Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-05-02
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| The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 9th were: New
York, .750; Pittsburg, roo; Chicago,
.667; Boston, 500; st. Louis, 500;
Brooklyn, 500; Philadelphia, 300; Gin
cinnati, Ill.
In railway wreck near Buffalo,
Kan, II workmen were killed and %
! injured
/ James n. Tyner, ousted attorney
| general of the post office department,
will be prosecuted for action of his wife
in extracting public documen from
government safe.
| William f. Gurley, of Omaha. deliv-
cred an address at the celebration of
Gen. Grants birthday at Galena, H.
! Henry Hoelscher, Peter c. Smith and
Joseph Bowen were drowned in the
Mississippi near Quincy, Ill, while ere
| turning by skiff from funeral
| The earl of Yarmouth and Miss Alice
| Cornelia Thaw, an heiress, were mar
ried at Pittsburg. -
A majority of the presbyteries have
voted in favor of revising the creed,
which may be done by the general as
sembly at the May meeting.
King Edward of England was well
coined al Rome by King Victor En-
manuel in person.
President Roosevelt in a speech on
labor at Omaha said honesty and COM
mon sense were all that was needed in
settling disputes.
| The Russian demand that Manchu.
rian sovereignty be ceded by China
| has been refused by the latter govern
| ment.
The United States European squad
ron, under Rear Admiral Cotton, will
take part in the reception of President
Loubet at Marseilles.
The United States supreme court
| will adjourn for the term on Monday,
| June l.
Two thousand metal workers of the
Deering Harvester company quit work
in Chicago to secure recognition of the
| union.
Bishop Frederick William Taylor, of
the Quincy Oll.) diocese of the Episco-
pal church, died at Kenosha, Wis.
Ambassador Tower at Berlin finds
| Mormon missionaries have no ground
for complaint against Germany.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the American league for the
week ended on the 9th were: De-
troit, 1000; Washington. 500; Phila-
delphia, 81; Chicago, 500; Boston,
| 429; ST. Louis, 1888; New York, 200;
| Cleveland, 900.
President Roosevelt dashed across
the state of Iowa and was everywhere
met by enthusiastic crowds. Stops
were made and short speeches delivered
by the president at Shenandoah, CIar-
linda, Sharpsburg, Van Vert, Osceola.
Des Moines. and Oskaloosa.
The nineteenth annual meeting of
commissioners of state labor bureaus
opened in Washington.
The Iowa republican state commit
date for the state convention for
July /.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles and William ]
Bryan delivered addresses before the
good roads cony antion in ST. Louis
| Another effort is to be made at Den
mark this summer to secure ratifca-
! ton of treaty for sale of West Indian
| Islands to United States.
Gov. Deforest Richards of Wyom-
ing, died at his home in Cheyenne, aged
&c years, of acute kidney disease.
| William r.. Hearst, owner of news
papers in New York, Chicago and San
Francisco, and Miss Millicent Wilson,
an actress, were married at New York
G. Mailman Sims, the Atlanta (Ga.)
bank clerk who embezzled 1914, 900, has
beer sentenced to six years in prison.
the Oregon" and leading figure in
| business and political life on the Pa
cifc coast, died in San Francisco.
| All but three Of the business build
ings at Melbourne, Ia, were destroyed
| by fire.
The governments weekly crop re-
| port shows unsea sona bly, cold weather
| east of the Rockies and planting pro-
| crossing slowly.
Authorities at Saratoga, n. Y. say
+ there shall be no gambling there this
summer.
DR.. w. T. Councilman, of Harvard
| university, reported to the Boston
| Medical society that the smallpox
germ discovered by him is micro-or-
| gansm which links that disease with
malaria
| Jimmy Britt, Of San Francisco, was
| given decision over Willie Fitzgerald.
of Brooklyn, in a 20-roundI hard fight
| in the former city.
| Flames swept away the plant of the
international Salt company al South
Chicago, the loss being $1,50O,0O0.
y ohm A. Lee, former lieutenant gov
effror, confessedto the ST. Louis (Moo
| states attorney his onnection with
Legislative boodling, and gave names of
| members whom he knows accepted
brides. L.