Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-08-24
LATER NEWS.

| lWO men supposed 10 nave peIlSHeu
in the Cleveland crib fire were res
cued from the water works tunnel,
where they had been five and a half
days without food or water.
Lightning struck benzine tank in
Philadelphia, exploding it, and six per-
sors were killed and % were missing.
Julius Schukneicht, a farmer near
Charles City, Ia, fatally wounded his
wife and himself with a knife while
insane.
The Shelbyville, Bloomfield & Ohio
railroad has been sold to the Louis
vile & Nashville for $15O,0OO.
Comedian Sam Morris amused a
theater audience in Chicago with
jokes while his heart was almost
breaking over the death of his wife,
who took poison with suicidal intent.
Robert Rutter and Jefferson Rut-
| ter, two farmers, were instantly
killed at Vigo, o., by the cars.
Later reports indicate that over 70
persons persisted by the wrecking of
the steamer Islander, which struck
an iceberg off the Alaskan coast.
The explosion of cannon at Fort
Riley, Kan, killed two soldiers and in
| jured seven others.
Four more mills of the United
| States Steel corporation were put in
| operation in Pittsburg, Pa, the re-
| sumption being the most severe blow
so far suffered by the strikers.
Napoleon Pierre Guicheveau, aged
| 113 years, died at BreauX Bridge, La.
| A British constabulary force sur
killing % burghers.
The Ohio river steamer City of
Golconda was capsized by a squall
near Paducah, KY, and 16 persons
were drowned.
Five tons of dynamite exploded at
Herkimer, n. Y, killing IL railroad
employees.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States and Canada on the 10th
was: Wheat, 26,769,OOO bushels; corn,
12,7S3, 900 bushels; oats, $780, 900 bush
els; rye, 935, 5000 bushels; barley, $751;
900 bushels.
Four boys from six to ten years old
are accused of stoning a companion
| to death at Kokomo, Ind.
A justice of the peace at Norwood,
w. Va, stopped trial to shoot ne
| gro who sought to rescue prisoner.
| Rear Admiral Howison, one of the
Judges chosen for the Schley inquiry,
is said to have expressed an opinion
adverse to Schley, and the navy de-
partment will ask him to explain.
One thousand armed men drove
every negro from Pierce City, Mo-,
cremated one aged man, burned five
houses and decreed that hereafter
no colored man shall reside in the
| town.
Strikers at Roseville, O., were en-
| joined from picketing the works of
the Ohio Pressed Brick company.
South Chicago steel workers who are
| opposed to strike issued a statement
to the public, explaining their action
in refusing to go out.
The house of P. Byrne, at Currie,
Mimi, was destroyed by fire and his
! four children were burned to death.
The new constitution of Ala bama
has been completed, and the conven-
ton at Montgomery has adjourned.
Lawrence Auchterlonie, of Glenview,
| ILL.,, won the open championship in the
second annual tournament of the
! Western Golf associa ton in Chicago.
| Carlos Vicuna, minister from Chill,
] died of pneumonia at Buffalo, n. Y.
DR.. Louis Knapp, of st. Louis, gave
up his family and the world to care for
Chinese leper in ST. Louis and to
make life study of the disease.
| Boer lager was surprised by the
British near The Springs, who killed
and captured number of burghers.
The German ship Asturia was
wrecked on the Somaliland coast and
! goods worth 100000 were carried off
| by natives.
The twenty-fourth annual conven-
ton of the American Bar association
began in Denver, Col.
Bessie and Hazel, aged 81 and Is
| years, respectively, daughters of Will
| liam Reeve, were drowned in the river
| at Maquoketa, Ia.
i A fast train on the Alton road was
wrecked at Prentice, ILL.,, and Engir eer
| Sheehan and Fireman Adams were
killed.
The battleship Iowa sailed from
San Francisco for Panama.
Secrets agents OIL South American
| revolutionists who arrived in New
York declared that the attempt to
unite Venezuela, Colombia and Ecua-
dor under one government would yet
succeed.
Five of the largest shovel manufac-
turing concerns in the country have
| consolidated with capital of IS, 0OO,-
J COO
John w. Brown, a well-known citizen
| of Auburn, Ind, was arrested for al
legged completely in holding up and
dynamiting the Baltimore & Ohio ex-
press train near Miller's Station on
the night of July 81.