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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16

From the Spectator,

from the spectator,
The Shah himself is not Persian, but
man tribe; the language of his private
and domestic life is not Persian. but
Turkish. With the instruments of OPP
preston ready to his hand, he ia all
powerful tor evil, provided he is con-
tent with the lion share of a plundered
province or the wealth of subject con-
victed of being too rich. He is power
less for good or for single reform so
long as the Mujtahids, the priestly Or
der in Persia, with their enormous in
Huence over superstltlOus people,
dread and dislike ''infide" and West
ern innovations likely to weaken their
pie are as apathetic in political matters
as they are fanatical in religion. AS for
their capacity to rouse themselves to the
hope or the conception of bet
ter things in store for their I'M
happy country those who indulge the
dream must take them as they are, and
not be led astray by analogies of freq
and Christian populations that have
no bearing on the question. Supersti-
ton and vice have debased and enfee-
bled the national life Of Persia to an
extent that the ordinary English mind
finds difficult to conceive. The incred-
4OlO tOIl ddd VI tHc
ordinary peasants life is endured with
one object, which is to amass sufficient
savings to enable him to go on pill
grimage to the Shah shrines once in his
life at least, which done, he becomes a
beggar ags in The shameless avowals
of Su6 poets find their counterpart in
the daily lives of thousands and thou
sands of the better classes, who give
themselves openly to the worst forms
of sensual excitement. Opium and ar
rack are the daily stinulants to the
jaded senses. of thousands of Shah
Moslems, to whom they have ceased to
be even forbidden delights. The de-
caying populations of the larger towns.
like Shiraz and Isfahan, driven to des-
peration by oppression or hunger, break
out at intervals into sullen and
sudden revolt las on re-
cent occasion, when the courage and
presence of mind of the staff of English
telegraph offic;al at Shiraz saved the
town from being sacked and the help
less and terrified Persian officials from
massacre), and are cajoled or coerced
again into dull and hopeless submits
sion. The miserable Jewish popula-
ton is the sport and by-word of sense
less Moslem intolerance, and the Ar
menians, with more cunning and equal
unScrupulOuSnesSs prosper In panQof1ng
tc the vices of the dominant class of
Persians. There is no exaggeration in
the picture. The rose bedecked valleys
and bulbul-haunted groves of the odes
OF Ha6z present just as true an idea of
the wasted, desolate plains and valleys
of Iran, as the great Shah-an-Sha, be-
decked with diamonds and sitting at
sumptuous feasts, presents to the ordi-
nary untraveled English mind of the
wealth or social prosperity of his much
enduring subjects.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16
Annoying Custom Rules.

The Venezuelan customs authorities
are rigidly exacting, and vexatious as
those of minor countries usually are.
1t may be set down as rule that minor
countries perpetually are on the watch
for infractions of customs regulations
that powerful countries ignore. Thus
Canada two or three years ago seized
American fishing vessels for trivial Of
lenses, while the United States thought
it below its dignity to worry Canadian
shippers who we're slow in making GUS
tom house entries. The Venezuelans
are very exacting in their demands that
the manifest shall show everything, and
the slightest omission may occasion no
end of trouble. A correspondent of
the New York Herald writes:
Should the first mate of an American
schooner happen to have in his Estate
room (?)"-i. e. his "den'-half dozen
American shirts or collars, and his vari-
GUS duties have prevented his wearing
"biled linen," the vessel is liable to
seizure, and this has occurred during
the past year, a schooner valued at SILL
600 being seized because the mate bad
failed to declare the half-dozen shirts
he had purchased for Sunday wear
and elderly days" on shore. The
schooner was sold by public auction,
and the captain and crew were obliged
to return to the United States as ICON
sular passengers" OF such is the re-
public of Venezuela.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16
Sawd

There is evidently great need for a
new invention for the cheap and easy
utilization of sawdust, and if inventive
people would study the subject doubt
less something practical might be realiz-
ed. In Canada the depositing of saw
dust in the rivers is forbidden by law.
Recently there was conviction and
filming Of prominent mill owner, at
Peterboro, for depositing sawdust and
mill refuse in the Otonabee River in
contravention to the regulations of the
department. Mr.. Irvine. the defendant
in the case, was fined $50 and costs OR
twenty days imprisonment. In rem
dering judgment, the magistrate said
that the evidence showed that large
quantities Of sawdust escaped from the
defendants mill into the Otonabee
River, which river contained valuable
fish and was navigable for steamers. 1t
was we'll known, he said, that the mill
refuse from the Peterboro mill for the
past forty years had been freely emptied
into the river, and that for twenty miles
below the town the banks of the river
were lined with accumulations of saw
dust, and that at the detrenchment into
Rice Lake the mouth was almost entirely
closed. 1t is understood that the
government has instructed its in
spectors to rigidly enforce the sawdust
regulations.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16
London Toilet Clubs"

There is now a remarkable fashion
among the people of London for joining
so-called toilet clubs" These clubs
are for cheapening the cost of shaving.
Almost seven in every ten barber shops
have been forced to form themselves
into headquarters for toilet clubs. The
members are the customers. They pay
down from SIS to $40, the sum varying
according to the quarter of the town in
which the shop is situated. $40 is the
price in the West End, where men pay
from to II cents to get shaved. IS is
the price away from the swell quarter
IN all the outlying districts, where you
get casual shave for 4 cents.
When customer pays his S. or 80
Gown the barber is obliged to shave
him, or shampoo him, or cut his hair
every day in the year if he demands
that amount of service. The idea has
been carried to such an extreme that
there are now many shops in which
men may join the clubs for month or
even week. Tt is evidently hard on
the BARRIERS. They went into the plan
to secure steady custom, but the En-
glish are thrifty and bargain driving
race, and in each club are found many
members who give the little that is ask
ed and demand the most that can be
had.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16

giving the most. There is small def
cheney.
THE schooner Surprise, of Milwaukee.
lost bearings and ran on the beach at
Chicago.
JUDGE JENKINS has appointed Samuel
Marshall, G. T. Bradley and Tax Com
missioner Bodden as board of apprais-
ers of block % for the Milwaukee post
Office site.
A NUMBER of Adventist converts were
baptized in Wisconsin River at Bosco-
bel on Sunday.
HURD's Opera House at Boscobel mar
rowly escaped destruction by fire. The
flames were discovered in season to ex-
tingulsh them.
LIEUT.. HOWARD gibson was elected
captain of the Milwaukee First Light
Battery.
A WATCH is being kept on the grave of
the late Col. Scribner, of Madison.
The evangelical ministers of Milwau-
kee have started a movement for the
closing of Sunday saloons.
The state Baptist convention opened
at Eau Claire on the 7th.
THE Milwaukee tax commissioner re-
celved notification from Madison that
the state board of assessment has fixed
the assessed valuation of Milwaukee
County at 500, 900 900 for state purposes,
or $23, 100000 less than the assessment
for local purposes.
La CROSSE Chronicle: Will Drake.
who met with injuries and whose wife
was killed on the Mill Street crossing of
the ST. Paul road at La Crosse some time
last March, had made settlement with
the company. He received moderate
sum in cash, an annual pass over the
company's lines. and the understanding
is he is to have life job with the COM
pany.
INDIANS are said to be killing deer in
violation fthe law on Armstrong Creek,
Florence County.
ALEXANDER LIE CLAIRE, an old settler
of Florence County, was killed by
falling tree ON his homestead near
Fisher Lake. He was II years old.
MRS. OLE BULL. of Cambridge, Mass,
is at Eau Claire with her father, J. G.
Thorp. They are on their way home
from their journey to the Pacific slope.
CONDUCTOR MCQUEENEY, of the st.
Paul road, who lives in Mil waukee, is
looking for his runaway wife. It's an
other case Of 'sgone with a handsomer
man.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16

Two of the gamblers of New Orleans
becam SO disheartened when the may
or closed the faro games that they put Il
copper on life and called the turn. This
may sound little enigmatical to those
who are not acquainted with the ethics
of the profession. But it has meaning
to the men who deal cards. They know
that two of their number have taken
chances in the greatest lottery of ali be-
cause there was no longer any pleasure
in living life devoid of the excitement
to be had at the green tables. It is a
sad commentary on the boosted non
chalance of the gambling classes when
little thing like the closing of the
games by the mayor of city sends two
of them TO another, far distant layout.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16

THE nation is congratulating itself on
the splendid corn and wheat harvest.
And well it may. Agriculture is ever
the basis of national prosperity. Boun-
tiful crops, however, often benefit the
railway magnate, the merchant, the
broker and the mechanic more than the
former. Notwithstanding the magnif-
cent outlook for breadstuffs and provi-
sions as to quantity, yet statistics show
that on liberal estimate of the crops
of 1889 the total value Of them by the
Chicago market prices is over 1920, 000,-
600 less than that Of last years crop of
the same date.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16

A CEMETERY has been established at
Sheepshead Bay, Long Island. which
will in time become the Mecca toward
which pilgrims will journey to weep and
wall over the departed who are buried
there. It is reserved for noted horses
who have made record of 2:20 or bet
ter. No plug stock can find resting
place for the useless hulk after lite has
left it of little worth to anybody but
the proprietor of boneyard. Only the
400 of equine society will be allowed to
erect tombstones in the Enclosure.
Here Lucy B, Dew Drop, and Yea have
already found surcease from the hunger
which is thrust upon racing stock by
their owners, from the sting of the lash
and spur, and from the bitterness Of
defeat. Here, too, will come the men
who let their money on the bob-tail nag
only to see it immured in the whited
sepulcher presided over by the book
maker. They will have the satisfaction
of knowing, as Ghey read the gelding's
name on granite block, that they can
never lose any more money on the
horse that has run its last race.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16

The single tax theory of Henry
George, said tax to be laid exclusively
on land, is not making much progress
in New York state at present. It never
had any foothold in country districts,
and even in cities many workingmen
have learned to become landholders,
owning homes ftheir own, often making
small payments, and borrowing money
from building and loan associations. All
these are equally interested with the
farmers in relieving real estate of it's
oppressive taxation, and obliging own
ers of personal property to bear their
fair share of public burdens.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16
SEAL sAcouEs HER MARK.

Arrest Of the Notorious Thief, Nellie
Montague.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. 8.-One of the most
notorious female criminals in the
United States, in the person of Mrs.
Nellie Montague alias Sturtevant, was
locked up at the Armory police station
last night. Her husband, John alias
Reddy Montague, was also placed be-
hind bars. Nellie is wanted in Cincin-
natl for stealing fourteen sealskin
sacques, and also in Buffalo for
the theft of sealskin cloaks.
The crimes were committed over year
ago. Upon it's discovery Nellie fed to
Detroit, where she was captured in a
hotel. She escaped and went to Wind
sor, Canada. and has since eluded arrest.
A few days ago she came with her hus-
band to Chicago and was. arrested.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16
COLLIDED ON A GRADE.

A Runaway Freight Crashes Into . Pas
senger Train.
TOPEKA, Kas., Oct. "a freight train
on the Missouri Pacific stopped few
miles west of Astor, Greedy County,
yesterday, for slight repairs. The stop
was made on an incline, and when the
broke in two. The rear part started
down grade and crashed into west
bound passenger. The caboose and one
freight car were pitched up over the
passenger engine and caught fire. G.
P. Orwan, mayor of the town of Horace,
wss asleep in the caboose, aud was
burned to death. The people on the
passenger train had all been warned in
time and left the train.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16

IT transpires that the popular jubila-
ton over the performance of the new
cruiser Baltimore was premature. The
naval engineers who conducted the trial
trips made blunder in estimating the
power developed by the cruisers en-
gines. Instead of exceeding the con-
tract requirements the engines will fail
short something like twenty or thirty
horse power. This is q small amount,
but it means a good dealto TIE builders.
who, instead of winning a handsome
bonus, as the erroneous estimates indi-
Gated, will now have to pony up" for
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16
A TRADE paper entitled Iron calls at

A TRADE paper entitled Iron calls at
tention to the disappearance of deserts
We have not noticed this, but no doubt
the average small boy, who is fond of
toothsome things, has. A writer is ex-
pected by every body who reads the in
terviews with physicians in which they
air the latest fads to live entirely on
oatmeal and fish. He may not like eth
er of these dishes. but the public de-
mands that person who is to supply
them with TODD for thought should him.
self take food for thought before he
thinks for food. Being always lingering
the public pulse and thereby keeping
well informed as to the thoughts which
pulse through the pubGc's wrist the
writer dare not do otherwise than agree
to the demands made upon him, He,
therefore, never gets as far as deserts.
If he got his deserts he might. But be
does not-always. Some men never get
punished in this world for cracking bad
Jokes
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16

THIS has been bad year for aero
nauts; a number of them have been
drowned by coming down into bodies
of water. The return to earth of a nav
igator of an air-ship is always serious
problem. Would. be inventors of aero
stats should pay some attention to this
matter. 1t is just as important that an
air ship should come down safely as it
is that it should ascend into the track
less domain Of the upper ether.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16

The ex-priest, Thomas E. Rutler, who
married Miss Theresa Brady four years
ago in Jersey City, having grown weary
of providing for his wife and children
has abandoned them and, it is stated,
made application to be reinstated in his
priestly Office on doing several years.
penance in some European monastery.
Having been accommodated or ex-
PEELED from his church at the time of
his marriage his application doubtless
looks to his restoration to the body Of
the church rather than to the position
from which he was deposed by the
episcopal power. Celibacy is prere-
quisite to ordination in the Catholic
Church, and when this man took unto
himself a wife he became at once the
object of that healthy church discipline
which supplements in such cases the
divine Injunction "What God hath
joined together let no man put asunder"
in excluding such human wolves from
the hierarchy they disgrace.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16
PROHIBITION REJECTED.

The Vote Three to One Against the Con-
stitutfOnal Amendment.
Returns from towns that cast more
than two-thirds of the state vote last
year, show that the vote on the prohib-
itory amendment in Connecticut is
about three to one against it. These
towns alone gave an aggregate majority
of 10000 against the amendment. Only
ten towns 80 far reported gave it ma
jority. In the principal cities the vote
was: Hartford, 1,0l0 yes. 1892 no; New
Haven, ,6l3 yes, 6,6S1 no; Bridgeport,
$40 YES. 9. 3S3 no.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16

The Liverymen's Association in Min
neapolis has held meeting and adopt
ed uniform scale of prices. Remarka-
BILE as it may seem, the former prices
have been lowered instead Of raised,
and Minneapolitans may now ride to
either funeral or ball for 81. This in
spite of the fact that Minneapolis has
no rapid transit lines to compete with
the carriage business.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16
MOTHER AND BABE DEAD.

Mrs. Katz, of Chicago, Gives Poison to
Her Child and Commits Suicide.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. 8.-Mrs. Fritz Katz.
young wife, poured a half bottle of
carbolic acid down her baby e throat this
morning, then swallowed the remand
er herself. Both are dead. The moth
er is supposed to have been crazed by
sickness.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16
LEAPED TO HIS DEATH.

Suicide of Louis Lutz, the Wealthy New
York Importer.
NEW YORK, Oct. 8.-Louis Lutz, of
Lutz & Movius, the wealthy importers,
who lives with his wife and three child
rem at 81 West Fifty eighth Street, fell
or jumped out Of the second rear win
dow of his home this morning, and was
instantly killed. The theory Of suicide
is mooted, as Mr.. Lutz for some time
past has bt en- under the care of ply
stefan, being subject to attacks of mel
ancholia, and, it is said. he was greatly
worried over business affairs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16
WARREN GETS DRUBBING.

The Light-Weight Tackles Jack Demp.
sey and is Carried Home.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Oct. 9.-Tommy
Warren yesterday met Jack Dempsey
in saloon and asked in an insolent
way if Dempsey had called him a
coward and fakir. Dempsey said yes.
1hereupon Warren led with his right
for the Nonpareil's face, but fell short.
Dempsey sprang up and in a half O.
dozen blows stretched Warren out on
the floor in such demoralized con-
dition that his hacker had to carry him
Out of the go loon
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16
Mangled by a Bursting Boiler.

ST. CLOUD, Mimi, Oct. 8.-The boiler
of Hoescher Bros steam thresher ex-
ploded last evening in the town of Oak,
ipjuring a number of men. John Wieg-
man had his skull fractured and was
badly scalded, about the body. Henry
Meyer was badly scalded and right arm
nearly torn off. Another man; name
unknown, received injuries necessita-
ting the amputation of one arm. Others
were less seriously injured.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16
BEHIND THE BARS FOR LIFE.
Bankrupts Sent to Prison Until They
Raise S3, 500, 900.

BRnkrupts Sent to Prison Until They
Raise 80, 500, 600.
LONDON, Oct. Establishments were
issued in Paris yesterday against the
property of nine of the directors of the
bankrupt Compton d'Escompte, which
was ruined by the failure of the copper
corner. Six directors Of the insti
tuition are now imprisoned. hav-
ing been convicted OF violating
the banking law in advancing
the funds of the bank on loans upon cop
per certificates. The directors and ac-
countants were sentenced to pay to the
iquidators of the bank for the benefit
of it's creditors the sum of G760,000 and
to stand committed until the amount is
paid. This means life sentence to
most of those convicted, as they were
themselves ruined by the calamity.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16

AMERICAN hog products are in better
demand abroad now than year ago.
In fact, the exports recently have been
25 per cent. larger than for the same
time in 1885, Pork packing in the w lest
shows similar gain for 1889.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16

IT has at last been definitely settled
that Prince Hatfield and Miss Hunting
ton, the daughter of the American rail-
road magnate, are to wed. Foreign cor
respondents of the New York papers are
therefore undoubtedly mourning the
loss of fertile subject of news.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16

PARIS, Oct. Industrious floods pre-
vail in the Department of the Jura. A
number of bridges have been carried
away by the high water Ions Le-Saul-
nier, the capital of the department, is
inundated, and number of villages
are surrounded by water. The military
are actively engaged in saving life and
prOperty
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16

st is not to be Inferred says New
York paper, from the number of gold
medals awarded to American exhibitors
at Paris that the display of our manu-
facturers was unusually 6ne." No, this
is not necessary inference, especially
in view of the fact that over 5000 gold
medals were awarded.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16

ARIZONA is trying to get rid of her
chief justice because be has been &C.
lively engaged in the work of Kidding
the territory of bad citizens. In an am
bilious community that has its eye fixed
on statehood no one can curtail the
work of the census takers without in
curing unpopuiarity
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16

THE information that the German
miners who made successful strike re-
Gently, got their wages raised TO the
magnificent sum of rs cents a day, is
calculated to make the American work
men feel satisfied with rates of wages in
which double that sum is considered q
small DAVIS paw.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16
Mobbing an Ohio Saloon.

LIMA, O., Oct. 1O.-In the neighbor-
ing town of Lafayette, yesterday, a
saloon-the only one in the place-was
bombarded by a crowd of several hun
dred persons. With stones and sledge
hammers the doors and windows were
broken, the bar battered down, mirrors
broken, heads of barrels knocked in
and the contents wasted. The place
was almost torn down and everything
rt,iroG
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16
Shot His Son Dead.

ANoKo, Mimi, Oct. SIN Frankfort
Township, Wright County, James Dean,
q farmer, shot his son, aged years.
Dean heard a commotion in the hen
house. He seized his shotgun, and run
ming to the door saw in the darkness
something moving. He imme diately
fred and was Mortified when he dis
covered that he had slain his son.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16
Graders in a Wreck.

LARAMIE, Wyo., Oct. 9.-On the Car
bon cutoff road work train containing
about fifteen graders collided with
couple of cars standing on the track. A
man named Diamond was instantly
killed. and VIM. Penn fatally injured.
Patrick King had an arm broken.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-16

THE corn crop is now estimated at
$3.50, 100000 bushels, an increase of
about II per cent over the yield of 1888.
The crop of oats is also larger than ever
before and the wheat crop is excellent.
There will be the usual complaint from
the farmer that he s'can't get any
price," but he can live and SO can other
nponlo