Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-01-30
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Senator Depew On. W addressed the
United States senate on the 25th in sup
port of the ship subsidy bill as means
of upbuilding the merchant marine.
J The president submitted report of the
Taft Philippine commission. The
house adopted the conference report
on the army reorganization bill by a
vote of 1873 to 100 and passed the naval
appropriation bill and II private pen
sion bills. The fortifcation appropri-
alton bill ($12, 461, 1889 and a bill for
the creation of court of appeals for
the final adjudication of pension cases
were favorably reported.
The Indian appropriation bill was
discussed in the United States senate
on the 26th, the report Of the confer
ence committee on the army reorgani-
zatlon bill was presented and the ere
dentials of Senator Cullom, of Illinois,
for his fourth term were placed on file.
In the house the bill to revive and codify
the postal laws was considered and eu-
logies upon the life and services of the
late Senator Gear, of Iowa, were pro-
nounced.
Lieut.. Dixon reports that the Indian
uprising in Indian territory is not seri-
Gus.
j. D. Rockefeller will give Oberlin CO..
college 100000.
King Edward sent his first mes
sage to parliament. 1t was read in
both houses, and expressed sorrow at
| the death of Victoria.
Boer Gen. Delarey suffered severe
| loss in an attack on Col. Cunningham's
camp near Oiphant's mex
The Indiana senate passed a bill
making electrocution the mode of in
ficting the death penalty in the state.
Baron Wilhelm Karl Won Rothschild,
head of the great banking firm, died
at Frankfort, aged 73 years.
A bill prescribing capital punish
ment for kidnapping has been intro
duced in the Virginia legislature.
Pitkin & Brooks crockery and glass
ware store in Chicago was wiped out
by fire, entailing loss of 100000.
Hartin Sickle was hanged at Kala-
ma, Wash, for the murder of w. B.
Shankin in 1892
| There were 300 business failures in
the United States in the seven DAYS
ended on the 25th, against 325 the week
previous and 231 the corresponding
period of 1900
King Edward cabled President Nc
Kinley expressing gratitude for SYM
| pathy extended.
A national prohibition conference
will be held at Buffalo, n. Y, in Au-
gust.
The wife of Thomas Gains gave birth
to two boys and two girls at her home
near Nashville III.
The queen of Spain was shot at by
an unknown assassin while boating in
the royal park in Madrid.
Conditions in the Philippine are much
improved, according to the report of
the Taft commission. Tens of thou
sands of natives already have sworn al
legiance to the United States, and the
insurrection is said to be dying out.
The three children of S. R. McCarty,
janitor Of a Kansas City Mo.) office
building, were burned to death.
w. j. Allen, of Springfield, United
States judge of the Southern district of
Illinois, died at Hot Springs, Ark, aged
70. He was a congressman from 1862
to 1865.
William E. Fink, former representa-
tive in congress from Ohio, died at Som
erset, aged rs years.
Fire wiped out the principa business
section Of Mattewan, N. J.
The safe in the internal revenue Of
fee in Peoria, ILL.,, was forced by rob-
bers and stamps to the value of $50, 900
stolen.
Warren Addison Sebring died at Sill
yer Lake, Ind, in the one hundred and
first year of his age.
On the forty-second anniversary of
his birth Emperor William of Germany
was made by King Edward field mar
shall Of the British army.
A train with troops and military
stores on board was captured by the
Beers north of Kimberley.
Troops under Funston captured Fag-
unton, the notorious Filipino Leader and
assassin.
Deputy United States Marshal Holli-
field and Simon Combs were killed from
ambush by moonshiners in Letcher
county, Ky.
| The Josiah Morris bank, one of the
oldest private banking institutions in
ALBANIA, closed it's doors at Mont
gomery.
Memorial services for Queen Victoria
were held in all the churches of London
and throughout the provinces.
Herbert Hallet and his two cousins,
Helen and Amelia knight, were killed
by a Grand Trunk train near Bowman
vile, Ont.
A landslide threw a freight train into
the Hiawasee river at Mcfarland.
Tenn, and three men were killed.
An explosion of molten copper in Bal
timore, Nd, killed Charles Murkey,
Patrick Downey, Timothy Chisham and
Frank Martin.