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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
NEWS OF STANLEY.
1t Comes Little Late, But Is Better Tina
NJ

1t Comes Little Late, But is Better Than
No News.
Couriers from Taboora bring to Zanzi-
bar direct news from the Stanley expe
'dition, a portion of which was met at
the end of November. 1887, by Arabs
trading between Lakes Victoria, Nyan-
"a and Nzige and Taboora. These
Arabs met SANKEY'S rear guard at q
point west of Albert Nyanza, southeast
of Sunga, just as the expedition was
preparing TO cross swampsl caused
by the radiation of the streams
that abound. in that country. The
Arabs did not see Stanley. The de-
tachment seen consisted of thirty men.
They stated that Stanley was, two days
ahead. The expedition had suffered
greatly on the march through thick
forest where it was impossible to adj
vance more than a mile and quarter
daily. They had also suffered in the
marshes, where many had disap.
peared or-died. Forty were drowned
In crossing q great river flow
ing from. east to west. One white
man had died. Stanley was obliged
to fightsome tribes that refuse to supply
him with provisions. The expedition
had often halted in the expectation of
receiving reinforcements from the Com
go. The rear guard, at the time met,
had only. be en- on the march five days
after a, halt of three weeks due to the
illness of Stanley and great part of the
escort, who had been attacked with
fever. The Arabs estimate the total
losses, at $50 men. The health of Stanley
was then good. The rear guard, which
consisted of natives of Zanzibar, stated
that Stanley had decided that be would
no longer advance in northeasterly
direction, but would strike toward the
north, hoping to avoid the swamps. At
ter getting certain distance north he
intended to take an oblique line to the
eastward and go straight to Wadelai,
where it was thought he would arrive
fifty days later-about the middle of
January, 1888. The Arabs were of the
opinion that the expedition was still
strong enough to reach Wadelai.
It will be remembered that on August
/ information was received from ZanZl-
bar that two messengers had arrived
there who had left the interior about
the beginning of April, and who report
ed that Stanley had not arrived at
Wadelai UP to that time. The messen-
gers stated that in the month of March
Emin Pasha did receive some vague and
indecisive news of the explorer, which
had filtered through from tribe to
tribe, but that the reports were very
conflicting. Some declared that Stanley,
after losing number of men and a
large portion of his supplies, was hem
med in by hostile tribes between the
Mabada country and the Albert Nyanza,
while other rumors were to the effect
that he had been attacked by the tribes
in the Matongora-Min district. and,
after several conflicts, had diverted his
course in an unknown direction.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
CLEVELAND'S TREASURY.
Evidence of Mismanagement Before Ak.
worthy's Time.

@
worthy's Time.
CLEVELAND, o., Nov. 1.-Experts have
discovered that there was shortage OF
over SIG, 900 in the city treasury previous
to Tom Axworthy's term. The books
for eleven years prior to 1880, will be
thoroughly overhauled. There is
chance for further sensational develop
ments. Enough has been revealed al
ready to show the rottenness of Cleve-
lands municipal system of government,
past and present. Axworthy's prede.
cessor as city treasurer was S. L. Everett,
now president of the Union National
Bank.
Axworthy's real estate and vessel
property inventory at Sis, 500 which.
together with the funds recovered from
his small box, $l45,975, make total of
1924, 475. Axworthy's deficiency, after
subtracting his cash in carpet sack, I"
is S3l7 ,69l SO. The difference between
that sum and the appraised value of alb
his property is $53 ,2l6.S3.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
Talks Irish When Drunk,
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
Policeman Beck, of the Mulberry
Street station, noticed large crowd on
the corner of Baxter and Grand Streets
into the midst of it he saw big Irish
man named James Barry, who lives at
No. 81 Monroe Street, lying fat on his
back in pool of blood, which was pour
ing from an ugly cash in the back of his
head.
Barry made no effort to rise, but lay
there singing at the top Of his voice an
old Irish song in his native tongue.
The policeman jerked him to his feet,
and with the assistance of bystander
took him to the station house, still
chanting his Irish war song.
Mr.. Barry is scholar, was educated
in Trinity College, Dublin, and halls
from the town of Bantry, in the county
Cork. When he is drunk he talks moth
ing but Gaelic.
"Barry, you are charged with being
drunk and unable to take care Of your
SELF said Justice O'Reilly to him in the
Tombs police court. "What do you say
to the charge ?''
Pathalotnahita rothalothapotha ~
Those may not be Mr.. Barry's exact
words, but that is the way they sounded.
"What's that?" shouted the justice.
'Bothakathawatha Lithamagog no.
grog," answered Barry.
"Mr. Knapp, come here" said the
justice to the German court interpreter.
"Here's a countryman of yours !
guess"
Mr.. Knapp fred several mouthfuls OF
the most elegant German at Barry, but
with no visible effect beyond this re-
ply;
'Bugarug dagoogog skalawog."
''That's Irish that he is speaking -
said the policeman to the justice "He
never talks anything else when he is
full of whisky"
"I'll commit him until tomorrow for
examination. By that time he may be
sober enough to talk English
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
SHOT THREE TIMES.
A Mysterious Shooting Affair at Phila.
delphia-The Victim Dying.

A Mysterious Shooting Affair at Phila.
delphia-The Victim Dying.
A dispatch of the 9th from Philadel-
phia says: A very mysterious shooting
affair, which will in all LIKELIHOOD cause
the death of Mrs. Kettle Stokes, resid-
ing at No. 331 Greenwich Street, oc-
Cured tonight. Quite early in the
evening three shots were heard in
the house, and an officer upon in
vestigation found that Cuban, named
Fred Ramos, had shot Mrs. Stokes
three times, two of the bullets TAX
ing effect in her face, and the third one
in one of her lungs. The officer arrest
ed Raimos, but only succeeded in doing
SO alter the prisoner had fired a shot
and had been dubbed into insensibility.
Both Mrs. Stokes and Ramos were
taken to hospital, where the former
is dying, and the latter either feigning
or is actually unconscious. Not the
slightest clue as to the motive for the
crime can be learned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
1t Wasn't Clean.
Bob Ferguson, the Umpire.

DOU CcISuSOI, tuC umpire.
One day man made drunk in my sa-
loon, fell and seriously cut his head.
The next morning went down to work
early. The bartender was there before
me, engaged in putting everything in
shape for the days business, when ]
paralyzed him with the question:
Glow would you like to own this
placer
Gown it Why I haven't sufficient
money to pay months gas BILL
:" / didn't ask how much money you
had; simply wanted to know if you
would wish to own the business
Why, l should be glad to own it,
certainly. But why do you ask p
Then it is yours. It is free from
debt; I owe no man in this world cent,
and you can begin business free from all
incumbrance. To tell you the truth.
this work is too unclean for me. Good
morning, and I walked out, and have
never entered the place since. Yes ]
will take cigar. Thanksp'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
A Youthful Moonshiner.
Albania Special to Chicago Tribune

A curious case of moonshining was
developed in the federal district court
here to-day when Bascom johnson was
placed on trial. He gave in his age as
II, and said he had been running an in
dependent still for five years without
the knowledge of his father. He ex-
planned that he used powder can for
still, coffee pot for the cap, and con-
nected them together with gun bar
rel, which served for worm. He
could mash a peck of meal at time,
from which he could get pint and a
half of whisky. He had for his Gus
toners all the boys of the neighbor-
hood. The scene of his ingenuity was
in Franklin County,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
THE DEADLY FIRE ESCAPE.

While Testing New Invention at Pitts.
burg Two Boys are Killed.
While testing a rope fire escape at
the Monongahela house at Pittsburg, on
the 31st, the rope broke and three boys,
fames Mcclure, aged ii years, John
buddy, aged Is, and Daniel Nagle, aged
Is, were precipitated from the fifth
story to the pavement, distance of sew
enty feet. Mcclure and buddy were
killed instantly. Nagle had both arms
and legs broken and will probably die.
The agent of the fire-escape, II. G. Will
son, of GAINESVILLE, O., who hired the
boys to come down the escape, paying
them cents each, has been arrested.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
outwitted the Canadian Pacific

The Manitoba government stole q
march on the Canadian Pacific on the
31st by making detour in the track,
laying and running its line over q turn
pike near the blockaded points. When
the railroad force had its attention
directed elsewhere, the government put
down two rails hurriedly and ran an
engine over the track, thus reaching the
provincial line on the ether side. The
intention now is to forward rails and
trans-ship them over the Canadian
Pacific track by hand. With an engine
on the other side they can be hurried to
the front
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
In a Boston Railway Depot.
n the Railway Review

It may surprise some Western rail-
road men to know that the Boston &
Maine Railroad runs 2O9 passenger
trains cut G Boston every day t on Its
making total of 418. This road runs
l29 passenger trains day out on its
eastern and western divisions alone,
without the Lowell. This number is
nine more trains than are run each day
out of the Grand Central Station at New
York, where the New York Central,
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
and the New York & Harlem combined
run but 120 passenger trains day out.
They are all considered passenger-car-
rying roads. When the new union pas
senger station now planned, to be on
Causeway Street, Boston, is finished, it
will include the Fitchburg, and no less
than 500 passenger trains day will then
depart from and arrive in it. What
other railway station in America can
show anything like these figures?
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
TORNADO IN IOWA.

The Village of Laporte Swept by De-
structive Wind Storm-Loss, S1OO, 600.
Speciai to The Evening Wiscon,1n
LAPoRTE, Ia, Nov. "a tornado
struck this place about 10 o'clock last
night, coming from the northwest. Union
Hall was demolished. A large number
of houses were blown down and
many more unroofed and their contents
deluged. Sanders Walkers residence
was blown to atoms. and Mrs. Walker
was seriously hurt. Her three children
were found unhurt some distance away.
The damage to property will reach
100000. Reports of damage are COM
ing in from all sections of the country.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
A TALE OF THE SEA.
Collision Between Two ships Sixteen
LIVES Lost.

Collision Between Two ships Sixteen
LIVES Lost.
New YORK, Nov. 1.-The British ship
'Creedmore, Capt. Kennedy, has ar
rived here and reports encountering
the British ship Ardeneaple in mid
ocean on September 20, aying signals of
distress. The captain of the Ar
deneaple reported that his yes
sci had been in collision with
and sunk the ship Earl Wemyss, six
teen of the crew of the latter being
drowned, the others being rescued by
the Ardeneaple. The Ardeneaple was
badly damaged and the crew desired to
abandon her, going on board the Creed
more and subsequently, being landed at
Barbados, together with the survivors
of the Wemyss. The captain and FIRST
mate of the Ardeneaple refused to leave
their vessel and succeeded in navigating
her to Novonha.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
SERIOUS COLLEGE ROW.
A Row Between College Boys and q T
DeDArtmeut.


Department..
At Carlisle, Pa, on the night of the
list, serious disturbance occurred on
the campus of Dickinson college, be-
tween the students of the college and
the fremen of the city. During the
evening the students arranged to paint
the city red, and tore away the paling
fence which surrounded the college
property, placing it in pile with other
rubbish to which they applied a
match, and causing the entire fire de-
partment to respond. When the fire.
men reached the campus it was discov-
cred that it was Halloween bonfire,
which so enraged them that they turned
the hose on the students. Stones were
then thrown from both sides, resulting in
at least in dozen injured, some severe
~. Mayor Carman has issued warrants
and several arrests will be made.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
DEATHIN PRAIRIE FIRE.

Five Persons Lose Their Lives in the
Flames Near jackson, Mimi.
JACKSON, Mimi, Nov. "A terrible
prairie fire ragged yesterday in the Des
Moines Valley, in Jackson Township.
Henry Ray was burned so badly he can.
year-old girl named Mollie O'Connor
and a woman and her son, name I'M
known. were burned to death.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
THE COURTS MUST SETTLE
A Yankee Fisherman's Claim Against
tho Canadian Government.

A Yankee FISn0rmHnB CIaIm against
the Canadian Government.
OTTAWA, Ont, Nov. 1.-The claim of
J. ii. Allen, owner of tie American
ship Bridgewater, for alleged wrongful
detention of his vessel at the port of
Shelburne, N. S., by the Canadian Gus
toms authorities. has been forwarded by
Secretary Bayard to the Dominion gov
eminent through the medium of the i'm
perial foreign office. The minister of
customs has replied to Mr., Bayard's
dispatch stating that inasmuch as Mr..
Allen had entered suit against the Do
minion government in 8 Nova Scotia
court for 500, 900 the government was
quite willing to abide by the decision of
that court.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
One More Tascott Caught.

Thomas A. Watts, trustworthy citi-
zen who lives in Amherst, Va, visited
Lexington on the I'd for the purpose of
notifying the Chicago authorities that
man answering the description of Tas-
colt had been arrested about twenty
five miles from Lexington in wild and
sparsely settled portion of the country.
Watts W.. has a full description OF Taseott
agree exactly.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
Union Pacifi c Earnings.

BosroN, Mass, Nov. 2.-The gross
earnings of the Union Pacific Railway
Company for September were $685.
905; decrease from the same inoiith last
year, $76,074; surplus, $1.O5O,15 de-
crease, 1927 ,794; increase in expenses,
SZJ22, 100; for nine months to September
80, 1883. gross earnings, $2l ,242 ,905; in
crease SSH ,O62; surplus, $8.l2l 1893; de-
crease. $500 PSI; increase in expenses,
So333 900
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
THEY COME HIGH.
A Massachusetts Lady Wants SO, 900 fol
Blighted Affections.

Blighted Affections.
Miss Susie B. Leach, the daughter of
Lemuel B. Leach, of Campbell, "a years
of age, an attractive young lady of
Brockton, Mass, has brought suit,
claiming $4,000 damages, against
Henry Fl. Litchfeld, of Bos-
ton and Plymouth, for breach
is 40 years of age, is in the real estate
able property. Miss Leach and Mr.
Litchfeld meb in the spring of 1887 at
Plymouth and in the fall the wedding
was fixed for December. Miss Leach
gave up her situation and prepared her
trosseau, but Litchfeld failed to appear.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
QUEER CHARACTERS.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time:
Some that will evermore peep through their eye.
And laugh like parrots at bagp1per:
And others of such vinegar aspect
That they'll not show their teeth in way of
smile,
Though Nestor swear the jest be lauehable.
Shakespeare
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
The yellow Fever Record.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct. 31.-Presi-
dent Neal Mitchell reports twenty
nine new cases Of yellow fever to-day
nineteen white-only one death. Total
cases, 4,l56; deaths, 354. There were
no new CAGES and no deaths at Gaines
vile.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07
Bad Blaze in Lynchburg.

LYNcHBURe, Va, Nov. 1.-Fire this
morning destroyed Moorman's tobacco
warehouse, the dental chewing gum fac
tory. Heformann's sash, blind and door
establishment, and Ainslie & Bros car
rage works, causing loss of over $780,
OOO; insurance SCI 900. The burned
buildings are on the upper end of Main
Gfroof
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07

To brighten dingy, spotted gilt frames.
moisten small sponge with spirits of
wine or oil of turpentine and rub gently.
The specks and dirt will be removed,
Do not use the sponge very wet and
allow the frame to dry of itself without
wiping.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-07

A WEAK solution of salt is remedy for
indigestion.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-28
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

WHO can measure the damage the
liquor traffic entails on homes and fam.
lilies, the moral injury it works, the
sOul-ruin of which it is the sourcei
Surely it is time for thoughtful men tc
devise some alienation or remedy for
this gigantic Christian Intel
igencer.
DRUNKENNESS is treble evil-it de-
grades the sinner, inflicts untold mis-
cry on all who are connected with him,
and is the introduction to a great many
other sins. Lying follows speedily in
its train. Medical men mark how far
q man has gone by observing whether
he is still capable of telling the truth.
Dunk no longer water, but drink a
little wine for thy stomach's sake;'
and our drinking friends say: Here ]
stand with Timothy" But casks Dr..
Munro Gibson) do they stand with
Timothy? Would that they did! 1t is
evident that Timothy was an abstain
er. or he would never have needed
such urging. Would that all the Lord
people were Timothys--so averse to
wine that they needed an apostles ad-
vice to back the doctor prescription
Christian Inquirer.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-28
THE GIANT EVIL,
The Saloon VS.. the HOme-Av0id tho Ont
and Have the Other.

The Saloon VS.. the HOme-Av0id tho Ono
and Have the Other.
Three-fourths to nine-tenths of the
inmates of our prisons have come to
what they are through liquor, as the
records of the cases will prove. And
our insane asylums are filled with in
mates whose families have been de-
stroyed by liquor.
Young man, do you ever expect to
have home? If you do avoid tipping
in the saloon. This is q great country
as we'll as a free one. That is, it is a
great country for the man who does
not drink. If he does not touch the
wine cup he can obtain a home. 1t is
a great country for poor man. Now.
men, if any Of you have home and
are tipping, avoid it. Don't avoid the
home, but the saloon. or you will lose
that home and bring misery and want
to your family.
Not long ago there was young man
in a police court charged with being
drunk. He was in rags and his body
was emaciated. "Three years ago"
said the officer to the judge, ''this
young man had 100000. Drink has
brought him to this" That young
man had once been the happiest OF
young fellows. and to-day he is clean.
ing spittoons in beer halls for an ex-
istence. Think of such life, young
men. The associations are bad. Seek
those who will elevate you in your
daily life. and not drag you down into
the mire. God has given to every man
an immortal soul, and it is his duty to
build it up. Saloon life does not culti-
vate M ms moral nature, it prosti-
tutes ano corrupts it, destroys name
good nature and robs him of his best
faculties. The result of drink is moth.
ing but Indebtedness and misery.
Some men say they can drink and
not be in danger; that they can take
their glass of beer without doing any
harm. But man is never conscious
of it until he is victim. Some years
ago there was scene in theater
where a man was to perform with a
boaconstrictor. He had been master
of the serpent for thirty years. He
was not afraid of the snake. He die
not think he was in danger. That SER
pent coiled himself around that man,
and even then the trainer did not think
he was in danger. But suddenly the
monster makes sudden move. sob is
heard and the man who had been the
master of the serpent for thirty years
the drunkerd. He does not know he Is
in the tolls till he is crushed. Req. C..
Z. GOss, CHICAGO.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-28
EXCELLENT REASONS.

Why You and Every Other Man Should
Sign the Pledge.
"rm not drunkard."
81 don't drink any thing to speak of. :"
"If srant drink take it; if don t
I let it alone"
Il never take so much that don't
know what 1 am about"
Il can drink little or much; it never
hurts me-"
Il can drink or let it alone"
"Why should sign the pledge?'
Because:
l. You don't want to be drunkard.
never found a man who did; and the
disappointment of men who wake to
find themselves drunkards is some
thing too terrible to take the slightest
chance on. and a pledge of total absti-
nence taken and Kept will turn any man
or woman from the path of the drunk
ard and the shame it leads to. and
hedge him in with sobriety just as eff
fectually as q good barbed-wire fence
will turn a careering colt from all that
lies outside Of its paddock, and keep
him within his own place.
A deliberate promise is the strongest
tether with which any man can bind a
good purpose. You have purpose to
he sober, reliable, pure; then bind the
habits of your life to it with solemn
promise to abstain from intoxicating
liquors. including wine, beer and cider,
and you are safe from that dragon.
2. You should sign the pledge and
stop all use of Intoxicating drinks, be-
cause if you drink it ever so moderate
you are in danger. The subtle poison
of alcohol has just one way with hui
man blood and nerves and brain, and
if you take one glass to-day of light
wine. the chances are ten to one that
you will die drunkard. You will fol-
low in the same road that Is filled up
with the staggering, profane. unclean
throng of drunkards who all began
Just as you are doing. drinking the one
first glass which opened the gate to all
that has followed of shame and sor-
row.
8. You should sign the pledge, even
if you never touched a drop of alco-
holic drink, that your name and intiu-
ence may be on the right side of the
question. If you have boy or girl.
that you may lead your child in the
right way. As citizen, for the sake of
the tempted and weak who need the
strength which would come to them
from your name on the pledge; as a
member of society, that the social
world may sooner adopt the fashion Of
purity; as man, that every other man
and woman may know just whore you
stand, and that no one shall dare to
call your position in question.-Mrs.
S. NJ. L. Henry, in Union Signal.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-28
Wise Savings Well Said.

The fewer words the better prayer.
-Luther.
Chastity is lost but Once--never to
be recalled.
WedlOck's lane where there is no
turning. Mmlock.
Love and money,--pickpockets that
never fail.-Princc de Ligne.
To be really beautiful and attractive.
a woman should be rather statuesque
than picturesque. -Eugene Sue.
A wOmaE's natural protector is less
an aged father or tall brother than q
very young child.-Ame. dc Girardin.
OF all the joys that brighten suffer
ing earth. what JOY is welcomed like a
newborn child.-Ars. Norton.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-28
NERVOUS DEBILITY.

A gentleman having been cured o:
NERVOUS Prostitution, Seminal Weak
ness, Premature Decay, and all the evil
effects of early indiscretion and youth
full folly, and is anxious to make knowr
o others the simple mode Of SELF
CURE. To those who wish and vii
give him their symptoms. he will sens
(free) by return mail, copy Of the re
ceipt so successfully used in his case.
Address, in confidence, JAMES "
PINKNEY, AZ Cedar St. N. Y.