Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-05-17
LATER NEWS,

priating 100000 for the relief of
volcano sufferers was passed in the
United States senate on the 18th and
the Philippine bill was further dis
cussed. In the house the emergency
bill appropriating 100000 for the re-
lief of volcano sufferers in the West
Indies was passed.
In the United States senate on the
18th an additional appropria ton of
100000 was voted for the stricken
people of the French West Indies;
the agricultural appropriation bill
was passed; Senator Stewart New
spoke in support of the Philippine
bill, and the conference report on the
Cuban diplomatic and consular bill
was adopted. In the house discussion
of the naval appropriation bill was
begun. The conference report on the
omnibus claims bill was rejected
The entire republic of Hayti is now
in the throes of revolution.
Twenty-Five persons were killed and
between 200 and 300 were frightfully
burned by naphtha explosions in the
yards of The Panhandle railway at
Sheridan, Pa.
The Ohio assembly adjourned sine
die after passing the congressional
redistricting bill.
The president has,issued a proclama-
ton for the opening to settlement
July II of the Fort Hall Indian reser-
walton in Idaho.
j. W. Voight, travelling salesman.
fatally shot May Welch and killed
himself in a Minneapolis hotel
Carbonate, small town in Kan
sas, has been almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire.
Richard Bartholdt, of ST. Louis, has
been renominated for congress for
the sixth time by the republicans of
the Tenth Missouri district.
Queen Maria Christina of Spain re-
signed her regency and with deep
emotion bid farewell to her loyal
councillors.
William Malcolm, city treasurer of
Passaic, n. T., admitted that he was
short $4,000 in his accounts.
The president sent to congress a
special message asking for an appro-
priation of 100000 for the sufferers
by volcano on the island of Martinique.
Jim" Underwood, negro, was
lynched by mob at Decatur, Tenn,
for threatening to kill two prominent
residents.
Mine workers throughout the entire
anthracite coal regions of Pennsyl-
vania, to the number of $4,000, have
begun their struggle for increased
wages.
Illinois republicans have renominat-
ed Henry S. Boutell for congress in
the Ninth district
A visit to the ruins of st. Pierre and
an examination of heaps of bodies
found there discloses the fact that 30
900 lives and all combustible material
in the city were destroyed almost in
stantly by cyclone of gases and fire
from Mont Pelee and not by lava
streams.
j. P. Common, of Dennison, has been
renominated for congress by the re-
publicans of the Tenth Iowa district.
A cyclone struck Clay City, Ind,
doing immense damage to property
and killing John Staley and William
Martin.
Eugene F. Ware, of Kansas, has
taken the oath of Office as commits
sioner of pensions.
The bodies of "a victims of the Pitts
burg naphtha explosion have been re-
covered. Over 300 persons were severe
" burned, including 100 children.
The republicans have nominated
Philip Knopf for congress in the Sew
'enth district of Illinois.
President Roosevelt has appointed
committees in all the larger cities to
expedite the collection of relief
funds for survivors of the Martinique
horror
The United States cruiser Dixie has
loaded cargo of supplies at New
York for Martinique
<. Later reports from the Island of St.
Vincent say that the total number of
deaths caused by the volcano will
reach 1900.
The overthrow of the government of
Hayti has been made complete bv the
departure of President Sam for
France.
Gen. Chaffee reports that Mindanao
is the best island in the Philippines and
suited to Americans, and that further
fighting there is unnecessary.
The will of the late Potter Palmer
of Chicago, appoints his widow as head
of the $s,000,000 estate, and the prop
erty is left Jointly to her and their
sons, Honore and Potter, Jr.
Famine is threatened in Martinique
and supplies for 100000 are needed at
once. The United States tug Potomac
has arrived with tons of provisions.
President Roosevelt has ordered a
review of the Cuban postal fraud case
of Estes q. Rathbone. land ordered that
the Cuban court he oiveu. needed