Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-03-27
4 WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
The NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

Carr Tribble. aged is, shot his
sweetheart, Stella Snow (not fatally
in fit of jealousy near Perth, Ind,
and then killed himself.
Fifty out of 60 houses in Memphis,
Ind, were destroyed by fire, leaving
many persons homeless and desti-
tute.
Sixteen persons were I'M ured in a
wreck on the Rock Island railroad
near Grand junction, Ia,
Eight residences and the Anheuser-
Busch icehouses were burned in ST.
Louis, the loss being 100000.
Sig Marconi, the inventor of wire
less telegraphy, says that 200 miles
constitutes the present limits of wire
less telegraphing.
Three boys in search of wintergreen
near Sharpsville, Pa, ate poison ber-
ries and died.
WI Ting Fang, Chinese minister to
the United States, arrived in Chicago
as guest of the University of Chicago.
Two United States transports, the
Meade and the Pennsylvania, sailed
from San Francisco for the Philippines
with large contingent of soldiers.
Two-thirds of the business houses
and nearly half the residences in Bis
marck, Mo, were swept away by fire.
The war department has received the
Philippine commissions act establish
ing a department of public instruction.
Secretary Hay has ordered the
cruiser New York to Morocco to ex-
ercise moral pressure in collection of
American claims.
The state department has made Wig
orous protest through Minister
LOOMS to Venezuela against further
interference with Consular Agent
BALI at Barcelona.
All Intoxicating liquors are to be
barred from transmission through the
mails.
The lumber yards and planning mill
plant of John B. Ransome & Co. I'D
West Nashville, Tenn, covering 20
acres, were destroyed by fire.
jeff Hill and his wife and five chill
dren were burned to death in their log
cabin near Wellston, O..
j. P. Morgan & Co. have absorbed the
Rockefeller steel interests, necessitat-
ing $1o0,OOO,0OO increase in the capital
of the steel trust.
A wealthy southern woman has Of
fered to provide homes and work for
SO poor couples from New York.
In an hour the mercury fell from
6S to 81 degrees in Chicago, one of
the most remarkable changes on rec
ord.
President Mckinley will attend the
launching of the battleship Ohio at
San Francisco May Is and will attend
the opening of the Buffalo exposition.
President Mckinley has appointed
Frederick E. Coyne postma ster of
Chicago.
Fire destroyed the jerks Ship
building company's plant in Port HUI
ron, Mich, entailing a loss Of $175,-
900.
Mrs. Mel Hayes, wife of a barber,
smashed Taylor's saloon windows in
Butler, O., and wrecked the fixtures.
President Mckinley and party re-
turned to Washington from Indian
apolis.
WI Ting Fong, Chinese minister,
speaking at the University of Chicago
convocation, denied that the civiliza-
ton of the west was superior to that of
China.
Two hundred and eighty-four con-
victs in the penitentiary at Lansing,
Kan, mutinied, imprisoned the guards
and seized coal mine.
The will of Benjamin Harrison, filed
at Indianapolis, Ind, gives the bulk of
a 100000 estate to the widow
An immense salt factory to cost
100000 will be built by the Pennsyl-
vania company at Wyandotte, Mich.
Terrific storms ragged over western
Michigan and Wisconsin and in some
places snow fell to the depth of one
foot.
Negroes in Georgia representing
1000 of their race appeared before Gov
Gambler and asked that he furnish
them transportation to Liberia.
An explosion in a mine at Clover
land, Ind, fatally burned Alfred Re-
fit, Albert Harris, Ithel Harris and
Thomas Harris.
Isaac Marlowe and William Stamm,
farmers, were blown to atoms by an
explosion Of dynamite near Kokomo,
Ind
The first discovery of oil in the
southern portion of West Virginia
was made in 300-barrel oil well
drilled at Milton.
japanese railroad officials compared
American and English facilities and
decided to buy Yankee engines.
project is on foot to unite all
the coal operators of Illinois under
one management, with capitaliza-
tion of SIS 100000.
D. E. Thompson, nominee of the re-
publican caucus for United States
senator, failed of election in the Ne
braska legislature.
III. Barringer Cox, an Indianapolis
scientist, says he has discovered the
law for measuring interstellar spaces.