Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-01-09
LATER.

LATER.
Interest in the United States senate
On the 4th centered in the army reor-
ganization bill and for five hours the
measure was under discussion. A res
olution was passed prohibiting the sale
of opiur. Or intoXicants to uncivilized
races or aboriginal tribes. The legis-
lative, executive and judicial appro-
priation bill ($24, 1928, 3O7) was reported.
In the house resolution to investigate
abridgement of suffrage in certain
southern states was referred to the
census committee, and the reappOr-
| tiOnment bill was discussed.
In the United States senate on the
| 5th the time was occupied in cOnsid-
| ering the army reorganization bill.
| In the house the reapportionment bill
was discussed, and Mr.. Littlefeld
(Me.) and Mr.. Hopkins Qll.) INDUCED
in sharp exchange of words.
A test of the federal lottery law is to
| be made in the United States supreme
| court
Mrs. Anna Jane Slote. who celebrated
on July II last the one hundredth an
niversary of her birth, died in New
York.
The battleship Illinois is to be given
! speed test in February.
James Kelly (colored) was hanged in
| Charleston, S. c.. for the murder of
Willis Bonneau, a miser, whom he first
robbed.
S. G. Coffman, of Hume Ill. received
| an internal machine by mail, but it
| failed to explode.
The output of Illinois coal mines last
| year was 25,153,929 tons, against 49,
434.445 the previous year.
Many Filipino officers captured at
Cavite Viejo in a successful action by
the Third infantry and the navy.
Gen. Richard n Batchelder, former
| ly quartermaster general of the army,
died at his home in Washington, aged
| SO years.
Miss Belle Fremont, prima donna
soprano of the Bostonians. died in Den
yer, Col.
Two colOred men. jim benson and
his half-brother, were lynched by a
mob at Madison, Fla, for killing Fred
erici Redding, a farmer.
An explosion of dynamite at Thomp-
sons Point, n. j., blew three men to
atoms
Earthquake shocks at Mound City
and Pleasanton, Kan, swayed build
ings and threw people out of their
| beds
Portions of California are buried
under six feet of snow and at Yreka
lo,,i1 fol ;rr1+
Sir Alfred Miner has been appointed
governor of Orange River Colony and
the Transvaal and Sir Walter Francis
Hely Hutchinson has been made gov
ernor Of Cape Colony. Gen. Kitchener
has called for 5000 Cape volunteers to
protect the Rand mines.
VIII Kirby was hanged at Nicks-
burg, Miss, for the murder of Elijah
Wilson in June, 1899.
The livery barn of Henry Rada
macher was burned at Manistee,
Mich, and % horses persisted.
Philip d. Armour, the widely-known
millionaire packer and ilanthropist,
died at mis- home in Chicago of heart
disease, aged 6S years.
Cases of smallpox are reported in
over 100 counties in Missouri.
David Jones. aged As, and George
Hayes, aged SO, miners, were instant
ly killed in a coal mine near Brazil,
Ind.
Former United States Senator James
W. Bradbury died at his home in Au-
gusta, Me-, aged 80 years.
Duncan Mcintyre shot and killed
Miss Eta Anderson at Corrillos, N.
NJ. because she declined to marry him,
and then killed himself.
Fire insurance losses in the United
States and Canada in 1900 were $780,
36225O.
Eight men lost their lives by tie
burning Of the Harvard house in Min
neapolis, Mimi.
Lord Kitchener REPORTS that the
Beers are scattering over a wide ex-
tent of territory in Cape Colony and
a general uprising of the Dutch
seemed imminent.
Curtis III. Brogden, former governor
of North Carolina, died at Goldsboro,
N. c., aged IS years.
The steamer Iaqua, which left San
Francisco for San Diego, was wrecked
on Duxbury reef, just outside the
Golden Gate, and 80 persons were
drowned.
A. J. Wilson, the London expert,
says serious financial revu,sion is
probable in Europe on account of the
enormous cost of the armies.
Robert Walthour, of Atlanta, Ca,
won the international six-day bicycle
race in Boston. The distance was
1909 miles laps.
The gross gold in the treasury at
Washington On the 5th was $3.50, 7O9,-
COS, breaking all records.
The dowager empress has rebuked
the Chinese peace ENJOYS concerning
the result Of the negotia tons, insist
ing that better terms should have
been made.