Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-05
The battleship Kentucky arrived at


creasing. The Fifteenth United States
infantry started from Tientsin for
Manila.
Official reports show that the num-
Der Of saloons in Manila has decreased
80 per cent. under American rule.
Lord Roberts reports that 400 Brit
ish troops with two guns surrendered
to the Beers at Dewetsdorp, south
west of Bloemfontein.
1t is asserted in foreign political cir
cles that Kruger has reason to believe
Emperor William Of Germany is ready
to join other powers in insisting on
arbitration.
The United States cruiser Yosemite
was lost in a typhoon which swept
Guam island in the Philippines and
five seamen persisted. The island was
devastated, two towns wiped out and
hundreds of natives killed.
LATER.
Lord Roberts has handed over the
command of the British troops in
South Africa to Lord Kitchener. Lon
don papers urge the government to
try to arrange terms Of peace with
Boer generals.
The official vote of California gives
Mckinley a plurality of 14,254
The Abbot, champion trotter of the
world, with a record of 2:03A, was
sold in New York for $4,000.
Mrs. Emma Van LEV, wife of q
banker in Toledo, O., pleaded guilty
to numbering Miss Alice Hammeu and
was given ten years in prison.
Oscar Wilde, once known as the
opposite of estheticism," died in Paris
from an abscess in the ear.
Four men were drowned at Spokane,
Wash, by the capsizing of a ferry
boat in the river.
The gold in the United States treas
ury amounts to $4l4, 10S,336, breaking
all records.
Chief of Police John w. Campbell, of
ST. Louis, Mo-, has accepted the post Of
chief of police of Manila.
President Kruger paid farewell calls
in Paris and left for Berlin, Germany.
Secretary Long has ordered supplies
ing as result of the typhoon.
Upton Moore, Kelley Heaton and
Charles Mohr were killed by boiler
explosion near Bellefontaine, O.
James Coleman, engineer, and d. c..
Cook, mechanic, were killed by an eX-
plosion in Davenport, Ia.
4 fat stock show opened in Chicago
with $4,000, 900 worth of animals on
view.
pointed to lead the crusade against vice
in New York.
A sneak thief stole $1,000 from the
office of J. n. Poe in Toledo, O.
Louis Gilmore, captain Of football
team at Lowell, Mass, died of injuries
received in a game.
Twenty thousand persons viewed the
body of Senator Davis, lying in state at
ST. Paul.
The report of the Isthmian canal
commission favors waterway not
less than 35 feet deep and $50 feet
wide at the narrowest point.
Five highwaymen held up crowded
car in Chicago, beat the conductor and
robbed Edward Wright, a passenger,
of $317.
American missionaries in China write
the state department insisting upon
the burning of cities and the killing of
the emperor, empress dowager and
high court officials.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st shows that the debt decreased
1922 AS during the month of Novem-
Der. The cash balance in the treasury
was $2S9.176,791 The total debt, less
$1,1O1, 174.S75.
Nebraska populists are planning a
wholesale emigra tion to Indian terri
tory.
The government receipts during No
vember were $4S,344,514 and the ex-
penditures Sal ,66O, leaving a sur
plus of $7,o65,854.
Lightning struck powder magazine
near Marking and 300 Chinese were
killed.
During November the total coinage
at the minis of the United States was
SIG, 545, 12G, as follows: Gold. 1885,
900; silver, $3,13o,OOO; minor coins,
$230,12O.
The twenty-seventh annual conven-
ton of the Woman's Christian Tenn.
perance union opened in Washington
Twenty-Five hundred bolomen en-
tered Vigan, island of Luzon, and sur
rendered to Capt. Green, of the Thirty
third infantry.
The product of the Cripple Creek
(Col.) gold camp for 1900 will be $685..
75S,3G0, an increase of $4,O15, 100 over
1899.
Joseph W. McClurg, the last republic
an governor of Missouri and congress
man for three terms, died in Lebanon
aged 80 years.
President Diaz took the oath as presi.
dent of Mexico for the sixth time.
President Kruger was informed that
the German emperor would be unable
to receive him, and he will proceed
from Cologne to The Hague.
At the close of business Nov. 80 the
total circulation of national bank