Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-27
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serve in the Philippines.
LATER NEWS
Efforts OF steel mill operators at
WelIsvile and McKeesport to resume
work were abandoned on the plea that
the heat was too great.
Mrs. Sophia RATA and her three chill
dren were burned to death in fire in
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was fined $500 and
given 80 days Jail sentence for disturb
ing the peace by a Sunday joint raid
at Topeka, -Aan.
William Brooks (colored) was hanged
by a mob at Ellins, w. Va, for fatally
shooting Chief of Police Lilly.
A census bulletin shows that Iowa
has few negroes, while men outnum-
Der women in Iowa, Kansas and In
diana.
Sensational advances were made in
prices of wheat, corn and oats on ac-
count of the drought.
The bodies Of Wheeler and Mynatt
Hatwaker, young boys who had been
stabbed, were found in a pond near
Jaclsboro, Tenn.
A wireless telegraph system is to be
established in the British West Indies.
Beers attacked Aberdeen, in Cape
Colony, but were twice repulsed by the
town guard.
Rev. George Shelley and Miss Mary
Farris, Dowieites, were mobbed at
Walton, Ind, and driven from the vii
lage.
A big reduction in army expenses
in the Philippines is likely.
The government expressed its sor-
row to Italy for the lynching of Ital-
ians in Mississippi.
Gov. Savage, of Nebraska, at the
behest of many ministers and others,
designated day to be devoted to
prayer for rain.
A high official of the agricultural de-
partment says that the cry of failure
in the corn belt is premature.
c. j. Dillon aud William Morgan, of
Three Mile, w. Va, fought a duel
over girl and both were fatally
wounded.
A plan for the payment of the in
demnity to the powers by the Chinese
government has finally been adopted.
Admiral Sampson admitted reading
proofs of Maclay's book attacking
Schley, but did not furnish the facts.
Fifty thousand garment workers in
New York and vicinity are on strike.
The withdrawal of troops from Cuba
is being considered by Secretary Root
Whitening heat in the corn belt
continued, in many places the tenn
perature ranging from 100 to 10 de-
grees.
Admiral schley will ask an investi-
cation of his conduct during the Gu
ban campaign by naval court of in
quiry and will sue the author of Ma
clay's history for libel
C. f. Pickett, of Waterloo, Ia, was
elected grand exalted ruler of the
ells at the Milwaukee meeting
Elmer E. Barner was hanged in
Harrisburg, Pa, for the murder OF
his brother-in-law, Isaac Miller.
The steel combine was preparing
to ask the federal court to enioin
strikers from interfering with plants
of the trust or their workmen
William H. Hunt, secretary of Porto
Rico, will succeed Charles H. Allen as
governor.
Statesmen of gravestones and mon
uments is to be the occupation of
Coleman ana James Younger, the re-
leased convict brothers.
The United States government may
send an exhibit to the Russian fisheries
exposition at st. Petersburg
Four persons, believed to be men,
bers of the notorious Bender family,
of Kansas, have been located near Fort
Collins, Col
Lord Salisbury in a speech support
ing the finance bill asserted that the
British people favor war
Suit was begun at Butte, Mont, to
have the copper trust declared illegal.
Negro labor imported from the far
south by the steel trust may lead to
race war in Chicago.
Mrs. B. De Graft, of La Crosse. Wis.
fell from the fifth floor of the Morri-
son hotel in Chicago and was fatally
hurt.
Frank Hanoh, Mr.. Moslock and Jim
Woodin were drowned in Doan lake at
Floodwood, Mich.
Ex-Secretary of State Caleb Powers.
convicted of completely in the Goebel
murder in Frankfort, KY, has been
granted new trial.
The American schooner Louise Ade-
laide was wrecked at Stockholm.
Sweden, and Capt. Orr, of Portland,
Me-, ten of the crew and four Swed-
ish officials lost their lives.
Russia has demanded of Turkey wo
coaling stations on the Persian gulf.
Gen. Gomez has declared for Palma
for president of Cuba.
The drought and intense heat con-
flnued everywhere throughout the
states OF the corn belt on the 23d.
Temporal nres again averaged over 100
degrees in that area. making the thir-
ty-siNth consecutive day in which the
thermometer had risen 10 90 degrees
and higher,