Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-08-19
THE WEEKS NEWS
Happenings of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and POI
litical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
James Coghill, 40 years old, who had
lived three and half years with a
broken back, died in Holyoke, Mass.
The United States Express company
has begun suit at Grand Rapids against
the state of Michigan to recover S13, 900
taxes
The International Typographical
unions forty-ninth annual convention
opened at Washington, D. c., with 315
delegates.
Twelve thousand striking employees of
textile mills in Philadelphia have re-
turned to work
A farmer at Lakeside, Wis, held up
the driver of an automobile with a rife
and commanded him to proceed at slow
er speed
Minnesota is estimated by H v Jones,
crop expert, at 147,00O,000 bushels.
The dates for the Olympian games in
st. Louis, 1904, have been set for Au-
gust 20 to September 8.
Kent Stow, son Of well-known
Buffalo On. Y.) railroad man, while in
sane as the result of illness killed his
wife and himself
In an explosion in a canning fac
tory at Rutland, O., John Mutchler,
Said Mar and Dele Rawlins were killed
and a dozen others injured
A government report shows that
there will be good average crop
yield throughout the country.
Postmaster General Payne will pre-
vent interference by railroad strikes
with interstate commerce by making
all trains mail trains and commission
ing their crews sls United States postal
employees.
John Temple Graves, of Georgia, in
an address before the anti-lynching con-
ference at Chautauqua, N. Y, held that
1ynching was justified by crime that
provoked it, and said separation was the
only solution for the southern race
problem.
Positive statement is made that Sec
rotary Root will place his resignation in
the hands of President Roosevelt before
sailing for Europe to sit with the Alas
kan boundary commission
The Reading railroad is reported at
Philadelphia to have been leased to the
Delaware e Hudson and Lackawanna
lines
Building operations are paralyzed in
Chicago because CT contractors pools
and the heavy cost of labor and material.
Frank Tilley, of Rising Sun, Ind, died
of injuries received in the recent wreck
of Wallace Brothers circus train, MAX
ing the twenty-fifth victim.
The secret service has discovered a
new counterfeit SO silver certificate. 1t
is in imitation of the series of 1891, check
letter D, Tillman register, and bears the
portrait of Hendricks.
w. S. Stone, of Eldon, Ia, has been
elected grand chief engineer of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
succeeding P. M. Arthur, deceased.
1t is said that establishment of the
army canteen will be recommended by
Secretary Root in his annual report.
Joseph Halter, organizer of the Unit
ed Mine Workers, was shot and seriously
wounded by angry citizens at Horse
Creek, Ala, who objected to the organi-
cation of union at that place.
Whipping by Georgia prison war
den is told of by Mamie De Crist, white
convict, before the legislative commit
tee at Milledgeville.
Corn is making good progress in the
central and western belt but less prOmis-
ing in the upper Ohio valley and middle
Atlantic states, according to the gov
ernment's weekly report.
Leaders of the AntiSaloon League of
America closed a ten days secret confer
ence at Winona Lake, Ind
The night clerk of hotel at Chelsea,
near Atlantic City, N. j., disappeared
with $4,000 not his own.
City Marshal John H. Williams shot
and killed William Feldbusch in duel
on the river at Indianapolis
Sheriff Beese, of Sacramento, Cal, has
abandoned the hunt for the convicts who
escaped from the Folsom penitentiary
John K. Brown, cashier Of the Union
bank at New Holland, O., is missing, and
is said to be short nearly SIS 900
A large bell in the Cleveland co.
Furnace company's plant fell, killing
three men.
George w. Beavers, under indict-
ment for alleged postal frauds, is de-
clared fugitive from justice.