Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-05
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
st Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

The circuit Judges broke all rec
ords in ST. Louis by granting so di-
vorces in one day.
Secretary of the Navy Long in his
annual report urges that the office
of vice admiral be revived, says that
5000 men are necessary to man the
vessels now under construction, and
recommends that congress be asked
for two battleships, two armored
cruisers and six light-draught gun
boats.
George G. Moler & Son, the largest
dry goods and department store firm
in Columbus, o. failed for $4,000.
The visible supply of grain in the
UnitedS States on the 26th was: Wheat,
62, 222 900 bushels; corn, 1908, 900 bush
els; oats, 100000 bushels; rye. 1885,
600 bushels; barley, 3,559,0C0 bushels.
DR.. H A. Hamilton, a prominen t
physician at Marysville, Ia, was shot
dead by an assassin.
Corn sold for so cents per bushel on
the Chicago board of trade.
A mysterious package found burn
ing in a Chicago mail bag was thought
to be a new French Internal ma
chine
President McKinley's cabinet is said
to be opposed to the preliminary terms
fixed by the ENJOYS at Picking. Ii Hung
Chang was reported seriously i'll.
In admitting Dowie's lacemakers Sec
rotary Gage declared their calling to be
new industry in the United States.
Five Boer refugees arrived in New
York.
Fire wiped out the cement plant of
William Krause & Sons at Martins
Creek, Pa, the loss being 100000.
Frank Werner and Louis Rohr were
killed at Akron, O., by a broken tele-
phone wire charged with electricity.
Storms did great damage in Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York and
along the New England coast.
Edward Holden, convicted in Tiffin,
O., of having nine living wives, was
sent to the penitentiary for bigamy.
The corner stone of the new state
capital at Little Rock, Ark, was laid
under the auspices of the masonic
fraternity.
A severe cyclonic storm did much
damage in the Hawaiian islands.
Mrs. Samuel Stevenson. sister of
monia and was buried at sea. She re-
fused medical attention.
Mrs. Mary E. Lease will begin pro-
ceedings for divorce from Charles
Lease, of Wichita. Kan.
Secretary Root returned to Wash
ington from Cuba.
Leading citizens of New York ap-
pointed a committee to investigate
vice and bring the police to book.
The Union Pacific railway will pay
$1,000 reward for train robbers, dead
or alive, and has placed armed guards
on trains.
Miss Helen Gould has sent Sc, 1000
worth Of Christmas presents to New
York soldiers in the Philippines.
The Indiana supreme court says the
law prohibiting the piping of natural
gas outside of the state is unconsti-
tutional
The Georgia legislature defeated a
bill prohibiting child labor in mills.
The Pennsylvania railroad will re-
tire over 400 employees on pensions
January 1.
Spencer Williams, a desperate negro
gambler, was shot to pieces near Lake
City, Fla, by a mob.
A flyer on the Cleveland & Pitts
burgh railroad ran into the river at
Beaver, Pa, and Engineer Coucheour,
Fireman Allen and Express Messenger
Casey were killed
The census gives Nebraska a popu-
lation of LOGS, 534, increase 9.629; Tex
as 3,O4S,7 no, increase S13,1S7; Oregon
413,536, increase 99,769; North Caro-
lima 1,S93.S10, increase 275,S63; Utah
276,749, increase 63,942; Montana 242,-
329, increase SO, 900.
The census gives North Dakota pop
ulation of 319.146, increase 1856, 427;
South Dakota 401, $40. increase 72. 762 !;
Washington SIS, JOB, increase 16S.713;
Oklahoma 39S. 245, increase 336, Al );
New Mexico 1920. increase 41.717.
The celebrated November corn cor
ner engineered by George Ell. Phillips
came to All end in Chicago. Phillips
cleared about 100000.