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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

w. H. West, the BILLY" West of ma
tional minstrel fame, died at the
Palmer house in Chicago after an i'll
ness of ten weeks.
Fitzsimmons and Jeffries have
signed articles to fight in San Fran
cisco about May Is.
Two-thirds of the business portion
of Woodbury., Tenn, has been de-
stroyed by fire.
In Helena, Mont, Harold M. Cole,
| a prominent citizen, murdered his
wife and committed suicide.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
An earthquake destroyed the town
| of Shamoka, in Transcauca STA.
In speech at Liverpool Lord Rose
| berry declared that England could
never grant a separate parliament to
| Ireland.
Santos-Dumont suffered an accident
due to an entangling guide rope and
his airship sank to the bottom of
Monoco bay, while the aeronaut mar
rowly escaped drowning.
The Anglo-Japanese treaty is con-
sidered by Europeans as plain warn
ing to Russia to cease her aggressions
in the orient. The Russian reply in
| Inmates that the car is prepared to
meet any emergencies.
A Lahore Qndia) dispatch says that
the plague is ravaging the Punjab and
1000 deaths are occurring daily.
The war budget in England shows
decided decrease in campaign ex-
penses. Forces are reduced by 10000
men.
SPANS queen regent has signed the
treaty of friendship with the United
| States.
Gen. Chaffee asks for recruits to fill
the regiments now in the Philippines
and is opposed to reducing the
strength of the army there at this
time.
In Batangas province the Filipino
instruction has practically ended as
a result of Gen. Bells energetic cam
paign.
British fell into a Boer trap at Kip
river, two officers and ten men being
killed and more than 40 wounded.
On the Kronprinz Wilhelm Prince
Henry of Prussia sailed from Bremen
haven for America.
A dispatch says that thousands of
persons were killed by the recent
earthquake in the Shamaka district
in Transcaucasia.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22
Nine Were Poisoned.

AT boarding house in Neenah nine
persons were made violently i'll and
narrowly escaped death by eating pan
cakes. Physicians were called and
emetics administered which saved the
lives of all those poisoned, though all
of them are still very sick. The poison
ing is believed to be due to some miner
al adulterant in the buckwheat flour
from which the pancakes were made,
the adulterant being placed there to
give the flour greater weight. The city
board of health secured possession OF
ANALYSIS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

The census bureau reports large
increase in manufactures for 1900 over
1890. The gains were 90 per cent. in
the amount of wages paid, 25 per cent.
in the number of wage earners, 80 per
cent. in value of products, 81 per cent.
in capital, ~ per cent. in cost of ma
terials, and A per cent. in the number
of establishments. In the aggregate
of its manufactures the United States
is, of &C urse, far ahead of England or
any other country, and its lead is con-
stantly frightening.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22
WEST AND SOUTH.

For the wrecked City savings bank
of Detroit a receiver has been APP
pointed. Valuable securities of the
bank are missing.
In MenomInee, Mich, an icequake
was distinctly felt. Chairs and desks
in number of offices were shaken and
bric-a-brac tumbled off walls.
In a fight between a sheriff's posse
and mountaineers near Middlesboro,
KY, six persons were killed and six
more badly wounded.
In the public schools of Chicago
alien teachers have been ordered to
become naturalized on penalty of
dismissal. They number 15s.
The death of Robert B. Lindsay,
aged rs years, occurred at Sheffield
Ala. He was the first governor of
Alabama after the reconstruction
period.
In Chicago millers from 25 states
met and organized the National Fed
grafton of Millers.
The city council at Des Moines, Ia.
prohibited all public meetings on ac-
count of smallpox.
Baltimore & Ohio railway trains
collided at Indian Harbor, Ind, and
Conductor Huntley and Brakeman
Brioc, both of Garrett, were killed.
Rev. C. C. Carleton, president of
Carlton college, and one of the prom
inent educators of Texas, died at his
home in Bonham.
In a railroad wreck near Little
Rock, Ark, caused by huge bowlder
rolling on the track, seven men were
killed and IA injured.
Engineers White and Frude and
Firemen Ogle and Patten were killed
in railway collision near Clifford, Ia.
In railway wreck at Shop Creek,
ILL.,, Fireman Burns and Brakeman Nc
Intyre were killed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

IL is a fact that the best military
commanders have been those who
took best care of the men under
their orders. The late Gen. Hobart.
OF Milwaukee, was noted in the civil
war for the parental supervision
which he exercised over his regiment
A Milwaukee paper says that among
the latest visitors at Gen. Hobart's
bedside was captain of his former
regiment. The officer was just rec
ognized by the dying general, whose
last audible words were: sHow are
the boys?' His thoughts and mem
DRY related back to camp times dur
ing the civil war.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

A French sculptor has completed the
model of statue of Marshal Rocham-
beau which is to be presented to the
city OF Washington as companion to
the statue of Lafayette, and it will be
shipped to America in April With
Germany sending prince to the Unit
ed States to express her friendship,
Russia insisting that it was her and
not England that INTERVIEWED for Amer
lea in the Spanish-American war, Ger
many inviting the presidents daughter
to launch the emperor's yacht and
france sending us statues, your Uncle
Samuel is feeling quite gay.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22
Big Lumber Deal.

The Wisconsin Lumber & Bark COM
pany, of Grand Rapids, Mich, has pur-
chased $4,000 acres of hard wood tim
Der land near Eagle River, Villas coun'
ty, the considera ton being 100000.
The sale was made by the Home Invest
ment company, in which A. w. and G.
F. Sanborn, of Ashland, own the con-
trolling interest. A large furniture
factory will be erected on the tract.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

That is an interesting theory which
comes from the Pacific coast that the
climate of Alaska has undergone a
radical reform by change in the
course of one of the great ocean cur
rents. The theory is that an earth
quake has caused subterranean
changes which have given turn to the
so-called Japan current that will con-
vert Alaska from a land of perpetual
ice to one of perpetual summer. 1t is
a beautiful theory from an academic
point of view, but it looks very much
like an attempt to boom Alaska real
estate.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

Canada proposes to establish great
national park in the heart of the
Rocky mountains which will serve as
an asylum and breeding ground for
the species of game, big and small, that
are now rapidly becoming extinct.
This is the Yellowstone park plan, and
1t is one that is eminently worthy.
Until comparatively few years ago
both Americans and Canadians not
only tolerated but encouraged the
slaughter of game. The change Of pol
icy is wise, and it is to be hoped it has
not come too late.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

The city of Paterson, N. j., made
haste to notify the country that it
wanted no outside help, even if a
thousand families are homeless and
500 of it's finest buildings in ashes. If
such a calamity had befallen most
cities of that size pleas for assistance
would have been telegraphed to the
country.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

Solomonian wisdom entered into
the mode adopted by Chicago JUS
tice to determine whether or not a
large quantity of beans declared good
by the seller and petrifed by the
buyer were edible. He cooked them.
For time they resisted the bubbling
OF the water in the presence of the
court, but after reasonable subiec-
ton to the right temperature turned
out mellow and palatable, with judg-
:nent against the buyer. The judicial
test of ordeal for the beans by fire
is not contemplated by the statutes,
but it worked well this time.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

Admiral Prince Henry will speak
English on all public occasions dur
ing his American visit. The Germans
acquire English more perfectly than
any other continental nationality.
The fact that the more common vo-
cabulary of the language is of Teu-
tonic origin materially aids them in
mastery of English dicfion. They en-
counter some difficulty with our 9Th"
sound, which is not in their vernacu-
lar, and with our long "u," of which
they are no more fond than most
Americans who speak of a ''soot" of
clothes, "soot" at law, etc.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22
Siege Is Raised.

After IA years of close and diligent
labor to save Oshkosh, the Salvation
Army has given it up and retired from
the field. The last service has been
held and the army has packed bag and
baggage and departed for more i'm
questionable fields. The reason given
for the withdrawal is lack of financial
SUPPORT.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22
KIDNEY TROUBLES.
Mrs. Louise NJ. Gibson Says
That This Fatal Disease is
Easily Cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Com

"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM II felt very
discouraged two years ago, had srf-
fered SO long with kidney troubles and
other complications, and had taken SO
much medicine without relief that
began to think there was no hope for
me. Life looked SO good to me, but
what is life without health? I wanted
70 be well
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

The census bureau report on man
ufactures shows in the last decade an
increase of % per cent. in the amount
of wages paid, 25 per cent. in the
number of wage-earners, 80 per cent.
in the value of products, 81 per cent.
in the capital invested and A per
cent. in the number of establishments.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

Mrs. Alfred Elliott, the wife of a
wealthy resident of Ohio, eloped with
the coachman, the man deserted her,
and now she is employed as servant
in the home over which she once ruled
as wife. The punishment is severe,
but deserved.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

The necessary threefourths vote of
the annual conference of the Method
list Episcopal church has ratified the
new constitution of that body, which
was passed in May, 1900. Women are
now given the right to sit as dele
gates in the general conference
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22
Man and Money Gone.

James NJ. Johnson, a prominent cleo
trician employed by the La Crosse
Street Railway company, has disap-
peared from his home in La Crosse and
the authorities have been unable to
find any trace of him. A bank account
of $1,000 has been drawn and is gone
and his family, consisting of wife
and three small children, are in a desti
tute condition. Three weeks ago
Johnson left for Chicago on business.
1t is believed he met with foul, play
there
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

Mr.. John L. Sullivan has retired
from the stage. His conception of ST.
mon Legree, the slave driver, was so
realistic that all the Uncle Toms
Threatened to throw up their jobs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

The ChlcagO, milwaukee, q st. Paul Rail
way Co. has issued beautiful Calendar
in six sheets 12x14 inches, each sheet hav-
ing ten color picture of popular actress
reproductions of water colors by Leon
Moran. The original paintings are owned
by and the Calendars are issued under the
Railway Company's copyright A limited
edition will be sold at % cents per calendar
of six sheets. Will be mailed on receipt of
Agent. Chicago.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22
Got Them All at Once

Sue Brette-I see it stated that if the
eggs were equally divided among the in
habitants of the country, each human be-
ing would get al.
Foote Light-Gracious me! l got that
many one night while on our tour out
west!-Yonkers Statesman.
The man who attends strictly to his
own business may have less business to
attend to, but it will pay him larger divi-
dends.-Christian Endeavor World.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

Only two men who commanded ar
mics on the union side during the civil
war are now alive-Gens. Howard and
Schofield. OF 40 corps commanders
only ten are living.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22
Landseeker. E.cur.ion.

to Virginia, North and South Carolina.
Good farm and stock lands cheap. No tor.
nadoes or heavy winters. For pamphlets
and excursion rates address w. E. Conklyn.
n. w. 2. Agt. G. & o. Ry., 234 Clark St.,
Chicago. -
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22
Seemed to Need If More

'fWhat are you doing here?" said the
woman to the tramp that had got over
the wall just in time to escape the bull
dog.
Madam" he said, with dignity, ri did
intend to request somethin' to eat, but
humanity, you'll feed that dog."- Stray
Stories.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22
Man Behind the Gun.

"Great cinders! Smith, look at this pa
per. Jones kicked out of the house by
his father-in-law Awful, awful! Why,
Jones is one of our biggest guns"
the man behind the gun, as it were"
Baltimore News.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22
One Way to Learn.

Glow can I find out whether she loves
me" unused the lover.
Chats easy" answered the small boy,
who had accidentally overheard him.
"How?"
''Kiss her. If she swats you, it's all off;
if she doesn't, it's all right. Chicago
Post
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22
Patriotic BLOOD.

Out in Cincinnati there is an Irishman
who, like many other good Irishmen. is
firm in his loyalty to his native land. One
morning not long ago he was at work near
the top of telegraph pole, painting it a
bright green, when the paint slipped and
ssplashad on the sidewalk. A few minutes
later another Irishman came along. He
looked at the paint, then at his country
man on the ladder, coming down the pole,
and inquired, with anxiety in his tone:
'Doherty, Doherty, how We had a him
orrhage ?'-Y outh's Companion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

Michael Bolan, an American, has
been compelled to leave Ecuador by
the persecution of government Off
Gals.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

The Wabash management decided to
equip Sal miles of it's road with the
"block" safety device to prevent
wrecks.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22
and Division.

Rodrick-This is wonderful country
for arithmetic.
Van Albert-Think so?
eyes. They make two one at Niagara
and one two in South Dakota Chicago
Daily News
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

joel paid s25 to get into that volume
of Great Americans"
Billy-Well?
"All I got was half a column alongside
of man who is the most notorious hum
bug in orr county. detroit Free Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

Subscriber Ito Editor) FLOWS the
newspaper business noww Editor Ito
Subscriber) Splendid. Just had my leg
cut off, and sued the road for damages!'N
Atlanta Journal
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not
spot, streak or give your goods an I'M
evenly dyed appearance.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

How My Throat Hurts!-Why don't you
use Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar ?
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

Everyone is accused of eating too much,
as joke. But it's no joke.-Atchison
Globe.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

Some people seem to think they can
make long story short by telling it over
again-Indianapolis News.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an irfalli-
BILE medicine for coughs and colds.-N. w.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22
Place and Greatness.

Stops the Cough and Works On
the Cold.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22
FROM WASHINGTON

In the seven months ended Jan
uary 81 the balance of trade in IA
vor of the United States as against
the rest of the world was $345, 9O7,-
600.
The names of officers and enlisted
men of the army who are to be re-
warded for bravery in the campaigns
of Cuba, the Philippines and China,
have been announced.
At cabinet meeting the part played
by Admiral Schley in the Santiago
campaign was discussed, and the pres
ident's decision is expected at an early
day.
In session in Washington the wom-
an suffragists decided on permanent
international conference and elected
Susan B. Anthony as It's chairman.
Our navy department is soon to test
petroleum for fuel on ships.
Confirmation has been received by
the state department in Washington
of the news that the ransom for Miss
Stone has been paid over to her cap
tors.
In convention at Washington wom-
an suffragists celebrated the eighty
second birthday of Susan B. Anthony.
In reducing the war taxes Senator
Hanna advices caution and suggests
that ordinary business principles be
applied to the question by congress.
The refusal of Germany to grant
the Chinese request that she evacuate
Tien-tsin causes concern in Washing
ton.
After finishing it's report the indus
trial commission, established in 1898,
went out of existence.
THE EAST.
In New York city John Rosel, .Jr.,
% years old, and Kittie, his wife,
aged %, killed themselves with poi
son.
The Presbyterian church repudi-
ates the charge that it teaches
either fatalism or infant damnation
At the leading clearing houses in the
United States in exchanges during the
seven days ended on the 14th aggre-
gated S1,92s, 921 ,6e2, against s2,157, 122,-
942 the previous week. The increase
compared with the corresponding
| week of last year was IA.
In the United States there were FAC
| business failures in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against PAT the
week previous and 257 the correspond
| ing week of last year.
In a wreck on the Pennsylvania rail
road near Altoona, Pa, three men
were killed and four probably fatally
| injured.
Reviews of trade show satisfactory
| business during the last week in spite
of heavy losses through the elements
| The labor situation shows distinct i'm
| provement.
A combine of transatlantic lines has
| been formed, which includes the Do,
minion, Leyland, American, White
Star and Atlantic Transport com
| panies.
At the age of 60 years Rev George
| Carter Needham, the noted evangelist
died suddenly of neuralgia of the
heart at his home at Narberth, Pa.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22

Florida Excursions via virginia and
Carolina Winter Resorts
and Charleston Exposition, Hot Springs.
Old Point Comfort, Southern Pines. For
Information address w. E. Conklyn, N. w.
T. Agt., Chesapeake and Ohio Ry., 234 Clark
St., Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-09-09

ticularly the iron schedules. which were
nearly the same in the wilson-Gorman tar
iff as in the Dingley act. The change came
at once. and conditions grew worse. The
repeal OF the silver purchase law had 10
effect to check the general disaster TO man.
ufacturing industries, which eliminated In
hopeless paralysis and continued until
the Dingley tariff law went into effect.
History is said TO repeat itself. The free
traders certainly do. Their papers prirt
statements similar to that taken from the
New York Herald in 1S47 Advocates of
tariff for revenue only assure the country
that American industries, paying labor
from 70 to 80 per cent. mole wages, can
maintain themselves under any commercial
system that will sustain the government"
People in Indiana who can recall the dis
tress which prevailed throughout the
country from January, 1894, to the middle
of 1897 ought not to permit themselves TO
be deceived by repetition of the faliacies
which preceded the industrial disasters OF
1853 and 1893.
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-09-09

tons IL the tax were removed. In 1892 the
Democratic convention which nominated
Mr.. Cleveland declared for repeal of the tax
on State bank notes. 1t was made quite
prominent in the canvass, many Democrats
advocating it. The repeal Of that tax would
have made 1t possible for loosely organ
lied banks in the different States to issue
currency under whatever regulations the
States might make. AS a matter of fact.
a large majority of the bankers in the West
are opposed both to asset currency and to
branch banks. a few days ago the con-
vention of Iowa bankers declared against
it. Under the provisions of the bill on the
House calendar it does not seem that the
noteholder could lose. At the same time.
1t can be said that there is little reason to
believe that the bill can become law. But
a party which cannot agree upon what are
and are not its principles can howl about an
improba bility
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-09-09
JUDGE VS.. CONTROLLER.

United States Judge Lowell, of Boston
does not seem to accept the doctrine that
one branch of the government. or official
representative of it, should not criticise
another of coordinate authority. A few
days ago, in allowing certain charges made
by a former United States marshal,
amounting to about $500, which had been
disallowed by the controller of the United
States treasury, Judge Lowell said:
In going through the numerous items.
the court has been greatly assisted by the
discrimination Of the assistant district at
torney. 1t is to be regretted that the con-
troller is without the advice of some law
yer like him, OF competent knowledge and
common sense. Such advice would save
honest creditors of the United States from
disheartening delay, and the court from a
burden of needless litigation.
The court said further that the govern
ment was not protected from unjust claims
by the postponement and refusal to pay
upon technicalities of which a private en-
ployer would not avail himself He said
that this method, like any other which
savors of sharp practice" instead of pro-
tecting the government from ill-founded
claims, tends rather to beget them. though
he did not state how.
The controller of the treasury is the high
est accounting officer in the government
and in matters within his jurisdiction can
not be coerced by the President nor over
ruled by the courts. AS he has to pass on
accounts and claims aggregating hundreds
of millions OF dollars every year, it is
necessary that he should exercise the
greatest care and act under rigid rules
1t is not likely, however, that his rulings
are any more technical than those of United
States courts, which are somewhat noted
in that direction themselves. Judge Low.
ellis regret that Controller Tracewell coulc
not have the advice of some lawyer oil
competent knowledge and common sense
is misplaced. Judge Tracewell is himsel
| that sort of a lawyer, and IL he needed
additional advice ii is quite as available IL
the departments at Washington as it is IL
the Office of the United States district at
| marshals are much given to padding thei
accounts. and long experience has mad
the controller very skillful in analyzin,
| such claims. The chances are ten to on
that in any ruling upon the regularity o
| legitimacy of marshal's claim on whicl
they differed. the controller was right an,
the judge was wrong At any rate, n higl
official of the judiciary department Of tn
| government should not undertake to read
lecture 20 an equally high official of tn
executive department.