Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-08-16

ton, endangering town with $4,000
inhabitants.
Report on the military occupation
were S57,2O0,000 and exp FL ditures
SIS, 370, 800.
Venezuelan rebels captur1 BARGE
Iona after three days fight.
LATER.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, chief JUS
tice of the supreme court of Mas
sachusetts, has been appointed asso-
ciate justice of the supreme court of
the United States, vice Justice Gray,
resigned.
A severe frost did damage to corn
in the northwestern portion of Iowa.
Alderman Frank T. Fowler, of Chi
cage, has purchased the Waukegan
(Ill.) Daily and Weekly Sun.
Cuba's proposed $35,ooo,Oo bond is
sue is forbidden by the islands consti-
tuition, which recognizes the Plat
amendment.
Typhoid fever cases in Chicago hos
pitfalls number 493. A total of over
1000 is believed to exist in the city.
An incendiary who started 10 fires
at Peoria, H., and caused heavy loss,
was arrested and identified as Ed
ward Flanagan.
The internal revenue commissioner
rules that palm oil must not be used
in the manufacture of oleomargarine.
Julius Hoffman, farmer, aged 65,
near Rockport, Ind, committed sui
eide after burning $4,000 in money in
order that his young wife might not
enjoy its benefits.
United States marines may be land
ed at Porto Cabello, Venezuela, to
protect Americans from rebels.
The governments monthly crop re-
port shows the condition of corn Al
gust 1 was S6.5, compared with SIS
for 1901; winter wheat crop esti-
mated at 3S0,000,00 bushels.
Richard Dodson was killed and 40
persons injured by lightning striking
church at Leslie, Ga.
An earthquake at Skagway, Alaska,
broke windows and tumbled down
chimneys on houses.
Neumiller's livery barn was burned
by an incendiary at Peoria, H., and 10
horses were cremated.
Forest fires raging in the Cascade
mountains along the Columbia river
IN Oregon are destroying millions of
feet of valuable timber
A cloudburst at Madison. n j.. I'M
covered many caskets in a cemetery
and 1oated them away.
Eight hundred teamsters in the Chi
cago lumber district went out on a
strike.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
seven days ended August II were:
Pittsburg, .761; Brooklyn, .552: Chi
| cago, .543; Boston, .523: Cincinnati,
.467; ST. Louis, AT; Philadelphia, .39S;
New York, 319
Charles Salyers (white) and Harry
Gates (colored) were lynched by a
masked mob at Lexington, No., for the
murder of George Johnson, a wealthy
| farmer.
The rebels in Venezuela captured
| Barcelona after a weeks severe fight
with Castro's troops
The international Harvester com
pany, with capital of $12OOO0,OOO, has
been incorporated in New Jersey to
absorb all big concerns.
The government report says the out
look for splendid crops is very prom
Using.
Senator's Quay and Penrose, of Penn
| sylvania, have received "endless chain"
| letters urging them to end the miners
strike.
James E. Davidson has been renom-
mated for congress by the Wisconsin
Eighth district republicans
The grand lodge of elks meeting at
Salt Lake City was attended by - 900
visitors. George A. Cronk, of Omaha,
was elected ruler.
Charles E. Pratt, a once widely
known musician, died of apoplexy in
New York, aged 81 years.
The treasury department is con-
fronted with the problem of finding
currency to move 5000, 100000 bushels
of corn and wheat this fall.
President Roosevelt will probably
call an extra session of the senate to
ratify commercial treaty with Cuba
| Charters of more than $4,000 corpo-
rations doing business in Illinois, have
been cancelled because of failure to
comply with the law
Two men were killed and four in
jured in railway accidents at Ham
mond, Ind.
Policemen Timothy Devine and
Charles Pencil were shot and killed