Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-10-18
1 Y EEk'S RECORD
ALI 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.
Earl Bush and Frank Anspaugh were
blown to pieces by an explosion of
nitroglycerine near Lima, o.
The coal conference began in De-
troit with delegates from 60 cities,
16 states and the District of Column
bia
The G. A. r. parade in Washington
of $4,000 veterans was reviewed by
President Roosevelt, who drove
along the line of march.
The vote of the miners in the an
thracite region on a proposition to
return to work was almost unani-
mously in favor of continuing the
strike until concessions are granted.
Garfield Burley and Curtis Brown,
negroes, were lynched at Newbern,
Tenn, by mob for the murder of
farmer. -
President Mitchell hurried from
Wilkesbarre to New York in response
to an urgent summons, the nature of
which was not made public, his trip
giving rise to a report of neace ne
.gotiatiGns.
Forest fires are doing immense
damage north of Marinette, Wis.
\ state monument to the memory
of the confederate soldiers was I'M
yelled at Perrysville, Ky.
A Nebraska supreme court deci-
sion prohibits reading of the Bible
or singing of sacred songs in the
public schools. a"e 5Hss
Officials at Washington are much
disturbed over the delay and appar-
ent Indifference on the part of Cuba
in concluding the commercial treaty
Four men were killed and two
wounded in a shooting ARRAY in the
streets at Ell Dorado, Ark.
The Detroit conference on the coal
situation adopted strong resolutions
scoring the coal operators, favoring
receiverships for the mines and
roads, and recommending an extra
session of congress to deal with the
subject and 10 enlarge the powers of
the interstate commerce commission.
Violence continues in the anthra-
cite region. One striker was killed
by guard, and two trains were
wrecked by dynamite.
Rev. j. l.. Prince, Baptist preach
er, was shot and killed by Pole Wat
son near Henderson, KY, because
he persisted in visiting Watson's
daughter.
New Orleans is ruled by striking
street car men and the police are
powerless.
kilograms have passed between
the officials of the Western Fedora
zion of Miners and President Mitch
ell looking to complete tie-up of
all oituminous coal mines in the
United States and Canada.
There is strong belief in New York
that the coal strike will soon be set
tied. Railway presidents are likely to
make a proposition to President
Mitchell which he can and will accept.
subject to ratifcati by the miners.
It is said to contemplate an increase
of ten per cent. in wages.
The bodies, of Pleasant Pruitt. aged
So, and his wife, aged AZ, were found
in the basement of their home in In
dianapolis. The police say Pruitt
The largest increase in postal re-
ceipts in the history of the service
is shown in reports of so leading post
offices for September. The increase
was SIS, LOSS ,694.
At the grand army encampment in
Washington Gen. Thomas J. Stewart.
of Pennsylvania, was elected COM
in oh of
adjutant general shows 263,745 mem
bers and 6.511 posts. The death loss
the last year was S,299.
The New York police fear coal riots
by the poor when freezing weather
comes.
Mrs. Henry Haubens and her two
sons. aged ten and u, were found
dead i'll their home in Omaha, Neb.
They mad been asphyxiated by gas.
it was q case of suicide on the part
of the mother and destruction
through her act of the lives of the
boys.
The safe in Henry Welsh's store at
Downington, Mich, was blown and
$1,000 belonging to Welsh and S1,40O
in money and papers belonging to
James Lane were taken.
The steamer Garden City was de-
stroyed by fire at Bay City, Mich.
Loss, $4,000.
The village of Kells, Mich, was wiped
out by forest fires.
The body of Mrs. t. f. Burns, miss
ing for week, was found in the
Sioux river. at Sioux City, Ia.