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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
BANK FAILS IN CHICAGO.
MeadOWCr0ft Bros. & Co. Unable to Meet
Their Liabilities.

Their Liabilities.
CHICAGO, Ill, June 5.-Meadowcroft
Bros. & Co., private bankers, doing
commercial paper business similar to
that of Herman Schaffner & Co., the
banking firm which made an assignment
Saturday, closed their doors this morn
ing. The concern was one Of the oldest
in the city Their assets and liabilities
were not stated. An application for a
receiver for the firm has been i1led in
court.
A crowd quickly collected on the
street and anxious inquiries as to the
cause of the closed doors went around.
response to calls clerk came to the
door. "The bank will not open to-day"
he said, and withdrew
The bank is a private one, the firm
being composed of Robert, Charles }.
and Frank r. Meadowcroft. The bust
ness was establinhed in 1850 by the
father of the president. The bank
occupies the quarters formerly used by
the Park National Bank, which failed
some time ago. Lyman +. Crandall has
been appointed receiver.
A run on the Prairie Street Savings
Bank, which started on Saturday, was
resumed this morning. The officers are
confident, however, that they have
ample means available to meet all de-
mands from depositors The bank S
business is practically confined to the
West Side.
The property of G. A. Weisenbach, a
shoe merchant, was seized by the sher-
iff this morning. Execution was made
on judgments aggregating SIG, 1000. The
liabilities are about S75, 900; assets, $780,
000 His liabilities are, with the ex-
ception of about $4,000, for goods
and for borrowed money. The failure
is said to have been precipitated by the
assignment of Banker Herman Schaff-
ner, who is mysteriously missing.
There was remarkable scramble
by the creditors to see who
would get in first on the assets.
Judge Mcconnell was awakened at
midnight to receive the entry of judg-
ments, but the alert lawyer who did
this found himself after wild ride in a
cab forestalled by a competitor who
had obtained quicker possession of one
of Weisenbach's shorts on bill OF
sale.
E. Armstrong & Co., dealers in uni
forms, made a voluntary assignment
this morning. The assets are stated to
be S275, 900; liabilities, 500, 900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
Fire in New Work

NEW YORK, June "A big blaze that
did $500, 900 damage lighted up the city
early this morning in the vicinity of
Eleventh and Thirteenth avenues and
Twentv-sixth and Twenty-seyenth
streets. Fire broke out i'm the iron
foundry of j. B. q J. M. Cornell and
before the fire was brought under con-
troll the entire block was in flames.
The fire started from an unknown
cause. A large portion of the land was
covered with frame buildings. The
ground was covered with very valuable
machinery, which has been greatly
damaged 1t is said the loss is only par
tally covered by insurance.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
INDIAN LANDS STEAL.
Twenty thousand Acres in Wisconsin Sc
cured by Fraud


WASHINGTON, d. c., June 5.-The Gen
eral Land Office is collecting material
which may lead to an investigation of
the manner in which allotments of land
IN severalty were made several years
ago to alleged Indians in Wisconsin.
Under the law BY which these allot-
ments were made each Indian who
would reinquish his tribal relation and
assume citizenship would be permitted
to select 100 acres Ofland. This privilege
was extended to the MenOmOnee tribe,
which holds valuable reservation in
ShaWanO and OcontO counties There
were IS5 alIotments made. and it is said
that $50 were made to impOSters, and
only ) TO actual members of the tribe
The proposed investigation is to deter
mine who secured the lands by fraud
and 10 institute proceedings for their
punishment. 1t is said that the method
employed was to give fictitious names,
and that white men gave in such
names as "Rain-in-the-Face," etc.
1t is said that bv this method
of false PRESERVATION more than 10000
acres of valuable land, which should
have gone to Indians, has been gathered
in BY white men. Of course it is sim
pie thing to cancel their patents, but
that would not be a very severe punish
ment if the land had been stripped of
timber. 1t is therefore considered fit
ting that the matter be presented to the
Department of Justice, and if the sus-
piclons are founded on facts, prosecu-
ton under criminal laws will pro badly
ToIfa,I-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07

mand of the Eighth Regiment Massa-
chusetts Militia, and accused of embezzl-
ing the funds of the Victoria mills at
NeWburypOrt, Mass, has jumped his
bail and fed to Canada.
THE Brazilian Congress has refused to
appoint an Intervention to settle the
troubles in the state of Rio Grande do
Sui. This refusal is based on the ground
that the national army should be used
to suppress the rebellion
HE report of the Indiana Board of
Charities on the investigation of the in
stitution for the feeble minded exoner-
ates the matron and trustees, but con-
dennis Supt. Blake.
JAMES CHAMBERLAIN, a contractor of
Ottumwa, Ia, who was supposed to
have fallen from a trestle, regained con-
Sclousness before death and said he had
been assaulted and robbed.
ELLA KNAPP, years of age, was shot
and instantly killed at st. Paul by her
brother Willie, aged II. The children
had accidentally gotten a revolver be-
longing to an elder brother.
CHANCELLOR Won CAPRIvI and Fret
herr Marschall Won Bieberstein, impe-
rial minister of foreign affairs, have re-
ceived Theodore Runyon, the lnew
American minister, to Berlin.
GOV. ALTGELD pardOned John II. B.
Isham, sentenced to the penitentiary
for thirteen years from Hardin County,
Ill. The pardon is granted because the
Governor doubts Isham's guilt.
ISAAC MANN, farmer of Bryan, o.,
was the victim of confidence men in
the sum Of $4,000 yesterday at Lima, O.
One OF the men was afterWard arrested
and the entire sum recovered.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
Mrs. Blaine Goes to Europe.

New YORK, June Mrs. James G.
Blaine and Miss Blaine sailed yesterday
on the Paris for Southampton. The
party accompanying Mrs. Blaine and
her daughter consisted of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Damrosch, child and nurse;
Miss Loring Blaine and Conor Cop
and pdg their nurse seams Don g cameron his
wife and two daughters. James G.
Blaine will remain in this country.
Mr.. and Mrs. Damrosch will probably
remain abroad during Mrs. Blaine's
STAY on the continent
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
RIOTING STRIKERS.
Canal Diggers Near Lemont, ILL.,, Alta
the Contractors,


LEMoNT, Ill. June 2.-There was a
reign of terror to-day along the route of
the drainage canal between Lemont
and Romeo. Four hundred quarry
men struck for an increase of wages
and armed with clubs aud revolvers
marched from one stone quarry to
another, gaining additions to their
ranks and stopping at many of the sa-
looms on their way until almost crazed
with liquor they left the quarries and
rushed upon the nearest camp of con-
tractors on the drainage canal line.
The men were driven from their work
and where they had the temerity to
resist were assaulted by the strikers.
Many men were severely injured and it
is thought that one, James PoWderly,
will die.
A freight train on the Santa Fe
killed one ofthe strikers who was on
the track near Romeo. The strikers
number about 1000 men, 1,20Q of them
being employed on the drainage canal
The cause of the strike is that the stone
companies reduced the wages from 179
cents to Is cents per hour. The strike
also extends to Joliet, where from 800 to
400 men are out because of the same re-
duction. The drainage contractors
were unable to learn why the strike
had been ordered on as there was no
reduction in the wages for their work
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
The Lutheran Synod on Divorce.

CANTON, O., June 2.-The Lutheran
General Synod has adjourned. The APP
preparations allowed make an assess
ment of SO cents on each communicate
and such an assessment was ordered.
In passing upon the question of mar
riage and divorce, resolution was
adopted stating that the synod under
stands the divine law as allowing no
dissolution of the marriage bonds ex-
cept for the one cause specified, viz,
adultery, and consequently it is not
permitted that one divorced on other
grounds can be remarked. The synod
also passed a resolution urging ma
tiOnaI marriage law.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
Valuable Unclaimed Baggage.

MONTREAL Que, June Lee STAN
ton, an English painter, bought leath-
er valise at the Grand Trunk Railway
sale of unclaimed baggage for s.
On opening it he found 10Y shares
in the Western Gas Improving
Company of Chicago, fully paid up
and worth $107, 900. The valise was the
property Of Louis Halberstadt, who
died in BrockvilIe, Ont, in October,
1891, of alcoholism. He went to Brock
vile from NaPierville, Ill. A large sum
was known to have had just prior to his
death were missing and it was general
ly believed at the time that he had been
robbed
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
The American Billiardist Wins.

LONDON, June 1.-The international
billiard match between Frank Ives and
John Roberts ended last evening. In
the opening runs Ives had a slight adj
vantage. Then he ran so; Roberts fol-
lowed with 80 and 1913. After having
made another short run of 46 Ives cot
the balls jammeda and ran $50 This car
ried his score up to 1897. Roberts
made 20 points in four runs and then
Ives ran out. Roberts final score was
1881. After the match the referee said
that but for what was little more than
an accident, Roberts would certainly
have won.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
HEAVY FAILURE IN KANSAS.
Company with LOG Grain Elevators
Forced to the Wall.

Forced to the Wall.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 5.-The Kan
sas Grain Company, which claims to be
the greatest buyer of grain from pro-
ducers in the world, has failed. H. NJ.
kirkpatrick, secretary and treasurer
of the company, notified the sec
rotary of the Board Of Trade at
1926 o'clock this morning that the COM
pany was unable to meet its contracts
When the announcement ofthe suspen-
sion was made on the board it caused
great excitement The main offices of
the company are located in this
city and at Hutchinson, Kas.
The president of the concern,
Z. j. Templer, is in charge of the Hutch
inson offices, and the officers here de-
cline to make any statement of the
financial condition until authorized
to do SO by Mr.. Templer. It
is presumed, however, that the
assets and liabilities will each
be large. The company has elevators
in 100 towns and cities in Kansas, rep
resenting an investment of $50, 900
All of these elevators contain
more or less grain. The COM
pany was incorporated some years
ago with capital stock of
$4,000. The cause Of the failure as
money market. Mr.. kirkpatrick says
the stringency in money prevented the
company from realizing on its ware
house receipts which were depended
upon to meet maturing obligations.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
CANNOT REOPEN OLD CASES.
Treasury Department Decision Bearin
on Previous Rulings.


Previous Rulings.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June $50 far as
the War Department is concerned, it
will not interfere in the reconstruction
of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
bridge across the Ohio River between
Cincinnati and Newport. The basis of
the decision is likely to be more far
reaching than this particular case. The
railroad company secured the consent of
Secretary Elkins to widen the piers and
rebuild the bridge. The river interests
applied for modification of the order,
requiring the company to elevate the
bridge and widen the main span. To-
day the department decided to adhere
to the original action of Secretary Elk
ms, taking the ground that it cannot I'M
dertake to reopen cases which have
been decided by a preceding secretary.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
EULALIA LEAVES NEW YORK
The Spanish Princess Starts for Chicago
and the Fair.

New YORK, June 5.-The Infanta
Eulalia and her party started westward
to-day to see the sights of the Worlds
Fair and enjoy the hospitality of Chi
cage. The departure from the Hotel
Savoy was made at IL O'Clock
and the royal visitors were escorted to
the PENNSYLVANIA Railway ferry at the
foot of West Thirty Street by bat
talon of the United States Signal Corps
Mayor Gilroy and the reception com
mittee of twenty accompanied her to
the train The steamer Gen. Slocum
conveyed them to Jersey City, where
the Infanta and her party boarded a
special train and started for Chicago.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07

the position of the Austrian and other
navles. He says that petroleum is be-
ing generally abandoned as fuel for war
ships owing to the risk Of fire. The
experiments of submarine boats have
been discouraged. He notes the intro
duction of nickel in the composition of
armOr plates and declares that the use
of smokeless powder has been so sue
cessful that it will soon extend from
smaller GUNS to general artillery
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
Rhode Island Oficials Hold Over.

NEWPORT, r. l., June 1.-The two
branches of the legislature failed to
reach any agreement this morning
The Senate passed a joint resolution
calling for an adjournment until Janu-
airy, but the House took no action on it.
The Senate then adjourned and the Re-
publican members are going home, leav-
ing the governor to adjourn the legisla-
ture until January. The effect will be
that the present state officials will hold
over until the next election.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
SUNK AT Her DOCK.
Serious Accident to the Kaiser Wilhelm
III. at Genoa.

IL. at Genoa.
GENOA, June 5.-The North German
Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II. has
sunk at her dock, and the accident will
entail a heavy loss to the owners or
underwriters. A valve seat of the
circulating pump broke, allowing the
water to rush into the engine room,
which was soon flooded The donkey
pumps were unable too free the ship,
and IN short time the Kaiser Wilhelm
sank. Part Of the cargo will be saved,
though in much damaged con-
dition. The ship itself will be
released as soon as possible. The
May % from New York and was about
ready to sail on her return when the ac-
cident occurred
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
Fire in d Texas Mine.

EAGLE Pass, Tex, June A serious
fire broke out last night in the Fuento
coal mines, situated four miles from
Eagle Pass. There were sixty miners
at work in the mines and it is feared
that the entire sixty are suffo-
Gated, as the works are situated some
distance from the main entrance
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
SOCIALIST MEETING RAIDED.
Police at Metz Prevent the Reading O
Revolutionary Documents.

METZ, June 5.-In this city yesterday
a Socialist named Schleicber was presid-
ing at meeting of Socialists. He be-
gan TO read letter from Herr
Liebknecht, the wellknown Social
Democratic leader, on the restoration
babe Sleicher to proceed with the letter.
The audience at once protested and the
meeting became disorderly. The police
thereupon dispersed the assemblage
and arrested several persons.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
Promoted to Washington.

BERLIN, June 3.-Baron Won Saurma
Jeltsch, envoy extraordinary and min
lister plenipotentiary for Prussia at the
court of Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, has
been appointed German ambassador to
Washington.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
Oil as Fuel Being Abandoned

lister of marine has submitted to the
delegations his annual report reviewing
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
SCHOONER ON THE BEACH.

Island.
FIRE ISLAND, n. Y, June "a three
masted schooner has gone ashore about
six miles east Of this place. The life
saving crew has gone to her assistance.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
SPAIN FEARS THE PLAGUE.
Cholera Quarantine at Madrid Against
Hamburg. :

MADRID, May 31.-The Spanish gov
eminent has declared five days quaran-
tine against all vessels from Cette and
Hamburg. Spanish consuls in France
report that cholera prevails in Cette,
Mediterranean port. Several cases
have ended fatally.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
EDWIN BOOTH IS DYING.
The Attending Physician Says the Great
Actor Cannot Long Survive.

NEW York, June 5.-Dr. st. Clair
Smith, Edwin Booths physician, issued
this bulletin al $50 o'clock this morn
ing:
have seen no improvement during the
night ST. CLAIR SMITH, NJ. d.
Pressed for more definite information
regarding the great actors condition,
DR.. Smith said "Well, | cannot
add anything to the bulletin l is
sued at o'clock last evening
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
TWO DEATHS FROM HEAT.
Pittsburg Experiences Day of Extreme
1y High Temperature.

PIrTsBURG, Pa, June 3.-The intense
heat of the past twentyfour hours has
caused two deaths and numerous pros
tratiOnS
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-07-08

EASTERN labor men are very indig- nant at the treatment accorded Presi- dent Gompers of the federation when he was out west. To have Mir Gompers howled down at St Louis meeting, his integrity assailed, and an opportunity to defend himself refused, will prove a source of additional friction between labor functions when the annual meet ings are held. "The laboring men of the east and the west seem to be drifting away from each other" said leader, commenting on the situation. Half the defeats sustained in our recent con- tests with capital are due to that fact. " But there is a gigantic labor movement, now ID it's incipient stages in New York, to do away with all this. It is proposed to consolidate every organiza- tion of federated unions m the country. The Knights of Labor, the American Federation and others are, under this plan, bo become part of new amalga, nation without, however. losing theiI respective autonomies. The idea has not found favor with the high officials who scout it, but the rank and file have long felt that this combine" would bt long step forward in the direction oi harmony
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-07-08

maj failure. With AuGustin Daily it has been different. He has built up under the most discouraging circumstances what is today the finest high comedy organization in existence, with the single exception of the far famed Comedie Franchise aggreEa- tion of players
 Augustin Daily was born in Plymouth N. C., July %, lSSsS. It is said that he has adapted more than 40 plays from the French and German, besides having writ ten l5 or % original dramas. His first adaptation, and one which is still frequently performed, is Deborah" which was pro duced in 1852. Within the next three years he brought out La Papillone," Leslie Wedding" Judith" " "'The Sorceress" and other plays, none of which was, however, original Griffith Gaunt" followed short ly after, and then came that wild, weird melodrama, Under the GasliSht," which contained a railroad rescue scene that made a small fortune for Mir. Daily. Since then Mir. Daily has devoted most of his time to his stock company and to making adapta- tions especially suited to the members of that excellent organization. Augustin Daly Is one of the best stage managers of high comedy in the world, and the recent return to stock companies on the part of some of the prominent New York managers is due to his great persistence in hanging on when everybody else was declaring that the stock company was a thing of the past
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-07-08
HOW TO STOP NOSE BLEEDING.

A Method That Has Undergone I've
 Tears Successful Trial.
 Nose bleeding may be brought about by variety of causes. It may be. due to . change in temperature, to the be- ginning of typhoid fever or measles or during an attack of articular rheuma- dsm- Diseases characterized by an al- teration of the blood render the patients particularly liable to nose bleeding. This Is the case with diseases of the iv- CT. spleen and kidneys. The prevent I've treatment of bleeding at the nose consists in the medication of the com plaint under the dependence of which 1t appears, but to check the hemorrhage itssH when 1t has once appeared the simplest means arc the application of cold cloths to the face or injections of hot water in the nasal foSsse. In more tenacious cases it is well to resort to di- rect pressure by introducing the finger Ss far as possible into the noStril, or else to plug the nasal foSsSe as accurately as can be done.
 It mFy happen. however. that these different methods fail and that the abun- dance and persistency of the bleeding constitute an actual danger. Under these circumstances it will be advisable to use antipyrine, which, according to a writer in the New York Herald, has sue ceeded in the hands of M. Guenot of La roche-en-Breun in the most unexpected manner. This method, which he has used for over two years now, has never failed It consists in sniffing up or in. jecting into the nose a solution of anti pyrine, one in five. With grown persons 1t is easy enough, but with young and fractious children it is necessary to have the head held tightly and bent forward while the solution is injected into the nose, the mouth being kept open. Wher this is done, the nostrils should be closed with the fingers to prevent the liquid coming back at once. This method i extremely simple. and if it turns out tc be as eficscious as M. Guenot claims il to be 1t will become the regular treat \ ment of nose bleed.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-07-08

IN view of the clash between a news paper reporter and subordinate officer of the fire department, the other even ing, it would be we'll for the board of fire commissioners to define just what rights the representatives of the press have at fires. Is is the custom in other cities to supply badges to reporters, which serve as a means of identifica- tion at fires. This has never been found necessary here, because the local news paper men are well known to all the officers of the fire department. It is an unwritten law that representatives of the press shall have the privilege of going inside of the lines at fires, and the right was never disputed until the present week, when a representative of the DEMOCRAT was singled out and made to feel the temporary authority of a tool of Chief Snagg, because this paper criticised the work of one of the companies at recent fire. The DEMO- GRAF reserves the right to criticise Chief Snagg or any officer or company of the fire department. If the criticism is unfair, we stand ready to be cor rected, but must protest against such B babyish way of getting even" as that adopted at the recent fire.