Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-07-19
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI 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.

DOMESTIC.
Forty prisoners failed in bold at
tempt to escape from jail at st. Joseph,
No, by dynamiting a wall of the build
ing.
Secretary Hays note to the powers
to eva cuate Tientsin has met with sue
cess.
Administration circles, seeing a
clear title to the Panama canal route,
have begun negotiations for treaty
with the Colombian minister at Wash
ington.
The Chicago freight handlers strike
has been settled with victory for the
railroad managers. The men are
given 20 per cent. wage increase, but
the union has failed to get recognition
as demanded.
Rev. j. W. Poland, of Cincinnati, de-
clares that the kindergarten method
in primary schools undermines the
mental and moral powers of children.
Notables in England and the United
States plan new Anglo-American
club to prom interna tional amity.
President Mitchell, of the United
Mine Workers, in an address at Nanti-
coke, Pa, scored the operators and
Citizens alliance for statements
planned to crush the miners'union.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois rail-
road control is believed to have been
bought by the Louisville & Nashville.
A London delegate presented to the
Minneapolis convention a plan for in
terchange of American and English
teachers for short terms of study.
Bandit Tracy shook off bloodhounds
near Seattle, Wash, by throwing pep
per in his tracks and eluded his pur-
suers, who have no clew. to his where
abouts.
A steel trust official declares that
the combination will not only fight
suits in court but will attack motives
of men behind them.
The Panama title is considered
above suspicion by the state depart
ment, and the canal seems certain
to be built on that route.
President Schurman, of Cornell col
lege, predicted that Philippine re-
cational work in speech at the ma
tional Educational association in Min
neapolis.
twenty-five thousand Chicago
transfers may assist the freight ham
dlers' strike by refusing to haul
freight. They are awaiting the rail
road managers reply to an arbitration
proposal.
Col. Nathaniel Mckay, well-known
hotel man and lobbyist in Washington,
died suddenly at Atlantic City, N. J.
The government monthly crop re-
port showed the corn acreage in
creased 80 per cent. over area har-
vested in 1901.
A fire damp explosion in the Cam
bria Rolling Mill mine at Johns
town, Pa, killed IT'S or more miners,
but the exact number cannot be
learned till .rescuers reach them
Gov. Stone, of Pennsylvania, re-
fused to call out the militia as re-
quested by the Carbon county sher-
if to guard miners.
The National Educational associa-
ton in session at Minneapolis elect
ed as president Charles w. Eliot,
president of Harvard college.
The Baptist Young Peoples union
convened at Providence, R. l., with
10000 delegates present.
Dan Green, who killed two patent
medicine fakirs on a steamer at DAY.
export, Ia, was acquitted by coro-
ner's jury on the ground of self-de-
Tense.
The receipts of the so largest post
Offices in the United States for June
were SALTS, 1868, a gain of $572, 1922, or
IA per cent, over the receipts for June,
1901.
High water in Woodbury. county, Ia,
did damage to the extent of 100000
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the seven days ended on the
4th aggregated s1,s47, 629, sos, against
s., 1893. 727,952 the previous week. The
decrease, compared with the corres-
ponding week of last year, was 1877.
There were 105 business failures in
the United States in the seven DAYS
ended on the 1lth, against 1873 the
week previous and 1919 the correspond
ing week of last year.
Over 5000 persons were made home
less by flood in Des Moines, Ia and
property valued at 100000 was de-
stroyed.
On the sandbars in Jones inlet
near Long Beach, n. Y, launch
was wrecked and II persons prob
ably drowned.