Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-09
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conflict with body of insurgents in the
province of Cavite near the Laguna de
Bay and killed 20 of them during sharp
engagement. The constabulary had one
man killed during the fight.
Alfred E. Lyford, alias B. c. Miller,
ex-deputy county treasurer of Rock
Island county, Illinois, has been arrested
In Victoria, B. c., On telegram from
Rock Island, Ill. Lyford is alleged to
have absconded July 5, 1902, with $12,-
600 of county funds.
Three hundred milk dealers in con-
vention at Pittsburg, Pa, have perfected
an organization which practically places
the trade of Pittsburg and Allegheny in
the hands of combine
Mrs. John Henderson and Mrs. Will
liam Shaffer were burned to death and
their children narrowly escaH3d at Blue
Ash, O. The boiling over of coffee ex-
tinguished the fire and the gasoline
flowed unnoticed
Alfred A. Knapp, known as the stran-
gler, was taken to Columbus by Sheriff
Bisdorff to await his execution in the
electric chair December II.
Detroit, Mich, will be the mecca for
the Disciples of Christ when the inter
national missionary convention of the
Christian churches of the world con-
vene there October 1922 inclusive.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Hay indorse the activity of Minister
Beaupre in pushing the canal treaty with
Colombia.
Reliance won the third and decisive
race in the international series for the
Americas cup, Shamrock III. becoming
lost in the fog and failing to cross the
line
The Alaskan boundary commission
was organized in London with Lord
Chief Justice Alverstone, of England, as
chairman and Reginald Tower secretary.
Oral arguments will begin September Is
The close is expected October Is.
The Indictment for manslaughter
against directors and officials of New
Jersey trolley line, the result of fatal
accident, was dismissed by Chief Justice
Gummere, who held that the deaths were
due to the carelessness of employees of the
road.
Champion Jeffries is matched to fight
Jack Munroe at Los Angeles October Is,
the latter to get all the proceeds if he
stays 20 rounds.
Six persons were killed and Is injured
one fatally and two seriously, in a wreck
on the Southern railway near Yorkville,
S. c.
The report of a general uprising in
northern Macedonia is denied both in
official and revolutionary circles at
Sofia
According to reliable reports from
Monastlr, thousands of Bulgarians in
that vilayet are confronted with fam
inc in addition to Turkish persecution.
The Pennsylvania democratic state
convention nominated a state ticket
by reclamation headed by Senator Joel
G. Hill. of Wayne county, for state
treasurer.
At Hamilton, O., Judge Belden re-
fused a new trial for Alfred A. Knapp,
the self-confessed murderer of two of
his wives and three other victims. The
court fixed December II for his exc
cution.
The reunion of veterans of the Army
of the Philippines at st. Paul, Mimi,
ended with parade and campfire.
Gen. Charles King, OF Wisconsin, was
elected president.
A special threshing engine working
on farm near Geneva, the county seat
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one and injuring a score of others.
Deputy Sheriff Louis J. Cook, of
Baldwin, L. L., shot and killed one
burglar, probably fatally wounded
second, and captured two others. He
discovered them trying to break into
vacant house.
Rev. DR.. James Leonard Corning,
the celebrated pulpit orator and his
torian and diplomat is dead in Mu-
mich. DR.. Corning was u years old,
and was an intimate friend Of Presi-
dent Lincoln, Gen. U. S. Grant and
Henry Ward Beecher.
The engagement of Miss Mary Goe-
let, American heiress, to the duke of
Roxburghe, of Scotland, is announced
Wy oSuSu 0OClGl. ne is 20 wears
old and has a rent income of $500, 900
yearly.
Henry Weilbrenner, an insane gar
dener with loaded revolver, made
three attempts to interview President
Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, and was ar
rested. He was afterwards declared
insane by experts.
An Austrian steamer was blown I'D
in the Black sea and 20 persons killed.
Macedonian revoiutionists are declared
responsible.
Henry Townsend Edison, son of for
mer mayor of New York, killed Mrs.
John f. Pullen in the presence of his
wife and then committed suicide. The
rejection by Mrs. Pullen OF proposal
to elope with Edison preceded the trag-
edy.