Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-08-09

The safe in the post Office at Niles,
o., was blown open by cracksmen who
secured about $3.50 in money and 1000
stamps.
WarrenJ ohnson and Joseph Bordges,
prominent young men of Salinas, CAL,
were shot and fatally wounded by
woman after a quarrel.
Will Dentzler, young negro, was
hanged at Hattiesburg, Miss, for an
assault on Mrs Ed Gardner, q. white
woman, June 5.
Gen. Jacob Smith arrived in San
Francisco from Manila on the trans
port Thomas.
A dispatch from Los Alamos, CAL,
says reports of damage wrought by
the recent earthquakes are exagger-
ated. The total loss will not exceed
$4,000. No one was killed and the in
habitants of the town were needlessly
alarmed.
Grave diggers at Chicago cemetery
struck for more/pay, and several fu-
nerals were compelled to turn back
It is thought the strike will spread
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended August were: Pitts
burg, .756; Brooklyn, .544; Chicago,
500; Boston, .524; Cincinnati, 464;
ST. Louis, .455; Philadelphia, 400;
New York, 1929.
The American navy will not be rep
resented in the British coronation re-
view.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the American league for the
week ended August were: Chi
cago, SIS; ST. Louis, $40; Philadel-
phia, .544; Boston, Sal; Washington
AIT; Detroit, .444; Cleveland, .443;
Baltimore, .43O.
Gen. Smith speaks for the first
time on his forced retirement and
defends his warfare with the savages
of Samar island.
National guardsmen at Shenan-
doah, Pa, were ordered to shoot first
and investigate afterward as a result
of attacks on their camp under cover
of darkness. A serious clash be-
tween soldiers and rioters is feared.
j. G. McCaslin, a well-known min
ing man in Salt Lake City, shot and
killed LOttie Russell and dangerously
wounded F. Max Peters and then
committed suicide.
While brooding over a fear of in
sanity G. w. Bray shot and killed his
daughter, Mrs. Earl Johnson, and
then committed suicide in Granger,
Tex.
In the fiscal year ended June 80 las t
64S,743 immigrants landed in the
United States, against 437,91s during
he previous year.
! A Vandalia train wrecked a trolley
car at Terre' Haute, Ind, seriously in
| juring IS persons.
An excursion train was wrecked
near Cadillac, Mich, by broken
wheel, and IL persons were injured.
| Naval and military maneuvers will
include real warfare with newspaper
dispatch boats, which warships will
try to evade or capture.
| A naval force of 10000 is desired by
Real Admiral Taylor; present limit
of $4,000 not enough to man new war
ships under construction or likely to
be built soon.
Earthquake stories from Los Ala
mos, CAL, are exaggerated, only $4,000
damage being done, and earth assures
failed to develop.
A collision between milk trains at
Horizons, n Y, resulted in the death
of four persons and the wrecking of
two engines.
Portions of a human skeleton were
| found under the basement of the
white house at Washington by work
| ingmen excavating for new heating
apparatus.
Because his wife had left him Pleas
Pitzer, negro, shot and killed Robert
| Brooks, his father-in-law, and his
daughter, and fatally wounded an
other sister of his wife near Brinkley
Ark.
Despondent because Of illness Jo-
seph Podawski stabbed his wife and
12-year-old daughter and commit ed
suicide at Ell Reno, o. T.