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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-12

Ner York. Jan. IL-There are in Eng
,..4.s heart. in London itself. ten Amer
,.sD women. true daughters Of the United
So who are working quietly and
entity TO prevent war between the two
-.~,.ries that are looking at each other
in sinister way.
r, them war means thousand times
as much as it does to other American wo-
msr They are the two Duchesses of
,rsrlborough Lily and Consuela; Lady
Terence Blackwood. the Countess Of Is
cav Lady Craven, formerly Bradley-Mar-
lin. Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain. Lady Mary
psget. Lady Randolph Churchill, the Wis
,onntess Deerhurst-a great favorite in
vi,toria's court-and Mrs. Letter Cur
7or These have untold power for in
tornational arbitration.
Resides these women there are ten more
chat bear English titles, but these par
ticular ten are so situated that they are
in the very midst of the greatest powers
that rule England to-day. Their infiu-
spce thrown upon the scale would turn
IT whichever way they bent themselves.
If war were declared upon England to-
dav Mr.. Curzon, Englands under secre-
fsfy of foreign affairs, would lose I'M
medately. through his wife, SIS, 600 in
American securities alone. This was Miss
letters private fortune when she mar
ried Mr. Curzon last spring, and at the
erst note of trouble her stock would drop
10 100000, and at more trouble, to prob
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touch which Victoria has always main

touch which Victoria has always main
tanned.
To Lady Mary Paget war would mean
something very serious. Lady Paget is
not rich woman. though her position
in London is second to none. Her hus-
band is lieutenant colonel of the Scots
Guards, and is a warrior who served in
the Ashantee war and in the expedition
to the Nile. None has a more gallant
record than Col. Paget. But he is not a
rich man, and would doubtless have come
to America, like his brother Almeric Hugh
Paget Miss Whitneys husband, had he
not been placed in the army
To Lady Mary Paget war would mean
the sending of her husband 70 hght her
wiping out of her fortune. The Stevens
money is invested in real estate that
would collapse, or suffer great lapses IN
case of bombardment; and besides this,
American woman would have the horror
of knowing that her husband was using
all his tremendous skill to fight her rel
atives here. Her influence would be al
most hysteric to prevent conflict, and
no one knowing Lady Paget could doubt
its potency
Lady Terence Blackwood, wife of the
little English diplomat who has been in
the English embassy in France for some
years would strive to keep her husband
from warlike influences for a slightly
different reason. Lady Terence's money
is with her father, the Wall street man,
and is secure in our great money system.
But Lady Terence would wish to prevent
war for private reasons.
For a long time it has been whispered
about that Lady Terence had great hopes
of seer her husband sent to this coun-
try upon a diplomatic mission. AS Eng
fish ambassador, even her ladyship's
hopes would be fulfilled. Her influence
has been turned this way, and some day
she may see all fulfilled, If there IS
p The Countess of Essex. Adele Grant
of New York, has no great American
fortune, but she has husband who is
a devotee of the queen. He was a page
in her majesty's court, and has remained
60 devoted to her that he would leave
wife and the babylord and sally out to
war at the first note. New York city is
the love Of the Countess Of Essex; She
once told a friend that she dreams at
niaht Of Union Square and its stately old
picturesqueness. TIC. have her husband
lighting her beloved city would be great
grief to her.
with the two Duchesses Of Marlborough
war is impossible. Consuelo, the bride,
would lose her great fortune quickly, as
railroads would feel the crash immediate
" and Lady Beresford would suffer such
impairment of the Hamersley income that
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BRUINS ACUTE GAsTRTTIs.
IL Was the Outcome of FIatuienee su-
Derinduced by Meal % Dynamite.

From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Binghamton, Dec. 29.-Thomas Milne. a
New Yorker, who is visiting friends here
started with them on his first bear hunt
last Wednesday. Footprints were traced
through a patch Of woods into a glen
where they became partly obscured The
ravlne was a rocky wall, about twenty
feet high, and near by two Italians were.
at work excaVating for a railroad switch
to be used in the transfer of logs to the
main line. They were preparing to thaW
out quantity of dynamite for blasting
purposes. The hunters left and returned
later, when one of the Italians accused
them of stealing the dynamite they were
preparing to thaw
There was a rustling in the underbrush
on the bank high above, and the shaggy
hide OF the long-sought bear came in
sight. Milne emptied both barrels into
the brute's head. The bear Iunged heav-
lily forward and tumbled over the bank
His fall was followed by terrific exDIo-
sion. which hurled the Italians into the
brush. The hunters, when they examined
the remains, or the fragments of the bear
discovered that he had been literally
blown to pieces. 1t Is supposed that he
came upon the dynamite that the work.
men had prepared to thaw, and finding
IL sweet and not unpalatable swallowed
the whole of 1T. His Internal heat thawed
the dynamite, and in falling he struck a
rock, causing the explosion.
Several windows in neighboring farm
house were broken By the force of the
Shock
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HOW LEE BECAME GOVERNOR.
lie Fooled YanIS. Who Thercupon
spared Ills Life.

J. A Watrous i'm the Chicago Times
Herald.
IF it hadn't been quite so easy to pull
wool over my inexperienced German eyes
and turn my young head the old mother
Of Presidents. Virginia, would not have
had Bobby Lees nephew, Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee, for governor.
The remark was made by II. c. Kell-
ner. who for years has been a commercial
traveller for Chicago tobacco house
Kellner was an understood, beardless boy,
the whiplash end of his company-long-
WASTED. short-necked and chubby legged
He is not of that measurement now. He
Is large, jolly, bright, quick-witted-clear
up with the times; what they call "A thor
oughbred-a man TO tie to.
why not, Kellner2 Could you have
beaten him in one OF those Old Dominion
campaigns they were having ten years
ago?" asked one of his regimental COM
rades. "WG1ld you have run against him
and defeated him If you had thought of
it soon enOughY"
IF l hadn't been misled I would have
run an ounce of led through him"
"Who misled you, and when?'
"Fitz Lee-he was a colonel then, or lieu
tenant colonel. 1t was at Catletts Sta
ton, on the Alexandria and Virginia rail-
road, six or seven miles from the Kappa
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ably none at all. This is a solid and
SUBSTANTIAL reason why Mr.. Curzon would
noI favor war and why Lady Scarsdale,
es Mrs. Curzons title will some day be,
would work against such a calamity.
II IS not to be supposed that any man
worthy the name of statesman would
anoW his private interests to stand in
ssle way of his patriotism, but it is diff
ncult 10 see how man in business cir
YES as Mr.. CurZon is. and having great
Ilterests at stake, could think otherwise.
ne sees the prosperity brought about by
lle combined interests of the two coun-
lIles and he Sees the wreck with these
interests separated. Mrs. George Curzon,
utiue as she is, is more powerful TO pre-
woman
Her expected heir has a right to her
unimpaired fortune.
Except Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain! One
u uas 70 except her when very great Eng
HSh influence is under discussion. Her
husband is al sthe head, the very head,
vi the Liberal UnioniStS, a party as pow
eIiu! IN England as our great political
patues are here. Mrs. Chamberlain IS
Igly close in the heart of this party. She
NjnoWs It's secrets and hears its discus
Ans. her American mind and BRAIN can
~ more for America than all the arbl-
Iaton messages ever penned, but in
all lhconspicuous way.
Mrs Joseph Chamberlain could and
uoes help her country by her American
ISM. She is the daughter of a Statesman
ana was for many years her fathers sec
'e'ary. She understands our politics and
our feelings. 1t is she who can explain
our peculiar inherited feeling for liberty
M none others can. 1t was President
Monroe's fears that in future England
t%o9ld surround us that made him in
JtGuIce that doctrine which now max
81 tne trouble. Mrs. Chamberlain under
lands this; and 1t is rumored that these
GsE she Is closeted long hours with Eng
tn =, statesmen explaining, representing
~ mem and influencing them.
IN N this country women politicians are
H. a. strong-minded' but in England
Ci'.aTe much admired. Lady Randolph
D ToauIGnlll here would occupy position not
of SN held by any American woman-that
clan 'iu uii-'e P0--N
B ~ Is difficult to estimate the power Lady
vteSnttuiolph Churchill would have in pre-
tries W. wen tii9 wv
lia 5ler engagement. just announced. to Will
Az M Waldorf Aston would cement the
AMercan bond
II rs y allied to both with books of steel.
vgbissA uouptfui If she herself could tell to
rei ,ttl sne Is closest. Cousins, friends dear
VS. and fortune oyer heTei Home
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young people, among whom was school,
teacher, who had but recently made a
careful study of the Pope campaign
which ended with that most dishearten-
ing defeat at Second Bun Run
LAS have read history" said the young
teacher, Gen. Pope lost enough to break
any mans heart in that campaign besides
his uniform. He lost his head. the battle
and his command"
Poor Gen. Pope's great misfortune was
in being sent from the west to the east to
take command of an army and cooperate
with another army, both of which, at that
time, were full of soldier statesmen, whose
ideas did not coincide with those of the
brilliant western general who "headduar-
tered in the saddle" Besides that. he was
out-generaled by Lee, Jackson and Long
street, the same as these same soldiers
had out-generaled Mcclellan In his at
tempt to capture Richmond a few weeks
before,
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rRIGHr on mon PLACES.
The blind Impulse 10 jump Is some
times beyond Control.
New York Mail and Express.

New York Mail and Express.
At great hight many persons would no
more think Of looking down upon the sur
face Of the earth than they would Of
thrustlng a hand into blazing fire. An
Irresistible impulse comes over them to
jump, and this impulse IS stronger when
the feet are close to the edge Of the roof
Of a high building.
DR. Edward Lanning, the American ply
sician who practiced his profession in
Paris for ten or eleven years. says he has
seen more cases OF elevation fright" in
the French capital than he has in any
other city he has even been in.
II do not know" said he, that 1t is any
peculiarly OF the French character, but
/ have frequently been called in eases
where death has resulted in a leap from
tall building or tower-not that L
whether / could determine from previous
family history whether or not the victim
was insane.
About two years ago / was visited by
a sailor, an AlSatian, who told me ne ex-
perienced the peculiar sensation of terror
when at an elevation and that he was un-
able to take a berth on any vessels where
his duties would require him to go aloft
further than twelve or fifteen feet from
the deck. He consented to go with me
to tall building and go on the roof, so
| could observe his condition when he
looked over the edge into space took
two assistants with me as a. precaution.
One Of them brought rope at the sailors
request. He said he would not dare ven
ture to the edge of the roof unless he
had one end OF the rope around his waist
and felt that the other end was securely
held. i acceded to that, and told him TO
go as close to the edge as he pleased.
I'VE were very high up--l25 feet I
should say. The sailor walked cautiously
toward the caves and | walked alongside
of him. He looked over and jumped back,
and then walked forward again. / OBJ
served that the pupil Of his eye had be-
come dilated, and IN a few moments the
peTspiration ran down his face in
Giles twitched. He stood quietly without
tuggng at the rope, but told me that If
he did not know that he was being held
he certainly could not resist the temp
tation to leap out into space.
HE got down on his hands and knees
and tried to become accustomed to look
ing over the roofs edge but said he could
not. He wanted to draw himself forward
and plunge over head first. / finally took
equanimity He came to me year after
wards and said that he had tried his
best to cure himself Of what he consider
ed a weakness, but was unable to do So
The man was perfectly sane, and appar-
emily cool and collected when on terra
firma, but at seventy-five or a hundred
feet he became an abject coward
about three months ago 1 was not
surprised when / received a letter from
one OF his colleagues telling me that the
sailor had cast himself from a balloon
in which he assembled with an aeronaut
near Dieppe. and had been dashed TO
pieces"
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er homes even would have to be given

her homes even would have to be given
up.
But aside from financial interests, which,
however, cannot be ignored. these women
are particularly fond OF their own cOun>
for II. Neither Lady BeresfOrd, whose
father was a war colonel, nor COnsueio
Vanderbilt. would suffer their husbands
easily to buckle on armOr against their
brothers and parents here. Their infiu-
ence alone il all expended in their own
peculiar way, would avert the bitteTest
of feelings.
SO those who cry peace need not fear
that they are in the majority. Across
the water are ten beautiful Amazons OF
rank. who would struggle to maintain
the harmony which means to them more
than il can to any woman whose loved
ones are all under one flag.
Constance Merriheld.
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"" Lady Crave" Lady Randolph o
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WOMEN WHO CAN PREVENT WAR.
Tn American Securities Their English Hus-
bands Would Lose 100000. 900.

Lady
OminG DOwer
whispers Diplomacy
he Is n Favor
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What lis lover"
"a fresh egg"
'Marriage?"
Hard boiled eggs
"Divorce2"
"scrambled eggs."-New York Times
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-30
Johnson Greek.

IT 20. Meyers has purchased. the lot
owned bytB. Foley. Mr.. NJ. will move
there about November 1.
= Mrs G: C. Mansfeldlan Miss Grace
5Mansfed spent a few days in Milwau-
Hast wee k.ss,.
S y Tt lnIeyi and f:wife, Of st. Paul, were
go ests So Mrs, Foley last week.
rs lE;sss heRherd and children were
55yisitgf JIs:ssaIl llW aukee recently.
DC. as slrchased lot Of w. W.
~ III an (which he will soon
reef i h6}ise: g..
s., NJ IS. Mansfield was caller
at JeHeg fFlis lssAss thursday.
IS % BIZ seaassEs no yer has returned from
iINws s,as sls res he has. spent several
~ IiIsss Beck of Fort Atkinson,
spent ssSeSt.I a aud Sunday at home.
IL ID 81 I'll AZ ess; who has been here
Wishing for IA few days, has gone to
Iowa, Where:h he expects to locate.
{ DR.. Mans feld,.of Jefferson, spent
two days Ghere,. last week.
s. j s Mrs lJsiG. Grell is visiting relatives
at Barliif gtof d ::t::zz.s. j. B.
80. JJ5-; - -
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Poor Argument for free Silver.

The free coinage agitators ask the
people to vote for the sixteen to one
scheme on the ground that the bankers,
manufacturers and merchants are all
in favor of a sound currency. eff the
banking and business interests are op-
posed to free silver" say the cheap dol
lar advocates, "the farmers and work
ers should support it. There must be
something good for the poor in this
free coinage scheme just because the
rich people do not want it, Of all I'M
reasonable and demagogic pleas for so
cent dollars this is the worst An ex-
actly similar argument would be a de-
mand on the part Of the millions who do
not own homes or buildings of any kind
that all houses should be burned down
because it would hurt property owners.
There is no doubt but that every man
in America who owns a building would
say, if asked, that he is opposed to hav-
ing his property destroyed. But that
would be no reason why the people who
have NO homes should favor arson. The
attempt to create a prejudice in favor
Of debt reputation because business
men and bankers believe i'm honesty
cam never succeed with fair-minded.
honorable citizens. They will decide
the silver question ON it's merits and
will not be led astray by appeals to
one class to vote for cheap and trashy
money merely because it is favored By
another class.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-30
Plenty of Bimetaliism Now.

We have bimetallism in the United
States in every sense of the term. If the
gold man wants gold, he can get it. If
the silver man wants silver at sixteen
to one, he can get it. Based on these two
metals and redeemable in them, or like
them, in the products Of the world (the
final redeemer of ali moneys) we have
the greenback, the treasury note and
the national bank note, so that if the cit
lien prefers paper to either gold or sill
YER, it is within his reach.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-30
Assembly Convention.
FIRST DISTRIC

A convention of the Republicans of the
First assembly district of Jefferson county is
hereby called to meet in the hall at the village
of Rome, on Saturday, October 3, 1896, at IL
o clock A. M, for the purpose of nominating a
candidate for member of assembly and to
transact such other business may be
proper The basis of representation in said
convention will be one delegate for every fifty
votes or major part thereof cast for w. H.
Upham for governor in 1892, emitting the
different precincts to the following number
of delegates: Cold Spring, 2; Concord, q;
Pennington, 2; Hebron, 3; Ixonia, 2; Palmyra,
5; Sullivan, 4; town OF Watertown, 2; city of
WATERFOWL, First ward, 3; Second ward, q;
Third ward, 1; Fourth ward, |; Seventh ward,
l. JESSE STONE,
Chairman District Committee.
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In the County Court.

For the regular term of the Jefferson
county county court, October 6, the
following matters are noticed for trial
or other disposition:
Estate of Alfred Stuhlmacher, de-
ceased. Hearing and adjustment of
claims.
Estate of Henry ?. Wilson, deceased.
Hearing and adjustment of claims.
Estate of Albert D. Love. deceased.
Examination of final account and as
signment of residue.
Estate Of John A. Fisher, deceased.
Examination of final account and as
signment of residue.
Estate of Timothy Sommerville, de-
ceased. Application for administra-
ton.
Estate of Bernhard Staude, deceased.
Hearing proofs of will, etc.
Estate of John Lutz, deceased. Hear
ing petition for license to sell real
estate.
Estate of Edward Walsh, deceased
Hearing petition for assignment of
homestead.
Estate of Silas Sleeper, deceased
Hearing petition for license to sell real
estate.
Estate of Theodore Schroeder, de-
ceased. Petition for proof of will, etc.
Guardianship of Andrew Jacobs ct.
al. Examination of guardians annual
account.
Guardianship of Peace B. Wood.
Hearing petition for license to sell
real estate.
Guardianship of Lydia Violin. Ex-
animation of gardian's ANIMAL account.
Guardianship of Louisa Violin. Ex-
animation guardian annual account.
Guardianship of Ida Violin. Exam
nation of guardians annual account.
Guardianship of Max Strehlow ct. al.
Examination of guardians annual &C
count.
Guardianship of Lenna Cushman.
Examination of guardians annual &C
count.
Guardianship of Henry Banker. Elk
aminationIof guardian annual account.
Guardianship of Charles Dantus. Ex-
animation of guardians account, and
resignation of guardian.
Guardianship of Carl Boiler, petition
for guardianship.
Guardianship of Anna Ohler. Petition
for guardianship.
Guardianship of Herman Kasilke.
Examination of guardians annual ac-
count.
Guardianship of Edward Sell. EX-
animation guardians annual account.
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Republican Assembly Convention.
FIRST DISTRICT.


A Republican Assembly convention for the
First district of Dodge county, is hereby
called to meet in the hall at the village of
Hustisford, on
MONDAY, OCTOBER II, 1885,
at IL 80 O'Clock A. NJ, for the purpose of NOM
mating candidate for member of assem- bly,
and to transact such other business as may
come before the convention.
1 Each town, ward and incorporated village
in said district will be entitled to three dele
gates.
According to the late superintendent the
following towns. wards and villages do now
comprise the First assembly district, tO-wit
The towns of lie Roy, Lomira, Theresa, Will
Jamestown, Hubbard, Herman, Rubicon.
Shields, Emmett, the city of Mayville, the
Fifth and Sixth wards of WATERFOWL and the
village of Horizon PETER WEBER,
Chairman First Assembly District CON-
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Commercial Travellers, Notes.


The following observations on the
progress of the campaign arefurnished
by the National Executive committee
of the Commercial Travellers of the
United States, from the headquarters
in Chicago:
General conditions in the middle
Western states from the point Of view
of the commercial men are decidedly
better than last week, Frankly
stated, the reports from Minnesota
are less pronounced than from any of
the others and yet these reports are
vastly better than three weeks ago.
The farming element continue their
demand for campaign literature
touching the money question. This
is properly construed as an encourag-
ing sign on the hypothesis that the
friends Of sound money court lnves-
tigation of the financial question.
The laboring people in the smaller
towns and cities show an increased
tendency to push the tariff question
ahead of the currency. The factory
and the mill, in which they are most
concerned, are more important than
the mint and silver mines.
Daily favorable reports come from
the Pacific coast states and the south.
The Republicans of the coast who
wandered off in the free silver wind
storm of the early days Of the cam
paign are coming back in squadrons.
In sections OF the south, where new
nd tpIa ha
years, the tariff is the leading ques-
ton; while in others, where the ten
dency heretofore has been toward
free trade, adherence to sound money
is drawing thousands Of voters from
the Democratic ranks.
Commercial travellers in casual
way, wholly unsystematic, have from
time to time noted names and ad-
dresses of Democrats who have vol
unfairly announced their intention
Of voting for Mckinley and Hobart
The result thus far in six states shows
total of 2,15S, as follows: Ohio
1876, Illinois $50 Exclusive of Chi
cago) Minnesota. $50, Michigan 42O,
Wisconsin 1875, Indiana 294. In
the city of Chicago the Dem ocratic
Commercial Mckinley clue alone has
membership exceeding 2, 500, with
almost daily acquisitions to their
ranks.
The Republican National. league
have been making poll OF ''bQlters'
with the following result to date:
On An average the poll shows 168
Republicans for Bryan to 42O gold
Democrats who will support McKin.
ley Ohio shows 1875 silver Repub-
licans to $50 gold Democrats. Iowa
112 to 212 in forty towns; Wiscon
sin 40 to 24O, which is the best show
ing of all. Indiana is about half and
half, as many silver Republicans as
| gold Democrats.
John S. Kendall, an influential
Chicago merchant with free silver
tendencies, ro-day writes AS follows
CATER weighing the matter very
earnestly for some weeks | have con
Guided 1t is better for silver Repub
leans from conviction to support
Major Mckinley"
Writing from Lake City, Iowa, a
traveller says: Il have Travelled
through Colorado, Nebraska and a
part Of Iowa since June and [ find
that rs out of every 100 merchants
are for sound money and | am glad
to add 90 out Of every 100 travelling
statesmen are also for sound money
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