Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-11-07
A WEEKS RECORD
ALL the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Gen. E. S. Otis has been assigned to
command the department of the lakes
and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee to the depart
ment of the Missouri.
President Mckinley in a proclama-
ton announces November % as
Thanksgiving day.
Cornelius j. Alvord. Jr., the en-
bezzling note teller Of the First ma
tional bank, New York, was arrested
in Boston.
A terrific explosion of chemicals, re-
sulting from a fire in the drug house
of Tarrant & Co., at the corner of
Greenwich and Warren streets, New
York, resulted in the loss of possibly
35 lives, injury to over a hundred per-
sons, and caused a property loss of
$1,5OO,O00.
The visible supply Of grain in the
United States on the goth was: Wheat,
59,773,000 bushels; corn, S,144, 600 BUSH
els: oats, 1856, 600 bushels; rye, 1885,
600 bushels; barley, 100000 bushels.
In wreck on the Northern Pacific
road at De Hart, Mont, seven passen-
gers We're killed and several injured.
The military department of Cuba
has been established, with Gen. Leon
ard Wood as commander.
Farm buildings were wrecked by
a cyclone at Gypsum, Kan, and John
S. Moor was killed and other persons
injured.
Rosslyn Terrell was convicted at
Marysville, O., of numbering Express
Messenger Lane on August 10 last.
Four desperadoes murdered Harry C.
Hosler. paymaster of a Pennsylvania
coke company, at Connellsville. Three
of the former were killed and the
fourth is in jail.
The census bureau announces the to-
tai population Of the United States at
1926 ,22O, a gain of 1925, 464 in ten
years.
Five bodies were recovered from the
ruins caused by explosion and fire in
New York
The annual report of Adjt Gen. Cor
bin shows the army consists of 1855
officers and 1881 men, volunteers
bringing the total up to 9S,790.
Two persons were killed in a collision
on the Chicago & Alton road near
Mitchell, IL.
Three men were killed in a gas explo-
sion in a coal mine near Wilkesbarre,
Pa.
Finley B. Anderson confessed that
he testified falsely against Caleb Pow
ers in the Goebel case at Georgetown,
Ky, through the influence Of Col.
Campbell, Arthur Goebel and Whar-
ton Golden.
The Mountain house, a famous hotel
at Blanford, Mass, was burned to the
ground.
An 1s-year-old negro youth named
Alternately who attempted criminal
assault on a 14-vear-old white girl at
Duke, Ala, was hanged by a mob.
The southern cotton crop for 1900 is
placed at 9.79O,OOO bales.
Chicago bank clearings for October
Were $6O7, 63l ,OS7, the largest for any
month but one on record.
Twcnty-six persons are unaccounted
for in the Tarrant fire and explosion
in New York.
George J. Frey was robbed of $500
while waiting to make a deposit in
the First national bank in Chicago.
Registration shows about 5000
voters in Porto Rico.
The United States fish commission
steamer Albatross returned to San
Francisco from a IA mouths cruise.
Most of the time she has been in
the Pacific.
The business portion of Shelby, Neb.,
was almost entirely wiped out by a
fire started by burglars.
The public debt statement issued on
the, 1st shows that the debt decreased
$1,754351 during the month of Octo-
ber The cash balance III the treasury
was S2S7. Oo5, 032. The total debt, less
the cash in the treasury, amounts to
$1,104 400. 800.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the goth aggre-
gated $1,739, AL, 158, against $685.
4S3, 162 the previous week. The de-
crease compared with the correspond
ing week of 1899 was 2S.
Miss Mai Lection sued United States
Senator Sullivan, of Mississippi, for
$4,000 for alleged breach of promise.