Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-05-16
4 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.


Five hundred dollars reward is Of
fered by Gov. Beckham, of Kentucky,
for the arrest of j. B. Marcum's assas-
sin at Jackson.
The Michigan Steamship company's
twin screw steamer Eastland, 279 feet
long, was launched at Port Huron for
the Chicago-South Haven trade.
Indiana and Illinois coal operators
filed answer to the governments anti
trust suit, and admitted a working
agreement, but denied unlawful COM
bination to fix prices.
Alexander WintOn, in trial run with
his gasoline automobile in Cleveland,
covered a mile in one minute and two
seconds, breaking the worlds record.
Federal Judge Munger, of Omaha, is
sued sweeping restraining order
against striking teamsters.
Railroad reports show liberal in
creases in the earnings.
A bill granting women the right to
vote in Connecticut was rejected in the
legislature
By a decision of the surrogate Mrs.
Alice Hull Burdick. of Buffalo. Y. Y,
will get the custody of her three chill
dren
Twenty stock yards packing plants
in Chicago We're tied up by a strike Of
engineers.
During free fight at a hotel dance
in Big Creek, Mich, Dave Tromhley
was killed and Harry Schindehette ia
tally wounded
The Illinois legislature adjourned
sine die after a session lasting just
four months.
The management of the Lackawanna
railroad has decided to supersede the
telegraph with the telephone in opera
ton of trains.
The army board which has been con-
sidering the merits Of the new army
musket pronounce it the most power
full weapon of its kind in the world.
Children in two Of the parochial
schools at Omaha, Neb.. went on strike
for shorter hours.
The Gallatin (Tenn.) rural post Of
fee delivery service has been stopped
by the postmaster general because of
threats made by masked men against
the negro carriers life.
The ST. Louis and San Francisco rail
road system, with 1000 miles of track,
has been bought by the Rock Island.
New York building operations are
nearly tied up by strikes.
President Roosevelt opened his tour
of California with a speech at Red
lands.
Former Mayor A. A. Ames, of Min
neapolis was convicted of accepting a
5000 bride while in office.
Municipal lodging houses instead of
police stations as sleeping places for
tramps are favored by the national
charities and corrections conference at
Atlanta, Ga.
Fire nearly wiped out the town Of
Sulphur Springs, Ind.
Nine men were killed and five others
injured, three fatally, by a slide of
rock at Eggleston Springs, Va.
Rev. James Stafford, pastor of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church at
Hazleton, Ind, has perfected a stopper
TO make bottles nonrefillable, and has
been offered 81 100000 for his patent.
j. A. Barager. editor of the Withee
(Wis.) Sentinel, died at Eau Claire
after undergoing an opera ton for APP
pendicitis.
Bakers in Chicago have decided to
raise the prices OF their goods.
Henry Wilson and Bud Gray, negro
murderers. were hanged in the jail
yard in ST. Louis.
A peanut trust with capital Of
100000 has been formed
There were lis business failures in
the United States during the seven
days ended Oh the Sth, against 21S the
same week in 1902.
President Roosevelt witnessed a
flower parade at Los Angeles and ad-
dressed students of Pomona college
at Claremont.
Business continues large and indus
try active, in most cases surpa ssing
previous years at this date, despite I'M
seasonably cool weather and labor
troubles.
S. f. Wilson, who shot Edward
Knight, of Lorimer, Ia, as the re-
suit of a political feud. has been
found guilty of murder in the Sec
ond degree.