Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-10
The Farmers and Mechanics bank at
Ruron Nah mac robbed of 50 600

Byron, Neb., was robbed of $4,000.
The report of the United States treas
urer shows that on June 80 last the to-
tai net revenue for the fiscal year was
$3.50, 396674, an increase of 1888, 439
over the year preceding, and the total
expenditures $500, O99007, an increase
of $35, 782,034 the monetary stock OF
the country was $2,688, 149,621 and the
increase Of money in circulation was
$121, 740,252.
Presidents Gompers and President
Mitchell of the Federation of Labor
propose to use all their influence to
avert a war on Roosevelt by organized
labor.
Chicago building permits decreased
35 per cent. in nine months and value
of structures s12,00O,O00 because of
strikes.
Five persons were killed and three
injured near Philadelphia by train
which struck their wagon.
Mayor Harry H. Devereaux, of
Springfield, ILL.,, has been indicted for
alleged malfeasance in refusing to sup
press gambling.
BY collision between passenger
train and an electric car near the Haw-
thorne track in Chicago six persons
were killed and nine injured making
a total of So fatalities in Chicago for
September on steam and street rail-
ways.
William Foulke, aged 80 years, killed
his wife, aged 81 years, and himself
near Allentown, Pa.
A wage increase aggregating $4,000
coo will be demanded by the Brother
hood Of Locomotive Firemen because
of increased size of trains and engines.
At the opening of the fall term of the
University of Chicago over 2,4OO stu
dents were present.
The Chicago-New York auto tour is
finished, and is the most remarkable
long distance run in America, 1,137
miles being covered in 76 hours.
A mob lynched Walter Davis (col-
ored) at Marshall, Tex, for the murder
of Constable Hayes.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st shows that the debt decreased
$6171,812 during the month of Sep
TENDER. Cash in the treasury, $780,
Alt, 1874. Total debt. less cash in treas
ury, s917, 1852, 545.
Willis, Frederick M and Burton Van
Wormer (brothers) were put to death
in 151a minutes in the electric chair
at the prison in Dannemora, N Y,
for the murder Of their uncle, Peter A.
Ha,lenbeck, at Greendale, on Christ
mas eve, 1901.
Mayor Seth Low, of New York, ad-
dressed a civic mass meeting in the Audi
forum in Chicago and expressed the
wish that all the cities of the land might
be the source of inspiration for the per-
petuity of the republic
During the month of September. 1903,
the total coinage of United States coins
was 81 ,626,371.
An American record of 1:051A for 51h
furlongs was set by MCGEE, Edward Cor
rigan's three-year-old, at the Harlem
race track in Chicago
The amount of national bank notes in
circulation September 80 was 1920 1885,
535, an increase for the year of $50, 432,-
937
The government receipts in September
were 81, 1863 ,S18, and the expenditures
s3S,430, 1863, leaving a surplus for the
month Of Sc 100000.
At Oxford, O., deputy sheriff stood
off mob as twas lynching Louis Spivey
and cut the victim from a tree to which he
had been strung. The marshal, in at
tempting to arrest a drunken man, pre-
cipitated riot in which four men were
fatally wounded
During the past nine months there
were SIG business failures in the
United States, with liabilities of $101,-
655, 1855, against S,676 failures and $685.
407,490 liabilities in the first nine months
of 1902
Personal AND POLITICAL.
Henry D. Lloyd, a writer on econo-
mics, died in Chicago Of pneumonia at
the age of sc years.
John H Dolp, an artist known as the
'Landseer of America" died suddenly
of heart disease in New York
Edward w. McKittrick, deputy audi
tor for the treasury department, died
in Washington, aged 60 years.
Uncle Ben Yoachum, an ex-slave and
the Oldest negro in Missouri, died in
Springfield, aged 104 years.
George B. Mcclellan has been nomi-
mated for mayor of New York by the
democrats.
Rhode Island democrats have nomi-
mated L. F. Carvin, Of Cumberland, for
governor
William A. CASTOR, of Boston, has
been nominated for governor by Mass
achusetts democrats.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional League of Republican clubs, in SEES
sion in Chicago, voted Endorsement of
President Roosevelt and selected Indian
apolis as the place for the coming con-
vention of the league.
FOREIGN.
The Bulgarian government is reas-
sured by the announcement from the
porte that the Turkish reserves now at