Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-12-27
DOMESTIC.


Because of jealousy John w. Will
liams fatally shot his wife and killed
himself at ST. Joseph, Mo.
Fire at Huron, S. D., destroyed the
Huron opera house, owned by w. l..
Miner and valued at $4,000.
The interstate commerce commits
sion's annual report declares that
railroad mergers practically have
suppressed competition. Grave dali
ger exists unless the law is amended
to fit new conditions. Injunctions
against rate cutting react on ship
pers.
Senator Depew introduced bill for
emergency currency, allowing nation
al banks to issue circulation to the
extent of so per cent. of their capital
in time of stringency.
A shipment of gold bullion worth
S185,904.64 has just been made by the
United States assay office in Deadwood,
S. D., to the mint in Philadelphia.
The president sent to the senate
the reciprocity treaty recently nego-
tiated between the United States and
Cuba.
The United States will recognize
the blockade of Venezuelan ports.
The governments attitude will be
that of a neutral power toward bel
hgerents.
The bank at Mullens, S. c., was
broken, the safe dynamited and about
$4,000 in cash stolen
A material increase in the number
Of cases Of pneumonia and severe
colds among the people of Washington
is attributed to the coal famine.
The total assessment of all prop
erty in the state of Illinois is 81 ,O3O,-
1000, of which Cook county gives
$43O, S1O,O72.
The terminal station of the Long
Island City railroad, at Long Island
City, was destroyed by fire; loss, $780,
OOO
Matthias III. Utzler, alias John
Brantlinger, pleaded guilty of the
murder of Mrs. Robert Garrison in
Johnstown township, Michigan. He
was sentenced to solitary confinement
at hard labor for life in the state
prison at Jackson.
William Mabee and John Wallace,
both fremen, were killed as result
of a collision at Little Ferry juno
ton, n. j., between two freight
trains.
A pitiful plea from Daisy Law
renee, aged ten, induced Gov. Savage,
of Nebraska, to pardon her father,
who is serving three years SEN
tence in the state penitentiary for
embezzlement.
John Bartlinger, or Utyler, as his
name proves to be, has confessed that
he murdered Mrs. Robert Garrison,
who was found shot dead in her home
in Bedford township, Mich.
James Ossman, of Williamsport, Pa,
is dead as a result of injuries received
in the explosion in the waterworks
tunnel at Cleveland O., last Sunday.
This makes four fatalities among
those injured in the accident.
Postmaster Charles Meighan, of Og-
den, Utah, who was recently found
guilty by federal jury of embezzling
government funds, was sentenced to
one year and day confinement in Jail.
y. IL. Rockefeller gave a christmas
gift of 100000 to the University of
Chicago, with an addition of $780,
600 to make up deficit in the budget.
Decision has been reached to place
the remains of Mrs. Grant in the
tomb with the body Of her husband
at Riverside park.
Chairman Gray, of the coal strike
commission, suggests that steps be
taken to secure law in Pennsyl-
vania forbidding employment of chill
dren at night.
Admiral Dewey's fleet will be or
dered Immediately to Trinidad island,
near La Guayra. Other warships will
be sent to Curacao. President Roosc-
velt believes the trouble will be set
tied by arbitration, but close watch
against territory grabbing will be
kept