Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-05

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listers at Peking. Meanwhile. he will
withhold his signature until the presi-
dent has had an opportunity to satisfy
himself as to this important document
and to make such changes as will brin G
it in accord with our policy.
Nome, Alaska, is now completely iso-
lated from the outer world by a bar
rier of ice, and will remain so seven
months.
Horace Vose, Rhode Islander, pre-
sented President Mckinley with a
Thanksgiving turkey weighing 80
pounds.
Charles Nearang, a drunken brick
maker in Milwaukee, shot and fatally
injured his wife and then killed him
self.
The funeral of the late George W.
Wilson, commissioner of internal rev.
enue, was held in Washington, and the
remains were taken. to Hamilton, O.,
for burial.
Andrew and Bridget Mckinley, a
| married couple aged about 60 years,
were burned to death in their home in
Newtown township. Pa.
The Farmers bank of Emden, Ill,
was blown open and robbed of 1900 by
four masked men, who also killed Po-
liceman Sanford
While fishing with dynamite in
johnson county, Tenn, Marion Sny-
der lost his arms and both eyes by
an explosion.
Forty-fve bodies of storm victims
were found in and around Galveston
Tex, and buried.
Secretary Wilson's report gives an
encouraging account of the work OF
the department of agriculture.
Secretary Roots army reorganiza-
ton bill provides for a minimum
strength of 5S,924 and a maximum of
90, 766.
w. H. Inter, of Cedar Rapids, was
murdered and his wife fatally shot by
a robber in Burlin gton, Ia.
Thirteen persons were killed, Is
fatally injured and several others less
seriously hurt by the caving in of a
roof over white-hot glass furnaces in
San Francisco.
Evangelist Sam Small was placed in
Jail at Havana, Cuba, on charge of
swindling.
Thanksgiving day was celebrated
throughout the country. The presi-
dent attended church and sat down
to his dinner at seven o'clock in the
evening.
Gov. Stickney signed a bill passed
by the Vermont Legislature prohibit
ing the sale of cigarettes to minors
in the state.
Preston Todd. aged %, was killed
during football game in Chicago,
making the fourth victim during the
past season.
The official canvass Of the vote cast
at the last election in Iowa on the
proposition to hold a constitutional
convention shows it was defeated by
555 votes.
Illinois has As cities with popu1a-
tions between 5000 and $4,000 and 95
| between 1000 and 5000.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
Mrs. Catherine Casper Skinner cele-
brated her one hundredth birthday in
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Henry W. Bigler, who made the rec
ord of the great California gold discov-
| aged 76 years.
The official canvass of the vote cast
| in the various states at the election
November 6 gives Mckinley a popular
plurality of 877.71s. against 574,224 in
1896.
Gen. G. S. Smith, surveyor general
of Nebraska under President Hayes,
died at San Jose. Cal.
George W. Wilson, commissioner Of
| internal revenue, died at Washington
of Bright's disease. aged 81.
John T. Morgan (dem.) has been re-
elected United States Senator from
Ala bama.
Robert E. A. Dorr, publisher of the
Mail and Express, died at his home in
New York.
Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis, OF
| Minnesota, chairman of the commit
| tee on foreign relations, died at his
| home in ST. Paul after an illness of
two months, aged 81 years.
| In Newark, n. j., Caleb Baldwin
| celebrated the one hundred and first
anniversary of his birth.
David Whitney, Jr., millionaire lum-
herman and vessel owner, died at De-
troit, Mich, aged 70 years.
| Rear Admiral Frederick V. McNair,
ranking next in line to Admiral
Dewey, died Of apoplexy at Washing
ton, aged SO years.
FOREIGN.
The United States transport Sher-
man arrived in Manila with troops.
The Belgian government has forbid
den President Kruger's train making
any long stops in that country.
A French gunboat forced Chinese to
pay indemnity for missions destroyed
at Swallow.
Lord Roberts reports the frustra-
ton of a plot to kill him by means of
an explosion.
The Third infantry was ambushed
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