Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-07-08
4 WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seyen
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
ami Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
aggregated s1,904,072 ,524. The de-
crease compared with the CORE
spending week of last year was 81.
Delaware is in dread of race riots
owing to the helpless attitude of the
state government over the burning
Of negro at Wilmington and subse-
quent street fights.
General John r. Brooke was re-
elected president at the meeting of
the Society of the Army of the Poto-
mac IN Boston.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 18th were: Pitts
burgh, .6S3; New York, $40; Chicago,
.607; Brooklyn, .527; Cincinnati, 500;
BOSTON, 1897; st. Louis, .317; Philadel-
phia, .3O9.
Forty-three divorces were granted
in Chicago on the 9th.
Harvey Logan, train robber and des-
perado in the Knoxville (Tenn.) Jail,
1assooed his guard with wire, secured
two revolvers and escaped.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the American league for the week
ended on the 28th were: Boston, .e3S;
Philadelphia, .586; Cleveland, .545; Chi
cago, .52S; st. Louis, $40; Detroit,
.453; New York, .451; Washington,
.273.
Shamrock III. defeated Shamrock I.
in the first trial in American waters.
The president has ordered new regu-
1ations which will prevent glaring
abuses of the civil service law.
Jesse McClain, a nonunion man, was
shot and mortally wounded while on
duty as Waterman in Chicago
A microscopic laboratory for pure
food Investigations has been estab-
iished in Washington by Secretary Will
son.
President Roosevelt's homecoming
was enlivened by the rivalry of Oyster
Bay factions which WED with each 9TH
er in an enthusiastic welcome.
The white man was called a demon
and monstrosity by Rev. M. w. Thorn
ton (negro) in a sermon at Whining
ton, Del, and the blacks were advised
to be their own sheriff.
Christian Science communion sery-
ices at Mechanics hall, Boston, were
attended by $4,000 delegates.
Arrangements are complete for the
meeting in Denver in July of the twen-
ty-frst international biennial conyen-
ton Of the Society of Christian En-
deavor.
Great damage was caused by storm
owe rthe southern portion of West Vir-
ginia.
All freight handlers employed by the
Rock Island, Missouri Pacific, Santa
Fe and Grand Island roads went on a
strike at ST. Louis.
Col. Robert A Ammon, of New
York, who feloniously obtained $50. 800
stolen by William F. Miller and was
convicted on the latter's testimony, has
been sentenced TO the penitentiary.
heavy rainfall in the northwest
broke dangerous drought and IN
sured bumper wheat crop.
Aou IilIOu UlOhS dll records IOr a
mile to wagon for trotters, going the
distance in 2:04A in Cleveland.
Riley Brock, who married the d.
vorced wife Of Gen. Clay, of Whitehall.
KY, was run over by a train and killed
at Longview, ILL.,
An expenditure Of $4,000 voted by
the last Illinois legislature for the
Illinois and Michigan canal has been
enjoined by Judge Thompson, Of
Springfield.
Cornell won the varsity four-oared
race at Poughkeepsie by half length
pennsylvania was second by four
lengths, with Wisconsin third and Co.
luInbia fourth. Time, 1888 2-5.
Angered over her refusal to marry
him 2. III. Worden, of Carmel, n. Y.
killed Edith Roscoe at Sherman,
Conn. fatally wounded Mrs. Sherman
Roscoe and then shot himself
Three negroes, Garfield Mccoy,
George Mckinney and Wiley were
taken from jail at Newtown. Ga, by
u mob and hanged for the murder of
F. S. Billiard
Fire in the power plant of the
American mailing plant at Milwau-
kee resulted in property loss OF
$1,000,O00.