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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-31
PROTECT NAVIGATION.
Assistant Secretary of War Doe
IntimateS What His Pol
icy will Be.

Oshkosh, Wis, July 27.|SpeciaL]
After returning from his trip down the
Lower Fox river and prior to his depart
ure for Camp Douglas, Gen. Doe, assist
ant secretary of war, who has been in
vestigating the water power trouble,
summed up his impressions of the situa-
ton as follows:
THE entire tendency of all the facts
which l have been able to reach is to-
ward the conclusion that the mill owners
of the Lower Fox are very far, indeed,
from being proper objects of sympathy
or charity. Not only has the number Of
men out of employment been grossly ex-
aggerated, but many mill owners have
neglected the most ordinary precautions
against a shortage of water, although
they have experienced low water, at
times much lower than at present, every
year since 1885.
THE war department will not authorize
the use OF any water at the Neenah and
Menasha dams until an accurate measure
ment Of the outflow Of the Fox river is
made. Orders for such measurements
have already been given and the work
will be undertaken Immediately. When
the amount is determined. if sufficient
water to be of any use to the mills, so as
to give any considera Die employment OF
labor which is now idle, can be spared
while retaining sufficient to gradually
raise the level of Lake WlnnebagO to the
crest of the Menasha dam. it would be the
disposition of the department to permit
its use.
"The number of workmen injuriously
affected by the low water above the Nee
Eah and Menasha dam is probably just
about equal to the number who are so af-
fected by the shutdown ordered by the
war department.. Mr.. Mariner of Mil
waukee stated Wednesday, in the open
meetin gat Appleton, and without contra
diction. that it was conceded by all that
il navigation needs the water the mills
must shut down, as the water power is
only entitled to the surplus water after
all the needs of navigation are satisfied.
Mayor Thorn of Appleton made the sug
gestion, which was apparently assented TO
by all present, that the government en-
deduct the evaporation, and allow the
The statements made by various persons
in regard to this whole matter have
proved. upon examination, to be wholly
unreliable and, in many cases, grossly ex-
aggerated. The truth in reference to the
situation, fairly stated, shows the effects
of the shutdown. so far as they have
been injurious, to have been nothing so far
reaching or serious as represented, while
it is equally plain that the interests of
both the upper and lower Fox would be
best subserved by raising the water to the
crest of the Menasha dam at the earliest
possible moment
The action which Gen. Doe in his inter
view intimateS will be taken by the war
department will undoubtedly be satisfact-
cry to all interests involved.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-31
STEAMER PICKS UP FIVE MEN.
They Were of the Crew of the Cleveland
Sunk by Tank Steamer.

Gravesend, Eng, July 27.-The British
steamer Baltimore City, Capt. Graham,
which recently left Hamburg for United
States ports, arrived here today and re-
ports that at 8 o'clock this morning in
dense fog off Felkestone, he heard
cries for help and, lowering a lifeboat,
picked up FIVE men, who turned out to
be part Of the crew of the British steam
er Cleveland, from the Mediterranean,
which had been sunk in collision with
the British tank steamer Duf1ield, Capt
Lowe, from Philadelphia June % for
Havre. The Dufield is understood to
have rescued FIVE other members of the
crew of the Cleveland, but seven of the
sunken steamers crew are still missing.
The steamer Cleveland was built at
West Hartlepool in 1886. She regis
tered 14Q1 tons.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-31
KILLED BY A CHILD.
Maggie Craige of Minneapolis the
Victim of a Shotgun Ac-
Cident.

Minneapolis, Mimi, July GA strange
and bloody murder was committed last
night on the farm of Ernest LANCE, sew
enteen miles west of this city. The body
of little Maggie CTigie, the 14-year-old
Minneapolis fire department, was found
with the top of her head blown off by
a charge from shotgun. Futile efforts
had been made to remove the traces of
blood in the upstairs room where the
murder was committed and along the
stairs where the body had been dragged
down. The LANCE shotgun was found
with one recentlyfred shell in it. Mrs.
the house at the time. Later her Swear
old Freddie confessed that he had killed
the girl by accident.
A coroner's jury has returned verdict
of accidental death.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-31
FEAR TROUBLE OREGON.
Indians and Fish Hatchery Employees
Nav Clash. .


Portland, Or, July 27.-An Indian var
similar to that between the Bannocks and
settlers in Wyoming may engage tho at
tention of the Oregon authorities III the
very near future unless the interior de-
partment at Washington takes immediate
steps to prevent the Indians now on res
ervations in this state from indiscrim-
inately Strengthening game and fishing III
season and out Ever since Fish and
Game Protector Mcclure has been III of
fee he has had trouble with reserva ton
Indians Last summer the Indians. about
100 in number, came down from the
Warm Springs reservation and fshed out
of the ClackamaS river in the vicinity
of the new experimental hatchery, spot
which has been their favOrite fishing
grounds for many years. The regular
fishing party is expected to arrive and
go into camp at the new hatchery within
the next three weeks, just when the
salmon are spawning, and unless some
measures are taken to stop them they
will surely have trouble with the hatch
cry employees.
Protector Mcclure took steps several
weeks ago to prevent a clash on the
upper Clackamas. He has addressed Il
letter to the interior department at Wash
ington, which carries the endorsement OF
Senator Mitchell, bearing a request that
Indian agents at once receive explicit
orders to prevent fishing and hunting
parties from leaving the reservation dur
ing the closed season for fish and game
as provided by the state law.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-31
VERA WAS IN WISCONSIN.
some Testimony in the Corbett Divorce

Some Testimony in the Corbett Divorce
Suit.
New York, July 26.-The hearing in
the Corbett divorce case was resumed
today before Referee Jacobs. Jay II.
Wilson, a member of the dramatic COM
pany of which Pugilist Corbett was the
star, testified that the woman Vera trav-
eled with the company as Mrs. Corbett
He also sWore that Corbett and Vera
occupied the same rooms in the Burnett
house in Cincinnati, at the Park hotel
in Madison, Wis. and az a hotel in La
Crosse. Wis. This closed the case for
the plaintiff. A motion of counsel for
Corbett to dismiss the suit on the ground
that the plaintiffs allegations had not
been sustained by the evidence was over
ruled by the referee
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-31
CHAUNCEY is TALKING.
1"-T -
Depew Discusses English Elections and
Several Other Things.

Several Other Things.
London, July 26.-The Westminster Ga
zette today publishes lone interview
with Chauncey NJ. Depew, who, accord
ing to the Gazette, is considerably talked
of as the next Republican candidate
for the presidency of the United States.
In this interview he discusses at length
the British elections, home rule and the
Monroe doctrine, taking the same ground
ON all three subjects as he did in the
interview with the Associated press re-
porter when he landed at Southampton
on the steamship Paris on July Is. Re
garding bimetallism, Mr.. Depew is quoted
as saying that he believes the majority
of the Marquis of Salisbury's cabinet is
in sympathy with the views of the Rt.
Hon. A. J. Balfour, the first lord of the,
treasury.
The total number of members of Par
lament elected by the different parties.
up to p M today are as follows: Con-
servatives, 1856; Unionists, 67-govern
ment total. 4O3: Liberals, $50; Mccarthy
ties. 60; Parnellites, u; Labor. 2-Oppo-
sition, 239. Net Unionist gain, So.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-31
VALkYRIE'S STEEL SPARS.
Will Reduce the Weight A1oft by Several

Boston, Mass, July ga local paper
contains a cablegram dated Gorouck,
Scotland in which it is said that Valkyrie
III. will have a set Of steel spars, several
tons lighter than the pine ones.
This, the correspondent continues, will
reduce the weights aloft quite as much
if not more than the Defender gains in her
aluminium topsail. The steel spars. which
are greatly reduced in size from the
former ones, are made of nickel steel, gal
vanized
The mast is rounder, smoother, is over
a ton lighter than the pine mast. It is
just 105 feet over all and % inches in
diameter. which is three half inches less
than the Oregon mast. She has now 81
tons of lead on her keel and, by reducing
weight aloft, she will be fully stiff enough,
so her crew think.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-31
THE OAT HARVEST IN IOWA.
Some of it Lodged, but Modern Binders
Gather 1t.

New Hampton, Ia, July 26.-The oats
harvest is a little over half done in Chick
asaw county. Some Of it was lodged
badly, but the modern binders have gath
cred the most of it. The straw is the
heaviest ever known and will go along
ways toward helping out the light hay
crop. A few threshers have started and
report 60, 80 and 80 bushels to the acre
Flax is good, but none has been cut
Corn prospects continue fine
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-31
Ina COOlbrith Diving.

Oakland, Cal, July 27.--Ina Donna
Coolbrith, who is known to magazine
readers both in America and England as
a writer of short poems, is dying at her
home in this city. She was stricken with
perintonitis a few days ago and the
physicians sag that her case Is new hope
less.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-31
Mrs. wtll1e ks recul1ar Acc1dent.

Newport, R. /, July ga peculiar ac
cident happened this afternoon to Mrs
Willie X. Vanderbilt and Miss Consuelo:
While out driving they were compelled
to alight in front of the Casino on ac-
count of "hot box an accident COM
mon to railroad trains. but unusual to.
driving parties After remaining in one
of the numerous shops which surround
the Casino for an hour Miss Vanderbilt
and her mother continued their drive,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-31
JEALOUS OF AN ITALIAN ARTIST.
Reason Given for the Suicide of Bing-
hamton Youth.

Binghamton, n. Y, July 26.-Five
minutes after an interview with his in
tended bride, Volney Barrett, prominent
Binghamton merchants son, died from
Some months ago he became engaged to
Miss Georgia Earl, school teacher of
this city. Recently an artist lately re-
turned from Italy called on Miss Earl
and was seen driving with her. This is
supposed to have aroused Barrett's jeal-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-31
NORTHWESTERN Rowing Rules.

st. Clair, Mich, July 26.-At the an
nual meeting of the Northwestern Anna
teur Rowing association today it was
decided to adopt the definition laid down
by the National Association of Juniors.
Intermediates and Coxswains, which
will enable juniors to row in intermedi-
ate races without ceasing to be juniors
unless they should win.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-31
AMERICAN FRUIT IN LONDON.
That Taken Over by the st. Louis Did
Not Sell Very Well.

London, July 26.-Sixteen hundred
cases of California fruit, which arrived at
Southampton from New York by the
steamship ST. Louis at S:15 o'clock yes
terday morning were sold at auction at
Coyent garden today, fetching prices
which were one-half below those of last
week. The plums averaged Is 10d per
case, the peaches IS and the pears lis
I'd The buyers do not think that more
money can be made with American fruit
than French fruit. The best lot sold was
fifty cases of pears packed by the Ma
tional Fruit company, which brought
lie Al
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-31
Richard Gray's Vacation

San Francisco, Cal, July 25.-Richard
Gray, general traffic manager Of the
Southern Pacific company, has been
half pay on account of sickness Gray
has been in the employ of the Southern
Pacific since 1870.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-31
SCHOOL GIRL MURDERED.
Thrown Into the Water at Boston While
Unconscious.

Boston, Mass, July 26-The body of
Alberta Stuart, a 14-year-old school girl,
who disappeared from her home at %
Myrtle street yesterday, was found in
the Charles river today. Medical Exam
iner Harris has found evidence that she
had been assaulted and it is believed that
she was thrown into the river while I'M
conscious
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-02-20
That Liquor Shortage.

Governor Evans yesterday received
from Dispensary Inspector Scruggs his
report of his investigation of the accounts
of the dispensary at st. Matthews. He
reports that the total shortage Is 81. .2S2. .83.
The bulk of this amount falls on the
State and not on the county, as Governor
Evans thought. There is now duo the
State, so Mr.. Scruggs reports, S2,03S.36.
The amount due the county on account of
unpaid profits is only $244.47. The stock
on hand at the dispensary as accounted
on Monday by MIR. Scruggs, when he
took charge of the dispens.ry, was worth
SI,51616. Dispenser Evans has purchas-
ed from the State since the reopening OF
the dispensaries in August last, Sc, ,2S9. ii
worth Of liquors, and the total stock car
ried since the reopening amounted to
S7,55019.
Governor Evans now believes that the
shortage has been accumula'ing for some
been something misleading about the
reports or the shortage would have been
discovered long ago. Governor Evans
has already forwarded all the necessary
papers and instructions to the attorneys
in Orangeburg representing the State and
he says the State will lose nothing and
Dispenser Evans will be made to suffer.
Governor Evans says this should be q
warning to other dispensers. He says
that all dispensers and all others connect
ed with the system might as we'll under
stand that the States business is not a
thing to be "monkeyed with" He says
he intends to show absolutely no leni-
ency with any one in such matter
where States money is involved
lunabia State, Feb. IA.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-02-20
Must Stand by Contracts

Wexford school district, up in Spartan
burg, seems to be in trouble again. The
Superintendent of Education has received
an inquiry from Mr.. Ravenel as to the
right of board of trustees to make chan
ges in teachers, and has sent in reply the
following statement, which will be OF
general interest:
Mr.. II. E. Ravenel, Attorney at'Law,
Spartanburg, S. c.: Dsar Sir: Replying
to yours OF the 18th iEst., beg to say
that if Mrs. E. A. Alexander had certi-
fcate to teach, properly issued and of
force at the time in Spartanburg county,
and continuing of force to cover the time
contracted for, the board of trustees had
right to contract with her to teach the
Welford school, and neither the old nor
new board could terminate the contract
without sufficient cause. Ifthe contract
was by the month, then neither the old
nor new board could stop the school at
the end of any month buff the contract
was for term of months, or for the entire
term the public funds would run the
school for the year, the salary fixed and
payable monthly, or at the end of the
term, the certificate continuing of force
during the term, then tho contract could
not be terminated by either the old or
the new board of trustees, except for
sufficient cause, tho contracts being en-
tirely lawful, for retiring boards of trus-
tees are, binding on their successors in
Office, and should be properly respected
and executed.
venture no opinion as to the facts in
Mrs. Ale1ander's case, but simply state
the rules Of law that should govern gen
orally, including her case.
Yours very truly,
w. d. MAYFIELD,
State Superintendent of Education.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-02-20

proposed to inaugarato throughout tho
State in the interest Of an exhibit shall be
in cooperation with tho Charleston
league. Tho Governor will appoint at
once three commissioners to bavc gen.
eral charge of the work and an executive
committee to push it systematically in
every County in the State. The Cover.
nor will be ex-oficio chairman of the
commission and he will call upon the
women to lend their assistance. Z. L..
Roche, of Charleston, who has charge of
the States exhibits at the Philadelphia
centennial and at the New Orleans and
Chicago expositions, is to act in the same
capacity again as general commissioner,
and Samuel w. Wilkes, of Atlanta, a
native South Carolinian, Is to. be resident
commissioner in Atlanta. The Governor
will at once issue an invitation to the
whole people of the State to aid him in
his personal exertions for an exhibit.
Anderson County must have place in
this exhibit.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-02-20
Port Royals Great Growth.

Port Royal makes splendid showing
in her cotton receipts this season as COM
pared with the season OF 1893-94. Since
Sc ptember l, 1894, the net receipts have
been 11l,50l bales, as compared with
Al, ,O3S the previous season, an increase OF
GA, 4,4G3. When it is remembered that for
ten years during the time Port Royal
was bottled and the cork held in the
hands of friends of the rival port of Sa-
vannah) not bale was received here, it
goes to show by the marked increase in
the business of one year what might have
been the volume Of traffic bad the port
been untrammeled, free and independent
all these years; and further goes to show
how the State Of South Carolina has been
damaged in her most vital interest (the
upbuiding of Its most advantagec us port)
by aliens who call herironically sister
State. In addition to this development
of business in cotton the past year we
must not lose sight OF the fact that a grain
business is being established here, and
already thousands of bushels of grain
and thousands of bags of flour have been
shipped, and the outlook in this direction
is as promising in profit as is tho show OF
cotton.-PLlme{to Post.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-02-20
An Alliance Proposed.

COLUMBIA, s. c., Feb. 14.--A conven-
tionsof negro preachers met here to- day
and effected an organization to participate
in the election of delegates to the Consti-
tutional Convention. It was non-politi-
cal in character. About sixty attended.
e. G. Brown, of Charleston, was perma-
nent chairman. An executive committee
was provided and arrangements made to
push the registration of negro voters.
One of the speakers declared that
:.swealth and intelligence must rule the
country ~ and he had sense enough to
know it. Me favored the union of the
."best class of negroes with the best class
of whites" It was manifest from the
proceedings that it was the purpose OF
these negroes to undertake to throw the
negro. vote to anti-Tillman candidates for
delegates to the, Constitutional Conven-
ton, relying upon Them to- vote against
disfranchising negroes with an educa-
tional suffrage qualification.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-02-20
Clemson College r, fitted.

CALHOUN, ocoNEE COUNTY, Feb. H.
The work OF furnishing and redtting the
interior OF Clemson College is being
rapidly advanced and everything will be
ia order for the reopening on the 2lst
instant Messrs. Hunnicutt & Bellin-
graIh, Of Atlanta have the contract for
putting in the heating apparatus. A test
was recently made by Trustees Donald
son and Bradley to seeif everything was
in working order and, with the exception
of one or two minor matters, the radiators
were found to work successfully. The
exterior painting Of the College and
chapel has been delayed by the excessive
cold prevailing of late.
The College people think that the action
of the board az their last meeting, when
It was decided not to pay for student
labor, will have the effect Of keeping
away O great many boys. President
Craighead is receiving many letters from
parents who want to send their sons, but
who say that they will be prevented from
doing so if there is to be no pay for labor.
Is is thought that there will not be more
than 250 to 300 boys at the opening. Last
year the number went at one time to $50.
Special NeUs and Courier.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-02-20

"A refreshing instance of "old-fash-
ioned honesty" has been noted in Hous,
ton County, Ga. Before the war Ken
lucky horse dealer suld Dooly County
farmer a lot of horses, taking in part
payment the farmers note for $3.50, paya-
pie in the fall. When the war broke out
the horse dealer considered the note can
celed, like other obligations. However,
about fifteen years ago the dealer sent a
collector through the State, who lost the
Dooly County farmers note, and which,
strange to say, was found by the farmer
himself. The farmer afterward moved to
Houston county, and few nights ago a
Kentucky horse dealer stopped at his
house to sr end the night. During the
evening tho kentuckian was surprised to
learn that the farmer was the one who
had given him the long lost note. The
farmer paid the note with interest.
- The losses in Florida are estimated
az high as ten millions of dollars. Key
West and Palm Beach were the only t.. O
points in the state whsre the freezing
point was not reached. They escaped by
q scratch,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-02-20
Frozen Cattle.

HOUSTON, Tex, Feb. 1.-THE colds
effect on cattle Is said by stockmen to be
disastrous. Texas live stock men esti-
mate the loss above 25 per cent. One
member of the Texas Live Stock Associ-
alton said: "The loss is greater to-day
than it would have been ten or fifteen
years ago, before the wire fencing has
cut the cattle off from the bottoms"
A man from the country below the
Southern Railroad, this side of the Brazos
river, said he knew two stock men who,
three years ago, skinned over 300 cattle
In two days which had died from the ef-
fecrs of the cold.
HENNEssEY, o. T., Feb. 17.-An ap-
peal for aid has been made by settlers In
the strip. Hundreds of families are alb,
solutely starving, eating prarie dogs and
horses. The suffering is unparalleled.
Cattle have been dying in droves as
result of the unprecedented northers
which visited both territories and Texas
within the past few weeks.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-02-20
Suicide by Drowning.

ADMISSION. Ala, Feb. 14.-Mrs: S. J.
Cole, the wife Of farmer in the Morris
Vile community, committed suicide yes
terday by drowning herself in pond in
that vicinity. She disappeared from
home at about o'clock in the morning,
and when noon came and she had not
returned, the family, which consisted OF
husband and daughter, became alarm
ed, and began to search for her. Late in
the afternoon her shoes were found on
the bank of the pond. Shortly afterwsrd
her body Yves discovered beneath its sur
face. No cause for the deed is known.