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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
STANLEY.
Stanley Breakfasted by the Baptist Mis-
siOnarY Society.

Stanley Breakfasted by the Baptist Mis-
siOnary Society.
LONDON, May 28.-The Baptist Mis-
sionary Society gave breakfast to-
day to Henry M. Stanley, the African
explorer. Joseph Tretton. a promi-
nent banker, presided. In his address
he thanked Mr.. Stanley for opening up
the way to the Christianization of AT
RIGA and for helping the missionaries
to secure stations and to extend the
influence of their teachings. An adj
dress in the nature of an eulogium
was then formally presented by
the Baptist Missionary Society to
their guest. Mr.. Stanley in his
reply said that he was glad
to have had the opportunity of help
ing the missionaries and of obtaining
in return their help to teach the
natives. Formerly he i'll understood
the missionaries. However since that,
he had seen Livingston. He recog-
nized in him the type of noble and
spiritual manhood. The real work Of
the missionary was hard, his priva-
tions were great, his worldly reward
small. In conclusion Mr.. Stanley ex-
pressed the hope that the Congo
country would soon be we'll sup
piled with missionaries, and he
urged the society to be very
careful about the kind of men
they sent out as missionaries to
Africa. "Do not" he said, "send
young men without first having taught
them the practical life necessary to
success the same as you teach children
you wish to live long. Dead mission
aries are of no more value than other
dead men. Gordon dead is valueless.
If he had lived, the civilization of the
Soudan, which received it's death-blow
in Gordon's murder, would have been
dawning, and we could have seen the
summer of civilization dawning in the
interior of Africa"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
Minor Mention.

Isaac n. Holland has been awarded $25,-
600 damages against the Chicago q Eastern
Illinois road for injuries received two years
ago.
Theodore Hunt, well-known turfman of
St. Louis, having lost the greater portion
of 100000 left by his father, has been
placed in ST. Vincent's insane asylum. His
mania was the purchase Of patent rights.
Nearly 600 indictments found against
liquor-dealers at Wheeling, W. Va, have
been stolen from the office Of the clerk of
the circuit court.
Mrs. Preston Smith, wife of a prominent
capitalist Of Portland, Ore, was accidental
ly shot on the 31st by her chambermaid.
The United States had 1877 failures dur
ing the seven days ending on the goth.
The ShackamaXon Bank, of Philadelphia,
closed it's doors on the goth. The total
liabilities are placed at $500, 1000.
A grand jury at Plymouth Pa. has in
dicted the town council for maintaining a
nuisance.
Thomas Warner, extensive lumber
dealer of Coshocton, n. Y, made an assign
ment on the 2S0h, giving preferences to the
amount of $500, 900.
Willie Prentiss shot his father dead at
Orange, Mass, on the night OF the 26th.
The father, while in a drunken fit, ordered
his son to shoot at cup which ht held on
his head.
Louis Laubshire, an architect, employed
on the new government building at FIT
Wayne, Ind, choked to death at the sup
per table on the night of the 26th, while
masticating a piece of sausage. He was
80 years old, and leaves a wife and two
children.
Charles W. Angel, defaulting secretary OF
the Pullman Car Company, was released
from his ten-year term at Joliet on the
9th.
The National Wool-growers Association,
in annual convention at st. Louis, on the
9th, reelected it's old officers.
John Harper and Eta Farmer, soon to
be married, and James Welsh were drowned
in the bay, at Toronto, on the 25th, during
a thunder storm.
A dispatch from Pekin on the 26th says
the French copy of the treaty of peace be-
tween France and China has been agreed to.
Nothing now remains but the compilation
of the Chinese copy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
STILL BURNING.
A Bed of Goals Unearthed in the Ruins
of the Blake House at Racine.

A Bed of Goals Unearthed in the Ruins
of the Blake House at Racine.
RACINE, Wis, May 28.-On the morn
ing of December % the Blake Opera
House was destroyed by fire, but not
withstandlng the time, a large pile of
burning coke or coal was found yester-
day morning in the northeast corner
of the building, where the boiler and
furnace was located, by men who were
cleaning away the debris. Most of the
coal was so hotit could not be touched
with the bare hands. No trace of any
bodies has been found, and the fact
must be accepted that the four unfor-
Inmates who lost their lives were en-
tirely cremated.
THE Blake House was burned early on
the morning of December % last. Three
persons lost their lives by the fire: Mr.. and
Mrs. Russell S. Glover, of New York City,
members of the Beggar Student Company,
and Mrs. S. A. Paterick. chambermaid of
the house. Their bodies were not recov-
cred
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03

Curious Ending of a Murder Trial in
Louisiana.

Curious Ending of a Murder Trial in
Louisiana.
New ORLEANS, La, May ga curl
Gus ending was reported yesterday to
the trial of Henckell for the murder of
Conrad Burgmuller at Avery's salt
mine in Iberia Parish in March. The
neighbors, hearing shot fired at night
at the house of Burgmuller, who was
engineer at the salt works, FASTENED
hither and found Burgmuller dead and
his daughter Anna Burgmuller seri-
ously wounded. DR.. Henckell and a
man named Van Horne were found
near the house and arrested. The
story first told was that Burg
muller lost his life in attempt
ing to defend his daughter from
being outraged by these men.
In the trial of Dr. Henckell for the
murder Of her father Thursday the
young lady for the first time told the
true story of the killing. Shedeclared,
amid tears and Mysteries, that her
father was in the act of outraging her
himself when Henckell came in and in
the struggle that ensued killed her
father and wounded her. The jury
Immediately acquitted the prisoner.
Yesterday the last act of the tragedy
closed with the marriage of DIR. Henc-
kell and Miss Anna Burgmuller in the
very room where he had been on trial
a few hours before for the murder Of
her father. A large crowd was present
and cheered the bride and bridegroom
tI1ml1ItuOuS1U
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03

CONSUL SHAW, at Manchester, Eng,
in his last published report, shows
that with the best of weather the
British farmer cannot compete with
his brother of the United States. The
expenses of putting in and harvesting
crops in England is more than double
that of the same labor upon the farms
in the United States, and he instances
the reaper and binder in use here,
which with 2 men does the work of a
reaping machine, 6 men, 2 women,
ard boys in England. This is Who'll
ly aside from rent and taxes. The
farmer in the United States is his own
landlord.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03

homes. They rushed out in their night
clothes, and were compelled to camp on
the river side, where they shivered in the
winds Of morning. The factory properwas
formerly occupied by the Singer Sewing Ma
chine Company, and was saturated with
oil, which, in a measure. accounts for the
rapidity with which it burned. Five hun
dred skilled workmen were employed in the
factory, and lose all their tools, the aggre-
gate value of which is about $4,000. Sur
rounding buildings were damaged to the ex,
tent Of $25, 900. The Singer Sewing Ma
chine Company owned the burned building.
The total loss will reach $3.50, 900, which
is nearly covered by insurance.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
FIRES W.EPT.
The Town of Medford Visited by Disas-
trous Confagration.

The Town of Medford Visited by Disas-
trous Confagration.
A tire was discovered early on the
morning of the 28th in the rear of the
Exchange Hotel, Medford, but imme-
dlately gained such Roadway that lit
tie more than clearing the buildings of
thelf contents could be done before the
same were Quilted. TWenty-six of the
principal business houses were laid in
ashes, of which the following were some
of the destroyed ones: Exchange Ho-
tel, Exchange Bank, Smith Bros
store, A. E. Boneyills drug store,
Schafer & Franzen, boot and
shoe store, q. d. Bruins lew
elry store, Charles Anderson's restau-
rant, NJ. Mullen saloon, Peter Doyle's
store building, Frank Bisdowski's
hardware store, G. Glassow's meat
market, G. P. Paquett's Opera Hall, C.
Paquett's saloon, A. Fournier's
saloon, Brucker, Ludloff Coz bank,
Brucker, Ludloff Co.'s newspapers,
the Reform, Der Waldbote and Der
Ansiedler, the Medford House, kept by
Frank Ward, postofice, A. FL. Keller's.
Bonneville & Hobbs new drug store
and photograph gallery, Bergman &
Noslitz's hardware store, Emma
Hobbs millinery shop, Chas Slimm's
barber shop, L. G. Jeffers' abstract
Office, j. FL. Wheelock's abstract office,
the Star and News and the Deutsche
Zeitung offices, the depot building, the
flour and feed store of Gay & Biscornet,
Butterfeld, Ferguson & Co.'s store,
planning mill and half of the lumber
yard, Chefs saloon, J. K Parish's
building and law Office and the Forest
House, kept by Mr.. Scidmore. The
damages are estimated at about $780,
600; the insurance on the same is light,
with some that are altogether with
out any insurance. Six cars, two
loaded with lumber, were also burned.
At 11:3O an engine was received
from Stevens Point. The engine which
brought the special train from Stevens
Point came near having an accident.
Just as the train arrived at Medford,
one of the driving wheels was broken
from it's axle.
Assemblyman Parish had his hip
dislocated by the falling walls on the
front of Paquett's Opera hall, which
was considered dangerous at first, but
Drs. Atwell and Dixon, with the as
sistance of a physician from Colby.
set his hip all right again, and they do
not anticipate any danger. Mr.. Parish
lost his law library.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03

er, shot and fatally wounded Gottlieb
Weiland, an inoffensive German in saloon
in that city on the 9th.
The keeper of the cemetery near Charlotte
town, p. E. l., was murdered by body
snatchers early on the morning of the 9th.
w. Hicks and Jerry Taylor, in jail at
Franklin, KY, for barn burning, we're taken
out by a mob on the night of the 26th and
lynched
Charles and John York, sons of promi-
nent citizen of Asheville, N. c., got on a big
spree together on the Goth. They got into
a quarrel, when Charles fatally stabbed his
brother.
DIR. N. L. Bruck, highly respected citizen
of Oakland, Cal, was shot dead at his door
on the night of the Oath, by Henry F. Prun-
die, a member of the Joe Hooker G. A. r.
The murderer was arrested.
At Cairo, ILL.,, on the morning of the 25th,
Officer George Dunn shot and killed William
Howard, colored, while attempting to ar
rest him,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03

No clew has been discovered yet as
to the identity CT The vandals who
have amused themselves by defacing
and mutilating the valuable paintings
now on exhibition at the Royal Acad-
envy In London. The most extraor-
binary thing, however, is the fact that
the DETACHMENT of the pictures is still
a matter of daily occurrence, notwith-
standing the efforts of the detectives,
who have been put on guard day and
night. The Royal Academicians have
suffered most.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03

THE pleasant variety of life in New
York is Illustrated by the experience
of a single broker as described in one
of the Eastern newspapers. Two
years ago he bought $25O,O0Ohouse
on Fifth Avenue, furnished it hand
somely, and moved into it. He was
president of a mining company In
less than year he lost his presidency
his mine, his money, and his home, and
now has desk in small room of an
obscure lawyers Office on Broadway
and is sought only by his creditors.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03

that at last the Mexicans have
whipped the Yaqui Indians and cap
tured their stronghold. These are the
Indians with whom the polygamist
leaders are said to have made a
treaty and upon whose territory a
small Mormon settlement has been
established. Not long ago the aged
president of the polygamists visited
the Yaqui region, and it was rumored
that he was looking for a place in
which the prosecuted saints might find
shelter in the near future. If the va
quis have been subdued the Mormons
will be forced to deal directly with the
Mexican government.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
INDIAN TERRITORY.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
at Work.

at Work.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, May 25.-An In,
dian Territory special says:
The Senate committee on Indian affairs
have arrived, and their visit is creating
great interest. They began their work at
Muskogoe Creek Nation. The mostimport-
ant question other than the sale Of Okla
homa and the Cherokee Strip will be that of
citizenship. The Indians claim that their
territory is being overrun by whites claim
ing Indian blood. Many hundred have
been declared intruders, and ordered to
leave, but the Interior Department has in
terfered, and prevented their eiectment.
The proposed sale or lease of the
western portion Of their territory is
being warmly discussed. An outright
sale is generally opposed, but it's advocates
claim il is gaining ground. In the Cherokee
Nation there is wide diversity of opinion,
and communication signed by many lead
ing Cherokees has been sent the President
asking that he defer sending the special
committee who will negotiate for the pur-
chase of the territory until after the cleo
ton of the new Legislature in August, so
that the measure can be brought before the
people and deliberated upon during the
campaign. Although there is no decided
stand yet taken by the leaders of the five
tribes who must unite on decision, the
opinion prevails that Bushy Head, princi-
pal chief of the Cherokees, and j. M. PERI
man, chief of the Creeks, favor sale. Nc
Curtain, governor of the Choctaws, is also
said to be in sympathy with the move to
dispose of the lands.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03

FACTS discovered during the recent
winter begin to come in: CAT about
122 degrees below zero Fahrenheit the
flesh of animals, such as mutton, be-
comes so exceedingly hard as to ring
like porcelain when struck, and it may
be readily crushed to fine powder"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03

PAPER manufacturers are reported
to be anticipating a demand for
h eavier grades of paper and envelopes
when the new arrangement increasing
single letter postage weight goes into
effect, July 1. On and after that date
one ounce letters can be sent for the
This will naturally lead many people
to indulge their taste for heavier sta
tionary, as there will be no increase of
postage bills resulting.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
IN a TAVGLE.
Indirect Announcement of a Manufaetu
ing Failure at Chicago.

Indirect Announcement of a Manufacture
ing Failure at Chicago.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, May 25.-On the door
of the S. W. Adams Manufacturing
Company, at 167 South Canal Street,
there appears a placard saying the es-
Establishment has been sold to the Penn
sylvania Tube Works. The company
was started a year ago by S. w
Adams, who for several years had been
secretary of the Crane Bros. Manu-
featuring Company, and was known as
an excellent business man. The
Adams Company has enjoyed good
credit, and has been doing an excel
lent business. Last Fridays trans
actions therefore cause considerable
surprise, more particularly as the
Pennsylvania Tube Works Company
is said to be a principal creditor, while
the many other creditors are left I'M
provided for When the business was
first established it was claimed that it
Pennsylvania Tube Works, it is said,
gave the firm unlimited credit, and
the firm in consequence sold a large
amount of their goods. About ninety
days ago the firm was changed to a
corporation, and among others, it is
said, the Pennsylvania Company took
stock to the value of $780, the
total capital being placed at $780,
900. The firm enjoyed good credit
and is said to have done a business OF
100000 last year. Adams explains
that the Pennsylvania Company
agreed to take back all it's goods at
invoice price, and to purchase all the
other goods in stock. He says he
hopes to pay 100 cents on the dollar.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
MANY of the wealthiest ladies of New

MANY of the wealthiest ladies of New
York having organized a club and
rented a club house, IL became neces-
sary for them to adopt a constitution
and bylaws. Those of the Union
Club were finally selected, but it was
soon found that they did not cover
the ground at ALL About every other
section had something to do with the
disciplining of members who might get
"high," and, as none of the ladies in
tended to have anything of that kind
in their club, they wisely adopted a
constitution and bylaws of their own.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03

JUDGE ALLEN, of Massachusetts,
took occasion the other day to rebuke
from the bench the reckless action Of
ministers in marrying boys and girls
under 18 years of age, without their
parents consent. There is much force
in his declaration that one way to
diminish divorces is to Tighten up the
marriage laws" He thinks that If q
clergyman does not know the parties
who apply for marriage, and has any
reason to doubt their being of proper
age, he should give society the benefit
of the doubt, and decline to perform
the ceremony until assured of it's pro-
priety.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
Memorial Day.

Decoration day was very generally OBJ
served throughout the country. The pro-
cession in New York was reviewed by Presi-
dent Cleveland and Secretaries Endicott
and Whitney. The Seventh Regiment
marched past the house of Gen. Grant and
received from him military salute. The
chief feature of the day at Chicago was the
unwilling of the monument to Col Mulligan
militia, veteran soldiers, police and firemen
marched through the business quarter of
the city. Many Mexican veterans took
part in adjoining the tomb of Gen. Zachary
TAYLOR near Louisville.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
Heavy Insurance.

Considerable excitement was caused in
insurance circles on the 25th by the an
nouncement of the death of NJ. B. Harwood
at his orange grove on Halifax River, Flor
ida. Harwood was at one time lead
ing wholesale dry goods merchant of Mime
apolis, but failed for over $2,OO0,000 in
1880. He then went to Florida and pur-
chased an orange grove of 1000 acres. AT
the time of his death HARDWOOD had insur-
ance on his life to the amount of $500, 900.
There are suspicious of suicide.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
Starved to Death.

The body of Nellie Brittell, of Elizabeth
town, N. Y, aged FL years, who had been
absent from home twelve days, was found
on the oath on the bank of the Bouquet
River. Over fifty men were engaged in the
search. The body was nude, and pieces of
the young lady's clothing were found for a
distance of over two miles from where her
body was discovered. 1t is supposed that
she strayed SO far into the woods that she
could not find her way out; and that she
died from exposure and starvation. She
had started out after wintergreen berries
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
Favor Arbitration.

A London dispatch of the LIST inst says:
There is slight relaxation of the tension
OF the relations of Russia and England
Russia appears to be disposed to entertain
England's latest proposal-to submit to
the arbitration OF one of the crowned heads
of Europe the question whether the con-
vention of March II was broken by Russia.
1t is believed that the King of Denmark will
be selected as arbitrator. in the event of
mediation being accepted"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
A Kansas Zephyr.

Northeastern Kansas was visited by a
cyclone on the morning of the 9th. At
Nortonsville the railroad depot was lifted
from it's foundations and set across the
track. One dwelling house was completely
demolished and another partially SO. One
woman was seriously hurt. At Colts the
depot was demolished and several freight
cars wrecked. Reports from other places
make the damage to light wooden structures
very heavy. No lives are reported lost
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
A CHICAGO man has been granted

A CHICAGO man has been granted a
patent for telephone based upon a
system radically different from that
of the Bel telephone. The current OF
electricity, instead ngcontinuous,
as is the case with all other telephones,
is operated by an intermittent cur
rent on plan resembling the dots and
dashes of telegraph instrument.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
A Building Falls.

A three-story frame tenement house in
Jersey City, N. j., collapsed on the 9th.
Five families occupied the premises, includ-
ingtwenty persons. Four were killed.
Barney, Nellie and Mary Anderson, aged 9
and 7 years and months, respectively,
were all smothered in bed. Michael Webb,
aged 5 years, had his head crushed John
Coyne, aged 80, an insurance agent, was
badly injured. Nine other persons were
hnrt more or less seriously. Preparations
were making to repair the building, which
was known to be unsafe, but work had not
been begun
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
Chicago Wool Market.

REPORTED by SHERMAN HALL & Co., Chicago, Ill.
Prices of old wool from Wisconsin and Mime
sofa have been steady, with a fair demand from
Western manufacturers. The quotations, based
on actual sales, are as follows: Unwashed-
Fine, 17@21c; fine medium, 20@22c; medium
21@23c; low Medium, 81 @ 3c; coarse, 100
zoe Delaine-Fine, 2O@21c medium, 21@
22c. Combing-Medium 22@24c; low medium
22@23c; coarse, 19@21c braid, 18@19c.
Total receipts of wool for past week, 6S3, $50
tive demand from Western mills absorbs all re
ceipts of Wisconsin and Minnesota unwashed
at prices above quoted.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
The First Break,

A dispatch of the goth from Pittsburg
says: Brown & Co., of the Wayne Iron
and Steel Works, have signed the Anal
gamated Association scale, and work will
be continued without Interruption This is
the first break in the manufacturers lines
The news was received with considerable
enthusiasm by the iron-workers, who are
confident that enough manufacturers will
accept their proposition to avert a strike
There are rumors of other manufacturers
signing in circulation, but they have not
been confirmed"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
GOOD TEMPLARS.
Election of Officers of the Right Grand
Worthy Lodge at Toronto.

Election of Officers of the Right Grand
Worthy Lodge at Toronto.
TORONTO, Ont, May 28.-The Right
Grand Worthy Lodge of Good Temp
lars, ir session here, elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year:
John B. Finch, of Nebraska, R. w. G. T.
W. H. Lambly, of Quebec, Cam, r. w. G..
c.; Mrs Sarah A. Leonard, of Massachu-
setts, r. W. V. G. t.; t. F. Parker, OF Wis
consin, R. w. G. S; Uriah Copp, of Illinois,
r. w. G. T.; Miss Peck, OF New Haven, C.
S. j. T.
The officers-elect were installed by
Mr.. Hastings, ex-treasurer OF Wiscon-
sin, past right grand worthy Good
Templar, who is the Oldest member IN
the order. Richmond, Va, was de-
cided upon as the next place of the
annual meeting.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03

THE transcontinentalr railroads have
subsidized the Pacific Mail Company
by giving it $4,000 per month to
maintain freight rates from New York
at the tariff fixed by the roads. This
another evidence of the truth of the
saying that competition does not al
WAYS cOmDete'