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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
CUBA ELECTS GENERAL
MENOCAL TO PRESIDENCY
Havana Reports Conservative Ticket
Wins-LiberaIs Said to Be De-
feated In Every Province.

Havana, Nov. 4.-The election of
Gen. Mario Menocal and Enrique Jose
Varona, respectively candidates for
president and vice-president of Cuba
on the conservative ticket, and all of
the other candidates put forward by
the Conservatives. appears practically
assured.
Advices received at Conservative
headquarters indicate that Menoca;
had a landslide in his favor, carrying
all six provinces of the island
In the City of Havana Gen. Freyre
Andrade, Conservative, was elected
mayor by a majority of 5000
Everywhere great satisfaction is
expressed over the success of the
governments efforts to maintain order
during the balloting, although some
regret was evinced that the use Of
troops was necessary. The election
was held under supervision of spe-
c1ally detailed army officers command
ing sufficient men to compel main
tenance of order
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
JAILER Is GIVEN A VACATION
All Prisoners in kenosha County Bas-
tile Plead Guilty Rather Than
Wait Until Spring.

Kenosha.-The Kenosha county
jail had a housekeeping a few days
ago, when all prisoners on state
charges in the jail decided to go into
court to plead guilty to charges
against them rather than wait for
trial in the Circuit court next March.
The list includes: George Ashmus,
charged with assaulting an officer,
who was sent to Waupun for year;
Julius Berber, charged with adultery,
who got a similar sentences; John
Ditkus, charged with grand larceny,
who paid fine of $50 and costs;
Nicholas Bellini, who had been ar
rested on a charge Of attempt to muir
der, after shooting an Italian at the
village of Sohers, who pleaded gull
ty to a charge of assault and bat
terry and paid q. fine Of 500 and
costs; John r. Fletcher, charged with
obtaining money under false pre-
lenses, who paid a total of $500 in
fines and costs
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
WILSON HURT IN
AUTO ACCIDENT
New Jersey Executive Sustalns
Three-Inch Scalp Wound.
HURLED AGAINST STEEL RIB
Governor Not Seriously Hurt-De-
c!ares Chauffeur Did Not See
Mound in Road-Won't Wear
Skull Cap.

Princeton. n. j., Nov. Ex-Governor
Wilson sustained three-inch scalp
wound Sunday when the automo-
bile in which he was riding from
Red Bank to Princeton struck
mound in the road at Hightstown and
hurled him against one Of the steel
ribs supporting the roof Of the car.
The wound began to bleed profuse-
ly, and the governor was hurried to
the residence of DR.. C. G. Titus, few
blocks from where the accident &C.
Cured. 1t took DR.. Titus two
hours to dress the wound, but this
was because he became excited when
he learned the identity of his distin-
guished patient
The governor called his own fam
lily physician, DR.. J. w. Carnochan
was redressed.
Capt William J Mcdonald, the gov
ernor's bodyguard, was his only COM
panion at the time of the accident
The captain was severely bruised in
several places and some of his old
Carnochan gave the captain a
thorough examination and found that
he had suffered no serious injury
Captain "BilI' was quite Indifferent
about possible injury to himself.
Il don't care so long as the gov
ernor escaped he said
To group of newspaper men the
governor, in speaking of the accident,
said
THE wound doesn't even give me a
headache. l am conscious only of a
little burning sensation. | think we
must have been making an average
speed of about Is miles an hour
when we reached Hightstown when a
red light appeared in the road ahead
Of us. The light was to the left of
the road and there was post to the
right which cast a shadow over the
road. The chauffeur did not know
that this shadow concealed a mound
caused by the filling in Of an excava-
ton, evidently for a sewer, that had
been made across the road We struck
this mound at right angles and I
moment. 1t was very hard blow;
there is no doubt about that But
fortunately l am hard headed. l had
my hat on and that acted as a cushion
but not as a defense. | felt the top
of my head with my hand and was
astonished to find that it was bleed
ing profusely. Some of the blood got
on my oVercOat.
The accident was really not the
chauffeur's fault. There was shadow
across the road and he could not see
the mound The chauffeur was not in
jured. He was held down by the
steering wheel and consequently did
not hit the roof.
DR.. Titus suggested that 1 wear a
skull cap to conceal the wound, but
skull caps are too suggestive of old
age to suit me-
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
ANTI-TOBACCO CRUSADE ON
Wisconsin Educators Begin Warfare
Against Use of Weed by Pupils
in the Public Schools.

MadisOn,-An anti-tobaccO crusade
Ia the high schools of Wisconsin is
being conducted by principals with
the backing of the state superintend-
ent's office and editors of educational
Journals
Out of 1853 Wisconsin principals
who reported to former Senator H.
z. Bird, only four said there was no
smoking in their schools, while in
some schools the percentage of
smokers among the boys ranged as
high as rs per cent. The average
was about 80 per cent There is a
law on children using tobacco, i'm
posing a fine of $40 or thirty days
imprisonment for any person under
l6 smoking tobacco in any form in
public places except when accompa-
MED by parent or guardian.
There is a movement to discour-
age smoking among university I'M
derclassmen. At the opening convo-
cation this fall, President Van Hise
urged in strong terms that freshmen
refrain from smoking 1t is said the
practice among them is not as prev
alent as usual.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
MUST GIVE WATER SUPPLY
Service Company Cannot Hold One
Tenant for the Debt of Another,
Rules Rate Commission.

Green Bay.-The railroad commits
sion of Wisconsin has ruled that a
gas or water company cannot refuse
to serve tenant of building il
the company has been unable to col
lect money for water or gas by a
person who has vacated that partic-
ular building. The ruling was given
upon the request of Duquaine broth
ers, who recently leased a building
for a moving picture show and found
the water shut off by the Green Bay
Water company The new tenants
refused to pay the old bill and the
company refused to furnish water.
The commission was appealed to with
the result that the water company
was ordered to supply water to Du-
quaine brothers at once.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
DEATH HELD NO TERRORS
Is No Hereafter, According to
Statement He Left.

Oshkosh.-Dr. c. w. Oviatt, a
prominent surgeon who died here,
left an unusual statement before he
passed away and as result there
will be no ceremony of any kind at
tending his burial. His remains will
be cremated in Forest Hill cemetery,
Milwaukee.
In explanation the following ex-
cerpt from the surgeons letter is
made public:
'Inasmuch as | have never been
able to believe in the tenets OF the So
called Christian religion or in the
dogma of a divine providence or a
future life in any individual form,
an expression of pain OF remarks re-
ferring to the life beyond will be en-
tirely out of place. To my believing
friends who think it must be fear
full thing to die without belief in
future life, l would say that death
has never had the slightest terror for
me since | became of age to reason
for myself
ITO quote from Diapers History
of the Conflict Between Reason and
Science why should we repine at
death where everything is dying? As
the tired man looks to the tranquil
ity of sleep, so the philosopher looks
forward to the tranquility of extinc-
ton !"
DR.. Oviatt was So years old and
had been practicing in Oshkosh Tor
the last twenty-six years.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
CONWAY CONFESSES THAT
He KILLED MISS SINGER
Tense - Exonerates Actress
Wife of Completely.

Chicago, Nov. 4.-The last vestige
of doubt as to who murdered Sophia
G. Singer a week ago tonight was
swept away when Charles Newton
Conway confessed it was he who com
mitted the crime.
1t was twenty-four hours almost to
the minute after his wife had brand
ed him as the girls slayer that the
wooden-footed clown" admitted his
guilt
Conway corroborated the story his
wife had told in every essential point.
In this respect his story was a sur
prise to the police. They believed
the queen of burlesque' also had
played a part in the killing. The
clown, however, took especial pains
to eXonerate his wife.
"She had nothing to do with it." he
insisted. and he repeated this just as
earnestly after he had learned his
wife had accused him.
The gist of Conway's story was to
the following effect:
Sophia came to the rooms where
wife to go out with her with two men.
She wanted her to do something that
was immoral That made me angry
and we got into a quarrel. While we
were squabbling my wife left the
room. When she had gone Sophia
sprang up in rage and attacked me
with the handkerchief containing the
doorknob.
Il snatched it out of her hand AS
I did so she seized a razor that was
upon my dresser Then l struck her
with the weapon I had taken away
from her. Afterward I gagged her
and tied her up. l didn't think she
was dead | had not meant to kill her
But | did not want her to give an
alarm. Ny wife did not think Sophia
was dead After we had tied her
told my wife we would have to get
away. We went out the back way,
fed through an alley, and got street
car. We went to Hammond and
thence over tortuous course to Lima,
o., where we were arrested"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
IN THESE DAYS OF DIVORCES
Really Nothing Remarkable In tho
Simple and Frank Explanation of
the Small Boy.

We were walking down the street
Sunday and we saw the most beauti-
ful child sitting on the front steps
OF pretty house, says Ted Robinson
His eyes were so big and blue, his
curly head so golden, his innocent
smile so frank and inviting that we
could not resist the temptation to en-
ter into conversation with him.
wv ell, son." we said in the idiotic-
ally genial way with which an adult
usually addresses d child, how old
are you?"
Four lisped the infant. Gle didn't
really lisp it, because you can't lisp
when you say four; but that's the way
children are supposed to do.)
Isn't that fine!" ct would have
been just as fine if he'd been three.
though, or five. More idiocy.> And
whose little boy are your"
Mammals lii boy"
Aren't you papa's little boy, too?"
Nope"
why aren't you papa's little boy?"
The decree gimme to mamma"
Then we went on our pleasant way.
Savannah Morning News.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
F EW WOMEN TAKING COURSE
Four Are Enrolled in Agricultural
Class at State Unversity-Course
Presents Many Difficulties.

MadisOn.-Four women students.
three in the long course and one a
special student are enrolled in the
agricultural course of the university.
Two of these, Julia f. Avery, Phila-
delphia, and Ellen l. Cavanagh, Fond
du Lac, are sophomores; a third. Mi
ma Willis, Rewey, is a junior, and the
fourth, Mrs. r. F. Avery, mother of
Julia Avery, enters this year as an
adult special
The agricultural course presents
many difficulties for women and if is
no wonder that so few follow the
work. Prof. d. H Otis, assistant to
dean of college Of agriculture, said:
at is not at all surprising that so
few of the women students take ag-
iiculture. The work is unadaptable
to women and the few who do take
it are exceptions. I do not know why
these women are taking the course
but | suppose it is mainly to under
stand the management of a farm
nlong scientific lines
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
SIX NUNS PERISH IN FIRE.
Flames Destroy orphanage at San An


San Antonio, Tex, Nov. Flight
persons, six of them nuns and two
children, lost their lives in FIRE
which destroyed st. Johns Orphan
asylum here on Wednesday. Another
sister is dying. There were 81 chill
d1en in the orphanage.
One baby fell to its death with
Mary of the Cross, mother superior Of
the institute, who had left a place of
SAFETY in a yain effort to save the
child
The death of tine mother superior
was the sequel to a demonstration Of
remarka BILE courage. She returned to
the burning dormitory when she
heard the cry of child who had been
overlooked In the hurry and excite.
ment. A few moments later she ap-
peared at window in the front of the
building with the child In her arms.
Fire Chief Wright attempted to
save her, but failed. A ladder was
placed against the unsteady wall and
the chief scaled it, but before he
reached her the mother superior.
with the child, fell back into the
flames.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
CHIEF EVENTS IN THE BAL
KAN WAR.

Oct. g. Montenegro declares
war against Turkey.
Oct. 12- Monteneerins invest
Tarabosch.
Oct. ID - Mcnteneerins take
Tushi.
Oct. 15-Turco-ltalian war ends.
Oct. 17-SerVla and Greece de-
clare war against Turkey;
Turkey declares war against
Servia and Bulgaria.
Oct. 19- Bulgarians Capture
Mustapha Pasha.
Oct. 2O-BuIearians attack Nd
rianopIe.
Oct. 21-Turkish squadron bom-
bards Bulgarian ports.
Oct. 22-Servians take Pristina.
Oct. 23-Servians take Novi-
pazar.
Oct. "a - BuIgarians capture
kirk-kilisseh; Greeks capture
town of Servia.
Oct. 25-Servians take Humane
va and other Turkish cities.
Oct. 26-Servians capture, U.s.
kup; Montenegrins invest
Scutari.
Oct. 27-BuIsarians capture Es-
ki-Baba, near AdrianopIe.
Oct. 30 BuIgarians capture
Luie Burgas.
Nov. 1-BuIgarians occupy De-
motica, cutting communication
between Adrianople and Con-
stantinople; Greek torpedo
sinks Turkish cruiser.
Nov. 2-Turks driven back in
three days battle to Tchorlu.
Nov. 3-Turks in full retreat
on Constantinople. Porte asks
for mediation by the powers.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
|STATE EDUCATORS
HOLD CONVENTION
Wisconsin Teachers Associa-
tion in Sixtieth Meeting.
NOTED SPEAKERS ENGAGED
All Phases and Improvements in
School Work Discussed in Milwau-
kee on Nov. 6, and 8-Banquets

Milwaukee.-All phases and i'm
provements in school work will be
discussed at the sixtieth annual con-
yention of the Wisconsin Teachers
association, which will be held at the
Auditorium on Nov. Z, and g..
Among the speakers will be the best
known educators of the city and
state and also authorities from other
parts of the country. 1t is expected
that between 5000 and 5000 edu-
Gators will be present. Excursions to
points Of interest in the city have
been arranged
In addition to the general sessions
there will be special conferences at
which attention will be given to de-
tails of various subjects. Among
the committees which will meet and
submit reports are those on colleges
and high schools, state normal
schools and city grades, training and
rural schools, home economics, board
Of education, history, biology and
physiology, physics and chemistry,
commerce, English, Latin, mathemat-
les, primary schools, kindergartens,
school arts, drawing, manual train
ing, agriculture, moral education, mi
sic, physical education and general
education.
In connection with the regular
meetings there will be banquets and
| reunions of normal school and col
| lege graduates. These will be as fol-
| lows: University Of Wisconsin
| Teachers association alumni ban
! quet, Beloit college, Lawrence col
lege, Carroll college, Milwaukee nor
NAL, Oshkosh normal, Platteville
| normal, Stevens Point normal, White
| water normal, and Social Union of
Women Teachers banquets.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
BECKER TO DIE WEEK OF DEG. 3.
Convicted Police Official is Sent to
Sing Sing to Await Death.

SonVlCIcO POiiCe OHlCldi is oent 10
Sing Sing to Await Death.
Ossining, n. Y, Nov. 1.-Former
Police Lieutenant Charles Becker is
in the lighthouse" at Sing Sing pris-
on under sentence to die in the cleo
trio chair during the week of Decem-
Der 8, the convicted murderer Of the
gambler, Herman Rosenthal
He was brought here from New
York Immediately after sentence was
pronounced upon him by Justice Con
on Wednesday.
Becker's execution will be stayed,
however, by the filing Of notice OF
appeal. His last words before the
gates of the prison were shut behind
him were:
/ come here an innocent man. /
never had a chance. | was railroaded.
But the fight has only begun. | expect
a reversal of the verdict and new
trial"
Becker, manacled to a deputy sher-
if, arrived at the prison after a 70
minute walk through the streets OF
the village surrounded by several hun
dred curious persons.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
"PROUD AND GLAD"
Because Mother Looked So Well
After Quitting Coffee.

An Ohio woman was almost dis
tracted with coffee dyspepsia and
heart trouble.
Like thousands of others, the drug
--cdfeine-in coffee was slowly but
steadily undermining her nervous
system and interfering with natural
digestion Of food. (Tea is just as in
furious as coffee because it contains
caffeine, the poisonous drug found in
coffee.)
For 80 years." she writes, II have
used coffee. Have always been sick
ly-had heart trouble and dyspepsia
with ulcers in stomach and mouth SO
bad, sometimes, l was almost dis
tracted and could hardly eat a thing
for a week.
II could not sleep for nervousness,
and when l would lie down at night
I'd belch up coffee and my heart
would trouble me. 1t was like poison
to me. | was thin-only weighed 125
lbs, when I quit coffee and began to
use Postum.
From the first day that belching
| could sleep as soundly as anyone
and, after the first month, whenever
I met any friends they would ask me
what was making me SO fleshy and
looking SO we'll.
Sometimes, before / could answer
quick enough, one OF the children or
my husband would say, Why, that is
what Postum is doing for her'-they
were all SO proud and glad.
when l recommend it to anyone
always tell them to follow direc-
tons in making Postum, as it is not
good to taste if weak, but fine when
it has the flavor and rich brown
color" Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book, ''The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. There's rea-
SON.
Ever read the above letter: A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine. true, and full of human
interest. Adv.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
CAR SHORTAGE a MENACE.
Commerce Body Wants Carriers and
Shippers Against Delay.

Commerce Body Wants Carriers and
Shippers Against Delay.
Washington Nov. 5.-"Nothing less
than theft" is what the interstate
commerce commission in a warning is
sued to rail carriers and shippers.
calls the practice some railroads have
Of failing to return promptly the cars
they borrow from connecting lines
The commission believes the existing
car shortage is a menace to our COM
merce and industry and declares that
unless the situation is relieved with
out delay the country may experience
a repetition of the distress of 1906-'07,
when inability to get coal forced many
industries to stop work.
The commission makes these recon-
mendations: That higher per diem
be made to apply for the use of cars
as between the carriers; that an in
spection be at once instituted which
shall report thefts of cars, and, finally,
that freight trains be speeded up
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
Situations Vacant,

The rich bachelor sighed and look
ed fixedly at the beautiful girl
Things with me-" he said, "are at
SKIES and sevens. / feel the great
need of a woman in my home-one
who would straighten out my tangled
affairs and make life worth living
once again.
Her soft glance spoke her excite
merit and expectation.
"Yes?" she queried gently.
do you know" he continued, "of
any good able-bodied woman whom 1
could get TO clean the house?"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
Fable for Borrowers,

An Arab went to his neighbor and
said Lend me your rope"
'Tcan't," said the neighbor.
why can't your"
Because / want to use the rope
myself"
For what purpose?" the other per-
sisted.
Il want to tie up five cubic feet OF
water with it,
How on earth" sneered the would
be borrower, "can you tie up water
with a roper"
my friend" said the neighbor, "Al-
lab is great and he permits us to do
strange things with rope when we
don't want to lend it."-Boston Eve
ming Transcript.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
WANTS COLONEL TO FORGIVE.
Roosevelt's AssaiIant Expects to Es
cape With Light Sentence.

Roosevelt's Assailant Expects to Es-
cape With Light Sentence.
Milwaukee, Nov. 4.-Entertaining
the impression that Theodore Roose-
welt does not bear any malice in his
heart toward him and adopts the same
attitude of forgiveness as held by
presidents who have been assassinat-
ed, John Schrank, wouldbe slayer OF
the colonel, expects to escape with a
light sentence.
Schrank confided these expectations
to Bernard H. Gottschalk, who occu-
pies a cell near that Of the notorious
prisoner.
Theodore Roosevelt is only human
after ALL" Schrank said, according to
Gottschalk.
''He was shot and has recovered.
Now that it is all over. he has had
time for sober reflection and his bet
ter self surely has led to the conclu-
sion that | should be pitied and not
condemned. When Mckinley was
shot he showed forgiveness
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
Engineer Fatally Hurt.

Superior. under his loco
motive, which was overturned in a
collision with a switch engine in the
Superior yards, e. w. Mcfarland of
Minneapolis, engineer on an inbound
500 train from Brooten, was fatally
injured. His fireman and the crew
of the other, engine escaped with
slight injuries by jumping.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
ENTIRE TRAIN JUMPS TRACK,
No One Seriously Hurt When Car.

No One Seriously Hurt When Cars
Tumble Down Embankment.
Fort Worth, Tex, Nov A wreck,
the most unique in railroad history Of
the southwest, occurred at Bonita,
north of here. when an entire Mis-
souri,. Kansas & Texas train jumped
the track and rolled over into q ditch.
Three passenger cars, the smoker and
express car were left on their sides.
while the engine, torn loose, remained
ON top of the embankment- Although
every car was damaged and the
smoker and express cars wrecked,
there were no deaths or serious in
iuries
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
Are Wedded Sixty Years.

Beaver Dam.-Mr and Mrs. Sebas-
tan Hammer celebrated the sixtieth
anniversary of their wedding here re-
Gently. All of their nine children
were present at the celebration The
couple has resided in this vicinity
since 1852
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
Stop Dairy Show Bull Fight.

Milwaukee.-W the manage
ment of the international Dairy show
scheduled bull fight" as an attrac-
ton it reckoned without the Wiscon-
sin Humane society. A representa-
tive of that society was on hand at
the appointed hour and prevented the
act being put on.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-08
Fond Memories.

'Baggs is such an ugly man, Miss
Prettylace, that I cannot understand
why he seems to interest you So"
"Of course, you can't, but with his
logged expression and his pug nose.
he reminds me SO much OF my pet
terrier