Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-01-25
LATER NEWS,

sion of the United States senate on the
Goth the measure providing for the es-
Establishment of a department of COM
merce was under considera ton. The
bouse bill giving Mrs. Mckinley the
mail ffanking privilege was passed
and a bill to grant her a pension of
$1,000 year was favorably reported.
In the house the time was occupied in
general debate on the urgent def
cheney appropriation bill, which car
rles 16.701 AS. Mr.. Kahn (Cal.) intro
duced the Chinese exclusion bill.
The time in the United States senate
on the 21st was occupied in discussin g
the Philippine tariff bill. In the house
bills were introduced providing a pen
atty of death or life Imprisonment for
train robbers, and to increase the pay
of rural free delivery carriers. A ia
vorable report was made or the bill
for the election of United States sena-
tors by direct vote of the people, and
the urgent deficiency appropriation
bill was further considered.
Prof. Edmund J. James, Of the Chi.
cago university, has been selected to
fill the presidency of Northwestern
university.
The governors of Illinois and Iowa
have issued proclamations calling for
the observance of January 90 as Nc
Kinley memorial day.
Six men were killed and ten huri
by mine explosion at Walsenburg
Col.
The supplemental report of the
isthmian canal commission recon.
mending the Panama route has been
sent to congress by President Roose.
welt.
A dispatch from Constantinople
says that Miss Stones captors have
agreed to liberate her for the amount
raised by subscription.
Eighteen thousand dollars in gov.
eminent bonds were stolen from the
residence of James McCune in Colum.
bus, o.
II. II. Matteson, cashier of the First
national bank of Great Falls, Mont.
arrested for embezzlement, admitted
the theft of $4,000.
I-lINCH VI INC lllOSt pTiS-
oners in the United States peniten tiary
on McNeil's island in the state of Wash
ington made their escape.
Nearly 1000 members of the United
Mine Workers of America gathered t
indianapolis for the thirteenth annual
convention
Plans for Prince Henry''s entertain
ment in the United States have been
cab,ed to Emperor William and ap-
proved by him.
Two Christian missionaries a Pingle,
China, have been murdered by Chinese
soldiers and Mohammedans.
A battle between three insurgent
gunboats and the government war
ship Lautaro in the harbor of Pan
anna resulted in the destruction of
the latter and many on board, in
Guiding Gen. Alban, governor of Pan
anna.
Seven lum bermen were burned to
death in fire at their camp near Fair
mount, w. Va.
Gov. Taft, who arrived at San Fran
cisco, announced that real war o long
er exists in the Philippines, and said
that insurrection was confined to two
provinces and peace was in sight.
Admiral Schley made a formal ap-
peal to the president from the finding
of the court of inquiry.
Albert Garth (colored), who killed
Minnie Woods, a negress, December
%, 1899, was hanged at Kansas City,
Mo.
Six of the ten escaped federal convicts
have been recaptured at McNeils is
land, near Tacoma, Wash.
The insurgent leader Briocio Laque
dered Internationally to the Ameri-
can military authorities in Batangas
province.
j. L. Craft was hanged at Jefferson
City Mo-, for the murder of Henry
Spieker.
DR.. Rixey, McKinley's family physi-
clan, has been appointed chief of the
naval bureau of medicine, with rank
of rear admiral.
Alfonso XIII. is to be crowned king
of Spain at Madrid on May II, his
sixteenth birthday.
The cost to England of the Boer war
from April l. 1901, the commencement
of the current financial year, to De-
cember 81, was 1921, 100000.
Prof. E. ]. James, of Chicago uni
versity, has been elected president of
Northwestern university.
The ransom FOR Miss Stone and
Nine. Tsilka has been forwarded from
CONSTANT nople to Americans nego-
tiating with the brigands.
Senator's Allison and Dolliver have
been reelected by the Iowa legis-
lature.
Lewis Johnson, ASA SSH of city mar
shall Richardson, of Gulf Port, and Vic
tor Johnson, who brutally murdered
a little girl at Pass Christian, were
hanged at Mississippi City, Miss.