Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-04-18
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LATER.
Postmaster General Payne on his
return to Washington announced that
scandals in the postal department
would be thoroughly investigated and
all guilty persons punished.
Mrs. Katherine Barrett, aged 116
years, the oldest person in Iowa, died
at her home near Waterloo.
County Commissioner Raymond
and wife were drowned while cross
ing Blue Lick creek near Henryville,
Ind.
A cloudburst north of Portland,
Ind, inundated the town.
Capt. Nat Herreshoff's latest crea-
ton, the prospective cup defender,
Reliance, has been launched at Bris-
toll, r. /.
Judge Belden has appointed Henry T.
Jordan receiver of the Kenosha (Wis.)
state bank, which was recently closed.
After a quarrel with her husband
over bonnet. Mrs. Clarence Bishop.
a 17-yearold bride at Port Jarvis, n.
Y, drowned herself.
Mrs. Catharine DAM and George Hos
sey, negro herb doctor" at Phila-
delphia, have been held responsible for
the death of the woman's husband
Inclement weather caused abandon
ment of the usual Easter egg-rolling
festivities at the white house in Wash
ington.
move for a national nonunion plan
has been given a start at Indianapolis
by the incorporation of the American
Association of Independent Mechanics.
Charles Barron, chief engineer of the
Graham & Morton line of Chicago, has
resigned afted 60 years of service on
the great lakes.
Mrs. Mary Roll died in Minneapolis,
aged 102 years. She was the first white
woman born in Dayton, o.
Abner Tayl form er m ember of con.
gress from the First Illinois, district,
died at his home in Washington, aged
"A years.
Brig, Gen. Frank X. Baldwin has ak
en- charge of the department of TIL Col
orado, succeeding Gen Frederick Fun
ston.
Five men were killed by an explosion
in a mine It Carbon, /. T.
The warship Reina Christina, flag
ship of Admiral Monteio, sunk by Adj
miral Dewey in Manila bay, has been
f1oated, and the skeletons of about so
of her crew were found
Grover Cleveland, speaking with
Booker I. Washington at a New York
meeting, says the negro problem rests
upon the whole nation, and praises the
work done for blacks by the south.
Albert West, negro, was hanged at
Media, Pa, for the murder of Mart w.
Allen, a policeman of Chester.
President David NJ. Parry. of the Ma
tional Manufacturers association. in
session at New Orleans, in his annual
address scored labor organizations.
During severe northeast gale the
scow Hughes capsized in the Delaware
river off Marcus Hook, Pa, and four
men were drowned
President Palma, of Cuba. has called
conference at which he will explain
the United States new proposition for
a permanent treaty.
len persons were killed, many in
]ured and numerous barns, residences
fences and outhouses were swept away
by cyclone in Monroe county, Ala.
len handsomely bound volumes con-
tanning messages of all the presidents
have been sent to the pope as jubilee
gift by President Roosevelt.
Department of agriculture officials
say the pink complexion taken on bv
subjects of pure food experiments are
not due to chemicals, but to elimina
ton Of impurities from blood
Moro Notifications near Bacolod
have been shelled and many Filipinos
killed by 600 American troops under
Capt. Pershing
= Ex-Congressman Benoni F. Fuller.
aged Y years, died suddenly at Boon
Vile, Ind.
DR.. Chauncey Ayers, aged 95 years.
died at Stamford, Conn He was the
oldest graduate of the, Yale medical
school,
j. j. Davis, who founded the Manhat-
tan (Kan.) Mercury in 1854, died on a
train while returning home from New
Orleans.
The Southern Association of News
paper Publishers has been organized
at Atlanta, Ga.
President Roosevelt is enjoying his
outing in Yellowstone park and is in
the best OF health.
The boiler of mill at Ruby, O., ex-
ploded, killing Charles Bevans, Richard
HOuck, Rufus Houck and two bows.
heavy snowstorm prevailed
throughou central Wisconsin.
The wedding of Reginald C. Wander
bilt, the youngest son of the late Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, and Miss kathleen
G. Nelson, both of New York, took
place at Newport, r. l.
Hallett Kilbourn, formerly chief
clerk Of the Interior department, and
one of the most widely known citizens
of Washington, died of par;lys aged
~ years.