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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
ANGER GIVES WAY TO SMILES.

Peace full and Happy Ending of the La
Dor Trouble at Homestead. Pa.
A Pittsburg dispatch of the 10Th say2:
There has been great rejoicing at Home
stead to-day over what thI eatened to be
the greatest contest between labor and
capital Allegheny County has ever had.
1t has been learned that in anticipation
of q desperate struggle the workmen
had made elaborate preparations. They
had agents IN the principal cities
of England, Scotland and Wales, to
notify them if it were attempted to
send foreigners here in violation of
the immigration laws; while in this
country every source whence working
men could be secured was similarly
covered. Good authority is gwen for
the statement also that SEQ rifles were
stacked in an old barn in the vicinity
of Homestead for the immediate
use of the strikers should occasion
require and men from other mills
We're in readiness to respond to
a call for help for the Homestead breth-
rem. This afternoon the Amalgamated
officers vent to Homestead to explain
the terms agreed Oh at the conference.
There were only few dissenters among
the men, some of those disastrously af-
fected by the reduction. The terms of
the agreement were finally accepted
unanimously and the men will be at
work again as soon as some necessary
repairs to the works can be made, which
will require but few days to complete.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
WISCONSIN ITEMS

a HAUNTED HOUSE sensation at Egg
darbor was dispelled by the discovery
tnat The noises were from horse that
mad wandered into the place and be-
come imprisoned by breaking through
the floor
Ira Z. EDWARDS, who once published
paper at Ripon, is not lucky as news
paper publisher. His latest venture.
the Marquette Daily Republican, has
been discontinued for want of patron
age.
a CLEVELAND company has contracted
TO place an iron bridge across the Me-
nomonee at Florence TOR 81. $50. The
span will be one Of 225 feet.
The school census of La Crosse shows
I 1904 children of school age-3,SS9 girls
and 3,715 boys.
OTTo GABLE caught an eel at Marinette
that was forty inches long.
CHICAGoANs are buying land at Stur-
geon Bay for summer resort purposes.
The third annual reunion of the La
Crosse County veterans association, at
Onalaska on the goth, was q great sue
cess In every particular. The attend
ance was large, both of veterans and
town people, who gave up the day to
festivities. The exercises were held in
beautiful grove where army rations.
somewhat improved, were served to all
corners.
JUDGE Dyson, Of La Crosse, sentenced
James Cum mings to Waupun for one
year on charge of bigamy, the prison
er having pleaded guilty. twas shown
that bis marriage to Emma Cakes, wife
No. 2, took place while he was under
the influence of liquor, and he was not
wholly responsible for his actions.
THE keeper of Ross dance house, at
Ashland, was robbed of $4OO in green
backs.
IT is said that Ever E. johnson, who
absconded from Sun Prairie wear ago.
died in Canada, and that he was robbed
by business partner while he lay upon
his death bed. Mrs. johnson now re-
sides at Clear Lake, Oak.
The Rice Lake Board of Review and
the Knapp-Stout Company are at issue
over the assessm ent on the lumber cor
poratlons property. The company
wants to pay tax on one-quarter valua-
ton, or $24, 900. The board wants them
to pay S2S9O00; the consequence is that
the company have shut down all bust
ness at Rice Lake, throwing $50 men out
Of employment.
AT Morse Station, on the Central road,
six miles above Glidden, a man named
Joseph Fuchs, aged 40, stabbed and
killed his wife, aged Is. Fuchs and his
wife were seen leaving the station to-
gether by section men this afternoon,
talking and laughing. They followed
the railroad track. When several rods
away Fuchs was seen striking rus wife
by a section man, who went to her as
sistance, when he saw the woman fall.
Reaching the place he found the woman
dead, cut in half dozen places about
the body. The murderer escaped to
the woods beyond
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
A MISSING AERONAUT.
Prof. Hogan and Campbe1Ts Air-ship Cam
not be Found.

Prof. Hogan and CampbeIIs Air. ship Cam
not be Found.
New YORK, July IAN expert
mental trip was made yesterday by E.
d. Hogan, an experienced aeronaut of
Jackson, Mich, in the air-ship invented
by Peter Campbell. The ascent was
made from the yard OF the Nassau Gas
Company's works at the foot of Morton
Street, Brooklyh. where the egg
shaped balloon was filled with
gas. About $4,000 feet was forced into
1t. 1t was estimated that there was gas
enough to carry 700 pounds and $50
pounds of sand bags were put in the
car with the aeronaut, and the electric
motor to propeiit. The ascent was sue
cessfully made, but after the
ship had risen several hundred feet
the propeller fan, used for
raising and lowering the ship, was lost
and tel to the ground In Hooper Street.
This left no means for raising or lower
ing except by the sand bags and by let
ting out gas. The air ship started on the
way toward the ocean.
There was some disagreement among
spectators as to the exact direction
taken by the air-ship, but the general
opinion was that 1t went toward Coney
Island. 1t was thought by some that
the machine had gone out to sea, but it
was said, on the other hand, that the
aeronaut could steer it wherever he
pleased.
The friends of Aeronaui Hogan are
becoming somewhat alarmed and do
not talk as confident as they
did last evening. Inventor Campbell
says: st is all very mysterious, and l
am at loss to account for it.. I have
not the slightest idea where Hogan could
have lost the ship. He could have come
down even after he had lost the fan-like
propeller. as he had a valve rope and
could have allowed the gas to escape.
1t may be possible that the valve rope
had broken. He had a knife along with
him, however, and could have climbed
up the netting to the balloon and cut a
wont in If ,,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
CHICAGO HAS A DELUGE.
Cellars and Easements Flooded Durin
the Rain Storm


CHICAGO, Ill, July 19.-About 10
O'Clock last night one of the heaviest
thunder storms of recent years visited
Chicago. The audiences at the
theaters were driven out of shelter
just at the time when the
fall Of rain was fercest In ten minutes
after the theaters closed not a carriage
or cab of any description could be had.
The electrical display that accompanied
the rain was remarkable. A number of
buildings and residences were struck
by lightning, but the damage IN all cases
was slight. The rains flooded all the
cellars IN the southwestern portion of
the city and many easements of down
town business houses, doing great dam
age Many cheap lodging houses were
flooded and the dodgers driven out.
AS far as learned the individual losses
are small, but they will amount, in the
aggregate, to large sum. In period
OF twenty minutes the rainfall aggre-
gated one inch, and altogether, reached
l.6f inches. In many of the basement
Chinese iaundries, Cinnamon were
found perched on their tables this morn
ing.
In the Town Of Lake residence was
fired by bolt OF lightning and It and
two other houses were consumed, en-
failing loss of about $4,000. AT the
stock yards the packing houses OF
Farmer Il Co. and Mcneil & Libby
were damaged by lightning to the
amount Of $4,000. In the former case
800 men will be thrown out of work for
a time. Many shade trees in the beau
tltul residence quarters of Hyde Park
We're broken by the lightning.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
SIXTEEN MEN MISSING,
a Fishing Schooner Reports the Loss
Her Crew in Dories


The fishing schooner Edith Emery,
Capt. Patrick Sullivan, arrived at Bos-
ton on the 18th with only three of her
crew of nineteen men. Sunday morn
ing when the Emery was abont seventy
miles off Highland hight the missing men
set out in dories to tend trowls. The
weather was very thick and the Jog be-
came SO heavy as to shut out
all sight of them from the
vessel. A search was kept up until
Monday afternoon, fog-horns be-
ing blown and as much noise made as
possible to attract their attention, but
nothing could be seen or heard of the
men. The captain is distracted over
their loss, although he believes they
have been picked up by passing yes
sci. as fishing vessels were numerous at
the point where they were lost. The
wind was not blowing heavily and he
sees no reason for fear Of capsizing, even
should the men be adrift forty eight
hours before being picked up. All but
two of the crew are married and have
large families.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
WRECKED In THE SKY.
Fragments of the Missing Air Ship Seer
Far Out at Sea.

Far Out at Sea.
New YORK. July 18.-Pilot Phelan, of
the pilot boat Caprice, who brought the
bark Belt into port, reports that on
July Is, in latitude $3.50, longitude II 40,
he sighted from the masthead at long
distance a balloon dragging its car along
the surface of the water. He gave
chase to it. but at shutdown, when about
three-Quarters OF q mile from it, it col
lapsed and disappeared from sight.
There seems to be no longer any reas-
son to doubt that Hogan is dead. Pilot
Pheian was seen at the offices of the
pilot commissioners, this afternoon. He
said: "At $50 O'Clock on the a ternoon
of Tuesday last. when we were
about 100 miles south-southeast
of Sandy Hook, running before a
stiff twenty-fve-mile northnorthwest
breeze, the lookout sighted two
schooners and peculiar looking object
lying near them on the surface of the
ocean. We made up to the object and
st about half after 6 made her out to be
balloon about fifty to sixty leet in
diameter.
''At about o'clock, when we were
about 100 yards from it, the balloon
parted from some heavy object in the
water which it had been dragging along
and flew up into the air. When several
hundred feet above the surface of the
sea it was caught in the north north
west wind and went before it east
southeast at the rate of about twenty
five miles an hour.
when We first sighted the balloon
and drew close enough to make her out
she was egg-shape and Juggling very
hard at what must have been the car.
About five ropes held her to the car
which was buried several feet
under water. The balloon was
assuming I'll kinds of shapes
Initiating and collapsing. AT the last try
it collapsed at the end, and assuming the
shape OF a pumpkin arose in the air.
There was nothing hanging to the ropes
of the balloon.
"If Prof. Hogan was in the balloon
when we came in with her, then he was
drowned. Assistance could not have
been rendered to him by the schooner
L spoke OF as being to leeward and
bound northward. We cruised over the
spot in which the balloon ana its car
parted. There were no signs of life, no
evidence that human being had found
his death in the water"
Hogan was 46 years of age and made
over 400 successful balloon ascensions
and thlrty-two parachute jumps in the
twenty EIGHT years he has followed the
dangerous business. He was regarded
as the foremost aeronaut In the world.
Some of his friends are still hoping that
he may be alive even if injured and
landed in some out Of the way place.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
WANTED. IN PARIS.
Boulanger, Rochefort and Dillon In
d1cted-They are Summoned to APP
pear Within Ten Days-If They Do
rot Return to Answer the Charges
Their Property Will Be Confiscated-
Plot of Boulanger Discovered.

The Paris Temps says that cipher tele-
grams have been discovered which prove
that Gen. Boulanger was at the head of
plot to march upon the Elysee palace,
and that several officers of high rank
had promised him their support. The
temps further says that the charges of
emDezzlement against Boulaneer relate
TO the purchase of camp bedsteads and
other supplies for the troops and
to malversation of the funds Of the
war ministry. Among other charges, it
says, the general is accused of using the
funds of the war ministry to buy
shares in the military CLUB and of keep
ing the shares thus bought in his own
possession,
M. De Freycinet, minister of war, has
ordered that Col. Vincent be placed un-
der arrest for thirty days for publishing
the evidence given in the senate court
In the case of Gen. Boulanger.
a copy of the indictment found
against Gen. Boulanger was formally de-
Ivered at his residence in Paris on the
10th. Several papers will publish the
text OF the indictment. although by 80
doing they will render themselves liable
to legal penalty.
Gen. Boulanger, M. Rochefort and
Count Dillon are summoned to appear
within ten days. If they do not appear
within twenty days they will be de-
clared outlaws and their property will
be declared confscated until they sur
render. 1t is stated that the trial has
been fixed for Aug. 10. The Judgment
will be final, no appeal being allowed.
The indictment charges the accused
with instigating the issue of manifestoes
against the government in July 1887, at
Lyons and Paris, and in December,
1887, in Paris.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
shot py a Desperate Negro.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July 17.--Straw-
berry Plains, Jefferson County, has long
been the rendezvous of band of thiev-
ing negroes. Some time since two of
the band were arrested for petty thiev-
ing, and James Stephens appeared
against them as principal witness. Last
night Stephens and his wife were shot,
he being killed, and Mrs. Stephens
slightly wounded. 1t is thought the
shot was fired by Bill Jackson, despe-
rate negro, and member of the gang.
If caught he will probably be lynched.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
a ST. LOUIS MYSTERY.

discovery of the Body of Man Near
the Scene of the Weiss Murder.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. July 17.-Another mys-
FERROUS affair mas occurred in the west
ern suburbs of the city which recalls
the Anna Weiss case. At an early
hour this morning the dead body of an
unknown man was found on Union
Avenue near the narrow guaee
railroad and not far from
the place where the remains of
Anna Weiss were discovered. A card
bearing the name of F. Vernon, and the
address, Mrs. Joe, GO4 Elm Street, St.
Louis" were found on the body, but be-
yond this nothing is known either as to
who the man is or under what circum-
stances or how he met his death.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
1T WAS A GREAT CATCH.
The Capture of the Ohio Counter feite rs
Proves Very Important

DAYTON, O., July 19.-Capt. John S.
Bell, chief of the government Sc
cret service, will take Nelson
briggs and wife and baby and
Mrs. Mary Brown to jail at Cincinnati
for completely in the counterfeiting deal
that was turned up yesterday. briggs
is 80 years old. Ali of the last issue of
SAC, 600 of counterfeit $40 notes is now
In the hands of the secret service bu-
reau but the plates have not turned
up. A decoy deal had been in progress
for some time between the de-
tectives and briggs for the sale
of $4,000 in $40 United States
treasury notes. briggs agreed to the
sale, and yesterday met the treasury
agents at place near Dayton to turn
over the spurious money. briggs has
been repeatedly arrested, and is consid-
cred the most skilful counterleiter in
existence
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
HIS LOVE LED TO CRIME.
Michigan Man Poisons His Family
Win 3. GirIs A Mnntions

A Michigan Man Poisons His Family to
Win Girls Affections,
THREE OAKS, Mich, July 16.-The
Sebring family, consisting of father,
mother and sister, were taken with
symptoms of poiso ming soon after
supper Friday night. 1t was said
the poison was administered
in tea, and that Horace Sebring,
son, was under suspicion, having
refused to drink the beverage, and not
having suffered any symptoms of poi
soning. The reason alleged for the
wholesale poisoning is that young Sc
bring wanted to marry girl who
refused him because of his poverty,
and as the farm was willed to him,
the death of his parents and
sister would make him its possessor.
Sebring was arrested yesterday charged
with having poisoned the family. He
was given an immediate hearing and
placed under bonds of 81 200. Sebring
is 30 years of age.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
SIX THOUSAND LOST.
News of Fearful Loss of Life by waite
spout in China Recently.

spout in China Recently.
The steamer City of New York ar
rived at San Francisco on the 10Th from
Hong Kong and Yokohama. The Japan
Gazette of the 10Th ult. contains the fol-
lowing: Intelligence has been re-
ceived at Hong Kong from Kiaying Chau,
prefecture, to the northeast of Kwang-
tung. that early on the morning of the
"a inst, the Chan Ping and Ping
Yuen districts were flooded by the
bursting of water-spout or tornado,
described by the Chinese as water
dragon, and the level country was
flooded with nearly thirty-six feet of
water. The villages of Chae Kon and
Ha Ku Hui in the Ping Yuen district,
and Cueong Tan. Hop Lui, Ngai Ku,
Sam Chan Kiu and San Pc Hui in Chan
Ping districts, were overlooked, many
houses being wholly swept away, while
others were inundated. Upwards of
1900 lives were lost.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
POOR RUSSIANS ROBBED.

Heller Bros, ST. Louis Bankers, in Can
ada With $40, 900 on Deposits.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July 17.-Heller Bros,
foreign bankers and steamship agents,
doing business at 10l5 Franklin Avenue,
are supposed to be in Canada by this
time dividing some $40, 600 of other peo-
pies money. The Hellers conducted a
private bank. Their patrons were chief
ly poor Russians, who deposited money
Tor transmission to friends and relatives
abroad. There are over SOC victims,
and their losses range from $40 to 81, 900
each
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
COL. BABCOCK'S WEALTH.

The Dis pute Now in Judge Knickerbock-
er's Hands for Settlements.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 17.-Judge Knick-
erbocker, after hearing exhaustive argu-
ments in the Fairchild will case, took the
matter under advisement. Mrs. Naomi
Fairchild's claim that she was married
to Col. Walter D. Babcock in August,
1887, has been on hearing for about q
year, the case being taken up at inter-
walls. The testimony is now all in. The
estate amounts TO about $60,000 which
will go to Mrs. Martin, sister OF the
deceased, if Mrs. Fairchild's claim that
she is the widow is not established. At
all hazards, the case will be appealed,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
HANGED BY L.AMPLlGHT.
Albert Bulow Executed at Little Fails
Mimi. To- d ~.

Mimi, Tod ~.
LITTLE FALLS, Mimi, July l0.-Albert
Bulow was hanged at :43 a. NJ. to-day
In accordance with the now state law,
which prescribes that executions shall
take place between the hours OF
! and A. NJ. The law limits the number
Of persons who shall witness the ex-
ecutions, and there were only thir-
teen persons inside the inclosure when
the drop 1ell. Bulow met death brave
ly and made no confession. The lew
provides that newspapers shall publish
only the bare announcement or hang
ings, but all the Minneapolis and st.
Paul papers contained full details OF
BuloW's execution.
The crime for which Bulow suffered
was most -blooded murder. TIE
victim was Franklin Eich, well-to-do
bachelor farmer living at Buckwin
about ten miles south of here. Eich
owned a fine team and it was 10 gain
possession of the team that Bulow muir
dered him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
Bank of Beet Sugar Men.

LONDON, July 16.--At a conference of
delegates from the countries engaged
in the production of beet sugar which was
held in Brussels syndicate bank was
founded, which will establish branches
and agencies in all the principal cities
OF the world. The capital will be 81
O26,000. The bank will do no specula-
tive business, hut will sell sugar on
commission and make loans to manu-
facturers. The profits of the bank will
be divided among the members of the
RYndicate.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
arrested tor Horse Stealing.

KANSAS CRY, Mo-, July 20.-Henry
d. Gregg, private secretary for Gen.
Sheridan until Robert T. Lincoln was
appointed secretary of war, when he
was transferred to the adjutant-gen-
erals office in Washington as first
class clerk, in which place he remained
three years when he was made purse1
OF the revenue steamer Chester A. Ar
thur, was arrested in Hiawatha, Kas.,
and brought here on charge of horse
stealing. Whisky is the cause of MS
downfall
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
Disastrous Floods i'm Texas.

COLUMBUS, Tex, July 1S.-The Col
orado River at this point is thirty .one
feet high and rising. The lowlands are
all inundated, and crops are entirely de-
stroyed. The damage to the cotton
crop alone in this county is
estimated at half a million dol
lars. People are moving to the
highlands expecting to be washed out
every hour. 1t has been raining here
for three weeks. One foot of rise
more will cut of all railroad commune
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
BIG HAUL BY BURGLARS.
A Safe Cracked and $12, 600 Worth of
JeweIry Stolen.

LYNN, Mass. July 20.-During last
night professional burglars made most
successful break at the jeweiry store of
II. J. Bodwell, 50 Monroe Street. The
dial knob of the large safe was knocked
off with heavy sledge hammer. The
entire combination was then pushed
oct and the bolts yielded to the turn of
the handle. The burglars got away with
$4,000 worth of jewelry, and left behind
only few tools.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
THE SHARON-HILL DIVORCE.
The Supreme Court of CALIFORNIA; Hold
tho M arriage Contract Valid.

the M arriage Contract Valid.
The Supreme court of California, on
the 18th, rendered decision on an ap-
peal from judgment of Judge Sullivan,
of the superior court, refusing new
trial in the celebrated Sharon divorce
case. Judge Sullivan hold that
the marriage contract between the late
ex-senator and Sarah Althea Terry was
valid, and that the parties were legal
husband and wife. The supreme cou. I
there was one, and their relations as
husband and wife secret, and for this
reason the marriage was never consum-
mated. The case is remanded for new
trial
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
RIOT ON A DRY-DOCK.
Capt. Armstrong, of Bay City Narrowly
Escapes Mob Vengeance.

Capt. Armstrong, of Bay City Narrowly
Escapes Mob Vengeance.
BAY Cry, Mich, July 1.-The city
dry-dock was scene Of great excite
ment this morning. Capt. Richard
Armstrong, the owner of the Boy Line
of steamers, had the fruit stand of
Wells Aldrich, an old cripple,
forcibly removed. An attempt was
made to arrest Armstrong, who took
refuge on one of his steamers. and kept
the police at bay by pump
ing streams of water on the
crowd below, damaging considerable
property and clothing. He was
finally arrested on the boat and
had narrow escape at the hands of q
mob, who struck him with stones and
clubs in spite of the police. His son,
Capt. VIM. Armstrong. was also ar
rested
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
Heroism Rewarded by Death

PADUcAH, KY, July 17.-Y esterday a
3-year-old child of Italian parents, pas
sengers on the steamer Gus Fowler, fell
overheard. Henry Shelton, a colored
fireman, sprang into the river and
caught the child, but it chung to his
drowned. Skeletons body was recover
ed and a subscription was taken to give
1t burial
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-24
Shot Down in Cold Blood.

WooNsocKEr, R. l.. July 17.-Dennis
Ryan, an unmarried farmer, 40 years
old, was fatally shot this morning by
Saladin Cook, on the G. w. Cook farm,
in Cumberland. Ryan was at work cut
ting grass which he had purchased,
when Cook approached through strip
of woods and fred on him.