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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
A WARSHlP DISABLED.

Great Rritain's 'NVmrspite" Said to be
Defective In Her Hull.
LONDON, May 20.-The flagship War
spite has been found to have serious de-
fects in her hull. The admiralty Off
Gals have sent number of expert
dockyard workmen to Esquimalt, &. c.,
in order to make the repairs necessary
to fit her for further active service.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
Arrests Follow Fatal Ring Fight

LYNN, Mass, May 28.-Matthew Nc
Cam, referee, and Andrew Gardiner,
one OF the managers of the fatal Burns
Tracy glove fight Of Monday night, have
been arrested charged with aiding and
abetting the contest.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
HEAVY FAILURE IN Shoes.

w. 81 j. NJ. Bent, of Cochituate, Mass,
in Financial Difficulties.
Boston, Mass, May 2S.-W. & j. NJ.
Bent, boot and shoe manufact-
urers, Cochituate, Mass, are fnan.
cially embarrassed, and will prob
ABLY settle through insolvency.
Their liabilities are estimated at SloO,-
900, of which amount 500, 900 is owed to
Potter. White e. Ravinv # Boston.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
Surar Bounty IN Canada.

OTTAWA, Ont, May 27.-It is under
stood that the government has decided
to grant a rebate on all sugars manu-
featured in Canada for export which
will place the Canadian retiner IN the
same position as the American refner
to trade in foreign markets. Canadian
refners are Woodworking for ebate on
SUGAR manufactured for domestic pur-
poses.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
A Newspaper Man Elevated

The steamship Zealandi arrived at San
Francisco on the Goth from Honolulu
Queen Liliuokalini was everywhere re-
ceived enthusiastically during her tour
of the islands The Hawaiian Gazette
announces the prospective appointment
of Walter Hill, ex-journalist, as post
master-general.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
French Storage Plans.

The French Chamber Of Deputies on
the 9th passed bill providing for the
storing of stock Of grain in every for
tilted town in France, sufficient to feed
all the civilians of such a town, in time
of war. for two months.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
SAME AS LIFE SENTENCE.

WaIenty Nowak Goes to Prison at Mar
quette for Twenty-Five Years.
MARQUETTE, Mich, May 27.-Walenty
Nowak, Sr, convicted of the murder Of
Smith, was sentenced to twenty-five
years Imprisonment in the Upper
Peninsula branch Of the penitentiary.
Young Nowak was acquitted
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
GAINES WILL FORGED.

Decision in a Litigation That Has Lasted
Fifty Years.
New YORK, May 2S.-Surrogate Alb.
bolt, of Brooklyn, to-day decided the
great suit over Myra Clark Gaines will
He declares the Photographic will oil
January s, 1885, false and fraudulent.
In his opinion Myra Clark Gaines
never wrote word of it. The surro.
gate upholds the willsof January 5, 1885
The Gaines case in its various aspects
has been in litigation fifty years. It in.
wolves 81 10000
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
SOLDIERS MAY MUTINY.

Arms Sent to Ouell All Expected Outbreak
in Washington.
WALLA WALLA, Wash, May 28.-The
sheriff of Walla Walla County has tele-
graphed Gov. Ferry, asking him to send
arms and ammunition, as an outbreak of
soldiers was possible when arrest of the
soldiers indicted for completely in the
Hunt lynching was made to-day. The
Governor sent the necessary order.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
Arkansas anu ths Worlds Fair.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, May 27.-Gov-
Eagle has issued proclamation calling
state Worlds Fair convention to meet.
Ia this city August 5.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
ABSENTEES OBJECT.

Anti-Ca Men in the Florida Legislature
Protest.
The opponents of Senator Call in the
late contest over his reelection in the
Florida Legislature to the United States
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
Switchmen Withdraw.

Notice has been received by the
grand officers of the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen of the withdrawal of
the Switchmen's Union from the SUI
preme council of Federated Railway
emrlOVeS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
scHOOLBOY Fatally WHIPPED.
\ Young Lady Teacher Tried for killing
One of Her Pupils.

One of Her Pupils.
PONTIAC, Mich, May 2S.-Miss Jennie
Webb. young school teacher who
whipped a pupil named Frank Cook so
severely that he died, has been con.
victed of assault and battery. She was
charged with killing the boy. Public
sympathy was WITH the young teacher,
on bail for sentence, but the limit is
500 fine and three months imprlson-
mGDt,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
SIG. CORTE IS siLsNT.
he ex-ConsuI to New Orleans Refuses to
be Interyie0 1t Queenstown.

TIC GX-COnSVI 1N0W VEIVttLIS 1NCIUSCS 10
be fntervied TT Queenstown.
QUEENSTOWN, May 29.-Sig. Corte, the
Italian consul at New Orleans, who has
beenrecalled to Italy in order TO explain
in detail the facts connected with the
lynching of Italians in that city. has ar
rived here, in company with the Italian
lad Marchessi, who it is claimed gave
the signals to kill Chief of Police Hen
messy. Sig Corte declined to be inter
viewed on the subject of his recall.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
HAYES MIND IS SOUND.
Emphatic DENIAL of the Report That He
is Falling Mentally.

is Failing Mentally.
Fremont, O., May 30.-There is nc
truth whatever Ill the report that ex-
President Hayes is losing his mind. rs
is we'll and hearty. The report Of his
health failing has been emphatically de-
MED. Some time ago he had a slight
attack Of la grippe, but it left no bad
nfiacfE
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.
This VIII Save EXPENSE.

At Evansville, Ind, in the federal
court on the 25th, Charles H. Ritter
pleaded guilty to embezzlement Of $780,
600 from the First National Bank while
he was paying teller. Sentence was de-
ferred
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
BATTLE IN SOUTH AFRICA.
British Forces Defeat the Portuguese on
the BcInbe River.

LISBON, May 2S.-A dispatch received
here to-day from Lourenzo Marques,
South Africa, says that another fight
has taken place between the British
and the Portuguese. This time the
scene of the encounter was on the
banks of the Bembe River. The Portu-
guese were defeated.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03

DIR. Garrison Convicted of Murder
WHEELING, w. Va, May 27.-The jury
in the Garrison murder case returned 3
verdict at noon to-day Of murder in Tho
second 0eoree
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
Scarlet Fever i1nldemio

NEGAUNEE, Mich, May 2S.- Sever
more cases of scarlet fever are reported
from Gold Street. The disease has as
sumed epidemic proportions.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
MAY DIE OF MEASLES.

Heir to the Throne of Austria Danger
ouslY I'll at Vienna.
VIENNA, May 30.-Archduke Franz
Ferdinand, the heir-presumptive to the
throne of Austria, is seriously sick with
measles. The physicians in attendance
on the patient insist that the utmost
care must be taken to prevent a fatal
termination of his illness. The Arch
duke is about % years old.
Arizona republican., 1891-12-08

J. E. sTANDIFoRD-A. B. sTANDIFoRD. will be several other big jobs that we could have captured. It was to be so, but the great combination has been broken up, for Sir Hector cannot give out contracts any longer He is dead letter."
 Here is the result of the exposure up to date; Sir Hector Langevin, minister of public works, resigned; Thomas McGreevy, expelled from parliament; Henry F. Perley, chief engineer of public works, resigned; Chief Mechanical Engineer Arnoldi, dis missed; Andre Senecal, printing superin- tendent, a prisoner. and lot of other public functionaries under fire, discredited or disgraced.
 Equally interesting fellows are the Standiford brothers, formerly of Chris man, Ills, but now on their travels. There are two of them, Alexander B. and John Edgar, and If the published accounts of their deings are true no more despicable brace of scoundrels ever fled from justice. Sixteen years ago they established bank at Chrisman and took prominent stand in religion and politics. They gained the confidence of the villagers and of the rich farming community of Edgar county, and iran things" about as they pleased. They loaned money to friends on verbal prom ises to pay, and in turn got accommoda- tion notes from these friends for the ask ing.
 Things went on in an apparently pros porous manner until few months ago, when the brothers, after series of prelim- mary nibbles, took to grain gambling on a large scale. They seem to have guessed wrong on the market every time. Last July fire destroyed their bank building and from that event may be dated their apparent resolve to make or break. They bought notes right and left and credited the sellers as having placed the purchase money on deposit. They borrowed pa per" from score of people and sold the Obligations to banks in other towns. They 1sed the funds in betting on wheat and lost.
 The other day they made grand clean upand fled. Their own father was despoiled of all the money he had in the world, and A. B. Standiford's wife has nothing left to show for the S20000 she loaned her hus- band. Merchants, laborers and farmers are reduced to abject poverty. Even the Methodist minister to whose church the brothers belonged was bilked out of $500, the hard savings of years of toll.
 The only concern not swindled was the Good Templars' lodge, for whose benefit Alexander left fourteen dollars he held as treasurer But against this must be q counted the fact that just before depart ing he drew fraudulent drafts for s50,O00 and realized half that sum on them. It is also hinted that he was accompanied in his flight by another mans wife. All in all the village of Chris man and the county of Edgar are half a million dollars poorer for having known and confided in the Stamiifords.
 Almost as sensational, but of an entire ly different nature, is the case of John Hoey. for many years identified with the
Arizona republican., 1891-12-08

When, last spring, the Dominion parlia- ment began to investigate serious charges formulated against people holding high official and social rank, the accusers were regarded with suspicion, and the accused received the respectful sympathy of the friendly and incredulous. But month after month testimony accumulated of the most convincing sort. It was shown that in the construction of public works-docks, harbor Improvements, buildings, railway extension, and so on-the Dominion treas ury had been despoiled of millions. and that the contractors had "stood in" with the politicians who got them the jobs, and contributed huge sums to the campaign funds and private bank accounts of their packers.
 It developed, according to one published summary of the situation, that "the tax payer was robbed on the one hand and bribed on the other" The firm chiefly benefiting by the alliance was Larkin, Connolly & O., which is reputed to be "a million dollars ahead of the game" One of the members of this firm was Owen F.. Murphy, a person who left New York with some precipiJancy several years ago, and who was unkindly referred to at that time as fugitive boodler." The recent in- quiry caused the rupture of numerous con fidential and business relations, and for this reason Mr. Murphy was moved to re- mark to a reporter the other day regard ing his former comrades:
 "We had one of the softest snaps any one ever had or ever will have in Canada. We, as a contracting firm, had everything in our own hands. Tom McGreevy worked Sir Hector Langevin, and we were right on the inside edge, and it was gilt edge, l can tell you. It cost us something to work Sir Hector, but there were big re- turns for the money invested. No one could touch us, as we had the department with us, and that meant a heap. Why, if the fools had not quarreled and tried to shove me out, we could have monopolized everything in the way of big contracts. There will be several million dollars spent by the government on Montreal harbor improvements very soon, and we were dead
Arizona republican., 1891-12-08

progress and prosperity of the Adams Ex- press company, and until recently presi- dent of the corporation. The board of managers removed him from that high office the other day, and N the same time promptly accepted the resignation of Vice President Spooner. The charge against these two was that they bought some petty eastern express lines at nominal figure and sold them to the Adams company, of which they had the direction, at a profit to themselves and two others of s600,000
 This style of 'deap failed to meet the ap- proval of Mir. Hoeys fellow shareholders, so they dispensed with his services and arc now suing him and Mir, Spooner for the very tidy sums they had salted down as "proflts on a legitimate business trans action" "The ex-president's associates, " says a well informed authority, "have al ways esteemed themselves members of a peculiarly happy and harmonious corporate family They would aS soon have thought that their property was being tilched by their brothers or those of kin as that any of their fellow stockholders should be en- gagged in secretly bleeding them. It was the shock which the discovery that Mir, Hoey and his companion, as alleged, had been doing this very thing that gave rise to such anger that the directors were willing to kick him into the street, branded with disgrace and stripped in an instant of his office and his honors."
 The scandal involving the two members of the great San Francisco oil firm of Whittier, Fuller & Co.,, is one of the most complicated and sensational on record. w. F. Fuller died in May, 1890, after a twenty years business association with W. F. Whittier. He owned a three-eighth in- terest in the concern, and this the widow sold to her son, w. P. Fuller, Jr., for $l, 100000. This, added to the one-eighth he already possessed, made him a half owner.
 At this point Mir. Whittier claimed the right under an old agreement to purchase his deceased partners holding, and began
Arizona republican., 1891-12-08
About Sounds at Sea.

A Philadelphia correspondent confirms the statement about distant sounds fo- cused by ship sails. Hestates that many years ago the late Admiral Goldsborough told him that when he was subordinate officer he heard the late Commodore Levy, who was executive officer of the United States ship -, tell his captain one Sunday morning that he was sure they were off Rio Janeiro, because he heard the sounds of the church bells. As they must have been nearly 100 miles from the harbor, the captain sarcastical- ly asked Levy whether he could not "see the rosebushes in front of the houses?" to which Levy quickly responded, "I cannot see the roses, sir, but can feel their thorns. Detroit Free Press.
Arizona republican., 1891-12-08

guise in q vacant room in the house where my wife was s.ayiug.
 "Now l bad promised to meet friend in Livermore ylgt evening" After l was dressed in Jhs womEls clothes in which meant to play the joke upon my wife, l rememb bered my appointment. As l did not intend to go to Livermore, 1t occurred to me that as he would probably leave San Francisco on the 4;]0 o'clock boat, could meet him at the ferry"
 Mir. Livernash's physician, Dr. Robert son, deposed that he is one of the most pronounced instances of hypnotism that ever came under my observation" Asked to define his meaning of hypnotsm he con tinued: Tt is n thing generally misunder- stood. It is condition of trance which may be induced by mesmerist, or may be induced by the patient himself without even the intention of doing so." He added that Livernash would never have dressed in woman's clothes if he had been in the complete possession of his faculties.
 Later on he recited to a reporter the strange case of the editors brother Said the doctor: "He was taken with an epilep- tir fit not long ago, and 1t required six men to hold him. He acted viplictively toward all six of the men, but when he came out of the fit he had no recollection of what had happened. The next time he had an epileptic fit, however, he remem- bered perfectly all that happened on the previous occasion, and all his former vim dictiveness against the men who had held him was revived. He put pistol in his pocket and started for this city from Healdsburg with the intention of shoot ing one Of the men who had held him dur. ing the former attack. Fortunately he came out of the trance before he found the man. Yet, if he had shot him while in that hypnotic trance he would not have been morally responsible"
 After thinking the matter over for day, the judge concluded to let Mir. Liver, nash po
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him, and when under the influence of liquor he thought nothing of blowing in" two or three hundred dollars at some questionable resort. Besides that, he kept a trotter, bet on tue races, and was always ready to loan money to his friends.
 No 5000 income could stand this aggre- gate of outgo, and to make both ends meet Wilson got in the habit of appropri- ating funds from the various estates which had been placed in his control for settle ment. So far as can be ascertained, he Is a defaulter to the extent of $20,0O0, and widows, orphans and interiors of small legacies are the sufferers. But then some one must always suffer when a man aban- dons his family, sets up as a masher and buys wine by the dozen bottles for disso- lute male and female friends"
Arizona republican., 1891-12-08
Ma. WILSON'S RAPID PACE.
He Has Had Lots of Fun" and Now I

Me Has Had Lots Of "Fun" and Now He
 Is a Deflulter.
 Few things have astonished the peoplr of Chicago more than the recent flight of Joseph l.. Wilson. For a quarter of g century he had been trusted official of the circuit court, and for nineteen years of that period he held the position of min ute clerk in the chancery branch He had a salary of $l,sOO, and in addition was made receiver in many cases, so that his annual income averaged s5,0O0.
 But it seems that it was the old story of wine, women and fast horses. Wilson had
Arizona republican., 1891-12-08

provided a hand some home for his
 invalid wife and two grown sons on Wabash ave nue He kept up another estab- lishment in q diff
 ferent part of the town, which was presided over by his "clerk," a Miss Treadway. B u [ even this unlaw- ful extension of domesticity didn't seem to satisfy
Arizona republican., 1891-12-08
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,)
 COUNTY OF PIMA

Before me, Joseph J. Perry, notary public | in and for the said County of Pima, on this day personally appeared Theodore J. wol1ey and States D. Morrison, known to me to be he same persons whose names are subscribed to the an nc xed instrument, and acknowledged to me thst they executed the same for the purpose and consideration therein expressed.
 Given under my hand and seal of office this Els day of November, A. D. 1891,
 t.oo,l JOSEPH J. PERRY,
 se"i Notary Public,
 Pima Co.,, A. T.
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but decided not to. as l was

afraid ofitsefects. A little before 4 o'clock l woke up and proceeded to carry out a plan which l had for some ii me in mind. This was to black my face, put on woman's clothes and call upon my wife, who was visiting in this city, and play a joke upon her with Ut ro
 vealing my ideI
 tity. My original plan had been to assume this dis
Arizona republican., 1891-12-08

ting his second wind, denied their truth. asserting that he had attempted no as sault and that he was a partner to no con. spiracy.
 Mir. Whittier, who was out of town, hastened back and added his denunciation to that of the lawyer This elicited new statements from the other side Miss Kendall is now the guest of Fuller's moth CT, and very bitter fight for the control of big business is now under full head way. CARYL BROWN.
Arizona republican., 1891-12-08
AN EDITOR IN FEMALE ATTIRE.
He Explained in Court That lie Was
 SnhiecI in HYpnotic Influences.

He ENpINIHeU III NUWTt THU AIb WHs
 Subject to Hypnotic Influences.
 The case of Editor F. J. Livernash, of Livermore, Cal, will commend itself to the study of scieptists. Mir. Livernash was arrested the other afternoon while att tempting to board ferryboat at San Fran cisco because he was attired in female gar ments. He explained to the judge that he was a sufferer from insomnia and subject to hypnotic influences.
 'The afternoon of my arrest" he said, "I felt the need of sleep. meant to try
Arizona republican., 1891-12-08

A good place for the rainmakers to try their experiments is Alden, Arabia. Show CTS have fallen there but twice in thirty years.
Arizona republican., 1891-12-08
AFTER BIG MONEY. The Questionable Methods by Which Some People Grow Rich.
LOOPING CANADA'S TREASURY.
Several Noted Men Involved in the
 Dominion Scandals.
An Illinois Sensation President HOey's Retirement-An Exceed
 ingly Complicated Case.

Political corruption, personal dishonesty, big "deal" and queer sort of scandal these are the principal features in the four great sensations of the hour. The first in- wolves a country, the second community, the third corporation and the fourth a long established and wealthy business house.
Arizona republican., 1891-12-08
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,)
COUNTY OF PIMA.

l hereby certify that the within instrumant was filed and recorded, at the request of Thco dore J. WoiAey, November g, A. D. 1891, at l0:50 o'clock n. m, in book No. 1 Interpretations a pages 227, 21S, etc.
 Witness my hand and seal of office this 23' day of November, A. D, 1891
 t.,l CHAS A. SHIBELL,
 Ioeni( County Recorder
Arizona republican., 1891-12-08

suit against the widow with the object of upsetting the sale already made and of compelling Mrs. Fuller to transfer the in terest to him. About the same time ru- mors circulated which unpleasantly coupled the names of young Fuller and Miss Justina Kendall, trained nurse, who had attended his father during his last illness. These stories found place in one or two weekly papers, and were not seen by Mir. Fuller until he had reached New York with his family on his way to Europe.
 As soon as he had established his wife and child in comfortable quarters at Paris he returned to San Francisco and began an investigation. His advisers told him that the first thing must be to find Miss Kendall, She had gone east as companion Uo an invalid lady, and was traced from point 70 point, finally being located at Minneapolis She was shocked on hearing of the charges and took the first train for the Pacific coast.
 From this on the story is vouched for by the Fuller party and denied by Whittier and his friends Briefly told it runs thus: Ex-Judge s. c. Denson, Whittier's coun- sel, learned of Miss Kendall's arrival at s7eiAl T AtAAIlh1p anu NNtllNt Oh htA lO hl SV that she begin suit for betrayal against young Fuller. She temporized, and sev- eral interviews followed The complaint was drawn up ready for her signature, and Denson agreed to bring it to her rooms. Meanwhile she had informed Fuller and he and three companions con cealed themselves in the next apartment Miss Kendall lay i'll in bed when Denson arrived
 The listepeys soon heard the woman I1ae1H2t(op 1A1:rushing in assert that i1| disc0sess& shS ,ex- judge in a very SktwsR0, asitnheten.,r Thus caught he { bss1ssd for mercy and revealed all the in- tridacies of plot by which Fuller was to be ruined socially, his home broken up and he himself forced to come to Whit tiers terms. The alleged facts were given the widest publicity and Denson, after get
Arizona republican., 1891-12-08
Hardw are.

The best and largest line of Heating Stoves, Cook Stoves, and Ranges in Arizona.
Arizona republican., 1891-12-08

THEODORE J. wOLFLEY, tseall STATES D. MORRISON, seall