the 10th.
Both were mere boys.
Ex-officer r. A. Savage was killed by James
Barrett, an Adams, Mass, saloonkeeper on the
10th inst.
II. c.. Mead, q wealthy banker Of Waupaca,
Wis. was fouDy murdered on the night of the
7th INST. Mead was d bachelor and roomed in
the rear OF the bank He did not put in an ap-
pearance for breakfast and an examination of
the bank premises revealed the BODY Of the
murdered man lying on the floor Of his room,
the top OF his head having been partly torn
away by charge from L shotgun, which had
been fired through the window. The murderer
then plundered the safe of several Thousand
dollars. No clue to the perpetrator of the foul
deed.
The Rev. Chapman, Baptist minister prac-
hclng his vocation at Austin, Texas. quarrelled
with John Turner on Sunday the 7th, and stabbed
him. Death was instantaneous
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
sickness and Death.

Yellow fever has swept Off 1913 citizens of
Pensacola. The report for the 18th. includes
thirty-three new cases and SIX deaths. DR..
White, of the marine hosrital service, has been
Frustrated. Lieutenant Thomas Winnie died at
Fort Brown. and q Mexican perlshed at Browns
vile. Special advices represent that fifteen
deaths occurred at Mer. Mexico. on the 18th,
and that the epidemic is still spreading among
the ranches On this side of the lilo Grande.
Nearly two hundred deaths from diphtheria
have within two months occurred in Pittsyl-
vania County, Virginia. including twenty pupils
in one school district.
Two hundred persons are lying i'll with ty-
pboid fever in Winnipeg.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
Work Nf the Flames.

Twenty business buildings at Manson, Iowa.
valued with their contents at $40, 200, were
swept away by fire on the afternoon OF the
14th.
The burning of Gulbraith's spinning mills. at
Glasgow, caused a loss of $4,000.
block Of business houses vanished in
smoke at Farrell, Texas, on the 18th. Loss
nearly 100000.
Packer Colliery No. of the LehiSh Valley
Coal Company, at Shenandoah, Pa, was de-
stroyed by fire On the 18th. Loss $50, 600
The loss by the burning of the magnificent
residence of the earl of Shrewsbury, near
Stafford, England, is So. 900.
By the burning of an elevator filed with
grain, at Bridgeport, Conn.,. on the 18th, $685.
600 worth of property was consumed.
The postofice, a newspaper Office and several
law offices were wiped out by fire at Olathe,
Kansas, on the 18th inst. Loss $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
HaiphRH 1EESRh1nk-

The Chicago express train on the New York
Central road struck q carriage IN Syracuse and
killed Mrs. Meg Dne, Mrs. Comstock, and Mrs.
Burgess.
BY the capsizing of boat in Harlem River
On the 18th inst, John w. Greedy and his sister
Emma we're drowned.
A freight train ran over and killed two little
girls at Natlck, Mass, on the 18Th.
James Stephenson and James Hohemier were
Killed. outright and two men named Watkins
AID Lautier badly injured by the explosion of
abOller il saw mill at Petersburg, ILL.,, on the
9th. Stephenson was one of the proprietOrs
q the mil.
Capt. Jas. Slower of the schooner Jane c..
Woodruff, was run over by the csrs and fatally
Injured at Port Huron, Mich. on the 10th inst.
Charles Scarritt. wholesale grocer of Gin
;lnuat, O., was thrown from buggy and fatal
ly injured on the 10th lust.
-Four men were killed in an iron mine at Re-
public, III the Upper Peninsula Of Michigan, on
the 10th by the falling of rock.
7, L. Langville, prominent lawyer of Gal
weston, accompanied a yachting party on the
,ulf, but fell overheard and was drowned
At baptismal ceremony near Canton,
te0rgia, rotten bridge carried two hundred
PRISONS into the water, many of them having
ANS or legs broken.
4 barrel containing $4,000 eech-loading
cps exploded at Bridgeport, Conn. demolish-
l1g the building III which it was located. No
Ddy was hurt.
Two brothers named Haske blew out the gas
J their room at Brooklyn hotel on the night
the 9Th ard were found dead III the morning.
Two men were burned to death at Stag Greek,
Gnada, on the night of the 9Th.
A boiler explosion at Shelbyville, Ind, killed
Geo. Young and fatally injured Harry Smith.
During a horse race at Lexington, ILL.,, be-
teen animals ridden by Elmer Enoch and
CANT Preble, the formers horse fell and broke
itneck, and Preble was thrown from his steed
an his thighbone smashed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
SUIcIq5Ps

had not recovered from the effects of a sun
stroke, pawned her watch and purchased a
steamboat ticket fer Port Austin, and on the
8th sprang overheard in the vicinity of star
Island.
Eva Stone, a 16year-old girl residing with
her parents at Gildden, Ia, shot herself with
her fathers pistol or the 10th. No cause as
signed.
Rev. J. L. Denton, superintendent of public
ms ruction of the state of Arkansas, jumped
from balcony at Fayetteville, in that state on
the 9th inst, and was killed. He had been
mentally unbalanced several DAYS previous to
the tragedy. Deceased was one of the most
prominent Methodist divnes in Arkansas.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
MOrtUarVe

Rev Thomas Guard, pastor of the Vernon
Place M. E. Church, Baltimore, Md, died
from the effects of a surgical operation on The
18th. Deceased was a native of Ireland
Greenberry B. Larrison the second sheriff
of McLeon County, Illinois, died yesterday at
Bloomington, having been paralyzed while
looking at the comet.
Edward Clark president of the Singer Sew
ing Machine Company, died of malarial fever
at Cooperstown, New York, leaving large for
tune.
A Paris cablegram announces the death of
Count Napoleon Neg, a son of the famous
marshal at the age of 20.
Congressman William NJ. Lowe, Of the
Eighth District of Alabama died at Birming-
ham, Fla, on the 18th inst.
Lieut.. Winnie, of the Nineteenth Infantry,
died of yellow fever at Fort Brown, Texas
VIM. Crust, an English agricultural pub
Usher of some prominence, is dead,
Albert Tuxberry, for SIX years mayor of Ne
braska City, and once nominee of the democ-
Iacy for governor, died on the 9th inst at the
age of To-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
Blooming Prosperity.
from the Evansville Argus. !


A few days ago drummer for one of
our wholesale houses was travelling il a
buggy along a country road in Askansas,
when he came upon tall, roughly
dressed man sitting upon rail fence
whiting. With sociable ''good morn
ing" the traveller drew up his horse and
asked:
SIS that your field of corn over
there?'
"Wal, I calkilate I'll freeze onto a
right smart sheer of it. I'm working the
piece on sheers.
CLOCKS like fine CROP"
1t does"
81 presume you are figuring on great
prosperity in future, such immense
crops Indicating plenty for ALL"
Prosperity Stranger that hain't no
name fur the cyclone that's agoin' to hit
this settlement atween the eyes this sea-
son. A tornado mout come jist now an
land every burned bit O. grain in the
county over in Tennessee, and yit the
smiles of contentment ID never shift off n
our faces"
"Some unexpected good luck has be-
fallen YOU, the tourist replied.
"That's the play to a t-y ty. We're
gettin' our slice O. the millennium away
ahead O the advertised date. Fust, OF
lack Bolton up an died last month, an
thar hasn't been ear O. corn or a side
o bacon missed in the community since
we tumbled the dirt on top O him. Then
Wash Tompkins, the boss OF sledge
player, got sent to state prison fur horse
stealin', thus gigin' us poor players a
show fur our pile; then Snaky, the
up at the forks o the road,
dropped down to 10 cents a drink fur
whisky, and said he'd take corn same as
cash; then my old woman ran off with
Yankee SEWN machine peddler, an If
bloomin' prosperity amt hangin' over
the neighborhood I'm gilt-eaged liar
from the Red River swamps. Got any
sweet topacker about you?
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
RAILWAY TRAVEL.

The current number of the North
American Review has an interesting arti-
Gle on railway travel in the United
States, which sets forth much valuable
statistical information. The writer opens
with the surprising statement that about
100. 000,00 persons are annually trans
ported over The 100000 miles of railway
IN this country. Probably very few have
heretofore supposed that each of our
fifty millions of inhabitants (of course
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
A 'Tragica1 Record

ames and Edward Bean, the two desperadoeS
wb killed the city marshal of Caldwell, Kan
sa III June last, were OVertaken by posse of
Offers near Sunset, Texas, and in the fight
wlch ensued James was instantly killed and
hitbrother mortally wounded.
It Germantown, Kentucky, on the 14th
Gerge Inscoe dared to promenade the fair
grQnds with the wife of George Cooper, an
oldlame, i'll opposition to Georges wishes, and
got1iIed for his audacitY.
he editorial sanctum of the st. Louis Post
Dlsatch was the scene OF a sensational tragedy
on le evening of the 18th. It seems that A.
W. layback prominent politician and q bril-
liar member of the st. Louis bar became in
cened at Col John Cockeren, managing editor
of tie Dispatch, because of the publication of a
certin article, and, with friend proceeded to
the)tfice Of the paper to demand satisfaction.
Onconfronting Cockerell Slayback assumed a
thratening attitude and threatened to shoot
Cokerell drew his revolver on being closely
pissed and killed his assailant. The news of
tltshooting spread like wild-fi1e and mob
s(G surrounded the jail awaiting the arrival of
1eprisOner, whom they threatened to lynch
Codzerell, however, did not surrender himself to
heauthorities Immediately, but proceeded to
hehouse of a friend where be was concealed
unll the first spasm of indignation had subsid-
ed. From the testimony of several attaches of
thePost-Dispatch who witnessed the fatal en-
counter it is evident that the shooting was
Unstable.
0 board a railroad train near Lebanon. Mo-,
on he 18th inst, r. P. Goodall, sheriff of La
Gee County, spotted Bob Taylor, one Of the
nuderers of the sheriff and deputy of Hamil-
tnCounty, Tenn, In September last GoodaI
stgped up to Taylor and demanded his sur
reder, whereupon the desperate drew his re-
vovG. The officer was too quick however,
an shot Taylor dead. 1t is said that $16,O 900
reVan is offered for the three Tayors. 1t is
tholint that another of the brothers was on
the tain, but made bis escape during the
shDtng excitement.
hooting affray occurred at Triton, Ca,
onth 18th inst, in which the principals were
mCGlly wounded and one Of the participants
kibC.
cowboy named J. II. Capps. murdered in
col hood at Fort Laramie, Richard 2. Elgin,
| a bOlkeeper for cattle firm, and then nearly
killd cowboy named Michael Regain. The
mudeer was placed in the guard house in
iron, ut mob overpoWered the guard and
lynQe, the prisoner.
Ala ate hour on the night Of the 18th inst.
q m,bOok Hume nedman. wife murderer.
fromth jail at Evansville, IND with the in
tentimf hanging him. The officers made
despae effort to rescue the prisoner, and in
the nee Redman and brother of his victim
were krd. Nine bullets penetrated the body
of the urderer. Several OF the participants
in the aair were arrested.
Two ed j1mates Of the Soldiers Home at
DaytonDhiO. engaged in a political dispute
on the la lnst., which ended In d murder.
AuguStafacke was the assailant and Cornelius
Rally tlvietlm.
Near 5ckerville, Mich, on the 10th inst, a
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18

exclusive of train employees averages
seven rides year on railroad trains. OF
disasters of all kinds to strain8 in motion
there are about 1000 each year. Not
less. than 1000 persons are annually in
iured, more or less, and directly or indi
rectly by the operation of the railroad
system. OF this great number, however,
only about one-half are connected with
the railroads as passengers or employees;
all the rest may be classed as "trespass-
ers, "whose INJURIES are received at cross
ings, by walking on the track, etc, OF
the former one-half, one-third are pas
sengers, two-thirds employees. Of the
passengers suffering from accidents, less
than one-half can justly blame the rail
road companies. OF the accidents to
employees, at least two-thirds are due to
their own carelessness. Forty per cent.
of the accidents to employees are fatal, as
are twenty-five per cent. of the injury to
passengers. OF all the passengers an
nually injured, the railroad companies
are responsible for only ten per cent. Of
the injuries and five per cent. Of the
deaths. This portion of the statistics
forcibly shows how careless individuals
are when they approach railroads for
travel, labor, or any other purposes.
But all these injuries, when compare
lively considered, are found to be sur
prisingly few. Of ali the millions of
passengers annually carried, only about
/, 800 are injured severely and only 400
killed; and of these, 800 injuries and
200 deaths are all the railroads are Justly
accountable for. More than 100000
passengers, therefore, are annually car
ried safely where one is killed by any
cause; and nearly 2,00O,O 900 persons are
transported safely where one is killed by
railroad negligence. For every passen-
ger at all injured, $1,000 are safely
carried; for every passenger whose in
jury the railroad company is at fault,
100000 are safely transported. Stats
tics from Massachusetts, show that in
that state passenger with average
good luck could travel $500 times the
distance around the earth before getting
killed.
The writer then compares railroad
travel with the old-time stage-coach
journeying. It has been asserted on
good authority that there were actually
more persons killed and injured IN
Massachusetts, fifty years ago, through
accidents to stage coaches, than there
are now through accidents to railroad
trains, despite the enormous increase in
the number of persons travelling. Stage
coach travel in France years ago injured
sixty passengers where the railroads
there now injure one. The official re-
turns III France show that man is safer
In railroad train than in his own house;
and liz England, figures prove that a
man is thirty times more in danger OF
being hanged than of meeting death on
the railroad. Such facts go far to con-
firm for to-day the statement made thirty
years ago 10y distinguished writer, that
"of all means OF locomotion which hui
man invention has yet devised, railroad
travelling is the safest in an almost in
finite degree"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
&EsIpSVF eCk.

The new steamship Balgaim. 1000 tons bur-
then. built at Aberdeen, Scotland, for the
American trade was totally wrecked on her trial
trip on the 18th inst
The steamship Herder Of the Hamburg
American Line, which left New York Oh the
Sd inst, for Hamburg via Plymouth, with 80
cabin passengers, 81 in the storage and a crew
Of 100, was wrec ed on the rocks of Cape Race.
4. f., on the 9Th INST. The passengers and
crew were safely landed. The vessel will I'M
donbtedly prove q total loss with her cargo.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
Death In the Wind

Considerable loss Of life and great destruction
of property was inflicted on the Island of Cuba
by recent cyclone. At Herradura 800 huts
and houses, including q large number of to-
bacco drying establishments, were leveled.
Two thousand palm trees were cat down. At
Consolation de Sur 761 houses were destroyed
The bodies of fifteen persons drDwned by the
overlooking OF rivers have been recovered and
many people are yet missing.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
Cantaigp Nebb5S EafeSF-

Captain Webb, the famous English swimmer
who entered a tank in Boston containing five
feet ten and one-half inches of water with the
intention of remaining in it 100 hours, COM
pleted his task at midnight On the 18th, having
remained in the water 1881 hours. He was
rather unstrung from loss of sleep.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
AFabl P8Sha,

The trial Of rebet prisoners commenced at
Cairo, Egypt, on the 18th Inst. Arab Pasha
was brought before the court and replied to
inquiries III long but important speech.
Thus far the testimony all tends to support the
rebel chieftains assertion that the ourages were
committed against his Will. 1t is reported that
emlssaries Of the khedive have been allowed to
enter Arabis cell aud grossly insult him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
WAX

An army OF 10000 Kurds, under Sneikh
Obeidullah, has appeared before the city of
Van, in Turkish Armenia. and demanded the
of the place. Persia and Turkey
have both sent armies to operate against the
Kurds, who, rs soon as the crops are ready to
harvest, annually make incursions into the Per-
sian and Turkish provinces adjoining Kurdis-