Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-01-18
LATER NEWS:


commerce was discussed. Senator
Hoar introduced aresolution for an in
vestigation of affairs in the Philippines.
The Nicaragu canal bill was received
from the house. In the house the pen
sion appropriation bill, carrying $780,
SAG, 4S0, was considered. A bill was in
troduced to provide an annuity for gov
|ernment employees in their old ge.
Senator Hoar called up his resolu-
ton in the United States senate on
the 14tR providing for an investiga=
ton Of the conduct of the Philippine
campaign and said there should be
committee to take up these questions
and consider both sides of them. Sen
ator Lodge asked that the resolution
be referred to the committee on Phil
ippines, but final action was not
taken. In the house the pension APP
preparation bill was further discussed
and a bill was introduced to prevent
the acknowledgements of voters at con-
gressional elections.
J. w. Schmidt shot his wife and him
self proba bly, fatally at Burkhardt,
WIS DOiCSlIC lIOuDIt was the
George w, Human, for four years
the editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean,
has acquired the entire control of that
newspaper.
Chill has approved the extradition
treaty between that country and the
United States.
Statistics from the census bureau
iSh thof II, tho ct re Tho
south has increased more rapidly in
population than the north.
The Iowa legislature convened in
twenty-ninth session in Des Moines.
George K. Nash has for the second
time been inaugurated governor of
Ohio.
Masked burglars held up n. B. Chick
il his poolroom in Kansas City, Mo-,
and secured $500.
Mrs. Mary Fogwell died in Paris, H.,
aged 100 years, 5 months and days.
1t is said President Roosevelt has
| brought a majority of the senator's to
support his plan of granting tariff con-
| cessions to Cuban sugar and tobacco.
Mayor Lavigne, the oldest city off
cial in the world, diei at Beniquet,
France, aged 105 years.
Benjamin c. Keig killed his wife and
fatally shot himself a t Madison, Wis.
A bill has been introduced in the
| Ohio legislature to safeguard national
and state officers against attacks of
anarchists.
Several western states are being
| flooded with bad drafts of $25 each
drawn on a fictitious concern, the New
England Directory company, of Bos-
ton.
Gov. W. NJ. Crane, of Massachusetts,
! is said to have been selected as the sue
cessor of Secretary of the Navy Long.
Phineas FoutZ, of GAINESVILLE, O., a
soldier in the Philippines, was hanged
at Cebu for numbering native girl.
The empress dowager has assumed
the reins of government in China, and
there is indisputable evidence that the
emperor has no voice in the admins
tration.
Forty-three men lost their lives in
mine disaster at Pruex, Austria.
The Ohio Legislature has reelected
Joseph Foraker (rep.) United States
senator; Maryland elected Arthur P
German (dem.), and Kentucky elect
ed James B. McCreary (dem.).
The bank at Butler, Ga, was robbed
by burglars of $4,000 in cash.
Advices from Manila say that Col
Marosigan and his command in Batan-
gas have surrendered to the Ameri-
cans, thus clearing that section of
hostile forces.
The price of wire and wire nails
has been advanced one dollar ton
At a caucus of republican members
of the Iowa legislature Messrs. Ali
son and Dolliver were unanimously
renominated for United States SEN
ators The election takes place on
the 21st inst.
In Nuevas county, Tex, rain has
fallen for the first time in over a year.
The first detachment of the Canadian
mounted rifles for service in South
Africa has sailed from Halifax
The Peoples bank at North Enid,
Okla, was robbed of 50 900 by burglars.
Lord Kitchener reports that since
the 9th of January 20 Beers have
been killed, nine wounded and % cap
tured, and that rs have surrendered.
Ten miners lost their lives by az
explosion in mine at Bow, Ind. T.
| Whitelaw Reid. Gen. James H. Will
son and Capt. Clark, of the Oregon,
are to be special representatives of
the United States government at the
coronation of King Edward.
Kennard block at Manchester, n. H,
has been destroyed by fire and adjoin-
ing property damaged. Loss, $4,000
Leslie NJ. Shaw, governor of Iowa,
and soon to become secretary of the
Treasury, delivered his final message
to the state legislature. He said the
state was prosperous, and urged lib
eral appropriations for education.