Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-05-15
LATER.

LATER.
By the explosion of an engine boiler
at Mount Dallas, Pa, A. S. Berkstress-
er, engineer; Charles Hollingshead,
conductor; John Richie, and Fireman
Thomas Edwards were killed.
Joseph Hush, living near Mishawaka,
Ind, celebrated his one hundred and
eighth birthday anniversary.
The steamer Bon Voyage was burned
and five members of the Altman fam
lily, of Lanrium, Mich, grandmother,
mother and three daughters, were
drowned.
The Twenty ninth infantry, United
Estates volunteers, was mustered out
at San Francisco.
Henry Johnson, a negro, was
llynched at Valdosta, Ga. He had fired
at a young white man, but did not
hit him.
An American syndicate is forming
to sell coal in France.
e. III. Methever, who murdered Dor
othy Mckee at Long Beach, Cal, in
July, 1899, was hanged at San Quentin
prison.
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the revenues of the island are not
equal to the expenditures.
Several persons were injured in
riot in Detroit caused by an attempt
of the new director of police to quiet
curbstone orator.
Treasury officials in Washington
view the Wall street reverse as bless
ling in disguise, seeing in the check to
indiscreet speculation a preventive of
serious trouble.
Dun's Weekly Review of Trade de-
clares that general business was unin-
Ijured by the stock panic in New York.
The enthusiasm of a crowd at San
Luis Obispo, Cal, to shake hands with
President Mckinley caused a panic
from which he was extricated with
difficulty.
Quick recovery followed the panic in
Wall street, New York, all prominent
securities advancing.
The thirty-third annual convention
of the National American Woman
Suffrage association will convene in
Minneapolis May 80.
The schooner Fostoria sank in St.
Clair river after collision with ice
and two sailors were drowned.
William O'Brien's paper in Dublin,
The Irish People, was seized for a Ii
belous attack on King Edward.
There were 1S7 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 1913 the
| week previous and 1872 the correspond
ing period of 1900.
The president and Mrs. Mckinley
ahead of time because of the sudden
illness of Mrs. Mckinley.
Mrs. W. IT. Whitsel and her two
children were burned to death in
their home near Dallas, Tex.
James Brown (colored), charged
with assaulting Miss Della Garrett,
of Springvelle, Ala, was shot and
killed by mob.
Mrs. Ellen CaIlihan (colored), aged
100 years, was killed by the cars at
Springfield, III.
Prof. Charles r. Eastman was
Found not guilty of the murder of his
brother-in-law, Richard FL. Grogan,
Jr., at Cambridge, Mass.
John Fitzgibbon, aged 100, died at
his home near Bloomington, Ill.
| R. Z. Mosby, a leading citizen Of
Black Rock, Ark, shot his wife on
account of jealousy and then killed
himself.
Gen. De Wet has resumed opera
tions in the Transvaal with a force of
1000 men.
/ The percentages Of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 18th were: Gin
cinnati, .625; Pittsburgh, .625; New
York, .5S3; Boston, .583; Philadelphia,
.438; Brooklyn, .467; Chicago, 400; ST.
Louis, $50.
Nearly the whole of the business
portion of Dumont, Ia. was destroyed
by fire.
Samuel Flower, teller of the Hi
hernia national bank of New Orleans,
was arrested, charged with a short
age Of $4,000.
Mrs Bedinah Carlson, while de-
jspondent, killed her two children and
herself in Providence, R. I.
Fire in a lumber district near De-
troit caused losses aggregating $780,
900. The Western Union Telegraph
company suffered to the extent Of
100000.
| The 1,attleship Illinois is to go into
commission on July 1.
Merritt Chism, a rich farmer at
White Oak, H., murdered his wife as
she was about to attend church. Do
nestle trouble was the cause.
The Canton Is. d. State bank
closed it's doors.
Percentage of the baseball clubs in
the American association for the
week ended on the 18th were: De-
troit, .765; Chicago, .647: Baltimore,
.5S3; Boston, .53S; Washington, 500;
Philadelphia, 1884; Milwaukee, 1858;
cleveland, .235.