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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

The Detroit Free Press, in an edi-
torial on dual existence, gives the follow
ing instance: It is that of an unmarried
professional man who had dual exis-
tence as an humble laborer with wife
and small home in the outskirts of the
city. In his professional capacity he
was the gayest of the gay, the life of the
social circle in which he moved-such
as it was. AS laborer he was honest,
industrious, frugal and not at all given
to society. The singularity of this case
is in the fact that there were really two
of the man referred to; and one of them,
the humber one, has been driven dis
tracted by the eccentric dealings of the
other with the modest home in the out
skirts.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

The right of newspaper reporter to
withhold the names of individuals from
whom information has been obtained,
and which was sustained in the case of
the Boston Globe reporter recently, is
just now in dispute in Rochester, n. Y.
The Democrat and Chronicle stated
that the grand jury which was investi-
eating charges of alleged bribery
against certain city officials would not
bring any indictments. John Dennis, a
reporter on the paper, was called upon
to disclose the source from which the
information was obtained, and upon re-
fusing SO to do, was promptly jailed for
contempt of court. The outcome of
this conflict viii be awaited with inter-
est by the newspaper fraternity, al
though precedent is with the reporter.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
Humbug About the ssGood Old Days..

ST guess these farmers who are
grooming about low prices and high
taxes, and who are longing for the good
old times, don't remember much about
the good old times" said wen-klown
Grange County farmer of Goshen, N. Y.
II can remember when we used to haul
our grain, batter, pork and eggs all the
way to Newburgh, going one day and
coming back the next. We generally
got 15 cents a bushel for oats, and 10
cents pound for butter. Seventy. five
cents bushel for wheat was fancy
price. If we got 6 or 8 cents dozen
for eggs we thought we were doing well.
Nice corn-fed pork, dressed, we carried
to market for 80 hundred. The butter
we put on the market in those days was
the genuine Orange County article, yell
low as gold and as hard as walnut. I
have sold tubful after tubful of butter
for 10 cents pound thdt would net me
rs cents easy, if had it, or any like it,
to sell now. That was before the Erie
railway came through here and put us
up to selling our milk instead of making
it into butter. We did't have any lime
kept eggs to sell in those days, either.
AS for taxes, I paid 500 for my farm of
100 acres when was getting 10 cents a
pound for butter. On the same farm
now pay $4250, and I have sold my
entire dairy of milk for what is equal to
more than three times 10 cents a pound
for butter. There is a good deal of
humbug in this mourning after the
good old days, and know it."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

DYNAMITE continues to be found in
large quantities, usually in the posses
sion of men with marked American &C
cents" An unoccupied house in Har-
row Road, London, had been fitted up
as bookstore, but in the basement
there was more dynamite than paper.
The dark-whiskered owner had disap-
peared since the recent explosions. 1t
will be interesting to know what more
the London police will discover in the
whiskered man with an American
accent, if they catch him. Meanwhile
they had better send to Havre for him,
where there is house supposed to be
filed with dynamite.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

IN commenting upon the recent lynch
ing of three murderers at Audubon, Ia,
the New York World says: "Itis GER
tainly perilous to invoke Judge Lynch's
power, for while it no doubt sometimes
accomplishes good and is exercised just
~ it sets most demoralizing example
to the lawless classes and is very serious
~ liable to abuse both from error and
design. It is always more desirable to
owe the punishment of crime to the
calm, dispassionate action of the law
than to the fierce outburst of popular
anger. But the law should be swift and
certain in it's penalties, SO that society
may feel confident that evil doors may
be brought to Justice"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
SIZING UP A SWINDLE.

STANTON, Mich, Feb. 10. "A commit
mittee from Howard City has been here
investigating the swindling operations
of A. P. Thomas, supervisor of Rey-
nolds, who has jumped the county. 1t
seems that Thomas carried on 8 system
of raising bills and presenting and get
ting the bills allowed on fraudulent and
forged criminal account certificates for
the past five or six years, and the county
is believed to be $4,000 or $4,000 short
as result. 1t is believed that he real
lied more from the poor fund than from
criminal accounts, but nothing definite
is known. He is still at large.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

A NEW method of suicide was tried
recently at Reading, Pa, the story of
which is told in telegram. John
Steinman, aged So, bachelor of pecul-
lar habits, and the owner of o 200-acre
farm at Halls, well-stocked with cattle,
was found in his barn sticking in bar
rel, head downward, and with life ex-
tinct. He was burdened down with
weights and stones tied around his
neck, showing that it was deliberate
suicide. Prior to suiciding he killed all
the stock upon the place by cutting
their throats.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

An effort was made to pass the Grant retire
ment bill, known as the ''First Edmunds" bill,
which designates the eneral by NAME The
combined opposition of Democrats and friends
of the second Edmunds bill prevented success.
as the necessary two-thirds vote was not OBJ.
tanned. A bill regulating the letting of mail
contracts and designed to prevent Star-route.
frauds was passed, as was also q bill appro-
priating $500, 900 for the erection of a build
ing for the library of the medical department
of the army.
TUESDAY, Feb. IA resolution was adopted
calling on the secretary of the treasury for in
formation relating to the rancho traffic in the
Western states. The Senate amendments to
the Indian appropriation bill were non con
Cured in. The resolution for the appointment
of commission on the subject of the liquor
traffic was reported back adversely. Deuster
reported the joint resolution, giving notice to
the North German Confederation of an inten-
ton to terminate the treaty of 1868, and it was
placed on the calendar. The legislative appro-
priation bill was passed. The naval bill was
reported. 1t appropriates $13, 1888.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 18.-The conference re-
port upon the District of Columbia appropria-
ton bill was agreed to. A resolution in the
contested election case of Mclean vs.. Broad
head confirming the right to the sitting men,
Der (Broadhead) to his seat was laid over for
| future action. A motion that the House ge
InJO cOmmlGtee OF Cne WnOl6 on the naval ap-
| preparation bill failed, and the river and
harbor bill was taken up in commit
tee. An amendment giving 100000 for
the improvement of Galveston Harbor was
agreed to. as was also one offered by Price
| increasing from $12, 500 to 1913, 600 the ap-
preparation for Superior Bay ard harbor at
st. Louis Bay, Wis.
THURSDAY, Feb. 19.-Tbe House devoted
most of the day to the river and harbor bill,
adopting numerous amendments adding $780,
600 for the protection of the st. Clair flats and
increasing from $400, 900 to 5000, 900 the ap-
preparation for the Improvement of the Missis-
slppi between the Illinois and Ohio Rivers.
FRIDAY, Feb. 20.-The House resumed con-
sideration of the river and harbor bill The
Mississippi River clause. it was agreed, should
be restored. The Speaker ruled that the com
mittee on rivers and harbors did not have iuris
dictlon of the Hennepln Canal matter and
hence the clause was not in order. The nava
appropriation bill was taken up and six hours
for debating the second section. embodyine
Randalfs plan for increasing the navy were
allowed An evening session was held at which
q number of private pension bills were passed
SATURDAY, Feb. 21.-Beyond participating in
the ceremonies connected with the Washington
monument dedication, no business was trans
acted in the House.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
FROZEN TO THE BOTTOM.

LANCASTER, Pa, Feb. flowing to
the danger threatening the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad bridge at Columbia, in the
event of the ice breaking up in the
Susquehanna River, the railroad officials
decided to blast the ice from the i'm
mediate vicinity of the bridge. On
commencing operations it was dis
covered that the river, in many places,
is frozen to the bottom, thus rendering
the plan impracticable. Great damage
to property along the river is appre-
hended when the ice moves of.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
WAsHBURN & MoEN. of Worcester

WAsHBURN & MoEN, of Worcester,
Mass, hold patents that cover the man
ufacture of all barbed wire. In several
parts of the country there are factories
which they have been prosecuting for
infringements of their patents. The
difficulties have finally been settled by
an agreement on the part of the several
manufacturers to pay Washburn &
Moen a royalty of twelve and a half
cents per hundred pounds on all the
barbed wire they make.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

THE sunny South is having touch
of the severest winter ever known in
that region. Snow nine inches deep is
reported to have fallen at several places
in the state of Mississippi, and the rail-
road traffic between New Orleans and
Vicksburg has been impeded by snow.
It can be averred, in view of these facts,
that "the Oldest inhabitant" will have
to tax his imagination to call to mind a
winter rivaling the present one, whose
cold hangs about us with zero intensi-
Ev vet
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

IT is not SO long since King Cotton
held sway over our commerce as not to
make it ridiculous to the average man
to suggest that the eggs of this country
are worth more than one-third as much
fls The cotton. The Boston Commercial
Bulletin gives the value of the cotton
crop annually as $275,OOO,OOO, in round
figures, but the census of 1880 gave the
value of the egg crop as more than
$1OO,OO0,000. And yet New York is
compelled to import a great quantity of
eggs
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
Washington Monument.

The ceremonies connected with the dedica.
tion Of the Washington monument commenced
at 10 O'Clock on the morning of the Dist. Gen,
Sheridan and staff were followed to the
grounds by militia companies from Boston,
Charleston, Hartford, Richmond and PhiIa.
delphia, which were organized from 1888 to
1893. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee led division of Ma
sonic bodies. Addresses were delivered in the
orSn air by Senator Sherman. w. W. Corcoran.
Col. I. l.. Casey and President Arthur. In
the Masonic ceremonies of the District Grand
Lodge the gavel used was ore held in the hands
OF George Washington in laying the corner
stone of the national capitol. On the return
march from the monument the procession was
reviewed by the President. In the afternoon.
in the hall of the House of Representatives,
John d. Long read the Grafton of Robert O.
WinthrOp -
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

The United Irishman, O'Donovan
Rossa's sheet, publishes an offer OF
$4,000 reward "for the body of the
Prince of Wales, dead or alive" and
thinks to escape responsibility to gov
eminent on friendly terms with En-
gland, by printing the offer as dis
spatch from Dublin, signed by one
Shaun O'Neil. The policy of our gov
eminent is not one of repression; but,
in view of such business as this, a
policy of inattention or sufferance seems
almost intolerable. The time has
passed when the threats of these men
could be regarded as idle vaporings.
The late explosions, even though they
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

A JURY at the English Chester AS
sizes found prisoner guilty of embez'
Element, but afterward reconsidered
their decision and acquitted him. Be-
fore sentence he made statement that
SO impressed the judge that new wit
nesses were called and his innocence es
tabished. Then the jury was again
sent out and returned with verdict Of
not guilty.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
Smoke

A fire on Market Street, Philadelphia, on the
2lst INST, caused an aggregate loss of 1926
| 900.
The Chappaqus Mountain Institute at Chap
paqua, N. Y, was destroyed by fire on the 21st
| inst. Loss, $4,000.
| The burning of two wholesale buildings al
Charlotte, N. c., early on the morning of the
21st, caused loss of $4,000.
The building of the Marion Safe Company.
on West Twenty-seventh Street, New York,
was destroyed by fire on the night of the 10Th.
Loss, $3.50, 1000.
The Mansion House. Boston. was damaged
| to the extent OF $50, 900, on the goth.
The Union Depot at Mendoza, ILL.,, burned
on the Goth. Loss, $4,000.
The Knugden Cotton Mills, at Blackburn,
Eng, burned on the 10Th. Loss, 300, 900.
Two constables were killed by walls falling
| The Grannis Block, on Dearborn Street, Chi
cago. containing the Continental National and
the National Bank of illinois and large num-
Der of offices, was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
Loss, $250,00O.
Nine large business houses on Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, were destroyed by fire on
the 18th, causing an aggregate loss of 1926 600.
The flour mill of A. s. Staples, at Rondout,
N. Y. burned on the 10Th. Loss, $685. 900.
Fire at Troy, N. Y, On the 10Th, destroyed
the store Of the J. Leroy Pine Company and
Coon Co.'S collar shop. Loss, 100000 In
cendiary.
II.
l., were burned on the 10th. Loss, 100000.
fire at Brazil, Ind, on the 10Th, destroyed
the Thomas Block, causing an aggregate loss of
$4,000.
G. A. Coffin & Co.'s shoe factory, and two
adjoining buildings, at Lynn, Mass, were de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the 18th. Loss
$125,000.
A fire at Lake Village, N. H., on the night of
the 18th, caused loss of $4,000.
Three lighters loaded with cotton at the foot
of Christopher Street, New York, burned on
the 18th. The loss is estimated at $50 1000.
The little town of Bisbee, in Arizona Terri
tory, was totally wiped out by fire on the 18th.
Loss 100000.
Marshall, ILL.,, was visited by a destructive
confiagration on the 18th. More than half the
place went up in smoke. Loss $4,000.
Fire at Welsboro, Pa. on the 10th, destroyed
property to the value of $35, 600.
Shiehan's warehouse in Eafaula, Ala,
burned on the morning of the 10th, with 1900
bales of cotton. Nothing was saved Loss
fully 100000 insurance not known.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

FERDINAND WARD has been indicted
again. The charge under the last in.
dictment is for obtaining money under
false pretenses. It would require q
pretty broad statement of facts to cover
the entire case. Mr.. Ward, however
enjoys luxurious apartments in the
Ludlow Street palace, facetiously styled
in jail, and bids fair to be able to hold
out as long as the men who are trying
to get their money back.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

The temperance cause is receiving a
strong impetus at the present time for
the Catholic clergy and temperance or
CARNATIONS. In Boston the Catholic
clergy propose to petition the legisla-
ture to prohibit the sale of liquor with
in 400 yards of any church, and in New
York some of the bishops actively par
ticipate in meetings in the interest of
total abstinence.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

some of the friends of classica.
studies have been amusing themselves
with an investigation Of the proportion
ate use of words derived from Greek
and Latin by conspicuous friends Of
classical and non-classical education
The result of one test is that out of 385
words, Charles Francis Adams, Jr.,
uses 81 such words; Higginson, 40;
Everett, 81; Schurz, 81; and Sumner
A6
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

THE Georgia editor states the natur-
al and unnatural resources of his state
as follows: "Gold is found in thirty
six counties in this state, silver in three,
diamonds in twenty-six, and whisky in
all of them, and the last gets away with
all the rest"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
Fatal Fire.

The residence of John A King, 1889 Pine
Street. Philadelphia, took fire, early on the
morning of the 21st, before the occupants had
risen from their touches. Mr. King was
burned to death on the third floor, Miss Jennie
Hamilton in the fourth story, and two servants
on another floor; Mrs. King threw out her
two children to a mattress held by firemen,
and one OF them was saved. She then leaped
out herself, and received serious injuries
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
A Horrible Confession.

In the coroner's inquest. at Philadelphia, on
the insane asylum fire, on the Goth, Joseph
stigated by Peter J. Schroeder, one of the at
tendants, had set fire to the building. Nadine
was partial idiot, hut was considered RESPONSE
BILE by the physicians in charge. Schroeder has
been arrested. Nadine testified that he had
set fire to the building on two previous occa-
SiODa.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
More Natural Gas.

A terrific natural gas explosion occurred at
Wellsburg, ". Va. on the morning of the 21st.
caused by gas leaking into the cellar of a two
story brick, occupied by Hellesley Brothers,
cigar makers. This building and the adjoin-
ing one, occupied by Luke Weller as saloon,
also a substantial brick building, was blown to
atoms. The debris took fire. The intense
cold gave the fire sway and it spread rapidly to
adjoining buildings. The shock of the ex-
plosion was so terrible that glass was shattered
and plaster shaken from ceilings in nearly every
residence in town.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

The Camphor Laurel, native OF
China, has been successfully intro
duced into California, tree near Sac
ramento having attained height of 80
feet. From this tree the camphor is
obtained, and every part of it smells
strongly of camphor. It's wood is light,
clear and durable, and greatly favored
for cabinet work.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
A Fatal Ride.

Near Muncy Valley, Pa. on the 10Th, Joseph
Haberecker took his family on a sleigh-ride.
The horses ran away. overturning the sleigh,
and the occupants were dragged over 800 feet.
The fathers neck was broken, and one child
was 80 badly hurt that he died in a few hours.
The others were injured, but not fatally.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
GunpOwder This Time,

A terrific explosion occurred in the powder
magazine at Gibraltar, on the 18th, killing sew
enteen men and doing considerable damage
otherwise. A second dispatch says: ''Of the
seventeen men killed eight were soldiers and
nine civilians. The explosion occurred in one
of the small powder magazines belonging to
the Notifications"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
| John T. Kline. and fatally njuring the fireman,

John T. Kline, and fatally iniuring the fireman,
Fred. Smith.
At Jamaica. L. l., on the Goth, Mrs. Annie
Snyder was fatally burned by her clothing
catching fire from an open CRATE.
l.. FL. Mahoney and J. Ell. Britz were instant
ly killed at st. Paul, on the 10Th, by the break
ng of portable fire escape which they were
testing.
A broken rail derailed one car OF an Ohio &
Mississippi train near North Vernon, Ind, on
the goth. Two men were killed. The car was
sleeper.
1t was announced on the 18th that Charles
W. Weed, cashier for Minimize Bodman & Co..
commission merchants, La Sale Street, Chica-
go, had skipped with funds of the firm amount
ing to $4,000.
An attempt was made on the 18th to wreck q
passenger train near Texarkana, Tex, by un-
| known parties. freight train fell into the
trap. No one hurt.
In fire which destroyed small frame house
at Detroit early on the morning of the 18th,
an old woman of go, named Esther Thomas,
| was burned to death.
| George Sexton, Baltimore & Ohio watch
man, was struck by a train at Paw Paw sta
| ton, near Wheeling, and instantly killed. An
unknown tramp was killed by the same train q
| few minutes later.
| An engine boiler at Springfield, H.. exploded
on the 10th, killing two men and wrecking the
| building.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

may not have been directly planned by
Rosa or Ford, or any of their set, prove
that there are persons wickedly willing
to do the work of assassins. The seed
which Ross4 and Ford have scattered
has taken root, and the plant grows
ranker and more noisome day by day.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
Russian Guns.

Some excitement was created in London, on
the 18th, especially in commercial and financial
circles, by the receipt of dispatches from Berlin
ordered 1000 Krupp guns for the purpose of
strengthening its position in Central Asia The
guns are to be of the largest pattern, and are
evidently intended for service in fortresses of
superior build. simultaneously with the above
report came dispatches from st. Petersburg
stating that Sebastopol was to be made free
port,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
Cen. Stewart Dead.

A dispatch from Korti to the English war
Office on the Goth, states that Gen. Sir Herbert
Stewart, who was wounded at the battle of
Abu Klea, died on the 10th at the Gakdul
Wells, to which. place he had been removed.
His death has cast a gloom over the entire
British army. Surgeons state that Gen. Stew
arts wound was of such character that recov-
cry was hopeless from the first
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
Many Injured,

The st. Louis express train on the Ohio &
mississippi road ran into the rear of the
commuters train, waiting on the sidetrack at
Delhi, twelve miles from Cincinnati, on the
21st, injuring number of passengers, all sub
urban residents of Cincinnati. The cause of
the accident was an open switch, but why it was
open is not clearly explained.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
Deeds nf Rlnnd-

Mail-robbers at New Braunfels, Texas. killed
Hal Goslin, United States marshal, and Mr.
Manning, his deputy. Bloodhounds will be
sent out from Huntsville in search of the muir
derers.
George Fl. Mills, who murdered his wife in
October, 1883, was sentenced in Brooklyn, on
the Goth, to hang on the 10Th of April.
Elizabeth Bony, aged sc years, living alone
near Falmouth. KY, barred the doors and win
dows, on the 18th, fired her dwelling and per-
ished in the flames
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

passenger train bound west on the West
Shore Road ran into freight train at Cana
joharie, N. Y, on the 21st. Three locomotives
were smashed. The engineer, Andrew Sinner,
of Frankfort, and the fireman. Grover Penny,
of Deposit, were mangled by the wreck and
instantly killed. Others were seriously in
jured. The loss is estimated at 300, 1000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
Ehe 8egabGic&s1
WATEETONgN- MS

The Oregon Legislature has passed q
local option iquor-icerse bill. 1t
provides that license can be issued
only on the petition of majority OF
the voters in the precinct where the
saloon is to be located. The license fee
is fixed at $500 year.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
Two Chinese Boats Sunk.

A dispatch of the 18th, from Admiral Cour-
bet, SAYS: eve have attacked the Chinese
squadron and gained complete victory" An
other dispatch says the French fleet succeeded
in sinking two of three Chinese men-of-war,
which took refuge in the Ningpo River.