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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
Minor Mention,

James D. Warren, for the past thirty
five years leader OF the Republican party
in Erie County, N. Y. died at Buffalo on
the 18th. In 1851 he entered upon his
journalistic career. in which he achieved
such signal success, purchasing an interest
in the Commercial Advertiser in 1851, and
buying the entire paper in 1877. He was
one of the wealthiest men in Buffalo.
Charles Winchester, OF Ashburnham
Mass, suspended on the 18th, with debts
amounting to 100000.
At Little Rock, Ark, on the 18th, the
Little Rock, Mississippi River & Texas
Railroad was sold to Jay Gould for $780,
600.
A Fl. Shoptaw, owner OF q saw.mill, his
con and nephew were instantly killed by
q boiler explosion at Switz City, Ind.
James w Reid. memb Der of Congress from
Greensborough, N. c., has skipped, taking
with him large sum OF money belonging
to people of the town.
The municipal election at Boston, on the
14th, resulted in the reelection OF Mayor
O'Brien. On the same day Worcester vot-
ed in favor of g. saloon license. Women
worked at the poles in favor of no license.
By the explosion OF three boilers at
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
IN FOG AND DARKNESS.
A Whaler Goes to Pieces on the Califor-
MIA CONFERENCE.-The Lives Lost.

A WhaIer Goes to Pieces on the Califor-
MIA COast-Twenty-five Lives Lost.
At 2:3O O'Clock on the morning of
the 18th, the whaling bark Atlantic
was driven ashore q mile and half
below the Cliff House, near San Fran
cisco, and went to pieces in q few
minutes, not spar remaining stand
ing. The wreck was strewn along the
beach for three or four miles. About
twenty-five men are believed to be
lost. The captain and mate, with
eight or ten men, were saved. At tha
time Of the disaster g. dense fog and
heavy sea prevailed.
Capt. Warren says: eve were
towed out to sea yesterday. There
was q heavy head swell and no wind.
The currents were SO strong that we
could not get out of the swell. We let
go both anchors, but the sea swept
the decks and was SO heavy that the
anchors could not hold. We dragged
ashore and struck at 1:3O A. M. The
men were being washed off during all
this time by immense waves which
dashed over US. The vessel went to
pieces an hour and half after she
struck. There was very heavy fog
and it was pitch dark. We succeeded
in lowering two boats, but both cap
sized before getting two boat-lengthe
from the ship. The first boat con
tanned f. TT. Doty, first mate; Anton
Perry, third mate. and four or five OF
the crew. In the second boat were
myself, the second mate Ring, and five
men. When we were swamped the sea
| carried us in till we touched bottom,
when we dragged ourselves ashore"
AS soon as the captain reached
shore he made his way in an ex.
hausted condition to the life-savine
station q few hundred yards away and
gave the alarm. The apparatus Was
Immediately got out, and as soon as
possible line was shot over the yes.
sci, but 1T got entangled and the yes
eel shortly went to pieces. The yes.
sci was valued at $4,000, and her
outfit at $15, 900; insurance, s., 600
The captain and crew numbered forty
two persons, and up to now only
eleven are known to be saved. 1t is
run1ored that a large part of the crew
were intoxicated, and that twenty-five
were below sleeping off the liquor when
the vessel struck. The timbers of the
vessel were SO rotten that one of the
officers described the disaster as little
short of cold-blooded murder. The
bark belonged to j. & w. King, oil
New Bedford, Mass, had discharged
her Arctic catch and was sailing north
to cruise.
The whaler Mary and Ellen took
fire on the morning of the 18th and
her magazine exploded, killing the son
of Capt. Miller and g. deckhand.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
A NEW Law.
Provision Made for the Allotment of
Lands to Indians.

Provision Made for the Allotment of
Lands to Indians.
The House on the 10Th passed the
Senate bill for the allotment of lands
in severalty to Indians. AS amended,
the bill provides that in all cases
where any tribe OF Indians is located
upon any reservation created for its
use, either by treaty stipulation
or by virtue of an act Of
Congress or executive order, the
secretary of the interior is author
lied, whenever in his opinion any res
ervation of such Indians is advan-
tageous for agricultural and grazing
purposes to cause said reservation to
be surveyed, Or resurveyed, if necessa-
ry, and to allot the lands in said res
ervation in severalty to the Indians
located thereon on their application,
in quantities as follows: To each
head of q family, one-quarter of Sec
ton; to each single person over 16
years of age, one-eighth of eection
to each orphan child under 8 years
OF age, one eighth Of ~ section to each
other person under 18 years, one-six-
teenth of q section; provided that in
case there is not sufficient land in any
OF the said reservations to allot lands
to each individual, the lands embraced
In such reservation shall DO allotted to
each individual pro rata in accordance
with the provisions of this act. 1t
further provides, for the period of
twenty-five years. the conveyance of
any such allotted land. Il makes the
allottees subject to state and terrific
rial law, and prohibits any territory
from passing any law denying to any
such Indian within it's jurisdiction the
equal protection of the law The
rights and privileges of citizenship are
conferred upon every Indian born
within the territorial limits of the
United States to whom allotments
have been made, and upon every In
dian who has voluntarily taken up
his residence and adopted the habits
OF civilized life.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
Evansville, Ind, on the 18th. one man
Was killer and eight wounded.
T.abor Notes .

District Assembly Cd, Knights of Labor,
New York, denOunces the verdict convict
ing the Chicago Anarchists, as unfair, and
urges that the said judiciary be deposed
from using this monopoly purchased
power in the future"
Baltimore Knights are said to have re-
ceived An order from Powderlv to with
draw their delegates from he Federation
OF Trades, owing to the aggressiveness OF
the latter.
A tie-up on several New York street rail
roads is imminent owing to disaffection
among the employees on account of fines
and reduced pay.
The 100 coopers in Cincinnati struck
on the 18th because the proprietors refused
to sign q new scale OF wages.
The proposed boycott OF several shoe
firms in Chicago will not be instituted, as
the charges against them proved to be I'M
founded.
Greenville, Pa servant girls have COM
bined for the purpose of advancing wages
f50 cents a week.
Twenty -four coal miners, convicted OF
riot and conspiracy for addressing meet
ings in the fourth pool, in Pennsylvania,
during the great strike of 1885, and sen
fenced to six months imprisonment, gave
themselves UP on the 18th, and were sent
| to the oIkhouse. A strong effort is being
made to have them pardoned.
Freight conductors on the entire line OF
the Louisville, Chicago & New Albany Rail
road went on strike on the 18th on de-
mand for an advance in pay from 2H to
cents per mile and allowance for lost time
which the management refused Freight
trains from one end OF the road to the
other are tied up.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
Smoke.

The fruit evaporating establishment Of
John S. Stump at Armada. Mich, caught
fire on the 18th. Miss Elizabeth. Stump,
aged %, a sister Of the proprietor, was
asleep in the building at the time. When
Stump arrived on the scene he raised a lad
der and heroically tried to rescue his sis
ter, but was beaten back by the flames,
which burst through the window throwing
him to the ground. He was picked up in
sensible with fractured hip and terrible
cut in his head. The building was COM
pletely consum d. This morning the body
OF Miss Stump was taken from the ruins.
Loss. $2O,0O0 uninsured.
At Oswego. N. Y, on the 10th, the ex-
tensive box factory of E. H. Barnes & Co.
was destroyed by fire. The loss is $40
900; insurance, $4,000.
A portion of the county courthouse at
Poplar Bluff, Mo-, burned on the 18th.
Loss, $46, 900. The records were saved.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22

SEE what an intelligent telegraph
operator did for the Western Union
Company down in Texas. Mr.. Edison
had q dog of great price, named Shep,
and, wishing to have him shipped to
him, he telegraphed home: "Send
Shep by first train" The brainy tele-
graph operator thought Mr.. Edison
ought to know how TO spell better
than that, and so he corrected him,
and sent the message as follows:
"Send sheep by first train" AS Edi-
son was a sheep raiser, his hired men
put his entire flock on the cars, and in
d day or two he received notice that
they were at hand. Just then storm
came up and many of them fell sick.
Before he could get them back to his
rnche half Of them were dead, and the
affair cost him a great deal of money.
He is now suing the company for
damages and is liable to get them.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
RIOT II SAN FRANCISCO.

The Strike of Street-Car Employees Leads
to Fatal Fusilade of Shot.
The car mems strike on the Suffer
Street road, San Francisco, developed
into violence on the 18th. A number
of strikers had just left car near the
Central Avenue terminus, after an un
successful effort to induce the new
men to leave their posts, when hood
lums in the crowd, which had gath
cred, began pelting the car and those
in charge of it with stones. This led
to g. shot being fired into the crowd
by some one on the car. An an
swerlng shot came from the mob
and lively fusilade ensued, during
which about twenty, five shots were
exchanged, leading to a general STAN
pede of the crowd. When the space
was cleared man was found lying on
the ground with q bullet-hole in the
back of his head. He was carried to
the hospital, where the wound was
pronounced mortal. He has not yet
been identified. A number of arrests
have been made. but it is not known
who fired the fatal shot. After the
shooting all cars on both Suffer and
Geary Streets we're withdrawn.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22

A NfEDDLEsoME physician in Paris,
who is evidently skeptical as to the
value of M. Pasteur's method of treat,
ment of hydrophobia, has been col
lecting some statistics which must
prove annoying to the distinguished
incubator. In g. paper read before
the Academy of Sciences he has shown
that the annual average number of
deaths in Paris from rabies is twenty
six, and that the same number Of
patients have died since M. Pasteur
began his treatment. Moreover, while
NJ. Pasteur has treated LOO patients
during the year, official statistics.show
that the number of persons bitten by
mad animals was only 351. There is
certainly an inconsistency here and
the physician concludes that a large
number of Pasteur's patients were
never in danger of rabies.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
DISEASE IN TEXAS CATTLE.
No Contagious PIeuro-Pncumonia - Re
port of Government Agent.

No Contagious P1euro-Pncumonia- Re
port of Government Agent.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 18.-Com-
missioner Colman Of the Department
of Agriculture has received the follow
ing telegram from his agent at Dallas,
Tex, relative to the recent outbreak
of cattle disease in that state:
I'VE have thoroughly examined all
cases reported to Us of cattle
having been diseased or now suffering
from disease and belonging to vari.
Gus parties in this locality. In Mr..
Betterton's herd wefound the remain
ing three Of original six head suffering.
from tuberculosis; killed the one most
diseased and found the left lung,
especially the middle lobe, ex-
tensively and Enthusiastically af-
fected with tuberculosis IL all
stages of developments, besides the
mesenteric glands were tuberculous;
liver healthy, spleen slightly engorged,
abnormally of dark blush tinge; right
kidney slightly congested. Thirty, one
unregistered Jerseys brought here; six
have died; one killed to-day. Seven
of the twelve examined affected With
tuberculosis. Have seen no evidences
of contagious pleuro- pneumonia"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
Artistic Talent Misdirected.

The secret service officers made the
strange seizure in New York recently
of small painting representing the
face of United States fve-doIlar
note. The work was done so we'll that
it took close examination with q glass
to show that g. note had not been
pasted down on a piece Of wood, as
even the mucilage which had appar-
emily been used was initiated. The
law prohibiting the counterfeiting and
imitation of money was felt to have
been violated by this neat piece OF
artistic painting, but the law officers
of the Treasury Department could not
say that talent such as that exhibited
in this case should be punished be.
cause of the subject selected to por-
tray. Neither could they allow the
matter to pass without calling atten-
ton to the dangers of limitations so
skillfully made that they required out
a groundwork of paper instead Of
smooth-surfaced wood to enable them
to pass for money.
The artist will be warned to let imi-
tations of United States money alone
hereafter, and to exercise his genius in
some other direction.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
SPEAKER Hustled, OF the New Yorl

SPEAKER Hustled, OF the New York
Assembly, has hid legislative ex-
perience VIII CHI has never been equaled
in that body, having served sixteen
terms, four of them as speaker. Sew
enty-two of the 128 members have
had previous neutrality-suspicious.. 1t
is probable that the legislative
records of the states of the Union wer
searched, few parallels to the service
of Mr.. Hustled would be found. In the
majority of instances one term is the
extent of the legislative experience OF
q member of q state House of Repre-
sentatives. The lack of a majority OF
thoroughly experienced members con-
tributes materially to the prolonga-
ton of the session and consequent ex
pense to the people.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
Deeds of Blood

George Hackett, a colored barber shot
Hattie Graves, colored domestic at
Greenfield, o., on the night of the 18th and
then sent a bullet into his own head. A
lovers quarrel was the cause. Hackett
will probably die, but it is thought the girl
will recover.
James Howard, aged 35, was lynched at
Texarkana: on the 18th, for branding his
14-year-oid wife with a red-hot iron.
Early on the morning of the 18th Will
Jam Rowan, hackman, shot and killed
Michael Dolan, also a hackman. at San
Francisco. during a dispute regarding their
hack stands. The murderer was arrested.
August Debdke beat his wife nearly to
death in Cleveland. and then cut his throat.
He had left her and she refused to live with
him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
Fought in a Theater.

Robert Lowry, son of the governor of
Mississippi, and W. II. Loudeback, OF
Pennsylvania, fought in private box at
the Masonic Theater, Louisville, KY, on
the evening of the 18th, and the latter was
knocked down berore they could be sep
arated. They were commit ee from the
medical school to present Miss Florence
Bindiey, the actress, with floral design.
Lowry made the presentation speech ard
is said to have failed to mention Loude
backs name as being on the committee
This angered the Pennsylvania and he
demanded reparation with the above re-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
Death of Marshall p. Wilder.

Marshall P. Wilder died at his residence
at Roxbury. Mass, on the 10th. He had
iust passed his 8Sth birthday. Mr.. Wilder
had for many years been one OF the most
prominent men in the country, besides
having worldwide reputation as one of
the foremost pomologists and horticultur-
lists OF the country. He was president OF
the American genealogical society aud was
making active preparations for meeting
of that society in Boston in 1888 at the
time of his death.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22

AN irreconcilable Texas paper says;
s'The pretense of good feeling between
this country and Mexico is the thin
nest of shams. The Greasers are con-
tinually insulting American citizens,
and ere long the voice of this whole
country will be for war"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
Robbed of a Large Amount.

On the afternoon OF the 18th, q stranger
went to the house OF a miner named Crib
bell, at Champion. Mich, and asked his
wife if her husband was at home. She
answered in the negative and few minutes
later the man returned, accompanied by
two masked companions, aud forced an
entrance into the house. Mrs. Gribbell at
tempted to call out, but was silenced by
q cut from big knife. The men bound the
woman and took away 50 800, which
Gribbell had ia the house. No trace has
been discovered of the robbers. Mrs. Crib
bells condition is serious.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22

In railroad building the United
States far outstrips all other nations.
Up to the close of 1884 there were
throughout the whole world about
pol 900 miles of railway, Of which
nearly one-h hall was in the United
States. More perhaps than anything
else this accounts for the unprece-
denied growth and progress which
this country has made IN the last fifty
YEARS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22

FARMER WILLIAMSON, OF Missouri,
set trap to catch dog which had
been prowling around his barn yard,
and the other morning he awoke to
find that he had captured as fine a
specimen of horse.thief as was ever
found in the state. The man had but
one arm, and as the trap was a big
one and we'll secured to log, he had
to sit down and wait for the farmer to
call the turn on him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22

LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS has
recommended that proceedings be
commenced to compel the removal of
fences unlawfully inclosing public land
in Colfax County, New Mexico,
amounting to 10000 acres. 1t is
also recommended that the fences in
closing $4,000 acres in the public land
strip south of Kansas, said to have
been built by the Western Cattle Com
pany, be removed by the military.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22

The Spanish Cortes has granted
$4,000, 900 for new war vessels, and
Spain already boasts the fastest
cruiser afoat. This decade will go
out signed in history for universal
outlay, by all powers, upon improve
ments in naval armament, offensive
and defensive, and for our own atten-
ton to our war-ship and sea-board
defenses. Not yet is the Monitor to
be used for coal scuttle and the tor
pedo to blow out wood-chucks.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22

ACCORDING to the ways of Provi
dence g. young man must know to
whom he speaks when he says
"Howdy ?" The Providence Star says
"Young men, don't make insulting re-
marks to strangela onthe streets,
else you meet the fate of q superior
Street youth who received q sound
thrashiug at the hands OF an indignant
lady to whom he said 'howdy ?"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
Ready TO Fight Mexico.

It is estimated that between dawn and
dark on the 18th 5000 men applied at
Pilkington's saloon on Third Avenue, New
York, to enlist under Capt. Paul Boynton
for railroad work, or fighting, as the case
might be. in Mexico. Juan n. Navarro,
the Mexican consul general, said that he
considered the scheme very silly, but he
had called the attention of the United
States authorities to it as threatened
violation Of the neutrality laws.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22

To the exultant cry of q ST. Louis
paper that Duluth is taking away
Chicago's grain trade, the Chicago pa
pers reply that Duluth is owned IN
Chicago, and that the profits of Du-
luth's elevators are building handsome
blocks in the Garden City.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22

A DECIDED change has occurred in
the views o. medical men as to the use
or necessity for alcoholic liquors in
case of sickness. 1t is now generally
agreed that alcohol has no restorative
power except as a stimulant, and that
the reaction following it's use more
than offsets it's supposed benefits. We
do not use so much strong liquor per
head as 100 or more years ago, when
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
MRS. VVHELLER,S VILE.
A Murdered WOman's Estate-Bequest to
School of Design for Women.

Observation-Disclosures
School of Design for Women.
CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 1.-THE will
of Mrs. Jane WHEELER, the old woman
who was recently murdered, and
whose aged husband was arrested for
the crime, was offered for probate this
morning The estate is valued at
$4,000 to 100000, and the great
er part of it is left to g.
nephew, Thomas E Shaw, of Birming
ham, England The Western Reserve
School of Design for women of this
city, gets property valued at $4,000.
The remainder Of the estate is divided
among numerous relatives. The ten
ants who have lived in Mrs. Wheller's
houses tor more than five years get
$50 each
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
MISSOURI poorly appreciates il

MISSOURI poorly appreciates It's
militia. It is generally understood
that il the coming Legislature fails to
provide for the troops the companies
in St. Louis will disband to reorgan-
ize on an independent basis. Little
interest is shown, and the force is de-
moralized. The militia has not yet
received pay for service in 1877 and
900
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22

"THE night of the 18th inst, !" runs
q brief announcement in a Montana
paper, ga dark bay mare, fifteen
hands high, small white star in fore
head, both mind feet white, was stolen
from the stable of Ira Sampson, the
undersigned. will give the mare and
$50 in cash for full and reliable par
ticulars regarding the funeral of the
thief. That's the kind of q man
am
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
A Tobacco Victim.
from the Cincinnati Commercial Gaze

From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
A 1O-year-old boy living near
Marion, Ind, has been rendered in
sane, it is said, by the use of tobacco,
he having taken to the weed when urs-
der 5 years of age. There is no living
man, we dare say, however diseased
his Judgment may be by narcotics,
who will not readily agree that years
is entirely too tender ar age to begin
the use OF tobacco.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22

it's use was nearly universal among
the early settlers. 1t is true,
however, that liquors in those days
were less adulterated and less in
furious than those which resold now,
many of which, aside from their alco-
hol, are poisonous compounds.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
Attacked by Italians.

Italian laborers employed on the canal
Improvement at Port Byron, N. Y, savage
ly attacked four Americana, on the 18th.
Letter Burgess was struck on the head with
q pick handle and probably fatally injured,
man named Pratt was also stabbed
Charles Dairy hirsh was seriously stabbed
and the fourth was slightly cut. Four
Italians were captured and two escaped.
Great excitement exists in the village.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22

THE Louisiana sugar crop Is, estl-
mated to be 25 per cent. smaller than
that of last year. But this is only
10000 tons, and the beet-root crop
OF Europe is estimated to be Is per
cent greater than that of last year,
which is a gain of 433, 900 tons.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22

Mr.. BUCHTER, a well-known citizen
OF Lancaster, Pa, has used St. Jacobs
Oil, and considers it an excellent
remedy in cases of swellings, bruises
and burns.