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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
Diphtheria at Crystal Falls.

Crystal Falls, Mich, Jan. 17.-[Spe-
cial. lowing to the breaking out of
diphtheria, the public schools will not
open next week. There are only one Or
two cases in town, and DR.. Darling, the
health officer, will try to check the dis
ease before it becomes epidemic.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
EXPLOSION IN A COLLIERY.
face Dead-TWenty- five Are
Imprisoned.

Berlin, Jan. IA dispatch from
Gleiwitz, Prussian Silesia. announces
terrific colliery disaster at Zaborze The
Koenigen Luise colliery caught fire yes
terday and of the fifteen men brought to
the surface seven died. 1t is feared that
twenty-five others, whose escape was
cut off, have persisted
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19

Lloyd Barber. who has been conduct
ing a sheep ranch near Trempealeau, has
concluded to abandon the business on ac-
count of the ravages of the wolves Mr.
Barber states that hardly night passes
that numbers Of the sheep are not killed
by these nocturnal providers. On one
night no less than thirty sheep were
killed in one ravine, and the loss of sheep
for this winter alone already foots up to
$500
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
TUGMAN IN ALASKA.
Edward Mccormick of Muskegon Has
Reached Fort Wran9el.

Muskegon, Mich, Jan. 17.-[Special /
Edward Mccormick, a tugman we'll
known about the lakes, has gone to the
Klondike. He started from Chicago in Oc-
tober and a letter has been received from
him by his mother, Mrs. Thomas Dinen
of this city, dated at Fort Wrangel, Alas
ka, in which he writes glowingly of the
frozen North. He will prospect at Savers
creek, hitherto untouched by prospectors,
and is accompanied by Simon LIE Morey
of tb;S city
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19
Logan Carlisle Dead.

Washington, D. c., Jan. IA private
dispatch received here states that Lo-
gan Carlisle, chief clerk of the treasury
department under the last administration,
and son of ex-Secretary Carlisle, died III
New York Sunday.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19

''Cooper's works?'' replied the shop
man. eyes, madam; here are the 'Le;tn-
restocking Tales" 81 don't think |
want them,'' replied the shopper.
Hasn't Mr.. Cooper written any Golf
Stocking Tales yet ?'-Harpers Bazaar.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19

assy reigning potentate, monarch or presi-
dent. will be received with all the usual
courtesieS. being entertained officially if it
of usual rank.
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him. The customs officers passed the
baggage of himself and family without in
spection, and that was all.
Owing to the fact that the steamer
came in after dark last night no salute
was fired by any of the forts around the
bay. That a different reception was an
ticipated is evidenced by the following
letter from the Associated press CORE
SDOndent at Honolulu:
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-11-23
LOCAL And GENERAL.

Sugar, A 7-16c.
Fine turkeys at Camarinos'.
Wild ducks at Cam ,rinos'.
All the banks will close tomor-
row.
Quail and cranberrlts at CANA
rinos'.
Celery and fruits of all kinds at
Camarinos'.
The BULLETIN will issue no
paper tomorrow.
Theo. Richards will speak in
kawaiahao church Sunday morn
ing.
The Home Bakery Restaurant
will serve a fine Thanksgiving
dinner from IL to 2 p. m.
Thanksgiving dinner, with
music and dancing to follow, at
the Hawaiian hotel this evening.
How would q little Scblitz beer
go with your Thanksgiving dinnerY
Ring up Macfarlane & Co. and
order some.
The Arlington hotel will have
its Thanksgiving dinner on the
day itself, and not this evening as
first intended.
Editor Norrie of the Indepen-
dent ran against the 10th mile
stone Of his life yesterday. Con-
gratulations are offered.
Joshua X. Brown who comes
here to look into Chinese immi-
grafton, was passenger in the
Australia this morning.
The amateur orchestra will meet
in the Y. M. @. A. hall at 8 o'clock
this evening. Every member is
requested to be present.
The auction sale at I'll. w.
Schmidt d Sons will be continued
on Friday when the balance Of
the Tailor Goods will be offered.
Among the returned kamaainas
in the Australia this forenoon
were the following: j. b. Castle,
Miss Kate Cornwell, l.. B. Kerr
and wife and W. @. King.
Bell flower, Spitzberg, green.
ings, oranges, lines, lemons; all
kinds of nuts, cranberries, celery,
cauliflower. Henriques, Masonic
Temple. Open Thanksgiving.
l.. b. Kerr, the enterprising
Queen street merchant, accompa-
MED by Mrs. Kerr and two chill
dren, returned in the Australia
this morning after a several
months trip abroad.
The Kickapoos are now located
at Chapman's place, Pearl City
and have erected their entire out
fit for stay of the balance of the
week. They open there tonight
with their famous vaudeville en-
tertainment.
Officers Of the Sons of st. George
newly elected are: Il. A. Jordan,
President; Rev. Alex. Macintosh
vice president; Geo. S. Harris Jr.,
secretary; S. G. V. Turner, mes.
senger; r. A. Jordan and Hiram
s. Platts, trustees.
Two half Chinese boys were
arrested this morning and are
now being held for investigation
They are believed te be the ones
who broke into Kerr's, Jordan's,
Mays and other places at nigh
time recently and got away with
various articles.
4. b. Thomas is laying a con
crete sidewalk opposite II. L. Nc
Intyre's residence in King street
This will complete a line of gooG
pavement from Fort to Alskei
street ON the mauka side of Kinl
street, only excepting the frontage
of the premises belonging tc
] Queen Dowager Kapiolani at TIT
corner Of Alakea.
AT the annual meeting of tn,
: stockholders of Wilder's Stea M
ship Co., Ltd, the following were
elected officers for the ensu I'M
year: @. L. Wight, president; j
+. Hackfeld, vice president; s. b
Rose, secretary and treasurer; w
+. Allen, auditor. The above
named officers together with j. A
King, w. G. Irwin and Geo. @
BeckleY constitute the Board oI
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and deceit. In a recent article he says:
The country has been deceived. for
heretofore the United States has been
represented TO be merely a nation of
merchants. unfit for war, incapable Of
standing a long struggle, lacking a navy
and imbued only with a greed for gold.
1t was concealed from us that this same
nation had fought two wars with Great
Britain. one with Mexico, and also the
civil war in 1861. which gave liberty TO
the slaves. The power and strength OF
that nation have been hidden from our
people, as well as our own weakness"
1t appears. then, hat the Spanish
people are gradually learning a few ele-
mentary facts in history; facts to be
gnorant Of which would render a IA
year-ild American schoolboy the butt OF
his companions ridicule. It's a very
expensive school that Spain is attend
ing now. She won't be so pretty when
she gets through his war. but she'll
know more.
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TWELVE PAGES.
TUESDAY, u N Is. 1898.
Mere Bombast.

- HOS Mr.. Grosvenor. who is
~ known in congress chiefly for his
much speaking. serves notice
that wherever, during this war. the
American flag is hoisted there II will
stay and there's no man who will dare
10 pull ii own
That is f~ustian. IL is the sort Of talk In
which they ngage who want to make
st appear that IL is disreputable for n
citizen to oppose the annexation schemes
that have their chief promoters in the
~ofice-holding and ofice-hunting clique
of which Mr.. Grosvenor is a g~arrulous
member. The effort of these people is
to make 1t appear that the man who
presumes TO oppose their schemes is no
patriot.
This Grosvenor bompast about the
flag will not prove true-the stars and
stripes will float over a great deal OF
territory-if the war is long delayed
over which, when peace is reached, it
will not be left TO fly; at my rate, this
will be true IL this country keeps faith.
During these June days the nag Of the
United States has been planted in blood
along the heights that make rugged and
dificuft the approaches TO Santiago-it
will not stay there. consecrated though
the soil is over which IL floats with this
republics best blood. We have prom
ised that Il shall yield. when peace
comes. to Cuba's unchallenged colors.
That was made clear when wal was de-
clared. Yet, IL the schemers for terri
torial ACKNOWLEDGMENT keep up their
present pace. a few weeks more of war
will bring US to the pass where the
American who presumes to suggest that
our flag must not be left TO float over
Cuba Will be denounced by men of the
Grosvenor coterie as a disloyal Ameri-
can.
This hurrah and haste for the indis-
eliminate hosting Of the American flag
will have its run-the Standards conf
dent belief is that IT will have run itself
TO death before the war is many weeks
older, because the second thought OF
intelligent American citizenship will be
tina is neither intelligent nor patriotic to
plant the American flag over soil III
suited to us or over human beings who
are not good enough TO rest in the shell
ter Of its folds.
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IL Depends.

~ NE OF last evenings early brIe-
tins was in confrma, Tor ot a
press telegram of yesterday az
ternoon. TO the effect that the admins
tration's plan is to start a fleet for the
Spanish coast.
That news is in the nature of notice
to the Madrid regency that it's wise
course is not TO let Camara get too far
away. This may be strategy, but there
are plain people whose notion is that
It would have been better to have given
Camara plenty OF rope; to all appear
ances the better play would have been
to let Camara get to the other end OF
the Suez canal before putting out bull
letins respecting our intentions about
the coast of Spain-unless, indeed. it be
that our government really fears h a
the fleet is too many for Dewey and
that every effort ought to be made to
tempt Camara back. If our govern
ment harbors any fears on that score,
its hardness in sending help to our
forces at Manila is thus made the more
blameworthy.
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The Canal.

~ HE mere announcement of yes
day morning that Camara's
fleet was at Port Said was
enough to prompt many questions.
among those who aim to follow intelli-
gently the incidents of the war. The
inquiries that reached this Office yes
terday are answered herewith.
The length of the canal Is eighty
eight geographical miles. OF this dis
ance, sixty-six miles are actual canal,
formed by cuttings. fourteen miles were
made by dredging through lakes, eight
miles required no work. the natural
depth being equal to that of the canal.
For its entire length the ana was in
tended to have a navigable depth of
twenty-six feet, with a width of seven
ty-two feet at the bottom. Connect
ing the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
the Suez canal derives its water from
both, the two seas being practically on
the same level.
In round figures, which are a sum
Gle answer to a question received in two
or three different forms at this office
yesterday, the canal reduces the dis
lance between Western Europe and
India frorI IL. 420 miles to 1000 miles.
reckoned TO be a saving of thirty days,
The canal is a highway for steamers
four hundred feet long and fifty feet
ta.,
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What Spain Has Left.

he dispatches say Admiral Ca
mara's feet includes the Pelayo,
which the flagship. the Emper-
ador Carlos v. two srmored cruisers,
three torpedo boats and i've transports
carrying four thousand troops. 1t is
not a formidable array.
When the war began. Spain had three
feets-the one in AsIatic waters, the
one that became known as the Cape
Verde feet. the cadiz feet. Before
the war was fairly under way Dewey
sent the Asiatic feet TO the bottom OF
Manila hsrbor-no part OF IL survived
to be Of service to Spain. A little later
Cervers ran the Cape Verde fleet into
Santioga; II will never come out alive
either cervera viii destroy IL or the
ships composing il will become a part
OF the navy of the United States. For
all the purposes Of attack or defense,
the Cadiz feet. under camara, now at
the Suez canal, is what Spain has left.
According to the most reliable ac-
counts the Pelayo Is the best Spain
has. She is a battleship Of exception
ally heavy armament. IL $50 feet long,
has a displacement OF nearly ten thou
sand tons and a a unique feature
in tina along with the rest of her equip
ment she carries sever torpedo tubes.
The Pelayo vas Cervera's creation: he
had much TO do with the planning and
the building Of this battleship. After
her launching a structural weak
nesses we're discovered and the ship
was overhauled; n OF her bad fea-
lures is that she carries only eight hun
dred tons OF coal. which win carry her
about THREE thousand miles. I'm fair
weather, at her maximum speed Of six
teen knots
1t is admitted that the PeIsyo is a
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Personages and People.

The first Korean In the world TO take
the degree OF bachelor Of arts will be
graduated at Roanoke college soon. His
name Is Kin Beung Surh.
Louis G.. GottsChalk. the composer and
teacher of music, was married In New
York Saturday TO Miss Marie Millard. a
comic opera singer and daughter of Har-
rison Willard. the ballad writer.
KIM Malietoa, the Samoan monarch,
gets only $50 n month. and. like many OF
his more opulent and more civilized con-
Temperatures. and despite his small sar-
torIal needs, he Is generally In debt to his
tailor.
The New York Times insists that the
name of the governor general of the Phil
ippine Islands is not Augusti, but Angus
tin. and nobody has yet found time to
suggest that the real name Is probably
Dennis
In response TO requests for suggestions
Of unique attractions for the benefit of
Oscar Hsmmerstein In New York next
week Tony Pastor. now Of more han
middle r%otundity, has challenged all COM
ers 10 a cake walk.
In one of his speeches on finance re-
Gently Senator Stewart made frequent and
long quotations from eminent authori-
ties" when Senator Hosr inquired from
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Spain Is Learning.

~ ONE Of the remarks Of the Span
~ ish press ON America and the
~ Americans have been burlesqued
by American newspapers, but the real
thing is more comical and grotesque
than a burlesque of it possibly an be.
Here is one OF the late statements of I'll
Diario: The ACREAGE height among
the Americans is five feet two. and
they have never produced an athlete.
This Is due 10 their living almost en-
tlrely upon vegetables, as they ship all
Of their beef out of the country, so
eager are they TO make money. There
is no doubt hat one full grown Span
lard can defeat any three men in
America"
But the foregoing is weak and mild In
comparison with the u~tterances Of Senior
Margsn. a Spanish politician and jour
naIist, who represents hat the Spanish
people are the victims Of base treachery
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powerful batttleship: In American
naval circles she is said to be more like
our Oregon than any other ship in the
world. and. while they declare that an
engagement between the two vessels
would speedily result In a victory for
the latter. they are nevertheless of the
opinion that the Pelsyo. with American
officers and men, would make such a
fight a most interesting one.
Spain has boosted much about the
Emperador Carlos ", which is an ar
mored cruiser. This ship is four years
old and Is OF modern construction. COM
ing from the firm at Cadiz which built
the Filipinos. a ship that was declared
to be worthless. Our navy has W
ships similar to the Emperador Carlos
V. In construction-tthe Brooklyn and
the New York. The CadiZ group in
cludes the Alfonso XIII. which is called
a protected" cruiser. but which Is or
medium armament and is absolutely
unprotected. despite her classification;
she is not ft to face battleships. A
large vessel is the Numancia, called by
courtesy a battleship. She is in reality
an old cruiser which Spain has vainly
attempted TO transform. Her speed Is
only eight knots. Spain also has the
Lepanto. which Is nowhere. in naval
circles, well spoken of.
Which OF these ships are with Ca
mara is of small odds-if men well in
formed in naval affairs give trust
worthy testimony. Dewey, even with
what little he has, will not have reason
10 be in fear OF this Spaniard II he final
~ shows up in the region of the phil
ippines.
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Ready with His Advice.

IT might pay Cervera TO listen to
SPANS tiresome bat tireless pre-
tender. Don Carlos. During all these
years the principal business of this
claimant to SPANS throne has been to
issue manifestoes and do what in his
power lies to keep Spain in confusion.
He has always been free with his UNI
sought advice as to the manner in
which the government at Madrid ought
to be run his aim is to add new fuel to
the fires Of prejudice against the throne
among the common people.
Seeing how unpopular Cervera's poll
cy Of uselessness has proved to be, Don
Carlos comes to the front with a plea
for action in these characteristic
phrases: The only disasters possible
for us now are moral disasters. for we
have no further material ones to suffer,
having suffered all. Therefore. IL, for
example, Admiral Cervera. surrounded
by forces ten times superior to his own,
and having been granted a nance to
capltulate on conditions comparatively
honorable, should prefer to make a sally
and lose all his vessels. sinking at the
same time as many American warships
as he could. he would DO not only a
heroic deed, but also a useful work by
preserving to Spain the aureola of
which no enemy has yet been able to
deprive her."
The effect of this suggestion will be
TO decide Cervera against the policy of
a "sally,"-if ver he has contemplated
that course. Better sink to the bot
tom right where he is to-day than ia
| conform to a policy dictated by a Car
los pretender; that woul be, 10 Ger
vera's view. what Don Carlos describes
as "a moral disaster" OF the very worst
sort. Doubtless, Cervera will let his
ships be meekly towed into New YORK
harbor before he permits himself Il
take the p~retender's tip.
Don Carlos promised to be good a.
Ions as Spain is engaged in war-h'
gave sureties that he would not taxi
advantage OF the situation for the pur
pose OF advancing his claims. But EVIL
IDENTIFY this titled don is not idle: he Il
so cleverly putting out his recommen
dations that. by and by. he can go t
the Spanish people With his l-told-you
so: and probably theyn be In the moo'
TO civ him hearing.
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Modern Pr ojectiIes.

..@ A S.S S,r BALLS" "a appear nonr,. to
tiles" 1t was not so very
long ago that the cannon ball was con-
sldered the highest possible develop
ment of the art of military destructive
ness. The Spanish armada of one hun
dred and fifty ships that started out to
q England was just so much
marine artillery. Then, as now, the
Spaniards didn't know how to shoot,
or they would have made mighty quick
WAX of Sir Francis Drake with his
feet of fifty extemporized ships, great
and small.
The pneumatic guns on board the dy-
Mantle cruiser Vesuvius are perhaps
the highest development of the art now.
They are described as being fifteen
inches in diameter, ffty-four feet long
and are made of thin cast iron, not
rined. Under the real of each gun are
placed two "revolvers" in line with each
other. Each has five chambers con-
tanning as many dynamite shells. The
breech of the gun is dropped, swinging
" 4 Sh PANN
rearward end. The opening points for
ward and comes directly opposite and
in line with the lowest chamber of the
aft revolver. BY a hydraulic ram the
shell is pushed int the breech, which
is at once swung upward. again COM
pleting the continuity of the barrel. The
revolver Is then turned one division, 50
as to be ready to supply a second shell.
This is all done by hydraulic power. As
the guns are not rifled the shell Is pro-
vided with tailpieces fitted with spiral
vanes TO secure alignment and rota-
ton.
The dynamite shell is the most de-
structive thing In modern warfare.
Fifty of them aimed at the right time
at the right place would bring the pres
ent war to an abrupt close. There
would be no Spanish army or Spanish
navy left to fight.
In both ranch Of the service the
missile that Is fired from a gun is re-
ferred to as a projectile. The word is
generic, while shell, shot. shrapnel, can
lister and bullets are descriptive Of the
kind Of projectile. Solid shot have
been abandoned I'm the army n navy
except for target practice in the former
service. In naval engagements armor
piercing shells OF hardened steel are
used. While exploding shells OF cast iron
or cast steel are nred In commandments
of land Notifications. The former are
constructed to penetrate the armor OF
the enemy's ship. while the latter e
plode upon contact of a time fuse. Ar
NOR piercing shells have chambers for
exploding charges. but up to the pres
ent have been fired empty. Experts al
the navy department are considering
the ACCESSIBILITY OF causing the shells
TO explode after penetration. and or
ders are soon to be issued TO rave the
exploding chambers filled.
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Current Comment.
Strength of American Position.

From the Atlanta Journal.
One reason why the United States hold
such a strong international position that
almost any other power would reluctantly
go to war with us is found in the fact
that so many other nations depend upon
us for a part of their supplies of food and
clothing. Cut off from our cotton, wheat
and pork, the Industries and the people
of England and would suffer In
no small degree and those of France to a
considerable extent. The friendship OF the
United States is more highly priced by the
great foreign powers to-day than ever be-
fore and the value to them OF free com
mercial intercourse with us more highly
rated.
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what book he had been reading Senator
Stewart replied: "It Is An Analysis Of
the Functions of Money by William NJ.
Stewart. United States Senator"
Just at this opportune time. when the
question of our part in the far East is
under discussion. a Mr.. w. A Bash
reaches Tacoma from a three-years stay
I'm China. where. he asserts. he has Sc
cured a concession from the Chinese gov
nme for the construction by an Amer
lean syndicate of a railroad 300 miles long,
which will cost $50. 900. 900.
A writer in the English Illustrated Mag
azine puts forth some conclusive proof
that the Duke of Fife. claiming to be des-
cended from the olden Thames Of Fife,
who played an important role In ancient
Scottish history under the p~atronymic Of
Macduff. is really descended from a small
farmer in Scotland, whose wife less than
200 years ago used to ride TO market with
her wares.
Charles Walsh Of walssil. Staffordshire.
England. who reached this country DAY
before yesterday and went to a recruiting
officer to enlist before he sought a hotel,
says he wants to go TO Cuba. Porto Rico
or anywhere else where there Is ffghting.
except the Philippines, where the climate
IL too bad. He has three medals won In
African wars. and promised his wife after
his last campaign he would never again
enter the English army. When he lett
home he said il was to buy a farm In
Kansas.
Grace Livingston Furniss is not salts
fed with what little she knows about the
war correspondents and writes to the
New York Herald an eloquent and witty
appeal that the names of dozens of un-
known men who are sacrificing their ease
and risking their lives at the front In
order to fash the news north be signed
20 thair wOrk an that the writer's NAV
lave an equal hance for glory with ths
correspondents whose names are CONNER
cially valuable, but who probably take nj
greater risks.