Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-07-12

Andre and his companions were mas
sacred by Eskimos two years ago.
LATER.
Over 5000 freight handlers struck in
Chicago because railroad officials re-
fused to recognize their union in dis
cussing demand for increased wages.
King Edward will probably be
crowned between August II and Au-
gust Is.
Karl Won Boeckman shot and killed
his wife, fatally wounded o. F. Fare
well, a friend, and then killed him
self in New York city.
The town of White Horse, an old
Indian trading post in Oklahoma, has
been destroyed by fire.
William Clark, of Newark, n. j.,
one of the largest manufacturers of
thread in the world, died at the age
of 81 years.
Three white men and two negroes
were killed by lightning at Offerman,
Ga.
Prof. N. S. Scovel, aged 70 years,
one of the best known educators in
Illinois, died at his farm home near
Rose Hill.
Joseph Chamberlain, British CO.
lonial secretary, was severely injured
in cab accident in London.
During a storm that did great dam
age at Merton, Wis, two children of
George Maulster were killed by light
ming.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee predicts anarchy
in Cuba unless reciprocity is granted
by the United States
The fire loss of the United States and
Canada in June was $1O,245, $50, $685., 900
more than the same month in 1901.
Rev. George j. Johnson, for SO years
a Baptist missionary, died at ST. Louis,
aged rs years.
John Joseph DAILY, one Of the lead
ing lawyers of the northwest, commit
ted suicide at Pueblo, Col, by taking
morphine.
A sandstorm did $1,000, 900 damage in
the Indio valley IN the Colorado desert
James Heath, Charles Cartwright
and William Cushman, all woodsmen,
were killed by the cars near Gilchrist,
Mich
Cholera is spreading in Manchuria
and the mortality rate is very great.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has
started on a tour of the west and
northwest that will extend two
months.
The National Educational associa-
ton began it's convention at Mime
apolis.
For the first time in 20 years the six
shoe factories at Burlington, n. j.,
employing about 1900 men and wom-
en-, are idle as the result of strike.
The weather bureau crop report
says that a general improvement in
the condition of corn throughout the
central valleys has followed favor
able temperatures.
The National Civic Federation is
still striving to settle the strike in
the anthracite coal regions.
The national educational association
opened its annual convention at Min
neapolis with 10000 members attend
ing.
The transport Logan arrived in
San Francisco from Manila with 1,164
soldiers on board
At Salisbury, N. c., Arch Conley, an
Indian, and Dick Fleming, a white
man, were hanged upon the same
scaffold for murder.
The social democrats Of Minnesota
have nominated j. E. Nash, of Min
neapolis, for governor.
The American federation of labor
has offered financial aid to the an
thracite miners as long as the strike
lasts.
The pope will not consent to the
friars' withdrawal from the Philip
pines, as demanded by Gov. Taft.
Jessie Morrison, convicted of kill
ing Mrs. DIN Castle in Eldorado,
Kan, in June, 1900, has been SEN
fenced to IS years Imprisonment.
Two volcanoes near Lake Mica
ragua, in Costa Rica, are reported in
eruption.
Much damage is being done by high
water south and east of Sioux City,
Ia, all the small rivers being over
their banks.
Gavon D. Burgess was nominated
for supreme judge at the democratic
judicial convention at Springfield Mo.
The war department. has forbidden