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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-07-19
HOME RULE BILL, TO PASS.
Gladstone's. Nephew Predicts the Success
of she Irish Measure.

BALTIMORE, Md, July 16.-Henry
Gladstone, nephew of the Grand Old
Man, was IN Baltimore yesterday. En-
response to- query as. to the outlook
for the passage of the home rule bill for
Ireland, he said he was very sanguine
of it's ultimate success He was con-
WINGED thas the main opposition would
be exhausted and the bill passed within
the next SIX months
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-07-19
SAVED FROM MOB Law.
Baumberger, the Murderer, Placed in
the Jail at Fargo.

FARGO, n. D., July 13.-Albert Baum
berger, the wholesale murderer of
Cando, n. D., was landed in the
Fargo, n. D., jail this morning. He
will probably stay here unless Judge
to try him, when he will be taken back
to Cando. A mob is awaiting him at
Cando, and he viii be lynched if taken
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-07-19
FIRED ON BY FRANCE.
GunbOatS FOrClbIy Pass the River at Barg.
kOk-Wap Begins.

LONDON, July IA dispatch from
Bangkok, capital of Siam, states that
twenty Siamese were killed and fourteen
wounded yesterday during the ex-
change Of fires between the forts at the
mouth of the Meinam River and the
French gunboats, which forced the
passage of the bar in the face Of orders
from the Siamese government prohibit
ing them entering the river.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-07-19
CongratuIating the Queen.

LONDON, July 1.-THE House of Com
mons has agreed on an address of con-
graduation to be presented to theQueeH
upon the recent marriage of the Duke of
York and Princess MAY.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-07-19
HUMOR OF THE WEEK
STORIES TOLD BY FUNNY MEN
OF THE PRESS.

Many Odd, Curious, and LaughabIe Phases
of Human Nature Graphically Portrayed
by Eminent Word Artists of Our Own Day
"A Budget of Fun.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-07-19
CHOLERA VICTIMS IN EGYPT.

Forty Deaths in AIeAandria frona the
Plague.
ALExAxDRIA, Egypt, July 12.-Efghty-
five cases Of cholera are reported In the
hospital hero. Forty deaths from the
disease have occurred.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-07-19
DEATH IN A MINE SHAFT.
Gustaf Maklzi Falls a Distance of Sixty
Feet at Ishpeming.

IsHpEM1NG, Mich, July 13.-Gustaf
Mallki, aged 81 years, fell sixty feet
down shaft in the Cleveland mine to-
day and received injuries which caused
his death few hours later. He was a
married man with family in Europe.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-07-19

THE first plaster cast was made by
Terrochio in 1910.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-07-19
Sprinkles of Spice.

If you really want a man to keep
cool, don't tell him to. Washington
Star.
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.


AT the Skalis mine in Styria an ex-
plosion caused fifteen deaths and twen-
ty other miners were seriously injured.
FAMINE and disease are now prev
alent throughout Finland in conse-
quence of the destruction OF crops by
frost last summer and more than 200, .
600 persons are dependent upon charity.
In Strangeways, q suburb of Man.
chester, England. fire did damage to
the amount of 200, 900.
In Rome twenty anarchists were ar
rested on suspicion pf having been i'm
plicated in causing dynamite explo-
sions there during the last year.
FIRE destroyed 500 houses in Kadi-
key, Turkey, and more than 8, 600 per-
sons were homeless The damage was
estimated at 5, OO0, 900 francs.
TIE death of Connar Ryan occurred
at Balinderry, Ireland, aged 1l2 years.
His wife died the previous day at the
age of 100 years.
STATISTICS show that in tho last
month there were 97S cases of cholera
and $50 deaths from tho disease in
Russia.
OFFICERS captured Edwardo Lopez, q
desperado who had killed a score of
men in the vicinity of Sonora, Mexico.
in tho last five years, and riddled him
with bullets.
CHARTERED banks at Vancouver, B.
G., will hereafter only accept Amer
lean silver at 20 per cent discount. The
former discount was per cent
In collision near Saigon, France,
the French steamer Donnai was sunk
and seven persons were drowned.
The French senate elected NJ. Jules
Ferry as president
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02
A State Department.

A convention of delegates from the
various circles of the Ladies of the G.
A. R. met in st. Paul to form state
department of the national organiza,
tion. Mrs. Amanda Wethern of Anoka
presided. Organization was effected by
the election of the following officers:
President, Mrs. J. F. Burr, Minneap-
Oils; senior vice president, Mrs. Clara
Robbins, Duluth; junior vice president,
Mrs. Kate Faber, Champlin; treasurer.
Mrs. Hattie O. Stewart, Anoka; chap
lain, Mrs. Emma Howard, Litchfield;
counsellor, Mrs. NJ. A. Anderson, Min
neapons. Mesdames Pribble ofAnoka.
Miller and Pierce of Minneapolis are
the new council of administration, and
Mrs. Flora Davy of Duluth was elected
delegate.
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02
KANSAS MILITIA.


Gov. Lewslling Prseesdiag with Its Ra-
ergaalsatios-Whea Coapietoa He Wns
Have .. Arny q 10000 Mes, Evsry
Oas OF Whom. He Declares, Wm Obey
ehs Commando Of the Governor.
TOPEKA, Kan, Fob. 26-Gov. Low.
elling has fully decided to reoresnise
the militia of Kansas, which numbers
49, 600 men, or thirty companies Orders
have been issued to remove all disloyal
line and stan officers and replace thom
with men who will obey tho Rov-
ernors orderA Tho military board 10
being reorgsnized for this special pur-
pose. As there are moro than 100
republican officers, Adjt Gen. Arts
thinks it may take . few weeks to re-
place Ill of them. In addition to the
national guard, the number of which
u liked BY law. Gov. Lewelling is caus-
Ing to be organized the industrial
legion, an inner circle Of the alliance
having . military character.
Adjt Gen. Artz says:
"Men are drilling an over Kansas to-day.
Not with guns-they haven't got them yet
but they are being drilled in the facings and
marching. and they will be drilled with tho
guns when they arc ready for them.
cation Of an unlimited number Of
military companies who can arm themselves in
dependent OF the state and this is being done
to-day. People are in earnest The entire na-
tlonal guard Of Kansas is to be reorganized.
What is the use Of having . military force II it
Is composed Of men who won't obey orders1
Ex'Gov. Humphreys talk about our not hsv.
Ing the n nj <hn
Dosh The law gives the state military board
the power to do as it pleases with the militia.
In1s military board ts appointed by the gov.
ernor, and when ex-GoZ Humphrey said Gov
Lewelling had no power to remove briRadier
generals he was mistaken. Anyone who viii
take the trouble to look up the law on this sub. h.
5ect will SEQ that We have all tho power necee.
sary to reorganize the whole state militia"
The legion is the organization pro-
vided for at tho last national alliance.
John F. Willis being named as gen.
eral and organizer for Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Nebraska Gov. Lewellinr
estimates that these auxiliary COM
panies will contain 10000 men.
all of whom will obey his or
ders when issued. The surplus of arms
and ammunition supplied by the gener-
al government for the use of state
troops will be used to arm the moro
advanced of these companies on the
report made by Gen. Willis; their
commander, who is also a member
of the governors advisory board Of
pardons.
The fact that the militia refused to
obey Gov: Lewel)ing's order to drive
from the representative hall the repub.
lican house has angered the executive,
and he declares he will have an army
every man of which will obey the COM
mands of the governor. The mutinous
privates in the guard will be given
their discharges If they do not ask for
them, and populists recommended b.
known leaders will be enlisted. There
is CONSERVATION among republicans at
this movement 1t indicates future
plan not yet revealed but which ell
fear.
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02

NAvIeAToRs of the sea reach New
York with big tales of their experiences
during the past few days, but none of
them tells a stranger story than does
Third Officer James bakers of the
Hnrona, freighter just in at that port
from Dundee. He claims that on Feb
ruary huge wave caught him and
carried him clear of the port rail, and
then, recurring, brought him back and
landed him within ten feet of his orig
inal position on the deck No affidavlts
60 with this sailors yarn"
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02
HELD UP THE TOWN.

Bold Work OF Three Despersdoes at
Adair Station, I. +.
PARSONS, Kan, Feb. 25.-Wednesdav
night just after Missouri, Kansas l.
Texas passenger train No. pulled out
Of Adair Station, I. r., three
desperadoes confronted the agent
and robbed him of $500. Eight
cen citizens who appeared on tho
scene were made to hold up their
hands and were marched at the point
of the bandits guns to one of the
principal stores in the town, which
was robbed of $500. The robbers then
marched the men to the stocky ards,
where their horses were hitched. They
then mounted and disappeared.
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02

Ii HUNG CHANG, viceroy of China,
was personally very gracious to Messrs.
Allen and Sactleben, the American
bicyclers who recently crossed Asia on
''safeties." He asked them, among
other questions, which country they
most admired of oil through which
they had passed. ''The United States, -
they replied. why then do you visit
other countries?" because" they an
swered, 'if we had not seen other coun-
tries We should not have known our
own was the best"
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02
SILVER COINAGE.
Provisions Of Bill just introduced In
the House.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25-Mr. Harter
70. has introduced in the house q bill
to provide for the free coinage of silver
and gold at the present ratio and upon
equal terms. 1t provides that after its
passage the purchases of silver bullion
by the government shall cease and
that the mints shall be opened to the
coinage of both metals upon the same
terms as existed prior to 1873, provided,
however, that all silver and gold
coined hereafter for the account of
owners shall not have any legal tender
function and instead of being
stamped Zone dollar" Five dollars"
ETC.. shall be stamped ''Ten dimes,"
Fifty Dimes" etc. Nothing in this act,
the bill says, shall be construed as
affecting tho legal tender function OF
the gold and silver already coined or
which may hereafter be coined upon
the account of the United States. and
all laws in conflict with this act are
repealed.
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02
Bicycle Tournament

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-The arrange
ments for the international bicycle
tournament, to be held at Chicago next
August. are progressing rapidly. The
committee in charge of the affair have
decided to hold the races from August
S to IL. There will be five days and pos
sibly two evenings devoted to the sport.
An $4,000 track will be laid out at tho
grounds of the Chicago baseball club.
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02
Mr.. Hauchett WIN Accspt.

SAGINAW, Mich, Feb. 25.-An Asso-
ciated Press representative called upon
Benton hanchett, the prominent law
yer of this city who was nominated by
President Harrison to succeed Judge
jackson on the Sixth circuit federal
bench. In reply to a question whether
he would accept the appointment, Mr..
Hanchett said he would If he was con-
firmed. He has teiegraphed the presi-
dent to that effect.
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02

III you could stand on tho moon, ("
says an astronomer, 1.-The earth would
appear to you to be sixty-four times
larger than the sun appears to the res
idents of this mundane sphere; this be-
cause the earth has eight times the
diameter OF the moon, therefore she
must necessarily show the moonites
sixty-four times as much surface as the
moon shows us. The sun, on the other
hand, would appear no larger to you
from your observatory on the moon
than it does from our globe. The
earth's atmosphere being blue, the
earth must appear as blue ball to all
outside onloOkers
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02
HIS PRIVATE SECRETARY.

President-Eloct Cleveland Selects . PART
ner of Don NJ. Dickinson for the Place.
DETROIT. Mich, Feb. 25.--Henry T.
Thurber, of the law firm of Dickinson,
Thurber & Stevenson, has been notified
that he has been appointed private
secretary by Mr.. Cleveland. He is 80
. ears OF age, q graduate of Michigan
university. and classmate of Hon.
Ben. 7. Cable, of Illinois. He has
been law student and partner in
the Office of Don NJ. Dickinson for
eighteen years and is in receipt of q
professional income of from SO, 600 to
815 OOO
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02

IT is the practice to refer to the exo-
dusto Canada in cynical manner as
if the American defaulter found there
q life Of ease and happiness. The
career of John c. Emo tells a different
story. This miserable man belonged
to an excellent family, was one of the
most popular of men during his course
at Yale college, and moved in the best
society of New York. He returns home
disgraced and heart-broken, but de-
termined to suffer any ignominy rather
than remain longer in exile.
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02
WEST AND SOUTH.

MYRoN H. WALKER, of Grand Rapids
was nominated for} justice of the su-
preme court at the prohibition state
convention in Lansing, Mich. and j. F.
McCulloch. Of Adrian, and Robert C.
Stafford, Of Plymouth, were nominated
for regents Of the university. IL"
MICHIGAN republicans in state con.
vention 1t Detroit nominated for asso.
ciate justice of the supreme court
.JndRe Frank, A. Hooker; for regents of
the stste university. Frank w. Fletch-
er. Of Alpena, and DR.. Herman Kis1er,
OF Detroit ,..... &.
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02
FOUR SWEPT ovEReOARD.
Two Seamon Drowned and Two Washed
Back ON Deck During . Storm.

Back ON Deck During . Storm.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., Feb. 25.-The
schooner Isaac T. Campbell, of Bos-
ton. with coal for this port from Balti-
more, arrived here Thursday after
noon. The captain reports that on
Monday morning, while of Hogg
island, squall struck the vessel with
terrific force, and it was found
necessary to shorten sail and lay to.
While occupied in furling the jib Mate
Charles Olson, aged 20, of Boston, and
George Lawrence, a native of Bangor,
Me-, and two other seamen were
swept overheard, and Olson and Law
renee drowned, the other seamen being
thrown back on the vessel by heavy
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02

MR. CLEVELAND will be inaugurated
on Saturday. Presidential inausara-
tions have taken place on that day of
the week four times in the history of
the government, as follows: In 1897
John Adams); in 1909 (Madison, first
term); in 1887 Wan Buren); in 1865
(Lincoln, second term). The inaugura-
tion of Adams, Pierce and Garfield oc-
CURED on Friday. The next Friday in
auguration will not take place till 1921,
but the man who is elected in 1904 will
take the oath of Office on Saturday. In
auguration day occurred on Sunday in
1921, 1s49 and 1877, and will occur on
that day again in 1917
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02

ONE week after the overthrow of
Queen Iiliuokalani the Honolulu Lib
eral propounded this pertinent ques-
ton: ''Ua maopopo ina aole ae koke
o Amerika Huipuia, alaila, he Repub-
alika ke Aupuni ku al hoea ka
makaukau ana Amerika e hoohui
aku: Ella ka ninau iloko kela wa.
pehea mau al ka maluhia?" In the
light of subsequent events, it must be
confessed that our esteemed Hawaiian
contemporary was not far wrong.
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02
Foli Dead on the staaA.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Feb 25.-Friday,
in the criminal court, Harvey Weakly,
on trial for murder, fell dead on tho
witness stand. When asked II he had
killed the victim Weakly said he hoped
God would strike him dead If he had.
Hardly had he spoken when he fell
dead to the floor.
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02

=. An exchange tells how Albert Smith,
of Milford, Pa, allowed an old apple
tree to stand between him and q for
tune. A party of oil prospectors, con-
vinced that there was oil on his farm,
decided to bore q we'll in his=orehard.
Smith objected strenuously, because it
/: would destroy an apple tree for which
he had particular fondness.. After
yiinly endeavoring to persuade Smith,
the prospectprs psmoHed their appara-
tus . few feet beyond his stree; on the
edge Of another mans land, and soon
oil 49, flowing at the rate of 100 bar
rels o.. hour. Smith saved his tree and
bis neighbor got ssb, 900 in royalties
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

uHcIE SAM pays 800, ooo, 900 year In
salaries.
The European locomotives have no
headlight
The sultan of Lahore has SO, 600, 600
in jewels.
MORE than one.haf the sugar of the
world is beet sugar.
The inventor of the velocipede is to
have statue in France
The Inauguration of President Cleve-
land will cost about e26, 600!
THIRTEEN universities have been sup
pressed by the Italian government
BOBBY BURNS is to have q statue
erected at Denver, Col, w. Grant
Stevenson, of Edin burg, being the de-
signer.
The Hong Kong papers say the few
Englishmen in the service of China are
being replaced by Germans, Belgians
and Americana.
DURING the past twenty years s2s, 900
divorces have been granted by the
courts Of the United States, 30 per cent.
Of them to women.
In one of the Catholic churches in
Chicago congregational, singing of
hymns In the language of the people
has been introduced.
AN American girl rules the republic
OF Guatemala, through her husband,
the president, Gen. Barrioa She is the
leader of all woman movements in that
country.
THERE is = pond in the vicinity Of
Chestertown, Nd, that has never been
known, it is said, to have even q skim of
ice on its surface, and during the late
cold spell it is said that it was not
frozen . particle.
CLorURE (the French form Of the
word closure) means, briefly, the shut
ting OF Of debate and of motiou., 40 a.
to force direct vote 70 be txkca on tie
question before the house
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02

- The jasperized wood of Arizona has
become well known by reason of the
many cabinet specimens, paper
weights and decorative slabs of it that
arc sent to the eastern cities, but this
10 BY no means the only petrified forest
IN this country. In the Hoodoo district
Of the Yellowstone many stumps Of
trees are found converted to stone.
.some Of them showing knots, grain of
the wood and bark a. plainly as the
living tree, and the pebbly beaches Of
the Yellowstone river are strewn with
tons of fragments of fossil wood. In
the Dakota Bad Lands leaf impressions
are often found in the hardened clay.
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02

WEAR1ED with the long. cold winter,
IN exchange puts forth the following
pitiful plea: Backward. turn back
ward, o, time. in thy fight, give US
July again just for tonight: we are
disguised with snow and with ice; hear
our rich warble and take our advice;
turn back the clock till it reads August
one, give us some dog-days, and give
us the sun; give us mosquitoes and give
us the flies, but turn on some heat be-
fore every one dies; bring back our
straw hat and good linen pants; give
us a chance to live; give US a chanle!'
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02
LATER NEW4,

AN officer of the Reading Coal and
Iron company said this morning that
the various anthracite companies would
make reduction in the price of coal of
from Is to so cents on or about April /.
THOMAS and John Pagan were found
dead in their home at Holly, Mich. Up
stairs, hidden away, was found $50, 900
in currency.
THE Rev. J. r. Sanford of Sumner,
To-, was seized with temporary insanity
while in the pulpit, the Goth, and for
time pandemonium reigned. He raved,
swore, threatened violence, smashed
the bible over the pulpit, jumped upon
it, cursing and calling down the wrath
of God all the while.
THE Cudahy Packing company of
Sioux City, TO-, was the 9th awarded
contract to furnish the government 2O0,-
600 pounds of bacon.
The car coupler bill has passed both
branches of congress. The house the
27th agreed to the senate amendments.
BURT Moore was shot and killed0
Allegan, Mich, the 27th, by Albert
Reynolds of Great Falls, Mont. Moore
came from Great Falls shortly before
Christmas with Reynolds wife.
= The various prize fighting clubs of
San Francisco have declared all pros
pective matches off and the fighters
have ceased training. The California
athletic club has closed and will retire
from business. All of this is one of the
results of the killing of Billy Miller and
Dal Hawkins recently at the club.
ABOUT 1:30 o'clock the morning of the
2sth the wall of a building which was
lately burned, at 767 Halsted street,
Chicago, was blown down. 1t fell upon
two-story brick building at 765 Hal
sted, occupied by the families of John
Smith, a saloon keeper, and James
Kunze, a jeweler. Nine people were
killed by the falling wall. They are:
John Smith; Dollie Smith, his daughter,
13 years old; "Babe" Smith, son, 10
years of age; Hattie Smith, daughter, 4
years of age; James Kunze; Mrs. James
Kunze; Mrs. Carrie Smith, wife of John
Smith; Joe -, bartender in Smiths
saloon. The building which collapsed
was owned by John York, a large dry
goods dealer. and was destroyed by fire
few weeks ago. t,.. -.
FIRE at Pocahontas, Va, the 9th, de-
stroyed 20 buildings: Loss, 100000.
$50" WHILE working on the Alley elevated
road in Chicago, the 27th, section of
the trestle gave way, throwing derrick,
engine and engine shanty to the ground.
J. F. Mct1uire and j: Millen were seri-
oasly injured and six men had narrow
escapes.
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02

QUEEN VIcrOR1A's wealth is now
estimated at $4,000, 900, exclusive of
landed estates The gossips predict
that she will leave the bulk of it to the
duke of Connaught and Princess
Beatrice, leaving the prince of Wales
out in the cold. But she can't prevent
the prince from going into the king
business, which is said to be profit
alb Q calling.
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02

The following list shows the number
of profit-sharing establishments in the
different countries: France, %; Aus
tria, s: Sweden, 4; Italy, 4; Switzer-
land, 10; Germany, 26; Belgium, s;
United States, 35; Portugal, l; Spain,
l; England, Ga; Denmark, 4; Holland,
S; Russia, !. which makes a total of
OK in all
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02

ENTOMoLoaIsTs are acquainted with
one hundred thousand species of in
sects, yet there is not a known expert
who will not perspire and swear when
tramp June bug happens to get in
side his collar
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02

BosroN still maintains her supremacy
as an art center. The aesthetic student
who painted John Harvard's statue red
has worthy successor in some un-
known impressionist who has height
ened the effect of Charles Summers
statue by daubing it with blue paint.
The Worthington advance., 1893-03-02

EDISON prefers women machinists for
the delicate details of his electrical
inventions. He says they have more
fine sense about machinery in one
minute than the most of men in their
whole lifetime