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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02

THE best friends of the workingman
are not, necessarily, those who make
the loudest professions, or who assure
him most confidently that he can bring
capital to his terms. Some of these
are in fact his worst enemies; for they
breed strife and contention between
employee and employer when the thing
to be desired is harmony and concord
AS Mr.. Powderly well said in his recent
circular, speaking in behalf of the
workmen: "Men who own capital are
not our enemies. If that theory held
good the workman of to-day would
be the enemy of his fellow-toiler to.
morrow, for after all it is how to &C
quire capital, and how to use it prop
erly that we are endeavoring to learn. y
The man, therefore, who seeks to sti1
up strife between the men who own
capital and the workingmen, and tic
ingratiate himself with the latter by
abusing the former, is not g. friend oil
the workingman.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02

DR.. BILLINGS, surgeon of the United
States army, has beenfu furnishing docu
mentary evidence of the health OF this
country. In his report for the tenth
census he informs us that the annual
increase in population due to the ex-
cess of births over deaths is S7S, 1922.
and that the mean annual birth rate
for the past ten years has been SO per
cent. With children coming at the
rate of nearly 100000 g. year, the
prospect is that the vacant lands OF
the West will be rapidly filled up.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
THE MISSISSIPPI.
Favorable Report on Bill to Improve
the Father of Waters.

Favorable Report on a Bill to Improve
the Father of Waters.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 26.-Sena-
tor Van Wyck to-day made a report
from the committee on the improve
ment of the Mississippi River, of which
he is chairman, upon the bill, ito
make the Lake Bolgne outlet, to i'm
prove the low water navigation
of the Mississippi River from
New Orleans, La, to Cairo, H.,
and incidentally to reclaim and
protect the valley lands of the
Mississippi River and it's tributaries
from overflow" The bill is favorably
reported. More than 100 years, the
report says, the problem OF the con-
troll of the Mississippi River has en-
ioyed the attention of the people,
creating constant anxiety to the
jewellers in the valley, and causing a
great expenditure of public and pri-
waite wealth, with practically few bene-
fits; and to-day the problem is still
unsolved.
The levee system has been fully
tried. The first levee was commenced
in IT'S. In 1884 the Spanish gov
ernor issued orders to build levees
under penalty of confiscation, and
the work was continued until it almost
bankrupted the people, parishes and
counties. The United States had
given nearly 100000 acres of land
for this work, and about 1850 the
states of Louisiana, Arkansas,
Mississippi and Missouri under
took to aid its progress. In
1858, the chief engineer of the
army said the river was leveed from
Cape Girardeau to New Orleans on
both sides, with entertainments aver
aging four feet high, and the same re-
port showed more destructive over
flows than in the previous history of
the river. The facts appear promin-
emily in the engineer reports. In 1874
they say the breaks were too numer-
Gus TO mention; that if the levees had
not been broken the water would have
run over the top of them and that it
would cost $4,000, OOOto build levees
protect the valley. The revetment and
abutment system of the river COM
mission carried on at an expense of
about $S,OO0,OOO have had equally
disastrous results and 100000
have been expended on the Eads jet
ties, yet the overfows not only con-
tinue but are increasing. Such are the
results of century and a half Of ex-
pertinent and an expenditure equal,
probably, to four times the present
value of the land in the valley. The
jetties were to benefit the commerce
of New Orleans and the country
drained by the Mississippi and its
tributaries. The channel was to be
deepened to thirty feet. The channel
in fact is scarcely twenty -four feet
deep, and the commerce of New Or
leans has decreased $67, 100000 in
exports and $32,OOO,OOO in i'm
ports during the nine years fol-
lowing the completion of the jet
ties as compared with the nine years
preceding. At this time there seems,
the report says, only one more ex-
pertinent left to be tried, that is open
and deepen the Lake Boigne outlet.
By this outlet the water of the river
will reach the same ocean level by a
run of 10 miles, which it now attains
after coursing ITO miles. This fact
seems the only argument necessary to
advance
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
Deeds OF Blood.

Jacob Steffer, well-to-do citizen OF
Keokuk, Ia., was shot dead on the goth by
his son John, who was recently released
from an insane asylum before being fully
cured.
At Monahan, Tex, on the night of the
28th, Robert Slaughter, a well-known cat
tleman, was assassinated by man named
Jackson.
At Washington, D. c., on the 9th, Anto-
Mo Nardello was hanged for the murder OF
Carmine Rotunno. Murderer and victim
were both Italians.
A man named Halver Knutson COM
mitted suicide at Maysville, d. T., on the
9th, by cutting his throat with a pocket
knife. He was insane.
John G. Henning was hanged at Craw-
louisville, Ind. on the 9th, for the murder
of Mrs Lottie Vollmer in October last.
Will Whitehead fatally shot Miss Laura
Harwood, at Canalton, KY, on the oath,
and then killed himself. They wanted to
marry, but the girls parents objected and
they agreed to die together.
Near Mountain Grove, Mo-, wealthy
farmer named Swain Anderson was shot
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
THERE is considerable excitement at

THERE is considerable excitement at
place in West Virginia which bears
the suggestive name, Volcano. One
Mr.. Baum has been feeding his sick
wife and three children with dog flesh,
which he represented to be mutton.
They were taken violently i'll, and, de-
lighted with his success, he killed
and dressed another dog, but
was discovered by his neigh
bors, who say that they would
of course, prefer to see him hanged
legally if his wife dies, but that if the
machinery of the law does not work
satisfactorily they are equal to the
emergency.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
HANGED Ar THE CAPITOL.
Antonio Nardel1o Expiates the Murder c
Oarmfne ROtunno.

Carm1ne KOtunno.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 28.-An-
tonic Nardello was hanged at the dis
trict jail, near this city, at 1:3O this
afternoon, for the murder of Carmine
Rotunno. He made q speech on the
scaffold, and protested his innocence.
The crime for which Nardello was hanged
was committed on the 28th or goth of
July. Carmine Rotunno, rather elderly
Italian. boarded at the house OF one Guido
on Eighteenth Street. He worked as a
laborer and occasionally as a shoemaker,
and had accumulated from $500 to 5000.
This money appears to have furnished the
motive for the murder. Nardello was, how
ever, disappointed in his expectation of
securing large sum, for Rotunno made q
rule to carry but about $50 with him,
leaving the balance with friend. It was
some days before the crime was discovered.
Rotunno's body was found in an unoccu-
pied building near the reservoir. His
throat had been cut and the floor and
walls of the room were covered with blood.
The crime was easily traced to Nardello,
and last December he was sentenced to be
hanged.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
Ing.

WHEN Gov. West of Utah talked
to the polygamous Mormons about
abandoning their defiance OF the
United States, they iibed him on
his secession record. The governor
was not at all backward in the emer-
gency. eyes," said he, "Id did defy and
resist the United States, and got so
we'll whipped for it that Iadvise every
body to avoid my example"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
Mormon Prisoners Sentenced.

At Blackfoot, Idaho, on the oath, in the
third district court, Chief Justice Hays SEN
fenced twenty-seven prisoners convicted
this term. ALI are Mormons except two.
The sentences ranged from three months
and 500 fine to twelve months and $500
fine. Al! one year prisoners to be sent
to the house of correction at Detroit,
Mich, and those for lesser period to
the United States penitentiary at Boise
City. One hundred and forty-fve indict-
ments were drawn for unlawful cohabita-
ton at this term of court. All refused to
obey the laws in the future except one.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
REUI CAsEs E1ECIDED.
Damages of 81, 900 Awarded Against Two
Iowa City, Ia, Brewers.

Damages of 81, 600 Awarded Against Two
Iowa City, Ia, Brewers.
The jury in the circuit court at Ma
rion, a., on the Goth, rendered YER
dict in the famous Iowa City riot case
in favor Of the plaintiff for 1000.
This is the case brought two years ago
in Johnson County by Swafford Bros.
VS., Conrad Graf, John Englert, brew
ers, ct al, who mobbed them in Iowa
City for the alleged evidence they gave
the Prohibitionists. 1t was taken to
Jones County, then to Lynn, where the
above result was reached. Plaintiff
asked $4,000 damages Defendants
asked for new Trial.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
A Million Dollar Fire.

A disastrous fire occurred in large brick
and stone structure at the corner of Con-
gress Street and Wabash Avenue, Chicago,
early on the morning of the 26th. The loss
will approximately 81 ,OOO,OoO Among
the principal losers are the publishers, Bel
ford, Clarke & Co., and the large book
bindery firm Of Donohue & Henneberry
The structure in which the fire originated is
at the northwest corner of the two thor
oughfares, and was six stories in height.
The origin of the fire is not known.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
AVEVENB' ATHEIST.
The Blcye ler British Subj ect- Returning
TO ConstantinOple.

The Blcyclar n British Subject-Returning
TO Constantinople.
WASHINGTON, D. O., May 26.-At the
request of numerous interested per-
sons, the secretary of state recently
telegraphed to the United States min
listers at St. Petersburg and Teheran
for information in regard to Thomas
Stevens, who was arrested in At
ghanistan on his journey around the
world on bicycle. An answer has
been received from the minister at
Teheran, saying that Stevens is g.
British subject, and was not allowed
to go through Afghanistan; and that
he is now on his way back to Con-
stantinople.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
Labor Notes.

The Northwestern Fertilizing Company, of
Chicago, gave the eight hour plan at full
wages trial of two weeks, and in attempt
ing to return to the old basis was met by a
general strike. 1t on the goth filed in the
circuit court a bill against 100 of it's for
mer employees, and secured an injunction
restraining them from intimidatio and acts
of violence.
At q cost Of several thousand per month
the Black Diamond Steel Company, of
Pittsburg, has voluntarily made an adj
vance OF 10 per cent. in the wages Of all it's
employees.
The strike of the Pittsburg stone masons
has been compromised and the men have
returned to work.
The 5000 men employed in the packing
house of Sidney A. Kent, Chicago, have Sc
cured continuance of the eight-hour sys-
tenn till October /. The men receive nine
hours pay.
The special meeting of the General Assem-
bly, Knights of Labor held it's opening ses-
sion at Cleveland on the 26th. An organi.
zation was'effected and committees appoint
ed. Powderly made brief speech.
Nine striking hat fnishers were arrested
at Reading, Pa, charged with setting fire
to the hat factory Of E. II. Coldren, at
Adamstown. The building was burned q
short time ago causing loss of $4,000.
Nearly all the SASH door and blind fac
tories in Chicago resumed work on the oath
on the ten-hour plan.
About 600 harness makers in Cincinnati
have struck for an advance in wages.
A board of arbitration in Pittsburg has
sustained the demands of the street-car
men for twelve hours work.
Eighty roof composition makers in st.
Louis have struck for the eight-hour day.
It is reported that another tie-up Of all
the street railroads in New York will occur
in few days, the strikers claiming the
other lines are helping the Third Avenue
line in it's fight.
The lockout OF the Boss Tailors' Union in
New York began on the oath, throwing
5000 tailors out of employment There
are 700 hOssaG
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
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. Ele-
vator. Restaurant supplied with the best
Horse cars, stages and elevated railroads
to all depots. Families can live better for
lees money at the Grand Union Hotel than
at any other first-class hotel In the city
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02

1.-TWO boxes of dynamite giant pow
der caps, two coils OF dynamite fuse,
and two boxes of dynamite not made
into bombs" were found in the pos
session of Lehman, the last Anarchist
arrested in Chicago. They now repose
upon a bed ofcotton in one of the Chi
cago police stations, while the enter
prising manufacturer occupies less
luxurious quarters in the same build
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
FIFTY FAMFLFMs HOMELEss.

Result of q Blaze IA San Fr0ncisco-
Heavy Pecun1ary Loss.
A fire which broke out shortly be-
fore IL O'Clock, on the night of the
oath, on Brannan Street, between
Sixth and Seventh Streets, San Fran
cisco, destroyed a furniture factory
owned by Kragen & Geist and a num-
Der of dwelling houses. Total loss,
S75, 900 Kragen & Geist's loss is
$25, 900; insurance $4,000. There
was a very small amount of insurance
on the other property. About fifty
families were made homeless by the
fire.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
Missionary Money Melted.

Baptist Home Missionary Society at New
York on the 2Sth, a report was read charg
ing the counsel of the board, John III.
Deane, with shortage of $150,0OO. Deane
was a member OF the finance committee and
was entrusted with the investment OF
funds. In a letter to the president he
stated that the money had been lost in un-
fortunate speculation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
Crop Reports.

Special crop reports to the American
Rural Home from 5000 correspondents in
all parts of the country show corn in gen.
orally good condition; oats show the effects
OF the recent heavy rain and hail storms;
early varieties of winter wheat are about
ready to cut. Noinsects arereported except
grasshoppers in Ohio and India and chinch
bugs in Southern Illinois and Kansas.
With the exception of peaches large yield
of all varieties of fruit is anticipated
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
Poisoned nv n Pin.

The wife of Edwin Thorne, distiller, Of
London, died at the Grand Pacific Hotel,
Chicago, on the 28th, of blood poisoning.
week previous, while in Washington
Mrs. Thorne pricked her finger with a pin
which she found in her willow at the hotel.
The next day it began to pain her, and in
spite of medical aid death resulted.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
The East ST. Louis Scandal

D. j. CAVITY, ex-city clerk, and T. A.
CAVITY, ex-city recorder, OF East st. Louis,
are now on trial at Bellevi'le, Ill.,, charged
with misappropriation Of the city funds
and the robbery of the safe in the treasurer's
office. Thos. Duffy, a police lieutenant,
has confessed, duplicating Clark, CAVITY and
Egan. D. j. CAVITY, when on the stand, de.
MED the truth of Duffy's confession.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
END OF THE WAR.

Greeks and Turks Mutually Surrender
Their Prisoners.
A dispatch of the 25th from Athens
says: "Both the Greek and Turkish
armies are mutually surrendering the
prisoners and the positions they re-
spectively captured during the frontier
fighting of the last few days, and both
armies will to-day commence retiring
from the frontier"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
AL0COM OTIVE ExPLODEs.

A Serious Accident at Wildwood, H.
One Man Killed.
The boiler Of locomotive No. 10, on
the Illinois Central road, exploded at
Wildwood Station, q small place
near Pullman, ILL.,, on the Goth. The
engineer, whose name was Perkins, was
instantly killed, and Fireman Charles
Schneider and Conductor William
Lindsay were seriously, il not fatally,
scalded. The engine was completely
ruined.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
The Canadian to be Released

The acting secretary of the treasury has
instructed the collector at Portland to re-
lease the Canadian schooner Sisters on
payment of the expense of her detention,
in the belief that her master had no inten-
tion of evading the law.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
Jake Sharp Arrested.

police circles early on the morning of the
9th, by the rumor that Jake Sharp, the
bribegiving Broadway Railroad man, had
been arrested. 1t was also announced that
ex-Ald. Jaehne has written a confession, in
which he tells all he knows about the sur.
face railroad franchise
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
SERIOUS LABOxC RIOT.

Buildings Burned and Several Persons
Killed by Mob In Travf.
News has been received OF a serious
labor riot in the town of Travi on the
Adriatic Sea. Amob overpowered the
garrison, set fire to all the court build
ings, the town hall, custom house and
theater. All the buildings mentioned
were destroyed. It is reported that
several persons we're burned to death
and others murdered by the rioters.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
CHE Rspublita't


MORE recent advices from West Al
RIGA state that the forty-ive traders
murdered by the Becquahas were not
Germans, but natives of the Gamin
tribe. The savages in East Africa,
however, have murdered an English
missionary and his wife to keep the
hall rolling
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
Little Late i'm the Dav.

w. B. Porter an aged citizen of Mattoon,
H.. is about to receive from the govern
ment 500, 900 on account OF the destruction
of his grandfathers vessels on the Atlantic
by the Frenzy navy, early in the century.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
An Immense Meat Contract.

The packing house of Armour & Co., of
Chicago, has just executed contract to
supply the French government with 1000,
900 pounds of beef in cans, to be put up in
the special can adopted for use by the
French army. This is stated to be the
largest individual contract ever awarded
to one firm in the meat-packing industry.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02

FROM copies of correspondence re-
Gently published by Secretary Bayard,
it appears that Russia utterly and
peremptorily refuses even to consider
propositions for g. treaty of NATURAL
alton, orEto entertain g. request for
relaxation of her laws in relation to
emigrants. a Russian who leaves his
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
Lost With Two Lives.

A Halifax dispatch of the 9th says the
British ship William Law, from Havre,
May 5, went ashore at West Scatary, near
Louisburg, and is total loss. Two sea-
men were drowned. She WAS valued at
$40 600
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
Hail Storm in France.

A terrible haistorm visited the vicinity
of Bordeaux, France, on the 9th. child
was killed by Maidstone while being carried
in it's mothers arms. A number of persons
were injured and much property destroyed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
Indian Warfare i'm Arizona.

A party OF Mexicans struck the Indians
about eight miles from Pantano, Ariz., on
the night of the gath and killed one. The
remainder fed to the mountains. Robert
Lloyd, well-known dairyman, was killed
by Indians at his residence between Pan
tano and Benson.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
Cholera Increasing.

A dispatch of the 39th says there were
thirty-three new cases and thirty. one deaths
from cholera in the city OF Venice during
twenty.four hours.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
Chicago Anarchists Indicted.

The grand jury at Chicago, on the 26th,
agreed to return true bills against seven OF
the Anarchists in jail in that city, includ-
ing Fielding Spies. Schwab, Schaubalt and
Parsons
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
Forest Fires.

Heavy damage has been done in the tim
Der country along the Escanaba River, in
the vicinity of Negaunee, Mich. The loss is
many thousands Of dollars. The weather
is reported dry and hot.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02

and killed while on his way home from
Masonic lodge.
Frank Coleman, q farmer, living near
Thomasville, Ga. in fit of rage, knocked
his wife down and then cut her throat with
q razor.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Most, the Anarchist, Guilty.

The trial of Herr Most and two Anarchist
companions, at New York, resulted on the
2Sth in verdict of guilty. The charge in
the Indictment WAS misdemeanor.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02
POWDER EXPLOSION.
One Hundred Kegs Blown Up Near Chat
tanooga-tnree Men Fatally Injured.

Details OF the terrific explosion OF
100 kegs Of powder at Soddy coal
mines, near Chattanooga, Tenn, have
Just been received. One OF the locomo
tives of the company was going from
the railroad station to the mines with
the powder in charge of VIM. Lloyd
and David Harper. The locomotive
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02

Otto u Buetner's oil actory at Rixdorf
a suburb OF Berlin, was destroyed by fire
on the goth, together with adjacent lumber
yards. Over forty acres OF ground was
burned over. One old woman was burned
to death. The loss is estimated at $780,
600.
at Franklin, Mass, on the 9th, fire
broke out in the old Daniels building and
before it was gotten under control $75, 900
worth Of property was destroyed. The in
surance is placed at $4,000.
The factory of the Royal Electric Light
Company, at Montreal was damaged by
fire on the 9th to the extent Of $50, 900;
fully insured.
The First Methodist Episcopal Church, of
Elmira N. Y, situated on Baldwin Street,
was totally destroyed by fire on the 9th.
Loss on building and furniture, SIS 900.
Fire in the Grand Central mine at Tomb
tone. Ariz.. on the night of the 26th, de-
troyed all the hosting and pumping ma
chinery and entered the shaft of the mine.
The loss so faris $3.50, 900, insurance, $685.
600.
The Star Oil Company's works, at Erie,
Pa. were damaged to the extent OF $50 600
by fire on the night of the oath.
Three children lost their lives in fire
which destroyed their home near Rushville,
Ind, on the night of the Gath
The office OF the Des Moines Ga.) Daily
Leader was partially destroyed by fire on
the 25th. Loss, $40, 900; insurance, $23,
900.
Fire at Butler Pa. on the 23d, DESTROYED
two livery tables and cremated five valu.
able horses. Loss $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-02

RHODE ISLAND is the most densely
populated state in the union.