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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
STATE NE Tvs.

The total amount of license money
received by Madison for licenses for the
coming year is $4,000, gain Of So
500 over last year.
ABOUT q month ago aman giving the
name OF John Strack registered at the
st. Charles Hotel, Milwaukee. He
stated that he had comefrom Munich,
Germany, about six weeks ago. On,
the afternoon of the I'd, he was found
dead in his room at the hotel, with q
bullet hole in his temple and a 80
callber revolver lying at. his feet. He
was last seen at 5 O'Clock Monday
afternoon.
The farmhouse of Elizabeth Arnet,
in the town Of Richfeld, Wood County,
was wholly destroyed by fire with
nearly all its contents, on the 31st.
Loss, $500; insured in Hekla Fire In
surance Company Of Madison.
AT Milladore, on the LIST, George
Heldecke, a boy, was fatally injured by
being crushed under log rollway.
MILWAUKEE police force has been
increased by the appointment OF thirty
one new patrol-men.
IT Is announced that the Milwaukee
ponce nave solved the identify OF the
masked burglar who created such a
sensation in that city last spring.
They claim that aman known as Emil
Fannenburg, alias "Doc." Stanton,
now held on suspicion, is the hero of
the sensation.
The Racine Exposition opened on
the 31st.
On the evening of the Both, the g.
year-old son of Alexander Palmer, of
Eau Claire, while playing in pleasure
boat in the Chippewa, fell overheard
and was drowned. The lad was in
company with a younger sister, who
also fell into the water, but was
rescued. The body was found shortly
after the occurrence.
A NEW river steamer at La Crosse
has been named the "White Beaver"
She is designed for the Brownsville
trade.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
A Thousand Men.

Cholera appears to be decreasing at
Toulon, France. But nine deaths occurred
from the disease during the fifteen hours
ending at 3 o'clock, on the 31st. There
seems to be little if any decrease in the
panic among the people, however. One
thousand workmen have deserted t1eir
places at the arsenal, and fed before the
scourge. Both divisions of the evolution
airy squadron have been removed from
Toulon and stationed in the Gulf OF San
Juan, to await the subsistence of the cpl
demic. There were 1888 new cases of
cholera and 1,24S deaths from the dis
ease reported throughout Spain on the
31st. Cholera has made it's appearance in
Ponzone, near Acqui, in the province of
Alessandria, Italy. Eleven persons have
been attacked, and four have died. The
Contagion was conveyed by family from
Marseilles
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

A BOSTON newspaper printed lately
an article of great length and some in
terest upon the history and present
condition of the so-called patent med
icine business of this country. "Pat-
ent" medicines the compounds are not,
tho when their manufacture w&s be-
gun attempts were made to hold con-
troll of them thro' regular patents.
The trade mark laws are now almost
exclusively used, however. In the
face of strong opposition, under the
burdens of a heavy internal revenue
tax, and set on unequal terms in COM
petition with foreign medicines thro'
our tax on alcohol, for which the gov
eminent does not allow rebate, when
it enters into patent medicine which
is exported, the business has grown
steadily. But that fortunes are often
made in it, or that it yields an Unfair
return for capital invested and trouble
taken, the Boston writer strenuously
denies. He says that ofthe 5 ,O0Opat-
ent medicines in this country, not more
than 500 are profitable and not more
than fifty are sufficiently strong to
make them worth being conducted AS a
separate business. About fifty per cent.
of the price which the consumer pays,
reaches the manufacturer, and his
profit is claimed to be only a small
fraction of this on account of heavy
expenses, of which the principal item
is for advertising. There are 563 es-
Establishments in the United States
which are devoted to this line of bust
ness. The heaviest manufacturing
states are New York, Massachusetts,,
Missouri and Pennsylvania, in the Or
der named, and the value of their prod
uct is in each case over one million
dollars annually. Nearly one-fifth of
the manufacturing factories of the
country are within the borders of New
York and of the $14, 692, 494 of valua
ton put upon the annual product of
the country, 81 ,339, 179, nearly one
third, was turned out from the estab-
Hshments of New York. The capital
invested within her borders in this line
is reported to the census at $685.
40.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
Herrings Desert Dublin Bay.
TFrom the ST. James Gazette.

From the St. James Gazette
The most capricious of all crops has
this year proved unpropitious to Ire
land. The herrings have left Dublin
Bay, or, rather, they have not come
into it. The accustomed shoals have
lost their geographical bearings. The
gulf stream is possibly to blame. The
herrings were generally constant to
the bay, and year after year came and
were caught with dispatch, regularity,
and profit. Other shoal fish showed
a tendency to- be cratic. The sar-
dimes were as capricious as ever they
could be. You never knew where to
find them. They abandoned the Bre-
ton coast, where the fishermen had
for many years largely welcomed them,
and turned up without rhyme or rea-
son along the seashore by Rochelle,
the inhabitants being quite UMPIRE
pared for their reception, much of this
"silver of the sea" being hopelessly
lost. On another occasion they dis
appear altogether, and for the follow
ing year pilchards and sprats were
largely timed and consumed at break
fast under fattering misnomer. But
behring's seem, on the whole, to be a
faithful fish, and in the average of
years come and are caught with praise
worthy punctuality. This season they
have altered their route, emitting Ire
land from their programme. The Isle
of Man and the southwest coast of
Scotland are in favor, and at the pres
ent moment Dublin is actually sup
piled with herrings shipped over from
the opposite coast.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

VIVA Hiser, in Metcalfe County, KY, on the
I'd, with his throat cut and his body hor-
ribly slashed. The Hiser woman is under
arrest, charged with the crime.
A young man named Winney fatally shot
his step-father, George Daniels, at Cedar
Rapids, Ia, on the Cd, during q quarrel
over board bill.
A desperate named Barney Conner was
shot dead by an officer who was trying to
arrest him, at Greensburg, ILL.,, on the 18th
inst.
At Asbury Park N. j., on the 18th inst,
George Curry, very jealous, attempted to
kill his sweetheart. Susie Westcott. Failing
in this he turned the weapon upon himself
In this he was more successful.
HI. HI. Winchester, travelling agent for a
Minneapolis house, killed himself in Shell
don, Ia, on the 31st.
Edward B. Grant, steward in San Fran
cisco restaurant, shot Mrs. Lily Crowser
on the 31st because she refused to marry
him, and then committed suicide His vic
tim will probably die.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
Old Postage Stamps.
From the st. James Gazette. I

From the st. James Gazette.
A Partisan paper has set itself to
discover what becomes of the old post
age stamps question which has
vexed the souls of many curious per-
sons on this side OF the channel. It
was alleged that they were collected
for the defrauding of the revenue, the
postmarks being obliterated and the
stamps reused. Obviously, however,
the small scale upon which such a
fraud could be conducted would not
account for the millions of used stamps
which were known to be collected by
the converts. 1t appears that the
converts convert their pupils and their
pupils parents into collectors, and
when a million stamps have been
amassed and sorted into countries and
values they are sold to The dealers in
foreign stamps, who pay from Ella to
ZIG per 100000 for them. 1t is cal
culated that their retail sale and ex-
port to other countries leaves the
dealer an average profit of e84 per
100000. Philatelists will be inter
ested in knowing, on the authority of
our Partisan contemporary, that the
one-franc stamps of the republic of
1849 are now so scarce that they COM
mand about e8 each. 1t would seem,
that a Frenchman might
leave his children a worse heritage
than trunkful of old envelopes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

lieutenants; Rufus Ingalls,, retired as
quartermaster-general, and others not
as we'll known. J. A. Reynolds, II. +.
Clark and J. II. Potter aren now on the
retired list as colonies in the regular
army. Fifteen OF the class served IN
the Mexican War, and OF these seven
were killed in action or died OF disease.
Only four members went over to the
Southern side. Three of these were born
in the North-R. S. Ripley, of Ohio, 5.
G. French, of New Jersey, and Franklin
Gardner, of New York. They married
into Southern families. Gardner was
the only one in the army in 1861.
Ripley rose to be q acknowledgement.
Franklin led the class, and George
Deshon was second. The latter
resigned after the Mexican War, and
is now a Catholic priest. Only ten OF
the class survive, of whom Gen. Frank
lin, head of the Colt Works at Hart
ford, is most conspicuous.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
Heroic Action in Daily Life.
from the Albany Journal 7

Travellers who daily place their lives
and comfort in the hands of an en-
gineer on land or water do not often
think of the prompt and heroic action
often called for from those who hold
the lever. During the recent remarka-
BILE accident on Lake George, when the
walking beam on the steamer Ticon-
deroga was broken, Engineer Perria
hearing the crash above him and,
quickly looking up, and knowing that
it might fall with a deadly crush upon
him, yet stood at his post and shut
off steam instantly, and then the i'm
mense birmingham lurched forward
and crushed the cylinder heads. But
for his foresight and prompt action
in moving the lever the boat in mo-
ment would have been filled with blind
ing, scalding steam, creating confusion
and death. AS it was, not one OF the
was injured. There are
some things mot nominated in the
bond" when tickets are bought, and
among them is that extraordinary
fidelity to duty which comes from the
keen sense of the responsibility of an
engineers position.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
States.
THERE has just been flood in China,

THERE has just been a food in China,
beating that of 1914 along the Mis-
souri,, all to death-in fact over 1000
are reported to have been drowned,
while thousands and thousands have
had their homes swept away and their
crops destroyed. The misiortunes of
this year, or the casualties visited upon
the people of the world are without
discrimination-it has been a. cyclone
here, an earthquake there, flood
somewhere else, and mine disasters,
wrecks at sea, fires and other accidents
of nature, or visitations like the
cholera, which, all in all, are making
up most memorable record for
1888
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

DETAILS of remarkable religious
movement in Central Africa are re-
ported to the state department by
the United States consul at Sierra Lee
one. An army said to be composed
Of over 100000 Mohammedan youth,
and divided into three divisions, is
operating throughout an extensive
territory under command of a native
named Samudu, who claims that he
has been called of God to suppress pa
ganism and open the roads to the
coast. The achievements of this ar
my have been highly important, and
while it is spreading the Mohammedan
faith in Africa it is also opening up to
commerce large and populous terri
tOrV
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
ON THE FERRY.
Six People Drowned by the Cpse+tinp of
a Boat -

Boat.
A few minutes before 6 O'Clock. on
the morning of the I'd, a party of
llght-hearted girls and boys, who are
employed at the Diamond Match Com
pany's works, Oshkosh, reached the
st. Paul Railroad bridge, and, accord
ing to their usual custom, prepared to
be ferried across the open space of
water, the bridge being drawn. A few
minutes later the boat had capsized,
and all its passengers were struggling
IN the swift current. Six of them were
drowned and five were saved. There
were only a few people about at that
early hour, but the cries of the drown
ing children were re-echoed by the
passers-by, and soon a crowd had
collected, but too late to render aid.
Six lives had been lost and sudden
sorrow carried to as many homes,
while the shrieks and means of the
heart-broken parents, who had quick
ly reached the scene, could not fail to
touch the most hardened heart. While
there was great doubt as to thenumber
OF passengers on the boat. it is be-
lieved that all are accounted for. The
names OF those lost are: Johanna
Matschie, Augusta Wiese, Emma
Bauer, Lena Maidl, Phillip Berry,
Louis Dichtl. Those rescued were:
Anna Hartwig, Tillie Utache, Louisa
Morris, Amelia Paulsen, William Wolff.
1t appears that the match company's
employees had an arrangement with
the watch at the bridge to be rowed
across each morning for Is cents each
per week. The boat used is a large
fat-bottomed row boat, to all ap-
pearances capable under ordinary cir
cumstances Of accommodating fifteen
or sixteen persons, and into this craft
the entire party stepped with the ex-
pectation OF being quickly carried
across to the other side Of the bridge.
Statements as to the number Of per
sons who embarked in the boat differ
materially. Parties in the boat and
those who were saved are Of the
opinion that there were eleven or
twelve people aboard, while others
assert that there we're several more.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

AMERICAN produce is constantly
seeking wider markets. Improved
transportationfacilities, both at home
and abroad, tend to facilitate this
movement. Thus one of the new and
promising matters in California trade
is the expectation of fruit to China
and Australia. A single San Francis
co firm has orders for apples this year
China.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

THE cause of temperance in the
South has made much greater head
way than in the North. There are
dozens of counties ia every state where
prohibition is well nigh complete, and
temperance men united to keep it so.
They are wise enough to keep the ques-
ton out of politics, at least SO far as
a party organization is concerned.
The temperance men of the North will
learn the same lesson in time.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

IT is interesting to note that, OF the
thirty-nine young men who graduated
in the class with Gen. Grant, at West
Point, no less than ten were major
generals of volunteers in the Union
army. They include, besides Grant,
the famous corps commander, w. B.
Franklin; J. A. Hardie, who died a few
years ago; c. c. Augur, just retired
from the regular service as brigadier;
Frederick Steele, one of Grants best
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
Deeds Of Blood.

J. Shean, road-master of the Mexican
Central Railway, was murdered by a man
named Davis, at Paso del Norte, Mex, on
the 18th.
At Chattanooga. Tenn, on the 9th inst,
shot and killed Polk Mitchell, a street-car
driver. At midnight determined mob
took Williams from jail and hanged him.
W. B. Smell, GAINESVILLE, Tenn, business
man, was found in the house of one NAL
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
RiOting in Madrid.

The excitement over the German occupa-
ton of zap, one of the Caroline Islands,
the possession of which is claimed by SPAIN
eliminated in a riot at Madrid on the 9TH.
The mob attacked the German embassy
smashing the windows. furniture and mir
rors, and tearing down and burning the
German coat of arms. Forty-six of the
leaders were arrested before order was re-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
A MayOr Poisoned.

The coroners Jury which has been investi-
eating the recent sudden death of j. B.
Walkup, mayor of Emporia. Kas., after
listening to the testimony of the analyzing
chemist, on the 31st, returned a verdict of
murder, and implicated the wife of the de-
ceased. Considerable quantities of arsenic
were found in the dead mans stomach.
Mrs. Walkup has been in custody since the
beginning of the investigation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

IF, says the ST. Paul Pioneer Press,
the disguised people who emigrated
from Virginia and North Carolina to
Kansas had only come to the North
west instead, they would now be urg-
ing their friends to follow their exam
pie, and would have no thought Of
pulling up stakes and returning.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

has been violated we go to the courts, not
to the executive. AS to what Justice Miller
decided l do not know. He did not grant
the injunction. No overt act had been
committed. The President had simply
issued an order. II nobody obeyed, that
was the end OF it, unless he attempted to
would arise"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

ROBERT LAIRD COLLIER looks so
much like Henry Irvingthat heis often
mistaken for the actor, and in one in
stance he confirmed the mistake by
paying Irving's bills. This has set a
great many idle insolvents to wishing
that Mr.. Collier looked like them.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
Irish Blood.

At Galway, Ireland, on the night of the
31st, q number of men who were taking
part in a torch-light procession got into
difficulty with company of militia which
resulted in q riot Of four hours duration.
Clubs and stones were used, and large
number of people were seriously hurt.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
WATERFOWL, WISCONSIN,

PENNSYLVANIA goes through all the
noise and turmoil of a state campaign
this year to elect one state otficer-the
treasurer. The Republicans have
nominated Mr.. Quay and the Demo-
Gratis have nominated Mr.. Day.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

IN Amador County, CAL, a man of
60 was last week stabbed and killed
by man of SO, in a petty quarrel
over some bridge tinbers. Comment
ing upon this incident the Alta Cali
fornia says: eff the octegenarian is
convicted, he will be the first man OF
his age to be sent to the penitentiary
in California, orperhaps in the United
States.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
Death in the Cage.

A terrible accident occurred on the I'd, at
the lakewood shaft, Wilkesbarre, Pa, OPP
Grated by the Lehigh Valley Coal Company.
The cage on which nine miners were being
lowered into the shaft had nearly reached
the bottom, when a mass Of loose coal and
rock fell from the side of the shaft down the
pit, striking and completely demolishing the
cage, which is made of heavy timber and
iron-work, instantly killing three of the
men and wounding two others fatally,
while the other three were seriously in
iIlre6
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

A COMPANY of great English hunters
have recently been after grizzly bears
in the far West. 1t is stated on relia-
BILE authority that they divided the
hunting with the bears. If the real
facts could be got at, the bears would
be found to have done more hunting
than the Englishmen.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

Charles III. Brown, John Grimsby and
John Clark, trustees of Davies County, Ind,
decamped on the 18th inst. with money
amounting to about 100000 raised on
fraudulent orders issued by them on their
respective townships. Canada is supposed
to have been their destination.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

GRAVEYARD insurance is so generally
recognized as an industry in Phila-
delphia, that the recent dynamite &C
cidents are attributed to the volun-
tary blowingup Of a well insured subject
who was in g. hurry to realize on his
,oo1iox-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

THERE are 25, 900 more woment than
men in New York City. In Boston
there are 5000 extra women, and in
Baltimore II, 900. Strong drink and
tobacco are beginning to tell fearfully
upon the boys and young men.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
Half a Million.

At about dusk on the evening of the Sd
inst. fire broke out in the freight depot of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Ohio Railroad,
at CINCINNATI. An immense quantity of
grain stored in the building was consumed,
and the building totally destroyed. The
loss is placed at 100000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
Criminal CaPeleSSneSS.

c. Amende, Hoboken On. j. druggist,
has disappeared. Amende, in preparing a
prescription, put up ten-grain doses Of
morphine instead of quinine. The doses
were given on the night of the 30th, to Miss
Gretchen Holz and Ella, her sister. Miss
Gretchen died the following morning, and
her sister was rapidly sinking at last ac-
counts
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

A MODIFICATION at least OF some OF
the hard things said about his Satanic
Majesty ought to followthe announce
ment that some of the best wheat
grown this year will come from the
DEVILS Lake region in Northwestern
Dakota
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

Nor less than 100000 Towering
plants are probably sold in New 70. <
every spring. These retail from 10
cents to 81 each, averaging perhaps
% cents, and making grand total of
$500, 900, which the city and it's sub
urbs devote annually to the embal-
llshment OF their gardens and windows.
This does not, of course, include cut
flowers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
Steamship Wrecked.

The Allen Line mail steamer Hanoverian
is total loss, having gone ashore on the
I'd at Portugal Cove, fourteen miles north
by west of Cape Race. The steamer MIN
rod was dispatched to the rescue OF the pas
sengers and crew, who are thought to be
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
Still Another.

A. M. Dawson, senior member of the Chi
cago commission house of Dawson & Shook,
left for Canada on the 18th after having APP
propriated S., 900 of the firms money for
stock speculation. He is a man of family
and SO years Of age, who had hitherto
borne an excellent reputation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
Killed on the Track.

A number of accidents occurred at the
Brighton Beach races on the 3D. A young
Jockey named Moran had his neck broken
by fall, and several others were hurt by
tumbles. The large number of entries for
the running races made the track SO dusty
that the accidents were the results.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

A NOVELTY in legislation is found in
a Oil now pending in the Georgia legis-
iature, which proposes to levy an an
nual tax OF $3.50 on all bachelors in
the state and use the money in edu-
eating fatherless children.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Street Duel.

At Kirkwood, Mo-, on the I'd inst. Sher-
if Allen and Edward Bueschel. alocksmith,
fought a duel ON the street with revolvers.
When twelve shots had been fired Bueschel
uo dooH
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
Explosion of Natural Gas.

There was terrible explosion of natural
gas in the oven-room of S. S. Marvin d
Co.'s steam bakery, Pittsburg, on the 31st,
by which five persons were badly burned,
two of them, it is thought, fatally. As the
room was fire-proof, there was no con-
1apratiOn