Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-12-14

celebrations in memory of Jose RIAL
the patriot.
Suffering among German laboring
men without employment has made
necess ary the establishment of soup
houses in large cities.
One Englishman, two Icelanders
and two Indians were drowned in
Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba.
LATER NEWS,
| Senator Frye introduced new ship
subsidy bill in the United States SEN
ate on the 9th. Other bills were intro
duced defining conspiracy in restraint
of trade; appropriating $4,000 annu-
Tally from the sale of public lands for
the support of an institution for the
industrial education of women; to
prohibit Chinese immigra ton; au-
thorizing the construction of rail-
road across the territory of Alaska;
to punish is murderers all who par
lticipate in a lynching. The McLaurin-
lTillman fight was brought up and the
belief exists that both the South Caro-
lima senator's will be forced to resign.
| 1hC lOuSc was uOl Ill SSSSlOu
Bills were introduced in the United
States senate on the 10th to protect
the lives of the president, vice presi-
dent, persons in the line of success
sion to the presidency and ambassa-
doris and foreign ministers; appro-
priating $1sO,O0O,CoO for the construc-
ton of the Nicaraguan canal, and
for a memorial bridge across the Po-
tomac river at Washington to cost
S., 100000. In the house Speaker
Henderson announced the commit
tees for the present session. A bill
was introduced to pay such amount
as is necessary to secure the release
of Miss Stone, the missionary held by
Turkish brigands. A resolution was
passed providing for a holiday adj
ournment from December 10 to Janu-
airy 6.
Nicaragua has signed a treaty giving
| the United States perpetual lease to
land needed for a canal.
| Mrs. Jane L. Stanford, of San Fran
cisco, has transferred to Leland STAN
ford, Jr., university property worth
approximately $30,000,0O0.
Mrs. Eli Clark and her little grand
daughter were burned to death at
Oden, Ind.
! II. j. Fleishman, cashier of the Farm
ers' and Merchants bank of Los An
geles, Cal, disappeared, leaving a
shortage of $15O,0oO.
| Thomas B. Ferguson, of Watonga,
has assumed the office of governor
of Oklahoma
| airy captured by brigands, is now said
to be concealed in the vicinity of Rilo
in Bulgaria
At Rhinelander, Wis, fire destroyed
| the Wabash screen door and stove
| board plant, the loss being 100000.
| Indiana churches will observe the
third Sunday in January as Mckinley
day, when funds will be solicited for
the Mckinley monument.
The entire business portion of the
village of GobTe, Mich, has been de-
, stroyed by fire.
President Roosevelt was denounced
and Czolgosz extolled by Emma Gold
man and others at a meeting of an
archists in New York
| Mrs. Elizabeth Howe Dale, of Chi
cago, accused of poisoning her child,
has been exonerated by a coroner's
jury at Hoboken, n. J.
Great Britain will turn the control
of South African concentration camps
over to civil authorities.
In an attempt to capture De Wet
Col. Wilson, with a force of English
troops, came into contact with a SUI
perior force of Beers near Hebron
and was nearly surrounded
Jacob Schehvr, of Chicago, won the
worlds championship in the billiard
tourney in New York.
G. L. Powell and j. S. Overstreet,
two prominent manufacturers, shot
and killed each other in a duel near
Zolfo, Fla.
Charles Stokes, arrested in New York
with So 900 worth OF stamps on his
person, is believed to be one of the
robbers of the Chicago pos office.
Insurgents in the province of Cam
arines attacked American troops, kill
ing three soldiers. The Filipino loss
| was heavy.
Seven sailors lost their lives by the
wrecking of the British bark Pinmore
near Grays harbor, Wash.
| The democrats elected Gen. Collins
mayor of Boston by $4,000 plurality.
The president has nominated c. IT.
Darling, of Vermont, for assistant sec
rotary of the navy.
| The British governr7 ent has decided
to call out all available reserves for
service in the Boer war
The national capital has another
crime mystery in fatal assault upon
Mrs. Gilbert, a fashionable dress
maker.
In a fit of insanity Rev. John Kin
nunen, minister of the Finnish Lu-
theran church at Copper Falls, Mich,
murdered his wife and two children
and committed suicide.
June &c, 1902, has been officially an
nounced as the date of King Edwards
coronation.
The fire losses in the United States
and Canada for November were $15.-
100000, against $S,518 900 last year, and
a total for the year to December / of
$l5O, S74,o5Q, against $151, 940,550 last
lyear.