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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
Distressing Cholera Report.

The reports from Palermo regarding the
progress of the cholera show distressing
state OF affairs prevailing there. Thirty
thousand persons have fled the city; all the
shops are closed and the streets are almost
deserted. There is great scarcity of food
and water and the epidemic is increasing
with frightful rapidity. The sanitary Off
tails are attacked by the people every time
chey attempt to disinfect the places where
the diseases exist and meet with great diff
Guilty in carrying on their work. King
Humbert has sent dispatch to Palermo
expressing great sympathy for the suffering
people: His ma esty has also sent $40, 900
to be distributed among them; places his
ers, and exhorts the people to show their
courage and calmness during the trying
ordeal through which they are now passing
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
Minor Mention.

Thomas w. Stead, editor of the Pail
Mall Gazette, Gen. Booth, of the Salvation
Army, and the other defendants in the Eliza
Armstrong abduction case, have been com
mtted for trial.
James G. Pusey, the defaulting chief
clerk Of the Kansas penitentiary, has been
sentenced to eight years imprisonment.
Robert Pierce, a commission merchant
and manufacturer Of felt goods at Boston,
has failed. He is an indorser to the extent
Of $500, 600 for the Willowdale Company,
which recently suspended.
The failures in this country for the seven
days ending on the 25th numbered 1856
At a meeting OF flint glass workers and
manufacturers, at Bellaire, O.. on the Oath,
a compromise was effected by which the ten
months strike is positively ended. Fires
will be lighted immediately
While Barnum's circus was giving a. per-
Torrance at Titusville, Pa, on the after
noon of the 22d, a cyclone struck the tent,
which went up like balloon and then col
lapsed. About 10 900 tickets were sold,
but there were only about 5000 people I'M
der the canvas when it came down. No
lives were lost, but large number of per-
sons were injured.
William Winter and his wife, living near
Point Pleasant, w. Va, left their home on
the morning of the 22d, locking their two
| children, aged 3 and years, in the house.
1HSy TRUTHFUL dU anu IOuDO Une1F
home in ashes and the children burned to
DEATH
The boiler in Tabel's soap factory, at
Louisville, KY, exploded on the 21st, kill
ing Edward Ernst, the engineer.
Twelve prisoners escaped from the Jeffer-
son County Jail, at Steubenville, O., on the
night of the goth, by saving the cell and
window bars and making a hole large
enough to get through. No important
characters were among than
Extensive cotton mills at Lawrence,
Mass, which have been idle for year, will
shortly resume opera tions with 2,7OO en-
ployes.
In a railroad accident near Erie, Penn,
on the night Of the 10th, one man was
killed and several persons injured. Among
the latter was the engineer, one of the sur
vivors OF the Ashtabula disaster, who,
| Notwithstanding his injuries, prevented a
shocking accident by tagging passenger
train which, but for the warning, would
have plunged into the wreck.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
Porpoise Leather.

Porpoise leather is a novelty as yet,
especially when used in the manu-
facture of shoes. 1t has been largely
used, however, in making shoe strings,
owing to it's great strength and pliabil-
ty. 1t has long, tenacious fibre,
and, as it will not crack and tear it
makes an excellent leather. When
made up into shoe it greatly resem-
bles French kid. 1t wears like lion
and would be suitable for boys shoes.
1t is entirely waterproof and very
cooling to the feet, making it excellent
for summer wear. The skins cut from
five to six pairs of mems vamps. The
leather is hemlock tanned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30

ing resided here Twenty-Five years. He
served through the war in the Confed
craze Tau service. He ardently supported
Iohn hancock, Union Democrat in
ms successful race for Congress from
inns E district eight years ago. Capt.
sweeney was a delegate to the Nation
al democratic Convention at Chicago,
out mas never held a political office.
nor had ne ever been candidate prior
to his present nomination. The entira
Texas senatorial and congressional
delegates endorsed him for the apnoint-
ment, which gives general satisfaction
Gen. A. G. Malloy, the outgoing col
lector, was reappointed and confirmed
last February.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
WARMER WARBLES.
He Does Not Believe the Bland Silya-
Bill Can be Repealed


Bill Can be Repealed.
New YORK, Sept. 24.-Congressman
A. j. Warner, of Ohio, was asked. yes
terday, if he thought the Bland bill
would be repealed without a substi
tute being provided therefor. In re-
spouse to the question Mr.. Warner
said:
i do not believe it can, and I will saw
more, do not believe it ought to be- This
is not a mere question of coming a few mill
ions OF dollars more or less in a wear. but
1T IS a question between bi-metaiism and
gold mono-metalism. The present coinage
law is the only thread by which silver is
held IN our monetary system Strike this
law down, without any substitute, and BIZ
metal1sm IS overthrow. Silver men nm.
derstand this perfectly well. To bi-metal-
lists change in the standard from both
metals to one in the face Of
the vast indebtedness that now weighs
down modern nations would be nOtb-
ing less than stupendous crime. ]
will introduce my bill, which is intended as
substitute for the Bland bill, at the as
sembllng OF Congress. It will be opposed bv
the extreme gold and the extreme silver
men, but L believe that there are enough
men who favor my proposition to carry it
through the House. / think all will agree
that such a bill will effect a m ore permanent
seUtlement OF thesllver question than would
change IN the weight of coins, and no
doubt, permanent settlement of that i'm
portant matter will lead to an immediate
ana lasting revival OF business throughout
the country.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30

A RECENT writer has made sugges-
ton concerning school education which
deserves serious consideration. While
saying no word against the ordinary
methods of instruction in history, as
commonly so called, he would like to
see the curriculum so extended as to
cover the important historic events of
the day of instruction. To illustrate
this point, he calls attention to the
fact that, while an intelligent public
school boy of Is or 16 can hardly be
found who cannot give a list Of the
leading Cabinet officers and politicians
of this country during the first sixty
years of the century, together with a
fair idea of their principal works, not
one in a hundred of them could tell
who was secretary of state or minister
OF war under Grant, Hayes Or Garfield.
This, the writer referred to says, is all
wrong. He contends that there is no
sound reason why, as to children old
enough to have passed beyond the
primer period Of study, the current af-
fairs of the day should not become a.
portion of their regular instruction.
To this end he argues that the daily
newspaper-noti in any of it's partisan
aspects, nor as concerns it's merely ev-
anescent news items-should be used
as the text books now are in the
schools. That teachers should make
it a part of their system, as much so
as in dealing with any other branch of
history, to instruct those under their
charge in the history that is growing
up around them. In this way the an
omaly that now exists would cease,
and young folks starting out in life
with 81 fair knowledge of what hap
pened fifty or a hundred years ago
would not be brought to a complete
nonplus in discussing the events of
their own lifetime. There is much in
the suggestion that is worthy the con-
sideration of educators. 1t might be
difficult to find teachers with sufficient
discrimination to use the daily news
paper rightly as an instrument of in
struction for young people, but it
seems, at first sight, that there is
germ of sound sense in the suggestion
which only requires skill to develop
into most useful effiorescence.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30

ANENT the mistake in putting up
morphine for quinine, by which a
Brooklyn druggist sacrificed the lives
of two ladies, q contemporary pro.
poses to have all prescriptions written
out in plain English, to prevent mis-
haps. It would be no prevention.
The druggist in this case was trained
pharmacist of many years practice.
The prescription was perfectly plain
to him, but he took the wrong bottle
from which to fill it. There will al
ways be just this risk of carelessness,
no matter whether doctors write in
hog Latin or the Queens English.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
A Strategic Railway.
+ From the Brooklyn Eagle.

RUSSIA is building a strategic rail.
way to the Austrian frontier" You
know what astrategic railway is, don't
you? Buys its right of way from the
farmers for an annual pass, then gets
all the land condemned and takes up
the passes; then gets a state grant OF
two or three counties for the direct
ors, buys its iron on long time, and
pays for its grading with construction
bonds, then issues equipment bonds
to pay for rolling stock, borrows all
the money in the country on the
mortgages, calls in everything out
standing and exchanges it for a deficit,
changes its name from the North &
South Airline tothe 'sEast & West
Short-Line," divides the swag among
the directors, and runs the road with
the deficit. 1t may be new in Russia.
but it's an old thing with us. Coun-
try's just full of strategic railways.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
IDLE LUMBERMEN.
No Hope of an Immediate Settlement of
the Deadlock at Menominee.

the D6au-LOCk at M6nOmtn6e.
MENoM1NEE, Mich, Sept. 25.-The
situation at the mills remains I'M
changed. Many men not residents of
Menominee have departed for their
homes, having given up hopes of any
immediate settlement Of the difficult
ties. Crews continue to come down
from the woods and the city is full OF
idle men. By the end Of the week the
Boom Company will have discharged
all it's hands, and the prospects are
that the Marinette mills will close in
g. few days. The influence of the sud-
den stoppage of business is detri-
mental to the cities of Mari
nette and Menominee, and bust
ness men generally are anxious
regarding the outcome. The labor
union keeps up it's meetings regularly,
but no new propositions have been
submitted nor any evidence of weak
ening manifested. It is notable that
the large number of idle laborers per-
vading the city do not attempt any
violence on any one. No disturbance
has been created and the men interfere
with no other business. II the mills
do no more saving this season the
large stock of logs in the river will rem
der unnecessary any extensive logging
operations the coming winter. Prob
ably the timber cut the coming season
will not exceed one-half the usual
amount, possibly not more than one
third
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30

THERE is small wonder that Texans
adopt lynch law or commit murder in
the name of justice, when they have
such outlaws as Jim and Pink Lee to
deal with. These cattle thieves are
charged with forty five murders in two
years, and always travelled about
heavily armed, making it dangerous
for officers to attempt TO arrest them.
They have at last been shot down by
men as desperate as themselves, and
who by this act have earned $1,000
offered in reward.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
Cleveland Wire Workers.

Notice was given on the oath by the
Cleveland Rolling Mills Company that the
prices OF last June would be paid for work
in the future. This was what the men had
been asking for since July 1, and everyone
supposed it would end the strike Some OF
the leaders, however, insisted that the men
should now make the additional demand
that all strikers should be given their old
positions, and while more than half of the
men would rather go to work, they must
now hold out until the leaders, who have
been black-listed by the company, are re-
instated. number of the workmen now
at work were followed to their homes and
they and their houses pelted with stones.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
SEIZED THE NINE,
American Miners Robbed of q SiIvt
BOnanZa in Mexico.

American Miners Robbed of a Silver
Bonanza in Mexico.
SILVER Pass, Tex, Sept. 22.-Re-
ports have reached here confirming
the confscation of the Las Cruises
silver mines in the Carmen Mountain,
Mexico, by Mexican troops, upon a
trumped up claim OF Mexican
sergeant ante-dating the claims
OF Owens, Stats, Davis and
other Americans. The sergeant pro-
duced his alleged claim, and the
Mexican soldiers dispossessed the
american owners and took possession.
These are the mines whose discovery
about SIX months ago led to so much
excitement, as they yielded JOY ounces
OF silver to the ton. The chances are
against the American owners again
getting possession, as they are unable
to Htigate N the Mexican courts.
United States Consul Pridgen, at
Piedras Negras, is interesting himself
in behalf Of the American claimants.
with the hope of restoring them in
the mines.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30

CALIFORNIA fruit Gamers who have
deluged the market with bad goods
are beginning to suffer the penalty OF
their greed. There comes eastward
the cry that the canning firms fail to
get orders for their products. Prices
have tumbled. An exceptionally good
fruit yield sees a decrease in the
amount preserved. The Alta Califor-
MAN is sensible enough to tell the can
ners that they deserve to suffer for
their folly and raseality, and it gives
point to the sermon by calling special
attention to the fact that firms whose
goods are uniformly first class in quail
ity are, in themain, doing an increased
business.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30

dence on the night of the 23d. His wife
escaped by jumping out of the window.
Herman Auckman e. Co. g shirt factory,
Troy N. Y, was burned on the night of the
goth. The loss is estimated at $75, 900;
covered by insurance.
An incendiary fire at Humboldt, Kas.,
on the 21st, destroyed the large general
stores of S. A. Brown 65 Co. and Hysinger
& Rosenthal. The buildings were owned by
Paul Fisher and III. Pratt. The total loss
will reach 100000.
A fire on the new pier of the Royal
Netherlands Mail Steamship Company, at
Jersey City, on the 18th, caused q loss of
$50 900,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30

TIE development of our trade with
the republics of South America prom
Uses to open up a trade for the fine
merino bucks of Vermont and New
York, and perhaps of our best breeds
of cattle and horses. The same rapid
and cheap transportation as is af-
forded by England, France and Ger
many would widen the markets of the
American stock breeders as well as of
the manufacturer and merchant.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
BUSINESS TROUBLE
The Eureka Mining Company at Braid
wood. IllinOis. Embarrassad.

AhO pany 81 Braid
wood, Illinois, Embarrassed.
BRA1DWoOD, ILL.,, Sept. 22.-The fail
ure Of the Eureka Company, of which
A. B. Meeker is president, is announc-
ed. Last Saturday was the monthly
pay day when about $4,000 was to
have been paid out for work in August.
Payment was not made, however, and
the employees became alarmed. Mon
day morning several attachments
were recorded, and the merchandise in
the Eureka "Truck Store" was
levied upon. Other parties at
tached the mines and material
in them, such as engines. pit cars, and
machinery generally. This forenoon
the excitement increased, and a large
number Of creditors congregated in
front Of the "truck store" in the hope
Of getting their dues. Dozens of other
attachments were issued, and a large
quantity of goods was carried away in
custody of constables. A creditors
bill based on the judgment for $50, 900
was filed in the United States circuit
court, yesterday, by Eric L. He'd
strom, Of Buffalo, and a receiver for
the coal company was appointed. 1t
is not yet known what the assets and
liabilities are.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
Another Ohio Mob.

Early on the morning of the Goth an
armed mob attacked the Laughlin mill at
Martins Ferry, O., in which about one
hundred mill employees were lodged, and a
brisk skirmish ensued, over two hundred
shots being exchanged. The mill. was pro-
tected by twenty-five guards, two of whom
were seriously wounded. Three OF the
strikers were shot, one of whom has since
died. Several arrests have been made, and
further trouble is apprehended.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
The European Powers.

In his speech opening the reichsrath on
the 26th, the Emperor of Austria declared
that the great powers were in full accord
for the preservation of the peace of Europe.
Russia is said to favor the holding of a
congress at Constantinople to settle the
pending difficulties upon the basis of accept
ing the union of Roumelia and Bulgaria as
an accomplished fact. In circular note
to the powers, Greece urges that the treaty
of Berlin be enforced.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30

A CONsUL's life is not always hap
Ply one. There is a vacancy just now
in the consulate at st. Paul de Loando,
a most desirable Portuguese Island
lying a few miles off the west coast of
Africa, not far from the Cameroons.
The present incumbent OF the con-
sulate is on his way home, after about
a years experience. In the year he
drew from the United States salary
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
Revolution Without Bloodshed.

The governor general of Eastern Roume-
liza has been deposed by the populace of the
capital city, Philppopolis, who have pro-
claimed a union with Bulgaria and estab-
lished a provisional government. The rev.
olution, which is believed to have been in
stigated by Russia, was accomplished with
out bloodshed. Eastern Roumeia was Civ
en- an autonomous government by the Der.
lin congress of 1878, although it has re-
manned in integral part OF the Turkish en-
nirp
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
Ambushed by Apaches.

A party consisting of three men, woman
and boy, was ambushed by a band of
Apaches in Sonora, on the 18th inst,
two of the men being killed, the
boy wounded and the woman car
ried into captivity. In battle in the
Cananea Mountains, in Sonora, between
Capt. Hatfeld's command and renegade
Apaches, seven OF the latter are reported
to have been killed and thirty-five, includ-
ing women and children, captured
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30

A MONTANA Indian began raising
stock a few years ago, having at the
start only two or three head. Lately
he sold his herd for $4,000. He is
probably OF the opinion that raising
cattle is more profitable than ''raising
hair and his white neighbors proba-
bly, agree with him. At least they
would rather let him raise their cattle
than their scalps.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Cyclonc i'm the Bay Bengal.

Information was received on the 25th of
terrible cyclone in the Bay of Bengal The
telegraph lines were swept away and a
large number of vessels are thought to have
been wrecked
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
The Children Were Burned.

During the temporary absence of Richard
Anderson and his wife, on the 21st, their
farm house, near the village of Tenton,
Mo-, was burned to the ground, and their
two small children persisted in the flames
1t is thought the fire was caused by q de-
fective cook stove.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
disappearing Convicts.

Ten convicts escaped from a plantation
in Brazas Bottom, near Hearne, Tex, on
the morning of the 21st. Going to hotel
in town they stole the clothes of the male
members of a theatrical company and
skipped to the woods, leaving their striped
suits in exchange
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30

a dispatch of the 22d says the people of
st. Thomas, Canada, are raising a subscrip-
tion of $50, 600 for a monument to Jumbo,
the big elephant, who was killed while in
the act of saving the life OF the trick ele-
plant, Tom Thumb.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
Qhs Republiea't
wATERTowN, WISCONSIN

THE widow of DR.. Brandreth, the
famous pill-man, recently lost $4,000
worth Of diamonds in railroad-car.
Here is food for a mathematical mind
with pensive turn. Toestimatehow
many pills and what human suffering
those diamonds represented would oc-
cupy an expert for g. vast autumn
evening
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
A Fearful Death.

John Oeslermeir, a boy of IA employed
in the brickyard of Sanky Brothers, Pitts
burg fell into a rock crusher at the yard on
the 22d and before the machinery could be
stopped his body was ground to pieces.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
To Hear Nilsson Sing.

On the 23d Nine Christina Nilsson gave O.
concert in Stockholm, and after the per-
Torrance she sang before a crowd of 1000
on the balcony of the Grand Hotel. SO
great was the crush that seventeen persons
were killed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
SWEENEY,S ANTECEDENTS.

Something About Galveston's New Col
Iector-His Political History.
GALVESTON, Tex, Sept. 25.-Capt.
Charles c. Sweeney, thenewly-appoint-
ed collector OF customs for this district,
is q leading citizen of Galveston, hav-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30

RICE BIRDS on toast is the most pop
ular delicacy in Charleston, S. c.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30

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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-04
A CELESTIAL VISITOR.
A Chinese TheosOphist and AstrOIoger
Comes to Town.

Comes to Town.
The Oriental members of cur pOpula-
ton, says the New York S1ts of Dec. %,
have been greatly stirred for the past
three days by the arrival of 10 Lin. This
is the famous theosophist ana astrologer
Of whom Nine. BIavatsky and Hero
plant Olcott have discoursed so much.
Lo Lin is the seventh son of a seventh
son, and is from Thihet, where theosophy
and RosIerucianism are the chief crops of
a not otherwise fruitful soil.
A reporter was allowed the honor
(taanks to the courtesy of Nicholas de la
Cruz, a Hispanio Malay, and to Tom Lee,
Chinese eX-DePuty Sheriff, who are ap-
parently Lo Inns managers of inter-
viewing the distinguished visitor. Mr..
10 or Prof. Lin is not handsome man.
He is tall, thin, holloW-eyed. and dark as
muiatt0. ID wears a queue and g0atee
IN color and texture like a horses tail.
His raiment was a variegated hybrid be-
tween that of laundryman aud that of
high caste Brahmin. He talks rapidly
and with great learning. Thanks to Con-
fucius, the reporter was a master of the
Chinese language, or the following intel
lectual speech of the, Oriental, or rather
Buddhist, prophet would have been lost
in the recent North American cold bliz-
Zard. 1t was:
E'Don'tcome here 90 teach, but to make
money. Amelica great county. Know
BlaYatsky. Smart old woman. Know
Olcott-~talkee much. Theosophy alice
same fortune telling. Takes twenty year
to learn him. One man born under one
star, another man born under other star.
One make money, other go broke. know
yesterday, to-day and tomorrow. Charge
& fcvl fol io
you what you go do, no mistake. Learn
English Dimeby, and then show theoso-
ply to American man. Now only tell
fCrtune for Cinnamon and Malavs.'b