Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-06-28
DOMESTIC.
anu SO1lt
adopted.

A national convention of miners
will meet at indianapolis July II to con-
slider the question of general strike
to aid the anthracite workers who are
out in Pennsylvania.
Anarchists lead mob of 5000 at Pa
terson, n. j., in an attack upon the
silk mills, and police and ten persons
were shot, of whom four will die.
Fire at Creole, Col, destroyed prop
erty valued at 5000, 900 and made 60
families homeless.
Gov. Aycock, of North Carolina, has
offered a reward of $500 each for rs
men who lynched negro on June II.
The immigration hearing before
senate committee developed the fact
that steamship companies smuggle dis
eased immigrants through Canada.
Director of the Mint George E. Rob-
erts has bought the Iowa State Regis
ter at Des Moines from the Clarkson
family.
The Illinois Steel company has volun-
tarily increased the wages of the Joliet
employees ten per cent.
During quarrel Mrs. George
Leightner killed Miss Rose Wheeler
and her mother, Mrs William Wheeler,
at Toledo, O.
Admiral Crowninshield, in his review
of the inquiry into the arrests of naval
officers at Venice, blames Capt Dayton
for not defending his subordinates.
A mob at Nincennes, Ind, surround
ed the Jail and threatened to lynch VIII
liam Edison, charged with attacking a
child, but the officers drove the crowd
away.
The transport fitzpatrick arrived in
San Francisco from Manila with $50
troops on board.
Michigan university gave degrees to
776 graduates, Notre Dame, Ind, to
At, and Wisconsin to 203.
An explosion in powder mill at
Seward, Pa, killed four men, and two
others were fatally injured.
Gov. Murphy ordered three COM
panies of the New Jersey militia to
Paterson to guard mills and protect
workers from mob violence.
Bishop Nicholson, of Milwaukee, is
sued a statement against the tobacco
habit to the Episcopal clergy of his
diocese.
Secretary Root provides figures
showing that the cost of the Philip
pine war to the present time has been
$170,32 1856.
The Northwestern university at
Evanston, ILL.,, graduated class of SOC,
the largest in it's history.
Charles H. Smith, of Jackson, Mich,
who was recently appointed to judg-
ship in the Philippine islands, has de-
clined the office.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the seven days ended on the
goth aggregated $3.50, 27O, 697, against
$2,134, 005,353 the previous week The
decrease, compared with the cores
ponding week of last year, was 1913
There were 1914 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the goth, against 228 the
week previous and 1913 the correspond
ing week of last year.
Troops are now guarding the silk
mills at Paterson, n. j., to prevent
riots by strikers.
Johann Most, of New York, must
serve year in prison for printing
an incendiary article at the time
President Mckinley was shot.
Nelson n. Reynolds and his wife
and three children, who lived near
Wanatah, Ind, were drowned while
visiting in Tennessee
The bituminous coal supply is not
enough to last three months if a
general miners strike is called.
Miners of the middle west are said
to be opposed to general strike in
sympathy with the anthracite workers.
Trains collided on the Northern Pa
cifc road near Staples, Mimi, and six
persons were killed and several
others injured.
Persistent rumors are in circula ton
on stock exchanges that a gigantic
combination Of all packing interests
is to be made.