Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-07-26
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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.


for fair dealing in the recent troubles
in China.
The president has issued an order
barring political pulls" and influence
in securing discharges of enlisted men
from the navy.
Capt. Hobson, the Cuban war hero,
rescued a drowning girl, who had
jumped in the river near East ST.
louis, ILL.,, to test his gallantry.
Tornadoes have caused loss of
100000 in crops and property in Min
nesota and North Dakota.
William Ody, a negro, who attempt
ed to assault Miss Virginia Tucker,
was burned at the stake at Clayton.
Miss.
The Baltimore club has deserted the
American league and sold out to An
drew Freeman. of New York.
The gigantic strike of freight han
dlers which has almost paralyzed
Chicago business for the last ten
days came to an end by the men vot-
ing to return to work.
A tidal wave swept Lake Michigan at
Chicago and covered breakwaters and
beaches; steamers were shaken, and
small boats thrown ashore.
Gen. Jacob II. Smith, recently re-
turned from the Philippines, has been
placed on the retired list, having
reached the age of 81 years.
Ex-Congressman r. B. Hawley, of
Texas, paid $500 for a special train
enabling him to keep a luncheon en-
Doocarolk
Two powder magazines of the DAILY
West mine at Park City, Utah, ex-
ploded, and over 80 lives were lost.
Consul General Bragg's letter to his
wife rejecting on Cubans is likely to
cause his recall from Havana.
The new battleship Maine broke
the worlds speed record for battle
ships, registering 1895 knots an hour
on the builders trial trip.
I Bandit Tracy again eluded Sheriff
Cudihee, of King county, and his
posse of picked men, who advanced
on his hiding place near Black Dia-
mond, Wash.
Funeral services for Archbishop
Feehan were held in Chicago and the
remains were placed in Calvary GEM
etery.
Andrew Carnegie has promised to
give Clark university at Worcester,
Mass, 100000 toward the $250,0oo
needed to secure bequest of $780,
900.
A confederate veterans monument
has been dedicated on top of Valley
mountain, near Elkins, w. Va.
Secretary Root, in his final note of
instruction to Gov. Taft, wants the
vatican assured that the removal of
the friars from the Philippines is de-
manded only to meet wishes of Philip
pine Roman Catholics.
The first days session of the miners
convention at Indianapolis developed
an overwhelming sentiment against a
general strike.
Chicago was swept by a violent cleo
trical and rainstorm and much dam
age was done, especially in the bust
ness district.
Twelve girls and two Harvard stu
dents were drowned by the capsizing
New Hampshire.
John Anderson, charged with muir
dering his wife, was taken from Jail at
greensboro, KY, by mob and hanged
A cloudburst nearly wrecked the
town of Plattsmouth. Neb.
The miners convention at Indianap-
oils issued an address to the public Civ
dng reasons for the anthracite strike,
expressing loyalty to contracts, as
sorting right to arbitration and asking
aid for the workers cause.
In the Mississippi valley, from Keo-
kuk, Ia, for a hundred miles to the
south, the entire region is under water,
and over 100000 worth of growing
grain has been destroyed.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended July 20 were: Pittsburg,
.781; Brooklyn, .551; Chicago, .524; Bos-
ton, .521; Philadelphia, .44s; st. Louis,
.439; Cincinnati, .425; New York, .311
A strike movement involving $4,000
clothing workers has been inaugurate ed
In New York.
Robert Laughlin, Albert Miller and
Benjamin Watts, young m en- of A urora,
Ind, were drowned in the Ohio river by
the overturning of their boat. S
After 40 days of continual pursuit by
men and bloodhounds, all organized
effort to capture Harry Tracy, the es-
capped Oregon convict, has ended.
Four persons were drowned and
great property loss resulted from
floods in Binghamton, N. Y, and vicin-
ity.
Because she, refused to marry him
George Wiley,a railway man, shot and
killed Miss DOVE Flynn and committed
suicide at Marshall, Mo. .--
Thirteen persons persisted and mil
lions of dollars worth ofproperty was
Destroyed by hurricane which swept
through Baltimore. Nd.