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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
SIGNS OF A BOO

New YORK, Feb. 10.-Among the en-
couraging features of the last few days
are the placing of orders for locomo-
tives and cars, the Chicago & North
Western Company having placed an
order for forty locomotives and q South
ern company an order for ten, besides
orders tor two or three thousand cars.
At the Delaware & Hudson Office it is
stated that the company has orders for
CRATE and stove coal which it cannot fill.
The Delaware & Hudson. is running
considerably above its allotment for the
month and must soon cut down. The
company refused orders for coal two
days last week. Lackawanna applied
to the Delaware & Hudson for supply
of stove, which the latter was unable to
furnish.
PrrTsBURG, Feb. 10.-Twenty per
cent. of the idle coke ovens under the
control of the coke syndicate are to be
fired up at once. Five thousand of the
syndicate's 10000 ovens are now In
blast, and it is anticipated that by the
LIST of March all will be running. This,
together with the advance in the price
of coke, will give an impetus to the
trade that will go far towards boom.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Senate.


MONDAY, Feb 9.-The Senate received Gre
dentials of the reelection of Senators Voor-
bees and Pugh. Bills were passed increasing
the appropriations for public buildings at
Pittsburg, Pa; Quincy, H., and Peoria, I'll. A
concurrent resolution authorizing the Presi-
dent to announce to foreign governments the
result of the Prime Meridian conference and to
ask their concurrence was agreed to- On a
point of order raised by Mr.. ingalls,, the Senate
decided to stand by its rule forbidding the pro-
posing of general legislation on appropriation
bills.
TUESDAY, Feb. 10.-A memorial was present.
ed from the legislature of Dakota, urging di-
vision of the territory and the admission of the
southern portion as a state. A resolution pro-
viding for the striking of medals to commence
rate the dedication of the Washington rnonu-
ment was passed. The ''antl fencing" bill
was also passed, as was the pension appropri-
alton bill. The latter contained clause max
ing soundness at enlistment presumphve, with
the privilege of rebuttal left to the government.
The credentials of Mr.. Hampton were present
ed.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1.-THE Army Appropria-
ton bill was reported and placed on the
calendar. bill was passed providing for
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
THE INAUGURATION BALL.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-The sale of
tickets to the Inauguration ball began
yesterday. The large card of invita-
ton, bearing the portraits of the candi-
dates. is valuable as souvenir, and as
the real ball ticket has to be given up
at the door, the invitation is all that re-
mains to one. The price of ticket is
SIS and each individual has to have his
or her own ticket in order to
enter. Washington ladies, who know
the perils of great crowd
and public ball of this kind, never lay
much stress upon the matter of toilets
for such an occasion, wearing generally
the evening dress that they care least
about running. The gorgeous costum-
ing is left, therefore, to the strangers,
and we hear wonderful stories here of
the gowns that have been ordered in
other cities to be ready for the inaug
uration ball. While every one will be
expected to appear in full evening
dress, many visitors who come here onl
for the day, wear the plain dark sill
dresses that they have worn in the
street, and the managers obliging them
to lay aside their hats or bonnets, they
accord very well with the others in the
general view of the crowd. A floor
over which 10000 people have once
walked is not the place that any woman
wants, to draw delicate satin train over
for the first time, and it will only be
the most loyal party-followers who will
sacrifice new and costly evening dress
at the March ball.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18

THE point is worth specifying that
among the first who were killed at Abu
Klea were two London newspaper cor
respondents. People are not accus-
toned to think that news-gathering has
its heroic side; but these two men as
surely sacrificed their lives for duty's
sake as any of the soldiers who died
there. The risks taken by war CORE
spondents to obtain early and exact in.
formation are often of the most desper'
ate kind, and not half as much credit is
awarded to them as they deserve.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18

IT seems the mountaineers in the
vicinity of Canton, Ca, are net as simple
and lamb-ike as their general appearance
would indicate. Three well-dressed
Boston DULLES, who felt The force of
coming from the city that nurtured the
redoubtable Slugger Sullivan, recently
met in the suburbs a pair of frousy-
headed, shirtsleeved, mountain boys
who shared pair of suspenders between
them and had a general air of moss
grown simplicity. The dude-dressed
Bostonians thought this afforded them
a good chance to exercise their muscle,
and they made most emphatic demand
that the mountaineers dance before them
in the dust or submit to thrashing.
The mountain boys were somewhat
dazed at the dignity of the request, but
retained their presence of mind quick
enough to draw couple of monster six
shooters and decline. Then they re-
ciprocated the favor and demanded that
the dudes dance. The latter were 10th
to comply, but did so. Their dancing
amused the boys so much that they were
compelled to keep it up for five hours.
They are probably very thankful that
they are not dancing yet, and hereafter
they will not attempt to judge of the
quality of mans nerve by the cut of
his clothes,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18

his right to have documents put in evil
dence read in full, he intended reading
through the whole file of his paper.
The Judge strongly demurred, but
Rosa insisted, but by way of comprom-
Use agreed TO omit the advertisements.
After two hours of it he asked for a
glass of water. The judge refused,
and Rosa continued his reading. Then
he asked for an adjournment OF court
This was likewise denied as were his
subsequent requests for water or ad.
iournment. He finally gave up in
sheer exhaustion. His speech and com
ments upon what he read were said tc
be very able.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
London Police Active.

An important seizure of dynamite was made
on the night of the 10th, by the London police.
A man, supposed to be an American, some
time before the explosions in the House of
Commons and in the Tower, rented an unoc-
cupied house in Harrow Road and filled the
ground floor up AZ q bookstore. The man was
seldom seen about the premises, and has not
been seen at all in the neighborhood since the
date of the recent explosions. The latter fact
induced the police to place the bookstore under
surveillance, and finally make the seizure. On
the ground floor was found large quantity of
dynamite. At the time of the seizure, the
bookstore was IL charge of man of American
appearance and accent. The seizure is not re-
garded outside of police circles as worthy of ex-
traOrdinarY attention.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
The restoration of the whipping-post

The restoration of the whipping-post
is question now squarely before the
Pennsylvania Legislature, and if the
use of the lash for which it provides is
restricted to the backs of wife-b heaters,
the enactment of the measure ought to
be accomplished, says the New York
Mail and Express. The whipping post
is doubtless relic of barbarism, and
hence its fitness for the barbarians who
beat their wives. The brutes for whom
the lash is needed can be restrained
from cruelty by fear of no ordinary
penalty, but the terrors of the whipping
post few of them will brave a second
time. It would be well to reserve the
lash as penalty for one offense- that
of wife-beating.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18

The boundaries of the region known
as the West have been perpetually
shifting. Within the lifetime of old
folks it commenced along the foothills
of the Alleghanies. A few years later the
limit stood for awhile on the banks of
the Mississippi. To-day the boundary
lies on the bluffs of the Missouri, in the
neighborhood of Kansas City. Beyond
that point lies the region of tradition,
prophecy, adventure, discovery, enters
prise, heroism-the West.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
ANOTHER HORROR.
Eighteen Raving Maniacs Roasted in
Their Cells,
An Almshouse in Philadelphia Wrapped
in Flames.

Eighteen raving maniacs were burn
ed to death in the insane department. of
the Blookley almshouse, on the west side
of Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, on the
night of the 18th, In confederation
which needed nothing to make it the
most horrible disaster OF the kind ever
known in the history of the city. The
fire originated in the wing of the old
building which fronts towards the
Schuylkill, and directly east of the main
building of the almshouse This wing
is 145 feet front and so deep, connected
on the south with the main building of
the old structures of the insane depart
ment, which runs south 400 feet, to
similar wing to the one in which the
disaster occurred. In this north build
ing where the fire broke out, there were
sixty separate cells, for violent patients,
twenty on each floor. In addition to
this, there was large room on each of
the three floors, in which cots for twelve
men were placed, all of which we're oc-
cupied when the fire broke out. On
the second floor opposite the central
cell of the row of separate cells on the
north side of the corridor, which
runs from east to west, was
a dry-room heated by steam.
This room, which was about ten
feet square, was directly alongside
the middle stairway leading to the floors
above and below. Here the flames orig
mated, but from what cause is not
known. At the time there were insane
patients in each of the twenty cells on
these three floors. Ten were in the
large room on the first floor and twelve
In each of the large rooms on the Sec
ond and third floor. From all accounts
to be obtained, it appears pretty certain
that the first alarm was given by an in
sane patient, on the first floor of the
main building. This occurred at about
8 o'clock, and was followed by scene of
terror impossible to describe. The eff
forts of the attendants to put out the
fire were of no avail and after soundinga
call for the city department., they devoted
their energies to the work of saving the
inmates of the doomed wing. When
the fremen arrived on the scene, all the
patients on the two lower floors had
been taken out and organized as q fire
brigade. There were twenty-eight
patients in the cells and main room on
the third floor. The fremen Immediate
" placed their ladders against the
cell windows, and by breaking the win
dow bars, succeeded in rescuing several
men. Several of those rescued died in
few hours. Following are the names
and ages of the occupants of the nine
teen cells on the upper floor, all of
whom are supposed to have
been suffocated or burned to
death, with the exception of three
who were rescued by the fremen:
Frank D. Dechacon, 35; James Mccoy,
40; John Lyden, so; Isaac O'Neill, 35;
Charles Scott (colored), 81; John
Dryer, 40; James Burk, 81; Thomas
Rusk, 80; Michael Wroth, Sc; Robert
Cunningham, As; Charles NoIenberger,
60; Thomas Jones, 81; John Herriges,
48; John Koehler, 60; Thomas Smith,
80; Edward Murphy. 48; Charles
O'Brien, Sc; Philip Newburger, go.
The pecuniary loss is estimated at
$4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
SECRETARY LINCOLN has taken Lient

SECRETARY LINCOLN has taken Lieut..
Greedy out of an uncomfortable corner
by refusing to let any of the places dis
covered in the North be named after
anybody who was not member of the
Greedy party, save Mrs. Greedy and
Lieut.. Lockwcod's sister. This takes
one blot from the Arctic chart by re-
moving the name of Howgate from it.
If the order could only by made retro
active it would wipe off some other
names which the country has no desire
to honor.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
Death in q Saver

large Kinze Street sewer, Chicago, on the af-
ternoon of the 18th, were overcome by gas
only four being taken out alive. After. the
men had been down some time, faint cry for
help was heard by those at the manholes, and
ladder was put down at Union Street. None
of the party were able to climb. however, and
they were pulled up, one at tme by those
above. Five of the nine were beyond help
when brought to the surface. Their names
were Michael Laski Joseph Gill. James Grady.
Daniel Curtis and Matthew Mason. All but
Gill leave families. Those rescued are thought
to be out of danger.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18

ARIZONA TERRITORY seems to be a
region entirely unexplored by the
arch@ologist. Parties who have recent
" returned from there report the dis
covery of extensive stone ruins, which
look as if they had withstood wind and
weather for centuries. The study of
the prehistoric people of whom they
are silent witnesses would be an inter-
esting one, and well worthy the ex-
penditure of the money by some of our
wealthy lovers of science.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
In New York. generally speaking, JUS

In New York, generally speaking, JUS
tice is not blind, but when it is it pro-
poses to get Enlightenment. Recently
at a court in that city five men were
brought in charged with gambling, the
main evidence falling upon the face
value of poker chips. The prisoners
were discharged, and the merits of the
different systems of playing poker were
discussed at length by theCourt, the
sergeant, and the clerk.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
Blown I'm.

4 terrible accident occurred in the rolling
mills of the Central Iron and Steel Works at
Brazil, Ind, on the morning of the 10th. The
boiler exploded, burying four men under the
ruins of pudding furnaces and seriously in
juring eight others. large number were
slightly hurt. The four men buried under the
furnace were taken out dead. Their names
are: Mahlon Baker, Bob Davis, Brock, James
Bllletter-all Brazil men. Fatally hurt: Lewis
Miller, of Newark, N. J. Dangerously injured:
Thos. Kennedy, of Trenton, N. r.; James
Rogers, of GAINESVILLE, Wis. The damage to
the mill property is estimated at $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
A Taste of Victory.

Lord Wolseley telegraphed to the London
war Office, on the 9th, from Korti, as follows
1.-THE advance guard of Gen. Earle's column.
consisting of a squadron of cavalry under COM
mand of Col. Butler, surprised large body of
the Meenassir tribe under Wadgam, the MUIR
derer of Col. Stewart, encamped at Shakoob-
Wells. The cavalry charged the encampment,
and the enemy fed in every direction, leaving
behind thirty men killed and large number Of
camels, cattle and many Remington rifles. Col.
Butler captured six prisoners"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
Smoke
The Glasgow Mills. at Caryville, F

The Glasgow Mills. at Caryville, Fla, burned
on the 18th. Loss $4,000.
Fire at Jacksonville, Fla, on the 18th. de-
stroyed five buildings. Loss $50, 900.
The Touring miIlsEof Darrah Bros. & Co.. at
Big Rapids, Mich, burned on the 18th. Loss.
$4,000.
Two colored servants were burned to death
at Calvert, Tex, on the night of the 18th.
An entire block of buildings at Princeton.
Mo-, were destroyed by fire on the 18th. The
losses aggregate $4,000.
Fire at Genesee Brewery, at Rochester, N. Y.
on the 18th, caused loss of $125, 1000.
Lansing, Mich, had $50, 900 conhagration,
on the night of the 10th.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18

The equality of justice in North
Carolina may be theoretically popular,
but practically it is negative indeed. A
negro of Asheville stole coat the other
day. He was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for seven years. On the same day
a white man was sent to the county jail
for one year for trying to kill a man.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
Five Forts DESTROYED,

Gen. Briere de L'Isle telegraphs the French
government, on the 9th, as follows: "Friday
and Saturday we destroyed five forts belonging
to the Chinese. The enemy had evacuated
them without fighting. In the forts we found
stores provisions, gunpowder and other am
mun1tion. We accommodated twelve kilometres
and found the Chinese retreating hastily to-
wards Lang Son. Our losses during the en-
gagements were 81 killed and 1862 wounded
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
A BabV's Sad Fate.

In Perry Township, Licking County. O., the
infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. James Mumsley
was burned to death on the 18th. The mother
had gone to the spring for a bucket of water,
leaving the child aloue in a room close to the
CRATE. She was gone only few minutes, but
on returning found the little one enveloped III
flames. Death resulted ia few moments.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
Rewards,

The London policemen, Cole and Cox, who
received serious injuries while endeavoring to
prevent the dynamite explosion in the parlia-
ment building, have received G100 from
Mr.. Gladstone, 9197 from Sir William Har-
court, 5360 from Sir James IDgham, and $500
from parliamentary subscription.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
A Terrible Fall.

On the morning Of the 9th, five workmen
employed in repairing bridge over the Sus-
quehanna River, at Havre de Grace, Md.
were thrown down on the Ice by the breakin e
of scaffold. The fall was fifty feet and all
went through the ice into the river. Two are
reported drowned and three rescued in pre-
cariOus condition.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
Deeds of Blood.

Deeds of Blood.
While resisting arrest, at Springfield, Mo-,
on the 18th, Joe Brannon, Texas desperate,
was shot dead.
while drunk, created a sensation at Washing
ton hotel on the night of the 18th, by attempt
ing to shoot colored porter.
Ex-Sheriff Spangler, of Somerset, Pa, blew
his brains out on the 18th. Financial troubles.
At Hamilton, O., on the 18th. Geo. Schnei-
der was found guilty of murder in the first
degree. He was charged with killing and rob-
bling his own mother.
In quarrel over a woman, at Dover Plains
N Y, on the night of the 18th, Samuel Proper
was killed by William J. White.
Insane from financial troubles, j. w. Hutch
inson, OF Gillespie, ILL.,, committed suicide on
the 18th.
Lee Linn. of the Wabash 0nd.) Courier. who
killed William Hickey, at that place, a few
DAYS ago. was acquitted on the 18th.
Il. M. Belmore died en- the morning of the
18th, at the st. Louis city hospital, from the
effect of blows received the previous day in a
drunken row with James Bree.
Richard Trenke, who murdered Mrs. Zimns
in October last, was hanged at Philadelphia
on the 18th.
shot and mortally wounded his wife, on the
18th, and then fled. 1t is supposed that
jealousy was the cause.
Llge Parker. who murdered Louis Fox, in
December, and Rush johnson, who murdered
John G. Wall, in August, were hanged at
Little Rock, Ark, on the 18th. On the scaffold
Johnson declared that he was innocent.
DR.. Lot Beach was hanged at Hollidaysburg,
Pa, on the 18th, for the murder of bis wife In
April last.
Giuseppe Judici, who killed Maggiorini Dag
Tiers in Brooklyn, after quarrel, has been SEN
fenced to be hung on the Sd of April.
At Upton, KY, on the 18th, VIM. Dudgon
committed suicide bV cutting his throat He
was crazed by grief over the death of his wife
and child. The three bodies were buried in
one coffin.
Town Marshal Creed, at Johnston, Edgfeld
County, s. c., was wounded by ''Mobley,"
negro, whom he was attempting to arrest, on
the 10th. Mobley then tried to kill "a deputy
policeman, who shot him mertally
In Plckens County, S. c., on the 9th, Dick
Mulligan (white) while drunk, hurled chair at
his wife and killed little daughter who hap
pened to come i'll. Mulligan, sobered by the
tragedy, went to the bedroom and cut his
throat.
John Moxner robbed the saloon of Christian
Fisher, in Philadelphia, on the night of the 9th,
while left in charge, Fisher and wife having
gone to q ball. Moxner stole everything porta-
Bile in the house and SO brutally beat an in
FAINT of months that it will die. Moxner was
arrested next morning.
Several weeks ago it was given out by Mrs.
Richard Trump, living five miles south of
Terre Haute, Ind. that her husband had killed
himself while she was out in the coal shed
getting COAL On the 9th inst. she was arrest
ed and confessed that she herself committed
the deed.
While on drunken spree at Danvers, ILL.,. on
the 9th, Douglas Ennis shot and killed John
Parr. He then killed PARIS son, who defend
ed his father.
Richard Short, the assailant of Capt. Phelan
was released en- bail at New York on the 9th.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18

THE people of the southern half of
Dakota Territory are preparing for a
vigorous application to the next Con-
gress to have the proposed new state of
South Dakota admitted into the Union.
The north half of the territory prefers
to remain in territorial condition for
the present, expecting to be ready for
statehood in the course of few years.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
Gordon Dead.

Coils. Wilson and WoIseley. who led the ex-
petition to Khartoum, arrived in Korti, on the
10th. They brought what appears to be au-
thenhc news of Gen. Gordon's death. After
the town had been delivered over to the Mahdi's
troops by two traitor Gus pashas, Gordon was
stabbed to death as he was leaving the govern
ment house.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
An Impressario Dead.

DR.. Leopold Damrosch, the great musical di-
rector, died at New York, on the 18th, after an
illness of only two or three days. He was So
vaarR of ACE.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
Buried In Snow.

The mining camp of Alta, in Utah, was for
the second time wiped out by a snowslide, on
the night of the 18th. Only five or six houses
were uninjured. The remainder were swept
away. Sixteen persons, including five children,
are known to have been killed. 1t had been
showing continuously for week. The pecun-
larry losses are estimated at SAC, 0O0
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18

A Boston paper says: "a snow
pillow that works its way through the
drifts on the principle of an auger is an
nounced." Boston must have re-
NAMED in the drift long time before
making this remarkable announcement;
the machine has been in practical opera
ton for three seasons past,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18

The mortgsge-ridden citizens of Ala
bama are to have some solace. A bill
has been introduced into the Legisla-
ture which provides that it shall be un-
lawful for any Judge or court in the
state to render Judgment for less than
$4,000 within the next two years.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18
CHE 8agublic&e1.
WATERFOWL Mis-

A REVOLUTION is in progress in Col
ombia. It is high time that one of the
South American republics did some
thing to keep up their reputation
There has been no revolution in any OF
them for at least six months, until this
hannened
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18

The proceedings of Georgia iuries
are sometimes summary and cratic. In
the recent case of a murderer, the jury
were out two days-that is, they were
out ia the woods that length of time
hunting him. When the criminal wa
caught the case was settled in less than
fifteen minutes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-18

WILLIAM the Conqueror is said "to
have way-laid Matilda in the streets of
Bruges, seized her, rolled her in the
dirt and struck her repeatedly" But she
had an awful revenge. She married
him.