Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-08-12

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cattle near Holdridge, Neb.
DR.. Adolph Cudell and Dr. Ernest
Leute, prominent young physicians st
Cleveland, O., were drowned while
bathing in Lake Erie.
The salary Of William E. Corey, the
corporation, has been fixed at $4,000
year
Sharp e Bryan, stock brokers in New
York, failed for s5,0O0,000.
Seven Italian workmen were killed
in wreck on the Great Western railway
at Devon, Ia.
William Howard, Edward Radadaugh
and William Sicily were blown to pieces
by all explosion in a nitryglycerin fac
tory near Bluffton, Ind.
One hundred head of cattle were
burned to death in fire at Whitehall,
Mimi
The International Team Drivers
union and the National Transfers Union
of America have consolidated.
John Alexander Dowie, general over
seer of the Christian Catholic church,
was made citizen of the United States
in Chicago.
The Western National Bank of the
United States and the National Bank Of
Commerce in New York have merged
with capital of s25, 100000
Fire destroyed the stockyards in
mated
Theodore Richter was killed and over
a score of persons injured, three or four
fatally, by being blown from the worlds
fair buildings in ST. Louis during a
storm. aa
During the last fiscal year 1864 rural
free delivery routes were established
throughout the country.
Petty officers on the receiving ship
Columbia at the Brooklyn navy yard re-
fused to mess with black man
Gov. Yates sent letters to the sheriffs
of Vermilion. st. Clair and Alexander
counties in Illinois calling for a report
on lynchings
Strikes involving 100000 workmen
have occurred in southern Russia.
Members of the senate subcommittee
on finance met at Senator Aldrich' home
in Rhode Island to frame currency
bill to be introduced next session.
Elastic or emergency currency" was
Endorsed by the Wisconsin State Bank
ers' ASSOCIATION at the Milwaukee conven-
ton
Columbian Celebration company bond
holders have been ordered by Judge Tu-
ley in Chicago to settle a $500 zoo in
debtedness to the Buda Foundry COM
pany, incurred On worlds fair spectacle
rum.
President Roosevelt has ordered the
day afternoons to poor children whose
parents are unable to take them into the
country.
The barge Florrie was lost between
Barnegat and Fire Island during a
storm and five persons were drowned.
Mrs. Pearl Seaman came from China
to Chicago to become the bride of
Philip Herbert, formerly in the United
States navy, who rescued her from
Boxers at Shanghai.
Louise Haby, aged II, who was sold
in babyhood to a Dakota ranchman
and compelled to do hard labor all her
life, escaped and reached the home of
Chicago relatives
United States Senator w. B. Hey
burn, of Idaho, a leading lawyer of
that state, was en- route to Pennsyl-
vania to wed his boyhood sweetheart,
Miss Gheratine Yeatman, who has
waited 20 years for him.
1t is estimated that $4,000, 900 has
been added in the past year to the year
ly payrolls Of so western railroads. and
that 10000 men share in the increase.
A shortage of $22 900 has been dis
covered in the City National bank of
Canton, O., and Teller Albert w. Diebel
has been arrested
An explosion of powder in a mine
at Fairmont, W. Va, fatally injured five
miners
After a voyage lasting over a year,
owing to severe storms, the French
bark Grand Duchesse Olga arrived at
Portland, Ore, from Antwerp.
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