Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-05-01
LATER.


The Cuban delegates held their
final conference with Secretary Hay.
The visitors are deeply impressed by
the attentions shown them in Wash
ington.
A majority of presbyteries in the
United States have voted in favor of
creed revision.
Three men were burned to death
and three injured in a fire in Chi
|cago.
The Rosebud mine at Aurora, Mo-,
caved in and buried five men at
depth of 10 feet.
Thomas E. Ketchum, alias "BlacI
Jack" the train robber, was hanged
at Clayton, n. M. The rope broke,
but the fall jerked his head off.
Mark Thomas Hayes was hanged
at Uniontown, Pa, for the murder of
William Lowdon.
There were 215 business failures in
the United States in the seven DAYS
ended on the Goth, against goo the
week previous and 2O4 the CORE
spending period Of 1900.
The bank of G.. j. Baetke & Co. at
Brighton, Mich. was robbed of $4,000.
Thomas Cole was hanged at Gin
ton, KY, for the murder of Emma
Cara Rice, his sweetheart.
Rev. Lyman III. Sherwood. founder
and head of the Lyons Musical acad
envy, died in Lyons, n. Y, aged 10
years.
The famous battleship Maine will
likely be foated in Havana harbor in
the autumn.
Adelbert Hay, son of the secretary
of state, has resigned his post as
United States consul general at Pre-
toria.
Iowa democrats viii hold their
state convention in Des Moines Au-
gust p.
Consolidation of all labor unions
into one big organization is the aim
of labor men.
Gen. Ludlow is seriously i'll at Ma
Mia and will return to the United
States at once.
W. F. L. Hadley, of Edwardsville,
ex-member Of congress from the
Eighteenth Illinois district, died at
Riverside, Cal.
Arabs are reported to have massa-
cred 800 inha bitants of an Algerian
village.
The empress dowager's creation of
a board Of regents to rule China is
regarded in Washington as SIMS
ter move, the effect of which is to
nullify all promises of reform and
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ers in the empire.
The Cuban delegates started for
home after asking the president to
do all he could to give the island re-
ciprocal trade relations. He assured
them political questions must be dis
posed Of before economic questions
were considered.
The Pan-American exposition in
Buffalo will be open from one p. N.
until II p. m. on Sundays.
President Mckinley and members
of his party started on trip across
the continent. The journey will be
Is 900 miles long and will take in 25
Estates.
One million feet of hemlock logs
were burned near Mellen, Wis, in a
forest fire.
It is announced that Paul Kruger
will visit America in June.
Toribio Huerta was hanged at Las
Cruces, n. Mex, for the murder of
companion to obtain $45.
Filipino Gen. Cables, who declared
himself Aguinaldo's successor, was
driven from his camp by American
troops, narrowly escaping capture.
Six miners and 80 mules persisted in
fire at Latrobe, Pa.
A Cincinnati woman calcimined her
husband and the saloon keeper who
sold him liquor.
The Mechanics savings bank at
| Westerly, r. l., went into liquidation
with assets Of 81 100, 600 and liabilities
Of $100O,oOo
Twenty persons were killed by
snowslide at Sunrise City, Alaska.
| The governor Of Kansas repents of
ibis offer of silver mugs to all triplets
born during his second term. He has
given Is already.
Two men, a woman and boy COM
mitted suicide in Chicago in one day.
| George Morrison, 16 years old, shot
and killed three desperadoes at
dance near Watseka, III.
Job Coping, a florist, and his wife
and three children lost their lives in
a fire at Houston, Tex.
| Official reports of four big battles
between German and Chinese troops
which occurred at the great wall show
fearful slaughter of Chinese.
The seventy ninth anniversary of the
birth of Gen. Grant was celebrated at
Galena, Ill.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 2Sth were: Gin
cinnati, 800; ST. Louis, .667; Brook
Ign, 600; Boston, 500; Pittsburgh,
500; Philadelphia, 500; New York,
1888; Chicago, .143.