Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-06-14
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending June If.

Daniel Shuts and wife of Pellin, ILL., were
drowned while boat riding
| The Illinois Mckinley monument fund ia
| nearly up to the required $4,000.
Nine perso as lost their lives in a fire in
a tenement building in London.
A census bulletin shows that Indiana has
POI 1897 farms, valued at $841, 1876, $40
Iowa democrats will hold their state cor
vention at Des Moines SeDtember3
Germany sent two cruisers to Venezuela
to enforce the payment of old claims.
Commodore Albert G. Clarey, U. S. N,
retired, died at his home in Springfield,
Mass.
The president has nominated John E.
Jewell, Of Illinois, to be consul at Mar
Unique, w. 1.
Mrs, Roosevelt and her children left
w washington on the dispatch boat Dolphin
Tor Oyster Bay
Byron Shurtleff, an umbrella member at
lou Clalre' Wis, shot his wife dead and
committed suicide
Jim Black, negro, who murdered the
wife of j. K. Jones, was hanged by a mob
near Ravenal S. C.
The coronation gift of England to King
EoWard Will take the form of a big ma
tional hospital fund.
Sunday school pupils at West Pittston.
Pa, refused to be taught by Superintendent
Davie, nonunion miner.
Dr. Otis Il. Freeman, the oldest practicing
physician in America, died at his home in
Freehold, N. j., aged 90 years.
President Palma has signed the bill grant
ing ann esty to all Americans under sem
tence or awaiting trial in Cuba.
One man was killed and over 40 injured
by the wreck of a Detroit & Mackinawi eX-
cursion train near Alpena, Mich.
Two persons were killed and 40 injured in
a collision between a railway train and
trolley car in st. Louis suburbs
Rich women who patronize dressmakers
and fail to pay will be oycotted by the Ma
t1onal Dressmakers association.
Army officers who gained distinction in
Cuba, the Philippines and China have been
promoted by President Roosevelt
DR.. Patton has resigned the presidency
of Princeton On. J.) university and is sue
ceeded by Prof. Woodrow Wilson.
Two persons were killed and 40 injured
in a collision between railway train and
a trolley car in st. Louis suburbs.
Paul Haseltine Stanley, young American,
tried to ride horse up the steps of the AL
teri palace, Rome, and was arrested.
Mexicans under Gen. Torres defeated the
Yaquis in battle in which force Of 500 or
600 Indians was practically wiped out.
The fire losses in the United States ard
Canada for the month of May amounted to
$4,86O, 600, against SO, $50, $50 in May, 1901.
Ambassador Won Holleben, of Germany.
becomes Oedn OF the QlplOmdllC corps at
Washington, succeeding Lort Pauncefote.
The British will not ask Kruger to &C.
knowledge their sovereignty over the
Transvaal owing to his age and infirmities.
Robbers, within one block of police sta
ton, cracked safe in the Vienna bakery,
Chicago, and secured $2,275 in cash and
notes.
Interests having control of stock Of rail-
roads involved in the miners strike are SAID
q behind efforts I n force
Of a dispute.
Congressman Grosvenor (O0 admitted
officially in house that the ship subsidy bill
is dead. He omitted it from bills listed for
consideration.
Sixty arrests were made at Pretoria in
connection with a plot discovered to blow
UP government buildings and Lord Kitchen
er's residence.
The Philippine instruction is ended ex-
cept in Mindanao. Acting Gov. Wright
cables that civil rule can be established in
every island now.
A new French cabinet has been formed by
Senator Combes, who will succeed Waldeck-
Rousseau premier. The members are
radical and socialistic.
Letson Ballet, young mining promoter,
has been convicted at Des Moines of using
the mails to defraud persons buying stock
in an Oregon property.
Lawrence Dunn, recruit in company L,
Twentieth infantry at Fort Sheridan, while
on sentry duty shot and killed Dad Cain,
a prisoner, who tried to escape.
Secretary Root submitted to congress tbs
text of instructions given Gov. Taft as basis
for negotiations with the vatican regard
ing friars' lands in Philippines,
A negro preacher at Meridian, Miss. tried
tc organize mob to wipe out Kemper coun-
ty white residents, but the latter armed and
stopped the threatened uprising.
influential New Workers bought large
tract near Poughkeepsie asa site for
school of practical agriculture, and are try
ing to raise $1,000, COG end owmerlt fund
Insurance companies sued by Attorney
General Hamlin, of Illinois, under the con-
spiracy law, threaten to retaliate by quit
ting districts where the compact exists.
Spain is forgetting er,bitterness against
the United States and is buying American
goods in large amounts. Trade is hindered
by lack of favorable commercial treaty.
An open letter to the Beers Issued by
Schalk Burger and Commander in Chief
Botha urges loyalty to the new government.
The Boer vote for surrender was 81 to 6.
Twenty million dollars are to be distrib-
uteG among the architects and, builders Of
the country under the provisions of the
nibus public building bill Just signed by the
president.
George Gould is planning to fight the
Moores' Texas railroad plans. RockIsland
extension from Fort Worth to Galveston is
to be met by line from Fort Worth to
Kansas City.