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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-06-14
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL

Train No. arrives from Chicago at :32 .. m
daily, except Sunday.
Train No. 8 arrives from Milwaukee at IL :35
a m. daily except Sunday.
Train No 80 arrives from Milwaukee at 7:4O
p, m. daily except Sunday.
Train No. 23 arrives from Chicago and departs
for Madison at $50, p. m. except Sunday
No. 33 arrives from Milwaukee and departs
for Madison at 9:1O a. M, except Sunday. 80
No. arrives from Chicago at 3.15 pm., daily
excest Sunday.
Sunday train from Milwaukee arrives here at
9:45 a. m. Returning, departs at 5:10 .. m.
Train No. 43 leaves Milwaukee at II 90 o. m,
Saturdays only, arrives at WatertOwn at IL: 80. a.
M
Train No 40 leaves WATERFOWL for Milwau-
kee at 5:lO p. a., Saturdays and Sundays only.
*This trains stops at WATERFOWL Junct only.
GEORGE W.%WEBB, A emit
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-06-14
Kick the Bucket"

The ancient method of execution
by hanging, when bucket was
kicked from underneath the culprit,
and left him suspended, gave rise to
the expression, "Kick the bucket"
which means to die.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-06-14
RAILROAD TIMETABLE
CHICAGO 4 NORTHWESTERN.
PASSENGER sERvICE.-GoING soUTI

PASSENGER sERvICE.-GOING SOUTH.
Chicago Passenger .... ............ 6: Is a. m
Chicago PaSSenger*..... ........... IL C6 a. M
GAINESVILLE passenger. 1.40p. m
GAINESVILLE Passenger ............. 6:56 D. m
Both 6:15 a m. and II 06 a. m. trains make
close connections at Jefferson Junction for
Madison and all points west.
l 40 p, m train makes close connections for
Milwaukee and Chicago.
7Ol p. M train makes close connections for
east and west at Jefferson junction. ~ ...*
PASSENGER sERvICE.-GO1NG NORTH =
Lake Superior Passenger. ............... 500 a. M
MenOmOnee Passenger 2 :3S o. m.
Passenger arrives from Rockford at 8 40 a. M
Passenger from Chicago arrives at o:3S p. m.
and goes no further.
Except Sundays,
F. NJ. NEWTON. Agent.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-06-14
Women as Well as Men Are Made
Miserable by Kidney and
Bladder Trouble.

Kidney trouble preys upon the mind,
discourages and lessons mbition; beauty
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-02-15
oYAMA HAS 3s5,ooo SOLDIERS.
These Figures Are Based on Russian
Estimates,

The Russian army organ publishes
official statistics OF Field Marshal
Oyama's forces, based on the regimen
tai numbers on uniforms of Japanese
killed during the engagements with
General Kuropatlyin's forces.
According to this report, General
Kuroh, commanding the Japanese
right, has rs battalions, IL squadrons
and 306 guns-about $4,000 men-be-
sides 70 to 80 reserve battalions. Cen
eral Nodzu, commanding the center,
has 60 battalions, six squadrons and
1913 guns, or $4,000 men. General Oku,
commanding the left, including Cen
eral Nogi's forces, has SO battalions.
% squadrons and S42 guns, or lis, 900
men.
The number of reservists with
Generals Nodzu and Oku is unknown.
The total of Field Marshal Oyama's
regular troops is placed at 5000 cav
airy and infantry, and $50 guns. The
total number of reservists is probably
100000 men. Military men estimate
General Kuropatkin's superiority at
about $4,000 men, without including
the Sixteenth army corps, which is
not yet in the far east.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-02-15
TElEGRAPHlC BRIEFS.

Requisition papers for the removal
of Arthur r. Appleyard from Boston
to Buffalo, granted by Governor Hig-
gins, have been received. An officer
will be sent to Boston to place Apple
yard under arrest.
The winter in Macedonia has been
almost unprecedently severe. The
snow at Monastir is a yard deep, and
the thermometer registers 81 degrees
below zero. There is a great deal of
suffering. The Sultan heads list of
subscribers to relief fund with ST.
000
Midshipman Emery Clayton Weller
has been dismissed from the Naval
academy at Annapolis for continued
violations of the regulations relating
to the use of tobacco. Young Weller
Is from New York city, ald insisted
upon smoking.
Republican members of the Colora-
do House, in caucus, have agreed
upol an eight-hour bill, said to be
satisfactory to the corporations. It
takes the place of the bill advocated
by the labor Unions.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-02-15
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.

Reed Smoots counsel declares that
a two-thirds vote Is necessary for ex-
pulsion of the Utah senator.
Chief Engineer Wallace estimates
that the Panama canal will be com.
pleted in 10 years.
pennsylvania congressman will go
with the Republican majority In sup.
port of the railroad rate bill.
Booker T. Washington saws the next
80 years will be the crucial epoch for
the southern negro
President Roosevelt directs that
contracts be continued with the Cath
olic Indian schools for the education of
Indians.
Five men were drowned in HOOP
ers straits near Cambridge, Md, last
Friday while attempting to reach
shore from icebound oyster vessels.
AT Savannah, Ca, H. C. Swift. 75
years old, jumped from the window of
his home and was killed He had
been suffering from the grip.
A spark from workman's torch
caused fire which destroyed the
Rome, N. Y, merchant iron mill, en-
failing loss of 100000.
Prince Eitel Friedrich of Germany.
has so far recovered from his attack
of pneumonia that his physicians an
nounce no further bulletins will be is
sued.
All fear of rioting over labor troub-
les at the Zeigler, ILL.,. coal mines
having subsidized, the last of the State
troops at Zeigler have been ordered
home.
The mobiles of st. Petersburg an
pealed to the czar for an assembly
representative of the people to par.
ticipate in the government of the ma
tion. Twenty strikers have been kill
ed and a number Of persons wounded
in conflicts with soldiers in Kalisz.
There have been disturbances in other
places.
Premier Laurier of Canada has as.
sured a delegation of lumbermen that
the Government will undertake revis-
ion of the tariff.
John M. Shippers, convict In the
Maryland penitentiary, serving a term
for horse stealing, has confessed that
he murdered Albert Constable, a law
yer of Elkton, Md.
It Is semi-officially announced that
Pope Plus X, will hold a consistory
next month. It is not known whether
any new cardinals will be created at
that time.
The Assembly Taxation Committee
has introduced a bill in the lower
House of the N. Y. Legislature pro-
viding for flat tax of l per cent. on
the gross premiums of insurance COM
panies.
The anthracite coal production in
Pennsylvania for the month of Janu-
ary was 4,4OS,57S tons as against
4,1S4,245 tons during the month of
January, 1904.
The Citizens bank of Union, ILL.,.
has closed its doors and the where
abouts of the owner of the institution
E. w. Settle, are not known. There
is nearly $4,000 on deposit. Settle
also has banks in Forest, H., and in
Michigan.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-02-15
FINN OFFICIAL MURDERED
Shot Down by Young Man who
Was Granted an Audience.
VICTIMS SON CAME TO RESCUE.
Boy Attacks and Disablcs the Assassin
and is Also Wounded in the
Struggle.

Soisalon Soininen, Procurator Gen
eral of Finland, who before he was
ennobled was known by the name of
Johnson, was assassinated by young
man whose identity has not been de-
termined. The assassin and Soini-
mems son were both wounded in a
revolver duel following the killing.
The motive of the crime apparently
was purely political, the slain official
being a prominent member of the
Government party.
The murderer appeared at the Pro
curator's house at IL o'clock and
sent in card bearing in French the
name of Alexandra Gadd, who is in
the Russian service. The young man
who was smartly dressed in an Off
GERS uniform, was promptly admitted
to the officials private study, and On
his entrance fired four shots from a
revolver, one of the bullets piercing
the breast of the Procurator who ex-
pired almost Immediately.
His 17-year-old son, hearing the
shots, rushed In from an adjoining
room and fired three or four shots at
his fathers assailant, whose right leg
was broken below the knee by bull
let. He was also slightly wounded in
the shoulder and finger of his left
hand was struck.
The assassin fired the one bullet re-
naming in his revolver at Sentiments s
son, ,wounding him slightly. He then
tried to escape, but fell unconscious
to the floor in the anteroom. There
he was seized.
DR. Wasastjerna was called immedi-
ately, but found the Procurator beyond
need of his services. The assassin
was removed to the surgical hospital.
He is of dark complexion and appar-
emily between 25 and 80 years of
age.
Soininen was born in 1856, and prac-
ticed at the Finnish bar. He was
highly esteemed and had held various
Government appointments, including
that Of Provincial Judge. He was re-
garded as wise and patriotic Off
cial
1t is understood that 1t was at his
initiative that the Films exiled by
Governor General Bobrikoff were al
lowed to return to Finland. He was
accused, however, of pro-Russian
proclivities, and it is believed 1t was
for this reason that he was murdered.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-02-15
RUSHING WARSHiPS.
Vessels for Russian Fleet Under Con-
struction at Cronstadt.

The dockyard authorities at Crons-
stadt are completing for active service
the battleship Alexander H., the cruis-
ers Pamyatt, Azova and Admiral
Kornleff and gunboat Grosejastchy,
which, with the new battleship Slava,
will form the second division of the
third Russian Pacific squadron. They
are expected to sail at the end of
May. The Admiralty confirms the
Associated Press statement that the
first division of this squadron will
leave Libau in the middle of Febru-
ary, but 1t is pointed out that Admiral
Rojestvensky will be unable to await
its arrival, because he will have to
cross the Indian ocean before the
monsoon season, which begins in
March and renders navigation impos-
sible for torpedo boats and small
cruisers. Admiral Rojestvensky will
probably proceed to the Far East at
the end of February after the arrival
OF Rear Admiral Botrovskys division.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-02-15
HOUSE PASSES RATE BILL.
Only II Votes Cast Against the
Measure.

After nearly four days of discussion
the House by vote of 32G to II pass
ed the Esch-Townscld bill, providing
for the regulation of freight rates.
The negative vote was made up of II
Republicans and six Democrats. The
following Republicans voted against
the bill: Adams, Pennsylvania; Cas-
tor, Pennsylvania; Dwight, New York;
Gardner, New Jersey; Hill, Connect
cut; Huff, Pennsylvania; Mccall,
Massachusetts; Porter, Pennsylvania;
Sibley, Pennsylvania; Southwick, New
York, and Vreeland, New York. The
following Democrats voted NO: Har-
rison, New York; McDermott, New
Jersey; Rider, New York; Scudder.
New York; GoulGen, New York, and
Shull, Pennsylvania. During the last
the following members spoke in favor
of regulating freight rates. -4essrs.
Thomas, North Carolina Gillespie,
Texas; Burnett and Bowie. Alabama;
Kennedy, 1Aio; and Calderhead,
Kansas. Mr.. Shull, Pennsylvania, op-
posed legislation of any kind.
The closing hours of the debate
were coupled by Messrs. Williams, of
Mississippi. the minority leader, and
Hepburn, Republican. Iowa. chairman
of the committee which reported the
bill.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-02-15
ADMITS He HAD 13 WIVES.
Hoch, the Much-Married Man, Makes
Confession.

Confronted by living witnesses of
his duplicity at the coroner's investi-
cation into the death of Mrs. Walck.
erHoch, his last victim, Johann Hook.
the much married man, according to
the Chicago police, has admitted his
marriage to 13 women in the last 10
years. Eight of these women, who at
one time bore the name of the alleged
bigamist are now dead, but Hoch
declares they died natural deaths and
is firm in his denial that he poisoned
anyone of them. With the exception
OF the Identification of Hoch by sew
eral of his wives or their friends,
nothing new developed at to-day's
hearing of the coroner's jury and at
the conclusion of the examination of
witnesses tonight Coroner Hoffman
announced that the inquest would De
postponed until next Wednesday.
The principal witness at to-day's ex-
animation was Mrs. Fischer-Hoc a
sister of the woman over whom the
inquest was being held. The witness
is the woman Hoch married a few
days after the death Of Mrs. Walcker-
Hoch. In her testimony the witness
explained in minute detail all the cir
cumstances surrounding the death of
her sister M't there was nothing in
the evidence to prove that Hoch was
responsible for the woman's death.
During the investigation Jacob ].
Ness, of Cincinnati, identified Hoch
as the man Le had known IN that
place in 1896, who married two Ger.
man widows under the name of
Schmidt.
Two photographs of Hoch sent to
Germany by the police officials have
been returned with the information
that they are pictures of Jacob
Schmidt, who formerly lived at
Binsen, Germany. One of the photo
graphs was taken at Wheeling, w.
Va, where Hoch married one of his
wives AID the other was a picture
taken on his release from the Bird.
well here in 1899.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-02-15
ROOSEVELT AND FAIRBANKS
Result of Presidential Election
Officially Declared.
ELECTORAL VOTE is COUNTED
Canvass Conducted by the Senate
and House of Representatives in
Joint Session.

Roosevelt and Fairbanks were or
the 7th inst formally declared the
| President and Vice President-elect of
the United States. The ceremonious
event of convassing the electoral vote
by the Senate and House in joint ses-
sion took place in the hall of the
House this afternoon.
President Pro TEN. Frye, of the
Senate was the presiding officer of
the joint session, an honor conferred
upon the president of the Senate by
congressional enactment many years
ago.
Two mahogany cases were placed
on the Speakers desk. Each con-
tanned the reports of the electoral
votes of the states, one holding the
set that came by mail, the other the
set which messengers had delivered
in person to Senator Frye. Senator
Burrows, of Michigan, was the Re-
publican teller chosen by the Senate.
His Democratic colleague was Sena-
tor Bailey. of Texas. Tellers on the
part of the House we're Representa-
tive Gaines, of West Virginia, Repub-
lican, chairman of the committee on
the election of the president and Vice
President, and Representative Rus
sell, of Texas, Democrat
Senator Burrows read the certifi-
cate from the secretary of state of
Alabama in full. After that the tell
ers, baving merely assured themselves
that the certificates were in due form,
the reading of the certificates was
omitted, only the votes of each state
being announced in regular alpha
betical order, the tellers alternating
in making the announcements to the
essemblage.
When Maryland was reached the
only split vote was announced, that
state casting seven votes for Parker
and one for Roosevelt, the Republican
vote being that of Elector Charles ].
Bonaparte, granddaughter of Napol-
con and grandson of the King of
Westphalia. AS each certificate was
read 1t was passed to the secretary
of the Senate by page. The votes
of all the states having been read and
added by the tellers, Senator Frye
arose again and announced as fol-
lows:
"The vote for President of the
United States, as delivered to the
president of the Senate is as fol-
lows: The whole number of electors
appointed to vote for President of
the United States is 476 of which
majority is 239. Theodore Roosevelt,
of the state of New York. has received
for President of the United States
1886 votes, and Alton b. Parker, of
the state of New York, has received
l40 votes"
He made similar announcement
of the vote for Vice President, sub
stituting the names of Charles w.
Fairbanks, of Indiana, and Henry
Gassaway Davis, OF West Virginia,
for those of Roosevelt and Parker,
and then made formal declaration of
the election of Roosevelt and Fair
banks.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-02-15
60 NEW STATIONS.
3. 6 o. Railroad Company Has Plans
for Buildings.

Notice has been received at the
Pittsburg headquarters of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad that Presi-
dent Oscar G. Murray has authoriz-
ed the erection of 60 new stations
and the building of extensions to
10 others at an aggregate expenditure
OF about $4,000. The ocst of each
improvement will range from $3.50 to
S1,500. The new stations will be at
different points along lines of the
road where box cars and wornout old
buildings have been in use. A num-
ber of them will be combined freight
and passenger stations and others
will be used exclusively for handling
freight. Some are in course of con-
struction and contracts for others will
soon be awarded.
Holbert & Spedden, of Fairmont,
W. Va, have the contract to build sta
tions at Newton Falls, Wayland
Charlestown, Kent, Holloway, LATER
ty and Fairpoint, all in Ohio, at a
total cost of about $4,000 This work
is well advanced and the contract
calls for its completion by February
10. 1t Is also contemplated to erect
some larger stations in the spring,
the estimated cost of each ranging
from $4,000 to $4,000.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-02-15
STEEL RAIL ORDERS LARGE.
ments of the Iron Industry.
Healthy Demand

R. G. Dun & Co.'S "Weekly Review
of Trade" says: Some disturbance
has been caused by the elements, but
business conditions are otherwise un-
usually satisfactory for the season.
Distribution of merchandise is of lib
eral proportions and the new year is
fulfilling sanguine expectations. Man
ufacturing is still the best feature, es-
pecially in the various departments
of the iron and steel industry, while
textile mills and shoe shops are well
engaged.
Some conservatism is noted in the
placing of advance orders, but this is
favorable symptom, indicating the
absence of reckless operations that
produce inflated prices and ultimately
cause excessive accumulation of
stocks, followed by the inevitable per-
iod of retrenchment. Gradual prog
ress is always more permanent, and
the present situation contains this
wholesome element to a pronounced
degree
Railway earnings in January were
4.04 per cent. larger than in 1904,
while foreign commerce at this port
for the last week showed a gain of
S1,070.S70 in value of imports and a
loss of Sl,SS0,563 in exports, as COM
pared with the same week last year.
Favorable reports are received from al
most every department of the iron and
steel industry, even steel rails sharing
the better feeling, orders on the books
now exceeding a million tons.
The advance season is bringing out
more demand for structural shapes,
while specifications on contracts FOR
plates kept the mills busy. Notwith-
standing the firmer tone of the raw
materials, several varieties of cotton
goods have been reduced, and the
market developed much irregularity.
Instead of stimulating business, as ex-
pected, the concessions have caused
buyers to act with increased conserv-
atism. Purchasers are still limited
to urgent requirements. Hides have
ruled fairly steady, native steers cons
tituting the bulk of offerings. Ar
rivals of foreign dry hides are readily
absorbed at full prices.
Business in leather is expanding.
Failures for the week numbered 256
in the United States, against 22S last
year, and q in Canada, compared
with 25 a year ago.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-02-15
TO PRESS APPEALS WITH ARMS.
Violent Proclamation Issued by Rus
sian Workmen.


The central committee of the Rus
sian Social Democratic Workmens
party has issued a violent proclama-
ton which has been widely circulated
in the factories of st. Petersburg,
ralling ON the operatives to array
themselves under the red flag of the
Social Democracy and prepare for an
armed renewal of the January demon
strations. The proclamation bitterly
assails church and state and the high
sr classes, and concludes: 'In order
to gain victory we must organize a
vast workmen's army. Then again
we will start for the palace to pre-
sent our demands, not without weap-
2ns, not with ikons and not with sup
plications, but with arms in our
hands under the blood-red standard
of the Russian Social Democratic
party"
Proposals for dealing with the Ia
Dor problem have been framed by FL
nance Minister Kokovsoff and ap-
proved by the Emperor. They in
clude arbitration of disputes and re-
duction in hours.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-02-15
is BURNED TO A CRISP.
A Terrible Mistake Made at a Glass
Plant at Smethport, Pa.

Charles Palmer employed by the
Camp Glass company at Smeth-
port, Pa, was roasted to
death this morning while engaged in
making repairs to a. gas supply pipe
at the plant Palmer's duties were to
maintain the heat of the furnaces at
the required temperature. The melt
ing tanks are so arranged that the
supply of gas is turned on alternately
from one side to another, each of the
two supply pipes being large enough
to admit the body of man.
While the gas was passing through
one pipe Palmer crawled into the
other. His assistant changed the
supply, sending the burning gas
through the pipe into which Palmer
had crept. Before the mistake was
noticed Palmer's body was burned to
crisp. He is survived by wife and
one child.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-02-15

To meet the rising demand for steel
and iron the United States Steel Cor
poration is putting in operation every
department of the former Union Steel
Company plant at Donora. Pa. One
blast furnace there was blown in
some time ago and another will be
put in blast this week. Nearly all the
other furnaces under control of the
Carnegie company are in operation
and the company has been large pur-
chaser of pig iron in the open market.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-02-15
W0RKMEN FIRED UPON
Strikers Enraeed When Payment
of Wages is Refused.
THREATEN TO CLOSE THE MILLS
Thousands of Iron Workers Are Out
Again in Russla's Capital City.

A message from Lodz, Russian Po-
land, February 10 says: Four per
sons were killed and 6S wounded in
a riot at the Chiebler factory and sew
en- killed and so wounded at the Louis
Geyer factory to-day. The excite
ment began this morning when the
strikers gathered around the factories
in threatening manner. An addl
tional regiment OF infantry had arriv-
ed and troops were stationed in the
streets. The manufacturers agreed
that if the men did not return to work
February 13 the mills would be closed.
They realize they made mistake by
paying the men in advance and ii
was necessary to send troops in ad-
vance. Orders were given that sol
diers were not to fire unless attacked
The shooting occurred at places,
where the troops sought to prevent
men from entering factories to collect
their pay.
The strikers generally are enraged
at the refusal of other manufacturers
to give them their pay. and several
other encounters between mobs anu
troops are reported from different di-
rections. A number of people are
said to have been wounded.
The greatest alarm prevails here.
The shops were closed early this aft
ernoon and the windows were boarded
up.
1t is reported that general rail-
road strike will commence February
IA throughout Poland.
According to press dispatches fro
Kattowitz, Russian roland, colli-
sion occurred between $1,000 strikers
and the military at the Russian sta
tion at Skarzysko, in which "a strik-
ers were killed and 40 wounded. The
military, it is also reported, fired on
strikers at OstrowicZ, but the casual
ties in that case are not known.
st. Petersburg is again face to face
with renewal of the labor upheaval,
the immediate incitement being the
failure of the workmen to secure pay
ment for the time they were out on
strike, added to the fact that there
has been no adjustment of the de-
mands which led to the strike last
month.
The Putiloff Iron Works, where the
former strike originated, is playing
the principal role. There are 30 900
workmen already out within the me-
tropolis, and the workmen at the tor
pedo factories in Kolpino, IS miles
distant, have also Joined the strikers.
There is strong prospect of the move
ment extending.