Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-04-04

Diamonds valued at $4,000 were
stolen from a Minneapolis jewelry
house by unknown persons.
A. L. Bedding was hanged at Port
land, Ore, for the murder July 10,
1902, of his wife, his mother-in-law,
Mrs. McCroskey, and Frank Wood
ward.
The Cuban government has been no.
tilted by President Roosevelt that an
extra session of congress will be called
to ratify the reciprocity treaty if the
island congress accepts it as amended
by the United States.
Will Dorsey (colored) was hanged
at Birmingham, Ala, for highway
robbery.
A break in the levee at Greenville,
Miss, flooded large sec ton of fine
farm land and many lives were report
ed lost, a woman and five children
perishing in one house.
President Roosevelt will start April
travel $4,000 miles, visiting % states
and two territories.
The National Council of Women, in
session at New Orleans, elected Mrs.
Mary Wood Swift, of San Francisco.
president.
The United States armored cruiser
West Virginia will be launched at
Newport News April is.
c. K. G. Billings entertained his
friends i'll New York at an equestrian
feast, guests dining while seated on
the backs of horses:
The total expense of the coal strike
commission was about $4,000.
The arrival of 1860 immigrants at
Ellis island broke all records for Sun
day in the history of the harbor Of
New York
President Roosevelt has arranged
series of speeches for his western
trip. The keynote of his addresses
will be tariff revision, for which he
seeks a pledge from his party.
Fourteen of the largest tanning
firms in Chicago have organized an
employers association so as to oppose
the demands of union employees.
The seventy-frst legislature of
Maine has adjourned
James S. Harlan, of Chicago, called
on President Roosevelt to resign his Of
fee as attorney general for Porto
Rico
The ST. Louis exposition dedicatory
programme will include a military
parade on April 80 and dedication adj
dresses by President Roosevelt and
Grover Cleveland.
The Mississippi river flood is rising
at Greenville, Miss, and people are
rowing through the streets in skiffs.
Senator William B. Allison in an in
terview predicted that tariff would be
the issue Of the next national cam
paign.
A rich anthracite coal mine has been
discovered ten miles south of Havre,
Mont.
Gold finds in the Tanana district in
Alaska are said to be richer and more
extensive than those of the Klondike
Personal AND POLITICAL.
William B. Byers, Colorado pioneer
and founder of the Rocky Mountain
News, the first daily newspaper pub
lished in Denver, died in that city, aged
72 years.
George D. Haworth, who invented
the corn planter, wheat drills and
other agricultural implements, died in
Decatur, H., aged 20 years.
Uriah Fl. Crosby, pioneer Chicago
resident and builder Of the Crosby OBJ
era house, died at Brewster, Mass. aged
70 years.
Isaac B. Price celebrated his one
hundred and first birthday in New
York. He has only been out of the
city once in his long life
Nathaniel K. Fairbanks, philanthro-
pist and one of Chicago's most prom
inent pioneer business men, died at
his home at the age of 73 years.
William V. Mexican, for nearly 80
years editor in chief of the Public
Ledger, died at his home in Philadel-
phia. aged SO years.
Gustavus F. Swift, head of the Swift
& Co. packing industries, died suddenly
at his home in Chicago, aged "a years.
He was the originator of the present
system of preparing and marketing
dressed meats and was a multimillion-
aire.
DR.. John P. Wood, a practicing physi-
clan for IS years, died at Thomas,
Okla, aged 101 years.
FOREIGN.
Maj. Gen. Sir Hector Macdonald,
British military commander at Cey-
lon and Boer war hero, committed sui
eide in a Paris hotel while en- route
to face court-martial for immoral
conduct.
The Toronto (Ont.1 opera house has
been burned, the estimated loss being
$15O,OOO.
Gen. Castro read his special message
to the Venezuelan congress and with
drew his resignation of the presi-
dency.
The Irish land bill introduced in the
British commons provides a loan of
$3.50, 600 by the British government
to enable tenants to purchase their