Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-07-15
A 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
DONIEs TIC.

DOMESTIC.
Admiral Dewey mas resigned as pres
ident of the Thomas Jefferson Me-
mortal association, and Lieut.. Gen.
Nelson A. Miles has been elected to
succeed him.
Joseph ]. Gill, of Steubenville, mem
Der of congress from the Sixteenth
Ohio district, has resigned because OF
i'll health.
The Colorado legislature will meet
in extra session July 20 to pass an ap-
preparation bill for the support of
state institutions.
William Rudolph, charged with muir
der and robbery, escaped from jail at
ST Louis by sliding down an electric
light wire.
Senator Hanna denies that he has
retired or will retire from business.
Mabel Brown, daughter of Chica-
goan, and another woman were muir
xlered by strangulation at Denver.
Charles E. Magoon. acting chief Of the
bureau of insular affairs, sent the first
government commercial cable message
over the new Pacific cable line to Manila.
John Crowley, aged 16, cried himself
to death in New York upon hearing OF
the death by accident of his uncle.
The Colorado river broke through the
Ievee near Yuma, Ariz., and flooded a
large fertile valley.
Shamrock III. sailed over the 30-mile
windward and leeward course off Sandy
Hook in hours 58 minutes and 81 Sec
Onds, making new record
E. |. Hammond and L. L. Whitman,
of Pasadena, Cal, left for trip to New
York in an automobile
According to an opinion by Attorney
General Knox, Secretary Wilson may
seize and con1scate adulterated import
ed food products.
David Schaud, who shot and killed
Mrs. Ida Becker and Policeman Cyrus
Shaeffer, was hanged in the Jail yard
at Lebanon, Pa.
1t is announced that anthracite coal
has been discovered in Routt county.
Col, and the fields are believed to be
as extensive as those of Pennsylvania
Cato Garrett, a negro who stabbed
Harry Stout to death, was hanged by a
mob near the scene of his crime at
Vicksburg, Miss.
J. Marshall Funck, city solicitor of
Lebanon, Pa, and one of the best
known lawyers in that section, COM
mitted suicide in his office by hanging
himself
The governments weekly crop report
shows most favorable weather of the
season and corn greatly improved and
growing fast.
William O'Connor was eIectrocuted
at Clinton, N. Y, prison for the MUIR
der of Matthew Wilson, at Cobleskill
in November, 1900.
A B. Young, Pittsburg attorney
murdered his wife and committed sui
eide at Washington (Pa.) hotel.
The United States battleship Kear-
sarge broke all ocean records for speed
in the battleship class in it's voyage to
Kiel, making the distance of 3,345 miles
from New York to the Needles at the
average speed of 1862 miles an hour.
The first election in the United States
for Cecil Rhodes scholarships will take
place between February and May, 1904
qualifying examination to be held liz
each state and territory
Twenty-four persons were killed
lear Charlottesville, Va, by a head
on collision between a passenger and
freight train, and Is others were in
jured.
A big slump in cotton on the New
York market is said to have wiped out
$3,000,o00 of the paper profits of the
New Orleans bull clique
The United States, Great Britain and
Japan are maintaining an independent
attitude concerning Manchuria pending
the conference of Russian officials al
Port Arthur.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, M. J. Sheridan
of the Pastime Athletic club, hurled
the discus 1873 feet, breaking the
worlds record CHS OWN by five feet
two inches.
Representative Of all creeds and call
ings have signed petition to the car
requesting that he lead the way to re-
Ifgious liberty
President Eliot, Of Harvard, in an
address to the National Educational as
ISOLATION iii Boston. declared prepare
tory training for professions should
end at. Il years.