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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-29
Skull Crushed and Killed.

Arbor Vitae, Wis, March 25.-TSpe-
cial AT the Ross Lumber company's
camp Jack McDermot was stuck on the
head by a good-sized log and instantly
killed. the blow crushing his skull in u
terrible manner. Deceased was uumar-
ried and about so years Of age
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-29
ENTIRE FAMILY STARVING.
Case of Destitution Near Wausaukee-
Two Children May Die

Marinette, Wis. March 27-A case Of
restitution has been found near Wau-
saulee. Supt. Burke of Peshtigo on his
way to the logging camps came across Il
family that had been without food for
several days. The father had been dead
in the house for a week Two children
are SO weak that they may not recover.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-29
WANTED IN OSHKOSH.
James Egbert, the Kimberly Post
master, Charged with Theft.

Kaukauna, Wis, March 81 Special
Oshkosh police will take charge of
James Egbert. or, as he was formerly
known, Ega brod. the postmaster of Kim
berly, who is serving thirty day sen
tence on the county woodpile for steal
ing so cents worth Of butter, when he
finishes his term. 1t seems that Egbert
is well known in Oshkosh and at other
points under the name of Egabrod, and
is charged with the theft of several
watches
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-29
DIVORCE AND ALIMONY.
Wife of DIR. Albert 2. Minsha11 of
Viroqua Secures Decree.

Baraboo, Wis, March 25.-[Special. i
Circuit court closed yesterday and one
of the last acts was granting a divorce
to. Mrs. Clara Minshall of Viroqua from
Dr. Albert P Minshall on grounds OF
cruel and i1Auman treatment and habitu-
al drunkenness Mrs Minshall was
awarded So a month for alimony and IS
per month will also be contributed by the
father for the support of the child.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-29

Barneveld, Wis, March 25.-[Special.l
A lady on the westbound passenger lost
from the car window between Barneveld
and Ridgeway a purse containing $40
and some valuable jewelry. Conductor
Zeininger notified freight going east
from Dodgeville to be on the lookout
for the purse. This was done, and it
was luckily found The purse was re-
turned to the owner at Lancaster.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-29
CHEWED BY A HOG.
Baraboo Lad Crowds Into Pen with
Serious Results.

Baraboo. Wis, March 20 Special. J.
Friends here were notified yesterday that
the 4-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. An
thony Finn of this city had been bitten
by a hog at Lyndon Station. The fami-
ly went there this week for visit and
unobserved the child crawled into a pen
occupied by several hogs. The boy was
at once attacked. but rescued before be-
ing bitten to death. His injuries are re-
norted very serious
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-29
Blaze in kenosha Sanitarium.

Kenosha, Wis, March 25.-[Special.
"A small fire broke out in one OF the
rooms at the Pennoyer sanitarium, near
this, city, yesterday morning. The fire
occurred in the rooms occupied by one
Of the guests and the loss will probably
be little over $780, Some of the
guests of the house were badly fright
ened, but no one was injured.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-29
Calf with Eight Legs.

Tomah, Wis, March Special..I--
4 calf was born in this city last week
that was decided curiosity. The ami
mails head was of abnormal size. had
two bodies and eight legs. The calf
lived only 4 short time.
The parliamentary reporters arc up
in arms against the length of Sir Henry
Campbell Bannerl2an name.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-29
WHAT GRAND OPERA COSTS.
Few York Music Lovers Have Paid
Ont About 100000.

New York. March 27.-For seventeen
weeks the Metropolitan Opera house has
been the central point i'll the sphere of
local amusements. In numbers the at
tendance reached Il quarter Of Il million.
The curtain was rung up on the evening
of November %. and when it has de-
scended after tonight's concert there Will
have been Ill performances.
One hundred of these performances
have been entirely operate and twenty
seven different operas have been sung.
The total receipts amounted to about
100000. The expenses were expected
to average about $500 performance
This amount has been proved to be I'M
tlerestimated and the debit side of the
opera companys ledger foots up $780,
900. The net profit is consequently $780,
Coo
This is made by the Maurice Grlu OPP
era company-a stock company. Grau
is said to hold Is per cent. of the shares,
which would make his portion of the
profits $4,000
Out of the season Of grand opera many
of the singers have made snug fortunes
Many Of them are wealthy already, and
so have added to their accum,liations
The following table shows what the prin-
ciDal actors have earned:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-29
Car of Potatoes DESTROYED.

Plainfeld, Wis, March 25.-[Speciall
Moore Bros, extensive produce ship
pers, lost carload of potatoes on the
side-track here Wednesday night the car
also being entirely destroyed by fire.
che sulphur works in El Paso county,
Tex. are now in full working order.
Twenty men are employed in the works
and 100 tons of sulphur rock are reduced
every two hours, which yields fifty tons
of pure sulphur Sulphur sells for about
$25 per ton at present and it costs about
So per ton to reduce and market the stuff.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-29
Assessments Very Faulty.

In it's recent report the Wisconsin tax
commission cites Instances to show that
farm lands in the more developed part of
this state are assessed at less than one
third their value, in some instances only
% per cent, or less than one-fourth their
true value and shows that in many cases
the alleged high rate of taxation on indi-
vidual properties is wholly due to extreme
undervaluations made by assessors upon
all property and the escape of much from
any taxation.
II men chosen; as assessors who are sup.
posed to be familiar with the values Of
properties they are required to assess and
fix values upon, habitually prove SO totally
incompetent or faulty in the performance
of those duties, what might be expected of
them if they were required to assess rail
road properties, regarding the values of
which they are totally unfamiliar! And
this they would be called upon to do were
the taxation of railroads in this state
changed from the present system to the as
sessment plan.
Results would not unlikely be much the
same as those referred to by the noted com
mission, whose report is considered IN the
former part of this article, in the assess
ments of the New Yer k Central Hudson
River railroad: "As unlike as the complex
ion, temperament and dispositions of the
assessors" IL. II.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-26
PENSION SHARKS.

Every commissioner OF pensions has
trouble with the Washington pension at
torneys. These sharks have cost the gov
ernment hundreds Of millions of dollars
by lobbying through Congress bills in
creasing pensions and making new classes
of pensioners. But they are not satisfied
with having made themselves rich out of
the pension business. They want TO be-
come mathematics apparently.
They insist upon having pension claims
allowed contrary to law, and when the
commissioner refuses their requests they
set the Grand Army or the Republic on
him, and try to have him removed.
Commissioner Evans has been having
some trouble with the Grand Army people
on account of the statements made by PEN
sion attorneys to Grand Army posts.
Among the statements are the following:
The commissioner is hostile to Union vet
Grams he has flied the pension office with
Democrats and Southern sympathzers, he
has refused 10 give places to widows OF
Union veterans and whenever he has the
least chance he decides claim against the
applicant.
OF course there isn't the least foundation
for any of these charges. As far as the
world knows the commissioner is trying
TO do his duty faithfully. which includes
preventing the pension attorneys from
grabbing the entire treasury, but notwith-
standing mis- fidelity TO his trust he doesn't
satisfy the Grand Army people, who are
msied by the pension attorneys.
The government now pays in pension
about $i5,00O,O0O a year. If that amount
doesn't satisfy the hungry pensioners there
is no use for a generous people to attempt
10 satisfy them The fact that they are
misled by greedy pension attorneys doesn't
excuse them for complaining that they are
not dealt with as literary as they should
be. They ought TO find out the facts be-
fore disturbing the country with their
faulLhndnz.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-26
Personal.

-Ex-Gov. Henry of Porto Rico, who has
just returned from that island, says that
with the exception of few disgruntled
politicians the country is free from nl-will
towards the United States.
"A pension of $27 a month has been
granted Lulu b. Randall, the 16-year-old
daughter of Frank B. Randall, chief en-
gineer of Dewey's dispatch boat McCul-
loch who died from sunstroke the day
after the battle of Manila bay.
-Ex-Speaker Reed was recently at re-
ception where he was asked by the presi-
dent of a woman's club what was the best
way to conduct a meeting. my friends, .
answered Mr. Reed, SAY that the best
way is to be the speaker; my enemies say
that the best way IS to retire"
The praise which Archbishop Ireland
is receiving in Europe for his eulogy of
Joan of Arc is not the first given him for
a treatment of the same subject. The
first prize of the many he captured during
his schoolboy days was for paper on the
Maid of Orleans"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-26
A Confiding Duke.

The Duke of Beaufort, who has just
died, inherited from his father a strong
taste for the society of actors, says the
Boston Transcript. Among his favorite
associates in past years was the late Mr..
Sothern, whose cheerful humor often took
the form of practical jokes at the expense
of his best friends
Sothern invited the DuKe to visit him
in America and enjoy some fishing on
the Canadian border. His grace had very
vague notions of the conditions of civiliz-
alton In this country, and Sothern amused
himself by writing to him that, of course
he must come to New York prepared to
meet Indians and wild animals; that the
buffaloes and bears and lions could be
easily disposed of with proper firearms
but that the Indians had a positive mama
for roasting Englishmen at the stake, and
hence that -eXtinguisher was a part
of every travellers luggage in "tht
states''
When the Dukes boxes and other para
phernalia We're landed at the Steamship
wharf, there, to Sothern's measureless de-
light, was a fire extinguisher of the latest
English patent.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-26

Senator Hoar unfolded what he called
a little bit of interesting history in the
Senate when the bill relating to changing
the copyright law was under considera-
ton, says the Boston Herald. He told how
Mrs. jefferson Davis prepared a very in
teresting life of her husband. The owner
ship Of that biography was a very impor-
tant resource to her In her old age.
Gen. Gordon came into the Senate one
day just before his term expired, and III
the last moments of President Harrison $
administration, and stated that the pub
fishers of the book had failed TO make the
proper deposit of copies with the librarian
10 save her copyright. They claimed that
the copyright was gone, and Mrs. Davis
was absolutely in their power. Consequent
ly, they undertook to compel her 10 sub
nit 10 some very hard and onerous terms.
She was in great distress and came to
Congress for help A bill was passed re-
lievins her from that disability, and it was
signed by President Harrison within g
seconds of u O'Clock, when his term eX-
Direl.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-26

In the course of an interview the other
day, relative TO affairs in Porto Rico Gen
Henry, lately governor of that island said
that the Porto Ricans were very anxious
for territorial form of government. He
stated, however, that he didn't see where
the money was to come from for gov
ernment of that sort, for if the island
became a territory of this country ii would
not be permitted to levy customs duties
Money would either have to be raised by
direct taxation or the expenses of the
territorial government would have to be
paid out of the treasury of the United
States.
The expenses of a territorial govern
ment wouldn't be very great. The tariff
and internal revenue taxes which the
general government would collect would
much more than pay these expenses. The
cost of governing the towns, and the coun-
try outside of the towns. would be borne
by local taxation. 1t does not seem to us
that there is much force in the point made
by Gen. Henry.
No doubt Congress will find Porto Rico
something of problem to solve, but there
do not appear to be any insurmountable
difficulties in the way of solving it. From
all accounts, the country is rich and can
stand all the taxation that will be neces-
sary for purely local affairs. 1t will not
be long before Americans will gain a
foothold in the island and they will show
| the natives how to make their lands much
more profitable than they are.
The problem which Porto Rico presents
is much less difficult to solve than the one
presented by Cuba. The Porto Ricans are
willing to work. and they are peaceably
disposed. The Cubans don't seem to want
to work, and are inclined 20 be quarrel
| some. They have been doing nothing SC
| long--nothing except pretending to fight
| TO free their country from the oppressol
that they cannot think seriously of set
] Ting down to hard and steady work. The
entire Cuban army, officers and privates
seem to have an idea that they ought t
be taken care of during the rest of theil
days. 1t win take time to rid them o.
that idea. If they could have their way
they would, if possible, mortgage the isl
and for an amount that would yield then
enough to live on in idTeness.
There will be no great difficulty in put
ting Porto Rico on the road to prosperity
but unless the cubans show greater viii
Hngness to go to work it will be a Ions
time before the condition of affairs in tina
island will be satisfactory.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-26
COLOR LINE AT A BANQUET.

The race question hobs up at unexpected
times and places Nobody thought. when
the cruiser New Orleans went to the city
of that name 10 receive the biggest punch
bowl ever built from the good people of
the Crescent City, that the color line
would throw a shadow over the proceed
ings.
1t all came about in this way: 1t was
decided to give the crew of the cruiser
banquet. The fact that there were ne
groes among the crew was not taken into
| consideration in making out the pro-
gramme When it became generally I'M
derstood that the whites and negroes
would have TO sit at table together at
the banquet there was opposition at once
1t was said that such a precedent would
make trouble in the future, and might
provoke trouble while the banquet was
in progress.
A committee therefore visited the cap
tain of the cruiser and arranged that the
banquet should take place on the ship.
That arrangement satisfied the committee
and the captain. The white and black
members of the crew could eat together
at the banquet which the citizens would
| provide, and nobody would have occasion
to raise any question about the matter
and no precedent would be set that would
cause trouble in the future, but the crew
| didn't approve the change in the pro-
gramme, though it is not stated that they
| refused to be guests at the banquet.
| No doubt the people of New Orleans re-
GREETED that circumstances made a change
of programme necessary. Their purpose
was to make the cruisers visit pleasant
not only for the officers, but also for the
men. That there was hitch they regret
| ted, but it was one that could have been
avoided only by the keenest foresight.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-26
rAcrnRIEs In THE sOuTH.

There is a steady increase IN the NUMBER
of factories in the South. few days ago
we published statement showing chat
several new factories have been projected
in South Carolina and that the building
of others has already been begun. In our
dispatches Tuesday from Columbus, Ga,
statements were made indicating that
great activity prevails in that city in fac
tory building, and in making additions to
factories already in operation. We men,
ton only these two states because we
have just published statements showing
what they are doing in factory building
In other Southern states there is almost, If
not quite, as much progress in manufac-
turing as in the two TO which we have
called attention.
The growth of the South in manufactur-
ing has been remarkable. 1t must not be
forgotten that until within the last few
years the South had very little money for
investment in manufacturing enterprises
1t took her good many years to get over
the effects Of the civil war. Now she is
steadily forging ahead, and the growth of
her manufacturing interests viii be far
greater in the next few years than during
the last few.
1t is a safe prediction that within the
next twenty years the South viii be using
as many bales of cotton in her cotton
mills as the North will, and the mills of
the whole country will have a capacity
about sufficient to take the entire cotton
crop. Instead of exporting raw cotton
we shall export cotton manufactured into
articles demanded by the markets of the
world All the cotton mills in the South
which are well managed pay a fair return
on the money invested in them, and there
is every reason 10 think they will continue
to do so.
And the south's iron and coal mines are
being developed with wonderful rapidty.
Birmingham is coming to the front again,
and when she gets there she will stay, be-
cause iron and steel can be manufactured
within her limits at less cost than else
where in the world. The outlook for the
South from a manufacturing standpoint is
certainly encouraging. She has some
great advantages over the North for man.
ufacturing and they are beginning to tell
In her favor. In the next ten years the
South will accomplish more in the way
of factory building than in the last
twenty years. if not in her entire history
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-26
sILvER's PLACE IN THE PLATFORM


The Democratic national committee
hasn't any power to say whether the sill
yer issue shall occupy a leading or a
minor place in the Democratic national
platform which will be adopted next year,
but the dispatches indicate that the COM
mittee, at its meeting in St. Louis is go
ing TO give considerable attention to the
question as to whether it would be ad-
visable to give as much prominence to
silver in the next national campaign as
was given to it in the campaign of 1896.
The fact that the matter is being dis
cussed by members of the committee
shows that there is a very considerable
difference OF opinion on the question.
What proportion of the committee favors
keeping silver in the foreground is not,
of course, known, and it is hardly probable
it VIII be known until the meeting of the
national convention. II Is pretty safe to
say, however, that a very considerable
majority are of the opinion that the 16 TO
] idea should be given as much promi-
nence as il is possible to give it. How
the committee will stand a year hence
It is impossible to predict with any de-
gree of certainty. Many things may hap
pen before the meeting of the national
convention to change views now enter
tanned.
Mr.. Bryan Is easily the most popular
and influential Democrat in the country.
That he believes that the silver issue
should be kept at the front there is no
doubt. His position will have great
weight with the party, not only because
he has shown himself to be an able lead
er but also because if the silver issue
were dropped he would stand very little
chance of being his party's nominee for
President. The great majority of the
party want him nominated Many of
those who have doubts of the wisdom of
making another campaign on the silver
issue will smother their doubts rather
than consent to the nomination of a can
didate other than Mr. Bryan. The 16
to / idea and Mr.. Bryan are so closely con-
nected that they cannot be separated. If
one is dropped both must be.
The impression prevails that the Demo
cratic national committee at its st. Louis
meeting will give some idea as to what the
position of the party will be on the silver
question in the approaching campaign
but it win do nothing of the kind. All
of the talk which is appearing in the dis
patches respecting the attitude of the
committee on that question is
gathered from people outside of the com
mittee-people who would like to influence
the committees action or who think they
are in a position to give a reliable fore
cast of what the committee is likely &c
do It is doubtful if the committee will
do anything except to map out some pre-.
liminary campaign wofk-work that needs
attention.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-26
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-26
The Witty Witness

An English barrister, now on visit to
New York, tells an old story of an apt re-
tort by a witness. It was during a trial
which took place some years ago The
plaintiff was undergoing a rather sharp
examination from the defendants counsel
The case was one of damages. claimed on
account of severe bodily injuries received
by the plaintiff on a railway, due, the
plaintiff claimed, 10 the negligence of the
defendant railway companys servants.
Mr.. c., the railway company's counsel
was noted for his overbearing manner in
examining witnesses and endeavoring to
discomfort them. This witness, however,
determined not to be confused by his OPP
ponents counsel. After becoming thor
oughly provoked by the attacks of the
man of law, he demonstrated. 'Mr. c."
said he, Il am an invalid. 1 cannot allow
you to question me in this manner 1t is
a positive injury to my nervous system,
which is at best in a shattered condition.
I shall have to refuse to answer your
questions unless you put them in a differ
ent manner. 1 am troubled on account of
the injury received on the railway with
sclerosls of the spinal cord. AT this min
ute I can see you double, and you know by
experience it is generally enough 10 upset
a man to see you once"