Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-10-05
LATER NEWS,

The will of the late President Nc
Kinley was admitted to probate in
Canton, o. The administrators esti-
mate the estate at $4,000 and an al
lowance to Mrs. Mckinley at $4,000 a
year.
The confederate soldiers home
near Atlanta, Ga, was destroyed by
fire.
Gen. Botha, with 1900 Beers, at
tackled Fort ITALIA, on the border of
Zululand, the fighting lasting all day.
The assailants were finally repulsed,
but losses were heavy on both sides.
Fifteen men are believed to have
persisted as the result of a fire in a
mine near Nanaimo, B. c.
Peter j. Devine, cavalryman at
Fort Ethan Allen, VT, was given
years Imprisonment for speaking dis
respectfully of the late President Nc
Kinley.
Arab Pasha has returned to Egypt
from exile.
A man supposed to be Pat Grove,
the abductor of Eddie Cudahy in
Omaha, has been arrested at Plainfield,
Conn.
Venezuela is said to be on the verge
of ruin as result of disagreement.
Hays Edstrom, of Washington, Pa,
accused of embenzziing $4,000 belong
Chicago police.
In a jealous rage Thomas Boggs, a
business man in North Baltimore, o.,
fatally shot his wife and himself.
Three hundred linemen employed by
the Chicago Teleph one company struck
to enforce their demand for higher
wages.
President Roosevelt received his first
salary check as chief executive. 1t
was for SCOTIA for II days.
A suggestion which is meeting with
favor is to change the name of the
Philippine islands to the Mckinley is
lands.
Further reports of the massacre of
company c of the Ninth regiment III
Samar show that three American Off
GERS and Al men were killed and 14O
Filipinos lost their lives.
Mrs. Joseph II. Ormsby gave birth
in Chicago to four babes, following
previous record of three singles, two
pairs Of twins and one set of triplets.
Fifty thousand dollars sent from
Quebec for the payment of Bur-
goyne's army 125 years ago were re-
covered from an old hulk in East
bay, Lake Champlain, where it was
sunk to prevent falling into the
hands of Americans.
The public debt statement issued
on the 1st shows that the debt de-
creased $4,S25,401 during the month
of September. The cash balance in
the treasury was $319,919,s79. The
total debt, less the cash in the treas
ury, amounts to $1,O31 ,524,365.
Five negroes and one white man
were killed in race war in Harrison
county, Texas.
Charles J.. Knapp, of Lowville, n.
Y, has been nominated for congress
by the republicans of the Twenty
fourth district.
William Barrett Ridgely took the
oath of office as comptroller Of the
currency.
The transport Thomas arrived in San
Francisco from Manila with a number
of army officers and discharged sol
diers.
A parade of 700 babies opened a
week of carnival at the Buffalo expo
sition.
Twenty-three of the leading plowmak-
ers of the world formed combine in
Chicago with a capital of $100,000,00
ard celebrated with banquet.
The Cuban constitutional conven-
ton decided to dissolve after naming
a committee on election laws.
The weather bureau reports the
week favorable for maturing and
gathering corn. Crop safe from in
jury by frost.
A large British convoy which was
leaving Melmoth, Zululand, was cap
tured by the Beers.
Three men were burned to death in
fire which destroyed a barn near
Trashy, MINI.
The north half Of the business por-
ton of Bradayville, 10, was destroyed
by fire.
The government receipts in Septem-
Der amounted to $44, 454, 422, and the
expenditures $32, 310,736, leaving sur
plus for the month of $12, 1913 ,6S6.
The total circulation of national
bank notes at the close of business
September 80 was $358,83O SAB, an in
crease for the year of $30,414,121.
Forty lives have been lost thus far
in the construction of the five-mile wa
terworks tunnel under the lake at
Cleveland.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Van SAINT, of LIE
Claire, Ia, parents of the governor of
Minnesota. celebrated their seven
tieth wedding anniversary
The Shamrock and Columbia failed
to finish their third race within the
time limit owing 10 The light wind.
The Shamrock was half mile ahead
hnra fl,nl r.