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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
Cyclone on the Istbmus.

A dispatch from Panama, under date OF
the 18th, says: "Colon has been visited bv
a very severe cyclone which has done great
damage. 1t commenced on the I'd inst, ct
about2 P. M, and the next day lulled, but
commenced again with terrible severity.
All the steamers in port put out to sea for
safety, returned, and had again to.put out.
The damage to property has been very
heavy and the loss to life most serious.
The following vessels were sunk with their
crews: Holden, Karnan Blanche, Ortolan.
Atwood, Ariel, Veteran, Ocean, Lynton
Avelyn, Stella, Catalina, Figri. Douglas and
two others whose names could not be as
certained. The rain poured down in tor
rents, and a terrible gale of wind from the
northeast set in. The royal mail new
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
|. NJ. BELL, supervising

A. M. BELL, supervising archi-
tect of government buildings, in his
annual report to the secretary of the
treasury, says there are now In course
of construction eighty new United
States government buildings in various
parts of the country, ranging in cost
from $4,000 to 100000 each,
calling for a total expenditure of S.
511, 400 The expenditures for the
year on this account have aggregated
s.. 43S. 100.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23

THE election riots in Great Britain
are disgrace to nation that boasts
so much of its age and civilization.
Americans can teach their British
cousins something about public cleo
lions without riots, which the latter
would do well to profit by. 1t doesn't
sound well to read of men attending
polling places with bludgeons
to prevent their opponents from ex-
ercising their right of suffrage, in ma
ton so old as Great Britain.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
Minor Mention.

John Hargreaves, a commission mer.
chant doing business in New York and Chi
cago, suspended on the 18th with debts
amounting to $35O,O0O.
A mad dog created great excitement in
South Orange, n. j., on the goth, by run
ming through the streets, biting all the
other dogs he came in contact with. He
was finally shot.
G. W. Hemenway, editor of the Ogden
Herald, has been convicted OF ibeling Chief
Justice Zane of Utah, in stating that he
shielded federal officials who violated the
laws.
Colvin Pratt, who secured $14, 900 from
San Francisco bank, sailed for Yoko-
hama, where he was arrested Immediately
on landing
At Chicago, on the 10Th, arguments were
made for q new trial in the case of Andre
Andrews, recently convicted of keeping a
fence. The motion for new trial was de-
MED.
David Miles, of Milford, Conn.,, was
gored to death by Holstein bull on the
10Th, and his brother Edward was only
saved from a like fate by a bystander
shooting the animal dead.
Stephen Barker Guion, the well-known
ship-owner, died suddenly from apoplexy, at
London, on the 10th. He was born in
New York in 1920.
Engineers at Paris are engaged in repair
ing the Pont Neuf bridge, which partially
collapsed few days ago. 1t is estimated
that the cost of restoring the bridge to it's
former condition will be 100000 francs.
There has been no further subsistence.
Mabe Knickerbocker, a school girl of
Evansville, Ind, aged 16 years, was sud-
denly stricken blind while at her desk on the
afternoon of the 18th.
At Shreveport, La, on the 18th, mort
gage for 81 1928, 900 IN favor of the Central
Trust Company of New York was filed in
the district court by the attorney of the
QUEEN and Crescent system.
1t is estima ted that it will cost the Cana
dian government 500, 900 to reimburse the
grocers and saloon-keepers who obtained
their licenses under the Dominion Liquor
Act which the privy council has declared
unconstitutional.
M. C. Huyett & Co., lumbermen. Detroit.
suspended on the 10th. Liabilities esti-
mated at $175,OO0.
Several weeks ago the vault of E. n.
Marks, pawnbroker at Chicago, was robbed
of jewelry valued at $4,000. One of the
robbers was arrested and confessed, and
the goods nave all been recovered. They
were found at New York.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23

AT the first glance, there seems some
thing odd in regarding champagne as
an Indicator of the worlds commercial
condition, but a. closer look at the
facts shows that there is an Intimate
connection between the quantity OF
champagne consumed and the business
of chose who drink it. Champagne is
a luxury. Nobody is obliged to drink
champagne, and when times are hard
and money scarce, champagne is dis
pensed with. Other luxuries, such AS
diamonds and iewelry, go with it, and
for the same reason-the unwillingness
OF men to part with money when
money is hard to GIT. A renewal OF
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
Deeds OF Blood.

Jasper Sweet, the printer, who shot DIR.
Thomas Waugh at Chicago, was on the 10Th
sentenced to the peniten tiary for two years.
Jacob S. Schwarzler wealthy New Y ork
business man, was knocked down by two
men, one of whom was a park policeman,
on the night of the 10Th. The men were in
the act of robbing their victim when they
were arrested.
Miss Jessie Clarke, aged II. daughter of
prominent citizen of Mckenzie, Tenn,
was shot and instantly killed on the night
Of the 18th, by the accidental discharge of
q revolver.
In New York, on the 18th, John Har-
mon, aged IL, was arraigned for the third
time for attempting to take his own life by
hanging.
During a general melee at the Beaver
Creek mines, near Somerset, KY, on the
18th, William Parsons killed Frank Viii
son, and Charles Gooden and w. A. Owens
fatally stabbed two other men, names not
known. Parsons escaped, but the other
two were arrested.
Four Of the leaders of a society of Anarch-
lists have been arrested at San Francisco,
and the records of the society, now in the
hands of the police, show that preparations
were being made to murder some twenty OF
the most prominent men in the city. Much
excitement was created by the discovery.
Robert J. Phillips, who cut his wife's
throat at Indianapolis, Ind, last June, has
been on trial for the crime for several days.
On the night of the 18th the jury returned
verdict of guilty, fixing the penalty at
death. When be killed his wife he cut his
own throat, but not fatally. He now
breathes through a silver tube in his
throat; and threatens to pull it out and end
his life rather than be hanged.
On the evening of the 18th, at Durant,
Miss, difficulty occurred between Charles
and Jacob Marselles, brothers, and W. G..
Davis; in which the latter was shot and
killed. All the parties are highly connected.
Frank Duncan, a miner, was found dead
near Lisbon, o., on the night OF the 14th
with his skull crushed. He is supposed to
have been murdered by James Burk, with
whom he was last seen alive.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23

THE Burmese are reported as being
delighted with the change from their
own despotic government to the mild,
paternaI administration which will be
given them by the British; but ashade
of suspicion is cast upon the state
ment by the source whence it en-
anates. According to the British
army reports, the people who are I'M
dergoing subjugation are always de-
lighted at the process.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
A FrightfuI Fall

While seven men were being hoisted to the
surface in the Solferino mine, near Nevada.
vile, Gilpin County, Col, on the evening of
the 18th, a rock fell from above and struck
Archaleus Warren on the head, knocking
him out of the bucket. The men tried to
catch him but failed. The bucket was
about fifty feet from the surface at the
time An exploring party found a piece OF
his jaw bone at The 1,200-foot level, and o,
piece OF his skull at the 1900 level, where
his coat was also found. His body fell
about 1900 feet into the water at the
bottom of the shaft.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23

Now, about this telephone. Bell
didn't invent it, nor did the fellow of
whom Bell stole Is. 1t was invented
by a German named Ries, who lee
tured on it and used it as long ago as
1861 in Frankfort. The device lay
dormant, as did steam, for a long
time waiting to be yoked up to prac-
tical uses. Refs drawings and notes
of his lectures are in existence, and
prove conclusively that he is the dad
dy of the "Hello!" machine, until we
find out from whom he stole it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23

THE statistics of immigration at
New York show a falling off thus far
this year of 39.875 persons. In May
and August only was there any IN
crease on the corresponding months
last year, and that was very small.
Yet the total number of immigrants
for the eleven months. 271, 4O5, rep
resents a very large addition to our
population for the time.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
Fatal Gasoline Fire.

At Cleveland, O., on the 18th, William
White, telegraph operator who lives on
Ontario Street, was engaged in cleaning his
little sons dress with gasoline. The father
stepped from the room for an instant, and
when he returned he found that the fluid
had igniteo and that his child, aged years,
had been burned to crisp. The mother
was away from home at the time.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23

AN impudent and importuning fellow
in Philadelphia who had been assidu-
Gus in his attentions to a married
woman, who discouraged his advances,
recently felt embroidered to visit her
with proposition to elope. The wo-
man resented the motion by breaking
his arm with a club, and her husband
then came to the front and pounded
him into a state of mellowness.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23

THE newspapers of Kansas are
spending about all their space nova
days discussing the question of enforc-
ing prohibition. 1t appears that there
is prohibition law, but no prohibition.
The Leavenworth Times takes a bold
stand in favor of submitting the pro-
hibition question again. The editor,
Col D. R. Anthony, prefers this to q
law which is not enforced.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
Burned to Death,

fatal accident by fire occurred in the
residence OF Mrs. Baker, on Laclede Avenue,
ST. Louis, on the 10th. Mrs Bakers 9-year-
old daughter Mamie was standing in front
of crate with her back to the fire, when
the bottom of her dress was ignited. Her
screams drew to her her mother and sister,
who did all in their power to extinguish the
fire, but they were too late, and the child s
body was burned to a crisp from head to
foot. She lived several hours afterward,
but died in great agony,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
A Prohibition Victory.

At Atlanta, Ca. on the 18th, in the
United States court, Judge Mccoy decided
the contested election case growing out of
the recent Prohibition election. The Judge
refused to continue the Injunction restrain
ing the ordinary from announcing the re-
suit of the election, and decided the case
against the liquor men on every point.
There is in the bill adopted provision that
Georgia wines may be sold. AS wines from
other states were excluded, that portion of
the bill Judge Mccoy decides was unconsti-
tutional and no wines could be sold.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
Pirates i'm TOnQuin.

forces in Tonquin, telegraphed the war
office on the 18th that Gen. De Negrier has
cleared the Marble Mountains, north of
Hai-Duong, of Black Flags and pirates,
capturing number OF fortified caverns and
a large quantity of arms and ammunition
One cavern was desperately defended and
tulip 100 pirates were killed before it could
be taken. Numerous war junks were sunk
between therapids and the Bamboo canals.
The country has been pacifed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23

was suspected, but the finding of q revolver
with all the cartridges discharged was all
the evidence then secured. The following
day postmortem examination of the
bodies was made and resulted in proof pos
itively substantiating the theory. Bullet
holes and % calibre bullets were found in
the skulls of both Frank Knoch and his
wife. No suspicion attaches to any one as
vet
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, is having quite
a boom. Northern capital seems to
be flowing into the ancient village by
the sea and giving it new life. Among
other things, the Standard Oil Com
pany is erecting a 100000 hotel.
Already the hotels of ST. Augustine
have room for 5000 guests, and are
said to be overcrowded during the
winter months.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
Denies His Guilt.

Benz. T. o. Hubbard, cashier of the First
National Bank, of Monmouth, ILL.,, who is
charged with embezzling 100000 of the
funds of the bank, testified in court on the
18th that he had taken none Of the money
and made the startling announcement that
the president and others Of the directors
had overdrawn their accounts, and that
they were at all times privy to the condi-
ton of the banks affairs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
Cut His Throat.

Theo. Weaver, senior member of a
musical instrument company, became sud-
denly insane at Dallas, Tex. He was con-
fined i'll a room at hotel, where his
brother-in-law, DR.. E. w. Meisenholder, OF
York, Pa, visited him on the 10th for the
purpose of taking charge of his relative.
While he was absent for few moments,
Mr.. Weaver locked the door of his room
and cut his throat with a razor, dying in a
short time
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23

GREAT stories of gold discovery come
from Alaska, and that bleak region,
after all, may prove worth far more
than the ST 100000 which was paid
to Russia for it. Should the tales OF
gold be realized, Alaska, by bringing
down the valse of gold, may greatly
contribute to D. solution of the cur
rency question.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
Found in the Streets.

W. D. Lyon, a musical composer and in
structor of considerable note in former
years, and at one time partner in large
business houses in London and Manchester
Eng, was found wandering about the
streets of Louisville, KY, and died in few
hours after being taken to the hospital.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
COuIdn't Agree.

An unknown stockman was waylaid and
robbed near Sioux City, Ia, on the night OF
the 18th, by John Williams and James
Hughes two notorious toughs. After the
robbery the two men met at Council Bluffs,
to divide the booty, which amounted to
1000. They disagreed over the division
and Williams shot Hughes dead, The MUIR
derer WAS arrested
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Gen. Toombs Dead.

Gen. Robert Toombs died at his home in
Washington, Ga, on the night of the 18th.
Gen. Toombs was born in the town where
he died. in 1870 and during his life held the
positions of United States senator, Con-
federate secretary of state and brigadier-
general in the Confederate army.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
Dynamite in Siberia.

Dispatches received on the 10th from St.
Petersburg state that terrible dynamite
explosion has occurred in the Peijuchin
mine, in Siberia. The accounts are con-
flicting as regards the number of persons
killed, some placing the number at 400,
while others place it as high as 1000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23

MORPHINE, Incorporating as quinlne'
scored four corpses out OF a possible
five in the family OF a lawyer in Vim
cennes, Ind. Quinine is a daily Hoos-
Ter ration, and the substitution OF the
other drug will kill more people there
than an army with banners.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
Death in the Wind.

Mail advices received in this country, on
the Goth, report a terrible typhoon in the
Philippine Islands. Over 4 900 houses, in
Guiding thirteen churches and ten converts,
were destroyed. Eighteen lives were lost
and 500 cattle destroyed. Thereport only
covers the damage in nineteen of the thirty
four districts of the islands.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
The Rtpnblifa't
WATERFOWL, WISCONSIN.

AMONGST the members of Parliament
elect we notice the familiar name OF
Mr.. Hog. Those who imagined that
the American hog had a monopoly OF
politics are proved to have been mis-
taken
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23

GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL ofNew York
has been visiting the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park, and says there are only
700 buffalo left on the American con-
tinent.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
Scarlet Fever Epidemic.

Scarlet fever of malignant type has
broken out at the Protestant Episcopal
Home for Children, in Pittsburg. There
are eighty-fve children in the home, and the
situation is alarming. Four deaths have
occurred, and ten children are now lying i'll
with the dread disease. Everything is being
done to check the progress of the conta-
piOu
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23

freight office was destroyed by the storm
Wharf No. 4, belonging to the Panama Rail
road, is almost demolished the rails having
been torn up and the earthworks destroyed
by the force Of the wind"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23

prosperity makes money easier, and
there is a generalreturn to champagne
and to other superfuities that men en-
1ov when their pockets are full.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-03-21

only make the story longer, but make it no
clearer. All the time the United States
did nothing of any account until 1870, when
it made a full effort TO support the Pacific
Mail Co., when fearing American competi-
tion England renewed her energies every
where and jumped her subsidies from five to
six millions year in response to the Pacific
Mail subsidy. After three years trial the
United States abandoned its puny attempt
at a policy and Great Britain reduced her
subsidies to the old figures. The question
was well stated by James A. Bayard in tho
Senate in 1859 when advocating support for
the Collins line. He said: :. :. "If
the treasury of a foreign nation is poured
into the lap of individuals for the porpose
of destroying the interests of my country, or
for building up commercial marine at the
expense of the commerce and prosperity of
the United States for one, will connt no
cost in countervailing such governmental
action ON the part of Great Britain or any
foreign power, 'tbat is noble language and
patriotic as it is far-seeing, 1t is creditable
to Mr.. Gibbons's intelligence that he does
not share in the ''free ships delusion and
surrounded as he is with the beneficial ef-
fects of protection it is strange he has not
made further progress.
But to conclude the question of the decay
or rather the restoration of our merchant
marine our course lies plainly before us. 1t
is simply to extend the protective policy
from the land to the sea. That policy
which has achieved our manufacturing in
dependence on the land will achieve our
commercial independence on the sea. We
must meet the policies of other nations on
their own ground, or rather on ''their own
ocean," Before TIE subsidy or protection
policy of England drew our flag from the
sea, our ships carried S4 per cent of our own
commerce, while they now carry 16 per
cent and we pay $3.50, 1000, 900 year in
freights to other nations, that ought for
sound economical reasons to be kept at
home. Grant subsidies either by mail COR
tracts or actual bounties to steamship lines
running TO Mexico, Central and South
America, and permanent era of prosperity
lies before us.
Latitudinal commerce is always perma-
nent, longitudinal never. Europe is look
toward Africa for the development of
commercial market, and we must take care
Of South America, both by subsidies and re-
eiprocal treaties. 1t is our great policy,
both political and commercial. Let us ap.
ply the burning words used by Mr. Sherman
Crawford in the British Parliament, in
speech on an application for renewal of
subsidies. He said:
TO refuse to renew the subsidy to En-
glish lines, and to let them compete with
the highly subsidized French lines, would
be flee trade gone mad 49,. Whenever
postal communication has been extended,
there commerce has invariably been at
tracted; III fact the conveyance of the mails
has proved a most efficient agency for in
creasing our tIade in all parts of the world.
Respectfully
Wilmington, March 11th, 1885. HIS.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-03-21

Kent, who had all along scrupulously re-
Trained from expressing his choice, but
who's support they were in great hopes of
receiving. When the result was known they
naturally supposed that Senator Cavender
had exercised his undoubted privilege of
preferring Gray to Lore, and though terribly
disappointed suspected no treachery in their
own ranks.
Before morning, however, it was known to
certainty that Senator Cavender had voted
for Lore on both ballots, and to the utter
astonshment and disgust of the Lore men
they learned that the vote which nominated
Gray on the second ballot and prevented the
arrangement between the Lore and Martin
men from being carried out was cast by
Senator Chandler, of New Castle whose
fealty to Lore they had never for an instant
doubted. Senator Chandler attended the
conference of the Lore and Martin men just
prior to the caucus and the widest specua-
tion can assign no satisfactory reason for his
sudden change of front. The Senator has
declined to say anything about the matttr
further that to practically admit that he is
the man.
The Delaware Democrats are now, as
before, arrayed i,Htwo factional lines, but
for the 6ysstime III generation the sauls-
bury faction loses its distinct identity as
factor in Delaware politics and untes with
other leaders for common cause. The two
wings of the party are now composed of the
Lore men and the State administration
followers and the fight will culminate in the
campaign of 1885 with the election of Lore
to the Senate, in place of Gray, as the clear
and district issue of the contest
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-03-21
THE PHILADELPHIA
WEEKLY PRESS

promises to Outrival the magazines, in their
own field, besides giving all the newe, help
ing the women, and furnishing valuable
hints to the farmers at the Same time. 1t
has levied tribute upon the brains of the
greatest living statesmen, scholars, and men
of letters, and each week during the year 1t
will publish three or four of these special
articles, which will make the best of good
reading until the next paper comes. AL
ready have been printed articles by Admi-
raj Porter, Mark Twain, Gen. Stone, Arehi-
bald Forbes, Robert Buchanan, Lieutenant
Greedy, Gen. G. @. Long, Thomas A. Edison,
Prof. Proctor and Others These will be
followed by contributions from Gladstone.
General Grant, and Mr.. Blaine, poems by
Oliver Wendell Holmes and Whittier, aad
stories by Wilkie Collins, Bret Harte, Ouida.
Miss Braddon, and others. In short, the
formost men in statecraft, in art, science
and literature, will make the WEEKLY
PRESS, during the year 1885, storehouse
of story, song, discoveries and useful
thought.
In addition Mr. Robert P. Porter for
merly member of the tariff commission,
and now of the editoriol staff of the Press,
has already started to Europe, whence he
will write series of popular letters to that
paper. presenting the economic condition of
the European nations, showing the compar-
ative cost of production, and the conditions
of life of the European laborer in the shop,
the mill, and on the farm. These letters
will be of the highest value to every produ-
Ger and workingman.