Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-22
LATER NEWS.

LATER NEWS.
The United States senate on the
18th ratified the treaty with Dem
mark, ceding the Danish West Indies
to the United States upon payment
of s5,oOO,ooo, and passed bills estab-
fishing a permanent census office and
extending charters of national banks.
In the house the bill for the repeal
of the war taxes was passed by a
unanimous vote. At a caucus of house
republicans resolution was adopted
calling for a special committee to in
vestigate the disfranchisement of
voters in the south.
The Philippine tariff bill was further
discussed in the United States senate
on the 18th and it was agreed to take
final vote on the bin next Monday
afternoon. In the house, during dis
cussion of the Indian appropriation
| bill, Mr.. Wheeler (Ky.) was scored by
his democratic colleagues for his at
tack on Prince Henry and Lord Paunce-
fote. In reply Mr.. Wheeler said he had
nothing to retract. A bill was intro
duced to refund to religious, char
liable, literary and art institutions the
taxes collected on legacies and be
quests under the operation of the war
revenue act.
Andrew Taper was hanged at Chas-
ka, Mimi, for the murder of Rosa Mixa.
Lou F. Wright, of Ottawa, Kan, a
member of a minstrel troupe, was
lynched at New Madrid, Mo-, as the
result of a quarrel with white men.
| Ten persons were killed and Is
wounded by troops at Barcelona,
Spain, in an attempt to step labor
riots.
Asumcion Esquivel has been elected
president of Costa Rica
The United States transport Meade
has arrived at San Francisco from Ma
Mia with 1000 soldiers whose terms of
service have expired.
The whisky trust has begun its fight
on Independent manufacturers by cut
ting the price three cents.
A heavy snowfall, accompanied by
high winds, caused suspension of
traffic in New York and other east
ern cities.
Edward S. Isham, one of the most
prominent lawyers of Chicago, died in
New York city, aged &c years.
The Daughters of the American Rev.
olution in session in Washington elect
ed Mrs. C. Fl. Deere, of Moline, ILL.,,
regent.
The Louisiana supreme court decid-
ed that betting on horse racing is not
Illegal.
Two masked robbers raided gam
bling room at Clinton, Ia, securing
| $1,000 in money and diamonds from II
men.
Additional details of the earthquake
| in Transcaucasia show that 1000 per-
sons, mostly women and children, per-
ished. Four thousand houses were de-
stroyed.
! Two thousand invitations to the
launching of Kaiser Wilhelm's yacht
have been issued by the builders.
The money for the ransom for Miss
Stone was paid to the brigands ON
February and the woman's captors
have given no indication as to when
they will release her.
| The British located De Vets force
near Reitz, in Orange River colony,
| and the Boer command was split up
i Charles L. Tiffany, founder and
head of the jewelry firm of Tiffany
i & Co., died at his home in New York,
aged 90 years.
The Corn Exchange national and
1 Merchants national banks in Chicago
! have been consolidated under the
i name of the former.
Topeka, Kan, gave saloonkeepers
/ 81 900 in settlement of damage suits
/ against the city growing out of Carrie
Nations raids.
Albert Bierstadt, the noted land
/ scape artist, died of heart disease in
| New York.
One person was killed and six injured
in fire that destroyed the Battle
Creek (Mich.) Adventist sanitarium
and hospital. Three hunderd patients
escaped in their night clothes. The
property loss is $450,00O
Elias Holiday has been nominated
for congress by the republicans of the
Fifth Indiana district
Fire, followed by an explosion of
gas, wrecked the Tecumseh flats in
Chicago and rendered nearly 100 per-
sons homeless.
The Wisconsin supreme court in eff
feet has decided that the state inheri-
ance tax law is unconstitutional.
| Chilkat Indians in the state of
! Washington have buried alive a
youthful convert to Christianity be-
cause he denounced the mummeries
| of the tribe.
| Rev. Newman Hall, D. D., LII D., the
Congregational clergyman and writer,
died in London, aged Sc years.
A dispatch from Constantinople
says Miss Stone and Nine. Tsilka
have been released by the bandits,
and that Nine. Tsilka's husband has
been arrested for completely in the
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