Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-07-01
4 WEEKS RECORD
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.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
The Illinois supreme court holds
that bay windows overhanging side
walks are illegal and that ordinances
authorizing their construction are
void.
One hundred and seventy-seven
bodies have been recovered from the
flood ruins at Heppner Ore, and IS
persons are still missing.
Rev. C. II. Thomas, of Belleville, H.,
in an address to negroes in Chicago
urged blacks to arm unless lynching
and burning is stopped.
A mob at Peoria, ILL.,, attempted to
lynch Will McCray, "a negro who muir
dered Detective Murphy, but was
foiled by the determined attitude Of
the sheriff.
Negro slavery in Sumter county, Ca,
is held by planters an economic neces-
sity, although admitted to be illegal.
Run down by the propeller Chemung,
the tug 0. W. Cheney sank seven miles
outside Buffalo harbor and three of
the crew were drowned.
A negro woman and a white woman
were assaulted by negro near East
ST. Louis, H., and left for'dead.
The state legislature of Georgia con-
vened at the state capitol for the sum-
mer session, which is expected to last
SO days.
Lamkin & Foster. wholesalers and
manufacturers of boots, shoes and
rubbers in Boston. failed for $6OOOO0
IL
two white men at Rushville Miss. five
years ago, was hanged in the woods by
mob.
The governments weekly crop re-
port shows corn improved in the CEN
trail valleys, winter wheat harvest MAX
ing good progress, ard spring wheat in
the Dakotas suffering for rain.
The post office department has en-
ployed special counsel to prosecute of
ficials indicted for frauds.
Secretary Hay is still fighting to
maintain American commercial rights
in Manchuria against Russian schem-
ing.
Circuit Attorney Folk, of ST. Louis,
in a report says the record of hood
ling in the last Missouri legislature
shows members received cash brides
of 1920, 500
The people of Wilmington, Del, APP
prove the burning of the negro who
killed Miss Helen Bishop. The lynch
ing is believed to have been melted by
a sermon.
Troops were called out at Richmond.
Va. to aid in maintaining order against
street car strikers and their sympa-
fhizers.
The Kansas legislature convened in
extra session at Topeka to relieve the
flood situation in the Kaw valley and
its tributaries
President Hadley, of Yale, in his
annual report criticised luxurious
dormitories outside of the university
as danger to college life.
The new Illinois child labor law
will take effect July 1.
At Atlantic City the Internationa
League of Press clubs reelected NJ
z. Curran, of Boston, president.
change of venue has been grant
ed in the case of James H. Tillman
accused of the murder Of N. G. Con
Zales at Columbia, S. C..
While sleeping in the railway sta
ton at Pueblo, Col, an Omaha real
estate man named Harrington was
robbed of valise containing 100000
worth of securities.
In the United States circuit court at
Macon, Ga, Judge Speer imposed a
fine of $1,000 each on three young
men for holding a negro in involun.
tary servitude.
Robbers blew open the safe in the
private bank of L. E. Mintch at Cary,
ILL.,, and stole $4,000.
Because they could not live without
quarreling Albert Soptage and his wife
took poison in their home in Steger,
Ill, and died.
Labor unions are planning strike
on all building operations in Greater
New York as a retaliation against the
employers
Ira ID. Sankey. the evangelist, is now
hopelesssly blindin his home in Brook
Ign, n. Y.
Case Jones (colored), who assaulted
a 12-year-old girl, was lynched at Elk
Valley, Tenn.