Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-08-12
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.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALI THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

Three hundred of New Jerseys
state convicts at Trenton have dOnned
their new uniforms for the first time,
the stripes having been abolished for
suits of light gray.
married and divorced daughter of the
murdered millionaire, A. J. Snell of
Chicago, has entered upon her fifth di-
vorce case in Los Angeles, Cal.
C. M. Schwab has resigned as presi-
dent and director of the United States
Steel trust, according to the announce
ment of a director at Philadelphia.
Curtis Jet testified in his own de-
Tense in the J. B. Marcum murder trial
at Cynthiana, KY, and declared he did
not kill Marcum.
To the twentieth child of William A.
Signet, Of McKeesport, Pa, President
Roosevelt sent $780, The baby is named
Theodore Roosevelt Signet.
Engineer Simonton was fatally in
jured and rs others hurt in a railway
collision at East Portsmouth, o.
Antonio Turclewski, a Pole, was put
to death in the electric chair at Sing
so1HS (N IL PRISON.
AS a result of the Builders league
lockout $4,000 men are out of employ
ment in Pittsburg, Pa.
Fire destroyed the mosque, the 9TH
er public buildings, 400 shops and so
houses at Armenak. Asia Minor
Harry Siple was fatally burned and
his wife and ten-year-old son Elwcod
+ha ~ OF boir
home in Washington, Pa.
Sixteen persons, the majority of them
from Chicago and Logansport were
seriously injured in railway wreck
at Hartford City, Ind.
Trains collided at Laura, O., killing
Conductor Devlin, of Indianapolis, and
probably fatally injuring the engineer
fireman and baggageman.
The government may take possession
of the Merchants bridge at st. Louis
if it is shown that. consolidation has
been formed.
Indianapolis was flooded with circu-
lars calling upon white people to sub
ordinate negroes to themselves.
Armed citizens of Bartholomew
county, Ind, pursued William Garrett,
a negro, and chased him into Flat Rock
river, where he was drowned.
The Vassar Swiss Underwear COM
pany, employing $50 women, has been
forced to leave Chicago because of con-
slant labor disputes.
Two thousand Rock Island railroad
conductors and trainmen voted to
strike unless better pay and working
conditions are granted them.
The steamers City Of South Haven
and the Eastland raced across the lake
from Chicago, the former winning and
breaking the record for the course.
The tWenty-sixth annual convention
of the National Association of Photog-
raphers opened at Indianapolis with
nearly 1000 members present Gov
Durbin welcomed the visitors
Express companies doing business in
Missouri have increased their rates So
per cent.
The sixth annual convention of the
National Association of Postmasters
began in Boston.
Heavy rains caused streams to over
flow at Mason City and other places in
Iowa, and great damage was done to
property
A fire which destroyed the Pitts
burg plate glass plant in Cincinnati
caused a loss of $250000
A Mckinley memorial lighthouse at
the entrance of Honolulu harbor is pro-
posed by residents of that city.
Maj Gen. Henry G. Corbin will re-
1inquish his duties as adjutant general
of the army when the general staff law
goes into effect on August Is.
The thirty-third national convention
of the Catholic Total Abstinence union
began in Pittsburg with 800 delegates
present.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
Hotel Lippencott at Fox Lake, H., and
escaped with $4,000
John Millikin, a negro preacher, and
John Hunter, his son-in-law, were killed
by whitecapperS at Lewisburg, Tenn
No cause is known for the killing.
The governments weekly crop report
shows temperature too low in northern
states, but rains ample in central Mis-
sissippi valley.
Lightning killed David Walsh and
his cousin, James Walsh, at Fox Lake,
Ill.
The Roman Catholic church at Mi
nooka. H., was struck by4ightning and
burned to the groundN
The Union Pacific has sold the famous
Lincoln car. for exhibition at the St
Louis exposition.
The most sensational gold strike re-
corded in Montana in recent years has
been made near Jefferson City.
Convict James Roberts, one of the
band of fugitives from the Folsom
prison. was captured near Davisville,
Cal.
Judge Gregory, of Albany, N. Y, re-
fuses to grant naturalization papers to
persons who cannot speak the English
language