Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-06-21
James F. Wheelock was hanged at

March %. 1901.
John Fox, a farmer near Elbow
Lake, Mimi, shot and killed his broth
er Peter, and his mother, and then
shot himself. He was demented.
The government has brought suit
for $630,000 against trespassers on
the public domain IN Colorado.
The Charleston Is. c. exposition
company has been placed in the hands
of receivers, the liabilities being
about $45O,OO0.
A tornado in Forest county, Wis,
destroyed a large amount of prop
erty.
President Roosevelt sent a special
message to congress urging a 20 per
cent. tariff concession to Cuba, and de-
claring it will not hurt American indus
tries. Passage Of the bill likely to re-
suit. If not, the president probably
will call a special session.
The president has signed the river
and harbor bill.
Ralph Lord shot and killed Mrs. Ar.
villa Worrell, Of whom he was jealous,
at Trenton, Mo-, and then killed him
self.
Commissioner Yerkes, of the inter
nal revenue bureau, says that no arti
fetal coloring matter can be used in
manufacturing oleomargarine with
out Increasing the tax.
The corner stone of the James Mil
liken university, which is to be in
charge of the Cumberland Presby-
terrain church, was laid at Springfield,
Ill.
Reports from all up-river towns il,
West Virginia say thai more men
are at work in the coal mines than
upon any day since the strike was in
augurated.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the American league for the
week ended June Is were: Chicago,
619; Philadelphia, .55s; Boston,
533; ST. Louis, $40; Detroit, 49,;
Baltimore, AIS; Washington, .456;
Cleveland, 1871.
Negroes have been driven out of Sa-
line county, Ill, by series of out
RACES perpetrated at night.
The last of the Spanish war rev
enue taxes will end July L; the beer
tax will return to one dollar a bar
rel; the tea tax stands Till January 1.
Rioting was renewed in Pawtucket,
R. T., railway employees being injured
and cars damaged in spite of soldiers.
The bituminous miners Of Pennsyl-
vania, by stopping the shipment of
| product into anthracite field, aid the
cause of the strikers.
The pension roll has almost reached
the million mark and is likely soon to
pass it, as the list is constantly in
creasing.
The Lake Shore and Pennsylvania
roads started two superb trains on a
20-hour run to New York and from
New York to Chicago.
Arthur Martin. Beatrice Abraham
and Norma Abraham were drowned at
Port Huron, Mich, by the overturning
of a rowbOat.
G. M. Lambertson, prominent Nc
braska lawyer, died suddenly of heart
disease at the Palmer house in Chi
cago.
Two sharp earthquake shocks were
felt at Newport, Ore, but no damage
was done.
By the purchase of the big Beth
lehem steel plant the United States
Shipbuilding combine is enabled to
equip warships complete.
Disclosures of horrors in the
county asylum of Indiana will result
in an appeal to the legislature for
better treatment of the insane.
The percentage of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended June Is were: Pitts
burg, 773; Brooklyn, .532; Chicago,
1923; Boston, .476; Philadelphia, .447;
New York, .432; st. Louis, Alb; Gin
cinnati, Alb.
President Mitchell, of United Mine
Workers, ordered a strike of soft
coal miners in the Morrisdale, Pa,
district, $4,000 miners being affected.
The sales of American agricultural
machinery in Russia for 1901 broke
all records; one firm alone sold
81, OOO,O0O worth.
Lightning struck three churches
in Chicago, and one was destroyed.