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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
SENATOR KYLE DEAD.
Passes Away at His Home in Aber-
deem, S. d., After n Brief
Illness.

Aberdeen, S. d., July 2. = United
States Senator James H. Kyle died
here at 6:05 p. m. Monday. Senator
Kyle was stricken about ten days ago.
His trouble was of malarial origin
and resulted in functional affection
of the heart, which caused the great
est alarm. A consultation of physi-
clans was held and his case soon took
a turn for the better, the heart ac-
ton growing stronger and the gen.
eral condition much more encourag-
ing. One of the latest bulletins from
his bedside last week was to the eff
feet that he had passed the danger
point and that his recovery would be
certain, though slow. The senator
had similar attack in the east some
time ago, and was liable to a recur-
renee of the trouble. His health has
not been robust for year or so. His
relapse Monday was not expected,
however.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06

The death of t. S. Parvin, for So
years grand secretary of the Iowa ma
sonic grand lodge, occurred at Cedar
Rapids, aged "a years.
Alonzo Williams and Frank Miller,
negro murderers, were hanged at Bir-
mingham, Ala.
A law making kidnapping punishable
by death has gone into effect in Hi
nois.
In San Francisco the last of the vol
unteer army was mustered out with
in the time fixed by the law. Maj. Gen.
Shafter has gone on the retired list.
In the great corn belt a late start
and hot, dry weather is doing serious
damage TO the corn. Wheat was never
in finer condition.
In the past fiscal year the Cripple
Creek (CoI) gold output reached
500, S15,02e
While bathing Herst C. Gam, Jr.,
90 years old, one of the editors of the
Sentinel-Leader, of Warren, ILL.,, was
drowned.
The pastors of churches in St. Louis,
Mo-, and Decatur, ILL.,, appeared in
their pulpits in shirt waists.
In Denver, Col, the chief of police
ordered policemen to MAIN and if nee
essary kill ruffians who have overrun
the city.
The Illinois Central railroad has re
tired 200 employees with pension.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
LATER NEWS

During the fiscal year just ended
the net increase in the number of
names on the government pension
rolls was nearly $500, the grand to-
tai being 100000.
United States Senator James III.
Kyle died at his home in Aberdeen,
S. D., aged 81 years.
Nearly $4,000 steel workers are idle
as a result of the strike ordered by
the president of the Amalgamated
association.
The remains of ex-Gov. Hazen S.
Pingree, of Michigan, arrived in New
York from London.
A negro who attempted a criminal
assault upon a young woman was
taken from the Jail at Lawrenceville,
Va, by mob and lynched.
The president has signed the COM
mission of Judge Taft as civil gov
ernor of the Philippines.
It has been discovered that Geron-
imo PARA, who was hanged in Ell
Paso, Tex, in January, 1900, for muir
der, was innocent.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
Detroit $750,0OO towards the erection
of public library building.
Lightning struck pier in Chicago
and killed ten boys and a man who had
been fishing and sought shelter from
storm.
During the 12 months ended June
80 there were placed in circulation
foit
against an average of about ten for
each year during the preceding ten
years.
Record breaking heat caused "a
deaths, six suicides and 216 prostra-
tions in New York city, IA deaths in
Philadelphia, IS in Pittsburgh, IA in
Baltimore and 5 in Chicago.
Five men, the crew of the tug Fern,
persisted in the laundering of the boat
near Houghton, Mich.
Thomas Dunn English, author of
the old song, ben Bolt" celebrated
the eighty-second anniversary of his
birth at his home in Newark, n. j.
The government receipts over ex-
penditures in the fiscal year just
closed amounted to $76,OOO,O00.
Four persons committed suicide in
Chicago, one being a boy of II years
who was in love.
The public debt statement issued
on the 1st shows that the debt de-
creased $17,737,374 during the month
of June. The cash balance in the
treasury was 1926, 1873, 1874. The total
debt, less the cash in the treasury
amounts to 81 ,O44, 739, 100.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Count Won Waldersee will visit the
United States next May.
William C. Whitney, of New York,
Nasturtium.
There will be between $4,000 and
100000 additional acres of land de-
voted to rice culture in the south
this year.
1t is reported that company at
st. Cloud, Fla, has succeeded in max
ing excellent paper from the leaves
of the palmetto
President Palmer, of the Rio
Grande & Western, has sold his in
terest in the road to the Gould inter-
ests for $6,OO0,OO0.
Prince Bonaparte's pathological Ii
brary of $4,000 volumes, the finest in
the world, has been secured for the
Newberry library, Chicago.
In selling its interest in the Sioux
City & Pacific railroad the govern
ment has recovered all the principal
and about 100000 in addition.
A ship to shore wireless telegraph
test was successfully made from the
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse as she
sailed from New York for Europe.
The government has acquired one
square mile of property on Plum is
land and will erect Notifications
greatly Strengthening New York
city's defenses.
Andrew Allan, the only surviving
founder of the Allan Line Ocean
Steamship company and president of
the line, died at Montreal, Can, at the
age of so years.
John w. Woolley, who was the pro-
hibition candidate for presidency,
has started on a tour around the
world to investigate the liquor ques-
ton in ali its phases.
Herbert L. Bridgeman has been Sc
lected by the Peary Arctic club of
New York to head the expedition it
will send north this summer to the
relief of Lieut.. Peary.
The Pennsylvania supreme court
has declared that the governor has
the right to veto in whole or in part
any item of appropriation that the
legislature may make.
Three generations of one colored
family have been graduated from
Oberlin college-John M. Langston,
in 1910; his son. Arthur D. Langston,
teacher in ST. Louis, in 1877, and his
grandson this year.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
THE EAST.

Yale won the varsity and fresh
man races in college boat-racesat New
London, Conn, and Harvard won the
four-oared event.
At the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during
the seven days ended on the 2Sth ag-
gregated So, $780, 42, 544, against $685.
49S,373 the previous week. The in
crease compared with the correspond
ing week of last year was 49.1.
In the United States there were 204
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 2sth, against 1913 the week
previous and 2o7 the corresponding
period of 1900.
Throughout the country business is
said, to be remarkably prosperous.
A doctor in Boston will fast month
to prove that such treatment will cure
all illness.
In New York Henry Marquand &
Co., bankers aud brokers', made an as
signment with liabilities of SS,Oo0,Ooo.
At the age of 81 years Commander
Frederick R. Smith, United States navy
(retired), died in Binghamton, N. Y.
During storm Fred Lee and his wife,
just married, were killed by lightning
at Meriden. Conn.
In the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the
week ended on the Goth ult. were:
Pittsburgh, $50; New York, .562; ST.
Louis, .544; Brooklyn, .536; Boston,
500; Cincinnati, .434; Philadelphia,
1896; Chicago, 1922.
In New York city frauds more ex-
tensive than in Tweed's time are said
to have been discovered.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the American league for the
week ended on the 10th ult. were:
Chicago, $40; Boston, $50; Baltimore,
574; Detroit, $50; Washington, .532;
Philadelphia, 1896; Cleveland, .35S;
Milwaukee, .347.
The doors of the City national bank
of Buffalo, N. Y, were closed with Ii
abilities of $500, oo3. Injudicious
loans caused the suspension.
The death of David r. Paige, of
Akron, o., member of the Forty
eighth congress and defeated for re-
election by President Mckinley, oc-
CURED in New York.
At the age of SO years, Rev. DR..
Byron Sunderland, for 4S years pastor
of the First Presbyterian church in
Washington, died in Catskill, N. Y.
Because of wage disagreement 49,
900 employees of the American Sheet
Steel and American Steel Hoop COM
panies Throughout the country were
ordered to quit work.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.

Ex-Speaker Reed reads Italian al
most as readily as English.
Ex-Mayor Hewitt, of New York, de-
clares that to be rich and not to use
riches for the general good is to be
disgraced, because after all riches
are but the result of general COOP
Grafton"
They say that William J. Bryan is
rapidly becoming rich. State Sena-
tor Wright, who is Bryan's next-door
neighbor, thinks that $4,000 is about
Mr.. Bryan's earnings for 1900 from
writings and lectures.
Judge jerks, of the New York SUI
preme court. told the New York law
school the other day that "the man
with the burrows on his brow wins
against the man with the creases in
his trousers every time"
Gen. Macarthur will soon complete
80 years of military service. When
he is relieved of his command in the
Philippines he expects to visit South
Africa and Europe before returning
to the United States.
Justice David J. Brewers country
house is Thompson's Point, on the
shores of Lake Champlain, and is one
of the most beautiful in that region,
besides containing a splendid library
and collection of pictures. Its name is
Liberty hall.
Five brothers named Backes live in
Trenton, N. j. All are lawyers enjoy
ing lucrative practice, and not one
of them had more than a grammar
school education. Their father died
in 1S47, leaving widow and six boys,
the eldest of whom was but IA years
old.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
Six Victims in st. Louis.
FROM OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

Faint purse ne'er won fair lady,
Life.
Our adversely should often be
spelled perversity.-Ram's Horn.
Do not mistake excitement for
amusement nor idleness for calm
Good Cheer.
Dyspepsia, with all it's terrors, can't
keep a man from eating, but it can
make him wish he hadn't, good and
hard.-Puck.
The love a loyal man feels is al
ways poorly expressed-only the cold
in love make fine speeches about it,
Town Topics.
A Pan-American sight recently was
a Japanese in American clothing rid
ing in jinriksha drawn by an Amer
lean CARRIED as a Buffalo
Express.
A man gets mad if any man looks
at his daughter of 16, and if she has
reached 26 without any man looking
at her, he begins to look at her crit
ically mself.-Atchison Globe.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The universal suffrage plan has been
adopted by the Cuban electoral com.
mission.
Beers made an attack on Richmond,
in Cape Colony, but were repulsed
after a IL hours fight.
The Austrian government has re-.
sumed diplomat tic rela tons with Mex.
leo, which were broken in 1867 by the
execution of Macmillan.
In the British house of lords Lord
Wolseley said that the American army
was the finest of its size in the world
In the province of Shenking Chinese
rebels burned several villages and
killed hundreds of natives.
China, through a mistake, agreed to
pay 24,5OO,0OO more indemnity than
the powers demanded.
China will establish new capital in
Ho Nan province, the empress dow.
ager fearing to live in Picking.
In a report to the war department
Gen. Chaffee accuses American mis-.
sionaries in China of looting.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
WOMEN AT WORK.

In st. Petersburg women pay only
one-half of what men do for a ride
in cab.
In the factories of Baden, Germany,
1926 per cent. of the workers are
women and girls over Is.
Few women consider that they car
ry some 40 or so miles of hair on
their head; the fair-haired may even
have to dress 70 miles of threads of
gold every morning.
Women were first permitted to be-
come employees in government Offices
in 1862, when Secretary of the Treas
ury Salmon P. Chase appointed six
women clerks.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
DOlNGS Or 4 WEEK
What Has Happened Throughout
the Civilized World.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
A Complete Review of the Happenings
Of the Past Seven Days in This
and ALI Foreign Lands.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.

In Washington the equity court
awarded $2s8,O00 to Dewey's sailors
and 100000 to those of Simpsons fleet
for war prize money.
Coinage at the United States mints
for the fiscal year just closed amount
ed to $136,34O,7S as follows: Gold,
500, O65,715; silver, $35,265, 49S; minor
coins, $2,009,56S.
Numerous deaths from the heat
were reported from all parts of the
country.
During the fiscal year just closed
postage stamps issued by the depart
ment in Washington numbered 5,116,-
$4,000, against 1877, 900 the pre-
vious year.
During the past fiscal year marked
increase in trade with the Philippines
was shown.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Perpetual Motion.

James Halter, Dane residing in the
town of Somers, claims that he has
solved the problem of perpetual mo-
ton. Thirty years ago he began work
on a machine to solve the question,
and now he has sent model to the
patent office, seeking a patent. Halter
claims for his machine that it is i'm
possible for it to stop. Eight months
ago the machine was started and the
people who have watched it closely
claim that it has never lost second.
Up to the present time the motion of
the machine has been from east to
west and not circular, but Halter
claims that the new model solves tho
question of circular motion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06

1t will take Is more votes to elect
the next president of the United
States than were required to elect
Mckinley last fall. There were 447
members in the last electoral college,
but under the reapportionment there
will be 476 in the next. The states
of the North Atlantic seaboard gain
nine votes in the electoral college by
the new allotment, the sixteen ex-
slave states gain ten, and the middle
and far west gain ten-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
The News Condensed.

DR.. d. X. Pearsons of Chicago has
given Beloit college 100000, fulfill
ing his pledge conditional upon the
trustees raising $15O,000. President
Eaton has withdrawn his resignation.
On August 1 a rural free delivery
route will be established at Kewau-
nee. The route, 81 miles long, will
cover an area of "a square miles, serv-
ing $50 houses, or a population of CTS.
The largest class of graduates that
ever finished the course at the State
university together, 297 in all, received
their degrees and diplomas in Madi-
son.
The new Sprague Opera house and
library, which cost about $4,000, was
formally opened at Elkhorn.
The bank of Green Bay, a state
bank, has begun business.
w. J. James, chief of the Waukesna
fire department, died of appendicitis
at his home, aged 40 years.
Foster DEBORAH, Winnebago In
dian, recently killed ten wolves near
Kilbourn, for which he received 500
bounty.
The Chippewa Falls Canning COM
pany has started it's new factory. The
company has 800 acres in peas and as
many in corn and tomatoes.
Helen Fifeld, the missing GAINESVILLE
girl, has been found in Buffalo, N. Y.
AT the forty-seventh annual com
mencement at ST. Clara in Sinsinawa
the name was changed from St. Clara's
academy to ST. Clara's college.
Fl. w. Sundler, a prominent settler
of Wood Lake, was found with bullet
through his heart. His wife says he
committed suicide, but her story is
doubted.
John De Young, Is years olo, was run
down and killed near Kenosha by a
Northwestern freight train.
Alfred Anderson killed his wife with
hammer at West Superior because
she had been away from home all
night.
About 5000 was taken from the cash
drawer of the Wisconsin Central tick
eft office at Fond du Lac in broad day
light. There was no clew to the rob-
Der.
R. r. La Fluer, of New Amsterdam,
who has the distinction of being the
oldest farmer in La Crosse county,
celebrated his eighty-frst birthday.
Gen. Harris C. Hobart, who has re-
signed as a member of the Milwaukee
library board at the age of 80, was one
of the men who tunneled their way
out of Libby prison.
Frank J. Tack was sentenced in Mil
waukee to four years in the state
prison for embezzlement of $1,000 of
the funds of the National Express
company.
Mary Danderma sen, of Lake Mills,
who was discharged as cured from the
northern hospital for the insane, dis
robed on the shore of the lake, walked
out slowly till she was beyond her
depth and was drowned.
Patrick Abraham, aged 10 wears,
was struck by lightning at his home
in the town of Stettin and instantly
killed.
A 16-months-old child of A. Meyer,
a farmer living near Monroe, was
found dead, hanging in a swing. The
child evidently fell while swinging, as
it was hanging with the rope around
it's neck.
Mrs. Raymond, 60 years of age, was
struck and killed at railway crossing
just north of Bloomer.
John Seiringr aged IS, of Fillmore,
blew his head off with shotgun. He
was Respondent over i'll health.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
Declared demonstration

Milwaukee. July 2.-An Evening
Wisconsin special from Madison. Wis,
says Attorney General E. r. Hicks
Monday rendered an opinion holding
that the act passed by the last legis-
lature authorizing the expenditure
of $4,000 of state money for the eX-
tension and improvement of the Wis
consin river levee at Portage is I'M
constitutional and void as violating
the provision of the constitution
which prohibits the state from ex-
pending money or contracting debts
for work for internal improvement.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
Devoured by Wolves.

A terrible struggle with pack of fe-
rocious wolves, probably crazed with
hunger, and final death after the fierce
fight, was the fate of John Hockst ock,
70 return as expected. After pro-
longed search the only trace found of
Hocks't ock was few bones, the torn
shreds of clothing which were identi-
fed as his, a watch which belonged to
him and So in pocket of the trousers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
Three Boys Drowned.

Three small boys, all under II years
of age, were drowned below the dam
of the Porter Wards Paper company
at Grand Rapids. They were: Sidney
Larxon, Arthur Calm and Clarence
Reuce. The boys went in for swim,
and getting beyond shallow water
were swept off their feet and into the
deep water below
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
Crop Outlook.

The weekly crop report of the
Washington weather bureau says for
Wisconsin,:
Continued warm, with general rains mod
erately heavy over western counties; To-
cal hailstorms did little damage; small
grains doing well and generally headed
out; clover cutting begun; hay crop gen.
orally poor, except on new seedlings and
uplands, where fair crop is promised
oats and barley promise a good crop, ex-
cept on broadcast seedlings.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
Painful Irnnronca

That's a beautiful child" said the
elderly bachelor, looking with great
apparent interest at the baby. ct
seems to be biting it's finger nails.
Aren't you afraid to let it do that?
I was reading only the other day
about the righteousness of that habit
in children. 1t destroys the nails and
is bad for their little stomachs."
II hardly think she'll bite her nails
to hurt" stiffly replied the mother
"She's only three months old."-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06

The location of the boundary line
between the United States and Can
ada in the Cascade mountain region
will revive an irritation of long stand
ing. Canada's claim is not allowed,
even if the lire is three-ffths of a
mile further south than Americans
claim AS enormous mining proper
ties are located in that region it was
most important to have the lire To-
Gated, to put an end to frequent con-
ficts as to jurisdiction. The greater
part of the valuable mines are in the
territory south of the line, which is
said to make Canadians very angry.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06

The farmers boy who drifts to the
city finds, in nine cases out of ten,
irregular work, a dingy littls room in
bad street, food that he would have
disdained in his country home and :
resistible temptation to spend every
dollar which he can get hold of. The
city boy reaching the country finds
just as hard work and longer hours,
but work in the fresh air and sun
shine, with comfortable surroundings,
good food and all the social standing
of which his character makes him
worthy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
HOnors Bestowed.

The University of Wisconsin has
conferred the degree of doctor of
laws upon Gov. La Toilette. He
is the first governor to receive this
honor in Wisconsin. The same honor
has been bestowed upon Prof. Fl.
Gregory in view of his early removal
to Iowa to become chancellor of the
law school
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06

In the United States there are $685.
600 Indians. Of this number 1880
draw rations regularly, while 1900
more are provided at various times
when they are unable to work or do
not feel like it. In the latter class are
included most of the Indians who have
grown old and are deserted by their
young relatives. The total cost of pur-
chasing and distributing rations to the
Indians last year reached the sum of
1921 900. 1t will be even more in 1901.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06

A machine that will do the work of
80 expert mathematicians is being con-
structed by the government in its
scientific instrument shop in Washing
ton. 1t is to be an improvement on an
instrument in use in the bureau of the
coast survey which has charge of calcu-
lating the tides. The machine now in
use does wonderful things. There is a
little crank on the lower left-hand side,
and at simple turn of that crank the
machine will give the answer to a prob
lem involving 10 separate calculations.
1t works out the complicated calcula-
tons of tidal variations.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06

Lieutenant Hobson in the course
of a speech delivered in Boston the
other day gave it as his opinion that
the faults of sailors as men were
largely due to the fact that they
were for the most part SO much with
out homes and away from the in
fluence of women
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06

Experiments are being made by the
department of agriculture with a view
of doubling the yield of corn without
additional expense or labor by sys-
tenn of cross breeding. The theory is
not yet made public, but farmers are
advised to be more careful in selecting
seed This should be done while the
corn is standing by selecting the best
stalks instead of going to the crib and
selecting the biggest ears. 1t is given
out that the department has 10000
bybrids, among which are 200 new and
distinct varieties. Go west, young
man, and buy farm.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06

According to the English census re-
turns England is becoming one big
city. Agriculture Is languishing and
the sturdy yeomen who once fought
England's battles so well are disap-
pearing. Her armies must now be
recruited largely from the slums,
which to patriotic Englishmen should
occasion some alarm. The country
boy usually makes good soldier,
while the youth bred in the slums is
generally a very poor one.