Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-19
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Discussion of the -Pauncefote
treaty occupied the time of the Unit
ed States senate on the 18th. The
house resolution providing for holi-
day recess from Friday, December Fl,
to Thursday, January 8, 1901, was
adopted In the house it was voted
to tax beer $1.60 per barrel. Mr.. Hop
kins Qll) presented plan for rep
resentation in congress which leaves
the number of members unchanged
The United States senate on the 18th
occupied the time in discussing the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty. In the house
the war revenue reduction and the pen
sion appropriation bills were passed.
Delegate Wilcox, of Hawaii was sworn
in. The committee on census decided
to retain the membership of the house
at 357, which is the present number.
Capt. Jonathan Norton, of Lee,
Mass, died at the age of 1O5 years.
The state normal and training
school at Fredonia, n Y, was burned
at loss of $500, 900 and six girl stu
dents and one man persisted in the
| flames.
Paddy" Ryan, ex-champion heavy
weight pugilist, died in Green Is
land, N. Y.
British arms in the Transvaal suf-
fered severe blow in the defeat of
Gen. Clements forces by the Beers
under Deiarey.
According to credible Chinese
sources Emperor Kwang Su will agree
to the demands of the powers.
Gen. Michael j. Bulger, a distin-
guished confederate general, died at
Dadeville, Ala, aged 100 years
John W. Hyden, a weIknown edu-
Gator, and John Mincey were killed
by train near Philadelphia, Tenn.
A fierce gale upset a number of
houses in San Francisco.
Eleven persons were injured in a
collision on the Fort Wayne road at
Edgewater, Pa.
Daniel c. Gilman has been elected
president of the National Civil Serv-
ice Reform league.
George A. Fuller, the original tor OF
the modern steel-frame skyscraper,
died of paralysis in New York.
The Taft commission has adopted a
license law at Manila limiting the
sale of liquor.
Castle Bel Oeil, built in 1856, was
destroyed by fire at Antwerp, Bel
GUM.
A baseball war has been Inaugural
ted between the National and Ameri-
can leagues.
Joplin, Mo-, was shaken by an
earthquake lasting almost minute.
Three of the Shanesville CO., bank
robbers were arrested on a train at
Bridgeport, O., after a desperate fight.
Speaking at Ann Arbor, Mich. ex-
President Harrison said the constitu-
ton extended to the Philippines and
Porto Rico in spite of treaties or con-
gressional legislation.
Great Britain demands modification
of the terms to be submitted to China
and thereby blocks negotiations.
Bud Rowland and Jim Henderson
(both colored) were lynched at Rock
port. Ind, for the murder of III. SimOns
a barber.
A severe earthquake shock at Santi-
ago de Cuba caused houses to tumble,
but no lives were lost.
The German frigate Gneisenau, a
training ship, was lost during a storm
| at Malaga, near Gibraltar, and over
100 lives were lost.
Oswald Ottendorfer. proprietor of
the Stats Zeitung. died at his home in
New York, aged "a years.
Mrs. w. III. Shields and Mrs. Mary
Davis. wife and niece of w. H. Shields,
lighthouse keeper on Squaw island, in
Lake Michigan. and Lincoln Mor0en
were drowned by the upsetting OF a
boat
The official report of the finances of
the Paris exposition shows loss of
| 100000 francs.
| AS result of mysterious case of
poisoning at Forsythe Mines, O., four
persons were dead and three were dy-
ing.
Samuel Gompers was reelected presi-
| dent of the American Federation of La
| Dor at the convention in Louisville KY
| Private Henderson, of the Twenty
ninth infantry shot and killed Corp.
Chase, mistaking him for a Filipino. in
Samar island.
John Addison Porter, former pri-
VaIe secretary to PRESIDENT Mckinley,
died at Pomfret, Conn.,, aged A years.
| Harry Elkes, of Glens Falls. N. Y,
and Floyd Mcfarland. of San Jose. CAL.
/ the American team, won the six-dav
international bicycle race by wheels
length in New York, covering 1928
miles,
One man was killed and 10 injured in
q collision on the pennsylvania railroad
at Kittanning Point, Pa
The Beers captured 100 British troops
in fight at Zastron and Gen. De Wet
made a successful dash on the lines
of communication in the Orange Free
State and captured and destroyed i'm
mense quantities of ammunition and
supplies.