Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-05-29
A WEEKS RECORD
All 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.

daily.
Treasury officials are taking steps
to have the Chinese exclusion act eX-
tended to Cuba.
Four persons were hurt in a Rock
Island passenger wreck at West Wya-
net, Ill.
Three children were killed by
bear near Job, w. Va.
Milt Calvert, a negro, was hanged
by citizens at Griffith, Miss, for at
tempting an assault upon Tiny Gates,
ten-year-old girl.
The Baldwin polar expedition will
start for the arctic regions in June.
Mrs. Charles F. Gunzert shot and
killed her 13-year-old son and then
committed suicide at Tacoma, Wash.
A thoroughbred Hereford COW
brought $4,000 at sale in Chicago, the
highest price on record.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the goth was: Wheat,
bushels; oats, 10, 724, 600 bushels; rye,
$4,000 bushels; barley, $4,000 bush
els
Mrs. Mckinley passed another fav-
orable day, and the president was en-
couraged to make engagements for
informal appearance on public occa-
sions.
Fred Mcneil, of Ashley, H., rode
266 miles to Chicago on mule to enlist
in the navy.
The Sovereign Camp Woodmen of
the World has voted to expel members
who engage in the liquor business.
The promoters of the Charleston
exposition say they have ample re-
sources and that the display will be
ready for the opening in December.
Fortyfour Fort Sheridan 0ll.) sol
diers who disappeared on pay day
are still unaccounted for.
About $4,000 machinists in all parts
of the country began strike for
ninehour day and an increase of
wages.
The Protestant Episcopal church
has started movement to divide the
United States into provinces, with an
archbishop over each and a metro
politan over all.
found religious sect on the teach
ings of R. G. Ingerson.
The Arapahoe Indians defy govern
ment authorities at the Shoshone res
ervation.
A hypnotic subject was killed during
an exhibition at Woonsocket. r. I.
Mrs. Elmer Quimby, wife of farmer
near ST. Louis, killed her two children
by giving them morphine, and then
took a dose herself.
German Catholic societies of Illinois
in convention voted to contest school
laws passed by the last legislature.
Elmer Lane cut his wife's throat at
Osceola, Ia, and then used the knife
on himself. Domestic trouble was
the cause.
The mystery Of J. S. Ayres' murder
in a hotel in Washington was partly
cleared by Mrs. Lola BONNIE, who ad.
mitteG she killed him after being in
duced to go to his room on plea Of
sickness.
Evangelist Sam Jones, speaking in
Savannah, Ga, said a majority of sa-
loon keepers were Germans, and he
will be challenged to fight a duel by an
indignant German.
German Catholics of Illinois in con-
vention decided to publish daily or
gan in Chicago to promote educational
and religious interests.
A cyclone struck Fort Mill, S. c.,
and many houses were wrecked.
Two more bodies were recovered
from the wreck of the City of Pa
ducah near Carbonate, ILL.,, making
the total loss of life 81.
The weather bureau crop bulletin
says crops in the north need rain, but
the drought in the south has been
broken.
The national congress of mothers
opened at the Auditorium in Column
bus, 0.
Bishop W. A. Leonard, of Ohio, in
his annual address eXcoriates pulpit
sensationalism.
Fire damaged the plant of the W. D..
Boyce Paper Mills company at Mar
settles, H., to the extent of 100000.
President Mckinley reviewed $4,000
school children in San Francisco, maxi
ing IL DTIcI W tICIl. MI >. 4hS"
Kinley is better.
Robbers failed in an attempt to raid
a bank at Cambridge, Mass, partially
wrecking the bank building with dyna-
mite.
The annual crow hunt near Elgin,
H., resulted in the killing of 1854
birds
Thirteen soldiers deserted at Fort
Sheridan. Ill.
Admiral Schley, whose return from
Europe was FASTENED by illness of his
son, arrived in New York.
A registered letter containing $4,000
sent from Kansas City to Great Bend,
Kan, mysteriously disappeared.