Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-03-13
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| In executive session on tie Sth the
| United States senate confirmed the
supplemental treaty with Great Brit
ain. 1t adds to the list of crimes for
which a man can be eXtradited from
one country to another the follow
ing: Obtaining money under false
pretenses, the destruction or obstruc-
ton of railroads, the endangering of
human life and the procuring of abor
tons.
! The extra session of the United
States senate came to an end on the
9th after confirming all presidential
nominations.
Herman Weippert, aged SO years,
editor of the Danville Gill; Zeitung,
dropped head of heart trouble.
Mrs. Anna Porter Douglas cele-
brated her one hundredth birthday at
her home in Frankfort, Ind.
Kirby Graves, Bill Johnson and
Henry Brooks (colored) were hanged
at Richmond, Ark, for murder.
| Russia's declaration as to Manchuria
is not satisfactory to Great Britain
and America has been urged to join
in preventing the partition of China.
| The Montana legislature elected
Paris Gibson (dem.) United States SEN
ator.
Gen. Kitchener has granted Gen.
Botha seven days armistice, to ens
| able him to confer with the other gen.
erals.
President Mckinley issued an execu-
/ tive order removing export duty on
tobacco in Cuba, to take effect April 1.
The British steamer Avlona was
wrecked at the Bilbao breakwater and
the entire crew, % in number, per-
ished
The First national bank of Niles,
Mich was forced by run to close it's
DOORS
The superintendent of schools at
San Juan. Porto Rico, was besieged
by mob CT 1900, which handful of
American soldiers DISPERSED
The state department denies that
Denmark was threatened in connec-
ton with negotiations for her West
| Indian islands.
Presiding Elder Vaudeville forbid
Duke Parsons holiness exhorters to
hold a revival in Methodist church
in Chicago.
Rev. Mark Trafton, an eminent Meth
odist minister and formerly member
of congress from Massachusetts, died
in Boston, aged 9G years.
| Nathan Simpson, Stanley Gordon
and William Payne, negroes, were
hanged at Opelousas, La, for murder.
Delawares legislature adjourned
sine die without electing either sena-
tor, and the state is now without rep
resentation in the United States SEN
ate.
The Philippine commission has ap-
propriated $1.000,000 to be used in inn
proving Manila harbor.
Semioficial reports received in
Washington say that Cuba will ac-
cept the conditions for independence
made by congress.
| The treasury department is salts
fed that bubonic plague exists to an
alarming extent in San Francisco.
| Thomas Apologize, farmer at
Eatonville, n. j., who frequently beat
his wife in a terrible manner, was
killed by white caps.
| Charles A. Johnson, cashier of the
closed national bank at Niles, Mich,
| is reported insane in Chicago.
| In a tornado at Maxon's Mill, KY,
the Catholic, Cumberland Presbyte-
rian and Baptist churches were de-
stroyed.
| Fire at the University of Iowa in
Iowa City destroyed the college of
medicine and the literary building,
entailing a loss of $25O,OOO.
Burglars dug through brick wall
and stole $4,000 from bank at Ar
gonia, Kan.
Wind and rain swept over Chicago,
throwing down telegraph and tele-
phone lines and doing damage to the
| extent of $25O,OOO.
| The post office at West Toledo, O.,
was wrecked by robbers, who escaped
with $500.
Charles Rogers in a jealous quar-
rel shot and fatally injured his wife
and step-father-in-law, William E.
Baty, in Terre Haute, Ind.
Charles White, Charles Young and
R. Jameson were killed and 76 head
of horses burned in the destruction
of Morton's livery stable in San Fran
cisco.
| The general offices in New York of
the New Haven & Hartford railroad
were damaged $25O,00O by fire
Four persons were killed and many
injured in the vicinity of Forrest
City, Ark, by a tornado, and many
buildings were wrecked
| Fourteen buildings were wrecked
| by a tornado at Wills Point, Tex,
and eight persons were killed.
Gen. De Wet is said to have reached
his own country by forced marches,
and the British admit his capture is
almost impossible. Unconditional sur
irender is demanded of Beers and
lpeace overtures are still unconcluded.