Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-11-21
A WEEKS RECORD
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
Naws of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Fire destroyed the Clifford house, the
leading hotel at Poplar Bluff, Mo-, and
four persons were burned to death
and many others were injured.
The navy will ask for $S7, 172, 631 for
the fiscal year ending in 1902.
A gas explosion in a Baltimore
(Md.) subway partly wrecked IA
buildings.
Judge Brown, of the federal court
in New York. in a case concerning pi-
1otage decided that Porto Rico is not
foreign country.
Secretary of War Root has abol-
ished the military department of Porto
Rico and ordered part of the troops
home December IS.
A general increase in wages has
been granted engineers and fremen OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul
system.
Thomas A Edison has devised a
way to save nearly all the present
waste of energy in converting coal
into power.
Yale has offered free scholarships to
five Filipino youths.
Seven thousand Indiana coal miners
went out on strike because opera
tors refused to sign the scale.
Two MeXicans were arrested in New
York having in their possession the
famous Macmillan crown diamonds,
worth $4,000, and other jewels, which
they struggled into the country.
Fire destroyed the Bookings lum-
Der mill at San Bernardino, Cal, the
loss being 100000.
Grant Bros, New York brokers, made
an assignment. The defalcation of $780,
600 by an employe caused the failure.
In a quarrel at Bonita, La, P. S.
Bachelor killed ]. A. Williams and
F. F. Welbourn, his partners in bust
ness.
account of the hosting engineers
strike
Lieut.. Col. Russell B. Harrison, son
of the ex-president, has been honor
ably discharged from the army.
Jerome W. Hoot was convicted at
Waterloo, Ia. of attempting to kill his
wife by sending her an Internal ma
chine.
The national convention of the Won
ans Christian Temperance union meets
in Washington on November so.
The annual report of the life saving
service shows 2,607 persons were saved
and As lost or, wrecked vessels the past
year.
The corner stone of the new state
normal school building was laid in
Cedar Falls, Ia.
Dowie's colony of IS lacemakers
bound for Chicago, were barred from
landing at Philadelphia by the immi
grafton commissioner.
President Mckinley formally asked
his cabinet to remain with him during
ahis second term.
bill to disfranchise the negro was
introduced in the lower house of the
Georgia Legislature.
Ten persons were injured in a col
Hsion between trains near Kalamazoo
Mich
At the dead letter office in Washing
ton the past year 1886, 16S pieces OF
AldIIcI were received, against 5000,
9s3 the preceding year.
Gov. Beckham of Kentucky has beer
warned that threats have been made tc
get rid Of him.
Radical revision of the Episcopaliar
creed is proposed to prohibit the mar
riage Of divorced persons.
James Jeffries and Tom Sharkey are
matched to fight next May
Virginia college, a girls school near
Roanoke, Va. was destroyed by fire.
The thirtyfourth annual session OF
the National Grange, Patrons of Hus.
bandry, began in Washington.
The cabinet decided to recommend
that the war tax be so amended as tc
cut government revenues SIS, OOC 900 a
year.
The census count gives Ohio popu-
lation of 4,137.543, a gain of 4S5,229;
Georgia, 2.216,331, an increase of 27s,-
S79.
The balance of trade in favor of the
United States for the past ten months
was $499, 667,936 or S129, 1855 greater
than in the same months of 1899.
The census gives tie population Of
Alaska at 1862.