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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19
RAILROAD NEWS.

CINCINNATI, Nov. 1.-THE Columbus
& Cincinnati Midland Railroad will be
opened for traffic on Monday next. 1t
extends from Columbus through Mt
Sterling, Washington Courthouse and
Wilmington to Clinton Valley, where it
connects with the Cincinnati, Washing
ton & Baltimore road. The distance
by it and the latter road to Cincinnati
and Columbus is 116 miles, four miles
less than by the Pan Handle route.
Yesterday at Washington Courthouse,
at meeting of stockholders the original
board of directors resigned and the fol-
lowing were elected: Col. Orland
Smith, Cincinnati; Henry Miller, Jas.
A. Wilcox and Chas. Parrot, Columbus
Samuel Spencer, Baltimore. Suisse
quentlY the directors elected Col. Or
land Smith president, S. P. Peabody
secretary and general superintendent,
and Theo. Ell. Butler treasurer. The
general Offices will be in Columbus.
OTTAWA, Nov. lit is understood
that the Canada Pacific Railway has
been successfulin making arrangements
for the redemption of its bonds which,
to the amount of 100000, were by
pothecated in New York as security for
a loan of 100000, paid to the Domin-
ion government in connection with the
guarantee of last autumn. Geo. Ste
phen, president of the Canada Pacific,
arranged the matter in London.
PITTsBURG, Nov. 1.-THE case be-
tween the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany and the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne &
Chicago Railroad Company, involving
a demand of the former for a better
ment of stock, is being argued in the
supreme court this afternoon Hon.
Wayne MacVeagh represents the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company.
PITTsBURe, Nov. ~ In the United
States circuit court this morning ex-
Contractor Simpson, of New York, filed
a petition for attachment for contempt
against the Newcastle Northern Railway
Company, alleging that the injunction
granted in the May term is being vio-
lated and his lien endangered by the
company proceeding with the work of
construction. The matter will be heard
on Saturday.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 12-The regular
monthly meeting OF the board Of oil
rectors of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail
road Company was held to-day in the
central building, Robert Garrett, presi-
dent pro tenn, presiding. A report of
the company's operations for the fiscal
year ending September 80, 1884, was
submitted and approved and will be
presented to the stockholders at the
annual meeting on the 18th inst. The
report was regarded as very gratifying
It showed the revenues of the company
to be nearly $19,500,00O and an increase
in the surplus fund during the year of
over $1,90O,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19
OVER THE RIVER.

DAVENPORT, Ia, Nov. pa telegram
from Washington announces the death
in that city of the wife of Hiram Price,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The
deceased removed to Davenport with
her husband in 1914, and this has been
her place of residence ever since. Mrs.
Price was the mother of Mrs. Judge
Dillon, of New York, Col. M. M. Price,
of st. Louis, and the late Mrs. Robert
Laird Collier, of Chicago. The remains
will be brought here for interment.
P1rTsBURG, Nov. H. Ormsby Phil
lips, one of the proprietors of the Pitts
burg Dispatch, died suddenly this morn
ing at o'clock, of nervous prostration.
Deceased was for many years prominent-
ly connected with iron and glass in
dustries here. He was mayor of AL
legheny City three years and at the
time of his death was president of the
board of managers of Western Peniten-
t1ary.
BOHEMIAN, Mont, Nov. 12.- William
H. Martin, a prominent capitalist of
Bozeman and more widely known as
the cattle king of Eastern Montana,
died very suddenly on Monday after
noon of hemorrhage of the lungs. His
death is universally regretted. At the
last election he was chosen representa-
tive
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ment but there are no fears of the pris-
oner being lynched. Had he been found
tne day after the murder the hot-head-
ed part OF the community might have
resorted to lynch law. In confessing,
Coigrove says that he killed Atkins in
self-defense. He alleges that Atkins
was Id the act of killing him when he
fired the fatal shot. This part of bis.
story cannot be substantiated. The
murderer spent several weeks aronnd
the village last winter and is known
as worthless dissipated fellow.
Oolgrove Is son OF Hiram Colgrove, of
Mukwonago, and was discovered this
morning by @. 81. Seeley and W. @.
Stevens near Saylesville, this county.
He is well connected and his father is
wen-known justice of the peace. The
prisoner was brought here and was safe
ly behind the bars before any one 9TH
er than the officers knew that he had
been arrested
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19
THE COUNT ENDED.
Cleveland Chosen President of the
United States.
The Democratic Plurality i'm New
York Nearly 1, Loo

The canvass of the presidential vote
in New York was completed on the
night of the 10Th. Col Geo. Bliss,
Robert Sewell and John E. Bradsky,
the lawyers representing the Republic
ans, remained on guard to the last.
The official declaration of the vote and
it's certifcation by the county canvass
ers is all that is now required to make
the canvass in the city complete. The
footings of the several assembly districts
were made the same evening in the
county clerks Office, and confirmed by
the lawyers on both the Republican
and Democratic sides. The footings
we're made on the vote of Mr.. Often
dorfer, who has the lowest vote on the
Democratic electoral ticket, and Mr..
Brakeman, the elector who has received
the highest vote on the Republican
side. Those two are at the head of the
electoral tickets. This gives Mr.. Cleve-
land plurality of 43,064 in the city.
The plurality on all the other Cleveland
electors will be about 100 more,
or about 43,16O. The revisions
of the footings in Brooklyn
have made slight changes in the
tables. The official announcement of
the result of the canvass was made in
Erie and Monroe Counties on the 18th.
In the former the corrections added two
votes each to Cleveland and Blaine,
leaving the plurality unchanged. st.
John has gained by the final correction
So in Erie County and lost 13 in Mon
roe, and Butler gains % in Monroe.
With all the changes and corrections
all counties, except Greene, officially
declared canvassed, the total vote for
Cleveland, counted by the vote of the
lowest elector, is 563,1O5. The total
vote for Blaine for his highest elector
is 561,998. This gives Cleveland plu-
rality of 1,107 in the state on his lowest
elector. 1t will be 1000 on all the 9th
ers. 1t is now officially settled that
Mr.. Cleveland has carried the state,
has 219 electoral votes, and is elected
president. The total vote OF the state
was 1, 167,I36.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19
MOHAWK MYSTERIES.

SCHENECTADY, n. Y. Nov. 11.-Alfred
Chapman, well-known and respected,
aged 33 years, disappeared at Schenec-
tady October 49, Jacob Mohr, farmer,
is supposed to have been drowned at
Hoffman's Ferry November Z. In the
search for Mohr's body in Mohawk
River, Chapman's body has been found.
The case is mysterious one. Chap
man had $1,000. Thirty-nine dollars
WIS found on his body, but nothing can
be discovered of the remainder. Mohr's
case is also mysterious. The explosion
of a dynamite cartridge brought the
body of Chapman to the surface.
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not properly treated because of its lack
of facilities, he drew his check for half
q million in favor of the college. On
this principle two or three poor pictures
which are not SO very scarce that they
couldn't be shown him-ought to fetch
"a fine art school out of him; while
surely sinners like Jay Gould and the
Wall Street bears he detests SO much
should be good for the endowing of a
theological seminary or two. Perhaps
it was his pity for Pharaoh and his
hosts on hearing for the first time the
other day that they were drowned in
the Red which induced him to pay
for bringing over the obelisk and set
ting it up in Central Park.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19
Minor Mention.

After being idle nine MONTHS the miners in
the Monongahela coal region ale returning to
work at the old rates.
Otis L. G. Clarke has been promoted to the
position of commissioner of patents.
The prisoners IN the county Jail at Denton
Tex. made break for liberty on the evening
Of the 10th. Eleven men escaped.
The safe of the Texas Express Company, at
Bryan. Lex, was broken open early on the
morning of the 10Th, and robbed of funds to
the amount of nearly $11,OO
William Smith, farmer, living at Vandalia,
ILL.,, was killed by falling tree near his home
while coon hunting on the night of the 18th.
On the 18th, John Maxwell, of South Argyle,
n. Y, an insane man, persisted in the flames
which consumed the house in which he was
confined.
A shed containing large amount of powder
near Toledo, exploded on the 18th. No lives
lost.
A train ran into an open switch at Vincennes,
ind, on the 18th. Engineer G. Fairbanks was
killed.
A severe earthquake shock was experienced
in several New Hampshire towns, on the even
ing of the 18th.
A freight tram was wrecked near Ashland,
o., on the 18th, killing two brakemen and
seriously lujuring fireman.
A handsome monument to commemorate the
battle of Monmouth in 1778, was unveiled at
Freehold N. j., on the 18TH
John A. Brahm, president of the First Ma
tlonal Bank of Petersburg. ILL.,, made an as
signment on the 10Th. Liabilities $4,000.
Dlphthera and typhoid fever are epidemic at
Montreal. Cause, imperfect drainage.
BY the bursting of an anvil during Demo
cratic celebration at Luling. Tex, on the even
ing of the 18th, two men were instantly
killed.
broken emigrant train on the West Shore
road was run into by freight train at Cornwall
Station, N. Y, on the 18th. The emigrants
saw the danger and hurried from the cars be-
fore the smash-up occurred. Most of the pas
senger cars we're demolished and the engine
and several cars of the freight train ditched.
John NJ. Masteson, the embarrassed banker
of Mt. Vernon, n. Y, was arrested on the 18th
on q charge Of fraud in receiving deposit of
81, 900 when he knew himself to be insoIvent
and was about to fail.
A collision between an engine and freight
train. near Pana H., on the 18th, killed both
engineers and a fireman.
A. D. Sly, who robbed the American Express
Co. in ST. Joseph, Mo-, year ago of $4,000
pleaded guilty to embeZzlement and grand
larceny on the 18th, and was sentenced to four
years in the penitentiary.
BARLEY Marin, farmer, was run over anC
killed by a North Western train at Milwaukee
on the night of the 7th.
A collision between passenger trains near
Selbyvllle, DEL, on the 10th, wrecked both ell
gines and killed J. H. Russell, an engineer
Engineer L. Smith was badly injured.
A ST. Johns, N. F., dispatch of the 10th an
storm. of the English schooners, Northern Light
and Elsie. Two lives were lost
Fritz Groskopf, foreman of Milwaukee
hook no-ladder truck, was run over and fatally
injured while endeavoring to board his truck
on the way to fire on the 10th.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19

Mr.. VANDERBHT's generosity, accord
ing to New York correspondent, is of
a spasmodic character. His giving is a
caprice and depends on the merest ac-
cident-except the unlucky accident of
asking him for something. Then he
certain to nothing, and only to
subscribe" myself, yours truly" He
has just given $500, 900 to New York
medical college, not because the country
is crying out on account of scarcity of
doctors and is alarmed less the supply
shall run short, but because he happend
to NEE a pitiable crippled boy who was
"runned over" on the road Vanderbilt
is in the habit of driving on, not the
road he gets his dividends from; for he
wouldn't in that case have been SO in
terested in the boy. Learning casually
that the boy had been taken to the Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons and
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19

A REMARKABLE case of conscience has
developed itself in New Jersey. Will
lam Lewis, man 33 years old, has sur
rendered himself to the Jersey City
authorities and confesses to having COM
mitted burglary in a small town in
the state two years ago. He robbed a
store of jewelry and other valuables,
worth several hundred dollars, and hid
the property in the woods. He became
fearful that he was watched and ran
away, without daring to take the goods
Lately he has learned that two team
sters were soon afterward found with
the property in their possession, were
tried, and found guilty of the theft, and
are now serving terms in the peniten-
tiary. This knowledge has, according
to his account, SO preyed upon his mind
that he can endure it no longer, and he
asks that the innocent men be released,
and that he be allowed to suffer the
rightful penalty of his crime. It may
be added that the authorities are even
more suspicious of man who confesses
crime than of one who boasts of his
good deeds, and are of the opinion that
the self-accusing burglar is working
out some deep-laid scheme, and is a
fraud who will bear watching.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19

We mined nearly as much gold and
silver this year as last, the figures being
$29,00Q,000 in gold and $48,OOO,OOO in
silver, In the year closing October 1,
the minis coined $27, 932, 1884 in gold and
$29,948,O97 in silver, with $23, 675, $50
in gold bars and $7,639,724 in sill
yer bars. Our metallic currency is
estimated at $557 100000 in gold and
1857, OO0,0 900 in silver, with $58,0OO,OOO
gold and silver bullion in the minis be-
sides. During last year about ST. ,0OO,-
900 in silver dollars were paid out, MAX
ing about $4O,OOO,OCO altogether of that
coin in circulation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19

LONDON, the huge metropolis of the
British Empire, still goes on widening
its area, and the problems of import
ance which it presents to the student of
political science, grand and complex as
these already are developed, are daily
becoming more difficult to solve salts
factorily. Last year there we're added
21,110 houses to this vast center of
human habitation, and this increase
made up 361 new streets and one new
square, and covered a distance of more
than ffty-six miles. Yet London
builders considered 1883 bad one for
their business! Since 1880 the growth
of London would make a town larger
than Liverpool, Manchester or Birming-
ham. Nevertheless, there does not ap-
pear to be any serious effort on foot to
obviate the dangerously dense budding
of millions of rational creatures who re-
quire certain amount of air suitable
for breathing, water of apotable nature,
food which can be eaten, clothes calcu-
lated to preserve warmth, houses that
are habitable, within limited space.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19

The steady way in which the Ameri-
can people bore the natural strain con-
sequent upon the election has won the
admiration of Europe, and is pointed to
as an illustration of the stability of our
institutions. The spectacle of 50,000,-
600 people, excitedly engaging in an
election which might change the per-
sonnet of the government, yet retaining
their perfect control and good nature, is
something trife beyond the concep-
ton of our friends beyond the seas.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19
ARRESTED FOR FRAUD.

MT. VERNON, N. Y, Nov. 11.-John
M. Masteson was arrested last evening
on charge Of fraud perpetrated upon
Chas. Hendricks, depositor with the
banking firm of J. M. Masteson, in re-
ceiving from him check for $1,000
Friday afternoon last, when he knew
himself to be insolvent and was about to
make an assignment. The crime is a
misdemeanor. He was taken before
Justice Sheppard. Masteson waived ex-
animation and appealed the case to the
county court, which meets December 1,
when the matter will be laid before the
grand jury. Meanwhile Masteson was
held to bail in $4,000. Other charges
are expected to be made against the de-
PENDANT to-day.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19

The mangled body of BENZ. Shorten was
found on q railway track near Berea, o., on the
14th ut is believed he was robbed and muir
deled by tramps.
Peter Otto, Buffalo confectioner, while
drunk on the 14tE, shot hIs wife fatally.
AS punishment for getting drunk, James
Bame, Of Rondout. N. Y, kicked his wife to
death Oh the 14tb.
Several weeks ago John Downey and wife,
of Windsor, Ont, decided to commit suicide.
The wife carried out the agreement, and the
husband was arrested. He hanged himself
while in Jail on the 18th.
Robert Standring, O. well-kpown Colorado
pioneer, and his wife, were found dead on their
ranch near Pine Grove, that state, on the morn
ing of the 18th. They were probably muir
oered.
Policeman Joseph Edgar was fatally shot at
Newport, KY, on the night Of the 18th, by q
burglar whom he was trying to arrest.
John Peterson, aged Is, of Dunkirk, Dane
County, who about year ago fatally shot a
boy companion named Lewis Menas, is now
being sued on charge of wiful murder by the
dead boys father.
dreen ThornhlD, negro who murdered dis
! wife at Troy, Mo-, pleaded guilty to murder in
| the second degree, on the 13th and was sem
| fenced to the penitentiary for life.
| Rev. Henry williamson, rector of st. Paul 8
| Church, Trenton. N. j., cOmnaitted suicide on
the morning of the 18th, by shooting himself
| through the head,
young fiend named Houser, aged Il years,
living near Dayton, Pa, stripped younger sis
ter on the 18th and roasted her on a red-hot
stove until her life Is despaired of.
A colored man named VIM. Williams was
killed by an unknown man in O. Cincinnati
saloon on the 18th.
Wna. Barnett (eolored) was assassiDated on
the night of the 18th, IN his Kitchen at Mari
etta o., by shot fired by an unknown person
through the window. Trouble about woman
q have iO ne
Charles r. Parker, aged Sc, cashier of the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, shot and killed
himself III his house, on the 18th. His mind
was der8nged by overwork.
Simon West attacked Geo. III. Smith with a
knife at Wischer's Ferry, Saratoga County, N.
Y, on the 18th. Smith opened fire with re-
volver, putting three bullets into West, NOR
tally wounding him.
Rufus Il. Lishness, policeman of Augusta,
Me-. was fatally shot by Harry BurDs early on
the morning of the 18th, while attempting to
make an arrest in a tenement house where
Burns lives.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19

THE project of erecting handsome
marble shaft above the grave of Artemus
Ward, by popular dime subscriptions, is
one that ought to be promptly and gen.
erously assisted. There are few people
in this country who are not indebted to
him for at least dimes worth of en-
joyment, and that is more than can be
said of most men who have monuments
erected to signalize and perpetuate their
services to the world.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19

NEWARK, N. j., has club of young
women who have resolved to discard all
young gentlemen who chew tobacco and
"stain theirteeth and spoil their breath
There are other requisites in good
husband which the young ladies will
find much more important even than
this bad habit. They should read care
fully the text about people "who strain
at gnats and swallow camels, and give
it application.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19

A NOVEL exhibition is to be opened
in London in May, 1886, it's object be-
ing the representation of American life
for the benefit of Englishmen who have
never crossed the Atlantic Ocean. It is
proposed to have complete display of
all the products raised in this country.
manufactured and natural, and an i'm
mense panorama is to be provided for
the presentation of American scenery
Harmless, healthful and mirthful
amusements were such successful
feature of the recent Health Exhibition,
which attracted sufficient crowds to
South Kensington to give clear profit
of $3.50, 900, that it is probable that the
same feature will be made prominent
in all similar exhibitions in England for
many year to come, ensuring a throng
of patrons from beginning to end. The
advantages of frequent exhibitions like
the one to be held in London a year
from next May would be very great, and
that fact should be distinctly recog-
nized at time when oyerproduction
has reduced prices to point below
which they have seldom descended.
The people of Europe would consume
much greater quantities of our products
were they more familiar with their ex-
excellencies, and the contemplated exhi,
bition can be made to contribute so
generously to that result that it deserves
the earnest support of all Americans.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19
Thanksgiving.

MADISON, Nov. 13.-The Governor
has issued the following Thanksgiving
proclamation:
In accordance with the appropriate custom of
setting apart day for the giving of thanks for
the prosperity of the year, and in conformity
with the proclamation of the President of the
United States, l. jeremiah NJ. Rusk, governor of
the state of Wisconsin, do hereby designate
Thursday the 9th day of November, inst, as
day of Thanksgiving for the people of the state of
Wiseor sin, and commend their grateful and rev.
erent observance thereof, in public and pri-
vate, in ways BETTING people thankful for the
many blessings of kind Providence
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set my
hand and caused the great seal of the state OF
Wisconsin to be affixed
Done at the city of Madison, this 18th day of
November. in the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-four.
By the Governor. J. NJ. RUsK.
ERNST G. TIMME, Secretary of State.
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Bismarck's Tyranny.

The Duchy of Schleswig, recently
wrested from Denmark by Germany, is
in state of ferment over the law orig
mating with Bismarck, forbidding any
of the people from speaking the Danish
language. Even school children are
punished when they speak among them
selves in their native tongue, and so far
has this obnoxious law been carried that
a young girls birthday festival was
broken up and the guests arrested and
fined because they sang old Danish folk
songs
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19
ALL women in the United States wht

ALL women in the United States who
have written and published books are
requested to send copies of them TO
New Orleans for display in the woman's
department of the exposition. It is also
asked that the fair donors contribute
their photographs-and that makes it
certain, in the nature of things, that
the show of books in question will be a
complete one, at least, whatever else
may be said of it.