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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15

New YORK, Jan. 9.-An appalling DIS
aster occurred in Brooklyn this morn
ing. The heavy winds of last night
shook the new Presbyterian Church at
206 Throop Avenue to it's foundation,
and at 4 80 this morning one of the walls
building adjoining, and brought
with 1t death and destruction.
The ruined building was ten
anted by the Mott and Purdy
families. They numbered nine per-
sons. Five of them are reported dead.
Two were carried out of the ruins 20
seriously injured that their death is
only question of few hours. Follow
ing is a list of those reported dead:
MARY PURDY, aged 49,.
DAVID PURDY, aged 15.
The injured are:
Mrs. CAROLINE MOTT, aged 20, shoulder
hurt
MISS SARAH Mort, her daught er, cut
about the head.
Mrs. EMMA PURDY, widow and moth
er, respectively Of the two killed, few
scratches; suffering much from the
shock.
CARRIE PURDY, her daughter, aged II.
ankle and left shoulder hurt.
RICHARD Poole, cousin of Mrs. Purdy,
back strained, head and shoulders in
jured.
The tenants in the little frame house
adjoining were alarmed last night by
the manner in which the church walls
shook and ratified. Their own dwelling
was considerably shaken, and it was
with fear and trembling that they re-
tired. Twice during the night some of
the inmates we're aroused by the roar
ing wind, but everyone was in bed and
asleep when the disaster occurred this
morning. The heavy brick wall of the
church fell sudd denly with crash and in q
heap that bored through the cockleshell
structure adjoining like battering ram.
The dwelling seemed to part III twain,
and Instantly the shrieks and groans of
the injured startled the residents for
blocks about.
The noise of the falling wall attracted
the attention OF a policeman and he
sent in fire alarm and summoned the
reserve from police station near at
hand. A great crowd sathered, gazing
blankly at the ruined dwelling and the
shattered church. The house had been
torn In such manner that bedroom
was exposed and in the bed within
plain view of those in the street lay the
hood boHu of Mics Now p,,r,Jx, boroo
down beneath a mass of debris. The
fearful spectacle seemed to stun those
who witnessed it, and for a few mo-
lnents nothing was done to render as
sistance to those within.
Then the police and firemen arrived
and started in to the rescue. They first
found Mrs. Emma Purdy lying in her
bed, crushed beneath mass OF mbers
and bricks, so seriously injured that she
could not speak Or move when they
carried her out of the charnel house
into the street. Robert Poole was the
next one found alive. He is
also SO seriously injured that no
hope lis entertained of his re-
covery. So far as known, at this
writing, none of the inmates in the
house escaped death or injury. Miss
Mary Purdy's body, crushed and man
gled in fearful way, was brought out
and laid on the sidewalk under the
blankets IN which she Slept Last night.
She was G. beautiful young woman. It
is reported that she was engaged to be
married soon.
The church itself is rendered useless
and will have to be replaced by a new
one.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
e MOVE FOR EIGHT HOURS.
Meeting of the National Brickl aver.
Aa.aei.4ia,

1HeetIhg OF the National Brickl ayers
Association at Kansas City.
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, Jan. TO- The
twenty-fourth annual convention of the
Bricklayers' and Masons' International
Union of America, opened here to-day
with large attendance of delegates
from the leading centers of this country
and Canada. The reports of the
officers show a large increase in
the membership during the past year
and indicate that the organization is in
a hourlshing condition. The action to
be taken regarding. the 4. eight-hour
movement to be inaugurated in May
next is among tie most important of
the questions on the programme.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Hominy Mills i'm Ashes.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 9.-This
morning the West Indianapolis Hominv
Mill, covering quarter of an acre, was
destroyed by fire. The mill was one
of the finest and largest in the country
G. E. Hall was the owner Of the plant.
Loss SIS. 900, insurance $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
RALLY OF WAR SHIPS.

England Sending Many Cruisers to Fan
zibar.
ZANZIBAR, Jan. 9.-The largest feet of
British war ships ever assembled in
these waters is now here, and other
men-of-war of the same nationality are
constantly arriving. The excitement
occasioned by the presence of the feet
is intense, and speculation is rife
concerning the object of the gathering
of the war vessels.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Failure in London.

LONDON, Jan. 10.-Thorsten Norden-
felt, civil engineer and manager of the
Maxim Nordenfelt Gun and Ammuni-
ton Company, has been declared
bankrupt. His liabilities amount to
100000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
PARNELL SCORES A POINT.
The London Times Ordered to MAKE
Public Its Circulation.

LONDON, Jan. lin the libel suit
brought by Mr.. Parnell against the
Times the court has refused the Tines
appeal against answering an interropa-
tory regarding the circulation of the
Times at the time of the publication
of the articles ON "ParneIlism and
Crime" The court, however, allowed
an appeal of the Times against disclos-
ing the names of the parties from whom
it received the information on which
the articles were based.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Got n Good Verdict.

John Olson got verdict for $4,000
against the st. Paul q Duluth road at
saltwater, Mimi. on the 10th, in pc
cullar suit. Olson lost his right foot
last fall while aboard a freight train
with car of horses, and sued Tor $780,,
600 damages. The railroad company
denied that Olson was in charge of the
horses or had any right aboard the
train, alleging that he was tramp steal
ing ride. The jury, however, brought
In verdict In his favor Tor $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15

YERkES BARRED OUT,

Work Must Stop on the West Side Cable
Loop.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. 10.-Judge Shepard
rendered decision this morning in the
suit Of the Chicago City Railway against
the West Division Railway, and refused
to dissolve the injunction restraining
Yerkes' Company from laying cable
on State Street. This decision makes it
impossible Tor Mr.. Yerkes to complete
his down town loop for the West Side
cable line under the present plans.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Want it Anroyated.

There will be submitted to the Mis-
sissippi Legislature memorial to con-
gress. praying for the abrogation of tho
Fifteenth amendment to the constitu-
ton. Gen. A. West, of Holly
Springs, is the father of the memo
rial, but has been advised by
other leading men of the state. They
argue that it can do no harm, even if il
does no good, and the legislature will,
doubtless, give its sanction. The me-
mortal sets forth that all the trouble
with the negro and his presence as an
issue is due to his political rights. 1t
cites his general inferiority as cit zen,
and declares that the whites of the state
can better afford and would prefer
Republican rule without the negro than
Democratic rule with him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
CAUGHT LIKE RATS.

A Terrible Accident Near Louisville.
Ky.-FourteeH Men Drowned in
q Huge Caisson-FOur Manage
10 Escape Like Fate-The
Large Structure Sinks Into a
Bed of Quicksand-Carel
Causes a Break Through Which
the Water BUSHES and Hens in
the Men-Search for the Dead.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
FALL OF A BIG CHURCH.

the Scene Of a Distressing
Disaster The Walls OF the
Throop Avenue House of WOr-
ship COl1apse-One House and
Its Sleeping Inmates Buried I'm
der the Ruins = Nine Persons
Taken from Beneath the Debris,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Sale of Fishing Rights.

OTTAWA, Ont, Jan. 10.-The Quebec
government has sold number of leases
for salmon fishing, several Americans
being among the purchasers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Anzl S. Dodd Dead.

New YoRK, Jan. 10--Amzi S. Dodd,
the founder of Dodd's Express, died at
the residence of his daughter here this
afternoon, of brain fever.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
DEATHS GRIP ON 1.-THE JAP"
Matsada Sorakichi, the Wrestler, Dying
of Consumption.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. 10.-Information
reaches here from the East to the effect
that Matsada Sorakichi, the well-known
Japanese wrestler, usually designated as
the Jap" is in the last stages OF pull
monary consumption. He is confined
to his bed and helpless, and it is doubt
full whether he will ever be able to
leave his room in the brief lease of life
that remains to him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Heavy Failure i'm Roston.

BosEoN, Mass, Jan. 1O.-Hobbs, Gid
den & Co.. building materials, have
tailed. Liabilities about $4,000. AS
sets large.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
O'SHEA ASKS DAMAGES
The Captain Charges Dublin Pape
With Libel.

DUBLIN, Jan. 9.-Upon the applica-
ton of Capt. O'Shea, an attachment has
been issued against the Freeman's
Journal in suit for damages brought
by Capt. O'Shea against that paper for
its comments upon him in connection
with his suit for divorce. In an inter
view to day, Mr.. E. Dwyer Gray, the
proprietor of the journal, said he was
ready to meet Capt. O'Shea in any
court
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Coal TumbIes.

The warm weather has broken the
price of hard coal in Chicago. On the
9Th the city was placarded with posters
offering ali sizes of hard coal at 1915 a
ton, delivered. The regular list price is
1915. It is believed that the coal deal
ers' combination has been routed, at
least Tor this season.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
A Sad End.


The body of Mrs. J. Lobin was
found in rickety d tenement house
in Denver, Col. on the 18th. with the
once beautiful features beaten into a
pulp and her white teeth broken,
some of them being lodged in her
throat. 1t was at first thought she
had been run over by cable
car and carried to the house, but
the coroner adduced sufficient testi-
mony upon which to have the husband
arrested for her murder. The woman
is sister of Congressman Stone of
that city. Mr. Stone would say nothing
further than that his sister had been
twice married, both times unfortunate
ly. He said her name was Josephine
Lobin. Her first husband was James
Rocksford. She was once a leading
belle III st. Louis society.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
TAKEN FOR DYNAMITERS.

Two Persons from New York Arrested
at Queenstown.
QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 11.-Maggie and
Michael Joyce, who were passen-
gers on the steamer Servia on her
last trip from New York, were arrested
here for having in their possession a
revolver and a quantity of cartridges.
They were remanded for examination.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
THUMPED a LORD AND SWELL.
Mitchell, the PngiIiet, Administers q
WINNING to ViscOunt MauuayiiIe

LONDON, Jan. S.-Charley Mitchell.
the pugilist, attacked Viscouat Mande-
vile aud Mr. AbIng don in a restaurant.
last night. Viscount Vaudeville WAS
badly beaten before the combatants
were separated.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-04
,een tried, but the truth lives and


spreads.
There are other prisons than those
built in stone and barred with iron,
The high priest and his company were
the real prisoners on this occasion.
StubbOrnnesS, cruelty, ignorance and
prejudice were bars and bolts and chains
that held them. Sin is the real prison
house. Drunkenness is worse than Ander-
sonville. A late writer in the Century
tells of certain John Brown, who was
helped by his residence in the Ander-
vile pen; he was compelled to be sober.
: Yet we license the open doors through
which thousands Of men pass on their
way to state worse than any rebel
prison ever was. The liar builds around
himself invisible prison walls; the thief
builds his own prison walls: the man
untrue to his marriage vows builds his
5 own prison walls. Evil deeds are the
blocks and bolts and bars of which the
walls of habit are made. A fixed char
iacter for evil is an incarceration for
eternity.
/ Out of the prison house Of habit there
is but one escape; to repent, to confess,
to be forgiven. Through Jesus repent
anee and forgiveness are preached, and
through Him alone the prison houses OF
sin may be emptied.
1t is sad that so many do not care for
these invisible prison walls who dread
the Sheriff'S lock and key. If there were
more dread of the former there would
be less need of the latter. Census pad
derS should fear padding more
than the penitentiary, but they
do not; they should fear per-
jury more than the peniten-.
tiary, but they do not. Padding and
perjury are only the fruit of what grows
in the hearts of men. According to
some of our papers men, when once men
are caught. would rather be called
ounces than knaves and perjurers. VINO
can wonder at the choice? But God
knows whether a man is Ounce or a
knave. and one day the prison houses
OF earth, if they are not emptied by re-
pentance and forgiveness and reforma-
ton, will be emptied into prison house
where there shall be forever weeping
and crashing OF teeth.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-04
THE WEEKLY PRESS.

People who complain of the heat in
this country have little idea of what
must be endured in some parts of the
torIid zone. On the southwest coast of
the Persian gulf, during the months of
last June and August, for fourteen con-
secutive days, the thermometer never
fell, day or night, below 100 degrees
Fahrenheit, and it rose during the after
noon to 1913 degrees Fahrenheit.-Spe
tator.
Rev. Gollghtly Morrill, is taking va
cation. He is in the Yellowstone re-
gion, and, as he has not been heard
from for several days, his friends are
lpprehensive that he has fallen into the
great geyser. May the fates avert such
/ sad calamity to our friend Golightly.
Irish Standard.
The Hennepin boulevard was given to
the street railway company by the park
board at it's last meeting. This means
that the majority of the park board of
Minneapolis have followed in the foot
steps of the city council, the police COM
mission and mayor by stealing from the
people and handing over to Tom Lowry
large part of the public property in
trusted to their care. The stolen prop
erty runs up close to ambition, and yet
the people, the rightful owners, seem to
be utterly Indifferent to the theft of
these raScally SchemerS.-NOrt
Labor Union.
Why does the Pioneer Press not con-
tradict W. W. Erwin's statement that
Gov. Merriam and his hackers spent
nearly quarter of million of dollars
to gain the election two years ago? A
statement made by one of as high au-
thority to convention of men from all
parts of the state cannot be ignored as
inconsequential. The facts in the
case are that Erwin told the truth.
Why don't Gov. Merriam and
his henchmen contradict the Progress
i've Age in regard to the governors pc
culiar generosity to condemned violat-
Ors of the liquor laws of the state?
They have had ample opportunity.
Marked copies of our paper have been
sent them. The editor wrote the gov
ernor a letter acQuainting him of the
status in the case, and not one word
in contradiction can we obtain. We
do not believe in SANDER. We re-
greet to be compelled to thus speak of
the governor of Minnesota. for he is our
governor no less because he is Repub-
lican than if a Prohibitionist, but what
seems to US stern duty compelS us to
place bucSt uldbGcIS U6lOI6 lHS pSOpl0.
We stand ready to retract when we find
we have wronged, and gladly would we
receive evidence that our governor
has not condeScended to treas
enable acts for the votes of
a despicable business, but after ex-
hausting all that courtesy could do, we
are driven to the conclusion that Will
lam R. Merriam, the governor OF Min
nesota, has prostituted his power in the
Interests of a class of traders whose
business is not only beneath them, but
utterly inhuman in all the results that
attend its sale and consumption. If
these are facts, as we believe them to
be, who is there among the temperance
Republicans who can vote for Gov.
Merriam?-The Progressive Age.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-04


evidently at once a foreigner and not
oYergifted with brilliancy of intellect.
He made up to one of the clerks, and,
with an air of hesitation, as if doubtful
whether he had come to the right place,
asked in broken English for some ''over-
ais"
"Those you will find at the clothing
store just down the street," the clerk
said.
The customer looked puzzled. 0@
81 did go there," he said, land did
request them for envelopes, and here is
it that they do send me-"
The clerk was quick enough to see
where the trouble lay, and good ma
tured enough to explain to the foreigner
the difference between envelopes for
letters and envelopes for the legs OF
laborers, and the man went back to the
clothing store, where, 10 doubt, he
found what ne wanted.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-04
THE NORTH SIDE BOOM.
The PuttingeIn Of Crossings te
Have an Immediate Effect.

The Putting@In Of Crossings TO
Have an Immediate Effect.
The North Minneapolis Chronicle
:i"Strangers visiting the North side
for the first time are impressed with the
beauty of the location and the superior
advantages it possesses for making
pleasant homes. The elevated and
gently undulating grounds, covered with
a handsome growth of native trees, gives
the appearance of an immense park,
and presents marked contrast to the
level surface and treeless expanSe
found in some other portions of the city.
The natural beauty of the north part OF
the city cannot be equaled, and this
fact is becoming apparent to citizens
and to strangers coming here for the
first time. Several circumstances have
conspired to retard the development OF
the North side, notably among which
has been the bugbear of the railway
tracks on Fourth avenue north. and the
fact that no attractive driveway led
in this direction. Both of these Objec-
lions will be removed the present sea-
son and it is very probable that another
year will mark a new era in the growth
of the Third and Tenth wards-more
particularly as desirable residence
section of the city. The bridging of the
railway tracks, which is promised to be
done this year, will remove the dan
ger and delay that have hithers
to attended travel in this direc-
ton: the paving of Washington,
Twentieth and Crystal Lake avenues,
and the completion of Lyndale boule-
ward will offer choice of routes by
which this portion of the city can be
reached over good thoroughfares, while
the extension of the electric street rail-
way lines will offer easy and rapid
transit to and from the central portion
of the city. With ali these additional
advantages, so soon to be enjoyed, it is
not unreasonable to predict that next
year will witness marked advance in
the growth and prosperity of this beau
tiful region
1t must not be inferred from what has
been said that nothing has yet been
done in the way of home-making. for in
spite of the disadvantages which have
been mentioned. upwards of 10000
people are already residents of the two
wards named, and the advantages of
pleasant homes, good society, of excel
lent schools and church privileges are
enjoyed and appreciated. With so much
already accomplished, what may not be
expected under the more advantageous
conditions soon to be realized?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-04
A ADJUSTMENTS.
Production OF Edwin Barbour's |
Decentralization OF "She"-Last
Week Of Hess.

Production OF Edwin Barbour's
Decentralization OF "She"-Last
Week Of Hess.
''She," the play from Rider Haggard's
fantastic novel of the same name. was
put on at the Bijou last night to a
crowded house. The play dragged
little at first, but the actors did better
as they went on, and everything else
went smoother as it progressed. The
ton of Kor by an earthquake in the
prologue was quite realistic. The part
of Ayesha, or She Who Must Be
Obeyed, was taken by Jessaline Rodgers
in an admirable manner, though her
costume was by no means OF
so primitive nature as the
Autographs had shown. Freder-
lex Book as Horace Holly was as
good as he is in everything else. and
the work of Edwin Barbour as Kali
likrates in the prologue and Leo Vincey
in the play is also worthy of special
mention. Neil Scully as Ted and Lloyd
Heal as Job were funny, and kept the
audience in roar whenever they were
on. Gustave Neville as Billali read his
lines very well, also demonstrat-
ingthat he was a good actor.
Taking it all in all, MIR.
Barbour's version of the eccentric novel
which hardly offers material for sue
cessful dramatization, is as good, if not
better, than any produced in Minneap-
oils, and the presentation OF the play
given last evening reflects credit ably
upon the capability of the company.
He SIS will co mmence his fareWe
week at the Grand tonight by present
ing .sRigoletto," a work that has met
with much favor In this city in the past.
Tomorrow night Faust" will be re-
peated, and Wednesday night Richard
Wagner's romantic opera, THE Flying
Dutchman" will be sung for the first
time in this city. Music lovers should
improve this last opportunity to hear
Hess, as the company will not be heard
here again until next summer.
The sale of seats for Prof. Bartholo-
news Equine Paradox will commence
at the box Office of the Grand Thursday
morning. The prices will be 80 cents
OH the lower floor and Is cents in the
balcony.
Thatcher. Primrose and Vests min
strels is the only show of its kind Man
ager COnklin will book in the Grand.
Percy Weadon, the hero of lost
cause, "High Tide" is summering in
Indianapolis.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-04
The Lumber Trade.

Trade has reached the stage peculiar
to the midsummer months. The char
acteristics, which are seasonable, are
perhaps more strongly marked in the
East than in the West, although there is
everywhere some complaint that there
is a letting down in the volume of
trade. There is no depressing effect as
the result of this falling off, be-
cause it was expected and entirely
seasonable. But trade is not being
pushed. The men of affairs have
learned to take it easy in the midsum-
mer months, particularly in the East,
and so there isn't the push to trade
which was conspicuous in May and
June. Still the volume of business is
very large. A vast amount of lumber
is going into consumption. Minneapo-
lis and the Northwestern markets may
be taken as a type of trade generally.
From this center fully so per cent more
lumber is being shipped than is COM
mon to this season of the year.--The
Lumbarman.