Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-05-24
LATER NEWS


The conference report on the omni-
bus claims bill was adopted by the
United States senate on the 18th. AS
finally agreed upon, the measure car
ries the amount of $1,6SS, 49S. A bill
providing for the retirement of Sur
geon General Sternberg as a major
was passed. Senator Dolliver (Ia.)
spoke at length in favor of the Phil
ippine bill. The house passed the ma
val appropriation bill, with an amend
ment providing that three of the
ships provided for in the bill, bat
tleship, cruiser and gunboat, shall
be built in the government yards.
Under suspension of the rules, the
bill for eight-hour work on all gov
eminent contracts was passed, also
bill authorizing the construction of
national sanitarium for disabled
soldiers at Hot Springs, S. D.
The United States senate again dis
cussed the Philippine measure on the
goth. Senator's Bacon (Ga.) and Hoar
(Mass.) criticised and Senator Foraker
CO., defended the action of the mill
tary authorities in concentrating the
lnha bltants of the islands, into camps.
The committee on public buildings
and grounds reported the omnibus
public building bill. 1t carries net
increase of $685., 700 over the house
measure, making the aggregate appro-
priation S2O,941,15O The house in
structed its conferees on the military
appropriation bill against the pro-
posed increase of the appropriation
for military posts from $4,000, 900 to
$4,OOO,OOO.
Two hundred and twenty-five lives
were almost certainly lost through an
explosion in the Fraterville shaft at
Coal Creek, Tenn. Thirty-four bodies
have been recovered. The workmen
are entombed three miles from the pits
mouth without hope of rescue
Nine English tourists, including
four women and four boatmen, were
drowned by the upsetting of boat
on the lakes OF Killarney, County
Kerry. Ireland, during a squall.
King Alfonso, in the uniform of cap
tain general, held his first review cf
Spanish troops; $4,000 soldiers passed
in parade.
A bomb was discovered in an apart
ment of the train occupied by EN-
peror Francis Joseph shortly before
his departure from Vienna for Buda-
Pesth
The bodies of United States Consul
Prentiss and family have been found
-
welt has asked that for the present re-
ceipt of subscriptions be suspended.
John F. Gaynor and w. d. Greene,
wanted for United States government
fraud, were taken from Montreal Jail
by friends on writ and returned to
Quebec by special train. Secret serv-
ice officers were outwitted.
Ninety-eight are known to be dead
and 100 injured as result of the tor
nado which swept over Goliad Tex.
William Leet, who was last week
convicted in the superior court at
Grand Rapids, Mich, of the murder
of his wife, Nellie Leet, by choking
and burning her, has been sentenced
by Judge NEWMAN to 80 years in
prison.
William H.. Stafford, of Milwau-
kee, was nominated for congress by
republicans of the Fifth Wisconsin dis
trict.
The Wisconsin republican state con-
vention, at which a full state ticket
will be named, will be held in Madison
July 16.
Near Ardmore, I. T., a construction
train plunged through a high trestle.
-Four men were killed, and 81 injured,
seven of whom may die
AS he was leaving the senate Blind
Chaplain Milburn was struck bv
runaway horse attached to a buggy.
The large toe of one foot was cut off.
total of SO bodies have been recoy-
cred from the Fraterville mine near
Coal Creek, Tenn. Ernest Mcdonald
was taken out alive, but so badly man.
gled that he cannot live.
The thirty-ffth annual encampment
of the Illinois G. A. r. is in session at
Rock Island. At Des Moines the TWEEN
ty-eighth annual meeting of the Iowa
G. A. r. is under way.
Ii, III,
was demolished by a tornado. Ida
Hanson, the teacher, was killed. and
several scholars injured.
A temporary injunction against
packers was granted by the United
States court in Chicago, preventing
operations under the alleged trust
agreements. The packers did not re-
sist, but denied charges and asked a
full hearing. The latter may OF come
till August.
waterspout killed six persons in
Covington, KY. caused S1,Ooo.OOO
loss in Cincinnati, and damaged prop,
erty in the Miami valley as far as
Dayton.
The French battleship Gaulois, bear
ing delegates to the Rochambeau
statue unwilling at Washington, has
anchored near Annapolis.