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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-04

NEW YORK, March 3O.-Mary Ann
Dooley, of Chicago, was arrested on her
arrival at the Grand Central Depot yes
terday, on charge, it is claimed, of
numbering her mother by poison.
About month ago her mother died
under suspicious circumstances, She
was supposed to be worth $500. 900. No.
verified will was found, but copy of
an alleged will was unearthed and inves-
tigation was followed by the flight Of
the daughter and a young man sup
posed to be a sutton. For some reason
the man was not arrested. The pris-
oner appeared overwhelmed by morti-
ticatlOn at the mere fact of being
arrested and placed in cell, and be-
tween sobs protested her innocence.
never poisoned my mother. No sir :,
1t is wrong to accuse me of such thing.
L always loved my mother. I was her
only child. We never had any differ
ence excepting about my engagement
! with John Sessions. My mother did not
like him, but | Co." She said further
that soon after her mother died an al
legged will was produced bequeathing her
property to number of charitable in
situations in Chicago, leaving her heir
and only child a certain sum on
condition of her not marrying
young man mentioned, whom her
mother thoroughly disliked. A writ of
habe08 corpus has been prepared and
will be submitted at the earliest moment
the supreme court is In session this
morning. Late last night Counsellor
Ambrose Ell. Purdy called at police
headquarters and exhibited telegram
which he had just received from Emory
A. Storrs, of Chicago, requesting him to
look after the interests of Mary Ann
Dooley. Purdy was offered an oppor-
tunity Of communicating with his client,
and subsequent to the interview called
upon the acting superintendent and re-
quested that the young woman be
brought before a police magistrate In
order that she might have hearing.
Counsel for Miss Dooley this after
noon obtained a writ of ha6ea8 corpus
returnable forthwith in the supreme
court, on behalf of his client,
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Yankee Wit.

Many years ago a Pittsburg iron firm
purchased a lot of condemned bomb
shells for old iron. The shells were not
loaded, but in order to melt them it was
necessary that they should be broken up.
This was attempted with sledge ham
mers, but the laborers made but little
progress and it was finally given up as a
bad Job. One day long, slim Yankee
came along and said:
81 understand you have a job for a
man here
eyes," was the reply: 1--WE want that
pile of bombs out there broken.
"How much will you pay %
"We will giyeyou ftp apiece (six and
a quarter cents) if you will agree to
break them ALL
"I'll take the contract, answered the
Yankee. The day was a cold one, and
the thermometer down to zero. The man
Immediately went to work, but disdained
to take the large sledge hammer which
was offered him. The Yankee laid every
bomb out on the ground with the
hole up. He procured bucket and
filled them all with water; then he came
into the house, made out his bill, and
said he would call around IN the morning
Tor the money. Every one was much
mystifed, but in the morning their as
constituent was great. The water had
frozen during the night, and IN the
morning pile of scrap iron was found,
as the freezing water had broken every
bomb into at least dozen pieces.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-04
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 4, 1888.
COsMIC DUST AND HAIL.

An interesting problem has recently
been raised by the analysis of the dust
which fell in 1879 in parts of Italy and
Germany. Professor Tacchini, of Rome,
examined some of this deposit and his
analysis revealed the presence OF the
usual constituents of African dust borne
by the sirocco winds ranules of metal
lie iron, nickel and cobalt. The Ger
man mineralogist, Won Lasaulx, has al
so recently pronounced some OF this
dust, as we'll as some that fell in Catania
and some which Nordenskiold collected
in the Arctic regions, to be composed of
matter which does not indicate a cos
mic, but rather terrestrial origin. In
a remarkable >paper read at the last
meeting of the British Association by
Professor Schwedoff, of Odessa, on the
origin of hail, the bold ground was ta-
ken that many, if not all hailstones are
of cosmic origin, and that the stony
matters found in them are not matters
raised from the earth's soil by hurri-
canes, but meteoric dust. "Certain
hailstones offer a development of ice
crystals, according to Professor Schwed-
off, unknown on the surface of the
globe, for the crystalization of these
masses is effected during thou
sands of years and under
conditions of repose unknown on
the earth" The evidence that much
meteoric matter enters cur atmosphere
and may be occasionally detected in hail
is conclusive. But this theory is ill-sus-
tanned and inconsistent with the fact that
while meteoric matter falls to the earth
at all seasons, hail is generally confined
to tie warm seasons. Most probably
much of what has been called " cosmic
dust +" and 'cosmic hail F." is only the
matter transported from the rainless
regions of the earth or elected from vol
canoes into the great upper atmospheric
currents. In an eruption of Cotopaxi
observed by Whymper, dust and ashes
were thrown which, it is said, would, if
collected, weigh over million tons. A
remarkable observation reported to have
been made by Professor Tacchini-that
these dust falls III Europe are ''invari-
ably accompanied by barometric depres-
sions gives practical turn to the in
yestigation. IF this is confirmed the fall
of dust within the temperate zone would
reveal the unusual movements OF the
equatorial upper currents, which pre-
cede and help to produce those long
spells of heavy rainfall to which the re-
cent floods IN Europe were chiefly due.
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THE POPULATION OF ALASKA.

The report OF Ivan Petroff, the agent
of the Census Bureau for the enumera-
ton of the population of Alaska, divides
that country into six districts-1st, the
sion; Sd, the Kuskovian division; 4th,
Arctic division; I'd, the Yukon divi-
the Aleutian division; 5th, the Kadiak
division; 9th, the southeastern division.
The southeastern division includes Sitka
and Wrangle. and comprises the greater
part of the white population of the terri
tory. There are, or rather were in 1880,
but 430 whites in the whole territory,
and 157 of them were in Sitka and los
at Wrangel. During the last two years
there has been an influx of miners, and
the white population has been greatly
increased. The Creole population In
1880 was 1,756, of which the greater part
was in the Kadiak division. The native
population is divided into five races, viz:
The Innuit, the Aleut, the Tinneh, the
Tlinket, and the Hyda. Their numbers
are as follows: Innuit, 1857; Aleut,
2.145; Tinneh, 1927; Tlinkes, 6,763;
Hyda, 1885, The Innuit is thus seen to
be the predominant race, and it is found
in all the six divisions of the territory
except the AIeutian and the southeast
ern. Innuits are the only inhabitants of
the Arctic division, but are most numer-
GUS in the valley of the Yukon and the
Kuskovian division. The total popula-
ton of Alaska is given as only 80, 426. 1t
is one of the sparsest populations in any
part of the world, amounting to but one
inhabitant to every sixteen square miles.
Were the population of the remainder
of the United States no denser than this,
there would be but 225, 0O0people in the
country instead of 100000. The av-
erage density of population in the United
States is about fourteen inhabitants to
the square mile, and at this rate there
would be room for seven and half mil
hon people in Alaska.
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GbiallRrV.

Cardinal Pierre Francisco MegIia, died at
Rome on the LIST inst.
Rev. Geo. Allen, died at Worcester. Mass, on
the LIST, aged 81. He Was graduate of Yale
in the class of 1913 and the author of the
resolution of I848 for 60 free soil, free men,
free speech and a free land"
Charles A. Fowle one of the most active and
enterpI1slng young business men of St. Louis,
Mo-, died suddenly on the night of the 10Th.
He was the originator of the base ball league,
with which he was connected for years.
Captain X. ID. Noleman, prominent citizen
of Southern Illinois, and who few years ago
wa s one of the state commissioners of the Joliet
penltentiary, died at his home at Centralia, on
the 30th, aged 81.
Gen. Charles r. Gill. prominent citizen of
Wisconsin, died at Madison on the 29th aged
about So years. During the war he served as
colonel of the Twenty-nlnth regiment, and con-
tracted disease in the campaign about Vicks-
burg, from which he never fully recovered.
Gen. n, B. Buford died at Mercy Hospital,
Chicago, Oh the 29th, aged rs years He grad
uated from West Point in 1927, and was made
brigadier general in 1862. He received a
brevet major generals commission in 1865 for
gallant conduct. He afterwards was special
United States Indian commissioner and one of
the commissioners of the Union Pacific Rail
road.
Thomas H. Herndon. congressman-elect from
the first district of Alabama, died at Mobile on
the 28th, aged 55.
J. w. Hodgson, a prominent citizen of Rock
ford, ILL.,, died very suddenly on the 18th.
John Brown the favorite attendant of Queen
Victoria, died on the 28th.
Lieut. Col Franklin Harwood, of the United
States Engineer corps, was found dead in his
room at Young's Hotel, Boston, on the Goth.
He died Of congestion of the brain.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-04
RObberIeS.

Nine thousand dollars in gold certificates is
alleged to have been distracted from the cash
room of the New York custom house on the 18th
of March. An investigation is IN progress.
While President Arthur was collector at New
York he was subjected to a loss Of $4,000 under
circumstances very similar to those of the
present case.
Three thousand dollars worth of silks. stolen
from dry goods house at Lawrence, Kansas.
recently, were recovered by the Chicago police,
through information given by a wholesale
house here to which the person having the
silks in charge had offered them for sale, stat
ing that he had taken them in exchange for
mining stocks.
safe in drug store in the town of Rush
vile, New York. not far from Rochester, was
blown open on the night of the 30th ult., and
about 81, 900 in cash and negotiable paper and
much larger sum in registered securities were
distracted.
Theo. w. Wells, cashier of a large insurance
firm at Buffalo, N Y, is short in his accounts
to the amount of $40, 600.
Giles, banker or Clifton Springs n V
is missing. He is said to have issued forged
paper to the extent of $50, 900.
James II. Burnett and Charles Booth, for
merly employed by the New York firm of E. &
FL. Anthony, dealers in Photographic materials,
were arrested on the 29th, charged with en-
bezZling $18, 900 from the concern. The former
was arrested at Jersey City and Booth was
taken in Colorado. Detectives had been on
their track for three months.
For the past six months the dry goods firm
of G. W. & E. Partridge, chicago, have con-
tinually missed goods from their store. On the
28th, John Boorman, an employee. was arrested
on evidence procured by detective. A search
of the prisoners apartments revealed $4,000
worth of plumber. Bocrman bad female con-
federates who took charge of the goods when
he dropped them from an alley window Of the
store.
F1L, 1c oe g.
Lawrence, Ks, was robbed Of So. 600 worth of
silks on the 28th.
The safe in the office of the exposition build
ing, Chicago, was broken open on the 25th,
and robbed of 81, 100.
Henly Porter, a wealthy farmer living near
Chattanooga. Tennessee. was visited by four
masked men on tie night Of the 26th, who,
being refused $500 that Porter had hidden i'll
the house. set the building on fire and it was
consumed. It's value was 81, 900.
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Sauanderfng the puhlic nomain.

Judge Payson, Of Illinois, since the adjourn
ment of congress has been continuing the in
vestigation into the system of making land
grants to railroads. This afternoon he gave a.
summary of his researches. The most sta IT.
ling fact brought out is that the railroads of
the country possess 400, 900 acres of land that
they are not entitled to. The following roads
are among those which will be compelled to
disgorge the lands that they have acquired and
not earned; The Gulf and Ship Island; Coosa
Savannah and Albany; Vicksburg, Shreveport
and Texas; Iron Mountain; Ontonagon and
Brule River; Northern Pacific; Oregon and
California; Atlantic and Pacific: and the Texas
and Pacific. The amount of land, which some
OF these roads are wrongfalIy possessing, is
stupendous. Thus the California and Oregon
Railroad holds 4, 100000 acres which must be
recovered, the Texas and Pacific and the At
lantic and Pacific are wrongfully in possession
of Is. 000 900 and S. 0O0, OO0 acres respectively
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-04

Mrs. Jonathan Monroe and her son Warren
were fatally poisoned near Brookneal, Va, on
the Both.
The residence of Solomon Fegley, in the
southern part of Miami County, Indiana, took
fire on the night of the 26th The owner. a
feeble old man, after gaining a place of safety
reentered the burning building to save box
containing a considerable sum of money. and
was overcome by the fames perIshing with his
treasure.
A peculiar and fatal accident occurred at the
residence of John May, near Racine, Wis, on
the 18th which resulted IN the death of his
daughter Mary, aged 5, and the serious injury
of his 8-year-od son, Johnny. 1t seems tina:
the children, In the absence Of their parents,
managed to secure an old rife and began to
play with 1t. The weapon was loaded, and in
the course of the play the charge went off,
sending bullet through the little boys hand,
and into Mary's breast. The wound was slight
but paralysis of the lungs resulted, and Mary
died within fifteen minutes after the accident.
The boy ls threatened with lock- Jaw.
painful case of accidental shooting oc-
CURED at La Crosse on the 25th inst. Several
boys gained access to the Light Guard armory
and engaged in game of cards. One of the
party named Louis May, watched the game,
and discovered that the players had inaugur-
ated a practice of cheating. He playfully
reached for a musket and remarked that the
next man he caught cheating would be shot.
he singled out Frank Mahar and said, ''You
cheated, Frank, lock out" Mahar playfully
exposed his breast and said "shoor away.
May fired what he supposed was blank car
fridge, but which unfortunately proved to be a
target cartridge. The bullet entered Mahar's
left eye, rDjuring him fatally.
The balance wheel of wood-sawing machine
burst in Spring Prairie Township, Walworth
County, Wis, on the 26th killing Frank Pal
mer, young farmer. His body was fright
fully mangled
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-04

The discovery of thirteen more bodies in the
Diamond coal mine at Braidwood, was report
ed on the 31st, making forty-two found thus
far of the eighty who persisted by the flood
ing of the nine six weeks ago. Great excite
ment was caused on Sunday, the 1st inst, by
the discovery that the party who went in the
mine to recover the bodies had been cut off bv
fall of rock from the roof of the mine. An
other force went down into the pit Immediate
ly and sitter several hours Of hard work sue
ceeded in releasing the imprisoned miners.
One of the latter was SO Frustrated that he
was carried to his home. The miners refuse
to prosecute the dangerous work and it is
thought the pit will be filed up and monu-
ment placed over 1t in memory of the unfor-
Inmates whose remains still lie in the gloomy
cavern.
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can start a school and get government
grant by complying with certain regula-
tons and submitting to the government
inspection. No child need be given
any religious training if it's parents OBJ
ject. In England and Wales their are
100000 pupils Oh the registers, and
their are 100000 who attend no schools.
The children who go to school pay, on
an average, two cents a week for in
struction, while the government furn-
ishes about 81, 600, 900 sor the Board
schools of England and Wales. In
1874 the educational facilities were
extended to Scotland, and now half a
million children attend the government
schools in that country. The grants for
all schools have risen from SIS, 600, 600 in
1870 to $40, 200, 000i in 1882. If the chill
dren are unable to pay fees the fees are
RENTED. Compared with our own coun-
try, where between $50, 600, 600 and $50,
0OU, 900 are expended annually on the
public schools, which are free as far as
tuition is concerned, the English system
appears small. France is ahead ofEng-
land, too. The French government is
expanding $40, 100000 building 40, 900
scbool-houses for the people. This, IN
addition to large local expenditure.
The French school tax is So a head on
every man woman, and child N the
country. They mean business there.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-04
EDUCATION IN ENGLAND.

The British are slowly working their
way up to a decent system of public edu-
cation. Forty years ago the parish
scoool under the charge of the Estab-
ished Church, was deemed sufficient,
but these schools covered only small
portion of the field and the dissenters
had to establish their own schoosl. Then
the government established schools of It's
own, and now education is made COM
pulsory at the age of five, and the child
can be put to work at half time by the
parents only after reaching the tenth
year, and the compulsory clause termin-
ates after the thirteenth year. The school
year is forty -four weeks, and anybody
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9th. They were charged with firing the barn

9th. They were charged with firing the barn
of a neighbor.
John Behymer, proprietor of a saw mill at
Fairfield, ILL.,, was shot and killed by Orlando
Kirby, who escaped to the woods.
At Perryville, Mo-, on the 9th, Charles
Wynn, aged 10, and Edgar Garner, aged II,
quarreled. Knives were drawn and Wynn was
fatally stabbed.
More than twenty men were killed by the
Apaches in Arizona last week. 1t is expected
that the Indians are concentrating at point
abont forty miles from Tombstone. They have
set fire to the grass, and the country there
about Is in blaze.
jealousy Of her husband impelled Mrs.
Thomas Parks. of Herkimer, New York, to the
murder OF her two young children and herself.
She put the little ones to bed, and lying down
with them, SHOT them and then herself with a
revolver.
Henry Williams and George Kennedy, two
old men and residents of Round Grove Town
ship, Marion County, Mo-, engaged III an alter
cation on the night of the Oath concerning Will
liams wife. Williams was killed in the fight.
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The Apparent wastefulness of Nature.
From the Popular Science Monthly.i

from the Popular Science MonthIy.l
Life is sown broadcast, only to be fol-
lowed almost Immediately by destruc-
ton nearly as sweeping. Nature Gre
ates by the million, apparently that she.
may destroy by the myriad. She gives
life one instant, only that she may snatch
it away the next. The main difference is
that, the higher we ascend, the less Law
ish the creation, end the less sweeping
the destruction. Thus, while probably
but one fish in a thousand reaches ma
turity, Of every I 1000 children born 604
attain adult age. That IS. nature tilngs
aside 999 out of every LOCO fishes as
useless for her purposes, and two out OF
every five human beings.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-04
Suicide

Herbert Weaton, who shot at his brother
and Samuel Kelly, Jr., his partner in business
at Calais, Mo-, killing the latter, killed him
self on a railroad train near Truera, n. s., on
the 28th.
Herman Neumann. prominent citizen Of
st. Clair N. Y, killed himself on the 18th, be-
cause his daughters opposed his remarriage.
Col. James l.. Corley, an insurance agent
cut his throat at a hotel in Hampton, Va, OIL
the 28th. He was a graduate of West Point
held a position in the army before the war
and during the rebellion was on Gen. Lees
staff.
Mrs. James r. Shuffiebotham. of Glenbeu-
lah Wis, put two bullets through her infant
childs heart on the 2Sth and then killed her
self. Cause dependency.
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Heavy Failures.

A depression in trade has caused C. P. Markle
d Sons, an extensive paper manufacturing
firm of PittsburS, Pennsylvania, TO make an
assignment. The assets of the house amount
to $1.00G,000, while the liabilities are placed at
100000. The failure was caused by Capt.
Markle, one of the firm decamping to Chicago
with from 100000 to $10G, 600 of the house s
money, leaving no funds in bank with which to
meet maturing obligations. AS the money be-
longs to Markle 1t cannot be taken from him in
a legal way.
Lord Mum, thelargest shippers of produce
at Montreal, Canada have failed. Liabilities
$3.50. 1000.
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Silence Rewarded.

An Indian merchant took an elephant
to fair. No sooner had he arrived than
he noticed a European, who, without
saying a word walked round and round
the elephant, examining it attentively on
all sides. The merchant addressed sew
eral questions to him without eliciting
a reply. An intending purchaser APP
peared on the scene, and the merchant
turned eagerly to the European and
whispered In his ear. "Don't say a
word till have sold the elephant, and I
viii make you handsomepresent." The
stranger nodded assent, and remained
mute as before. When the bargain was
concluded and the money paid, the mer-
chant handed over 10 per cent. of the
purchase-money, and said to the mys-
ferrous parsonage. "Now you can
speak; I want you to explain how you
came to notice the blemish in the left
leg of my elephant, which [ thought I
had managed entirely to conceal?" ga
blemish!" replied the silent one. 81
discovered nothing; it is the first time
I ever saw an elephant in my life, and I
examined it out of sheer curiosity"
A QURUE-cUMBRoUs thing.-A China
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Mr.. Dukes, the slayer OF DIR. Mutt. was
served with notice by citizens of Uniontown,
Pennsylvania, that he must leave the city with
in twenty-four hours. Mr.. Dukes paid no at
tention to the warning. although he keeps his
room The report is current at Uniontown
that DR.. Nuts eldest son and daughter (the
latter the subject of the contI oversy which oc-
casioned her fathers DEATH are watching for
an opportunity to kill Dukes.
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work of The FLAMES.

The old opera house at Augusta, Ga, burned
on the 1st. Loss $4,000
The City Mills at Anna, ILL.,, valued at Sl9.
600, were swept away by fire on the 1st
A fire broke out in Cate Street, Montreal. a
few doors from the Theater Royal, at 8 o'clocl,
on the evening of the 3lst ult., and before it
could be extInguished 100000 damage had
been DONE The audience in the theater
gained the street without any serious casualty
occurring.
One-half of the business portion of the VII
lage of Deerfeld. Mich, has been laid waste by
fire.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-04

Alonzo L. Thomson's chemical works near
Baltimore, Md, burned on the goth. Loss
$4,000.
Buildings and stocks valued at 1888, 900 were
swept away by fire at GattsviIle, Texas on the
29th.
Kelly, Reed Co.'s brick Touring mill at
by fire on the 28th. Loss S25, 900.
The damage by the fire in the Union club
house, at the corner of Dearborn Avenue and
lafayette place. on the 9th, was 100000.
which il fully covered by insurance.
Howell, Henchman u Co.'S tanncrv at Mid
dletown, n. Y. burned on the 27tn. Loss 800
0GU.