Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-09-27
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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

strike situation.
Mabel Carroll, aged Is, shot and in
stantly killed her aunt, Mrs. William
limerick, iii Roanoke, W. Va. The trag-
edy was the result of careless han
ding of loaded revolver.
The comptroller of the currency has
issued a call for the condition of ma
tional banks at the close of business
Monday, September Is.
Robert Jones, aged "a, and Andrew
Gattens, aged As, coal miners, were
killed ir mine at Shawnee, O., by fall
ing slate.
James n. Casady, of Council Bluffs,
Ia, has been arrested at Waverly, Mo-,
on a charge of embezzling $4,000 from
the White River Savings bank.
Gov. White, of West Virginia, deter
mined to call in the troops still on duty
in the New River coal field, and they
have left for their homes.
At Frankfort, Ind, straw stack in
which two young boys were playing
took fire and both were cremated.
During his tour of the northwest
President Roosevelt will visit Ohio,
Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Mime
sofa, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Illinois, speaking in many
cities and towns. The trip will end
at Washington October Z.
At Oxford, O., DR.! Guy Potter Ben
ton, late president of the Upper uni
versity of Iowa, was installed as
president of Miami university.
Secretary Root is again at his desk
in the war department, after an alb
sence of several weeks, which he
spent in Europe.
Alonzo Tucker (colored), who as
Ore, was lynched by a mob composed
mostly of coal miners.
Bert Owen, well-known young
man, shot and killed himself in the
woods near Merriam. Wis.
Grand Duke Boris of Russia sailed
for France on the French liner La
Lorraine.
George r. Parsons, travelling sales
man for the Michigan Drug COM
pany, Of Detroit, committed suicide
at Charlottesville, Ind, by turning
on the gas.
Carl Keichard, operator on the Al
legheny Valley road at Ford City,
tempted to burglarize the station.
Forest fires are still sweeping bare
timber sections of the Rocky noun
tains from the Wyoming line to cen
trail Colorado. The fires are spread
ing with terrible rapidity.
Judge Field has granted the in
junction prayed for by States At
torney General att, of Kentucky,
to prevent the contest between
Terry McGovern and Young Corbett
scheduled for Monday night.
The dedication of the monument
erected on the Gettysburg battlefield
to the memory of Gen. Henry W. Slo-
cum attracted very large attendance
of veterans.
The Kentucky court of appeals sus-
tanned the injunction secured to pre-
vent the McGovern-Co rbett fight in
Louisville September %, and the con-
test Will not be held in that state. The
DECISIONS, SO lawyers say, SO far-reach
ing that it will prevent all boxing con-
tests in Kentucky in the future.
The Great Western Cereal company's
oat mills in Joliet, ILL.,, suffered loss
estimated at more than 5000 by a fire,
which was followed by an explosion of
mill dust. The explosion blew off the
roof Of the building and damaged the
walls.
Five trainmen were killed and two
seriously injured as the result of
head-on collision between Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburg and Pittsburg
& Western passenger trains at Wilmer
station, Pa.
Failures for the week numbered 1919
in the United States, against 157 last
year, and 25 in Canada, compared with
20 year ago.
Three masked robbers dynamted
the post office safe at Jefferson, O.. Sc
curing $3.50 in cash and $500 in stamps,
and escaped by train. Night Watch
man Jones was bound and gagged
President Mitchell states that if anv
overtures are received from the oper-
aiors they will first be submitted to
a convention of the miners and the ac-
ceptance or rejection of any PROPOSE
ton will rest with the men them
selves.
The percentage of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
seven days ended September 81 were:
Pittsburg, TAG; Brooklyn, $40; Bos-
ton, SIG; Cincinnati, .496; Chicago,
.4s1; St. Louis, .43s; Philadelphia,
.403; New York. 800.
Seventy EIGHT persons were killed in
panic at negro Baptist convention
at Birmingham, Ala. A fight in the
church where Booker T. Washington
and others were speaking started a
stampede. Over one hundred injured
are reported.
Secretary Shaw announces that he
has authorized the distribution in
round numbers of $10,000,O0O in public
funds among banks throughout the
country which have bonds availa bic for
security.
Capt. William A. Windsor has been
retired with the rank Of rear admiral.