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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
Donkey VS.. GrizziY.


A fight is en record in the courts at
Pescadero between a jack weighing $50
pounds and grizzly bear of about the
same weight. The jack is owned by a
man named Ipse and is vicious brute.
A man named Black, raiser of blooded
cattle in that neighborhoOd, had been
troubled for several weeks by the visits
of grizzly, which killed and carried Off
a calf every night. and all his efforts to
capture the bear had been unavailing.
Finally, he advertised in several papers
of the state, Offering reward Of $50 TO
any person who would kill the bear.
Ipse read the offer and resolved to take
his Jack to the corral and see what the
results would be. Accordingly the jack
was duly installed. In the night along
came the grizzly, and seeing the jack
and fancying change of Diet, he made,
an attack upon him; but as no one saw
the fight, it is only supposed that bruin
made the first overture. Anyway, next
morning, when the corral was visited,
bruin lay stark and dead, and the jack
was quietly feeding off pile of hay. An
inspection of him revealed the fact that
his breast and sides were fearfulIy. LAGER
ated by the bears claws, and one OF his
fore feet was dislocated. But bruin was
''all broke APP He had his lower jaw
smashed to pieces, all of his ribs on the
port side were stove in, and one of his
fore legs was fractured at the shoulder,
and he was generally smashed all over.
Ipse naturally claimed the reward OF
$50, but Black refused to pay it, claim
ing that the jack was not person, and
therefore was not entitled to the reward.
All Ipse's arguments failing, he resolved
to have recourse to law, and accordingly
suit has been brought.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
PECULIAR NAMES.

''Take Notice - is the name of a new
mining town In Colorado. Ssrah Bern
hardt committed suicide the other day
near Dublin, Ga. Mr.. Drinkwater hap
pens to be the name of Massachusetts,
ale brewer. Zachariah Taylor has been
sent to jail at Syracuse, n. Y, for theft.
Lains Bible and his wife Sarah Tesla
ment live In Crittenden County, Ky.
An Indian farmer has christened a calf
with two mouths "O'Donovan Rosa.
The village Of "Tight Squeeze, -
Georgia, is to be known hereafter as
North Atlanta. At recent election in
Sheridan, Mich, Benjamin Franklin
beat John Quincy Adams for justice of
the peace. Boone County, Mo-, has a
citizen named Old, whose nearest neigh
Dor is named Young. At Rockyfork,
Mr.. Grave lives few doors above Mr..
Gay. George Washington is lecturing
IN Somerset County, n. J. David Davis
teaches school at Middle Valley, II the
same county, and Cornelius Vanderbilt
works IN mine near by. George Wash
ington was witness before Baltimore
court last week; he was also discharged
from the Botetourt, Va, jail on the I'd
inst, after having served term of TWEEN
ty years in the penitentiary for shop
Iiftino
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
Gone Up i'm Smoke.

The Jackson Iron Companys furnace, at
Fayette, Mich, was burned on the 18th inst.
Loss $4,000
Flames destroyed the Anderson Pressed Brick
Works at Chicago, on the 18th inst. Loss
900.
A fire at 510-514 Spring Garden Street, Phil
adeIphia, on the 18th inst, destroyed $40 600
worth of property.
The fine Hancock building, belonging to
a nephew of Congressman John Hancock, at
Austin, Texas, burned on the 18th inst. The
building was valued at $50, 600; insurance $40,
600. Bertram, Bruggerhoff & Moeller, whole
sale grocers, lost $4,000, insured for $4,000.
The building was occupied by large number
of the offices of Forstser's bank, WOoldridge's
bank, N. O. Lauves' insurance Office and others.
Everything was lost, and there was no insur-
ance except that named. The aggregate loss
is about 1925, 900 with only $40, 500 insurance.
The trunk mandatory of Blank & Co., San
Francisco, burned on the 18th inst Loss $50,
900.
The Baptist Church at st. Adams, VT, was
burned on the 10th inst. Loss $50, 600.
The sash and blind factory of Bradley 4
Courier, at New York, was burned on the 10th
inst. Loss $4,000.
John Biggs' Distilery at Shelbyville, Ind,
was partially destroyed by fire on the 9Th inst,
causing loss of $50, 900.
Fire in Indianapolis On the 9Th inst, de-
stroyed Roots stove foundry and thirteen
dwellings,. The loss was $150,000. A number
of families are made homeless.
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drawn game, Zukertort defeated Bird,
and Englisch defeated Mortimer In the.
evening, Mason and Winawer PLAYED a
draw game, Skipwortb, Tzceigorin. and
Steiniiz defeated, respectively, Sellman,
Blackburne and Noa.
THOMAS WALLACE. of Chicago, defeat
ed Eugene Garter in an exciting game, at
the preliminary New York cushion
carom tournament Saturday. Seventy
SIX innings were played, and the score.
was: Wallace, 400; Carter, 300. Wal
lare's average, 55-19; Carter's, 81 5.
Wallace's highest run was 35; Car
ter's, 80.
The Milwaukee Rifle Club had its first
shoot Of the season, at Shooting Park.
yesterday. The first shooting was at
" centers." the scores made being:
Robert Rom, Is; Herman Meunier, Is;
Stephen Meunier, II; Christ Schmltt. Z:
Jos. Guschl, 6; August Engel, 5; John
Meunler, 5; L. D. Greer, 2; George
Drought, 2; Conrad Stein, ] Ad. Fien-
hold, 1. The '' King target shoot fol-
lowed, ten shots being allowed with a
possible $50. The leading scores were:
Robert Rom, 206: 81. Meunier, 1879;
Stephen Meunier, 1919. The next was
the " Union target" with three shots,
giving possible rs. The best scores
were made by Stephen Meunier, Sc, and
John Meunier, IS.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
A Remarkable Leap from a Train.

From the raleigh News and ObserVcr-I
Among the travellers on board the
Western North Carolina train last Satur-
day were a couple of guards taking a
body of prisoners to Marion from Old
Fort. Acolored woman was among the
prisoners. The train had encountered
a big rock that had rolled down on the
track, and which had to be blasted away,
causing delay of five hours, and the
train after getting under Roadway was
skipping along at forty-eight miles an
hour to make up for lost time. The wo-
man, taking advantage of privilege ex-
tended to her, jumped out of a window,
and no one knew anything of it until a
passenger, who had been standing on the
rear platform, came rushing up to the
conductor with the information that the
train had run over woman, as he had
seen her kicking on the track like a
chicken with its head pulled off. The
train was stopped and backed, but the
woman had gone.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16

accessions of the house of Hanover (1714)
down to the fall of Walpole (1742).
This is the age of Bolingbroke and Wal
pole; Swift, Defoe, Pope, Addison,
Steele, Bishop Berkeley, and Bishop
Butler, HALEY, Stephen Gray and Brad
ley. Second, from the fall of Wal
pole. (t742) to the opening of the French
revolution Q789). It is the age of
Chatham, of Frederick, Washington and
Turgot; of Wolfe, Give, and Hastings,
Rodney and Arson; of Gibbon and Rob
ertson; of Hume and Adam Smith. of
Kant, Voltaire, Diderot and Rousseau; of
Richardson and yielding, Sterne and
Smollett, johnson and Goldsmith; of
Cowper and Gray, Thomson and Beattie;
of Reynolds and Gainesboreugh, Ho-
garth and Garrick; of Cook, Watt, Ark
wright, Brindley, iHerschel, Black,
Priestley, Hunter, Franklin and Caven-
dish; of Handel, Bach, Haydn and
Mozart: of Wesley, Whitefeld, Howard
and Raikes. This is the central typical
period of the eighteenth century, with a
note of its own; some fifty years of en-
ergy, thought, research, adventure, in
vention, industry; of goed-fellowship,
zest for life and a sense of humanity.
Third-Lastly come some twelve years
of the revolution Q789a801); a mere
fragment of a larger movement, that can
not be limited to any country or any CEN
fury; the passion and the strife, the
hope and the foreshadowing, of things
that were to come, and things that are
not come. It is the age of Pitt, Fox,
Burke and Grattan; of CORVALLIS and
Nelson; of Bentham and Romilly, Will
berforce and Clarkson; of Goethe and
Burns, Coleridge and Wadsworth; of
Telford and Stevenson; of Flaxman, Be
wick, Romney and Stothard; the youth
of Sir II. Davy, Scott, Beethoven, and
Turner; the boyhood of Byron and Shell
lev.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
CURING DRUNKENNESS.

The eleventh annual report of the
Franklin Reformatory Home for Inebri-
ates, at Philadelphia, has Just been is
sued, and furnishes some interesting
statistics as to the success attained In
curing men of their consuming passion
for strong drink. During the year 1882,
300 men were received into that institu-
ton, aud 295 were discharged. Ofthese
142 gave evidence of thorough reforma-
ton, IS were greatly improved, 26
doubtful, and 65 failures. According to
this showing the methods of this institu-
ton have been successful in almost fifty
per cent. of the cases that have come
Under it's auspices, which is, we regret
to say, much more than most temper
ance reform movements can show.
The object of this Home is, as its name
implies, the permanent reformation of
inebriates, and the principles on which
it is managed are best set forth in the re-
port of the superintendent, and are in
substance as follows:
Intemperance is regarded as q sin; it can
therefore be cured only by the subject of it
himself, aided by Gods grace; and the home
furnishes the conditions under which the trial
may be made with the best promise of success
The patients physical condition is first the OBJ
iect Of the most solicitous care. skilIful
physicians directions as to food, exercise, at
Tention, and occupation are implicitly carried
out. The body having been brought back, so
far as is possible, to its normal condition, the
patient is encouraged mentally and morally,
but not by any namby-pamby sentiment-that
he is an . unfortunate victim of inherited ten
denotes, and other nonsense-but by showing
him that he is drunkard because of his own
acts, and that the only way for him to recover
is by an exercise of the will and by divine aid.
To many persons this may seem a visionary
aud unscientifc way to reform a drunkard; to
Us it seems the only way that is at al likely to
be successful. The results spe ak for them
selves.
That the policy of the Franklin Home
is the correct one is pretty generally at
tested by facts. The possibility of any
number of men who have become the
slaves! of appetite, reforming with no
other support than the power of their
own wills, is small. A vast majority OF
them must have the best of physical, sci
entifc, and moral support, and the most
encouraging surroundings to enable them
to conquer their appetities. Even with
all these many an unfortunate man has
been overcome after months and even
years of manly struggle with the mon
ster. The only hope for permanently
reforming men who have become con.
firned inebriates is to heal them in body
and soul. This is the theory upon which
the Franklin Home operates, and it is
that which al temperance reforms which
undertake to deal with the drunkard
must adopt if they would succeed. The
only real safety for the individual is not
to cultivate an appetite.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
A Highly CoIored /" Romance.

On the 22d of February the good people of
st. Louis were startled by the announcement
that Fanny Kirchoffer, young lady aged %,
residing with the family of II. C. Haastick,
president of the Mississippi Valley Transports
The matter was placed in the hands of the po-
lice, rewards were offered, and every effort
made for the discovery of her whereabouts.
No trace was found. however, and search was
finally abandoned, it being concluded that she
had been foully dealt with and her body con-
cealed. One detective, however, had another
theory, and quietly following it up he at last,
on the 7th inst, found the young lady. She
had been living in the city all the time, and
had Just previous to her discovery given birth
to mulatto child. Now it appears that she
had for some time been criminally intimate
with Mr.. Haastick's colored coachman, and
had fed under his care to hide her shame.
Fashionable st. Louis society is all torn up
over the affair,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
Oil for Lighting Fires,

Oil Company, at Communipaw. New Jersey,
are of a capacity of 20, 600 barrels each. At an
early hour on the morning Of the 10th inst,
one of these tanks was struck by lightning and
exploded, throwing the burning oil in every
direction. The fire soon communicated with
the buildings of the company and with the
other oil tanks, which caught fire and explod-
ed one after another, notwithstanding the
efforts of the fire department, which seemed
to be powerless to stop the spread of the
flames. After raging for about three hours,
however. the flames were subdued, after
twelve large tanks, eighteen cars. SIX barges a
dredge, three docks and FIVE brick buildings
had been destroyed. The amount of oil
burned cannot be accurately estimated, but
the loss will not fall short of 5000, 900. Six
men were burned to DEATH
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16

[From the Mt. Sterling Ky } Democrat
a young gentleman of Owingsville
paused Martin Carriers, and being pretty
nischievous, and seeing Mr.. Garter IN
his yard, bethought himself to have
some fun. After covering Mr.. Carter
with his pistol, he put his bridle-rein
over his neck and led him to a tree
swearing that he intended to hang him,
and that he only had three minutes to
pray in. After tantalizing Mr.. G. for
some time, he was permitted to gohome,
saying it was joke. The young mans
friends are trying to get Mr.. @. to dis
miss the warrant obtained for kukluxlng,
attempting to break the peace, etc.
Mr.. G. says, instead of letting him go
'sScott " free, he will prosecute him to
the fullest extent of the law. John will
know better next time.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
Damon and Pythias.

Gov. Blackburn, of Kentucky, on the 10th
inst pardoned James SiZemore. who was sent
to the penitentiary from Clay County, in 1880,
for six years for murder. 1t is said that Size
more made no Defense his brother, man
with large family, being the real criminal.
He voluntarily took the odium and penalty on
himself for the sake of his brother and family.
The brother dying the other day made a de-
claration of his guilt and gave such unmistak-
able proof of the truth of his confession that
the governor issued a pardon at once, when
the facts were made known to him.
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Gradually GObbled.

For some months back the firm of Chas. Cos
sage & Co., Chicago, suspected one of their
clerks, named R. L. Johnson, of surreptitious-
ly taking goods away from the store belong
ing to the firm and he was finally discharged
on that account. Shortly afterward Johnson
disappeared, but in few days sent for his
trunk which, however, was held for his board
bill. A search warrant was then sworn out by
his former employers and the trunk opened,
when goods to the value of So, 500 were found
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
SPORTING.
BASE BALL.

During the past week the most no.
tlceable features IN the league play have
been the excellent showing made by
Detroit, who got away with Chicago in
two games, one being whitewash, MAX
ing defeat of three games for the Chi
cago nine on its own ground, and also
the excellent manner in which they have
disposed OF New York in two games. one
game being postponed. Cleveland has
also come to the front by beating Proyi-
dence two games out of three. The fol-
lowing is the schedules:
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Three More UnfOrtunates.

Amasa Stone, of Cleveland, the millionaire
railroad man, committed suicide on the 18th
inst. He went into the bath room at his resi-
dence, on Euclid Avenue, partially undressed,
and after getting into the bath tub, shot him.
self through the heart. He was sc years of
age.
Medina Pledy, a prominent builder of Water
vile, N. Y, committed suicide on the 18th inst,
by drowning himself in a cistern.
George E. Hurd, ex-sheriff of Schuyler
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
Another Crank.

Considerable excitement was caused in Bos-
ton on the 18th by the attempt of Richard
Brennan, crank, to assassinate Mr.. Wade,
chief of the district police. It seems that
Brennan felt inspired " to shoot somebody.
and after hunting through the state capitol
for Governor Butler in VAIN, he went to Penn
berton Square and peppered Mr.. Wade. The
wound Is not considered serious. Brennan
was arrpstpd
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
All ON FridRy.1

John W. Jackson, was hanged at Jackson.
Ohio, on the 18th inst, for the murder of
Samuel Hall.
Angelo Cornetti, an Italian, was hanged for
the murder of a fellow prisoner at Sing Sing,
N. Y, on the 18th inst
At Cambridge, H., on the 18th inst, for the
murder of Miss Maggie Copeland, was hanged
Sylvester K Mackinson.
Thomas Brandingburg was murdered in
1880 in cotton field in Arkansas. On the
18th inst. Jerry Balock was hanged for the
crime at Newport.
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Probable Suicide.

On the 9th INST George Gavin, who for twen-
ty years was secretary of the ST. Louis board
of police commissioners, was suspended pend
ing a Il examination of his books. The same
evening he disappeared, and is thought to have
committed suicide.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
Convicted atLaSt.

The third trial of Timothy Kelley, accused
of participation in the Burke Caverdisl muir
der, ended on the 9th inst, by verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree. The jury
were out an hour. He was sentenced to be
hanged on the 9th of June
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16

The police raided the Chinese opium den Oh
South Clark Street, Chicago, on the night of
the 18th inst, captured woman, three white
men and four Cinnamon. all under the influence
of the drug. Among the white men was Joseph
Brace, confirmed opium smoker, who con-
tracted the habit in San Francisco ten years
ago when mere boy, and claims to be the first
white man to indulge in the habit IN New York
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
More Shin CanaIs.

The Florida Ship Canal Company was organ
election of ex-Gov. John c.. Brown, of Ten
nessee, president It is expected that work
will be begun by the first of September. The
canal will run from the st. Johns River, on
the Atlantic, to the Swanee River, on the Gulf
of Mexico
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16

On complaint of the st. Paul Railroad
officials, sixteen young men and boys were ar
rested and brought before Judge Walsh, in
Chicago, on the 7Uh inst, charged with jump
ing on and off trains while III motion. After
severe reprimand by the judge the prisoners
were each fined 50 and costs. The young men
had been in the habit of stealing rides to and
from their work.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
4 LIST OF GREAT NAMES.

For all practical purposes the eight
zenith century in England means the
reigns OF the first three Georges. This
space we must group into three periods
of unequal length. First, from the
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RureIed for S4.nn0.

The private banking house of 7. North & Co.,
at Vassar, Mich, was entered by burglars
early on the morning of the 10th inst. and
gold and silver to the amount of $4,000 re-
moved. Powder was used in getting inside the
vault. The burglars were frightened away be-
fore finishing the job. and left $1,000 in the
safe, and $500 of the silver taken was afterward
found some distance from the bank.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
MASON C0nfesSes.

Paymaster WATSON, of the United States
army, who was robbed of $24,00 near Fort
Worth, Texas, short time ago, went to San
Antonio on the 6th INST, and gave himself up
to the authorities, confessing that he had hid
robbed in order to cover a deficiency in his
own accounts with Uncle Sam. He was SIS. 500
short
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CapSized i'm "a S0uaEE,

The new schooner yacht Grayling, of New
York, was taken out for trial trip On the
bay on the 18th inst, having Oh board her
owner and number of guests. The wind was
blowing in chunks, and while between West
Bank sand Swinburne Island squall struck
her and she capsized. Passengers and crew
had narrow escape.
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Deatb of am old Resident.

George Washington Warren died in Boston
on the 18th inst, at the age of 10. He was
the first mayor of Charlestown, and at his
death had been president of Bunker Hill for
thirty years.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
Found Guilty.

The Fenner trial at Grand Rapids closed on
the 10th inst. The prisoner was found guilty
of murder and sentenced to imprisonment for
life at hard labor, four days of each year to
be spent in solitary confinement.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
RurglarIOuS RruteS.

The house of Mrs. Moore, crippled old
woman living IN West Hartford, Conn, was
entered on the night of the 9TH inst, by two
men who, after ransacking the house for plum
der. brutally assaulted and ravished grand
daughter of Mrs. Moore. They escaped.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16

"CoUNT SAwA" is the name under
which Prince Takehito is registered at
one of the New York hotels. Prince
Takehito is the adopted son of the en-
peror of Japan, whom he will succeed
upon the throne. He is on his way
home from Europe, where he has been
at school.
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On the Elevated

A serious collision occurred on the New York
Elevated Railway on the 9Th inst. An up
train on Third Avenue ran into the rear end
of train whick was backing down to switch
off, and one of the locomotives was wrecked
With the exception of one man, whose leg was
crushed, no one was injured.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
Fair Sort of a Scandal.

Dispatches from San Francisco of the 7th
inst, state that Mrs. Theresa Fair, wife of
Senator Fair, of Nevada, has sued for a di-
vorce from her /" honorable spouse, alleging
on his part habitual breaking of the seventh
commandment
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
He SwOre to too Much.

Andrew J. Smith, president of the Manhattan
Life Insurance Company, of New York, was ar
rested in that city on the 18th inst, charged
with perjury in swearing to false returns of the
condition of his company. He was put under
IS, 600 bail
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
One E2Qre.

Joseph Mullett, indicted for completely i
the attempt on the life of Juror Dennis FielC
was convicted IN Dublin on the 10th inst. an
sentenced to penal servitude for life.
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Bombs i'm lROSCOW.

COW on the 18th inst. Several persons were
wounded. The police version is that il was
only railway signal. This explanation is not
satisfactory to the public, who have become
alarmed,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16

County. N. Y, committed suicide in the Jail al
Elmira, on the evening of the 18th inst. some
unknown person having furnished him with a
revolver. He was under five-year sentence
for attempting TO kill deputy sheriff