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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-11-10
WILL BE NO STRIKE.
Miners Do Not Really Expect a Raise Be-
fore Spring.

Marquette, Mich, Nov. 6.-[Special.I
The Miners union will not press the
question of wages at the present time
this is the statement Of President Rich
and Askew of the Northern Mineral Mine
Workers Progressive union. The de-
mand for an increase of 10 per cent. in
wages, presented to the mining companies
recently, was intended more as a re-
hinder that the men expected a raise
before spring than with an idea that
there would be an immediate advance
granted. The mines will not raise wages
during the balance of the shipping sea-
son of 1897, and it will be difficult for
them to do so before the matter of ore
prices for next season has been decided.
The basis of wages for underground
workmen in this district is at present
$1.70 per day, small pay as compared
with the price paid five years ago, but
Il princely remuneration when placed be-
side the starvation wages given the
miners of the Pennsylvania, Ohio and IL
linois soft coal districts. Good miners
working on contracts average materially
higher than $1.70, but they accomplish
more work than the men working on
company account" 1t is difficult to see
how the Marquette range mining com
panies can safely advance wages until
after January /, and it will be hard for
them to give better pay after that date
unless their ore is to bring a higher price
next year than it has during the season
now closing
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-11-10
CANADA TAKES A HAND,
After Getting Salisbury Into Trouble
Laurier Leaves Him There.

Washington, ID. c., Nov. 6.-Develop-
ments in the seal fisheries question tend
in the direction of further humiliation for
Lord Salisbury. The state department
has been advised that Sir Wilfrid Lau-
rier, premier of Canada, and Sir Louis
Davis, minister of marine and fisheries
IN the Laurier cabinet, will come here
early next week to take part in the nego-
tiations. Later in the day a dispatch
from Ottawa reserved apartments for
Sir Wilfrid and Sir Louis and party at
the Shoreham, beginning next Tuesday
evening.
1t will be remembered that when the
question of q conference first came up
Canada opposed the plan. 1t was even
said that it was the arguments of the
Canadian premier that prevented Lord
Salisbury from agreeing to send delegates
to the proposed gathering.
Now it would appear that Laurier,
scared at the agreement for protective
treaty reached by Russia, Japan and
America, has at the last moment decided
that Canadian interests must not be
jeopardized in this manner, and he will
let Salisbury and Chamberlain shift for
thpJn solves
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-11-10
Cleaning a Mans Heart.

Every day we hear of some wonderful
doings by the doctors. So strange are the
achievements at times that people APP
parently sick unto death will take all
sorts of chances in the hopes that the
wizards of the scalpel may save their
lives. Joseph Davenne, a Frenchman
was in such a condition when he allowed
the doctors to clean his heart He had
long been a sufferer from fatty degenera-
ton of that organ. He knew he could
not live much longer when he took the
chance the scientists proposed. They cut
Joseph's ribs apart, showing the lungs,
with all their fine, shining membranes
These were thrust aside and four swiftly
moving hands were busily engaged in
scraping the fat from the sides of the
heart The entire process covered only a
few moments. But it was enough The
man was dead. The surgeons engaged
sent a full account of the affair to a
medical journal. The law did not hold
them to account because Davenne had
left a paper stating that the experiment
was tried at his own request
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-11-10
ANNUAL PENSION REPORT.
There A1e Now 976,O14 Names on tn,
Roll.

Washington, D. c., Nov 6.-The first
annual report of Commissioner of Pen
sions III. Clay Evans has been made pub
lie. There were added to the rolls during
the year the names of 80, 101 new pension
ers, and there were restored to the rolls
1871 pensioners who had been previously
dropped, a total of 54,O72. During the
same period, the losses to the roll were
31,96O by death, 1914 by remarriage of
widows and mothers, 1916 by legal limita-
ton (minors), 1858 for failure to claim
pension for three years, and 1850 for 9TH
er causes, an aggregate of Al ,122.
The whole number of pensioners on the
rolls June 30, 1897, was 976,O14. The
net gain over the previous year was 1896.
1t will thus be seen that the pension roll
has not yet begun to show any dimnu-
ton, though it had been anticipated.
Seven revolutionary soldiers are still on
the rolls. During the year, 81, 454 pension
certificates were issued, of which number
5O.1O1 were original allowances, and the
balance were reissues, increase, reStOra-
tons, etc.
The amount disbursed for pensions by
the pension agents during the year was
S139, 799, 242, and the amount disbursed
by treasury settlement was $150,475, a
total of $139, 949,7 III. This exceeds the
amount disbursed during the fiscal year
1896 by the sum of ST ,0S4, 4SO.
The average annual value of each pen
sion at the close of the year was 1881
The average annual value of each pension
under the general law was $162 o.; each
under the act of June p, 1890, was
$1O9.25. The aggregate annual value OF
all pensions at the close of the year was
81 % 705 400
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-11-10
WALLA TONKA TO LIVE.
ChoctaW Indian Charged with Muir
der Gets ReprieVe and
New Trial.

Dequeen, Ark, Nov. 6.-Advices from
Indian territory have just been received
here stating that Walla Tonka, the ia
nous Indian ball player, who was con-
victed of murder and was to have been
shot at Alikchi, Wolfe county, Thursday,
still lives. Hundreds of whites and In
dams had gathered to witness the execu-
ton, which was to have been a double
one, as Wallace Crosby, another Chloe
taw, was to have shared Tonka's fate.
Last Wednesday night, as they were all
camped around the Sulphur springs in the
center of the settlement, courier ar
rived from Tuskahoma, the capital Of the
Choctaw nation, with stay of execution
pending a new trial. which was ordered
by the judge of the Supreme court of the
Choctaw nation. The condemned men
received the news with true Indian stoi-
cism. Walla Tonka was almost absolute
y n9yed saying +bc MagDe me p pa
and going to sleep.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-11-10
DYING LIKE CATTLE.
Code s of Starved "Concentradoes"
Left for Vultures to Feast
Upon.

New York, Nov. S.-A special to the
World from Havana says that Weyler
has gone. but his purpose to ''exterminate
the breed of Cuban patriots is being full
filed.
Starvation is killing the concentrates
by tens of thousands. Hunger is doing
what SPANS 100000 soldiers cannot ac-
.complish.
Women and children, the weak, the
old, are dying like sheep; the rural popu-
latlon 'concentraded' in the towns has
filled the graveyards and its dead now lie
unburied
The frightful sufferings of those who
survive cry out TO the mercy of the civil
lied world.
The physicians of Havana are now for
hidden to give starvation c'inaniclon,C as
4 cause of death. Women and children
starve; the reports of their deaths are
falSiied. A correspondent in the town
of San Domingo writes in the Diaria de
In Marina: "A multitude of sick fall
dying upon garbage in the streets here.
and there they lie until, after having
served as ignominious spectacles for some
hours, are collected and hauled away IN
the OK carts used for garbage to the
dumping grounds. If the bodies are adj
mltted to the cemetery they reach there
only in this unseemly manner. The
cnurcn cemeteries are full. 80 most OF
these dead bodies are thrown into the
fields to be eaten by the birds and dogs"
The birds of which this correspondent
writes are vultures. The Vultures are
SorSed: the dogs can eat no more.
Both the newspapers which supported
Neyler and those which opposed him ere
now forced to tell half the truth about
the starving ''concentrados.'
Here are some whole truths that are
1Indeniable: Since Weylcr's proclamation
driving the, country people into the towns
vas issued half the rural population OF
Western Cuba has died Half Of those
who survive are SO weak. so emacated
that the Pickering spark of life in jnem
will surely be eXtinguished.
They cannot survive. although BlancO.
the new encouragement, has ordered
that service rations be issued to them
ratiOns such as his soldiers get. The
lives of the other half survivors Blanco
will save. He has acted promptly. but
such has been the fatal effect of Weyler S
Savagery that Blanco cannot undo OF
counteract it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-11-10

his wife was Ann Polhemus From this
couple all the Van Wycks in America
are descended. The family has been pro-
Life Of judges, congressman, senator's an !? rs
of the republic. The family is connected
by marriage with the foremost Dutch
families of New York.
The mayor-elect left school when boy,
determined to enter business life, and be-
gan his career in 1862 as an errand boy
clerk for five years, he resumed his
studies, with the intention of becoming a
lawyer, and in 1872 he was graduated
from the Columbia College school, then
presided over by Prof. Dwight, at the
head of a class of 124, delivering the
valedictory address at the class com
mencement, held in the Academy of
Music.
His taste for the law may be in a
measure inherited from his father, Viii
liam Van Wyck, who was lawyer and
a conspicuous man of affairs in New
York sixty years ago. From his ather
he also inherited his Democratic politics,
for William Van Wyck was, until his
death, prominent in the councils Of the
Democratic party, being in his early man
hood an admirer and confidential friend
of Presidents Andrew Jackson and Mar
tin Van Buren,.
Judge Van Wyck, it is conceded, is an
able lawyer, a good justice, and the best
commentator he has is that 30 per cent.
of his decisions have been published in
the law reports. The judge was elected
to the bench of the city court in 1889.
Van Wyck has been for many years one
of the most influential Democrats in the
city of New York. He is the especial
candidate of Boss Croker. who forced
him down the throat of Boss Sheehan,
who did not like Mr.. Cookers notions of
what was proper for Tammany candi-
date. Judge Van Wyck is 46 years old.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-11-10
TREATY IS SIGNED.
The United States, Japan and
Russia Enter Into an
Agreement.

Washington, d. g., Nov. Ga conven-
ton between the United States, Russia
and Japan, looking to the joint protec-
ton Of the seals, was signed at the state
department today at 1915 p. m.
1t will require the ratification OF the
Senate to become effective.
The signature of the treaty took place
IN the large diplomatic room at the state
department and was attended by the
usual formalities.
The delegates of the various govern
ments assembled at least an hour and
half before the hour appointed for the
formal signature Of the document and
were met by Gen. Foster. There were
some preliminaries to be disposed of be-
fore all was ready for the signatures and
the delegates were obliged to leave the
department for short visits to their lega-
lions in order to obtain seals and certain
papers of authorization that were neces-
Sary.
Finally, at noon, all was ready, and,
led by Gen. Foster, the delegates passed
into the diplomatic room and took their
places at the long tables. There were
present for the United States, Messrs.
Foster, Hamlin and Jordan; for Russia,
De Wollant Botkine and Routkowsky
and for Japan, Charge Matsui Fujiti
and Mitsikuri.
Secretary Sherman was not present, as
the government was fully represented by
it's delegates. The credentials of the
parties were read in turn, and after the
treaty had been carefully inspected the
signatures were attached The first
signatures were those of Messrs. Foster
Hamlin and Jordan, and the Others were
attached in order according to the par
tlcular copy of the document held by
the delegates.
There were three copies of this one for
each nation represented and the dele
gates OF each nation signed their own
copy first. The sealing of the documents
was attended to by Mr.. De Wollant of
the Russian government, and William
GWynne, the latter being an expert in
this line, having sealed almost every
treaty ever negotiated here since the
treaty Of Washington.
With the affiXing of the seals in wax
the formalities concluded and there was
an exchange of congratu tons over the
consummatiOn of the work.
The text of the treaty will not be
given out by the state department until
hnal ratitica tons are exchanged
AS the document must go to the Senate
Tor It's approval custom required that il
be withheld from publication in this man.
her. 1t is said, however, by those con
cerned that the general purposes of the
treaty have been already outlined in the
press and it is likely that all further in
tereSt that remains in the document is
the exact nature of he additional restric
| tlous that are to be imposed upon pela giC
sealing.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-11-10
BIG CROP OF POTATOES.
Northern Michigan Can 'tRaise" Some
thing Besides Iron Ore.

Negaunee, Mich, Nov. 6.-[Special.l-
Louis Corbett Of this city has just fin
ished putting in his potato crop, which
measures 1890 bushels and is worth
nearly $4,000. The potatoes were plant
ed, cultivated, dug and assorted by ma
chinery. Mr.. Corbett has been raising
potatoes for the past ten years with ex-
cellent success and will next season put
in larger acreage than ever before.
The success and magnitude Of Mr.. Cor
belts potato farm and the wonderful
Low Moor farm of Taylor & Anthony
twelve miles west of Negaunee, where it
cost $50 an acre to clear the ground and
where three tons Of timothy hay to the
acre is an average crop, may be said
to have finally settled the question of
whether the iron mines are ever to be
surrounded by an agricultural country.
With the best of markets at their doors
the farmers in this district are never at
the mercy of any middlemen and may
reap whatever there is of profit to be OBJ
tanned from their produce.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-11-10
ATTACK GERMAN OFFICERS.
Chinese Mob Stones a Minister
and the Captain of
Gunboat.

London, Nov. GA special dispatch
from Shanghai received today says that
the German minister to China and the
captain of the German gunboat Cormo-
rant has been attacked by a mob at
Wu-Chang, a large city in the province
of Hoo-Pee Yangtsekiang river. The
rioters are also reported to have stoned
the German flag and to have insulted the
minister. The latter, the dispatch con-
cl1des, has demanded the punishment OF
the offenders.
Berlin, Nov. 6.-The news of the at
tack upon the German mission at Zen
Chu Flu in the southern part of the Chi
nese province of Shang Tung, has been
officially confirmed. The Rhenish mis-
sionaries, Mes and Hennle, were killed,
Niegler is missing and Steng escaped. The
German government has ordered that the
necessary measures be taken at Pekln to
obtain redress for the outrages.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-11-10
CASTELAR, DOES SOME TALKING.
Says American Diplomats Lack Tact and
Discretion.

New York. Nov. S.-Senor Emilio Cas-
telar. the celebrated Spanish republican,
is Disguised with American diplomacy.
This fact he makes painfully plain in an
article he has written for the New York
Herald. Senior CASTELAR, trenchantly re-
views the relations that have existed dur
ing the last quarter of a century between
Spain and the United States, and leaves
the impression that the diplomats sent
out from Washington need the polish.
tact. discretion and secretiveness that
mark representatives OF the European ma
tons.
1t is evident that Castelar, has in mind
the recent disclosures made by Hannis
Taylor, and he probably has not forgot
ten the trouble that Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
caused for the Cleveland administration
when he made public the terrible condi-
tons in Cuba that Former Secretary Oh
ney and his chief would have preferred at
that time to remain concealed.
In fact, Castelar, says that American
diplomacy is the bugbear of European
courts and that the advent of American
diplomats is more often dreaded than
welcomed
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-11-10
ATTACKS THE PRESIDENT,
Soldier at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, Shoots
at Moraes and Wounds
Others.

Rio Janeiro, Nov. Cat o'clock Fri
day afternoon a soldier of the Tenth bat
TALON, which constitutes part of the local
garrison, attempted to shoot President
Moraes with pistol. The President was
just landing at the marine arsenal after
visiting the steamer on which Gen. Bar
bosa, minister Of marine, had returned
from Bahia.
The bystanders frustrated the attempt,
but Col. Moraes, the Presidents neph-
ew, was slightly wounded in disarming
the soldier. Gen. Marcado Betancourt,
minister of war, then interfered and was
himself stabbed. The wound was so Sc
rious that he died soon afterward The
attack has caused the greatest agitation
throughout the city.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-11-10
NEWS NOTES.
y Observation-Disclosures

1t has been decided by the members
of the Denver chamber of commerce to
arrange for annual meetings Of all the
prominent cattlemen in this country in
January, 1893.
A serious fire broke out at Marl-
boro, Mass. in the Central hotel and
spread to the Corey block adjoining,
total loss Of nearly S150,000.
Twenty three thousand public school
children in Kansas City, Mo-, as did
many others in other parts of the state,
spent an hour one afternoon in celebra-
ton of Eugene Fields birthday.
Miss Arie S. Huntington Dem.) +,
daughter of the Rt. Rev. Frederick D.
Huntington, Episcopal bishop of Central
New York, has been elected school COM
missioner at Syracuse, n. Y, for two
years, leading the ticket in her class.
The San Francisco police are antici-
pating serious trouble in China town.
Highbinders are returning in large num-
bers from the Alaska canneries, and, it
is said the old war of the longs is about
to be revived.
AT Boston, Mass, the superior court
jury, which has been trying the case
against Joseph A. Iasigi, ex-Turkish
consul, charged with embezzling S14O,-
900 from French estates, reported a YER
dict of guilty.
The winter residence of Otto Mer-
genthaler, inventor of the linotype type
setting machine, was burned at Deming.
n. M. Mr.. Mergenthaler lost all his per-
sonal property and many valuable papers,
including the drawings for a new type
setting machine.
There is little doubt that Felix Balta
of Montreal, whose body was found in
the Hudson river at Cold Spring, N. Y,
was a passenger on the New York Cen
trail train wrecked at Garrisons. His
watch was stopped at $50 o'clock, which
was precisely the time the disaster oc-
Cured.
James G. Wood. Il well-known attor-
ney and politician, died at Jackson, Mich,
at the age of 81. Mr.. Wood was Jack
sons first mayor, and afterwards a mem
Der of the Legislature.
Bob Cook, Yale's veteran coach, IN
an interview announces that this year
he intends to give the candidates for the
Yale crew a training different from that
of previous years in that it will be more
thorough.
Daniel S. Lamont, vice-president of
the Northern Pacific railway. has ar
spection of his road. He refused positive
ly to speak of the recent elections, de-
claring he had abandoned politics.
Edward a. Aylward, a travelling
salesman was arrested at New York on
a warrant charging him with being a
fugitive from justice from Cleveland. 1t
is alleged that Awkward embezzled $4O5
from the G. Worthington company.
The house of warriors of the Indian
territory has voted to file articles of inn
parchment against Principal Chief Ispar-
hecher He is charged with being a par
ticeps criminis with the warrant commit
tee, who approved $4,000 in fraudulent
warrants.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-11-10
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.

,MILW4AAUKEE-,Flo fair demand.
WI Mh ca y No ? spring oo on track,
Quiet; No. on track, 2714c. Oats--steady;
No. 2 white, on track 23c;. No white, on
F raek 44e K1e ssssSA Nt On No. fa:R
~ IT, r'0viSl0ns-h0"er; pork 100; lard
Flour is in fair demand at $50 for pat
ents and 3.00031O for rye.
Millstuffs are quoted at S75@9.00 for bran.
9.25 for standard middings and HOO for
white.
CHICAGO - Close - Wheat - November.
92%c; new, 927sc; DID, 8Sc; January, 907hc;
May, 90A@9oasc; July, S2tae., Corn-Novem-
Der 254c; Dc" 2SHe; May Soc
fSA@197sc: May. 217s@22c. PorkNNovem,,
Der, 7;6o; December. 80; january, $50.
5 haPayove49 4e 42 DsifDsT a35
445; December, 4.45; January. 4.471a045 so.
NEW IORK-Close = Wheat-NoFember,
957sc; December, 964c; January, 96Ac; May.
LIVERPOOL : Close : Wheat-Dull; 12s
to 13sd lower; November. nominal; Deem
Der. 7s5d; March. 7s5d; May, 7s2Ad; Corn
cemberi SS1Ad; March, 3s5sd.
No. 2 hard cash. 851lc: Dec, 97Mc; May.
93A@93Ac. C9rnnStrongi No; 2 mixed
Oats Firm; No. 2 MIXED cash elevator,
May, pc; No. white cash, 22Ac. Rye
Higher; acc. Lead--LOWer; 3.6715G3.70.
Spelter-LOwer; 800.
MINNEAPOLIS : Wheat-Lowcr, but
steady; Nov, SS13c; Dee, SSc; May, S77s@G
ssc; No. / hard ooAc; No. 1 Northern,
KANSAS Y-Cattle-Receipts 5000;
best grades steady others wea5 TsS 0o
native steers, 3.0O14.55; native cows and
heifers 000I40 90; stOckers and feeders, 9 so
M4.30; bulls, 2.3503.65 Hogs--Receipts.
6O00 market strong to sc higher; bulk of
sales, 3.50G3.5719; heayies, 3.3503.50; pack
ers, 3.350i3.55; mixed. 3.450l3 621a lights.
345d3. 6212; Workers. 3.G0M3 G21h; pigs 3.35
$3.50. Sheep-Receipts, 1000; market firm;
muttons. 2.50Gl4 go.
market dull. lower; native beef steers, 390@
steers, 3.00@3. 20: cows and heifers. 5000
$50; Gamers. 1.75d2. so; stockers and feed-
crs, 35Od4.40; calves 350d55O: bulls,
stays. etc, 2.00@360. Hogs-Recepts, 5000:
market &c higher; heavy 3.40G3.55; mixed,
8 45@3.50; light, 3.55M3. 621b; bulk of sales.
8. 4503.55. Sheep-Receipts, 500: market 10c
higher; fair to choice natives, 3700I4.25; fair
TO choice Westerns, 3.S00G4.20; common and
stock sheep, 300d3.SO; lambs, 3.750I5.25.
ST. S-Cattle-Receipts, 1000: market
steady; fair to fancy native Shipping steers,
Z; 40q5.25; dressed beef grades, 3.75@4.75:
stockers and feeders, 2.50@4. 10; COWS and
heifers, 2.25@4. so; Texas and Indian steers,
2.90@4.00; cows and heifers, 2.1003.3 80.
Hogs-Receipts. 5000; market sc higher,
light, 3.55@3.70; mixed, 340@3.7O; heavy,
35003.70. Shecp-Recepts, 12,200 head:
market steady; native muttons. 3. 25@l4. %;
stockers, 2 40@2.90; lambs, 4.5005.75.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-11-10
Lfoyds Insurance Men Win.

Chicago, Ill, Nov. G.--The Supreme
court has just handed down decision of
interest to insurance men. Illinois has q
law that insurance under the Lioyds plan
may not be transacted in the state. The
Supreme court has decided that Lloyds
may transact business in the state, and
that the law which seeks to prevent them
from SO doing is unconstitutional This
throws the doors open to insurance men
from other states, whom Illinois has tried
to keep out, as the court says what has
been granted to citizens of Illinois may
not be denied to others.