Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-08-24
WEST AND SOUTH.

In Detroit the Catholic Order Of
Foresters in annual convention elect
ed as president Thomas H. Cannon, o.
| Chicago.
A wealthy farmer, Harvey Scott, o.
Faribault, Mimi. willed that his for
tune of $4,000 be burned because he
could not find a charity worthy OF
the gift.
Members of the Ama1gamated asso
citation at Joliet, ILL.,, voted to strike
and the big mills of the Illinois Steel
company in that city will close. Sim
liar action will be asked at the Bay
View works in Milwaukee, and anxiety
rules at South Chicago lest the deci
sion to remain at work be now re.
versed.
j. r. B. Van Cleave, of Illinois, for
mer insurance commissioner, has beer
arrested on charge of larceny. He i:
accused of Withholding papers.
A visit will be paid by Secretary Hay
to the president at Canton to confer
| regarding the disquieting news from
Colombia. The administration hope:
war between Colombia and Venezuela
will be avoided and stands ready tt
intervene in the interests of peace.
Two sisters. Isabel and Irene Grubb
aged four and II years respectively
were drowned in the basin of the Hi
| nois and Michigan canal, near La Sale
III.
The assessors census shows thu
population of Kansas to be 1 ,467, sos
net increase in one year of 23,1OO
The largest gain was $500 in Wyan
dotte; the largest loss, 2,G59, in Chero
kee county.
By the fall of hanging rock in the
twenty-eighth level of shaft No. 2, Of
the Tamarack mine, Calumet, Mich.
three men were killed and two in
jured, neither of whom may live.
The Bradley Watkins big lumber
sbingle, cedar tie mill at Sault Ste
Marie, Mich, burned, and 100 men are
out of employment. Loss, $4,000;
partly insured.
The complete destruction by fire Of
the village of Landesville, Ind, is re
ported. Nothing is left standing bu1
the grain elevator, passenger station
and two store-rooms. Loss, 100000.
Fire destroyed the business por
ton of Seaton, Ill. Over a dozen build
ings were burned, with stock of mer
chandise that were ruined. The loss
is estimated at from $35, 900 to $4,000
At the age of Sc Edwin Manning, the
wealthiest man in the state of Iowa
died at his home in Keosauqua, Ia
His estate is valued at $3,OOO,O 900.
Wanted in Germany for embezzline
1915 1000, Gerhardt Terlinden was ar
rested in Milwaukee and taken to Chi
cago.
Orders have been issued to the bat
tleship Iowa and cruiser Ranger tc
proceed at once to Panama. The
United States representative at Ca
racas took charge of the Colombian le
CATION.
Mobile has resumed communication
with the outside world and reports
heavy property loss by the gull
storm. The loss in the vicinity OF
New Orleans is great. Many pleasure
boats are thought to have met with
disaster. Six persons were drowned
near the mouth of the Mississippi.
In a quarrel Claus Fisher, aged 81
years, shot and killed his sweetheart
Annie Heinrichs, aged II, near Wah
peton, n. d.
AT his home in Pana, ILL.,, Francis NJ
Binion celebrated his one hundred and
first birthday.
BY collision between trolley car
and fast mail train in Chicago five
persons were killed and many injured
Over southern and central Illinois
where the drought has existed since
July 4, heavy rainfall is reported gen.
orally.
In Baltimore a gigantic scheme was
discovered to swindle banks of the
country by "kiting" paper of mag
mary lumber companies.
In a blast furnace accident al
Youngstown four men were killed and
il hurt.