Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-06

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The June term of the Dodge county
court commenced in the court house at
Juneau yesterday, to hold until June IL.
Hereafter the limit of the official
term of the Presiding Elders of the
Methodist Church will be six years, and
the limit of the pastors of churches will
be FIVE years.
The Eleventh Worlds Conference of
Young Mems Christian Associations is to
be held in Stock holm this summer These
conferences are usually held once in three
years. The last one was in Berlin in the
summer of 1884.
The Methodist General Conference
have voted that in October or November,
$780, an election shall be held in every
| church of that denomination in the
United States, On the question of ad-
mitting women as delegates to the gene
raj conference.
The Good Templars of Jefferson
county will celebrate the Fourth of July
with grand basket picnic on the banks
OF Rock Lake, at Lake Mills. The lodge
of that place has the matter in charge,
and has secured the services of G. c. T.,
E. W. Chain, who will deliver the address.
There are now over 500 Good Templars
in the county.
Our former resident, Emil Schan-
deiD, the democratic delegate-at-large
from Milwaukee to St. Louis, sent an
emissary down to reconnoiter and pre-
pare for the coming of the hosts. The
Wisconsin delegation will have for head
quarters five rooms in the Planters Hotel
and Mr.. Schandein has had these decorated
with regard to artistic finish and reck less
of expense, with a sideboard to match.
The result is expected to be all aesthetic
production calculated to delight Bacchus
and the delegates, and the expense is es-
timated at from S., 900 to $4,000.
Part of the proceedings in the Gene
raj Methodist Conference at New York
last Wednesday was taken up with dis
cussing the question of uniformity of
public worship. The following order Of
service was finally adopted:
l. Singing from the Methodist Hymn
Book, the congregation standing.
2, Prayer, the minister and the congre-
CATION kneeling.
8. Lessons from the Old and New Tes-
taments.
4. Hymn, congregation standing.
5. Preaching.
6. Prayer, all kneehng.
z. Collection.
5. Benediction.
On Tuesday the examination of
George Whalley. charged with assault
with intent to do great bodily harm, was
completed, and he was bound over to ap-
pear for trial at the circuit court. The
details of the case have heretofore appear
ed in these columns, therefore an extend
ed notice of the matter is not necessary.
The trouble out of which this arrest grew
occurred in Rome on the evening Of April
9 While Robert j. Roberts with others
was standing in the bar-room of the Cook
house, he was struck in the head with a
two-pound weight, the wound being 20
serious as to confne him several weeks to
tie bed. At one time his death was fear
ed, and it was then that George WhaIley
was srrested.-yeferson Banner
The following appears in The Chicago
Inter Ocean OF June 2:
The TRIBUNE AND THE PRESIDENCY.
-WATERToWN, Wis, May 29--To the
Editor:-Is not The Chicago Tribune
pursuing rather questionable course to-
ward number of gentlemen any one of
whom might be the nominee of the Chi
cago convention? Why such men as
Blaine, Sherman, and Harrison should re-
ceive such treatment from the hands of a
professediy Republican paper is, to say
the least, puzzling. We find no fault
with The Tribune for having a favorite
candidate, but we do when it casts asper-
sions npon good and tried men, Senator
Sherman is credit to apy party His
services to the country during the struggle
for material existence partook of the lofti-
est patriotism. AS secretary of the treas
ury he ranked with any of his able pre-
decessors, and the great state of Ohio re-
t1ected credit on herself by returning him
again to the United States senate. The
tribune assails Harrison and his friends
for really nothing but aspiring to presi-
dental honors. Harrison is popular in
Indiana, and if his frleuds are in the ma
jority, as they most assuredly were, else
he would not have been indofsed by the
state convention, they were only exercis-
ing right they were honorably entitled
to. If the convention should demand OF
Mr. Blaine that he be the standard-bearer,
he would not only be justified in accept
ing, but would display patriotic devotion
and loyalty to his party that would he
worthy of emulation even in The Chicago
Tribune. The Trbune's efforts are all in