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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
A Georgia Hermit.

From Newman (Ga.) Dispatch]
There lives in this community a.
hermit whose name is Weaver, and
whose peculiarities are a source of
amazement to all who know him. He
selected a secluded spot from the
road, and as remote from the haunts
OF men as practical, on which he reared
an humble hut on premises of his own.
Here in this situation he has lived
during the past fifteen years. At first
he cultivated small patches only,
using nothing but his hoe, and those
who saw his farm say it was model
of neatness. Gradually he enlarged
his cultivative area until he had more
than he could manage with his own
brawny muscle. The surplus was let
to a negro. Mr.. Weaver keeps moth
ing that will eat, has nothing to do with
his neighbors, except business trans
actions. seldom visits public places,
and never goes to church, although he
is surrounded on all sides by houses
of worship. When called upon TO pay
debt he always turns his back
until he can get the amount due from
his pocket and never at anv time ex-
hibits more than he owes. His cat, it
is said, consists OF a hickory switch,
which he uses with alacrity when q
mouse is bold enough to reveal itself.
Some are OF the opinion that he has a
large sum OF money buried somewhere
on his premises, basing their opinion
on the idea that his simple method of
living would not consume his income.
Mr.. Weaver moved to this vicinity in
1870, from Pike County 1t is alleged
the cause of his secluded living is an
adherence of women, he having been
once, and his wife having
proved untrue.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04

but Mr. King will be here to-day
and arrangements made for placing
a certain amount of stockholm much
he is not prepared to figure on. The
estimated cost Of the plant is placed
at 100000, and portion Of the con-
struction is expected to be done this
year. Mr.. Stokes said that he had
bought up the bankrupt Bankers and
Brokers' Telegraph plant, and be now
controlled the united lines composed
OF the Board of Trade lines and the
Pacific and Pacific Mutual. His pro-
posed line between ST. Louis and Du-
luth would connect with these united
lines. Mr.. Stokes said he had just
completed a line to Omaha, and when
all his arrangements were completed
he would have a line along the Union
Pacific from Omaha to Grand Island,
Neb., $50 miles south.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04

THE present is time of great enter
prises, andhuge indeed must be the un-
dertaking that attracts more than
passing notice. There is now on foot
q project for canal to connect the
states of Maryland and Delaware, to
be seventeen miles long and to cost
$9,OOO,OOO, but there are so many
other greater and more costly enter
prises of similar nature that the Sas-
safras River Canal, as the waterway is
to be called, has received g. very small
share of notice. Yet there are thou
sands of men now living in whose
childhood scheme of such cost would
have been deemed almost too stupen-
dous to be conceived as a possibility.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
MANLAE SPEAKS.
His Defeat by Teemer and His Intentions
to Challenge Him.

Intentions
to Challenge Him.
CoHoEs, N. Y, Oct. 27.-Speaking
to-day of his defeat Saturday Hanlan
said:
Teemer beat me as far as l went. / did
not get into the water at the turn but as
my boat was sinking Jumped into the stake
boat. 1t was the first accident I ever had
in a match race and feel sorry it occurred
would not feel badly if I had continued to
the end and had been beaten after a con-
test to the finish. In that case would
have acknowledged fair defeat. I
have rowed 100 races and lost
only six, and that of Saturday
was the first accident. beat Teemer four
times. Teemer won regatta in which [
was one OF the contestants in Fall River in
1888. will, before the week is out, issue
challenge to row Teemer on lake water next
spring. | care not what the papers say or
accuse me Of as l acted fairly and always
will do so. have regard for my profess
sion. | have rowed all over the world, and
my record is clear. 1t seems to me that a
thief can get along as we'll as an honest
man, judging from the manner in which
praise. 1t cannot be said of me
that [ lost races when l could win.
Teemer lost four or five races at Pittsburg
when his hackers had all their money upon
him, and hewas accused not without cause,
of crookedness. l think | can beat Teemer
on lake water. I will row him or any other
man in the world for $1,000 or $4,000
side, on lake water, or where no man can
have the advantage over the other. 1t is
my intention shortly to publish a letter of
explanation in regard to Saturdays race,
in which will simply defend myself, with
out taking any of Mr.. Teemer's honor from
him"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
Quick Sales and Small Profits.
lfrom the Brooklyn Times.T

"You want agood winter coat; is dot
it [ hat der best line of goods in dis
city: Vat size you say? All, yes, dir
ty-elght; here you are, sir. Dere is the
pest coat in my store. Try dot coat
on, SIR" said Isaacstein as he flew
around to wait on a customer Just in
from an inland village.
Glow much is the coat?" asked the
countryman, as he surveyed himself
IN a mirror.
II will sell you dot coat sheap. Dot
coat was made for Senator Daggett,
put my cutter he made a mistake and
cut it little too small under der arms.
Dots a beautiful fit, SO hellup me gra-
chious."
ooh, you can't fool me with your
lingo. You bet you can't cheat me.
How much is the coat ?"
"Iet me see dot cost mark. Dot
coat is marked to sell for twenty toll
lars, my frient, but as dis is der first
time you trade with me [ trow off two
tollars. Take dot coat for eighteen
tollars. Dot beautiful coat; dake it
along"
"Taint worth eighteen dollars"
" "Vatp'
"I'll give you ten dollars for the
coat"
ooh, my frient, you don't unter-
slant that beautiful pottle green coat.
Dot coat is worth twenty tollars if it is
worth a cent"
"I'll give you ten dollars for it,"
ooh, veil, dake it along. Come und
trade NIT me again sometimes. Here,
let me dake dot cost mark off dot coat.
1t would mortify me to Diet if any one
would know dot | sell DOT twenty toll
lar coat for ten tollars. Thank you,
sir; call again. Good efening" Ex-
amines cost mark and turns to key.
~ say, key, l.. x. x. mean three toll.
lars und feefty cents, don't it 20
eyes, fodder"
$50 hellup me Moses [ only make
me seek tollars und hellef on dot
coat"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
NETV TELEGRAPH LINE.
r. ward s. Stokes and chip King About
to Build One.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. 27.-Edward S.
Stokes, of New York, gray-haired and
with close cropped iron gray mus
tache, is in the city. Associated with
William King, of Minnesota, ex-post-
master of the national House of Rep
resentatives and ex-congressman from
the above state, the two are about to
build telegraph line from st. Louis
to Duluth. 1t will be incorporated
and known as the North American
Telegraph Company. The line will
connect ST. Louis with the united
lines. Mr.. Stokes said that the West
ern Union nonopolizes telegraphic
traffic between st. Louis and Duluth,
and that his company will regulate
and cheaper the traffic. He and King,
he says, are practically the originators
and controllers of the enterprise,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
Aztec MANY YEARS.
A Long Lost Husband Found Through
an Application for a Pension.


an Application for a Pension.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 26.-Last
week g. letter was received at the pen
sion office from a Connecticut woman,
inclosing an application for g. widows
pension, and in the regular order of
business it went to the files. The re-
cording clerk glanced over the list,
noticed that a man of the same name
given by the widow was drawing a pen
sion which had been granted him in
1888, and was being paid through the
California agency. Itrequired only few
moments search to discover that the
record in the two cases was Identical.
The widow offered no proof of death,
but her affidavit stated that she had
not seen her husband or heard of him
since the war, and supposed that he
had been killed in battle A letter was
written to her stating that her hus-
band was already drawing pension for
wounds received in the war, and by
return mail came an inquiry for his
whereabouts. She said that she had
been mourning his death for twenty
years, but was very glad to hear that
he was still living, and if the pension
people would only assist her in locat-
ing him, she would make it very lively
for her truant spouse.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04

instantly killing the first and second engi-
neers, Thomas. Hickey, OF Hamilton, Ont,
and William Rooney OF Ottawa. The for
mer leaves wife and two children.
The in the Southern Pacific Railroad
office at San Fernando, CAL, was broken
open on the night of the 9th. A large sum
Of money belonging to the company, and
500 belonging to the agent was captured
by the burglars.
Ellen NJ. Jones of Detroit, the widow
Of well-known lake captain, has brought
suit for $40, 900 against the police officials
of Detroit She claims that while attacked
on the sidewalk by vertigo she was arrested
for drunkenness and taken to the station
in q patrol-wagon, Notwithstanding the
explanations OF acquaintance.
Work has been suspended on the Pacific
end of the Panama canal, but one-half of
the excavation has been made fer stretch
of three miles on the Atlantic side.
Edward Mccarthy and Peter Mooney
were killed by gas while at work in a sewer
at Chicago on the 23d.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
BIG COAL STEAL.
A Trusted Employe of a Railway Conn
pany Implicated.

"A trusted EmpIoye of Railway Com
pany Implicated.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. 3O.-A special to
the Times from Waterloo, a., says:
" An investigation into the affairs con-
nected with the management of the
freight department of the Illinois
Central Railway, in this city, has just
revealed quite a sensation. It is
charged that the station agent has
been in collision with a coal dealer,
and has put coal which came here for
the use of the railroad company in the
yards of the dealer where it was sold
and no account Of it made to the
company. The agent has been
IN charge of the station about
twenty years, and it is claimed
that this work has been going on for a
long period. Several officials of the
road and a representative OF the
Guaranty Company Of North America,
were here yesterday, and examined the
yardmen employed there, and one of
the witnesses stated that for the past
three years about one car per week,
on the average, was lost to the com
panyfn that way. An examination
OF the books in the agents offices
showed no crookedness there. Hewas
released, yesterday, and another agent
appointed. A prominent official of
the Iowa Division, stated that care
full estimate placed the loss to the
company at fully $4,000. It is said
that the matter will be compromised
by the payment to the company Of
certain sums of money.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
Minor Mention.

While the tug Frank Moffat was tied up
in a fog at Sombra, opposite Marine City.
Mich, on the LIST inst, her boilers exploded,
instantly killing John Ward and William
Miller, engineers, and James Wylie and
Walter Fisher. firemen. Five other men
were injured.
Two men were killed and one badly hurt
by a collision on the Cedar Rapids q
Northern Road, near Northwood, Ia, on
the LIST inst.
While J. P. Myers, a painter. was rigging
a scaffold on the spire of the Methodist
Church at Clinton, ILL.,, on the 3Oth. his
foot slipped, and he fell distance of 100
feet, killing him instantly.
Business failures to the number of ia
occurred in the United States during the
week ending on the 30th.
A passenger train on the road from Lis
bon to Madrid, Spain, jumped the track
while crossing a bridge. The entire train
went into the river, and large number of
people are reported drowned.
IL. r. Pinckney was arrested atSt. Louis,
Mo-, on the goth, charged with Eaiding in a
scheme to defraud the government out OF
$40, 900 acres of land.
Eight persons were injured in railway
wreck near Laporte, Ind, on the goth. a
broken rail caused the accident.
The propeller Myles exploded the jacket
on her cylinder head at Duluth, on the 29th,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
THE BROKEN BROKERS.
Schedules in the Assignment of Win
Heath & Co., New York.

Schedules in the Assignment of VIM.
Heath & Co., New York.
New YORK, Oct. 23.-The schedules
in the assignment of VIM. Heath and
Charles Quincy, comprising the firm of
VIM. Heath q Co., bankers and bro
kers, to Adamson r. McCauless, were
filed to-day. They show liabilities of
81, 358, 500, nominA, assets, $2,O44,-
1913, and actual assets, 1878, 282. The
schedules state that creditors held Sc
curities to the amount Of SALT, 500
Creditors who are members of the
Stock Exchange have a lien on the
seats of the assignees for their
claims OF 222,679, of which amount
there IS not covered by securities $172,-
679. There are unsecured creditors
to the amount of $1,185,95O. The
cause of the difference between the
nominal and actual value of the es-
tate is due to the fact that many of
the assets have deprecated in market
value or intrinsic value, and that
some of the individuals whose obliga-
tions are held by them are insolvent
or embarrassed. Among the firms
creditors are the following: Fourth
National Bank, $4,000; Bank Of
New York, q national banking asso-
citation, 100000; W. A. & A. M.
White, $4,000; McCauley & Co..
$4,000; Addison Cammack, $78, 900,
VIM. l.. Scott, Sill, 800; Savin & Van;
derhof, $1O,775; James Low mo Sc
curity) $111,729; Jay Gould mo Sc
curity, money advanced) $26O,OOO;
q. 2. Morosini mo security $478,-
295; VIM. Heath & Co., of London
(estimated) 100000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
Smoke.

Nearly one-half of the village of Geneva.
O., was destroyed by fire on the night OF
the 31st. The losses will aggregate $50
600.
The Touring mill of Rhinemiller & Co.. at
Newcastle, Ind, was burned on the LIST inst.
Loss $25, 900; insurance about one-half.
A fire on the island of Ceylon on the 3Oth
destroyed six buildings, entailing a loss OF
100000.
The steamer George S. Dana, valued at
$40 900, was burned at Waters Landing,
near Cincinnati, on the 3Oth. She was the
property of the Campbell Creek Coal Com
pany.
A fire at Seymour, Ind, on the 3Oth de-
stroyed the Touring mills of Bush & Co.,
and damaged the Ohio & Mississippi Rail
way shops. Loss 100000.
The Wholesale grocery house of c. D.
Smith q Co., at ST, Joseph, Mo-, was dam
aged by fire to the extentof $50, 900 on the
Both.
The barn and outbuildings of R. r. Greer,
at Lanesboro, Mimi, were destroyed by
fire OH the goth. A 2.year-old son of Mr..
Greer was burned to death. The fire is
supposed to have been caused by the dead
child and an older brother playing with
matches. 5s5
Eight buildings at Hartford, Conn, were
destroyed by fire on the Goth. Loss $780,
900; partially insured.
A prairie fire in the Panhandle Of Texas
is believed to have extended itself over half
million acres bordering on the Canadian
River, driving the cowboys into the water
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
Knocked off a Train.

On the morning of the Goth, a gang Of
twenty trackmen on the Massachusetts,
Central Railroad were being conveyed to
their work by an engine and a fat car. The
men were sitting on the sides of the car, ten
on each side. When near Oakdale, a sub
urb of Boston, without second s warning,
all the men on one side were swept off in
some mysterious manner. One man was
killed and eight others badly injured. An
investigation showed that the accident was
caused by boys having box-car on a sid
ing so near the main track that the con-
struction train struck it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04

NEARLY every city finds itself threat
ened from time to time by more or less
cranky claimants, who assert their
ownership of the tract of land ON which
the town rests. Especially since Mrs.
Gaines success in New Orleans have
these people come forward with their
claims. The latest sufferers are Har-
lem and Baltimore, each of which are
claimed to belong to heirs OF some for
gotten estate, now worth untold mill
ions
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
DESTITUTE FTsHERMEg.
Deplorable Result of the Failure of tn
Seasons Catch at Labrador.

Seasons Catch at Labrador.
QUEBEC, Oct. 29.-The steamship
Canadian, which has just returned
from her seasons cruise in the gulf, re-
ports considerable distress on the
Labrador coast, owing to the failure
of the fisheries. At Esouimaux Point,
out of a population of $50 families,
only twenty have supplies for the win
ter; thirty more hope to get enough
from the merchants who usually make
advances to them to pull them
through. The remaining 100 families
have nothing whatever with which
to face the winter, and it will
be necessary either to bring them
off the coast or to send supplies to
them. The failure of the fisheries was
due to the action of the ice in the
spring. The fall fishing has been
poor all over the gull, owing to
rough weather. Four destitute fami-
lies were brought from Labrador by
the Canadian. These have been cared
for and sent on West A number of
American vessels fshed in the gulf for
mackerel and halibut.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
Deeds OF Blood.

Arthur Daggett and Henry Burnett were
playing Jesse James at Mimic, D. T., on the
LIST inst, with a pistol. Burnett was shot
dead.
George Miller was executed on the both
at Grand Forks, d. t., for the murder of
the wife and child of Rev. G. Fl. Smell. who
resided at Inkster. This was the first legal
execution in North Dakota
A Corsican crank made an attempt to
shoot M. De Freycinet, the French foreign
minister, at Paris, on the 29th. After fir
ing one shot he was disarmed. He is APP
parently sane.
On the 26th John Buford quarreled with
his father, William M. Buford, near Shelby
vile, Mo-, and the latter was shot dead
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
Where Carnphor Comes From.
from Science.1

Whit only 225 miles long and eighty
five vic the Island of Formosa, Just
conquered by the French, is very val
liable for it's richness in animal and
vegetable life One of its products is
camphor, of which it is the worlds
chief source of supply, although the
tree Taurus camphora) also grows in
Borneo, Sumatra, Japan and China.
The camphor is distilled from finely
cut wood in gently heated crucibles,
the vapors being condensed upon a
network of rice stems.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
Quarry Disaster in France.

At the Chancelade Quarts, near Peri
gueux, capital of the department Of Dor
dogne, France, on the Goth, while workmen
were engaged in taking out stone, the en-
tire place fell in. A small village on the
ground above the stone pits was totally
wrecked, and many people killed in the
ruins. Troops were immediately sent to
fbo Scopa 81
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
Into the River.

Fire on board a tug in the river at East
Saginaw, Mich, on the evening OF the 2Sth,
attracted large crowd of people upon the
bridge near by. While the structure was
filled with people, long strip of sidewalk
gave way and sixty people were precipitat-
ed into the water. The darkness and the
crowd prevented a count of the rescued
and it was thought at last accounts that a
large number lost their lives.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
Arms in AMMAN,

Gen. De Courcy, commander Of the French
troops in AMMAN, telegraphed from Hanoi
on the 26th that he had defeated the Black
Flags in an engagement participated in by
5000 of the enemy. Three chiefs were
killed and many prisoners were taken by
the French. The fight lasted three days.
The French soldiers lost only thirteen men
killed and wounded. Great enthusiasm
prevails in France .tEla5e stt
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
A Unique Conflict.

At the Grand Street Museum, New York,
early on the morning of the goth, battle
took place between a lion in his cage and
an elephant, which got loose in some unex-
planned manner. The fight is described as
a terrific encounter, when the animals were
finally separated the lion had both hind
legs fractured, and the elephant was also
badly used uD fgatte 91
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
Qht Repnb1ita't
wATERrowN, wIsCoNsIN.

THE moose in Maine have not heard
of the fate of Jumbo. One OF them
planted himself directly il front OF q
railroad train last week and was
promptly converted into ierked moose
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
SmaII-pox in New York

Reports from New York confirm previous
rumors of the prevalence of smallpox in
that city. 1t is claimed that the actual
state of things cannot be ascertained owing
to the suppression of statistics by the local
board of health p..; s.tt
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
European War Clouds.

A dispatch of the 3Oth says it is officially
announced that the Bulgarian forces have
blockaded the frontier, and that orders
have been issued to shoot anyone found on
the line from Servia. The Servian troops
have been ordered to return the compli-
ment, and the opposing picket lines are now
making faces at each other across the
scratch. P..F
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
A Fierce Sword Fight.

A sword contest took place at San Fran
cisco on the LIST inst, between Duncan
Ross, the Scotchman, and Capt. E. n. Jen-
nings. Both men were mounted and the
fight was close and interesting. On the
twentieth attack Ross right elbow was dis
located, but he pluckily took his weapon in
his left hand and fought the contest to a
finish, losing by single point.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
In the jug.

All attempts to keep Ferd. Ward out O
Sing Sing have failed. He was sentenced
on the 31st to ten years in the peniten
tiary, and was taken there the same day.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
Thebaw Murdered.

dispatch from Rangoon, under date OF
the 9th, says it is rumored that revolu-
ton has broken out in Mandelay, and that
King Thebaw has been murdered.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04
McCIeIlan Dead.

Gen. George B. Mcclellan, ex-commander
of the United States army, died at his home
in Orange N. j.. on the morningo of the 29th.
He was nearly 60 years of age. Death was
the result of exhaustion caused by repeated
shocks of neuralgia of the heart
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-04

THERE are 800 words in some Of
Canon Farrar's sentences.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-03-25
MOI the Man Wanted.

The old colored man, VIM. John
son, arrested in Baltimore by Sergt.
Frank Toner at the instance of the
Auhe Arundel county authorities on
suspicion of having committed MUIR
der there some seven ago, has been
discharged, no one being able to con
meet him with the tragedy. johnson,
the man who committed the murder,
and another colored man, named Nc
Goings, worked together on farm in
the eighth district. They had quar-.
relied, and, it is alleged, johnson
struck McHoings over the head with
hoe, fracturing bis skull, from which
injuries he died shortly afterwards
Johnson then fled end escaped arrest.
Sheriff Fowler took with him to
Baltimore several persons who had
known johnson at the time, but none
of them could identity the prisoner as
johnson.