Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-20
LATER NEWS.

LATER NEWS.
More than $4,000 men are idle as
result of the AmaigamatGd associa-
TONS strike in the sheet steel, steel
hoop and tin plants of the United
States corporation.
A volcanic eruption on the island Of
Java destroyed many coffee planta-
tions and killed nearly 1000 persons.
The village of Warwick, Can, was
almost entirely wiped out by fire.
The thirteenth annual report of the
interstate commerce commission
shows big increase in earnings of
railroads and an aggregate length of
mileage of 259,7SS miles.
Gov. Dockery, of Missouri, asks the
people of the state to pray on Sun
day, July 21, for rain.
Relations between Russia and Japan
are nearing a crisis, according to dis
patches from ST. Petersburg.
Joseph Cramer, rs years old, was
under arrest in Philadelphia for hav-
ing seven wives, all living.
Louis Thomas, a negro, was lynched
near Girard, La, by mob for steal
ing bottle of pop.
William Earle Cook, of Portsmouth,
the oldest person in Rhode Island,
died at the age of 1O4 years.
John Alexander Dowie took out his
first naturalization papers in Wau-
kegan, Ill.
Lewis Elkins, of Philadelphia, left
his 100000 fortune in trust for the
benefit of aged women teachers.
Rains were reported from various
points in Missouri, Kansas and Hi
nois
Two policemen were wounded and
| a negro killed in a race riot at Amer
icus, Ga.
Five persons were killed in col
lision of Missouri, Kansas & Texas
freight trains near Muskogee, Ind. T.
Mrs. James Huff, her daughter, Mrs.
Thornton, and the latter's four-year-
old daughter were killed by lightning
near Newcomerstown, o.
Large parts of the Russian empire
are again threatened with famine.
A mob of negroes at CORTLAND,
Ala, hanged Alexander Herman, a
negro charged with killing Sallie
Swoope.
Hundreds of lives were lost by
floods in the Yangtse river near Han
kow, China.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States and Canada on the 18th
was: Wheat, 27,979,OOo bushels; corn,
| 14,067, 900 bushels; oats, 1870
bushels; rye, $4,000 bushels; barley,
| 391 900 bushels.
The steel trust has accepted the OPP
portunity for finish fight with Ia
Dor unions. No compromise is to be
made with the Amalgamated associa-
ton, whose absolute surrender is de-
teremined upon.
The net increase in the pension roll
| last year wcs 2,273, despite the drop
| ping of 3S,082 names from the rolls.
The ministers of the powers admit
| that the prospect of conclusion of ne
gotiations in Picking is growing
darker.
The packing plant Of Jacob Dold &
| Sons at Wichita, Kan, was destroyed
| by fire, the loss being $1,000,000.
Albert Sears, who masqueraded as a
| woman for seven years at Huntsville,
Ark, was arrested for a murder COM
| mitted in Texas.
NATION, H., and Saltwater, Mimi,
have been given public Libraries by
| Carnegie.
| Round Island, Wis, in the Mississippi
| river.
! The transport Hancock arrived in
Manila with Adjt. Gen. H. c. Corbin
| and Surgeon General George NJ Stern
berg on board.
Fifteen negroes were killed in a fight
with Mexican railroad laborers in New
Mexico.
| Frank Wennerholm, the Chau-
tauqua county murderer, was put to
| death by electricity in the prison at
| Auburn, n. Y.
Ida and Edith Yooland, actresses,
| committed suicide in London because
they failed to secure engagements.
The transport Indiana arrived in
/ San Francisco from Manila with LOCO
soldiers of the Forty-second regi-
ment.
Roy Jones, IL. years old, and Byron
Jones, his brother, four years old
were burned to death at Broad Rip
| pie, Ind.
| The crop report issued by the Wash
ington weather bureau says that the
corn crop in the great corn states of
the central valleys has sustained Sc
rious injury from drought.
| Three alleged horse thieves, Buck
ing Bill" Fred CONNIE and Pete Wal
ter, were hanged by posse near Jul
dith, Mont.
The military department of Alaska
| is to be abolished.
| The president of the Iowa Bar asso-
citation at the annual meeting in Coun-
| Gil Bluffs made startling statements
regarding the prevalence of perjury
land bribery in American courts of jus
tice.