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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17

THE engineers employed TIC examine
in detail the country lying between
Manitoba and the western shore of
Hudson Bay, with view to the con-
struction of a railway between Winni-
peg and Port Nelson. have lately COM
pleted their work They report that
the region through which the road
would run is in great part level and
favorable to construction; that ap-
parently it is good for nothing asfarm
land, but that there is abundance of
small timber upon it, and, of course,
plenty of water. They estimate that
aroad built between the points named
would cost less than $1,000, 900, or at
a rate somewhat lower than the pre-
vious estimate of $4,000 a. mile. It
is said that English capital is to be
called in to aid this enterprise, and
that it is not unlikely that the road
will be built. This is sanguine ex-
pectation. 1t is not yet ascer tanned
that the condition of navigation in
Hudson Bay would warrant any reli-
ance upon that means of communica-
ton.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
CHICAGO has many curiosities, but few

CHICAGO has many curiosities, but few
are uueerer than it's so or more houses
that remain untenanted through
the neighborhood superstition that
they are haunted. The remarkable
feature of the case is that the owners
have not lived in the suspected dwell
ings themselves and watched with
double barreled shotguns for the
spooks which injured their property.
A Chicago man is usually willing to
fight anything, human or superhuman,
which attacks his pocketbook.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
THE TREACHEROUs ICE.
Sad Drowning Accident at Graham Sta
ton, Tenn.


NUNNELLY, Tenn, Feb. 8.-Mrs.
Slater, child and nurse were drowned,
Saturday, in Mill Creek, near Graham
Station. Mr.. Slater, who is employed
by the Warner Iron Company to run
a pump which conveys water to the
Nunnelly mines, had taken his family,
q. wife and two children, out on the
ice. He had his wife and two children
in small sled, and was carrying them
upon the pond on the ice, and color
ed girl was walking close behind the
sled. They had assembled the pond
about three-quarters of a mile and
finding the ice rapidly melting they
decided to return home. AS the sled
stopped, the ice gave way, and
the unfortunate family went under.
The colored girl, seeing the ice
sinking rushed for the sled, and she,
too, was carried beneath the ice. Mr..
Slater, after many unsuccessful at
tempts to rescue his wife and children
from the water, which is about ten
feet deep, cried for help and was heard
by two gentlemen, who reached him
lust in time to save him and the old
est child, about two years of age. The
wife, colored girl, and baby, months
old, were drowned. The baby was
found short time afterwards and g.
physician called in, but arrived too
late to restore life. The other bodies
were found at $50 o'clock yesterday
afternoon and carried to the house of
G. P. Plunkett, who lived near where
the accident occurred.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
Nv SIGHT OF SHORE.
Ahree Life-Ssvers and Eight SeameI
Drowned off BarDepAt

Ahree Life-Savers and Eight Seamen
Drowned off Barnegat.
The Austrian bark, Kraljcica, ound
Tor New York, with g. cargo OF salt
from Porto Rico, was driven on the
Barnegat shoals in the storm and fog
at l:3O on the morning of the 10Th.
Capt. Mateveservlue and the crew of
thirteen seamen abandoned the shin
and started out in the long boat in the
fog for shore. Capt. Ridgway, of life
saving station IT, discovered the
wrecked bark at daylight and manned
the large serf-boat with crew of six
life-savers. He pulled out through the
fierce breakers to the wreck, but turned
the boat back when he found the bark
deserted. There was g. terrific sea and
every moment was perilous to the life
savers. The crew rowed desperately
to make their way to the shore,
but just as they got within
O. hundred yards of the beach,
a wave struck the boat broadside,
turned it in an instant and flung
the life-savers into the sea. They
chung to the boat for a long timein the
desperate hope that it might be carried
upon the beach by the breakers, but
it KEPT drifting further and further
from shore, and at last they let go and
started to swim for the beach. Capt.
Ridgway and three of the crew reach
ed the sands in safety, but Solomon
Soper, John T. Soper and Forman
Perine we're drowned. The long-boat
Of the bark had drifted southwark
eleven miles and then it, too, was cap
sized by the tremendous seas. Capt.
Mateveservlue and five seamen were
the only ones that got to shore alive.
Eight seamen were drowned. In the
afternoon the breakers washed upon
the beach the body of one of the sea-
men. He had dashed himself to an
oar in the hope that it would buoy
him up while he swan for the shore.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17

THE confidence of the French in M.
de Lesseps and his canal is equaled
only by the distrust of both enter
tanned by people who are not French.
The canal-builder is sure that his
scheme will succeed, and that he will
live to witness the completion of the
canal; but capitalits outside OF France
shake their heads whenever the subject
is mentioned, and are not slow to ex-
press the opinion that it will prove one
OF the greatest and most disastrous
stock-jobbing operations of the age.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
TOO MUCH WATER.
Two Square Miles of Boston Flooded
Fifteen Hundred Families Suffering
from the Floods-The Damage Esti-
mated at $500, OOO-Boats Sunk at St
Louis by Ice Fields.

A Boston dispatch of the 18th says:
The area at Roxbury flooded by the
overflow of Stony Brook is constant
ly increasing. The water has risen
over q foot since yesterday, and
through some streets the current
rushes at thera of ten miles an hour.
Two square miles of the city is now
under water from two to eight feet.
The section covered is nearly oblong
in shape, and is bounded by Norfolk
House hill on the southwest, North
ampton Street on the northeast,
Shawmut Avenue on the southeast
and the Boston & Providence Rail-
road on the northwest. The source
of the flood is the bursting of the con-
fines OF Stony Brook near N Norfolk Hill.
From that point the flood has steadily
progressed toward the center of the city
proper. 1t has passed Arnold Street,
the old Roxbury boundary, and has
reached Northampton Street. The
cellars, and in some instances the first
floors, Of nearly g. thousand houses
are flooded. In low sections the
houses are almost entirely submerged.
Over 1,5OO families are more or less
CllCCOCll, ttIlU ~ COHSOENdUlV0
of the loss to buildings and stock is
100000. The territory drained by
Stony Brook comprises many square
miles in Jamaica Plain and Roxbury
and the snow and surface water on
this section must all be added to the
flood. At one point near Franklin
Park there is lot of fifty acres COW
cred with water three feet deep, all of
which must flow off through Stony
Brook. The mayor, police commits
sioners and other city officials are at
work establishing depots of supplies
and arranging for the relief of the SUI
ferers. A large part of the inhabitants
OF the flooded district are still living in
the upper stories of their houses wait
ing for the flood to subside. There
drowning. In addition to the immense
losses resulting from the floods at
Franklin, the large Cumberland dam
of the Pawtucket water works, built
last fall, was swept away yesterday,
causing loss of 100000. Thefood
reports continue to show serious dis
aster to bridges, railroads and build
ings in various parts of New England
but no loss of life is reported. The to-
tai damage in Massachusetts cannot
now be estimated, but will reach at
least 81, 100000.
The ice gorge at ST. Louis began to
give way on the 18th, and large guam
titles went down the river. A number
of sand barges were more or less dam
aged and the wrecking steamer Il. f.
Eckert had hole sixty feet long stove
in her side.
The food caused by the breakup in
the Susquehanna at Harrisburg has
partially subsidized and canvass of the
city shows loss of about $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17

A STRANGE craze or scare mas broken
out at Washington among the mem
bers of Congress, in the matter of life
insurance. Nine senators and fifteen
representatives have within the last
month insured their precious lives for
sums ranging from $40, 900 to $50, 900
each. Warner Miller considers his
existence worth the larger sum. Call
of Florida, chips in for $500 Four
other senators want $4,000; the re-
mainder are moderate, and take half
Five representatives value themselves
at $40, 900 each, and each of ten takes
a policy of $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
Hanged by a Mob.

At Red Cliff, COL, on the night of the 18th
two miners, Perry and Mike Gleason, en-
gagged in dispute over the payment OF SIS
Perry owed Gleason. With little provoca-
ton and no warning Perry drew a revolver
and shot Gleason through the heart. Perry
was jailed. At IL o'clock on the evening Of
the 14th mob 1900 miners came to town,
overpowered the sheriff, and hung the muir
derer from a railroad water tank. Perry's
only request was to be allowed to climb up
a ladder and jump off. This was refused.
A rope was quickly thrown over his head
and he was drawn up and strangied. His
last breath was spent cursing the mob.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17

THE liquor men of New York are
said to be greatly disturbed over a
measure introduced into the New York
legislature, concerning the liquor traf-
fc, which they regard as little short
of prohibition itself. 1t provides for
appointed commissioners to regulate
the granting of licenses, which shall
not exceed one for every $50 of pop
uiation, and in no case shall g. saloon
be located within 800 feet of any pub
lie institution, such as school-house,
church, asylum, penitentiary or navy
yard. Licenses are also to be with
held when a majority of the electors
In any ward decide for local prohibi-
ton, or when a majority of the prop
erty holders within $50 feet to the
right or to the left of the premises op-
pose it. The bill also provides that
no private drinking rooms shall be al
lowed, that liquor shall not be sold on
credit or to minors, policemen, militia,
or soldiers when in uniform, under IL
ability to II months Imprisonment
and a fine of $500. Saloons are only
to be open from A. M, to 10 P. M,
on week days, and are not opened at
all on Sundays. Habitual drunkards
are to be imprisoned from to IL
months, and every package of LIQUOR
is to be certified as pure under penalty
OF $3.50 for every incorrect certificate.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
INDUSTREAL MATTERS.
Large Meeting of Nail Manufacturers
The Coke Trouble,

PITTsBURG, Pa, Feb. 1O.-The
largest meeting of nail manufacturers
held here for months is in session to-
day. Every manufacturer west OF the
Allegheny Mountains is represented,
either in person or by proxy. The re-
suit of the conference is awaited with
interest, as it may end the great nail
ers' strike which was inaugurated last
June. 1t is said a proposition will be
made to settle on the 21-cent card
rate, but as many of the manufacture
ers are strongly opposed to paying
more than II cents, the measure may
not be accepted.
MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa, Feb. 10
The coke region strike, it is thought,
will now settle down to a mere cues
ton Of endurance on both sides. The
action of the syndicate in closing down
all works and ceasing to turn out coke
Is looked upon by the people here as q
wise move, which should have been
taken two weeks ago. The entire
agitation among the strikers, with its
story of arson, riot and bloodshed,
has resulted from the excursions of
strikers to compel those employed at
the various works to quit. It's thought
now that when the source of the
ferment and confusion is removed
there will not be such rally at the
meetings, and reflection among the
strikers will supplant the tendency to
fight and destroy. The strikers look
upon the edict with Indifference They
are still perfectly sure in their own
minds that the operators must finally
surrender. They say that the lack of
coke will throw 100000 men out of
employment in other industries, and
that pressure will be brought to bear
upon the coke producers from
that direction, even more en-
barrassing than their own de-
mand. The only trouble now i'm
minent is that which may result where
attempts to arrest are made, and also
where desperation will comefrom want
of food. The people who have con-
triouted have looked upon the efforts
of the operators to keep the ovens hot
as an indication that they must have
coke, and would likely soon advance
the price. The shutdown, however,
gives the charity business the appear
ance of lasting a long time, and it is g.
question whether thecommunities can
afford to keepit up long. 1t is thought
now that no evictions will be made at
t1io fiy,,a
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
Smoke.

Bridgeport ILL.,, a village of 500 inhabit-
ants, was visited by fire which destroyed
six business houses. The losses will reach
100000.
The Hampstead Club stable, at Hunter
Point, L. l., belonging to the Meadow
brook Hunt, Eastmeadow, was destroyed
by fire on the morning of the 10th. A num-
Der ofsvaluable horses were cremated. Loss
$4,000.
Fire in the subcellar of building on
Broadway, New York, on the morning of
the 10th, caused loss of $4,000.
Leonard & Barrows' shoe factory, at
Middleboro, Mass, four-story structure,
1O5x5O feet, with two large LIS, was burned
on the night of the 9th. The loss is $780,
600. About $50 men and women are
thrown out of work.
Fire on Lake Street, Chicago, on the
morning of the 9th, partially destroyed the
building occupied by the Chicago Screw
Company and number of other firms. The
total loss was 100000, covered by insur-
ance,
The Meadow Lily Mills, owned by D..
Plewes. in London Township, Ont, we're
burned on the Sth. Loss, $4,000; ins.r-
ance, $1,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
Drowning Accident.

Mrs. Slater, child and nurse were drowned
in Mill Creek, near Graham Station, Tenn.
Mr.. Slater, who is employed by the Warner
Iron Company to run pump which conveys
water to the Nunnelly mines, had taken his
family, wife and two children, out on the
ice. He had his wife and two children in q
small sled, and was carrying them upon the
pond on the ice, and a colored girl was walk
ing close behind the sled. The ice suddenly
gave way, dropping the sled into the water,
and in spite of the efforts of Mr.. Slater,
mother, child and nurse were drowned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
A Perfect Ninny.

[From the Stockton Maverick
MARY" said q Stockton woman to
her daughter, "can't you see that Mr..
Dude is desperately in love with you
Why don't you encourage him; he has
plenty of money, / hear?"
II have given him lots of hints, but
he is a perfect ninny, and hasn't got
courage enough to propose"
"You ought to be smart enough to
show him how to do it, if he really
wants to-"
Goodness knows | have tried hard
enough. You know we were out walk
ing the other EVENING""
eyes"
"Well, at one time during the even
ing he asked me what was my favorite
drink and when said pop, would you
believe it, he didn't have sense enough
to take the hint"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
QUIET IN LONDON.
Peace Again In the Great Metropolis
Measures for Relief.


A London cablegram of the 18th
inst. says: Everything is quiet in the
metropolis this morning. Tradesmen
have reopened their shops, and bust
ness is proceeding as usual. Consider
able uneasiness, however, is still felt
lest there should be further riotous
demonstrations. Three hundred un-
employed workingmen called upon the
lord mayor to-day, to urge upon him
the necessity of doing something to
relieve the distress among the unem-
ployed OF London. The lord mayor
and and promised to personally assist the
distressed people so far as his means
would permit him. He added that
the Lord Mayors fund for the relief OF
the distressed poor of the city, which
had been started, already amounted
to $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
TROUBLE IN THE NORTHWEST,
Fears That Another Rebellion VIII De.
velOp in the Spring.

MONTREAL, Ont, Feb. ia dis.
patch from Edmonton says: cat the
police barracks here and at Fort Sas-
katchewan, the men are still in state
of INSTRUMENTATION, and are doing as
much as they please. At the latter
place recently some of them became
intoxicated and after locking the COM
manding officer In his room, continued
their debauch, in which they damaged
the kitchen furniture. The citizens
await with considerable interest the
outcome of the affair"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
Deeds OF Blood.

At Windsor, Mo-, on the 18th inst, John
Evans called at the house ofRolla Banks
and after saturating Banks clothing with
kerosene, chopped his head open with an
axe and then set him on fire. The flames
were put out by neighbors, and tits thought
Banks will recover. Evans WAS found at
the bottom of a well with his clothing
nearly burned off, and SO badly injured that
he died in a few hours. Both men were col
ored.
Charles Herman, who murdered his wife
in a New York tenement house and slept
for three nights in the room with the body,
was hanged for the crime on the 18th.
Geo. Driscoll. a wel-known business man
of Springfield, o., was shot and killed on
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
Strikers BURNING Powder.

A serious ARRAY took place on the 9Th at
the Henry Clay Coke Works, of Prick &
Co., near Bradford, Pa. About 800
strikers from Leisenring marched to the
Henry Clay Works, where a few men were
at work. When the strikers appeared on
the hill above the ovens, they began firing
on the workmen. Only one man returned
their fire, and no one was seriously
wounded. They then burned the tipple
house, driving away the employees, who at
tempted to defend the machine. A number
of arrests were made.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
Killed by a Buzz-Saw.

Henry Thielen, a farmer, living at Casey
vile, Mo-, went into a planning mill on the
10th inst, and sat down on the pla tform
of a buzz-saw, the machine not being in mo-
ton. While chatting with some OF the en-
ployes the saw was started, and the plat
form fell to it's position. Thielen was cut
in two, dying instantly.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
IMPORTANT.

When you visit or leave New York City,
save baggage, expressage and So carriage
hire, and stop at the GRAND UNION HO-
TEL, opposite Grand Central Depot.
Six hundred and thirteen rooms, fitted
up at cost of one million dollars, 81 and
upwards per day. European plan Els-
yator. Restaurant supplied with the best.
Horse cars, stages and elevated railroads
to all dspots. Families can live better for
less money at the Grand Union Hotel than
at any other frst-class hotel in the city.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17

Twenty-four hundred pounds of dyna-
mite, concealed under a pile of oats in a
barn near one of the workings on the new
aqueduct, contrary to law, was seized on
the 10th by the New York fire department
and will be removed to the powder ship. 1t
was considered extra hazardous to life in
the vicinity. large quantity of explo-
sives is believed to be concealed at various
points along the line of the work.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17

THE agent of the Chicago & North
Western Railroad at San Francisco
has offered to transport without
charge the citrus fruit of California,
now on exhibition in that city, to Chi
cago. 1t would be a wise move IN CAL
ifornia fruit growers. Their market is
to the East, but other sections are en-
tering the field.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
English Strikers.

The Leicester, Eng, strikers continued
their rioting until a late hour on the night
of the 18th. Twenty-seven rioters were ar
rested and the mob made several attempts
to rescue them from the police. At meet
ing of workmen it was announced that the
masters had conceded four important
points and offered to arbitrate the Others.
A resolution was passed agreeing to submit
the demands of the strikers to arbitration.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
Minor Mention.

An express train on the Ontario g. Vest
ern road ran into q washout at Liberty, N.
Y, killing Engineer George ST. John and
Fireman A. l.. Lewis.
The grand jury at Omaha returned an in
dictment for murder against John Lauer,
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 ego, 900 for the re-
lief of the unemployed.
The lower house of the Bavarian parlia-
ment, by vote of 80 to 45, adopted a res
olution in opposition to government mo.
nopoly of the liquor traffic.
The editors OF a Polish journal in Posen
have been sentenced to six months impris-
onment for publishing an article lbeling
Bismarck and the Prussian minister's
Burglars entered the office of A. g.
Schmidt & Co., liquor dealers, Chicago, on
the night OF the 18th, and burgled the safe.
The thieves got away with 1898 in cash and
So 900 in notes.
Considerable damage was done to vessel
property at ST. Louis on the 18th by large
cakes of ice which broke loose from the
for several days.
A tramp who was stealing q ride on a
freight train was killed in a collision with
an express on the Boston 81 Lowell Road
at North Waburn Junction, twelve miles
north of Boston, on the 18th. The engi-
neer of the freight was seriously injured.
At Pittsburg, Pa, on the 11th the front
wall of the Keystone Brewing Company g
building, in the course of erection on the
South Side, fell out, crushing Frank Souders
to death and lniuring another workman,
but not dangerously. The damage to the
building was $4,000.
John j. Grouse, mayor of Syracuse, N. Y,
in 1876, was found dead in bed on the 10th.
Heart disease was the cause of his DEATH
John Spring and William Austin were
killed and julius Brown badly injured by
the fall of an elevator at Charlotte, N. c.,
on the 10th
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17

the morning of the 9th by burglars whom
he found in his house. A colored man,
named Henry Slater, has been arrested on
suspicion.
At O'Clock on the morning of the Sth,
a posse of 100 mounted masked men rode
up to the county jail at Paris, Tex, took
out r. T. Garrett, who killed Deputy Sher-
iff Davis, and strung him up to a tree,
where his body was found in the morning.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
Caught on a TrestIe.

Three section hands with truck loaded
with rock, were crossing a trestle, near Gal
lipolis, o., on the 10th, when an extra
freight train on the Hooking Valley and To
ledo Road came upon them. They dropped
to the side of the trestle and held on with
their hands The train demolished the
truck, scattered the rock and broke the
hold of two of the men who fell forty-five
feet and received fatal injuries. Their
names are Amos Weng and Charles McMul-
1ny,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
An Aged Couple Burned.

Early on the morning of the 10th, fire
destroyed the house of G. T. Kayner, on
Willard Street. jamestown. N. Y. Mr..
Kayner and his wife were burned to death.
They were each about so wears of age. Mr..
Kayner was O. ieweler and used the front
part of the building as shop.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
The Rtpnblifa't
wATERrowN. wIsCcNsIE.

A NUMBER of sections of fine grazing
lands in Texas were recently sold at
tax sales at one-quarter of a cent an
acre, the lowest price ever reached in
cash sale in that or probably any
state