Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-28
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honor of the papal jubilee.
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In the United States senate on the
23d Washington's farewell address was
read by Senator Dubois, of Idaho. The
omnibus public-building bill was
passed, and the postoffice appropria-
ton bill was considered, without final
action. An agreement was reached
on the statehood question and a set
Element of the deadlock was predicted
in short time. In the house the gen
eral deficiency appropriation bill, the
last OF the regular supply bills, was
passed. 1t carried $13, 69S,7S1. The
committee on merchant marine and
fisheries decided against a favorable
report on the ship subsidy bill.
The Indianola (Miss.) post office
case occupied the major portion of
the time of the United States senate
on the oath, Senator Tillman con-
tlnuing his remarks on the race ques-
ton. The agricultural appropriation
bill was considered and the commit
tee amendments agreed to, except
the statehood rider, which was passed
over. In the house the Philippine
currency bill was passed. The con-
tested election case of Wagner VS..
Butler, from Missouri, was decided
in favor of Wagner.
Washington's birthday was appro-
-priately celebrated throughout the
country.
Rear Admiral Henry C. Taylor, COM
mander of the battleship Indiana in
the Spanish war, was presented with
sword by Indiana citizens.
While gang on the Baltimore &
Ohio road were thawing dynamite near
lockwood, Pa, an explosion killed
four men,
The Island of Guam has been raised
SIX inches by series of prolonged
earthquakes.
Col. Paul r. Hawkins, of Spring
field, Mass, was elected commander of
the Legion of Spanish War Veterans It
Lawrence, Mass.
Germans have returned the cap
tured gunboat Restaurador to Vene-
zuelan authorities at Porto Cabello.
Routine organization occupied most
of the first session in Washington of
the twelfth continental congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
Secretary Cortelyou asks for
building for the new department of
commerce and labor to cost $1,000, OOO,
exclusive of the site.
Fred A. Bopp, banker at Hawkeye,
Ia, was killed and 13 other persons
injured in a railway accident near
Athol, S. D.
A bitter war in the Chicago cloth
ing trade has been brought to an end
after a struggle lasting seven weeks
and costing an immense sum.
The British still refuse to deliver the
ships of the Venezuelan navy which
they seized unless the transfers are
made at Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Cornell university at Ithaca, n. Y,
is IN danger of being deserted on
account Of the typhoid fever cpl
deraic, nearly half of the students
having already gone.
Post offices at Mexico and Denver,
Ill, East Atchison, Kan, and Morgan,
Mo-, have been robbed.
Senator Quay has given up the
statehood fight, making unlikely any
legislation on the subject at this
session.
Charles Grether was hanged at
Stroudsburg, Pa, for the murder of
Constable Strunk in September, 1901.
The =. A. r. congress in Washing
ton adopted an amendment removing
the obstacle to reelection of the pres
ident general, Mrs. Fairbanks.
A joint resolution has been intro
duced in the Hawaii legislature petit
tioning for statehood.
Earl Woods, the 17-year-old son of a
wellknown farmer living near Frank
fort, Ind, shot and killed his father,
fatally wounded his mother and sister,
and then took his own life. No cause
is. known for the crime.
The Illinois legislature has passed
bill appropriating $4,000 for life
size statue of the late Frances E.
Willard, to be placed in the National
Statuary hall in Washington.
William Fambro (colored), who in
suited white woman, was shot dead
in his home at Griffin, Ca, by mob
Mail Clerks g. w. Smiley, F. w.
Kreissman, w. III. Blackwell and L.
W. Walworth. all of Cleveland, and two
unknown men were killed in a railway
wreck near Berea O..
All the negroes at Webrum, Pa, have
been driven from town by the white
residents.
President Truesdale, of the Lack
awanna railroad, in report accused
bituminous coal interests with incit-
ing the anthracite coal strike.
John Quinn, a member of the Fifty
first congress, died in New York, aged
So years.
Mr.. Bowen, with approval of the
state department., has suggested to
the allies that the Car of Russia
name arbitrators to pass on the Vene-
zuelan question of preferential treat
ment.