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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14
a POINT IN LAW.

A vexed question In international law
of many years standing has just re-
ceived learned discussion from Judge
Hoffman, of California. It is; Wheth-
er a fugitive from justice brought back
upon charge of one crime can resist
being tried on any other. One view has
been that although criminals ought not
to be extradited except upon specific
charges, and ought not TO be put on
trial or any other charge than one men
toned in the proceedings, yet the Gull
prit had no right to object; the question
was only diplomatic one between the
two nations. When Winslow was de-
manded from Great Britain by the Uni
ted States, Lord Derby, under an act of
parliament later than the treaty,
claimed from Secretary Fish a stipula-
ton that he should be tried only on the
charge named, but our administration
refused to give it, and there was long
disagreement between the two nations
over the question. In the noted case Of
La grave, the New York courts held that
until some law or treaty limited the
prosecution of returned offenders to the
very crime specified the courts could not
refuse to entertain any regularly made
charges. Other jurists of high stand
ing have thought It proper for a court
to entertain a prisoners objection that
ne had been brought back unfairly.
And of this opinion is Judge Hoffman.
He argues that specifying IN q treaty
certain crimes as grounds of extradition
implies that no others shall be allowed;
and. further, that the treaty is part of
the law Of the land, of which the pris-
oner is personally entitled to the bene-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14
WATERFOWL, WIS.
TRADE WITH MEXICO.

The bureau Of statistics has, just pre-
pared a statement showing the commerce
OF the United States with Mexico for the
fiscal year 1882. This statement is of
peculiar interest in view of the pending
commercial treaty. During the year IN
dicated the total imports into the United
States from Mexico were IN round num-
bers SIS. ZOO, goo, and the total domestic
exports from the United States to
Mexico were little over S13, 900, 600.
An analysis of these imports and exports
shows the following interesting facts:
OF the S15,OOO,0OO of imports from
Mexico over S., 300. 900 we're free of duty;
over So, 0OO,0O were specie, thus leav-
ing only a little over So, 900, 900 subject
to duty on the So, 900, 900 of dutiable i'm
ports: 81, 900, 900 were raw jute, 800, 900
were sugar, $31, 900 leaf tobacco, $27,-
600 cigars and $44, 1000 lead. OF the
articles imported free of dury, coffee was
valued at $500, 900, and hides and
skins 81, 800, 900. Of the $13, 900, 900 of
domestic exports to Mexico, the manu-
features Of iron and steel amounted to
nearly 81, 100000 cotton and manufac-
lures of cotton, 81, 500, 600; wood and
manufactures of WOOD, 81, 400, 900; leaf
tobacco, S126, 900; quicksilver, 1915, 600;
sewing-machines, 100000; paper and
stationery, $4,000 90; manufactures of
leather, S15O,OOO; oils, 1912, 900; glass
and glassware. Sill, 900; railroad cars,
$500, 900; agricultural implements, $780,
600; Indian corn, 1882, 600; live animals,
1882, 900. So far as merchandise is con-
cerned. the existing trade is largely in
favor Of the United States.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14
Falling from Great Heights.
lFrom the London Field.

On an aerial trip in the balloon Owl,
IN September, 1880-the voyage being
limited as to time by the conditions of
the contest IN which we, the aeTonauti-
cal party in the car, were engaged-it
became necessary to make rapid de-
scent. On first appearance near the
earth at Dunmow, IN Essex, the aero
naut found that, by coming to the
ground there, he would risk catching the
telegraph wires with his anchor. Bal
last was quickly, and perhaps lavishly,
thrown out, and we darted up to
height of 1900 feet. On again prepar-
ing for descent, the valve was twice
opened, and out, of course, rushed vol
umes of gas. The Owl fell plumb l, 300
feet in one minute and quarter. The
remaining sand ballast as it was thrown
overheard, few up in our faces, being
quite insufficient to check the descent of
the balloon, which, being somewhat after
the shape of the bird whose name it
bore, did not offer so much of the para
chute resistance as more bulgY enVel-
Ope would have done. We came to grass
with a thud that sent me about limping
for six weeks afterward, though none of
the other occupants of the car suffered
from the severe demonstrating. I men
ton this incident because it may inter
est Mr.. Straddling to know that our
breathing was not in the slightest de-
gree affected by this rapid falling
through the air. We were all perfectly
conscious, and as calm as men might be
who had some reason to fear that the
next second might be to them an eternal
one. Capt. Cheyne took TIE distance on
the aneroid as we fell, I took the time,
a young American kept the record, and
Mr.. Wright, the aeronaut, stood with
heavy grapnel ready to strike the earth
before the car atruck, and SO to igten
the balloon and break our fall, as it did,
or might not now be able to sign my
self. Another aeronaut says that he fell
from his car go feet into a plowed field
without loss of consciousness or receiv-
ing any serious injury. Mr.. Coxwell,
[ know, on one or more occasions, find
ing his balloon, on emerging from cloud
land, dangerously near the sea, descend
ed with great velocity.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14

General John A. LellOgg, who died at Wall
sau, Wisconsin, on the 10th. commanded the
iron brigade during the closing days of the
war; For some years he was pension agent at
La Crosse.
General G.. i. Granger, of Calais, Maine, and
G. L. Croker, of Taunton, Massachusetts, are
dead.
The last surviving son Of Wadsworth. the
poet died in London Oh the 10TH
Marshall jewell died at Hartford, Conn. on
the 10th. of bronchial pneumonia, aged 81. He
spent his early years as a tanner and in con-
structing telegraph lines in the southwest He
was twice governor of Connecticut, was minis
ter to Russia, postmaster general, and at his
death held the craftsmanship OF the republican
national committee. He leaves mother. wife,
and two daughters.
Charles r. Thorne, the actor, died suddenly
in New York, at the age Of 43.
VIM. i. Dodge, the New York millionaire
philanthropist, died suddenly on the morning
of the 9th inst, at the age OF II years His
work in.the cause of temperance was continued
throughout more than h Glf a century.
Ex-GOv. Davis, of Texas, died at Austin on
the 9TH inst, of pneumonia.
Chas b. Sedgwick, of Syracuse, N. Y. who
served IN congress from 1853 to 1862, is dead.
Age 68.
Judge Mckenzie, United States counsel for
the Fenians at Toronto, died on the 18th.
Samuel Harlan, one of the most prominent
Of American shlpbuilders, died in Europe on
the 9th.
Samuel G. Cornell president of the Cornell
Lead Company, Buffalo, n. Y, died on the 9Th
inst, aged IS.
HenshaW Dana, musician and composer
passed away at Worcester, Mass, on the 5th.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14

Irish manufacturers are in q deplorable
state of depression, that towns in the
center and south of Ireland are IN state
of decay, and that, as a rule, when an
Irishman starts little industry, he is
undersold and ruined by some great
English establishments; but he cannot
conceive of willingness on the part of
the English to give Ireland on oppor-
tunity to prevent these results by means
of protective tariff This last difficulty
lis very serious, but to an American,
bearing 10 mind the dual nature
of his own government, Mr., MOrley's
But the more interesting parts OF Mr..
Morley's discussion are devoted to local
self government. and here he shows how
much can be done toward satisfying the
political aspirations of the Irish without
conceding national home rule. While
10 England the county controls the
rural police, and the urban police are
under she control Of the municipalities,
in Ireland all the police are under the
SOhlAOA VI tLC S1CNCI1ALlOLb CIV - etSA'A'
Castle. So, too, education and the man
agement of the lunatic asylums In Ire
land are part of the machinery controlled
by the lord lieutenant. The poor-law
guardians do not represent the people
much better, and the government OF
counties, through grand juries, is man
aged in such a way as to make it wholly
anti-popular. Mr.. Morley suggests q
plan for county government by elected
boards, such as we have in this country.
He further shows the difference between
local government IN England and Ire
land by pointing to the difference be-
tween the proportions of municipal
electors to the total population OF cities.
In one English city of 259, 900 popula-
ton there are $4,000 electors, while in
Dublin, out of population of 268, 900
there are but 5000 or 1000 electors.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14
The Phoenix Park rsurderers.

Mlchael havanagh, ca rman, turned infOr-
mer on the 10th INST, against the prisoners
charged with conspiracy to murder govern
ment officials in Ireland, and told the story of
the assassination of Cavendish and Burke in
Phoenix Park on May 9Th last. Kavanagh said
that be was engaged by four men on that night
to drive them to the park. Two of the men
were Brady and Kelly. James Carey town
counselor, Daniel Delaney, Patrick Delaney,
and a carman named Fitzharris, met the men
when they left the carriage. One of the men
said they were watching for the chief secretary
tltZhanls' cab had stopped a long way up the
road with the horses heads turned to Dublin
short time after he saw two gentlemen ap-
preaching, and heard cry. On looking around
he saw one of them fall. He did not see the
other fall, but the four men he bad driven to
the park at once jumped on his car and drove
away. Kelly alighted at Palmerston Park and
Brady paid him (the driver) IS. On the Sun
day morning following Brady met him again
and gave HIM so more. Kavanagh's testl-
mony is very positive and circumstantial and it
appears that Burke was first murdered, the
plot being primarily against him. AS the ex-
animation progressed the prisoners appeared
disconnected and desperate. On Kavan8gh
identifying Delaney and James Carey, the lat
ter of whom he said he knew well, there was
such a connection in court that the magistrate
threatened to clear it. The evidence is con-
sldered conclusive and the prisoners evidently
feel that the game is up. There are thirteen
of them in all, charged with conspiring to
murder Burke and Cavendish and to attack
Field.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14
Frozen to Death.

A coach which left Pacific Springs. on the
Sweotwater Stage Line, was caught in the
storm of the I'd INST, and abandoned, the
party starting back on foot to the station. The
driver, W. J. Stewart, was found frozen to
death, standing IN the snow, and Thos Scott
superintendent was found standing straight
up in tie snow. frozen SO he could not move
He will lose his hands and feet. W. V. Stark
2 passenger has not yet been found. They
stage-driver was badly frozen. He reports two
feet of snow on the level, and that cattle are
starving. This stage line runs from Green
River, on the Union Pacific Railway, to Fort
Washable, Wv. through the South Pass of the
Rocky Mountains
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14
" Now A PertatVW

Willis, the poet, whom our fathers
aud mothers admired, saw one day in
London a scene of plenty and want.
The pathos of the incident laid not in
the contrast, but in the fact that want
seemed to enjoy plenty's happiness. AS
the poet was walking the London streets
he came across a little ragged girl,
whose sharp features indicated her IA
miliarity with hunger. She was peering
through an iron railing into the window
of an eating-house. A man sat at the
window making ready to eat good dim
der. The girl was watching his every
movement, as though the sight itself
was nourishing. A beefsteak, piping
hot, had been placed before him. The
man cut the steak, put piece of it on
his plate, and then stopped and looked
around. "Now a pertaty," murmured
the child, as if she herself was dining;
and her look showed the highest enjoy
ment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14
THE TIDES.

Sir William Thomson read at the re-
cent meeting of the British Association
most interesting and comprehensive
paper on the subject of the tides. He
explained the present theory of tides,
| and described the various influences
which modify the height tides, not,
however, taking into account the local
effects of peculiar conformations OF the
coast, which In some places cause a
very great rise and fall, and In others
reduce the movement almost or quite to
nothing. His paper dealt only with the
| tide-generqting power of the moon and
the sun. He gave a very clear account
| of the results of combined and divided
| attraction, and also of the changes due
to the nearness or distance of the sun
and moon at different points in the ell
hptical orbits Of the earth and the moon.
The fact that body loses one-six mil
ionth part of its weight when the moon
is overhead, owing to the mutual attrac-
ton between the body and the moon,
and gains One-half as much, owing to
the same cause, when the moon is on
the other side of the earth, was used to
illustrate the force which produced the
tides. There are some things in refer
ence to ibis Cvcr-wonderful motion of
the ocean @lich have not been ex-
planned, but the general principles
are no longer doubtful. That is to
say, it cannot be questioned that the
phenomenon itself Is fully explained
What remains to be done is to trace out
the causes of certain variations and to
discover why it is that some bodies of
water appear to be wholly unaffected
by the powerful forces which are suf-
ficient over most of the earth's surface to
cause tides. Sir William Thompson
shows plainly why the earth itself is not
twisted out of shape by the attraction of
the sun and moon, the cause being the
rigidity of our globe, which is equal to
that of homogeneous globe Of steel Of
the same size. We're it not so the earth
at its coast lines would be raised at the
same time and to the same extent as is
water, and there would be no tide. More
over, over the whole surface of the land
| there would be a semi diurnal rise and
fall which would utterly destroy every
structure which man could erect. But
if this is so we are forced TO the conclu-
sion that the very beginning of life on
our planet could not have been Until the
earth had acquired substantially the
same rigidity which it now has. Sir
William Thompson has invented an in
strument which will probably prove
highly useful. It is a tide-gauge which
is capable of adjustment for any place
as soon as the data afforded by the OBJ
servation Of tides for single year can
be had. Then by turning a crank the
variation of the tides during the whole
year can be exhibited, or the amount Of
any specified tide during the year can
be ascertained in very few minutes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14
The Deadly Boiler.

Taylorsville, ILL.,, was shaken to It's founda.
ton Oh the 9Th by the explosion of boiler il
the file factory. Five men were killed anG
several injured. Peter New, the prophet or Of
the works had both legs broken and was 9th
completely wrecked.
GrIer's saw mill at Charlotte, Mich, was
wrecked by boiler explosion on the 9th. B.
J. Grier, the proprietor, and VIM. Gordon,
the engineer. were killed. ~
An engine boiler collapsed at Boone Ia, Oh
the night of the 7th. Geo. Fleming, engineer,
and Joseph James were killed outright and
John Johnson fatally injured. The engine
room and the company's coal office was blown
into fragments. A team of horses that were
hItched near by were killed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14
ST. LOUIS.
a sc Pointer " Cat.

One morning recently Mrs. Ennis, of
Wexford, Conn, heard her cat, about
a year old, calling very emphatically on
the doorstep. The call not being ans
wered, Tabby renewed her efforts in such
a persistent manner that the curiosity Of
Mrs. Ennis was aroused. Upon going to
the door, there was the cat with a -four
bag stuffed full of papers and rags,
which had been left in the Wood-house,
some three rods from the house. This
she had dragged out of the building to
the house, and upon the appearance OF
her mistress endeavored to call her atten-
ton to it. When she succeeded IN max
ing herself understood and the bag had
been cautiously approached and shaken,
out jumped huge wharf-rat, much to
the delight Of Tabby, but to the horror
of her mistress.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14
Well UD in the Business.
(From Texas Siftings.l


"What luck did you hab las night?'
asked Aminidab Bledsoe of Whang-
doodle Baxter, two Of the most popular
colored men in Austin, or in this section
of Texas, for that matter. ''Ididn't hab
no luck at all. Oar was no chickens in
reach. I found lot of shirts hanglin'
on line, but de wedder was soancle-
ment dat de shirts and udder close was
froze to de line so tight couldn't pull
EN- off. Maybe de Lawd will temper de
wind to de shorn lamb, ana moderate de
wedder, so I kin pull dem close often de
line eff dey am still out ter night. >
''Why didn't yer cut de line at bofe
ends and go off wild de line close and
all?'' ''Brudder WhangdOodle, next time
I'll be proud ter hab yer go along. You
has studied de subject line upon line and
precept upon precept."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14
Seven men Lynched.

The Butte Mont. Inter Mountain gives par
ticulars of a lynching which occurred at Weeks
Vile a point in the extreme western Montana.
For many weeks a spirit of lawessness, rob-
berry and murder had reigned supreme at that
point. Good citizens were tcrrorzed and the
rule of the robbers was so poten5 that it was
unsafe for any man with dollar in his
pocket to appear on the street even in broad
daylight. Dire alarm took possession of the
business community, and it finally became evil
dent that unless ali good men wers willing to
sacrifice their property and leave, some imme-
date and determined effort was necessary to
terminate the existing reign of terror Urged
to desperation by the extremities d the stu
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14
YFurderOuS Deeds.

At New York on the 18th inst, Charles D.
Seebach, a bartender, fired on a party of boys
who were snowballing him and killed John
Noonan, aged 8.
Joseph Derry, drunkard, shot and killed
his father-in-law, NJ. M. Smith, one of the
leading farmers..of Barton County, No., on the
9Th. Dorrey, by cruel treatment forced his
wife to seek refuge at her fathers. and be-
cause the latter would not deliver up his s.
year-old boy Dorrey killed him.
Anthony Korzlminski, a Chicago "sand-
Dagger" waylaid August Gerharde respecta-
BILE citizen, on the night of the 18th, and was
shot dead.
Late on the night of the 9Th young man
named Freeman, residing at Roxland, fourteen
miles north of Charlotte, Mich, was shot in
the head by John Day, with whose daughter
| he was trying to elope. Young Freeman had
been forbidden the house, and at last under
took to elope with Miss Day. Her father
hearing of it, followed on horseback, and,
| overtaklng the couple, shot Freeman in the
forehead, causing a serious wound, from which
be will probably die.
The employees of the Pinos Altos Mining
Company at Chihuahua, Mexico, were attacked
by desperate characters on the 8th. Manuel
Anchor, clerk Of the company, Bucban Hep
burn, the manager and four whites were
killed. The authorities and citizens turned
out en- nldSSe and captured five Of the rufians
whom they promptly executed
At Chattanooga, Tenn, c3lored man
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14
work of the Flames.

A siX-story building on Spruce Street, New
York City, was Quilted by fire on the night of
tue 18th inst The structure was damaged to
the extent of 1915, 900 while the loss to occu-
pants f0Ots up 100000.
A fire in Chicago on the evening of the 10TH
destroyed the building Nos. 16 and Is South
Canal Street. owned by the Newberry estate
and occupied by the manufacturing firms of
McAvoy d Co. and Wichman & Co.. the loss
being S40,G 600.
Rondopt, N. Y, was the scene Of a destruc-
tive confagration on the 18th inst. A blaze
which started in d barber shop spread rapidly
to adjoining buildings destroying large struc-
ture occupied by several railway and steam
boat companies and two mercantile firms, the
ice houses of the Cornell Steamboat Company,
containing 1000 tons and the steamer City of
CatskiIl Loss in the neighborhood of $780,
000
The residence of J. S. Haldeman on historic
ground, near Harrisburg, Pa, was swept away
by fire on the 10th. Loss $4,000.
The planning mill of Thomas MOnford, and
the lumber yard of Fields & Morrows, at Red
bank, N. j., vanished in smoke on the 10th.
Loss $50, 900.
The business portion Of the village of Lucas,
Lucas County, Iowa, was consumed by fire on
the 9Th.
Fire damaged the Excelsior Coal Company's
works at Doyestown, Pa, to the extent of $780,
000 on the 9Th.
J. W. Ladd's store at Bird Island. MIMI.
was reduced to ashes on the 8th. Loss $780,
000
The Grand Trunk Railway sheds at Hem
mingford, Canada. burned on the 9Th. Loss
$4,000. At Toronto en- the same day the
Royal Opera House was consumed. Loss $75,-
900.
A fire at st. Louis on the night of the 9TH,
destroyed Dixon q Youngs pottery. Loss
$50, 600.
/ Hamline University, situated midway be-
tween MINNEAPOLIS and St Paul was totally
consumed by fire on the 9TH. Loss $65, 900.
The pupils were in session at the time of the
outbreak, but they made their exit from the
building in an orderly manner.
Voight & Co.'S wholesale grocery, Norfo TX,
Va, burned on the 9TH. Loss 1913, 900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14

For nearly a year Hong Lee, Phil
adelphia laundryman, has Iavished his
affections upon Miss Addie Furman,
who reciprocated in the fullest degree,
and consented to wed the moon-eyed
stranger after the Chinese New Year, in
February; but Addie had mother, who
frowned upon the match, and had the
Celestial arrested for disorde.ly conduct.
Although Hong had bought Prince
Albert coat, pair of plaid pantaloons, a
white vest, and white SHIRT, in antici-
patton of his marriage, he consented to
abandon his suit if the prosecution was
dropped, which was done.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14

The notary of a New York bank was yester-
DAY robbed m m a.. street.caI OF package OF
within an hour the plumber was thrown down
on the counter by stranger.
Burglars on the night of the 9th raided the
Savings bank at Wyandotte, Mich, eight miles
below Detroit, blew open the safe, obtained
81, 500 cash and fifteen city bonds, on which
payment had been stopped.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14
ShipHFeCks

4 schooner has been wrecked near Porta-
ferry, Ireland; another near Shetland Island,
Scotland. In the first five sailors were
drowned; in the second the whole crew per-
shed.
Survivors of the disaster TO the steamer Ken
more Castle, which foundered on the I'd inst.
in the Bay of Biscay, existed three days by
chewing flannel vest. The third officer became
starving mad and jumped overheard, but was
rescued.
THE brigantine Finger, from Cardiff, was lost
with all on board. So says ST. John, n B.,
dispatch
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14
Anxious 10 HEipMla

wherever it will be permitted by the authori-
ties. for from $4,000 to $4,000 a side, after
which he intends to retire from pugilistio labor.
Slade has received challenge to fight for
So, 500 from james Elliott, who states that he
has deposited $500 with NJ. c. Mcdonald, Of
Chicago, for a mill near Kansas City.