Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-03-14
A WEEKS RECORD
All 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.

having QlSpOSeQ OF all the apprOpr1-
alton bills. In the senate Senator AL
ison stated that the appropriations
aggregated 1864, 1Os, 514 The usual
resolution of thanks to the presiding
officer was adopted. In the house
the speaker delivered his valedictory
and was thanked for his services.
American-made gowns displayed at
a convention of dressmakers in New
York are said to rival creations from
Paris.
Alfred Knapp, in explaining at
Hamilton, O., his confessions, said his
sister betrayed him, and he deter
mined to tell the story in order to
make the family disgrace complete.
1t is estimated that over 5000 head
of cattle persisted in Kansas during
the recent storm.
An anti-toxin which will destroy
the germs of cholera infantum has
been announced by DR.. Simon Flex-
ner, director of medical institute
at Baltimore. Md.
Prohibition in Vermont is believed
killed by referendum adoption of
high license under local option law
Business failures throughout the
country in February amounted to
S1O,9o7,454, against 1902, 029 in the
same month in 1902.
The Indiana Legislature has passed a
bill appropriating $15O,00O for the In
diana exhibit and building at the ST.
Louis exposition.
The extra session of the United
States senate of the Fifty-eighth con-
gress met at noon on the 5th and 80
senator's were sworn in for six-year
terms. The time was devoted to
speeches answering Congressman
Cannon's charge of Legislative black
mail" In executive session all the
treaties were referred to the commit
tee on foreign relations. Adjourned to
the 9th.
Forty structural iron companies,
with capital aggregating $1,000, OOO,-
600, have combined to resist iron
workers and other employees de-
mands for wage increase.
Seventeen persons were injured in a
railway collision near Kansas City, Mo.
Senator Quay predicts that four
states will be admitted as the result
of the fight by friends of the omni-
bus bill before the next congress.
President Roosevelt has signed all
the appropriation bills passed by con-
gress.
James j. Corbett and James J. JEFF
fries have agreed to fight in California
In July or August for the heavyweight
championship of the world.
The population of New York city is
now placed at $780, O3.
Al Wade has been sentenced to be
electrocuted June 81 at Columbus, O.,
for the murder of Kate Sullivan two
years ago.
Mrs. John Greenwood and her three
children-girls aged 16 and IL and a
boy aged 11-were killed by the cars
at Springfield, O.
bill before the Pennsylvania leg
islature proposes medals and money
rewards for large families.
The Maine legislature has rejected
p bill proposing resubmission of the
prohibitory law passed SO years ago.
A strike of 10000 Illinois miners
is imminent, the joint committee hav-
ing failed to reach an agreement on
the wage scale.
The Montana house passed bill
requiring that newspapers shall once
O month print a statement of owner
ship and that editorials shall be
signed.
The five new battleships ordered
by congress will be named Vermont.
Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi and
Idaho.
John D. Rockefeller has given $780,
900 to & negro college at Marshallton.
Tex.
The total of cattle losses due to the
recent blizzard in Texas are now esti-
mated at 100000
Wabash railroad strike sentiment is
spreading, and the men may quit work
Individually to avoid United States
court injunction.
The president has reuominated
William D. Crum as collector of Gus
toms at Charleston, s. c.
Local manifestations in behalf of
the rejection of President Diaz are
to be held all over Mexico.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the seven days ended on the 9th
aggregated $2,406, 917,61 The in
crease compared with the CORE
spending week of last year was 1872.
Ira d. Sankey, evangelist and sing
er, has, it is said, become totally
blind.
Earl Shaw and Lee Shellenberger
were killed at the Warren mine, near
Joplin, Mo-, by bowlder weighing
ton.
There were 229 business failures in
the United States during the seven
days ended on the 9Th, against 176
the same week in 1902