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

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neapolis the National Educational as
ISOLATION adopted resolutions urging
the department of education Ee
raised to a cabinet place, the pass
ing of laws to restrict child labor,
and Bible study for it's literary value.
Weekly reviews of trade show con-
tinued prosperity in spite of wealth
er drawback and labor disputes.
One hundred and thirty-nine dead
bodies have been recovered from the
mine disaster near Johnstown, Pa
Prof. W. f. Hoyt has been elected
president of the Kansas Wesleyan
university at Salina.
The annual report of the auditor
! of the treasury department. shows
accounts examined and audited to
the number of 96,4S3, involving re-
ceipts and disbursements amounting
J to $5,37S, 40, 5S4.
Hundreds of people were compelled
to sleep outdoors in Des Moines, Ia,
because of a flood that has DESTROYED
property valued at $1,OOO,OOO.
Fire wiped out the village of Bear
Creek, Wis.
Counterfeits are in circulation of
the $50 gold certificate, series of
1882, and fve-dollar silver certificate.
series of 1899.
In runaway accident near Bel
mont, Ark, Richard Jones was killed
and his two children fatally injured
A census bulletin says there are
4S,497 clothing factories in the Unit
ed States with a capital of $34s, &c.,
634.
Harry Tracy, the fugitive Oregon
convict, again escaped from blood
hounds and posse after being cor
nered.
Estimates based upon the figures
of the new city directory show the
population of Chicago to be 2,144,OOO.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended July IS were: Pittsburg,
.773; Boston, 500; Chicago, .543;
Brooklyn, .534; st. Louis, .449; Phila-
delphia, .423; Cincinnati, .4O3; New
York, .319.
The fall of Picking is to be repro
duced nightly during the national en-
campment of. the G. A. R. in Washing
ton.
Joseph E. Sparks (colored) was
hanged at cambridge, Ca, for the
murder of his wife
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the American league for the
week ended July 10 were: Chicago.
.631; Boston, .551; ST. Louis, $50:
Philadelphia, SIG; Washington, .463;
Baltimore, .456; Cleveland, .443; De-
trOit, AIS.
mine explosion were held at Johns
town, Pa. The list of dead is now
given as ia.
John Feninger shot and killed his
wife at Evansville, Ind, because she
refused to live with him, and then
shot himself
A. L. Bedding shot and killed his
wife and her father and mother and
Frank Woodwork at Portland, Ore.
The gigantic corn corner in Chi
cago is said to be backed by steel
magnates, who control wealth of
$130,OOO,O00
Nine lives were lost by drowning
while boating and swimming in Chi
cago and adjacent cities
Fifty passengers were injured,
many seriously, in trolley accident
in New York
What promises to be the greatest
sympathetic strike in the history of
Chicago began when 5000 teamsters
quit work and joined the ranks of the
5000 striking freight handlers.
Water in both rivers is receding
slowly, and no further damage from
the food is anticipated at Des Moines.
Ia.
Twelve fine trotters were burned to
death in a fire at Mechanicsburg O.
Floods are still causing heavy dam
age to crops and railroad property in
the west.
The steamer Windward, with the
Peary relief expedition, sailed from
New York for the north.