Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-08-26
ALI 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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

upon IuUlduS ny ldilC anu llll0 COLL
panies in Indian territory.
DR.. M. G. Mills, curator of the Ohio
State Archaeological society, has dis
covered prehistoric village few miles
south of Chillicothe.
At the home of James Whistler
Wood, grandson of Maj. Joha Whis
tier Wood, who founded Fort Dear
cago was celebrated.
The date for the commencement of the
army maneuverS at Fort Riley, Kan, has
been postponed to October Is.
Discrimination against nonunion
workmen in government departments
will not be allowed by President Roose-
welt
A railroad eXpressmen's strike in all
railroad centers west and south is
threatened by the union.
Clothing manufacture and other in
dustries are being driven from Chicago
by constant strikes.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was fined $40 in
Bayonne, N. j., for attempting to use
her Ratchet in a saloon.
Charlottesville, Ind, for the murder of
Branson Sloan q years ago. The &C
cused is a successful Tennessee lumber
man.
The Reliance must allow Shamrock
III. one minute and 45 seconds in the
America cup race over 30-mile course
as a result of official measurements
A parade at the San Francisco ma
tional G. A. R. encampment was COM
posed of naval reserves, militia and
Spanish war veterans.
A large gift to the University of Chi
cago is promised by John D. Rockefel-
Ter for oriental and archaeological re-
search.
B. B. Kressam, travelling salesman.
fatally shot Policeman Hunkler and
then fatally shot himself after an orgy
in fiat in RavensWood, III.
The body Of four-year-old Alphonse
Wines was found in Detroit, Mich,
bound, gagged and mutilated.
Judge Henry l.. Bidwell, one of the
most prominent men Of central Idaho,
was accidentally killed at Clark's Fork.
Rev. E. |. Davies, pastor of the Pres
byterian church of Tecumseh, Neb.,
dropped dead of heart disease at War
saw, Ind.
Washington officials are puzzled over
the situation in Bogota, but see hope for
a Panama canal agreement in the nego-
tiation Of new treaty.
Thomas R. Morgan millionaire lum-
herman at Oshkosh, Wis, was shot and
killed by Frederick Hampel, a drunken
employe, who afterward committed sui
eide in his cell
The private bank of Kinney & Co. at
Angola, Ind, closed its doors with liza
bilities of s143,OOO
Pennsylvania railroad officials are
said to be planning to GUST the Western
Union Telegraph company from their
lines west of Pittsburg on the first OF
next year.
Mrs. John Hilsrow, wife of a rich Ben
nett Qa.) farmer, was kidnapped and held
for heavy ransom in the cellar of va
but she escaped.
The thousands of textile workers who
went on strike in Philadelphia ten weeks
ago have returned to work without gain
ing any concessions.
Judge Rogers in the United States
circuit court in ST. Louis held that an
employer had the right to dismiss an
employe for belonging to a labor union
and to maintain blacklist and give it
out for the use of others.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was placed in
Jail at Bayonne, N. j.. for knocking
cigars and pipes out of mems mouths on
the street.
At New Britain, Conn, Frank Shirt
left, an insurance agent killed Mrs
George Schofield and himself. JeaI-
Ousy was the cause.
The printing plant of the Laning
company was destroyed by fire at Nor
walk. O.. the loss being 100000
A cure for lockjaw has been discovered
by DR.. S. A. Matthews, of the University
of Chicago, and used successfully on a
boy
Four men were killed and nine
wounded in Randolph county, Ala, by a
desperate negro named Sledge, in a dis
pute over watermelons
The 16-year-old son of w j. Blake,
of Milledgeville, Ga, was tortured to
death in convic, camp near Gainesville,
Fla.
national convention of farmers will
be held in Chicago on September to
form combination to maintain prices
and regulate distribution.
Henry Melville, Waukegan OH)
farmer, and Margaret Brown, of Louis
vile, Ky, both 70 years old, were remar-
ried in the latter city after divorce A
years ago.
The controversy over Assistant Fore
man Miller, of the government printing
office, has been revived by the filing of
formal accusations by the Bookbinders'
nnion.