Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-04-03
A 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.

Lightning set fire to ST. Andrews
Roman Catholic church at Grand Rap
ids, Mich, destroying the structure. +.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was:
Wheat, 54,714,OOO bushels; corn, g.,
$4,000 bushels; oats, 10,9S5,000 BUSH
els; rye, 1,11S,00O bushels; barley,
1,214.OOO bushels.
A cyclone at Birmingham, Ala,
killed 40 persons, injured 100 others
and damaged property to the extent
of 100000.
James Latimer shot and killed his
wife, from whom he had separated,
and then committed suicide in Chi
cago.
A tornado wrecked many buildings
at Mustcash, o.
The comptroller of the currency
says the shortage in the Niles (Mich.)
assessed 100 per cent.
A cyclone at Pavilion, Mich,
wrecked number of houses, uproot
ed trees, tore down telegraph poles
and did much other damage.
Lieut.. Gen. Miles and his party
have returned to Washington from
short tour of inspection in Cuba.
At Georgetown, KY, Mrs. Edward
Thompson killed her two-year-old
son and herself while insane.
J. c.. Durham was arrested at Pine
vile, KY, charged with numbering
seven persons in Santa Clara county,
Cal, seven years ago.
The Second battalion Of the Fifth
United States infantry left Fort
Sheridan, Ill, for the Philippines.
The steamer Etruria arrived in New
York after a stormy passage, during
which one passenger committed sui
eide and another became insane.
The president has appointed Will
liam A. Rodenburg, of Illinois, civil
service commissioner, and Fred I.
Allen, of Auburn, n. Y, commissions
er of patents.
Mrs. Elizabeth Preble, bride of
three weeks, killed herself in Chicago
because domestic financial arrange
ments were displeasing.
An explosion in mine near Con-
ne1lsville, Pa, killed one man and ia
tally injured five other persons.
Six masked men robbed the bank at
Somerset, O., of $4,000 in money and
a large amount of bonds.
Atchison, Kan, refused to accept
the offer of Andrew Carnegie of $780,,
900 for library.
The French liner La Gascogne ar
rived in New York after the toughest
voyage in her history.
The name of Sing Sing village has
been changed by act of the New York
legislature to Ossining.
The president informed his cabinet
that he would formally tender the at
torney generalship to P. G. Knox, of
Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Buffalo Pan-American exposi-
ton stamps will be placed on sale at
post offices throughout the country
on May next.
by John r. Mason, was wrecked with
dynamite by citizens.
Hugh Brody, miser aged 90 years,
was robbed Of 5000 in gold near Marys-
vile, Ia.
Jennie Bell Elliott and Jennie Good
win, aged ten and ID years, were killed
by lightning at Kingston, Ga.
A cyclone wrecked several buildings
at Adamsville, Mich, and near Ed
harrisburg Is acres of timber were up
rooted.
Capt. r. P. Hobson was presented
with silver service costing $1,000 by
his friends and neighbors at MS home
IN Greensboro, Ala.
The Illinois senate passed bill abol-
fishing the office of state architect.
Three men were killed by gases while
pulling train through the Great
Northern's tunnel in the Cascade
mountains.
Congressman Warner, of Illinois,
Just returned from Cuba, says the
withdrawal of the United States will
be followed by a reign of terror in the
island.
j. P. Morgan, head of the billion-dol-
lar steel trust, has been warned of a
plot to assassinate him when he ar
rives in London.
A resolution for state aid to good
roads was defeated in the Wisconsin
senate.