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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-03
BuckIeu's Arnlca SaIve.

The Best Salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands. chilblains,
Germs, and all Skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or ne payrequired. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfectsatisfactIon
or money refunded Price % cents per
pox. For sale by H. T Eberle
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-03

Young sharks, under the guise OF
'stenderloin of sols," are exposed for
sale in the San Francisco fish markets.
The inspectors few days ago confls.
Gated 700 pounds.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-03

The furniture of the White House
is all of American make, and the silk
used in hangings is the product of a
New Jersey mill. Such legislation as
the Mckinley bill did it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-03

"Handy to have in the house''-Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral-a prompt and certain
remedy for Group, colds, and pulmonary
affections
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-03
DIR. LeDUo,s PERIODICAL PILLS.

From Paris, France act only upon the gener-
alive organs in females and positively cure sup
preston of the menses (from whatever cause),
and all periodical troubles peculiar to women.
A safe and reliable remedy. The larger proper
ton of ills to which ladies are lis the direct
result OF disordered or irregular menstruation.
The American Pill Company, Royalty props,
Spencer, Iowa. 80 or for SIS sent by mail. The
genuine sold by all druggists. 8yl
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-03

Halls Hair remover is free from alco-
hol and dyes that injure the skin. 1t is
scientifically prepared, and will restore
gray hair to its original color and vigor,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-03

A New York Italian fruit-vender
has the following sign displayed over
his stand: "Chois Kaliforny CRAPS"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-03

''I am no orator, as Brutus is-but as
you know me all, a plain, blunt man. that
loves my friend" too well to see him
struggling with pain, when a bottle of
Salvation Oil Will cure him-so here's
the twenty-five cents for the great pain
pI1rn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-03
Arlington House, DAYTON, @.
fornia.

I think that DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup is
perfectly aoonderfd in its effects, three or
four doses cured me of the worst cough.
c. l.. NORTHUP.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-12-11
WEST AND sOrIru

The Manitoba quarantine against
American hogs has been raised.
THE Office of the Allerton Packing
Company az the Stock Yards in Chicago
was entered by two men who compelled
Cashier Osier TO deliver to them pack
age containing s., 800 and then made
their escape.
AT san Francisco Mrs. Elizabeth Hol-
lenbeek gave $3.50. 600 TO found a home
for INDECENT women and homeless chill
dren in that city.
WILLIAM { BRADFoRD, of Seymour,
Inl. aged 50 years. aone-armed veteran
soldier who was partially demented, set
fire 10 his house and persisted in the
flames
n Cincinnati Isaac VI. Jordan, one OF
best-known members OF the bar and
member OF Congress from 1855 20 1857,
fell down the elevator in the building
whore his office was located and was in
stasi- V killed.
NEAR Delpli, Ind, Mrs. Mary Turpie.
aged 90 years. mother of Senator David
Turpie. was burned TO death by her
clothing catching fire from a fireplace.
GEORGE BTBGEsS. a salOOn-keeper at
Williamstown, Ky, shot and fatally
wounded Miss Alice Mckinley. and was
himself shot dead while resisting arrest.
THE United States flagship Charles
ton arrived in san Francisco fr0u Hon
olulu with King Kalakaua, of the
Hawaiian Islands. aboard
OWING 10 the failure of the crops To-
600 families in Nebraska we're want
and would have 20 be assisted.
IL the Scotch tobacco works at De-
troit. Mich. fire caused loss of $780,
O00. and two firemen we're killed and
two Others were injured.
AT PennSborO, w. Va, a wedding
took place in which the groom was 90
years cid and the bride. Mrs. William
Dixon. widow. 81 years.
The most famous sire of trot.ing
horses in the world. Electioneer died
at senator Stanford'S stock farm in Cal
ifornia at the ago Of . years.
On the Chicago * Alton road pas
senger train was run into by a Wabash
freight al Jacksonville. H., and two
men we're killed and four wounded.
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LITTLE WOOD-DUCK.
rAeir First Lessons in swimming and the
Enemies They Meet.


Oddly enough. when the wood birds
go bathing they prefer the dancing rip
pies to the still shining of the pools.
Instinct, perhaps, tells them of the
greedy fish and big hungry turtles that
lie in wait in the depths. See that pair
of wood-ducks wheedling and chattering
about the half-dead sycamore that bends
over the stream. Mrs. Duck made her
nest in the soft rotten wood at the top
Of it She has just Matched out a dozen
balls of yellow down, and is setting
about getting them down to the water.
Once there, they will swim like ducks.
indeed. But FIXING is as yet beyond
them, and the nest is twenty feet in air
Look close and you will see the
mother bird poised with half-spread
wings just outside the nest Slowly,
cautiously, with low cautious cries. her
mate pushes one of the ducklings quito
upon the middle of her back. gives
sharp satisfied quack. and at once she
sails down. settles herself in mid-stream,
dives gently and leaves her baby sitting
on the water without in the least know
ing how he got there. With a shake of
the wings and quack that says: Take
carer she is off to the nest, and keeps it
up till all her little ones are launched.
AS she brings the last cruel thing
happens. Right below her flock there
is swift up-swirling of water. Some
thing brown and unwieldy comes almost
to the surface. then sinks like lead and
takes with it the plumpest, dOwniest of
ali the yellow darlings Inside min
ute another is dragged down, and an
other and still another
The swapping turtle. which, once he
has taken hold, never lets go till it
thunders." is greedy to-day. Any way.
he has a weakness for ducklings. He
would eat the whole dozen of chem if
the distracted parents did not hurry
them ashore.
There they will not be in very much
better ease. Foxes live in caves all
along the bluffs. Minks, too, and wea-
sells and coons. Any night you may
hear them splashing about in the water
for mussels crayfish and such small
deer.-Forest and Stream.
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If man eats pound of beef, mutton
or other flesh every dag. in a year he
will consume sos pounds. and in sixty
years u. 900 pounds of meat He will
eat the same weight of vegetables and
quite as much bread. so here are 43. 500
pounds more. lie will drink every day
two quarts of coffee. tea wine, beer or
water. making a total OF 10 900 gallons.
or about l75 hogsheads Of liquid. This
estimate does not include the probabili-
ty that he will eat forty or fifty lambs
with mint sauce, q couple Of thousand
spring chickens about 500 pounds of
butter, 10000 or 80, 900 eggs and four
hogsheads of sugar. If all this supply
were piled up on the scales it would
weigh over forty-fve tons, and if stored
would fiji a cotton warehouse from floor
to ceiling. Chicago lines.
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HE EASI.

EDWARD HOLLAND, under life SEN
tence in Sing Sing IN. " prison for
murder in 1873, was liberated on a par
don from Governor Hill
ON the I'd the New Hampshire Legis-
lature met in extra session at Concord.
GEORGE HERBERT. Frank /. Greene,
Mr.. Ca Sc and Mrs. +. f. Turner, resi-
dents of New Haven, Conn, who were
prospecting in Florida, we're drowned
in Lake Tohopekaliga by the capsiziDg
of a boat.
TIE Court of Appeals at Albany. n.
Y. in the case of Miss Campbell against
ArEuc!sle (''Baby Bunting'), for breach
Of promise, affirmed the judgment of
the lower court for S45, 900 damages.
By the explosion of a saw-mill boiler
near Espytown, Pa, four men were
killed
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, tenement house
was burned and Mr.. and Mrs Irvine
persisted in he flames.
OK the Hudson river navigation came
to an end on the Sd.
THE failure WIS announced of the
Rittenhouse Manufacturing Company
of Passaic, \. j., with $500 600 debts
and $50. OO) assets.
AT Albany. y. Y. Joseph B. Abbott,
cashier for the Henry w. Sage Lumber
Company, who was discovered to be a
Dc faulter to the extent of 500. 600 shot
himself dead.
IL Boston Jacob Schaefer beat the
worlds record at balk-line billiards In
five innings he made total of 400.
The banking firm of Delamater &
Co. at Mcadville, Pa, failed for $780,
600
IL Pittsburgh. Pa, a fire which broke
out in Maginn's cracker factory de-
stroyed four large business blocks, caus-
ing loss of $500, O01.
4 FIRE in the retail dry-gOods store
of Sheppard & Co. at Providence. r. l.,
caused damage to the extent of $780,
600
IN New York Joe Coburn, the old
time pugilist, died of consumption, aged
So years.
THE Homeopathic Society of Boston
has adopted a resolution advocating the
use of cblorOfOrm in the execution of
condemned criminals.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

IN the United States the question
voted upon by all Methodist churches
OF admitting women as delegates to the
general conference of that church was
decided in favor of the women.
THE death of J. II. Baxter, Surgeon
General of the United States army.
occurred az Washington, aged 50 years
ON the 9TH General Brooke reported to
the War Department that a majority of
the hostile Indians in South Dakota
we're willing to return to Pine Ridge
agency.
The President has appointed Romu-
aldo PachecO. Of California, to be Min
lister of the United States to the Central
American States in place of Minister
Miner. recalled
IL the United States the business
failures during the seven DAYS ended on
the 5th numbered 3l2. against 249 the
preceding week and $40 the correspond
ing week last year.
THE clerk of the House of Represent
atives has printed the unofficial list of
mem bers-elect of the next House, show
ing S. Republicans. 2S4 Democrats and
5 Farmers Alliance.
The exchanges at the clearinghouse
in the United States during the week
ended on the 9th aggregated Sl,259.
912 $50. against S1.OS6 l52, 267 the pre-
ious week As compared with the cor
responding week of 1889 the decrease
amounted to 6.5.
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EnREIGN INTELLIGENCE

THE temperature in Eastern Ontario
and Western Quebec ranged from IA to
81 degrees below zero on the "a
with high winds. At St. Johns the
gale blew at the rate of eighty miles
an hour and houses, barns and fences
we're blown down.
In the City of Mexico severe earth
quake shock was felt, causing the in
habitants to rush from their houses in
terror.
Four caravans of horses, sheep and
camels and thirty Kirgese riding across
the steppes in Eastern Russia were
frozen to death.
ORDERS were given for British man
of-war to convey ten tons of bread to
the ADMINISTRATION Inhabitants of
Clareiscland and Innistunk, in ireland.
IN the work-house at Newcastle-On-
Tyne six persons were burned to death
during fire.
THE firm of Bevis, Russell & Co..
London merchants, failed for over
81. 600, 600.
On account OF recent executions in
Russia of men who were subsequently,
proved to be innocent, the Gar ordered
that no death sentence snail be carried
out until approved by him.
IL Canada nine cotton mills were pur-
chased by the Dominion Cotton Mills
Company. composed of wealthy Mont
realers, for s., 500, 600.
FROM the barracks of Juarez Mex,
eighteen convict soldiers escaped by
killing three of the guards. They We're
pursued, and three we're overtaken and
shot to death and four captured and re-
turned to the post, where they were or.
dered to be executed.
THE Government of Spain is accused
of harasSing the Protestant mission
aries in the Caroline Islands with a
view OF driving them from that region.
THE majority of the Irish National
lists at a meeting in London on the 9th
deposed Mr. Parnell from the leader
sh ip and elected Justin Mccarthy in his
I stead.
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81 expected he would" was the re-
ply. But as time went on, and our
rate grew simply fearful on the passen-.
gers. / knew we'll enough that the con-
duetor had been scolded as well as the
rest of us No; he told me afterwards
that he simply sat down and said his
prayers. But to go on; / saw that we
lad made up twenty-eight minutes.
then thirty. then thirty being
ing only seven minutes behind. But
there we hung. She could not increase
her lead, do my best
Il knew then that we should soon be-
gin to lose again, Cor she was heating.
Whether the boxes were Juggling on the
cars or engine l could not be sure.
Then, too. it might have been the
curves, at all events We were Juggling
and losing We fell of | calculated
some five minutes, when NE struck the
tunnel. Ii was a heavy rail and a
straight track there. and / pulled her
clean out for one more squirt, live or die.
as we dashed into the steam and dark
ness of that long hole. In there you
can't see any thing but signals. The
Sangamore answered me for just one
plunge. Bat the next instant, crashl
God help NO. The whole side of the
cab vas flying in splinters. l knew
what that meant l jumped from my
seat in front of the fire-box. There.
under my seat. was the general man
ager. lie had been mercifully knocked
in instead of out, but he was senseless.
Ny drivers held their rod yet, but
knew the strain could not last long
without swapping that rod. too, as L
could not find the throttle to shut
her off. 1t was so queer about that
throttle. ] turned round and round try
ing to find it; | kept turning to the left
/ thought | had an extra eye just over
my ear, and my other two eyes were
blind. That new eye showed me a
beautiful clear light, but not the thrOt-
tie. Round and round that fearful
steel hammer, the broken rod, kept
crashing and tearing out the shreds of
the cab on that side. Then the other
one twisted. which threw old Sycamore
plump into the granite wall We were
all piled up there, dark as pitch all
about, and finally still. Now. the Curl
Gus thing about 1t all is that with my
new eye over my ear ! actually read the
time by my watch, and we were only
seven minutes late. Yes. sir, we had
made up thirty-tnree minutes in the
seventy-four miles, slow-ups and stops
included: and a minute more would
have brought US TO the station. just
yelled: 'How's that old English?" and
my new eye seemed to go out in dark
ness"
The new eye was the result of fear
, full cash on the side of the head, from
the effects of which the moor man lin
gered on the borders of death for weeks
That postponed the wedding. The
peculiar effect of that blow on the head
the writer can not explain, but the fact
that he read his watch correctly is sub
Stimulated by the conductor of the train,
of whom asked information.
Were there many injured?" | added,
in the pause that followed his conclu-
sion.
Don't ask me-yes Thank God I'm
alive! Now Mollie," addressing his
wife, who just entered, I've told that
story for the last time, except in my
prayers = Emory ]. Haynes. ID. D., in
\. Y. Ledger.
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THE SWING.

Out in the yard, beneath the trees,
Where blithely blows the autumn breeze,
And where betwixt the leaves On high
There glimmer little strips Of say,
NY sturdy swing is hung, and theIe
make swift voyage far in air.
Now up and down gayly go
Upon my journeys 10 and fro.
Whenever rise, upon ms sight
Dawn meadows bathed in golden light;
Whenever / dip. my eye perceives
A rustling bower Of following leaves.
The birds around me chirp and sing
As merrily swing and swing;
But soon the birds will all be gone,
And snow viii lie along the lawn,
So If / tread. my steps will show
Like Crusoe's Fridays long ago.
When winter winds IN chorus call,
l do not use my swing at all,
But patiently try TO wait
Until stunning robins mate;
And when they cry 10 greet the spring,
o. how Join them from my swing
Clir ton Scotland, in Harper's Young People
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The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
FIFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS.

Stfohu session.
WEDNESDAY,, Dec. "A bill was in
troduced in the Senate to reduce letter
postage TO one cent. The election bill
was further discussed. In the House
the copyright bill was passed by vote
Of 1S9 to IS. A bill was introduced to
exclude immigrants who are hostile to
the principles of the cOnstitu ton or who
are insane or dependent for support 1t
also provides that no person shall en-
courage immigration by advertisements
or promises of employment
THURSDAY. Dec. 4-The election bill
was further discussed in the Senate.
Bills were introduced for a per-
manent tariff commission and for the
free unlimited use of silver money. A
resolution was adopted to issue arms to
the States Of North and South Dakota.
Nebraska and Wyoming. In the House
a bill was introduced authorizing the
issue of a new series of legal-tender
notes to meet any DEFICIENCIES in the
revenues of the Government The bill
providing for the punishment of every
guardian or other person for the en-
bezzlement Of the pension of his ward
was passed
FRIDAY. Dec. Sin the Senate the
time was occupied in discussing
the election bill. In the House the
pension appropriation bill 1915. 0O0. OO)l
was discussed and finally passed. The
senate bill authorizing the Secretary
OF War to issue 1000 stands of arms to
each OF the States Of North and South
Dakota, Wyoming. Montana and Ne
braska vas also passed. A bill was in
troduced providing for the disarma-
ment Of the Indians and making it a
punishable Offense for anv person to
sell arms or ammunition to them.
THE United States Senate on the
9th passed a resolution calling on the
Attorney General for list of election
SUPERVISORS House amendments to the
bill 70 issue arms to settlers we're agreed
70. and the elections bill was further
discussed In the House the Senate
bill was passed appropriating $780,
600 for the purchase of additional
atiOns for the Sioux Indians. The
Senate bill for the retirement of Gen
eral George Stoneman, with the rank of
Colonel, was also passed. The Senate
joint resolution directing the President
10 request the widow OF General Grant
to permit the removal OF the romans of
her illustrious husband TO Arlington
Cemetery was introduced.
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LATER.
III Iden Must Hang.

WAsHINGToN, Dec. Sin the supreme
court of the United States to-day de
cision was rendered, through Justice
Harlan. affirming the Judgment of the
Circuit court of the United States for
the district of Minnesota in the case OF
Clifton Holden against The State OF
Minnesota. Holden is convicted muir
derer, He contended that he was lille
.gally held, because the new criminal
code of Minnesota, adopted in 1889, I'M
der the operations of which it was pro-
posed to execute him, was ex post facto
as applied to this case, and otherwise
in violation of the federal constitution.
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AT st. Paul on the morning of the
sth. Edward Finlay, a young mulatto
who has made a precarious sort of
living as a street singer. in MT OF
| jealousy cut his wife's throat with
butcher knife and then pounded her
head with a stick of stove wood. lie
then cut his own throat. The woman
died in a short time. The man was
taken to the hospital where he died in
few hours.
/. PETER DEMPSEY, cousin of Jack
Dempsey. the prize fighter. while en-
deayoring to save Mary Allen. six
teen-year-old girl, from criminal at
tack BY two Poles in Brooklyn. n. u.
on the night Of the sth, was probably
fatally stabbed.
WHILE preaching to a large congrega-
tiOn at Brunswick, y. J., on the night
of the It'll. Rev. DIR. J. II. Strong
dropped dead in the pulpit. Apoplexy
was the cause.
THE trial Of Walter +. Horton for the
murder of his wife began in St. Paul on
the 10th.
\ DYNAMITE bomb was found in front
of the cashiers desk of the Union De-
pot at Kansas City, Mo-, on the sth.
THIRTEEN cars loaded with stock were
wrecked on the Missouri Pacific rail-
road near Omaha on the sth.
Bishop WHIPPLE, of Minnesota, was
presented to Queen Victoria, on Sunday
by the Dean Of Windsor.
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THIRTEEN years have elapsed since
the death Of Oliver T. Morton. the old
War Governor" and Senator of Indiana.
On every anniversary his widow and
other members OF the family quietly
visit and decorate his tomb. Ca this
last occasion a companyof twenty-three
friends assembled. and a short address
was made by Mrs. Morton's pastor, who
preface Il with PRAYER
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There has thus far been discovered no
trace of the whereabouts of ID. w. Leav-
enwortb, "a wealthy old man who lived
at juneau until about one year ago,
when he suddenly disappeared. Suit
had been commenced to foreclose a
mortgage held against him for $4,000
by Milwaukee parties on farm be pur-
chased just before his departure of an
old couple who would be forced to give
up their residence on the farm. Leaven-
worth had agreed to take care of them
for life.
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An Aged statesman Honored.

LoGASsPoRr. Ind, Dec. s.-A recep-
ton was rendered ex-United States Sem
ator Fitch at his home here Friday
night on the occasion of his SD birth
day. The affair was conducted By
the Fitch Democratic Club. Profess
sional men and soldiers called
during the evening to pay their
respects to the aged statesman
and soldier Mr. Fitch will be remem-
bered by the older politicians of the
country as having beaten Schuyler Col
fax for Congress here before the war
and as having challenged stephen A.
Douglas to fight duel when they were
mem bers of the United States Senate.
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4 PATENT was issued in Washington
recently for a steel fence post. II is to
be made Of steel tubing seven feet
high. with 4 neat cap. and with bands
TO hold the barbed wire Ii is said that
these posts can be furnished complete
for placing in position at twenty-four
s.-.nt. oh
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A MYSTERY OF the sea is announced in
the tdiugs taken 20 London by the
Norwegian bark Ncptunus, which re-
ports that while lying TO in gale of
DungeneSs the other evening she saw a
large west-bound steamer capsizc and
founder No trace Of the steamers crew
N1s found. and the vessel probably
went 10 the bottom with all on board
Her name and nationality we're Hn-
known. and she will probably be num-
bcrei among the many mysterious dis
appearances that darken marine chron
icles, while friends watch and wait
in vain for those who persisted with
her
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EVERY advance in the Improvement
of the telescope has brought to our
knowledge still closer double stars, the
distance between them being so magni-
fled as TO become visible and measura-
BILE But the spectroscope has revealed
TO US double star so close that no tel
escope viii shON the distance between
the two stars. although each one OF
the two stars is bright enough to be
visible TO the naked eve.