Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-10-04

Iresentative of operators, at which
proposition from the mine owners
looking to settlement of the strike is
said to have been made.
President Roosevelt's physicians an
nounce that the wound on his leg is in
satisfactory condition.
Gen. r. A. Alger, former secretary
| of war, has accepted Gov. Bliss tender
of the ad interim appointment as Uni
ted States senator from Michigan.
The yacht Little Haste, of Massachu-
sets, won the national championship
in contest off Chicago
Seven negro ghouls, arrested at In
ldianapolis, confessed to robbing 100
graves in cemeteries there within three
months.
Twelve hundred public schools have
been opened over the entire island Of
| Porto Rico.
The mayor of Detroit has appealed
to the governors of the chief coal con
Stunning states, mayors and citizens to
meet at Detroit October and discuss
ending of the coal strike
Estimates for rural free delivery
service for the next fiscal year aggre-
gate $12,655,sOO
Panic in the New York stock market
was averted by Secretary Shaw, who
announced that banks need not carry
reserve against deposits secured by
government bonds, thus releasing $50.
| 100000.
Gustaf Z. Seifeld, Peshtigo (Wis.)
| farmer, was shot and killed by his son
while beating his wife
| 1t is said that the dowager queen Of
| Spain, Maria Christina, has been mar
| ried to her master of horse, Count Es-
cosura.
Garcia Monies, secretary of finance,
reported the Cuban budget to be $14,-
| 900, 900
A tidal wave drowned 500 persons in
the Odawara district in Japan
A combine of lead manufacturers,
with s6OoOO0OO capital, has been ar
ranged in New York
The Ohio democrats have nominated
Thomas Bentham for congress in the
First district and Harry C. Bush in the
Second
Harry Jordan, of Sioux Falls, S. D.,
! died from an injury received in foot
ball game.
| Emile lola, the great French novel.
list, was found dead in his apartments
| in Paris, where investigation shows
that his demise was due to asphyxia-
ton by gas from defective stove.
After conference with cabinet
members in Washington President
Roosevelt sent word to J. Pierpont
Morgan, who controls the operating
companies in the coal fields of Penn.
| sylvania, that he must bring the op-
orators to submit their differences
with the miners to arbitration.
The pope calls on the clergy in the
Philippines to aid the authorities iu
restoring order.
| New York stock prices doomed on
Secretary Shaw's announcement that
| the bank reserve against government
deposits will not be required
Bank robbers secured So, 900 from the
| bank at Mineral, H.
| Rival air ships Santos-Dumont and
Leo Stevens sailed an endurance con-
test at New York, the former win.
ming by going a mile and a half.
The estimates of the postmaster
general of the appropriations re-
quired during the next fiscal year ag-
gregate $46, 925, 22o.
Theodore Smith and Thomas Fair
cloth, young men who killed the aged
Lewis couple one month ago, were
| hanged at Bronston, Fla.
The government weekly crop re-
port says rains retard maturing of
| late crops, but are favorable to
termination of fall-sown grain.
| Mrs. Elizabeth Lane, one of Iowa's
oldest pioneers, died at Trenton, aged
one month less than 100 years.
The estimates Of appropriations re-
CURED for the department. of agricul-
! ture for the next fiscal year aggregate
almost $5.00O,QO0.
Throughout Iowa and Nebraska
and creeks that many of them have
left their banks and done great dam
age to late crops.
Receivers have been appointed IN
Trenton, n. j., for the National Salt
company, known as the salt trust,
which has deficit of almost $780,
| 600.
Gov. La Toilette in speech in Mil
| waukee opening the republican cam
| paign in Wisconsin declared the an
| thracite trust has robbed consumers
of s2oo0o0,oo0 in overcharges.
The Cunard steamship line will re-
ceive $750,000 annual subsidy from
the British government and stay out
of the Morgan trust.
! The Michigan democratic state CEN
=! trail committee has named L. T. Durand
| of Saginaw, as candidate for governor,
| his brother having declined on account
of illness.