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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
Minor Mention.

A terrible explosion occurred on the I'd
inst. at Altoff Colliery, near Wakefield,
Yorkshire. Seven men have been found
dead, eight have been rescued and seventeen
are missing. In all probability the missing
seventeen lost their lives.
The tin-plate works in South Wales are
being closed, throwing out of employment
1000 workmen:
On the 1st inst, five boys were out in the
harbor at Lynn, Mass, in q small boat
when the wind capsized theboat and Henry
Sears, Michael O'Neal and Darby Green
were drowned.
The proposed wholesale slaughter of cat
tie as a means of wiping out the danger
from ro-pneumonia, has been found to
be unnecessary. A strict quarantine will
be enforced, however.
The Anthracite Coal Association New
York has advanced the price of coal 25
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06

teams took fright and joined the runaways,
several carriages being overturned and with
their occupants scattered over the drive.
The contagion spread to nearly every AMI
NAL within the distance OF mile, and be-
fore the frantic beasts were caught and
quoted, half a dozen equipages had been
demolished and some twenty or thirty per-
sons injured. Several sustained broken
limbs and others serious injuries, but no
fatalities have yet resulted. DR.. Carnslow
was fatally injured, and many OF the others
were seriously, but not fatally hurt.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
sbockine Railroad Accident.

On the morning of the 9th shocking
railroad accident occurred on the New York,
Providence & Boston Railroad, at the vii
lage Of Poquonnock, Conn. Benjamin Gar
diner, a farmer, his wife, and the wife of
their son James, while riding home from
church in a one-horse wagon, were struck
by an express train. Gardiner was hurled
a distance of forty feet from the crossing,
receiving fatal injuries; his wife was killed
outright. and Mrs. James Gardiner died
before she could be removed. The horse
was killed and the wagon broken into
znlinfars
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
PINE LAND SALE.
Oonsummgtion of the Largest Deal Evel
Made In the Northwest.

DULUTH, Mimi, Sept. 29.-Un-
questionably the largest pine-land deal
ever made in the Northwest, and
probably in the country, was consum,
mated on Saturday last. J. S. Pills
bury, of Minneapolis, has long been rec
ognized as the heaviest owner of pine
land in the Northwest, ard the real
extent of his interests has never been
known until now. The lumber deal
referred to is the transfer of Mr.. Pills
bury's entire pine-land possessions to
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
Cheated the GalIows.

George Axtell who, on May 80, 1885,
shot and killed at Deposit, Broome County.
Elias Freeman, Freeman 81. French and
William II. Perry, and who was in jail at
Binghampton, N. Y, under sentence to be
hanged, was found on the 2Sth lying in his
cell in an unconscious condition, and
breathing heavily. The murderer died
within an hour. 1t is not known whether
Axtell took poison, or whether an epileptic
fit ended his life.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
Deeds of BLOOD

Mrs. Craig Alexander wife of a formerly
wealthy commission merchant of st. Louis,
and man of great social prominence, com
mitted suicide on the Sd by jumping from
spOndency over the condition OF her hus-
band, who is in an insane asylum, was the
cause OF the act.
Charles Edwards, colored, alias Chas.
Graham, who killed his mistress, Hettie
Refuge, in Algiers, La, June 20, WAS ex-
ecuted on the LIST, in the grounds Of the
parish prison in presence OF the fifteen
witnesses allowed by law.
At Steeleville, Mo-, on the night of the
Both, P. F. Wallace, the supposed murderer
OF the Logan family, was taken from his
cell by q mob and almost lynched. He
stoutly asserted his innocence. even after
he had been suspended to a tree until he
was nearly half dead. The mob then
listened to the appeals for mercy by several
citizens on behalf of Wallace, and he was
taken back to his cell.
Driscoll, leader OF the 'Whyo" gang, was,
on the 3Oth, found guilty of murder in the
first degree, he having killed his mistress,
Bessy Gerrity, in New York tenement some
months ago.
At Negaunee, Mich. on the 29th., Joseph
King shot Mrs. Louis Routltard. jealousy
was the cause of the act.
Joseph Baker, assistant surveyor of New
Orleans, was fatally shot on the 9th by
Frank Waters, city item reporter.
On the 9th the body of DR.. Jacobum
Schaskalsky, young Russian nobleman,
was found in boarding house at Phila-
delphia. He had committed suicide by tax
ing injections OF morphine.
Tho trial of Janitor Titus, for the murder
OF Matilda Smith, at Hackettstown, N. J :,
WAS begun at Belvidere on the 28th.
Fred Willard, a Canadian woodchopper,
was fatally stabbed by two drunken COM
panions near Dover, N. H., on the night OF
the 26th.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
A Servant Girls Good Luck.

Pauline Nelson came to Indianapolis, Ind,
from Germany six months ago and hired
out as q domestic. On the 9th she re-
ceived a message from Germany announe-
ing that she had fallen heir to $3.50, 600 be-
queathed by an uncle. AS she must claim
the money in person October 20, she left for
New York Immediately on her way home.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
SERVANTS OF THE MASTER.
A Band OF Missionaries to Join Bishos
Taylor In Africa.

AHy1UT III AIrICAe
New YORK, Oct. 2.-W. I'll. AIRING
dale, of Baltimore, and wife and son;
Louis A. Hartly, of Southampton,
N. B.; Martha E. Kah, of Hastings, Ia.;
Susie f. Harvey, of Des Moines, Ia;
Mary B. Lindsay, of Chicago, and l..
Fannie Cummings, of Reading, Mass,
formed party of missionaries who
sailed to-day on the steamer Aurania
for Liverpool. From there they will
go to Africa to join Bishop Taylor at
Leopoldsville, Stanley Station. The
party. like the others sent out
to the bishop, will be self-supporting.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
Indian War History.

The statement in Gen. Miles official re-
port of the Apache campaign. made public
at Washington, that Geronimo was not
captured but surrendered Internationally,
is contradicted by Capt. Lawton, who was
in command of the United States troops at
the time of the capture. In private tele-
gram to Lieut.. Albee, of the Winchester ar
mory, dated Albuquerque, Capt. Lawton
explicitly denies that the surrender of Geron-
imo was coupled with any conditions
whatsoever.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06

erwards murdered, but gives no names
in detail. His. story is discrediteu
by some who think that he wants to
be brought to ST. Louis for examina-
ton in order to be released from con-
finement for short time. Sears, how
ever, was resident of St. Louis before
he was sent to the penitentiary for for
gerry, and an acquaintance of the MUIR
dared OirI
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
Political Notes.

The New Jersey Democratic state conven-
ton, in session at Trenton on the 2Sth,
adopted platform and nominated Judge
Robert r. Green for governor.
At New Haven, Conn, on the 2Sth, the
Democratic state convention nominated
Edward s. Cleveland for governor.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
NATIONAL
Ill., oct
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
w. -
An Exciting RunawaY.

Drexel Boulevard, Chicago, was the scene
OF great excitement on the evening of the
Sd. shortly before dark. A span of power
full horses hitched to an open carriage con-
tanning two gentlemen became unmanage-
able and tore down the crowded drive at
sfrightful rate OF speed. Three or four other
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
Freight Train Wrecked.

A freight train on the ST. Cloud and Will
mar division OF the Manitoba Road was
ditched at Willmar Junction, Mimi, early
on the morning of the Both. The engineer
being unable to control the train, by rea-
son of heavy grade, it ran through an
open switch, smashing the locomotive and
eight cars. Engineer Charles Walters stood
at his post and was killed. Brakeman Ed.
Austin had his right arm broken and was
severely bruised.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
Floods in India.

Dispatches Of the 1st inst. report heavy
foods in the Godavery district, Madras.
Some villagers attempted to relieve their
town by cutting out dam, at the expense
of other villages. A fight ensued in which
100 natives were killed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
No Massacre.

The widely circulated report of big
Indian uprising in Northwest territory,
published on the 29th, is denied by dis
patches from Winnipeg. There has been no
trouble whatever with the redskins.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
The ChoIera Reports.

A dispatch of the LIST inst, from Pesth
says, since the last reports there. have
been sixteen new cases and five deaths in
that place. At Trieste four cew cases and
one death are reported, aud throughout
Italy nineteen new cases aud five deaths.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
The Carson City Mint Reopened.

the reopening of the mint at Carson City,
New, as an assay Office for the receipt of
deposits OF bullion. This action was taken
on the recommendation of the directors of
the mint and with the full approval of the
President. 1t is intended as an expert
ment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
CIeveIand's Uncle Buried.

The funeral of the late Joseph Neal, ma
ternal uncle of President Cleveland, took
place at Baltimore on the Both, from his
late residence. A large throng gathered, ex-
pecting to see the President, but he did not
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
Standing Of the Clubs.

Thestanding of the Northwestern and
National League and American Association
Clubs in the pennant contests, up to Sep
TENDER "a, is as follows:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06

BINGHAM, Mass, has not only the
Oldest church in America, but the old
est sexton, he having served in that
capacity for ffty-six consecutive
years.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
NORTHWESTERN LEAGUE.

LEAGUE,
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-06-24

THE decision of the Supreme Court of
Ohio puts an end to the question whether
the final organization of the Senate, after
the admi ssion Of the four members from
Hamilton county who were really elected
by the people, and the exclusion of the
four frauds from that county who were
not elected, but were fraudulently count
ed in and afterward ran away, was en-.
tirely valid and constitutional. Thus it
is settled beyond dispute that legislation
after this change in the Senate is not in.
validated by reason of that change. AS
q consequence, the redistricting act
stands, and Its validity cannot be ques-
toned. Any attempt by the Democrats
to contest that Measure will Of course
lack even the p%retence of authority. The
new liquor law, also, is sustained as to
the validity Of the body by which 1t was
enacted. The question remains whether
the act itself was in any way repugnant
to the Constitution, and on this question,
1t Is understood, another decision by the
court may be speedily expected.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-06-24

WITHIN the past ten days the Prohibi.
tionists have gained some important vic.
tories in North Carolina and Mississippi.
Both of these States have local option
laws permitting different localities to de-
eide whether they will have license or
prohibition Of the liquor traffic. In the
former State they carried Raleigh, the
capital city, and q majority of the coun-
ties in which elections were held. The
returns from Mississippi are meagre and
the result of the contests not yet fully
known, but the canvass aroused unusual
interest among the voters in the State,
and certainly gave the Prohibitienists
enough encouragement to continue the
fight, even II not successful, on the first
trial. The temperance people in the
South have shown wisdom in keeping
the prohibition question free from en-.
tangling political alliances, and to this in
q large measure has been due their sue.
cess in that section.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-06-24
Our Candidate for Attorney General.

In the following letter from the Eliza
bethton Mountdiaeer Of last week the
popular feeling towards our candidate
for Attorney General finds expression.
Let the other counties in the circuit show
that they appreciate the efforts of Han
cock in the past by giving her candidate
a full vote and a vote altogether.
In lS4S the county of Hancock was or.
ganized, and in October of that year held
its first county court, and has since expe-
rienced the political and civil functions,
incident to such corporations. 1t was the
fortune Of this county in districting the
State, to fall in and constitute a part of
the First Congressional District, First
Chancery Division and First Judicial
Circuit Of Tennessee. From its early or
ganization political and civil progress has
been kept in view-until now, with our
sister counties, We claim a fair compare
son in point Of agricultural industry, citi,
zenship and intelligence, although de.
privcd of the facilities Of commerce, rail.
road transportation and communication.
AS TO the late war, we pride ourselves
upon the number and bravery of our boys
in blue, who yet cherish most fondly the
principles and doctrines of the Republi.
can party. In the election of Republican
nominees, for the Judiciary and legisla-
tive tickets during the past twenty years,
our county has played a most conspicuous
part, never boiling or scratching the tick.
ct, whether we got our choice or not in
convention, and eight years ago, when
the friends of u esteemed friend Judge
Hacker, were trembling in the balance,
with Hancock to hear from, we did
then just what we are going 10 do with
the present ticket, rallied to its support
and helped it through.
Now for the first time we have a candi.
date in the feld-H. T. Campbell, nomi.
mated by the Jonesboro Republican Con-
vention for Attorney General. In this
contest will the Republicans of Hawkins,
Greene, Washington, Carter, johnson,
Sullivan and Unicoi counties stick to lis
with like devotion? We are happy to
say that reports assume beyond doubt an
affirmative answer. MI. Campbell has
almost reached his thirty years, obtained
a law license at the age of nineteen years,
and has been actively in the practice evei
since. To fill this Office ably, his skill
and ability is unquestioned, being with
the head of the bar in his own county
progressive, earnest, temperate, homes
and faithful in the discharge of duty
Let us have a full turn out, and a full
vote straight through and victory in Au
gust and November is ours.
HANCOCK REPUBLICANS.
Clinch, Tenn, June 10, 1886.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-06-24

Aorristopn Gazette, (Dem.): In the ju-
dicial convention Snodgrass was put in
nomination by Mr.. Moon, Of Hamilton.
And right then and thar" commented
a well known member of the Knoxville
bar, political lunacy struck them Mid
die and West Tennessee fellers ag'in, and
thar's only the knife that'll cure'em.".
1t is the imperative duty of the Demo.
cratic Executive Committee to change the
date OF the Gubornatorial convention, SO
as to have 1t before the August election.
All East Tennessee wants is a fair chance
and that she is determined to have
johnson City Comet.
We wonder If East Tennessee Demo
Gratis realize how short a tail they are tC
the Democrat 0 g.-Barely long enough
to wiggle.- reeaeuHe Republican.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-06-24
The Maine ProhIbltionists.

The State of Maine has enjoyed a pro-
hibitory liquor law for more than a gen.
Grafton. Liquor legislation of additional
stringency has been put upon the statute
book from time 10 time, and the principle
Of prohibition has been incorporated into
the State Constitution. Yet there has
never been any great difficulty in obtain
ing liquor in Maine, except in the small
rural communities, and in the larger towns
liquor shops flourish as If the traffic were
free and not forbidden. Instead of re-
cognizing the fact that prohibition is o
failure, and must necessarily be such un-
Til human nature is very much changed,
the Maine Prohibitionists 60 on clamor-
ing for more law and more enforcement,
although they out to know that law
which impertinently interferes with a
mans personal and private concerns can
not be enforced. and must defeat itself.
The Maine Republicans have been vir-
tually solid for prohibition in theory,
and yet even in Maine there has been
since 1880 a separate Prohibition party,
and this has just held o State Convention
and nominated State ticket, and is pre-.
pairing for a vigorous campaign. These
straight Prohibitionists denOunce the
Republican party for its non enforcement
Of the prohibitory law, and contend that
a genuine prohibitionist cannot be Re-
publican or a Democrat, but must be a
Prohibitionist, a member of the party the
purpose of whose being is prohibition.
The action of the Maine Prohibitionists
in the stronghold of prohibition will
doubtless greatly encourage their breth-
rem in other States. If a separate Prohi-
bition party has been found necessary in
the birthplace and home of prohibition,
how much more necessary must 1t be in
other States? And the Prohibitionists
are right in this regard, If prohibition
is to succeed, everybody must become q
Prehibitionist, and the other political
parties have other things to do.
But it seems q little singular that, after
more than thirty years of acknowledged
failure, the Maine Prohibitionists should
still stick to prohibition. One would 40
turally suppose that they would think of
trying some hing else by this time IN.
Y. Sun.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-06-24
THE AeT T%ENNEssEE.
A Board OF Fifteen Directors to be Elect
ed on the 80 tn Instant.

A Board OF Fifteen Directors to be Elect
ed ON the 80 Tia Instant.
Atlanta Constitution: The r~eorganiza.
ton of the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad will take place ON the
Both instant.
ltwas stated q short time ago that a re.
organization would probably not TAX g
place for the present. The announce.
ment.: the Constitution makes, however,
is based upon reliable information. The
owners of the system will meet in New
York on the Both, and formulate q policy.
They will also elect q board of fifteen d.
rectors. 1t is understood that the Seney
interests will not be represented on the
board, which lends color to the recent
statements to the effect that the Seney in.
terest had been sold.
Immediately after the election, the
board of directors will elect general off.
ceis and there is no reason 10 doubt but
that Mr.. Henry Fink will be elected pre-.
sident, and that Mr.. c. II. Hudson will
be elected general manager. As to vice
presidents and other officers, no informa-
ton Is at hand. 1t is said, however, that
with n exception, the other principal
general officers will be New York men.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-06-24

whether to congratulate Colonel Winston
or not. His Persion Majesty has been in
the habit Of granting concessions to build
railroads in his realm ever since he as
sumed the diadem Of "the king Of kings"
When travelling In England he favored
Baron Reuter- and one or two other capt.
talists with concessions; in Paris, In Der.
lin, in Vienna and St. Petersburg he was
equally g~enerous-on paper-and there
the matter seems to have ended, for rail.
roads are almost unknown in the land or
Cyrus. 1t may be all right as far as the
able and worthy Illinois diplomatist
is concerned; but there arises a lurking
suspicion that the granting of concessi-
ons to build railroads is only a little way
the Shah has Of making himself agreea'
BILE in general conversation.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-06-24
SALE OF VALUABLE LAND

G. b. ARMENTRoUT, Admir-, VS.. HARVEY
STOUT, Ell AL.
In obedience to a decree pronounced
by the county court of Washington coun-
ty, Tennessee, at its June term 1886, in
the above entitled cause, l will offer for
sale az public cutlery, to the highest bid
der, a certain tract of land belonging to
the estate of Allen Stout, decd, situated
and lying in the 18th formerly the Sd civ
il district of Washington county, two
miles east of Limestone depot, adjoining
the lands of Da id Hall, McC. Wagner.
j e. Knight, and others, containing by
estimation no acres. Said sale will be
made on the premises on Saturday. July
3D., 1886. A credit of SIX and twelve
months will be extended, payable in
equal installmcnts with interest from
date, except two hundred and fifty dol
lars, which will be required in hand paid.
Note with approved personal security
will be required of the purchaser, and
a lien retained on the land until the pur-
chase money is fully paid. This. June
7, 1886.
L. A. SIMPLIFY, County Court
Clerk, and Special Commissioner.
iuue10t4
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-06-24

Robert Burrow of johnson City has
announced himself a candidate for At
torney General against Hon. II. T. Camp.
bell.
Although an extreme partisan Demo
crat and late editor of the Comet, he has
discovered a new idea in politics, or
rather that there is n office after which
he bankers, as the fly does for the sugar
bowl, that has no politics connected with
1t. Writing to q gentleman in On adjoin.
ing county, whom he supposed to be a
Mugwump, this Cleveland %clector, says:
My DEAR SIR; Believing that you are
one of the many men who do not endorse
the manner and the means by which
Hacker and Fain were defeated and
Brown and Campbell nominated. / write
20 ask you to put the seal Of your con
demnation upon II In a substantial way.
| am q candidate for the office Of Attor-
ney General and would be very glad to
have your support and influence. This
office is not q political one and should
not be made such; and / am sure II / am
elected It will not be. As to my qualif.
cations for the position, l prefer to leave
that to others, and refer you TO any law.
yer in East Tennessee who may be &c.
quainted with me. l want to visit your
section before long and will try and call
to see you. II not asking too much, !
would be glad to hear from you,
Every truly yours,
ROBERT BURRow."
The above genuine letter is in the pos.
session Of a gentleman in this place, and
shows q systematic effort to secure Re
publican votes for the Democratic candi.
dates under false pretensc,.
A man who spells substantial tho way
Burrow does in the above letter, has
neither the qualifications for the Office.
nor honey enough on his Democratic
bread to catch Republican flies. "Shoo
fly" Burrowl
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-06-24

The press of both of the political par
ties unite in encomium Of the Republican
nominee for Governor-Alfred A. Taylor,
of this county. Mr.. Taylor is an able and
accomplished gentleman, well informed
on the political questions of the day and
a man Of integrity, and, besides that, he is
popular wherever known. With an easy
flow of language; a polished and elegant
diction, and a graceful delivery, he is one
of the most attractive speakers in the
State. If successful in winning the office
for which he has the nomination he will
do credit both to himself and his State.