Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-05-16
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ing cards. Prediction made that con-
troll of the Pacific will pass to the
United States in the present century.
The president has appointed NJ r.
Sackett, an EDITOR at Gouveneur, n Y,
to be United States consul at Prescott,
Ont.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 18th were: New
York, IT'S; Chicago. .636; Pittsburg,
900; Brooklyn, 500; Boston, 500; Gin
phia, $50.
Twenty thousand workmen are idle
in Chicago because of strikes
Three Saginaw (Mich.) aldermen, six
ex-aldermen and four other persons
were indicted for alleged bribery, or
selling liquor without a license.
The Illinois legislatures salary in
crease bill has been vetoed by Gov.
Yates.
George f. Koregay. editor of the Dali
hart (Tex) Sun, and Judge George
Keith, leading lawyer, fought duel
and Koregay was killed
Acute distress prevails in the Nan
ming and Tsun-Fa district of Kwang ST
province, China, and it is estimated
that $4,000 persons are starving.
The winter wheat condition is placed
by the governments monthly crop re-
port at 92.6 on May 1, against 973 for
April,
Louis 4eager and Francis Sutton.
farmers, were shot to death near Koko-
mo, Ind, while returning from visit
to their inteded brides.
President Marroquin, of Colombia, is
said to have retired because of political
troubles, and Vice President Beyes is
said TO have succeeded him.
The Monitor Arkansas will be forced
to remain a ST. Genevieye. Mo-. until
spring unless an unexpected rise in the
river occurs.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
paid their first visit to Scotland and
were greeted by big crowds al Edin-
burg.
The fremont hotel at Kewanee. Ill.
was destroyed by fire and two persons
were killed and three others injured.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the American league for the
week ended on the 18th were: Chicago.
.647; Philadelphia, .632; New York.
500; Boston, 500; ST. Louis, 800: Cleve-
land, .429; Detroit, .412; Washington.
.313.
President Roosevelt spoke at the Le-
land Stanford university at Palo Alto
and on his arrival in San Francisco was
given great ovation. In the evening
he spoke at banquet on the financial
question.
Russia announces that all Manchuria
is now open to foreign trade and pass
ports are no longer necessary.
Peter Stansley, aged 10, died in Up
per Sandusky, O. He leaves a widow
LOG years old. They had been married
IS years
By the British victories in Nigeria
100000 square miles of territory have
been added to British possessions.
Philip Paquet and bride, of Muske-
gon, Mich, were arrested in Chicago
while on the wedding trip on charge
of passing worthless checks
Statistics compiled by the board of
health show that the population of
New York city is nearly 100000.
Gov. Pennypacker, of Pennsylvania,
has signed a libel bill intended to
check sensationalism, and citizens are
affected as we'll as newspapers.
The sixth triennial session of the
Congress of American Physicians and
Surgeons convened in Washington.
The Mcclellan bank. of Auburn. and
the Dekalb bank, of Waterloo. Ind.
went into bankruptcy with com bined
liabilities of $121.OOO.
The report that President Marco
our Of Columbia had sioned is
officially denied, and the government
is declared to be stable and the out
look for the canal treaty bright
Postmaster General Payne will es-
tablish no moro rural free delivery
routes until July 1.
All the cities and many towns in
New Hampshire voted in favor of
liquor license, taking advantage of
the recent repeal of the prohibition
law.
Strikers at Omaha secured an in
junction against the business men.
forbidding them to boycott union
men or to hold meetings to conspire
against the men now out.
A bill prohibiting Illinois circuit
Judges from practicing law in state
courts or acting as legal counsel was
vetoed by Gov. Yates.
Al! efforts to arbitrate CHICAGO
strikes, by which 10000 workmen are
idle, have failed
The governments weekly crop re-
port shows warmer weather is needed
in the Ohio valley and middle Atlantic
states, and rain needed in many local
tiles.