Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-08-09
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LATER.
The Cuban house voted bond issue
of $35 100000, and President Roosevelt
may notify Palma that the Plat
amendment is violated.
Russell Sage celebrated his eighty
sixth birthday at New York by work
ing all day.
| Authorities in the anthracite strike
region are exercising unusual vigi-
! lance owing to rumors of plots against
the soldiers at Shenandoah.
state convention of the peoples
party will be held in Sprin gfield Ill,
August 26.
Mrs. Anna Merlihan saved her daugh-
ter from being run down by an auto
mobile in Chicago and was instantly
killed herself by a runaway horse.
! An earthquake severely shook Mis-
soula county, Mont, a number Of old
buildings at Clinton collapsing.
On his deathbed William Thompson.
of Villas, Col, confessed that he killed
his son Benjamin, and that Zeb Mich
olson, serving sentence in prison, is
| innocent
Aaron Halle was put to death in
the electric chair in Sing Sing On. "
prison for the murder of Mary Nc
earthly May II, 1900.
Whitelaw Reid visited the presi-
dent at Oyster Bay to report person
ally concerning his trip to England.
The Italian government has or
dered that the Marconi wireless tel
egraphy apparatus be established on
all warships.
Former United States Senator J.
Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania, was
thrown from his carriage in Scotland
and seriously injured.
Convicts blew a hole in a wall in
the state prison at Nashville, Tenn.
and Is made their escape.
Mayor Tom l.. Johnson. of Cleveland.
won three-cent fare fight by court
decision, but employees were told re-
ductiOn means starvation wages.
w. z. Hillagross, aged 10, and Miss
Mabel Strong, aged IS, both of Mat
toon, Ill, were killed by the cars at a
crossing.
Cracksmen blew the safe in the store
of the Laddsdale Supply company at
Laddsdale. Ia, and secured an I'M
known sum of money.
King Edward for the first time
since his illness walked up and down
a fight of stairs without assistance.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Shandrow. of
South Haven, Mich adopted % chill
dren from the Minneapolis orphan
asylum who came for a summer out
ing on their 1OO-acre fruit farm
Two masked men held up Burling-
ton limited westbound train near Sa-
wanna, Ill, at midnight, blew up the
express car safe and secured $4,000
and escaped.
Fire destroyed the opera house and
"a other buildings at Washington, La.
The fire losses in the United States
and Canada in July amounted to $10,-
O2S,00O, against SIS, 900 in the same
month in 1901.
Frank NJ. Downer, Of Longmont, Col,
has been appointed assayer of the Den
yer mint.
Terms of the Cuban loan, passed by
the senate. call for an immediate bond
+ issue of $5.OOO,O0O for agricultural re-
lief and $3O.OOO,O 900 in six months to
pay the army.
Senator Hanna will resign as re-
publican national chairman before the
next presidential campaign.
Andrew D. White, American ambas-
sador to Germany, has resigned, to
take effect November Z. III health is
given as the cause.
Fire of uncertain origin burned
the major portion of. the business dis
trict of Lucas, Ia.
William M. Beardshear president of
the Iowa state agricultural college
at Ames and one of the leading edu-
Gators of the state, died at the age of
SO years.
The two hundred and fiftieth ami
versary of the settlement of York, Me-,
was observed
Armed peace prevails at Shenandoah
although the Pennsylvania strike dis
trict shows much unrest and out
breaks are feared.
The National Retail Butchers asso-
citation in session in Washington de-
nounced the alleged beef trust and de-
vised methods of curling it's power.
The Western Negro Press associa-
tion met at Topeka, Kan, with so ed
itors in attendance.
The state pure food commission
started SO suits against grocers and
others in Chicago accused of violating
statutes.
Leroy Anderson, of Taylorville, has
been nominated for congress by the
republicans of the Twenty-frst Hi
nois district.
The government weekly crop report
shows that corn is making good prog
ressL
The steamers City of Venice and Sc
guin collided in Lake Erie off Ron
deau, Canada. and the former sank in
deep water. Three persons were
drowned and three injured.