Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-01-24
A 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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESS SIGNAL.

CONGRESSIONAL.
In the senate on the 18th the house reso-
luton providing rebates of the duty on coal
for one year was passed. The militia bill
also was passed, with an amendment strik-
ing out of the bill the section providing for
reserve force of 100, 900 trained men. In
the house the bill to provide for rebate of
the duties on foreign coal for a period or
one year was passed by practically unan-
imous vote, 25S to S. Mr.. Perkins, chair
man of the judiciary committee, offered a
resolution providing for government se1z-
ure and operation of coal mines and COM
panies transporting COAL
On the 18th the senate passed the Hoar
resolution calling upon the president to in
form the senate what government is now
existing in the island of Guam. Senator
Tillman continued his arrasgnment of
trusts and monopolies and again charged
that the attorney general was responsible
primarily for lack of action against trusts.
The statehood bill was under discussion for
a time Adjourned to the 18th. In the
mouse the army appropriation bill was
passed and the department of commerce
Dill was considered under a special rule
making it continuing order until dis
posed of.
The senate was not in session on the 18th.
1.-The house devoted the day to private
The senate was not in session ON the 18th.
The day in the house was devoted to de-
bate upon the senate bill to establish de-
partment Of commerce and labor, a substi-
tute being finally passed by vote of 1877
to 49,
DOMESTIC.
Before the coal commission in Phila-
delphia representatives of the Erie
company testified that since the adj
vent of the union into the anthrac cite
cient, that a lack Of discipline has re-
suited, that it interfered with author
ity and limited the earning capacity
of the employees.
a company of militia on orders from
Gov. Yates raided an athletic club and
prevented a prize fight at Springfield,
III.
Fire destroyed the Christian or
phans' home in ST. Louis.
Suit to Gust six Ohio coal companies
from the state has been begun by At
torney General Sheets.
The receipts of the so largest post
offices of the United States for De-
cember is compared with December,
1901, show net increase of $734,235.
Conductor o. S. Daniels, Fireman J.
L. Huddleston, E. d. Flory and j. Hes
ter were killed in a freight wreck at
Sour Lake, Texas.
Three persons were drowned by the
breaking up of ice ia park basin in
Washington
Lynching Of negroes formed an i'm
portant part of the message of Gov.
Jelks, of Alabama, and he held that
lawabiding citizens should put a stop
TO it.
A-canal bill providing for $S1 900, 900
| Improvement bonds has been intro
1uced in the New York legislature.
The New York board of education
las decided against married women as
school teachers.
Ransom O'Neal and Charles Tunstall.
negroes. were shot to death by mob
| at Angleton, Tex. for murder.
The national cigar dealers anti
trust convention in Chicago decided to
urge national and state legislation pro-
hibiting the gifts of tags or other ar
ticles to purchasers.
Mrs. Rella Gibson, wife of Alexander
Gibson, near Jasonville, Ind, drowned
herself and baby in a well.
President Roosevelt signed the an
thracite coal repeal bill and it became
effective Immediately
Five Chicago policemen are accused
of accepting brides from junk dealers
charged with buying stolen property,
and then refusing to prosecute.
The coal strike arbitrato tors heard the
testimony of the Erie company wit
nesses at Philadelphia that less coal
has been produced by miners since the
1900 strike, and foremen declared col
liery discipline was hampered by
unions.
Tommy Ryan, middleweight cham
plon, defeated Bill Stiff in four rounds
Of fast fighting at Kansas City.
The National Live Stock association
convention in Kansas City indorsed
President Roosevelt's proposed com
mission to investigate grazing prob
lens.
A cigar company with 81 ,OOO, 900 CAPT
tai has been organized to fight the ma
tional trust, the factories to be located
at Detroit.
Friction between the attorney gen
eral and house committee over the
antitrust bill may delay legislation
at the present session.
j. FL. Tillman, lieutenant governor
of South Carolina and nephew of the
United States senator, shot and per-
| haps fatally wounded Narcisso Gener
| Gonzales, editor of the Columbia IS.
o. State, over an old political feud.
A New York physician successfully
| used injections of formalin in case
OF blood poisoning and cured a wo-
man who had reached a state of col
lapse.
Gov. La Toilette, in his message to
the Wisconsin legislature, arraigns
railroads for alleged failure to nav