Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-09-13
A WEEKS RECORD
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
President Roosevelt had a narrow es-
cape from death and was slightly in
iured in a collision between his car
rage and a trolley car near Pittsfeld,
Mass. Secret Service Agent Craig was
killed and Secretary Cortelyou
stunned. The carriage was demolished
and one horse killed. The president
has returned to his home at Oyster
Bay.
Five men were killed at Williams
burg, n. Y, by the collapse of steel
tank under which they were working.
Attorney General Knox, after con-
sidering the long delayed report of
Commissioner of Labor Carroll d.
Wright, concludes that President
Roosevelt is powerless to interfere
in the anthracite miners strike.
A negro named Hog Wilson was
hanged near Stephens. Ark, by a
mob for assaulting young woman.
The report of Carroll d. Wright, the
commissioner of labor, on the anthra-
cite coal strike, says there is no conf
:.
and this he believes is one of the chief
causes of the difficulties.
Edward Besun (colored), charged
with chasing white girl. was shot and
killed by mob at East ST. Louis, Ill.
A score of persons were injured, 13
or more seriously, in a ca ble-car crash
in Chicago.
Because they could not get work,
James B. Taylor and his wife COM
mited suicide at Des Moines. Ia.
Gov. Stone, of Pennsylvania, is said
to have told his friends of his inten-
ton to call the legislature in extra
session to end the coal strike.
The receipts of the treasury de-
partment for the month of August
were $4S,6O5, o12, and the expendi-
lures $42,650,0OO.
Bailey Kerekas, of Lowell, Mich. is
charged with the attempted murder of
George Merritt by poisoned headache
powder.
In Northwestern Nebraska, portions
of South Dakota and western Iowa
frosts have occurred
The Odeon theater in Cincinnati has
been burned at loss of SOC, 600, and
Music hall was damaged to the extent
of $4,000.
Edgar V. Einstein & Co., proprietors
of large department store at Harris
burg, Pa, failed for Silt, 900.
It is said that New York and Chicago
capitalists are about to invest S. ,OOO,-
600 in buying 800 coal yards.
A. j. Cummings & Co., one of the
largest brokerage houses in Pittsburg,
Pa, with branches in 10 or 20 towns,
suspended.
President Roosevelt, who has fully
recovered from his experience in Pitts
field, Mass, is receiving food of mes
sages from every point in the world re-
joicing over his escape from death.
In order to inspect Pacific coast ar
tillery defenses Gen. Miles will sail
from San Francisco for Manila Sep
TENDER 80, instead of September 16, as
at first intended.
Miners along the Norfolk & Western
railroad in West Virginia decided to re
turn to work and it is believed that
strikers in other regions will follow
the same course.
George Cerny, seven years old, was
drowned at Cedar Rapids, Ia, and
William Sutton. aged 35, attempted
to rescue the boy and also persisted.
Gov. Stone has fixed on Thursday,
the 18th, to meet committee APP
pointed by the Peoples alliance at
Hazleton to discuss the best means
OF ending the anthracite coal strike.
President Roosevelt, accompanied
by his wife, left Oyster Bay for
Washington, and from thence he left
for Chattanooga, Tenn.
President Roosevelt has received
from King Edward Of England mes
sage congratulating him on his es-
cape from serious injury in the acct
dent near Pittsfeld, Mass.
The post office at Tazewen, Tenn,
was robbed by burglars of $500.
The Bank of Sonora, Ky, was
broken into and robbed of several
thousand dollars.
The National Association of Sta
tlonary Engineers, in session at Bos-
ton, debarred negroes from member
ship.
President Mitchell confirms a dis
patch stating that the strike of min
ers in he Pocahontas region in West
Virginia has been declared off. It
affects only 700 men.
President Roosevelt has accepted
an invitation to review the parade of
veterans in Washington during the
encampment of the G.. A. r. on
Wednesday, October s.
Thomas j. Lane, who claimed to
have been the captor of Jefferson