Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-23
LATER NEWS.

| N ID ktS.
Lord Pauncefote and Secretary Hay
signed the new treaty for the con-
struction of Nicaraguan canal. The
United States is given control over
the waterway.
Thieves and hold-up men are holding
high carnival in Chicago, robbing and
brutally assaulting many victims.
Twelve persons in the Maine woods
have been shot by hunters who mis-
took them for deer, and five died of
their wounds.
| Fire destroyed the storage ware
house of the L. W. Jones company in
Chicago and "a horses were Gre
mated.
Mrs. J. W. Manring and her little
daughter were burned to death near
Orchardville, H.,
| The wife and family of former
President Steyn of the Orange Free
State have been deported from South
| Africa.
j. E. Redmond, P. A. MacHough and
Thomas O'Donnell, Irish members of
parliament, were received a the white
house by President Roosevelt.
In wreck on the Great Northern
road at Blair, Mont, ten men lost
their lives and % others were serious
ly injured.
The farmhouse of John Sewitzke at
Lagladow, Wis. was destroyed by fire
and three children persisted in the
| flames.
a death mask of President McKin-
ley, just completed at Buffalo, is said
| to be one of the most perfect ever
| taken.
President Roosevelt is in favor of
| congress taking some action on the
reciprocity treaties at the coming ses-
sion
Troops have been sent to the Provi-
dence coal mine in Kentucky to stop
| the strike riots.
A Michigan game warden seized a
fish tug on Lake Michigan after an ex-
citing contest and confiscated lot Of
herring.
| Panic has seized the parents of Cam
| den, n. j., as a result of the epidemic of
tetanus that has cost the lives of nine
children.
Menominee Indians at Eagle River,
| Wis, incensed over the alleged Staying
of one of their number by a careless
white hunter, threaten vengeance.
There is a proba oility that govern
ors of all the states through which the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
roads run will call special sessions of
| legislatures to take steps to oppose
consolidation of those properties.
Consul Dickinson has asked Bull
garia for troops to aid in hberating
Miss Stone, the American missionary,
held for ransom by brigands.
The Alabama legislature killed a bill
providing for the disfranchisement of
| the negro.
The annual report of the commission
er of internal revenue shows that the
| total receipts for the year ended June
80, 1901, were $3O6, $3.50, or $11, 555, SOL
in excess of the estimates.
| Hereafter the Santa Fe railway will
not employ any one who smokes ciga-
rettes
y. Henry Martin, publisher and ed
tor of the Daily News, died in Phila-
| delphia at the age of SO years.
Fire destroyed IS stores, the tele-
phone exchange, opera house, town
hall and odd fellows hall at Assump-
ton, III.
Mrs. Lillian NJ. n. Stevens has been
unanimously reelected president of
| the national w. C. T. U.
Palermo, former chief of the Fill
pino cabinet, has been elected presi-
dent of the new peace party in the
islands.
An unknown man and 200 head of
cattle were killed in a freight wreck
near Liberal, Kan.
| The trial of Mrs. BONNIE for the
killing of James Seymour Ayres, Jr.,
in Washington hotel began at the
national capital.
Thomas Meehan, one of the fore
most horticulturists and botanists
! in America, died at Germant own, Pa,
aged II.
DR.. Dwight w. Day dropped dead
from apoplexy while reading a paper
before a medical society at Eau
| Claire, Wis.
President Roosevelt issued an or
der placing several Offices in the war
department under civil service rules.
Miss Belle Woods, Charles P. Val
lencey and Stanley Mcleod skated
into an airhole in ST. Louis bay. near
West Duluth, Mimi, and were
drowned.
! Elevated trains on the three roads
in Chicago collided in a heavy fog
and two persons were killed and
many others injured.
Safe blowers looted the First ma
/ tional bank at Mondovi, Wis, of &c.
500 in money.
President Roosevelt read the draft
of his message to members of the
! cabinet, who say it is a conservative
| paper, one strong feature of which
is the urgent need of stamping out
anarchy.