Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-12-20
The capitol is short of coal and con-

cause heat and light cannot be fur
nished.
The National Civil Service Reform
league convention in Philadelphia
elected Daniel G. Gilman, of Balti-
more, president.
Goldey Tyus, convicted of murder
ing jeff Goodwin. on October %, was
hanged at Townsville, Ga.
Frank Lewis was hanged at Harlan
Court House, KY, for the murder Of
his father-in-law, Henry Dixon.
The weekly trade review reports a
brisk business throughout the coun-
try.
The national house committee on
judiciary shelved three joint resolu-
tions proposing an amendment to the
constitution disquaHfying polygamists
from holding office.
Bogota will be Informed that the
United States will not tolerate any
further delay in negotiating an 18TH
milan canal treaty.
Two cowboys terrified officials at
Hillsboro, N. NJ, and robbed the bank
of $4,000 in broad daylight.
James j. Hill thinks the era of
prosperity has reached it's height and
that downward tendency will soon
be apparent, with diminished indus
trial activity and tighter money.
Labor leaders denied a statement
made in the United States senate COM
mittee that union machinists tried
to cripple battleships and transports
during the Spa nish-Anerican war.
An iron and wooden toy trust, with
$10,O0O,0OO capital, will be organized
January 1 to eliminate wholesalers.
Three thousand Chicago union CT
gar makers have decided to postpone
their increased wage demand one
year to help manufacturers fight the
tobacco trust.
Diplomatists in Washington deplore
the attitude of Britain and Germany
toward Venezuela, which has no
money to pay their claims.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen has conferred honorary mem
bership upon President Roosevelt.
Suffering from coal shortage all over
the United States is growing, and in
the east conditions are critical in the
extreme.
Four boats are believed to have gone
down with 80 mem in storm which
ragged over Lake Ontario.
Admiral Dewey at Porto Rico con-
ferred with all his commanders regard
ing approaching evolutions.
Secretary of War Root appeared be-
fore the military committee of the
house and made an extended argument
in favor of changes.
President Roosevelt gave the first of
a series of dinners to prominent mem
bers of both houses of congress.
The president has selected Lloyd
to be minister to Japan, succeeding
Mr.. Buck, deceased.
Counsel for the coal operators in
Scranton charged John Mitchell,
president of the United Mine Work
ers, with Juggling the wage figures
he presented to the strike commits
sion. A breaker boy testified before
the commission that he received only
"a cents for last months work.
Fire in the plant of the American
Steel Sheet company at Canal Dover.
O., caused a loss of over 81, 100000
Three hundred and eighty-seven
lives were lost in wrecks and other
wise on the lakes during the season
just closed.
Two more workmen have been
Killed and five badly hurt in the
C1ora1on1 m
a total of SO lives lost in it's construc-
ton.
George Leander, of Chicago, fin
ished first in the six-day team cycle
race in New York. going 1888 miles
The eastern end of the United
States-Hawaiian cable was landed at
San Francisco and christened and the
steamer Silvertown then sailed for
Honolulu, laying the cable en- route.
The steamship Nederland reached
Philadelphia from Antwerp after Is
days fight with a gale during which
passengers were panic-stricken and
locked below decks.
Five men were killed in the wreck
of a freight train on the Hannibal &
IL, u.
John M. Koonsman, a South Bend
Ind) grocer, was killed by three
negro robbers.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Mrs. Catherine Collins, 1O4 years cid,
died in Clinton, Ia.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stricken, who lived
near Decatur, Ind, died at the age of
103 years.
Mrs. Julia Dent Grant. widow of
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, former president
of the United States, died at he1. resi-
dence in Washington of heart disease
in the Nth year of her age.
FOREIGN
rumor has reached Alden, Ara bia,
of the assassination of the Mad Null
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