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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07
LOTTERY SYNDICATE

MANCHESTER, N. H., Dec. 31.-A very
novel and highly successful scheme
which has originated in this city is at
tracing a good deal Of attention, and
bids fair either to break up the lottery
business or to grow into national
speculation. Last fall the Odd Fellows
arranged for o fair on large scale, with
ten thousand season tickets, each one
giving its possessor a chance to draw the
capital prize of $1,000. There were be-
sides numerous other enticing gifts.
There being $50 tickets unsold. Capt.
Hollis Dudley and party of Odd Eel
lows pooled in So apiece and purchased
them. The outlay was made for the
purpose of helping along the fair and
no one seemed to expect or care much
about the matter. When the prizes
were drawn, however, the syndicate
were surprised at their great fortune
prizes worth $1,275. The fortunate
ones at once formed themselves
into the "Go-asyou-please" Club,
with Capt. Dudley as presi-
dent, and invested $1O8 in tickets
to Chelsea, Mass, Ct. A. r. fair. They
realized ST ,Ol5 more from this venture
Their third attempt was at the G.. A. r.
fair in Stoughton, Mass, where an in
vestment of $500 has just returned
ST. All. The third cash dividend was
made and the total result was profit
of $50 per cent, on the capital invested
in three fairs. The members of the
club include substantial citizens, lawyers,
doctors, and newspaper men, being on
the list, while the bulk of the names are
those of merchants. The future action
of the club will be decided by the votes
of its members. 1t will be very natural
for them to continue trying thei-. luck.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07

boring hole in the pipe leading from
the meter to the gasometer. After the
hole had been drilled and before the
valve was adjusted, the building filed
with the escaping gas, and flame from
a photometer light in the second story
ignited the surcharged air. The ex-
plosion was instantaneous and terrific.
VIM. Pendleton, foreman of Pendleton's
foundry, was blown on bis back in the
middle of Jackson Street, and badly
bruised and shocked. Two colored
workmen, named Dennis and Pompey,
were badly wounded. Loss, $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07
A DESPERATE CHINAMAN.

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-Three China
men, said to be from this city, assaulted
Hong Chung, laundryman of their
race, in Newark last week, robbed him
cut him with hatchets, carved him with
knives and believing him dead, strung
him up to a rafter and left him hang
ing. His landlord found him and
prompt aid saved his life. From the
description given by him the police
got on the track of the leader of the
murderous gang and made him pris-
oner last night. He is a desperate
ruffan and the detectives believe they
have caught in him the perpetrator of
one of the most savage murders ever
committed in this city. The victim
was laundryman. The circumstances
of the murder are similar to those
attending the outrage on the Newark
Chinaman. From the Newark store the
desperadoes carried off $500. The cap
Iured Chinaman, on being taken to
police headquarters, was recognized as
Tom Sing, a Chinaman of very I'M
savory reputation. He served as Off
GERS steward on the Jeanette Arctic
expedition, and in the same capacity
with the Greedy relief expedition.
About year age Chinese laundryman
was found dead with seventeen knife
wounds in his back. The murderer was
never found, but the police claim to
have proofs that Tom Sing is the man.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07

GEN. WoLsELEY is in a predica-
ment. He has reached that point in
his progress where the Nile River
makes such a bend that by cutting
across the desert instead of following
the river he can save several hundred
miles of marching. It is most Sc
rious undertaking for even small party
of travellers to undertake to cross the
waterless waste, and inconceivably more
SO for an army. How to transport the
necessary amount of water is the most
serious problem. Should the desert
route be taken il is probable that the
army's track would be strewn with the
dead bodies of camels Gf not of soldiers)
as was that of the Russians when they
made their campaign against Khiva.
As it is about 200 miles across the
desert is highly probable that Wolseley
will conclude that the dangers are too
great to justify the risk and will con-
tinue his march along the Nile, where
water for drinking at least is sure.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07

The recent holocaust in Brooklyn
shows that the American people have
not profted by the experience of the
past few years, and that other fires re-
sulting in the loss of many human lives
may be expected. No pains seem to be
taken by the majority of people to pre-
vent fires, and still smaller number
provide the necessary means to suppress
fires when once started, or to escape
from them. More care should be taken
in carrying lighted lamps around the
house; indeed, in most cases lanterns or
candles should be used, especially in 60
ing into cellars, and better.provisions for
extinguishing fires at their start should
be made. In the case of public institu-
tions-such as schools, hospitals and
asylums- furnaces and fues should
all be carefully examined at least once
a month, SO that in case any part be-
comes defective the defect will be dis
covered and remedied before any harm
is done.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07
AFTER BOIKIN'S SCALP.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3O.-The friends
of United States Marshal Botkin, OF
Montana, are very much disturbed over
the efforts which they say are being
made by First Assistant Postmaster
General John Schuyler Crosby, late
governor of Montana, to induce the
President to remove Mr.. Botkin. Mr..
Botkin's friends assert that the hostility
of Gov. Crosby grows out of an old
grudge, which was caused in the first
place by the action of the marshal
in interfering with the execution
of certain contracts in which Mime
sofa firm was interested, and which Gov.
Crosby desired to have carried out.
This led to the preferring of charges by
Gov. Crosby against the marshal. The
charges are said to have been investi-
gated by a special agent of the depart
ment of justice, who reported favorably
upon the marshal's conduct. MIR. Bot
kin's friends say that even II the presi-
dent should nominate his successor
they expect to make such representa-
tons of the facts to the Senate as will
result in his restoration and retention,
at least until the expiration of his term
of Office.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07
REVENUE TINKERING.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-The bill of
Representative Tucker, of Virginia, to
repeal all the internal revenue taxes upon
tobacco, provides that all laws and
parts of laws which impose any internal
revenue tax upon snuff, smoking and
manufactured tobacco of every descrip-
tion, and upon cigars, cheroots, cigar
cites, in all forms made of tobacco, or
any substitute therefor, and upon ped
dlers or dealers therein, or manufactur-
ers thereof, of every description, wheth-
er named expressly or included by i'm
plication in any law of the United
States, shall be repealed and cease to
be in force; it being the declared pur-
pose of this act to repeal all forms of in
ternal revenue taxation upon tobacco of
every description. And all laws now in
force whereby farmers and producers of
tobacco, are restricted in the sale, dis
position, and dealing in the same,
shall be repealed. That on
all original unbroken factory
packages of smoking and manufactured
tobacco and snuff, cigars, cheroots and
cigarettes held by manufacturers or
dealers at the time such repeal shall go
into effect, upon which the tax has been
paid, there shall be allowed drawback
or rebate of the full amount of the re-
peal, but the same shall not apply in
any case where the claim is less than
$40 and has not been ascertained or
presented within thirty days following
the date of the repeal. It shall be the
duty of the commissioner of internal
revenue, with the approval of the secre-
tary of the treasury, to adopt such rules
and regulations as may be necessary to
carry this into effect. That there shall
be appropriated out of the treasury so
much money as shall be necessary to
repay the rebate provided for. This
bill was introduced in the House last
May, and is now in the committee on
ways and means. It is probable that
the committee will report favorably,
but when the measure comes before the
House it is not unlikely that the Re-
publican members will vote against it.
If the bill is put on it's passage early in
January, it is likely that majority will
be secured favorable to it's adoption. A
large number of the members of the
House recognize the fact that taxation
must be reduced somewhere, and that
the reduction might as well commence
on tobacco
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07

instituted at Boston. Building associa-
tons of men who can aspire to owning
their own humble homes are common.
This Boston society is designed to do
something for the very poor who live in
squalor and filth, the plan being to
build tenement houses, rent them for
moderate prices, and see that their SAM
tary conditions are kept good. This is
an improvement upon Felix Adler's
sanitary aid" scheme in the Bowery
district of New York, and is in the line
of an organization in Brooklyn which is
called both philanthropic and com
mercial success. It is certainly COM
mendable undertaking; the poor of the
alleys need some better Christianizing
influence than the gospel tract. The
difficulty of the endeavor may be to
wisely carry out, by purely business
methods, scheme which is in it's es,
sence charitable.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07
Smoke

Fire in the works of the Plymouth (Mass.>
Cordage Company, on the Sd, DESTROYED the
picker room building and two large factories
filed with valuable machinery. The total loss
is estimated at 100000.
Jay Cox's residence at Syracuse, N. Y, was
reduced to ashes on the I'd. Loss 800, in
surance, $4,000.
Fire at Nashua, N. H., on the I'd, caused a
loss of S17, 900. Crawford's boiler and steam
press works and stearn's storehouse were in.
volved.
A five story building on Thirty-seventb
Street, New York, burned on the I'd. Loss
$4,000. The building was occupied by sever
al piano makers.
The Glen wooden mill at North Adams.
Mass, burned on the I'd. Loss $780, 1000.
Fire at Evansville, Ind. on the 31st, totally
destroyed Miller Bros. dry goods house. Several
adjoining places were damaged. The total loss
will reach $250,00
Fires on tbs 31st Building of Perseverance
Worsted Company, Woonsocket, r. L. loss
$4,000; five buildings in Ipswich Dak.. $24.-
$50.
Eight stores and hotel at Hopkinsyille. XIV.
were destroyed by fire on the 3Oth. Loss $50.
600. Nearly the entire place was burned aboI1t
two years ago.
Pierre, Oak, was visited by disastrous
fire on the 30th. Eight or ten buildings were
destroyed. entailing loss of $95, 600.
The cooper shops of E. III. Jewett, near Buf-
falo N. Y, burned on the 30th. Loss 300
000
The Malleable Iron Company's Works. at
Canton, o., were totally destroyed by fire ON
the 29th. The building and machinery were
valued at $167. 900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07
RAILWAY SHOPS BURNED.

TOPEKA, Kas., Dec. 27.-About 8.
o'clock last night fire was discovered
in a barn used as warehouse by W.
M. Degnon, furniture dealer, and for
stables. Three horses were burned and
some unfinished furniture considerably
damaged. At $50 o'clock, while the
fire department was still at work on the
first fire, the Santa Fe Railway shops
whistles announced the breaking
out of another blaze, which proved
to be in a car-shed, where sew
eral coaches were housed. Seven
cars and coaches were burned, including
pay-car, which had just been refur-
nished, two Horton reclining-chair cars,
one mail-car, and three way cars. The
presidents and directors cars had been
pulled out of the shed only few hours
before to 60 on trips. The losses can
not be definitely acknowledgements
is probably 81 900, and the Santa Fe
Roads between $4,000 and $4,000.
The sheds were a long distance from
the shops, which were not endangered.
One fireman had a finger torn off by the
upsetting of an engine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07
WHISKY DID 1T.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-Paymaster W.
H. Smyth, who disappeared from
Savanna with $1,000 of government
funds, appeared at the War Department,
to-day, and voluntarily surrendered
himself to the paymaster-general. He
turned in $3.50 carried off by him, and
his pay for December, $3.50, and 800
was paid for him by friend, making
the full amount, $500. Maj. Smyth
says he went off on spree on Christ
mas and knew nothing of his actions
until he found himself in New York.
He then telegraphed his clerk that he
would return Immediately. He after
wards, however, concluded to come to
Washington and report to the pay
master-general.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07
Minor Mention.

The recent floods in India destroyed hun
dreds of houses. Fifty-three persons were
drowned by the overflow of the red nil lakes
at Madras.
Two girls named Van SAINT and boy named
Debrians broke through the ice at Manchaug,
Mass, on the 1st and were drowned. The
victims were from 8 to IL years OF age.
The French fleet IN Chinese waters Will be
reinforced by four ships of war.
A powder mill near Xenia, O., on the I'd,
blew up, killing John CHM, an employee.
Ruth Gill, a little daughter of John Gill, of
Cleveland, was shot dead by 5-year-old COM
psniop, named Walter Grossheart, on the 31st.
Reports from Montana on the 1st. are to the
effect that the extremely cold weather and heavy
snow are.skilling cattle inharge numbers.
An explosion of gas in the Office of the A1-
gusta (Ga.) Gas Company, on the 29th,
wrecked the building and seriously if not fa-
tally injured several workmen.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07

THERE is something pitiful in the way
fate has dealt with the two men who
were responsible for the Ashtabula
bridge disaster few years ago. The
chief engineer was driven crazy by the
horror of his position, and killed him.
self; his assistant, man of remarkable
mental brilliancy and professional
accomplishments, vainly sought relief
by fleeing to the far West, by work and
by dissipation, and now he has died in
the streets of Omaha, a drunken out
cast. There could be sermons preached
on the end of these two gifted men, for
ever pursued and driven to their deaths
at last by an unrelenting Nemesis.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07
STATE NEWS.

CHARLES FENDEsACK, aged 81 years,
employed on Victor Schulte's farm.
near st. Francis Station, suburb of
Milwaukee, was mysteriously murdered
on the morning of the I'd.
A TACK factory is projected at Della
van.
THOMAS KELLEY has been returned
to the Northern Asylum for the insane.
He escaped at the time of the fire and
walked all the way to his old home in
Beloit.
The body of Andrew Turschal, for
the past nine years engaged with the
Empire Lumber Company, was found at
Eau Claire, on the I'd, lifeless, behind a
wood-pile. Deceased was addicted to
strong drink and, it is supposed, died
while under the influence of liquor.
MISS ANGIE KING, the Janesvllle at
tOrney, has been unsuccessful In her eff
fort to secure pardon for Frank Dick
erson, now serving life sentence, at
| Waupun, for helping Mrs. Mack MUIR
der her husband. Judge Bennett re-
fused to sign the petition, saying he was
satisfied Dickerson never told the truth
about the matter. He would consider
che application in case Dickerson would
give true version of the affair.
JOHN MILLER was arrested at Milwau-
| kee, on the Both, charged with stealing
pair of horses and hack III Chicago.
The team was found in his possession.
| The Methodists of Bay View propose
erecting q new church, at cost of $12,-
900.
W. F. PALMER, of Dwight, Ill, has
leased the Beloit Outlook, and will con-
duct it a. a Democratic paper.
The dead body of Henry n. Austin,
son of G. F. Austin, one of the Oldest
residents of Milwaukee, was found
shortly after noon on the 9th, in the
| through the heart on the previous night,
while delirious from African fever, con-
tracted in his travels with Henry Stan
ley, the noted explorer. Austin is sur
vived by wife, to whom he was mar
ried less than three months ago.
CHARLES RossITER, formerly of Fort
Howard, died at Atlanta, Ga, while
travelling in the interests of the Atlanta
Typographical Union.
THOMAS SCALLoN and Charles Sever
son were sent to Waupun prison for
fifteen months for burglaries committed
in Eau Claire.
FIRE at West Bend, on the 9th, de
stroyed the livery stable of Wittig 6
Kern, involving loss of about $4,000.
The horses were rescued.
THE Northwestern Wisconsin Iron
Works, at Marinette, is dead The
company was organized on basis of
$4,000 capital, only one-half the stock
being issued, the balance to be issued
as the institution grew. It is said the
earnings of the company have not ex-
ceeded 5000. Several mechanics, who
were induced to invest their savings in
the stock, are left to mourn the loss of
their money and situations.
The GAINESVILLE Skating Rink Com
pany was incorporated on the 10Th.
The capital stock is $4,000, and all of
it has been taken.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07

a MULE embarrassed the proceedings
and interrupted the programme during
the unwilling of the Dupont statue
Washington, on Saturday, by stand
ing in front of the cannon that was to
fire the salute. The gunners persisted
in wasting time in driving the obstinate
animal away, while the brute exhibited
it's characteristic frmness in lingering
about the ca2non's mouth. ALI of
which suggests slight paraphrase of
the proverb so as to read, mules rush
IN where angels fear to tread"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07
ARMY MATTERS.

WASHINGTON, D. O., Jan. Capt
Frank E. Nye, commissary of subsist-
ence, is ordered to duty as post com
missary at Fort Monroe, Va, relieving
Capt. Wells Willard. Capt. Willard
will proceed to New Orleans, La, and
relieve Capt. T. F. Whitehead from
duly as commissary Of subsistence in
that city. Capt. Whitehead will pro-
coed to Denver, Col, as conmissary OF
subsistence.
An army retiring board will convene
at Omaha, Neb., January IL. The de-
tail of the courts is as follows: Brig
Gen. o. O. Howard, president; Lieut.
Col. J. E. Summers, surgeon; Lieut..
Col. E. @. Mason, Fourth Infantry
Maj. J. H. Bill, surgeon, and Maj. TIL.
Stanton, paymaster, as members. Capt.
Edwin Pollock, Ninth Infantry, is
ordered to appear before the board at
the call of the president.
Lieut.. P. 81. Bay, of the signal serv-
ice, who commanded the Point Barrow
expedition OF 1881, will ask that he be
relieved from signal service duty in this
city before spring and ordered to join
his regiment, the Eighth Infantry. "Such
a request will not be actuated by any
thing in connection with the Howgate-
Holtnorth- Greedy matter" said Gen.
Hazen, shut simply because Lieut.. Ray
has completed the duties for which he
was assigned to the signal service. He
has completed his report on the Point
Barrow expedition, and the rest of the
duties he has here are not particularly
to his taste. He prefers the more act
i've life with his regiment to perform
ing clerical duties in Washington"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07

IT is to the credit of the working
classes OF the country that while wages
and production are being so generally
reduced, strikes are of such rare occur
renee. The comparatively few inaugu-
rated are mainly due to the action of
unions and associations, controlled by
men who know nothing of honest labor
except from observation, and whose oc-
cupation would be taken away, if strikes
could be avoided.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07

If all the alleged rich gold discover
les in various portions of this country
were genuine finds, the yellow stuff
would presently become drug. At
several localities in New England and
New York such discoveries have of late
been reported, and company claims to
be now working rich gold mine success
fully in Upper Michigan. The latest au-
riferous report comes from CIermont
County, Ohio, where rich specimens of
gold- bearing rock and earth are said to
have been picked up on the surface of
farm lands. Nearly all these reports
lack confirmation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07

The Chinaman is an initiative Great
ure, and keenly appreciative of the
privileges of republican institutions.
Sixty of them have been making big
excitement at Belleville IN. Y. laun-
dry by striking and trying to kill the
foreman because one of their number
was discharged. They had previously
struck for white mems pay, and got it.
In short, if he keeps on, the Chinaman
will shortly be clasped in the arms OF
the Caucasian laborer, as a man and
brother,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07

PROF. COLLIER, late chemist of the
Agricultural Bureau, still clings heroic
ally to the opinion that sorghum is des-
tined to revo1utionize the sugar bust
ness. He even goes to the length of de-
claring that sugar from sorghum can be
made for one cent pound. If any
body else joins him in this belief, the
fact has escaped notice. It is the COM
mon impression that Prof. Collier offers
entirely too much sugar for cent.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07
The apparent object was small sum of

The apparent object was small sum of
money.
A jealous lover named RUDE Hsrrel fired two
charges of shot into ballroom near Batch
town, Ia, on the night of the 31st, wounding
seven persons. 1t IS feared two will die.
Gustav Lell, step-brother of Jno. VIM. Lell,
a prominent merchant of Lexington, KY,
committed suicide on the I'd by cutting his
throat with a butcher knife. Temporary insan-
ity was the cause.
On the night of the 31st, some unknown mis-
creant doctored switch on the Baltimore &
Ohio road near Grafton, W. Va. The engine
of the st. Louis express was thrown from the
track and the engineer and the fireman killed.
The bodies of Thomas Merrill and his wife
were found on their ranch near Sierra Blanca
Tex, on the 10th. They had been killed
while at dinner, and had been dead some day s
when found.
While discussion was in progress n the
Brush Creek Church, in Alcorn County, Miss,
on the 29th, Mr.. Matthews and Mr.. Crumbs
got into dispute, came to blows, and Mat
thews stabbed Crumbs so that he died.