Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-03-27
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$3.50, 100000.
Gen. Miles and party left Cuba for
Washington.
The Wisconsin assembly passed a
primary election bill which provides
for nominations by direct vote of the
people.
| Fire in Milwaukee destroyed Rohl-
fling & Sons music house and other
property, entailing a loss of $4,000.
Gov. Voorhees, has signed bill di-
viding New Jersey into ten, instead OF
eight, congressional districts.
Milo Gregory, aged 26 years, was
hanged at Kennett, Mo-, for the muir
der of his employer, Joseph Covert,
February 20, 1899.
| Mrs. Kate Green celebrated her one
hundred and eleventh birthday at her
home in Coldwater Mich.
| A new counterfeit five-dollar ma
bank of Morristown, n j., is in cir
culation.
A race for $4,000 will be trotted by
Charley Herr, Cresceus and Boralma at
Readville, Mass, in September.
| Gen. Macarthur reports that prac-
| tically all the remaining insurgents
in Panay have surrendered and given
up their arms.
| George Kelly (colored was hanged
Of his wife last August.
| Sedition is rampant in Russia, and
the car has fled from ST. Petersburg.
| The police have evidence of a gigantic
plot to kill the ear.
The British foreign office fears the
| relations between Russia and Japan
may soon reach the danger point.
Omaha police say the confession Of
| man in Dallas, Tex, to the Cudahv
kidnapping is a trick to get the re-
| ward.
An unknown negro on his way to
trial in Halifax county, Va, on the
charge of incendiarism, was shot to
| death by mob.
Guglielmo Marconi in the United
States circuit court in New York was
recognized as the sole inventor of the
| wireless telegraph.
The warship Massachusetts has
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damage.
The Minnesota senate passed a bill
prohibiting the marriage of insane,
epileptic and idiotic persons and re-
curing a medical certificate of all
applicants for marriage licenses.
A Manila dispatch says that Gen.
Funston has gone into Isabella prov
| i1,ao yxvi+ foy nd 0f
native scouts on a daring attempt to
capture Aguinaldo.
A blizzard swept across Kansas,
| Nebraska and Colorado, blocking
trains and doing other damage.
The wrecking of tank train sent a
deluge of burning oil into Glen Gar
| den, N. j., causing a panic among
| the inhabitants and destroying most
o. the town.
| f. b. Wright, newspaper pub
Usher of Cincinnati, O., and his wife
| both died at the same time.
Japan has ordered a squadron to
Corea to watch the movements of the
Russians. The situation is said to be
critical.
The Korea, launched at Newport
| News, Va, is the largest steam YES
| sci ever built in America.
SecretaryHay has paid to the Span
! ish minister 100000 for three Phil
| irpine islands not included in the
treaty.
Russia is reported to have planted
her flags in the disputed territory at
| Tientsin despite the recent arrange
ment with Great Britain.
Attorney General Griggs has handed
20 the president his resignation: to
take effect March 81.
Judge Joseph M. Bartholomew, for
| ten years justice Of the supreme court
| of North Dakota, dropped dead in
front of his residence in Bismarck.
Berlin and Paris advices confirm re-
ports of a gigantic revolutionary move
rent in Russia.
| Mrs. Nathan Townsend killed her.
self and two children with poison near
Cass City, Mich Family trouble was
the cause.
| Henry OXendine, bartender, killed
Mrs. Nettie Eckels and himself at
Webb City, Mo.
| John Wesley, negro who criminal
| ly assaulted Miss Josie Cleveland. a
leading young woman of Arkadelphia,
Ark, was hanged.
George w. Anderson, aged IS years,
| confessed in Parkersburg, w. Va, that
| he had II wives scattered over ten
states.
h. 5. Phelps, of Colorado Springs,
Col, celebrated his one hundred and
first birthday.
W. j. Gilbert, attorney of the de-
funct First national bank at Niles,
Mich, shot and killed himself be-
cause of grief over the downfall of
Cashier johnson.