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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
DEAD IN HIS COTTAGE.
Veteran Found Murdered Three Miles. North
of Cedarbupg.

of Cedarburg.
CEDARBURG, Wis, April John
Schlax, an old man residing at Kaeh-
ler's Mills, a small settlement three and
a half miles north of this city, was muir
dered in his house at an early hour yes
terday morning. His house was dis
covered to be on fire by some of the
neighbors and on going to the place
they found Schlax lying upon the
kitchen floor. About him the floor was
burning and heaps of Goals had been
piled about his body.
The body of the old man was dragged
out into the open air in condition that
rendered recognition impossible. At
the lower part of the trunk the fire had
almost severed the body, while the
chest too was entirely burned except on
the left side where the charred re-
mains served to connect the head
with the rest of the body. The
head and feet, though somewhat
scorched, were apparently not p aced! in
the Goals and could be examined easily.
About this CHASTITY corpse, hung bits of
the Grand Army uniform, which the
old veteran always wore. About noon
the charred remains were examined by
physician. Two large fractures of the
skull were discovered, while the fore
head had been entirely crushed in,
showing the entire brain. At the back
of the head a deep cash was found
which was probably caused by the blow
from an AK or Ratchet.
There is no doubt but that the man
was foully murdered, but the perpe-
traitor or cause Of the deed is not
known. The man was known to have a
small sum of money, but this was not
disturbed, as some small change was
found upon his person, and in the draw
er of table $74 lay in wallet. A cor
oner's inquest was held during the after
noon, but no valuable evidence came to
light
Schlax was by trade blacksmith, but
usually passed the winter in the Sol
diers' Home at Milwaukee. He re-
turned from there about ten days ago
During the day two old soldiers, inmates
of the Milwaukee Home, were seen
about town. One Of them showed a
furlough from that place and had a
bad bruise upon one hand, which
evidently had been very recently
received. 1t is surmised that
these two soldiers had quarreled
with SchlaX, while they lived together
in the home. Both have been traced
and late last night one Of them was
being watched at Saukville, where
officers were waiting to hear from Dis
trict Attorney Schwin, to know how to
act. The coroner's jury will meet again
next Wednesday. Warrants are out for
the arrest of the two soldiers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
FAIR BUILDINGS DAMAGED.
The Wind Causes Considerable Loss on the
Exposition Grounds.

The Wind Causes Considerable Loss on the
Exposition Grounds.
CHICAGO, April S,-All night the
inspectors of the construction de-
partment at the Worlds Fair grou nds
made anxious tours among the
great structures that bore the
brunt of the heavy storm of last
night. The main solicitude was in re-
gard to the great roofs, which ere
called upon to bear the weight of
deluge after deluge of water
driven by a wind almost cyclonic
done was comparatively small, the
white city did not escape wholly I'M
scathed. The Kentucky headquarters
was the sufferer among the state build
lngs. The work of construction on this
building has been delayed from lack Of
funds to complete it, and the work of
placing the siding had only lately begun
The open side of the building was to-
ward the wind, and several hundred feet
of siding was ripped off.
Among the foreign buildings the
Swedish building was the unlucky one,
number of boards being blown Off
Among the main fair structures damage
was confined to minor leaks, started in
the T0O1 OF the USnorleS, the united
States government, the manufacturers
and the transportation buildings.
In the last named structures
the painters will be obliged to
do over again considerable work. No
exhibits were injured except a number
of photographs in the New South Wales
collection. DirectOr-GeneralD Davis said
this afternoon that the severe test
showed that the bugaboo of leaky roofs
had been thoroughly conquered.
Close to the fisheries building stands
Ealf-completed restaurant called
The Cafe de Marine" a very elab-
crate affair with series of
round towers erected to the height
OF Y feet. The structure showed the
effects of the wind more than any other
on the grounds, being twisted and
wrenched to the northeast fully three
feet out of plumb
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
JUDGES OF ORATOR CHOSEN.
Names of Those VINO VIII Decide the
Interstate Contest

COLUMBUS, O., April 6.-The inter-
state oratorical contest, participated in
by Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Hi
nois, Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska and Colorado, will
take place here May 4. The following
judges are announced:
On Delivery-Ex-Pres1 Harrison; ex-
Senator ingalls,, Kansas; Senator Daniel,
Virginia: alternates, Congressman Breck-
inridge, Kentucky; Rev. +. W. Gunsaulus,
Chicago; Rev. Russell II. COnwell, Phila-
delphia; Congressman Wilson, West Vir-
ginia; Senator Voorhees,, Indiana; SEN
ator Blackburn, Kentucky.
On Thought and Composition
Harper, University of Chicago; Henry
Watlerson, Louisville; Rev. Washington
GLADDEN., Columbus: alternateS, Presiden t
Adams. University OF Wisconsin; Gov.
Mckinley. Ohio; Rev. Herrick Johnson.
Mccormick Theological Seminary; Gov.
BoieS, Iowa; Gov. Stone, Missouri; Con-
gresham Springer. Illinois.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
GREAT STRIKE ON.
WaIk-Out Of Mechanics Employed at the
Worlds Fair.

WakOut of Mechanics Employed at the
Worlds Fair
CHICAGO, ILL.,, April IU.-At the most
critical time possible for the Worlds
Fair, the big exposition to-day en-
countered its first great strike. A
thousand union men quit work with a
prospect that 1000 more might join in
the stampede before night. 1t was the
elimination Of much controversy over
what is claimed to be an agreement be-
tween the Worlds Fair officials
and the representatives of union labor,
by which all disputes between employ
ers and employees on exposition work
were to be settled by arbitration. The
men contend that some of the exDosi-
ton officials have recently shown a dis
position, now that the fair is nearly
completed, to deny point-blank any,
thing that may be asked, and that
this has notably been the case
in the carpenters troubles which
have been pending for some time,
the exposition authorities, it is alleged,
declining to sign the scale proposed by
the Carpenters Union for the new sea-
son, although a majority of the large
contractors in the city had signed To-
day was named by the business agents
Of the Building Trades Council as the
final time at which arbitration must be
assented to if a strike was to be averted
Early this morning the eHissaries de-
tailed to spread the news OF the order
fnv lctri Of
issued by the Building Trades Council,
were on hand at the various entrances
to the grounds The delegates we're
quickly strung along the fence from
Sixty-seventh to Sixty-eight streets
in regular picket line formation.
George Gary, the president of
the Bridge Workers Union,
was marshall Of the forces, and with
willing assistants his work of detailing
was well done. Each side street lead
ing to the grounds was picketed on both
sidewalks to make the canvass Of in
coming workers as complete as pos
slble. Are you a union man?' was
the question each dinner pail carrier
was buttOn-holed with and if the an
swer was in the affirmative, the order Of
the council was communicated.
Very few union men disObeyed the
OIucI. IL uile eukJeCG O1 eNdlnlnaJOn
proved to be a non-uniOn man, a short
statement of the condition of affairs
was given and his membership in the
union solicited. No threats were made.
of bodily harm if he showed an inclina-
ton to proceed to work.
As the hour approached s O'Clock the
delegates began some very lively work.
The men who had Joined the strikers
now constituted themselves delegates.
Some mounted boxes at the gates and
shouted, "Attention, union men," or
some such salutation to attraction
Stump speeches on their grievances be-
came the order of the moment, and
more recruits were added to the ranks
At 7:45 a party of half dozen dele
gates started in at the Sixty-fifth Street
gate to make q tour Of the grounds.
The party walked rapidly and by the
time the transportation, cold storage,
electricity, mining, administration, ag-
ricultural and machinery buildings had
been passed, the party augmented to
nearly 200 brought up at the liberal arts
buiidipp
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
WEST TO WORK ALONE.
Split in the National Sanitary Conference
Meeting at New York City

meeting at new fOFK CIGy.
New YORK, April Tt has been evil
dent from the beginning that all was not
harmonious among the delegates to the
National Conference of State Boards of
Health. The discomfort eliminated this
morning in an important meeting of
the sanitary council of the Mississippi
Valley. The meeting, which was held
the feeling that the national confer
ence attempted to unite inter
ests too various to harmonic
too many conflicting authorities. The
territory embraced within the juris-
diction Of the council includes fifteen
states and takes in the country between
Minnesota and Louisiana on the North
and South and Iowa and Eastern Penn
sylvania east and west. Twelve of the
fifteen representatives attended the
meeting, the other states being repre-
sented by proxies. Resolutions were
passed of much more definite and
sweeping character than those adopted
by the conference Of state boards. The
first of these resolutions grows out of
the recent reports of the prevalence
Of cholera in Russia and requests
that the surgeon-general Of the Marine
Hospital Service make a thorough in
vestigation of the matter, particularly
in Russia, and, if the facts seem to
justify it, that the case be laid before
the authorities in Washington and the
immigration, either in whole
or in part, under section of
the new quarantine laws. Another
resolution calls upon. the Marine Hos
pital Service to institute a system of
sanitary inspection of trade and traffic
in the states represented in the council,
this inspection to be kept from year to
year during such period as may be
found necessary. Still another resolu-
ton calls on the Marine Hospital
Service to institute a system of immi-
grafton inspection on the lines of the
similar service in 1882 and in the pro-
visions of section 3 of the new quaran-
tine laws. Only twenty-five delegates
to the conference to-day went to inspect
the quarantine facilities about New
York.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
A BRIBERY INVESTIGATION.
Minnesota Assembly Appoints a Committee
of Inquiry

ST. PAUL, Mimi, April SIN the
House to-day it was decided to investi-
gate various charges of bribery. The
matter came up on a resolution which
provided that an investigating commit
tee Of five look into the newspaper
charges that Doodle had been
used on the Wyman Iog-scal-
ing bill. Amendments were pre-
scented and adopted including in the
investigation the Walsh EMPLOYERS liza
bility bill, the Horton anti-pool room
bill, the new capitol bill, the Torrens
land transfer bill and the election of
United States senators. The resolu-
ton, after being thus amended, was
adopted by vote of 20 to IL, and
Speaker Lee named the committee be-
fore adjournment
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
RIOT ON THE DOCKS.
Serious Conflict Between Police and Steve
d0reS at Hull, Eng.

LONDON, April At Hull, the ship
ping port in Yorkshire, union employees
of shipping companies struck against
non-union laborers. A riot occurred
to-day, the non-union men were routed,
and the strikers then made an attempt
to capture the steamer Montello. In
seem to have grasped the seriousness
of the situation, appeared on the
scene. A severe conflict resulted
in the mob being driven back
and off the dock. In the struggle, sew
eral men were injured. The strikers
then turned their attention to the Off
ces of the shipping federation, which is
an association of ship owners. Armed
with stones and bludgeons, they made
an attack upon the building in which
the offices are located.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
TROOPS ON THE DOCKS.

Dragons Preserving the Peace at the
Scene of the Hull Strike.
LONDON, April S.-The docks at Hui,
the scene Of the dock laborers' strike,
are this morning patrolled by dragons.
Strikers and their sympathizers are bit
ter in their denunciations of the ship
ping federation. There has been as
yet to-day no attempt to create dis
order. This is probably due to the
presence of the soldiers and also to the
fact that the police force has been
strongly reinforced. The strikers are
sullen, however, and it would require
only spark to start a fame that would
have disastrous consequences.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
The President viii open the Fair.

CHICAHo, H., April S.-President
Cleveland will touch off the Worlds
Fair on May l in the presence of from
100000 to 10000 people. The plan to
have the opening exercises in hall has
been abandoned and the ceremonies
will be held at the east front of the adj
ministration building. There was con-
siderable objection to the massing of SO
large a crowd in one portion Of the
grounds to witness the ceremonies, as
it was feared that it might ruin the
lawns and flower gardens, but these
were overcome by those who favored
an open air programme, A substantial
platform viii be built just in front of the
administration building. This will be
connected with machinery hall, SO that
President Cleveland will only have to
step to the speakers table to touch the
button
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
NINE W0RKMEN CRUSHED.
Serious Accident on the New Chicago Drain.
age Channel at Joliet.

JOLIET, ILL.,, April S.-The first serious
accident to occur on the drain
age channel happened ar Romeo
last evening. A heavy wind
rose and was followed in about
five minutes by a heavy fall of hail.
This caused all the men to run to shell
ter. The gang Of men on one of the
cantlevcrs ran into the engine house at
one end of the huge engine The wind
struck the cantiiever and it started
down the track toward the engine
house, in which fourteen men were
huddled, and the enormous machine,
weighing $50 tons, fell directly on the
engine house. Nine men were killed
and six severely wounded. The men
were all Italians except the foreman,
Samuel Korus, who lives in this city.
The cantilever was $50 feet long and 80
feet in the air.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
WIFE-MURDERER HANGED.
Dennis CIoonan Executed in the Jai
Yard at Pittsburg.

Dennis C1oonan Executed in the Jail
Yard at Pittsburg.
PIrrsBURG, Pa, April 6.-Dennis Cloo-
nan, the wife-murderer, was hanged in
the jail yard here at 1907 O'Clock this
morning. Cloonan's last night on earth
was peaceful one. He spent the early
hours in prayer, and at 11:30 O. clock re-
tired, sleeping soundly until 5: 80 o'clock
this morning, when he arose and
dressed. He displayed no fear or ner-
vousness as he walked to the scaffold.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April 6.-William
Moore, colored, was hanged at the
county jail this morning at 1000. Moore,
who was 26 years old, shot and killed his
rival, Charles Madden, also colored, in
Jealous rage,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
PROTEST BY GERMANY.
Objection to the Suppression of Mail Be-
longing to a Subject of the Kaiser.

Objection to the Suppression of Mail Be-
longing to a Subject of the Kaiser.
BERLIN, April S.-The government has
made strong protest in Paris against
the action of the French postal authori-
ties in OBTAINING for a week the letters
sent by German named Kurtz to
the German consul in Rouen and the
German ambassador in Paris. Kurtz
was arrested in ROuen as a spy and i'm
prisoned. He wrote letters protesting
his innocence to Count Muenster and to
the local consul on the first day
Of his imprisonment. AS no proof
of his guilt could be obtained
by the authorities, he was re-
leased week later and was
expelled from the country without
having received even an apology. After
he was across the border his letters of
complaint were delivered to the persons
addressed
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12

and over $4,000 worth of ties, hoops,
poles, tan bark, cordwood and sawed
timber has burned. The loss, roughly
estimated, will exceed 100000 in tim
Der, etc, that has been burned, not
counting the score of farm buildings
swept away.
CH1LLIcoTHE, O., April 9.-The high
winds famed the flames of very de
structive fires throughout the hill lands
of Ross, Highland, Pike and Athens
counties. Fences, timber-everything
that would burn-were licked up by the
flames, hundreds of thousands Of dol
lars worth Of the young aud growing
timber being utterly ruined.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
HELP FOR LABOR UNIONS.
The Question Brought Up In the Senate by
Mr.. Voorhees,.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April I'm the
Senate to-day Mr.. Voorhees,, of Indiana,
introduced a resolution, which was re-
ferred to the Interstate Commerce
Commission, reciting the decision of the
Ohio strike cases and directing the COM
mittee to report what legislation is
necessary to amend the interstate COM
merce act SO as to protect the rights of
organized labor. The resolution in
structing the committee on commerce
to visit the Pacific coast for the purpose
Of ascertaining the best site for deep
water harbor Gas between San Pedro
and Santa Monica) was taken up and
oUrao6 70
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
HEKLA SAFE IN PORT.
The Overdue Steamer lowed 20 NcN
NArL by thn

The Overdue Steamer lowed 20 New
York by the Spain.
New YORK, April 1O-The overdue
Thingvalla Line steamship Hekla has
arrived at New York in tow of the Ma
tional Line steamer Spain. The Hekla
broke her shaft in mid-ocean. The
passengers. suffered no great incon-
venience from the accident, provisions
being plentiful. The Hekla should
have arrived from Copenhagen, with
her So cabin passengers, Oil steer
including the Norwegian exhibit for tha
Worlds Fair. on March 20.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
Earthuuake in SerYia.

BELGRADE, April "a severe earth
quake was felt in many parts of Servia
to-day. The village of Veliki Popovitch
was tumbled into ruins and several in
habitants were killed Deaths in
wrecked houses are reported from other
villages in the kingdom.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
SHOT BY A BURGLAR.

Prominent Virginia Business Man Re-
ceives a Fatal Wound.
NORFOLK, Va, April S.-John Dollard,
a member of the Norfolk City Council
and wealthy merchant, was shot in
the throat yesterday by burglar who
Of his store. He died within ten min
utes. The man escaped, pursued by a
policeman and citizens who fired at him
five times without effect He returned
the fire with great deliharatinn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
JUDGE LOCHREN NAMED
Minnesota Man Chosen to Succeed Gen
Green B. Raum.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 6.-The
President to-day announced the APP
pointment of a pension commissioner to
succeed Green B. Raum. The office
goes to William Lochren, of Minnesota.
Judge Lochren's reputation asa jurist is
of the first order and his military rec
ord is particularly brilliant. He
is 81 years of age and was
born in Vermont, where he was
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
Forest Fires in Ohio.

PORTSMOUTH, O., April 9.-The resi-
dents OF Naupoo, Union Mills and
Friendship, of this county, lifted up
prayers of thankfulness this morning
at ? O'Clock, when a heavy April rain be-
gan to fall. For the past two weeks a very
strong and dangerous forest fire has
prevailed west of the Scoto River. The
path rendered desoIate by the fire is
sixteen miles long by four miles wide,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
ANARCHIST DEN RAIDED.
Spanish Authorities Nip a Revolutionary
Movement in the Bud,

MADRID, April S.-The government
has discovered an alarming conspiracy
of Anarchists at Nercs, evidently havirs
for its object an instruction against the
authorities. A building near Here's was
raided last evening and large
number of Anarchists arrested. They
were armed with rifles and knives.
Documents found showed that prepare
tons had been made for an outrage in
revenge for the executions of February,
1892, and that the outbreak was to have
taken place to-day. The prisoners were
conveyed TO Xeres and lodged in the
small cells in which the condemned An
archists were confined last year before
their execution.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
HEKLA MOVING TOWARD PORT.
The Disabled Steamer Slowly Approa CHI
ing New York.

ing New York.
New York, April THE disabled
Thingvalla Line steamship Hella from
Copenhagen and Christiansand, with
about 900 cabin and steerage passen-
gers, was again heard from yesterday.
She was passed about 625 miles
east Of New York by the steam
snip neen Thn u Whieh arrived last
slowly westward. She showed no sig
nails, which would Indicate that she
spoken on March 81 about 1850 miles
east of Sandy Hook by La Normandie
and signaled that she had broken her
shaft, had made repairs and needed no
helm
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
ALLEGED MURDERER CAUGHT.

Arrest of Tom Lewis, Charged With
killing Man at Grand Rapids.
DULUTH, Mimi, April 8.-Last August
Tom Lewis, keeper of a dance house at
Grand Rapids, Mimi, it is alleged, shot
and killed a man named McCafferty.
He was arrested but made his escape.
Rewards Of $500, of which 81 900
came from the state, failed to bring him
to light until last night, when he was ar
rested at Galesburg, Ill. A deputy
sheriff is now on his way to bring him
here. If taken to Grand Rapids Lewis
will undoubtedly be roughly handled.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
WAS SUNK IN A COLLISION.
How the SuItan's Yacht and Fifty-four
Lives were Lost.

Lives were Lost.
VIENNA, April IA dispatch from
Constantinople states that the cause of
the loss of the Sultan's palace steamer,
by which large number Of lives were
lost, was collision between the palace
steamer and the admiralty steamer
Teschvsvie, the palace steamer being
run into and sunk by the admiralty
steamer. The number drowned was
ffty-four, most of whom were servants
of the nalace
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
IDAHO BANK FAILS.
The CGur d'A1ene Depository at Wal
lace Suspends Business.

WALLACE, Idaho, April S.-The Ceur
d'Alene Bank has suspended On the adj
vice of the banks attorney, who asserts
that the action is owing to disagree
ment between the owners, Delashmutt
& McAuley, and that they will dis
solve partnership. H. B. Hall, cashier
and county treasurer, attached the
funds to secure the county deposit,
about $4,000. The city deposit amounts
to about 81 900. Individual deposits are
light and but little uneasiness is felt.
A bank at Wardner, owned by the same
parties also closes
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
READINGS NEW PRESIDENT.
Joseph S. Harris Chosen to Succeed Mr.. Nc.
p0d

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April Sat a
meeting of the board of directors of
Reading Railroad Company, held at
noon to-day, the resignation of Presi-
dent A. A. Mcleod was accepted and
Joseph S. Harris was chosen to fill the
vacancy. Thomas Mexican was elected a
member of the board Of directors vice
Thomas DOlan RESIGNED.