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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
IMBIBED WICKED PRoPENsI1IEs.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 1.-THE de-
tense in the larceny case of James
Heath, son of a former wealthy farmer,
was that the son was born during the
war, and his mother having exhausted
herself in assisting Rebel soldiers, could
not nurse him. Accordingly a colored
wet nurse was employed. After the
child was weaned, it was found the wo-
man was an incorrigible thief, and that
in nursing the child she had given it
the same traits, which manifested them
selves at tender age. It was also al
legged that young Heath's father had be-
come poor by paying for his sons mis-
deeds. The boy was held on nominal
hail
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

A MEDICAL writer holds that inebriety
is not only a disease, but belongs to
the class of contagious disorders. SIN
the light of well known facts this
opinion has somewhat genuine look,
says the Kansas City Journal.
"A meeting of good fellows for social
glass and few minutes of moderate
entertainment often leads to long
soak, and ends with big, riptearing
carouse. Does some one individual
carry the disease into the meeting and
impart it to his fellows? Is not inebriety
rather spontaneously developed; or may
we not say that it is mutually contagious
Without running the risk of starting
discussion, psychological or physiology
cal, we may, we think, set down the
contagiousness of inebriety as purely
mental
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
the destruction of each condor looks
like ridiculously small amount of
money for job of such magnitude.

The franchise bill which has just
passed the British house of lords, and
therefore stands good show of becorn-
ing law, it having already passed the
house of commons, is substantially but
step removed from general manhood
suffrage. It makes every householder q
voter without regard to the value of his
property, whereas the regulations now
in force make it necessary for the voter
to have been for year or more an own
err or tenant of house and lands hav-
ing certain rental, varying from "a to
e2O year. About 100000 voters, it
is estimated, will be added to the pres
emit number when the new law takes
effect,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
Deeds of Blood.

In the mines at Coal Greek, Tenn, on the
18th, six convicts undertook to escape. The
guards killed two of them and fatally wounded
two others.
Arch. Mcintyre, young man was murdered
by Albert McClore companion, at Donephan,
Mo-, on the 18th.
william Lynn, aged %, died at Chicago, on
the 18th from the effects of a blow from a po-
lceman's "bllly."
dispatch from Golden City, B. c., under
date of the 10th inst, states that a commercial
traveller named Baird was killed and robbed of
81, 500 near that place. a large number OF
citizens are in hot pursuit. Eddy, Hammond
& Co., for whom Bai:d was travelling, offer q
reward of 81, 600 for the capture of the muir
derers
man named Daniel Kennedy was shot and
killed by his wife on the morning of the 10th,
IN front of the new City Hall, San Francisco.
John P. Martin, charged with murder, while
head, in the same state, for examination, on the
10th, was attacked by party Of masked regu-
lators, who riddled him with bullets. The af-
fair took place at Farmers, Rowan County,
and is the third tragedy in the county in two
weeks.
At Thornburg. Ia, on the 9th. Mrs. VIM.
Schultz cut the Threats of her two children.
one aged 2 years and theother about months,
and then cut her own throat.
Four Anarchists with dynamite in their
possession were arrested at Sternberg, Austria,
on the 9Th.
Chas. Stevens, desperate known as
"Omaha Charley" who killed Hubert Kramer,
at Maryville, Mo-, December g. was taken from
Jail, on the 9th, after fight with the sheriff,
by mob who hung him on q railroad bridge.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
STATE INSTITUTIONS.
HAenp1ah Reports OF the Board OF SUI
perVlsiOm-NilN AsYlums

biennial Reports OF the Board OF SUI
Observation-Disclosures Asylum.
The state board of supervision, hand
ed In their biennial report to Gov.
Rusk on the 18th. The board make the
following estimates of expenses for the
ensuing two years: State hospital for
the insane, 92,648.88. This is unusu-
ally low, since there will be q probable
surplus of $4,000 remaining at the
close of the present year Northern hos
pital for the insane, $143, 421. Sc: deaf
and dumb asylum, $81, $50, there being
surplus of $3.50; institution for the
blind, $4,000, there being a surplus of
$780,; Industrial school, $79,631 .98:
state prison, $4,000, surplus of 81
500 remaining this year. The state pris-
on, it will be seen, is nearly self-support-
ing. Special appropriations will be
asked as follows: $4,000 for water
tower and reservoir for the State hos
pital for the insane, the present reser-
voir being too heavy for the entire safety
of the walls of the center building;
$4,000 for rebuilding at the Northern
hospital; $1,000 for purchasing real es-
tate for this institution to finish addi-
tional farm facilities; for the Deaf and
Dumb institution ST. 900 will be asked
for real estate, and $4,000 for building
freproof boiler-house and laundry, a
separate building being needed as a
protection against fire; 81, 900 will be
asked for the state prison to be ex-
pended in real estate to be used as
pasturage and garden, affording work
for feeble-bodied inmates.
The report of the trustees of the Mil
waukee Insane asylum for the two years
preceding September 80, 1884, was
submitted to the governor During
this period an average of Ala diff
ferent persons were treated per annum,
308 daily. The current cost of main
tenance per annum was $50. 379. 80; the
current cost of maintenance weekly per-
capita, So 874; total cost with improve
nlents per annum, $69,61961; weekly
per capita, SAP. The county paid
$14, 881.57 for permanent improvements
during the two years. Total cost to the
state per ahnum, $40.898; weekly per
capita, 1886.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
THE "PUBLIc PRINTER" PLUM.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-One of the po-
sitions under the Cleveland administra-
ton about which there will arise the
greatest wrangle in the South is that of
public printer. Prominent among
those mentioned for that position are
Col. Dawson of the Charleston IS. o.
News and Courier; John Temple Graves
of the Jacksonville (Fla.) Times; W. W.
Screws of the Montgomery (Ala.) Ad-
vertiser, and even Director General
Burke of the New Orleans exposition,
whose success with the Times-Demo-
crat has made him famous, would be
willing to take position which controls
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

On the night of the 18th, while heavy
freight train on the Denver & Rio Grande road
was coming down the mountain near Marshall
Pass, Col, the air brakes refused to work and
the engine and twenty cars jumped the track.
head brakeman was buried in the wreck.
H. nj. Mack, of indianapolis, railroad
brakeman, was killed by the cars at New Lon
don, Ind, or the 18th.
An accident at the main gasometer of the
city gas works, st. Louis, on the 18th. caused
an explosion which damaged property to the
extent of 100000.
Hundreds of hogs aresdying of cholera in
Champaign County, o.
Two sections Of broken train coIlided near
Dongola, ILL.,, on the 9th. A brakeman named
Dougherty was decspltated and several freight
cars smashed.
A salt deposit has been struck at Hiawa tina,
Kas., at depth of $40 feet. The water con-
tains 20 per cent. of pure salt.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

chill, having conquered Peru and
Bolivia, has made war On the condor.
Our idea of the condor is derived from
a picture of the Andes in the old geog-
raphies, where bird appeared as sit
ting on iutting peak of a mountain,
and the perspective was such, that j.
the particular member of the Andes
group, as represented in the book was
three miles high, the bird must have
measured about mile from tip to tip
ofits wings. Tt is not to be wondered at
that the Chilians wish to get rid of such
a bird, but the reward of $5 offered for
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
Chicago's Election MIDDLE.

Arthur Gleason, chief deputy in the county
clerks office at Chicago, charges Henry Bleh,
an employe of the Office, with the theft of the
returns from the second precinct of the Eight
zenith Ward, which resulted in the fraud in the
Leman-Brand contest. Gleason says the re-
turns were deposited in one of the numerous
drawers in the vault the number of the drawer
being known to himself and Biehl only. He
says the theft lies between himself and Beh,
and as he knows himself to be innocent, the
logical conclusion is that Bishl is the guilty
party. Biehl on the contrary, charges Glea-
son with the fraud.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
County Seat Trouble.

War has been declared between the villages
of Ashton, Frankfort and Redfield, d. T.. for
the possession of the county records. Each
claims to be the legal county seat. On the
night of the 9Th, an armed body of men took
the records from Ashton to Redfield. Sunday
evening the county sheriff and a posse demanded
them of the Redfield authorities, but were re-
fused. On the morning of the 9th, 1000 armed
men from Ashton and Frankforth' invested Red
field, but an order from the court demanding
thessurrender of the records to the sheriff and
county officers was obeyed, and temporary
peace established. Great excitement prevails,
and the end is not over yet.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

The report of the First Assistant
Postmaster General gives some inter-
esting statistics. The tendency of the
increase in population to the Northwest
is shown by the fact that Dakota al
ready has 837 post-ofices, which is more
than Massachusetts. Maryland or South
Carolina. Of the 8, Ala new Offices Gre
ated last year Texas received the larg-
est share, while the only decrease in the
number was in New Mexico, an anomaly
for which there is doubtless an explana-
ton outside of the growth of the terri
tory. The whole number of post-of6ces
on June 80 was 50,017.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
900 fat salaries and has the manage

1000 fat salaries and has the manage
of generous contracts. The most prom
inent Georgia candidate this year is
Col. @. r. Hanleiter, the father of IT
children, the publisher of Atlanta's first
paper forty years ago, and now an en-
ploye in the government printing Office,
which position he holds through the
Wing leavings OK the Hayes administra-
ton. After all these gentlemen have
exhausted their claims there is strong
feeling that all will have to give way to
Stilson Hutchins, of New York.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
H,nrnad tn RRfrRRf.

dispat CHI from Hong Kong, under date of
the 9Th, says: "Reports have reached here
that fresa encounters occurred in Tonquin be-
tween the Chinese and French. The Chinese
were defeated and forced to retreat. The
Chinese military authorities are preparing to
throw large force across the frontier into
Tonquin. The French blockade of the Island
of Formosa is only nominal. The French
feet is anchored at Kelung, while trade with
other ports goes on as usual"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

THERE is a great craze in New York
for snow shoes and toboggans. The
Montreal carnivals first created the
demand. The snow shoes sell at from
$5 to S., and the toboggans are from So
up. The SIS toboggans are made of
bent white birch, and are about six feet
in length. They are of American man
ufacture, and are slight Improvement
upon the Canadian article.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

The name and fame of Mr.. William
J. Loader, of Brooklyn, N. Y, will pass
at once to the roll of the immortals. He
will be known as The Man Whose Dog
the President of the United States
Wouldn't Take. The eyes of the world
viii be upon him while he lives, and
when he and his dog shall have been
gathered to their respective fathers,
the memory of both will be embalmed in
the letter in which Mr.. Cleveland po-
tely but firmly refuses to accept dogs
as legal tender for official favors.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

THE croaker is again abroad in the
land. For the good of the land he
should be under it rather than abroad
in it. In period of hard times the
influence of the chronic croaker is very
much like that of an eclipse of the
moon; the night was dark enough be-
fore, but the planetary observation in
tensifes the darkness.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

A PITTsBURG judge, in passing upon
avexed question in Allegheny Cou nty
in which the county guardians were in
volved, significantly suggested that "the
court cennot undertake to put brains
into the heads of county commits
siOnar0
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
Smoke

Fire on the 18th destroyed six stores at ST.
Marye, Kas., valued at $4,000; car store
house in Forty-first Street, Philadelphia, and
two dry-goods houses at Norfolk, Va.
Fire in New Bedford, Mass, on the 18th
inst, caused loss of $85,O0C, distributed
among number of parties.
The inseed oil works OF w. 81. Grove, Kan
sas City, burned On the 18th. Loss $25,000.
Fire in Centralia, ILL.,, on the 10th, destroyed
the works of the Centralia Mining Company.
Loss 1915. 000 insurance $4,000
Clark Bros. & Co. furniture farctorv and a
number of adjoining buildings at Philadelphia,
burned on the 10th. Loss about $4,000.
A fire in the cargo of the coasting steamer
City of Augusta, at her dock at Savannsh, Ga,
on the 10th, resulted in a loss of $40, 1000. The
cargo was mostly cotton.
Albert W. Aliens tobacco warehouse, at
ThompsonviIle, Conn.,, was destroyed by fire,
on the 9th, with 600 cases of tobacco. Loss,
$50, 900; well insured.
Fitzgibbons & Crisp's carriage factory, at
Trenton, n. J., was burned on the 9th. Loss
$4,000.
Fire on North Street, Philadelphia, on the
night of the 9th inst, destroyed property to
the value of $4,000.
The Cincinnati Desiccating Company's work 8
were damaged by fire on the 9Th to the extent
of $40 900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

MRS. LANGTRY took AIN odd freak
about her hair dressing while playing
in Liverpool recently, and as the local
coiffures could not do the job to her
taste she had famous London wig
maker summoned for the occasion at q
cost of $25.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

A VIGOROUS movement is in progress
among business and professional men in
Ohio which has for its object the aboli-
ton of the present system of electing
state officers and congressman in Octo.
Der. The people are getting tired of SO
many elections, as they paralyze bust
ness and disorganize things generally
It is probable that Ohio will not much
longer be known as an October state.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

INDIANA has shown by the operation
of her reformatory institution for wom-
en- the good effects of separating female
convicts from males, and treating them
from a reformatory rather than punt
tive standpoint, so per cent. of the in
mates having become orderly and use
full members of society.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

A CORRESPONDENT of a New York
newspaper says that during Irving's
performance of Hamlet" at the Star
Theater in that city, recently, person
in the audience took off his boots and
rested his malfragrant stQckinged feet
on the back of the seat in his front.
And yet New York newspapers talk
about "the rowdy West"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
Mandelbaum In Hook.

''Marm" Mandelbaum, the notorious New
York ''fence," who jumped her bail in the
cases pending against her for receiving stolen
property, was discovered and arrested at
Hamilton, Ont, on the 9Th. A valuable col
lection of Jewels was found in her possession.
She will be sent back to New York.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

The criminal negligence of SO many
coal mine owners would be speedily
remedied if the tactics of bringing suit
for damages in every case of death from
such causes should become universal.
A Pennsylvania company has just been
sued in number of such cases arising
from a recent mine disaster, with good
chances for recovering large sums.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
A ST. Louis Sensation.

IN May last the city clerks Office was broken
into at East st. Louis and robbed of $4,000 in
cash and $40, 900 in city scrip. The affair was
mystery until a few days ago, when one
Charles Clark, leader of a gang of midnight
mechanics which have been working the small
er towns, was arrested. Clark confesses the
burglary of the city clerks Office, and inn pli-
Gates number of the police force and mum :
Der of city officials.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
Were Obliged to Go Back,

An italian steamer sailed from Genoa. two
months ago. with emigrants for South America.
In consequence of all outbreak of cholera on
board, followed by twenty deaths, she was not
permitted to land ON this side of the Atlantic.
and was obliged to return. On the 18th she
put into Gibraltar for provisions and coal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
A Tiger LOOSE.

tiger escaped from Bassett's circus near
Dayton, o., on the 9th. After roaming about
the country, stampeding cattle, killing sheep
and hogs. and keeping the community awake,
party of 100 men went OH hunt for the ami
NAL, which was finally killed in an clubhouse.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
Attack on London Bridge.

An explosion which was heard for ten miles
occurred on the evening of the 18TH in London,
creating the widest excitement. The affair is
one of great mystery, but it would appear that
explosive material was thrown from London
bridge into the water with the intention of de-
stroying the famous structure.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
Duel In Texas.

At Oakville, Tex, on the 9th, fatal en-
counter was had between Ramon Hernandez
and Miguel Atlmveano. both Mexicans The
latter was killed at the first fire, and the former
had shoulder shattered. The seconds fled to
Mexico. There was a woman at the bottom of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
Burned to- Death.

Early on the morning of the 9th. three blocks
of houses at Trenton, a small mining town near
Shenandoah, Pa, were totally DESTROYED by
fire. Six persons, Thos. Barlow, his wife and
three children and boarder named Fitzgerald,
were burned to death. Only one of the Bar
low family, child years old, was saved.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
The Joliet Victim Pardoned.

Gains Chadwick, the young convict who was
nearly murdered by his cell-mate at Joliet. has
been pardoned by Gov. Hamilton. It appears
that he belongs oan influential family in Brook
Ign, and was led into participating in a burg
larry at Chicago. Architect Mulett, several New
York merchants, Judge Anthony, and Warden
McCloughry signed the petition for pardon.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

ONE thousand pounds of candy, man
ufactured from sorghum sugafat Cham
paign, ILL.,, will be exhibited at the New
Orleans exposition by the United States
government. It is in eighty-three va
rieties, and equals the product, it is al
legged, of the best white sugar,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

gale along the Atlantic coast on the night of
the 9Th. Ia the nelghborhood of the mouth of
the Rappahannock River a large number of
oyster boats were capsized and their occupants
drowned. OF fleet of fifteen canoes known to
have been out, nearly all we're lost, and forty
men were drowned. Seventeen bodies had been
recovered up to the 18th. Most OF the number
were negroes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

THERE is regular mania for suicides
and murders just at present, and psy-
biologists may find an interesting
problem to solve how to guard against
such epidemics of crime. There must
be peculiarly morbid condition of
mind in existence among large num-
Der when the occurrence of a murder or
suicide incites to speedy imitation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
Afraid of Opposition.

The imperial council at st. Petersburg has
rejected proposal made by Count Tolstoi,
minister of the interior, that the government
prohibit heads Of peasant families from divld-
ing their lands among the male membe rs. thus
giving them power to obtain suffrage and sit in
common councils. Count .Tolstoi's proposal
grew out of fear that this action of the peas
ants would increase opposition to the govern
ment
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
Three Girls Suffocated.

fire occurred in the cigar factory of Gray,
Toynton & Fox, on Woodbridge Street, Detroit.
on the af ernoon of the 18th. large number
of girls were employed in the shop on the Sec
ond story, and all descended by the fire escape
except three, who are supposed to have been
overcome by the smoke. Their bodies were
found in the ruins.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
Russian Petroleum.

The London Petroleum Association refused
the request of agents of Russian firms to place
the Russian product on the same footing as
American. The association likewise refused to
change the standard test and color, which, it is
alleged, is now in favor of America.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
Financial Embarrassment.

The failures in the United States for the
week ending on the 18th number 314.
Westcott & Co., brokers, Syracuse, N. Y,
suspended on the 18th. Liabilities 100000.
Smoke
The Gale Manufacturing Campany's plant at
Albion, Mich, suffered by fire to the extent of
$35,O0n.
N. Y, have suspended. Liabilities $500, 900;
assets, about 100000.
VIM. FL. Vanderbilt. through his counsel,
filed in the county clerks office at New York on
the 9Th, judgment recovered by him against
Gen. U. s. Grant for 1856, 1000.
Tiffin Brothers, wholesale merchants at Mon
treal, failed on the 9th. Liabilities $500, 1000
A receiver was appointed on the 9Th for the
Oneota Lumber Company, of Chicago, upon
petition of certain stockholders. The company
has capital stock of $150,0O0 and liabilities
of 100000
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

Capt. Dudley and mate of the wrecked English
yacht Mignonette, who killed a boy named Par
ker, while on the wreck in order to eat his flesh
were sentenced TO death on the 9th. They Will
probably be pardoned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17

E. j. Lewis, a farmer living one mile north
of Wheaton, OAK, was found dead in his bed
on the morning of the 18th. A piece of bed
quilt was found stuffed down his throat. He
had quarreled with his sons. An inquest was
ordered.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
The Jews Must Go.

The Russian minister of tie interior, accord
expulsion of all Jews in Odessa, Kieff and other
large cities of the empire who do not possess
special government permits emitting them to a
rcoidonro
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
Privately Married.

Frank Mantell Adams, plaintiff in the recent
suit against the son of Chief Justice Coleridge.
was privately married in London on the 18th
to Miss Coeridge. The suit was caused by at
tempts by the brother to prevent the match.