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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24
Big Fire in Wilmington. NC.

The steamer Bladen plying between Will
mington, and Fayetteville, N. c.. caught
fire on the afternoon of the Goth, just be-
fore reaching her wharf at the former place,
and owing to the infammable nature of
her cargo, consisting of rosin, turpentine
and cotton, was Immediately enveloped in
flames. The pilot headed her for the near
est available wharf and the passengers sue
ceeded in escaping some by boats from adj
joining vessels, and others by jumping
overheard, when they were quick
ly rescued. The steamer landed against
the wharf of the New York
and Wilmington Steamship Com
pany and the fire was quickly communi-
Gated to the sheds and warehouses thereon.
All the wharfs and sheds being saturated
with rosin and turpentine, the spread of
the fire was rapid and, despite the efforts of
the fremen, became a disastrous confagra-
ton. There was q gale blowing from the
southwest and soon the blocks on the
water front were burning furiously. At
aboIt 8 o. clock the fire was gotten under
control, but not until it had destroyed
81, 10000 worth of property.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24
SOCIALISTS ON TRIAL.
Hyndman, Burns, Champion and Wi
Jams on Trial for Inci5ing to Riot.

Hyndman, Burns, Champion and WILL
Jams on Trial for Inciting to Riot.
! LONDON, Feb. 1.-THE hearing in
the case of the Socialist leaders, Hynd-
man, Burns, Champion and Williams,
who are charged with melting to riot,
contempt of law, etc., in connection
with the recent demonstrations in
London, was begun in the Bow Street
police court, this morning. The
courtroom was we'll filled with specta-
tors, but not crowded. Mr.. Poland,
solicitor for the treasury, in present
ing the case for the government,
quoted from speeches made by the de-
PENDANTS at the time oftheriots. Sew
eral newspaper reporters were called
as witnesses and gave testimony re-
garding the actions of the prisoners
previous to and during the disorders.
Mr.. Poland asked that all the pris-
oners he committed for trial. He said
the prosecution had nothing of po-
litical nature in it, and urged that the
men be prosecuted for misdemeanor.
This, he continued, consisted of the
utterance by the different defendants
of expressions and sentiments with
the intent to provoke a breach of the
peace. These utterances were made
at the meetings held at Trafalgar
Square and Hyde Park on Monday OF
last week. Burns, at the Trafalgar
Square meeting, said to the assemblage:
''Unless we get bread, they will get
lead;" and "The next time we will sack
the bakers shops" It was Burns
who suggested TO the mob
to march through the West End.
When the mob arrived at Hyde Park,
Burns again addressed the rioters, and
said: "We have shown what stones
can do; we will try powder and shot,
If they don't accede, and there will be
revolution" Champion, in his speeches
to the rioters on the same day, urged
his hearers to influence the police and
army to join the people. Williams, in
his addresses, urged the people to or
ganize, saying he was unwilling to
have starving men confront the sol
diery unless the former were organized
Hyndman said: "Let US show a firm
front. Ii peaceable means fail, l will
be the first to summon you"
The case was adjourned for a week.
The prisoners were allowed to give
bail.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24

the House passed, the bill to make allow
ances forsclerk hire to postmasters at first
and second-class post-offices cover the cost
OF clerical labor in the money order
business. Mr.. Warner CO., called
up, and the House passed, the
OH reducing from s to cents
Inc charge Tor money orders not exceeding
%. MI. McRae (Ark.) called up, and the
House passed, the bill to protect homestead
settlers whiting railway limits. Tt provides
that all such settlers restricted to less than
LOU acres, who make an additional entry
under the acts OF March and July. 1879.
shall be entitled to have the lands covered
by the additional entry patented without
any further cost or proof of settlement and
cultivation. Mr.. Cobb Gnd.) called IN the
bill FORGETTING the Atlantic & Pacific land
grant. The bill forfeits only the land adj
iacent to the uncompleted portions of the
road. No action on the bill was taken.
THURSDAY, Feb. 18.-The Speaker an
nounced the appointment of Mr.. Findlav
(Md.) as a member of the committee on
banking and currency, to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the resignation Of Mr.. Curtin
Pa) Mr.. Crisp (Ga.) from the committee
on Pacific railroads, reported bill amend
ing the Pacific Railroad acts so as to COM
pei these railroads to pay to the United
States the amounts paid out by it for sur
veying the lands to which they are entitled
House calendar. The Fitz John Porter
bill was taken up, debated and passed by
strict party vote. In the morning hour the
House resumed the consideration of the
bill FORGETTING the Atlantic & Pacific Rail-
road land grant, but no conclusion was
reached.
FRIDAY, Feb. 19.-Mr. Kelly (Pa.) re.
newed his request to have printed in the
Record a review of the testimony in the
Fitz John Porter case prepared by Judge
Advocate Holt. The request was granted.
Mr.. Hewitt N. " called up the Joint reso-
luton rendering the thanks of Congress to
Joseph Francis for his lifelong services to
humanity and his country in the construc-
ton and perfection of life-saving appliances,
and authorizing the President to have pre-
pared gold medal to be presented to Mr..
Francis. Passed. The House also passed
a dozen private bills. At it's evening SEES
sion the House passed forty-four pension
bills, and adjourned until Tuesday.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24

LAST year the total number Of pat
ents issued was about %, 900, of which
only about sixty were to women in
ventors. As patent rights are about
the only rights in which the two sexes
stand in perfect equality before the
law, the cause of SO great disparity
one woman applicant to 366 mems
not easily explained. No married
man, at least, will deny to woman great
ingenuity and a. talent for invention
amounting to genius, and yet you
would scarcely suspect it from any
patent Office report.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24

In the disgraceful events which re-
Gently occurred at Seattle, Washing
ton Territory, the mayor and citizens
might have learned a lesson in pluck
from the captain of the steamer, Queen
of the Pacific. That officer prepared
to throw scalding water on the mob if
it disregarded his rights; but the city
authorities merely pottered around
and talked, while 400 Cinnamon were
driven from their homes and landed
with their belongings on the steam
boat pier, ready to be packed into the
Queen of the Pacific, and sent, willing
or unwilling. to San Francisco. AS
the murderers at Rock Springs escaped
with nothing worse than popular sym
pathy for their penalty, the Seattle
mob probably fears no i'll effects from
ts milder brutality.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24

THE Methodist ministers OF Phlia-
delphia claim to have discovered that
several confectioners are selling candy
to school children which is nothing
less than rock and rye IN stick form,
AID that this is done in the interest
of saloon-keepers, who expect to
reap their reward when the boys have
acquired an appetite for strong drink.
The ministers may be mistaken in their
charges, but the case is one that calls
for investigation and prompt action
on the part of the authorities.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24
Minor Mention.

A joint special committee Of the Iowa
Legislature has agreed upon bill to APP
propriate 100000 for state soldiers
home.
DR.. E. R. Myrtle, of Center Point, Ind,
who recently eloped with his 12-year-old
step-daugbter, was captured on farm
near Patoka, and taken home in irons.
John G. Dyde, junior partner in the
grocery house of Eckersdorf & Co., OF
Montreal, has been committed for trial for
forging 100 notes discounted at the Bank
of British North America. The head OF
the concern has fled to Boston.
The superior court at Atlanta has en-
joined Mrs. j. p. Weaver, of Indiana, from
removing the body of q wealthy citizen,
killed in q railway accident, who called him
self J. w. Pierce, but whom she claimed as
her runaway husband.
Funds are being raised in Montreal for
the starving fishermen Of the lower St.
Lawrence, who are liable to make another
raid on the stores at Paspebiac.
The supreme court of Indiana uphOlds
the law fixing the rent for telephones at So
per month.
Bruff & Maddox, dry goods dealers, Bal
timore, who compromised with their cred
itors a year ago, failed on the goth, having
been unable to meet the Obligations given
in settlement, The original indebtedness
was about 100000.
The Portuguese ministry have resigned
The King has summoned the ProgressiBts
to form q new cabinet.
Hog cholera has made it's appearance in
Middlesex County, Ont, and many animals
have died ON the disease.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24

A CURIOUS defense, that set up by
the DEFENDANTS attorney in a recent
Kansas City adulterated milk case.
1t was thepoorest sample of milk that
the city chemist had examined. The
defense admitted that it was poor,
but said that the milk had been 'tjostled
around on the way to town." causing
the solids to rise to the top, while
the sample taken by the sanitary SER
geant came from the bottom of the
can. And the city recorder considered
this competent defense. The ques-
ton now arises, how much does that
city recorder know about milk in it's
original state, uncompounded with
other delicacies.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24
TIE production of pig iron in the

THE production of pig iron in the
nine iron-producing states of the South
has been growing at a very rapid rate
of late years. In 1881 the total was
All, $40 tons, and the annual increase
was steady, till last year the produc-
ton amounted to 1885 tons. In
Kentucky, Georgia, Maryland and
Texas there was an absolutef falling of
during the time, owingto the "blowing
out" of number of charcoal furnaces,
the demand for charcoal iron having
very largely diminished. The princi-
pal increase appears to have been in
Alabama, Virginia and Tennessee,
where the growth in the period, in
round numbers, was from $4,000 to
553, 900 tons, or more than double.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24
a FAKTHEEss A0VER.
The Sad Plight of a New Haven Girl al
Bismarck, D. T.

DASAAhICEs Os L.
BISMARCK, D. T., Feb. 16.-It is re-
ported here that Fanny Morgan, g.
young woman, who attempted suicide
in this city, several days ago by taking
morphine, is the daughter of prom
inent citizen of New Haven, Conn;
that when she left home she did SO to
marry a young man to whom her
parents objected; and that since her
departure from home she has been un-
able to find her affianced. The
young mans name is Charles
Bullock, and the rumor says that,
believing that if he married her
against her parents wishes he
would receive no financial aid from
them, he fled from Milwaukee, the
point where they were to have met.
She heard that he came to Bismarck,
and followed him in the hope of find
ing him here. Again meeting disap-
pointment, she sought work for her
livelihood and accepted a position in a
restaurant. She was insulted by men
with whom, by virtue of her position,
she was compelled to associate, and
attempted suicide by taking morphine.
When discovered she was almost dead,
but was resuscitated and is now re-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24

A SINGULAR suit is just filed in the
federal court in Louisville. Felix A.
Graham studied in ST. Mary's College
for the priesthood, expanding Sd, 872
for that purpose. He returned to his
home in Colorado, expecting ordlna-
ton. President Fennessy, OF st.
Mary's, wrote to the bishop OF Colo
RADIO that Graham was too high-tem-
pered for priest, SO the VOWS were
refused to him. For this he sues
Fennessy for $4,000 damages.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24
Deeds OF Blood.

Edward Carney q Boston lunatic assault
ed Mrs. George K. Worrall and her sisters
at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, fatally injur-
ing one of them with pocket-knife.
The striking iron miners at Decazville,
France, have posted placards threatening to
destroy the mines with dynamite unless
wages are advanced.
A committee of citizens ofHenrietta, Tex
as forced the jail doors on the afternoon of
the goth, and attempted to hang A. A.
Steagall, charged with incest and the muir
der of a babe. The sheriff cut down the
wretch in time to prolong his existence.
At Charleston, Mass, early on the morn
ing of the goth John Gerry, laborer,
arose and crept to the room of his Iandlady,
Mrs. Ellen Murphy respectable, hard
working woman, and cut her throat with
razor, infilcting q wound five inches in
length and near the jugular vein. He then
crept back to bed and went to sleep. On
being arrested he said he was sorry the
razor was not sharp enough. He was held
in 5000 bail. The victims condition is
critical.
On the 10th two Mormon elders preached
in church in Gunnville, negro settlement
in the upper edge of Hawkins County,
Tenn, and were to have held another serv-
ice at night, butwere taken from the church
by masked crowd of men, tied to trees
and stripped to the waist and almost
beaten to death. The men refused to give
their names but were thought to be recent
converts sent from Virginia.
At Mingo Junction, o., on the night OF
the 18th, Charles Hail, prominent citizen,
was murdered by chicken thieves. Hall
thought he heard a noise in his chicken
house and went out with a lantern to in
vestigate, when one of the thieves drew his
revolver and shot him dead. The thieves
escaped.
The wife of Prof. Waldo in charge of the
observatory at Yale College, New Haven,
during fit of temporary insanity on the
10Th, destroyed herself by jumping from a
high ledge OF rocks near the college. She
disappeared from her room during the
night, and searching parties were out near
ly all day. Some of the searchers discov-
cred her standing on the brow of the bluff
and shouted to her. When she saw the
party approach she threw herself from the
rocks, falling distance of twenty-five feet.
She died in a few hoors without regaining
consciousness.
At Mount Carmel, Pa, on the 10Th,
Gardner Pepper, of Locust Gap, was as
saulted by two men, who struck him on
the head, inf1icting fatal injuries. Pepper
was prominent candidate at the recent
election, and the assault is supposed to
have been the result Of political quarrels.
His assailants escaped.
John Mann, a wealthy farmer living near
McLeansboro, H., was ambushed on the
morning of the 10Th on the road near his
home by two unknown assassins and shot
dead from his horse. The motive for the
deed is mystery.
At Kings Court, County Raven, Ireland.
on the 18th, dispute during a game of
foot ball, resulted in an ARRAY in which pitch
forks and other weapons were freely used.
Twenty persons were injured, one, it is
thought, fatally.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24

Langellier & Descelles, storekeepers, of st.
John, Ont, have failed. There liabilities
are $50, 900. The firm is one Of the Oldest
in the province and suspended once before,
but compromised for SO per cent. of the
liabilities.
A passenger coach on the Ohio Central
road jumped the track at Ten-mile Trestle,
in West Virginia. on the night of the 18th
inst. A man named Humphreys, of Poca,
W. Va, was killed and several other pas
sengers were seriously hurt.
Charles O'Brien a printer, fell over the
bannisters at 125 Clark Street. Chicago.
on the morning of the 18th. He fell about
twelve feet, striking the tiled floor on his
head. He was unconscious when picked up
and died in a short time.
Count Won Moltke, chief marshal of the
German Empire and chief of the general
staff, is seriously i'll.
1t is reported that Mrs. Yseult Dudley,
who was declared insane after her attempt
to shoot O'Dynamite Rossa, has recovered,
and will in short time be released from
the asylum.
At Philadelphia, on the evening of the
18th, John b. Cough, henoted temperance
advocate, was attacked with O. stroke of
apoplexy while delivering q lecture.
Two Americans have been expelled from
Hoistein, Prussia, for having 'tmade them
selves troublesome to the authorities
II. b. Moore, a wealthy lumber and land
dealer, of Detroit, Mich, accidentally shot
killed and himself while out riding with his
wife, at Loneoke, Tex, where he had bought
large quantities of land.
An express train on the Ontario & West
ern road ran into washout at Liberty, N.
Y, killing Engineer George st. John and
Fireman A. l.. Lewis.
The grand jury at Omaha returned an in
dlctment for murder against John Iauer
who four months ago claimed to have shot
his wife in mistake for burglar.
The riots in London SO thoroughly
awakened the wealthy classes that they
have already subscribed f2O, 900 for the re-
lief of the unemployed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24
Employees ait Fall River. Mass. are

EMPLOYEES at Fall River, Mass, are
complaining that a 40 per cent. ad-
vance" in wages does not make up for
a previous 40 per cent. reduction"
although to people who do not count
the money, one may seem at first
sight to be complete offset to the
other. The employees are light, as the
following example shows: Suppose a
man is paid 81, 900 year, and his sala-
ry is reduced 10 per cent; he will in
future receive 5000. Then suppose
that better times come, and a 10 per
cent. advance is announced; what will
he GAIN Why 10 per cent. OF 5000,
of course. making his salary $500, in
stead of 81 900, as it was before the
first change took place.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24

DESPITE the Inconvenience OF over
soul the Boston girls occasionally
display familiarity with The severe
" practical. When modern Athen-
ian maiden walks abroad in slippery
weather she carries with her small
bag filled with sifted ashes. On reach
ing slippery crossing q corner OF the
bag is torn open, the ashes are dainti-
" distributed, and the fair Bostonian
manages to cross without importing
her spectacles.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24

THE Philadelphia Press commenting
on the statement that the Chicago
socialists have taken strong ground
against the eight-hour law, say: "Thls
is consistent on their part, at all
events. Any endorsement of the law
by them would have been a. tacit ad-
mission that men ought to work-and
that idea is repugnant to the very
spirit of their organization. The real,
Simon-pure socialists believe that all
labor should be done by other fell
lows"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24
CHOSE DEATH.
Body of an Erring Preacher Found in
the mississippi.

Body of an Erring Preacher Found in
the mississippi.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. Feb. 17.-Yesterday
while number of fishermen we're
busily engaged in the river at the foot
of Ellwood Street, Carondelet, they
saw what appeared to be the body OF
a man floating in midstream at some
distance away. A boat was procured
and the men rowed out and caugh
the object, which proved to be a man
body encased in ice. The body wa
towed ashoreupon the banks. The az
pearance of the body indicated that
had probably been in the river fully wv
weeks. Letters found about the bod
proved beyond question that the d
ceased was the late Rev. Jesse
Braly, of Nortonville, KY, and thu
he had committed suicide by jumpn
into the river. The cause of this
ton is shown to be from these san
letters, the fear of the result OF AMI
vestigation then going on in RELATE
to his private affairs and habi
which, it is limited, were not beyol
reprOach.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24

THERE are 12O new members in the
present Congress, and as each one
must deliver or have printed at least
one speech to demonstrate to his con-
stituents the wisdom of choosing him
as their representative, the pages
of the Congressional Record are
trimming over with oratory of
the real sky-scraping variety.
AS an orator the new member
is generally a success, that is, unless he
isgreatly mistaken about the fact, and
his ten-column speech, which appears
in the Record "by leave looks quite
as imposing as if he had been in Con-
gress all his life.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24
Cuban Affairs.

A dispatch from Madrid says: Gen.
Calleia has been appointed viceroyof Cuba.
He is instructed to allow in the April
elections free extension of the franchise to
the Creoles, and to prepare the island for
the separation of the civil from the mil
itary command and the appointment of a
civilian as viceroy. After the elections the
government will endeavor to obtain a
special Cuban treaty with the United States
by the repeal of export duties and the re-
duction Of import duties of the colonial
70 riff
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24
Smoke.

The large wholesale liquor store OF Thorn
fire on the morning of the 22d. Loss, $780,
900. The fire was caused by natural gas
stove.
The Riverside Hotel, at Lyndhurst, N. j..
was destroyed by fire on the night of the
18th. Loss $4,000.
The clothing store of Fl. r. Wait and the
grocery and clothing stores of r. M. With
erbee, at Whitehall, N. Y, were destroyed
by fire on the 10th inst. Loss 100000.
The Keagler block, in Paris, Tex, burned
on The 10th, involving a loss Of $35, 900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24

THE wheat and -four exports from
the United States from September /
to January are almost exactly half
the quantities exported in the CORE
spending period Of 1884-85-29, $685.
900 against 1928, 600 bushels. The
exports in that part of the last four
years amount to204, 1877, 900 bushels,
and in the same part of the four years
ending in 1882 the exports footed up
28O,15O,OOO bushels, an average Of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24
Victorious Horse-Car Strikers.

The employees of the New York Eighth and
Ninth Avenue horse railroads tiled up" the
lines at an early hour on the morning of
the 18TH because the companies refused to
grant the men the same time and pay al
lowed by all the other north and south
lines in the city. More than 600 men went
out. AT O'Clock the companies yielded
and the. men scored q complete victory.
None of the men engaged in the controversy
are to be discharged because of their action
and all discharges of men of whatever class
are subject to the approval OF the executive
committee of the Empire Protective Asso-
citation, made up of car men.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24

THE Knights of Labor have taken a
very commendable step in having in
PRODUCED in the New York legislature q
bill providing for state board OF
arbitrators, impartially selected, to
which all labor disputes shall be re-
ferred, and whose decision shall be
final. Anything which promises to do
away with strikes, which are disas-
trous to both sides, should receive
hearty announcement.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24
Suicide of a St. Louis Nun.

Sister Euphrosnia, of the Order of ST.
Francis, committed suicide on the 10th by
throwing herself from a fourth story win
dow of the dormitory of the school of the
Holy Trinity in ST. Louis. 1t is supposed
that she was suffering from dementia at the
time, as she left no word explaining her
action. No other cause can be assigned for
the act, and this view is strengthened by
the fact that for some time previous to a
few weeks ago she had been confined in
ST. Vincent asylum. Little is known of her
previous history except that she was form
erly from Adenburgh, Ind.