Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-16
A WEEKS RECORD
All 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 percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 7th were: Pittsburg,
686; New York, 602; Chicago, 587; Gin
cinnati, SCI; Brooklyn, 5O4; Boston,
42O; Philadelphia, 1856; St. Louis, 333.
Labor day was celebrated through
out the country, parades and public
meetings being the features in large
cities
The percentage of the baseball clubs
in the American league for the week
ened on the 7th were: Boston, $50;
Cleveland, 554; Philadelphia. 534; New
York, SIS; Detroit, 504; st. Louis, All;
Chicago, ass; Washington, 313.
President Roosevelt at Syracuse, N.
Y, said that community of interest,
equal laws for all and the avoidance of
envy, despotism and mob violence were
the prime requisites for a prosperous
national life
President Roosevelt's address at the
Syracuse On. V labor day celebration
was marked by the arrest of John Mil
Ter, German, who is believed to have
plotted the presidents assassination.
At the Lima co. Driving park Dan
Patch Q:59) broke the worlds record
Of 2:04A for half-mile track, lower
ing 1t to 2:04 fiat
Three men were killed and several
wounded in battle at camp meet
ing at Mt Victory, KY.
Railroad earnings for the first month
of the present fiscal year indicate that
1903-19O4 will be record breaker in
the matter of profits to the carriers.
Robert Fullerton, of Des Moines, Ia,
has been appointed disbursing officer
to handle the 100000 appropriated
by the government for the st. Louis
exposition
The federal grand jury IN Washing
ton returned seven more indictments
for postal frauds George w. Beavers,
previously indicted, surrendered him
self
Fifteen hundred spectators were
grand stand at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan, "a being seriously hurt.
Coal mine owners right to discharge
employees for any reason, except mem
bership in union, is upheld by Carroll
d. Wright, umpire in the anthracite
miners dispute.
John Brinkley, negro Waterman,
was rescued by Chicago police from a
crowd of neutrality-suspicious. after he had
shot to death Charles Mccarthy, plas-
terer.
Much early corn is already safe from
frost, according to the governments
weekly crop report.
The Kansas City-Chicago route has
been made fifty miles shorter by two
new cutoffs opened by the Milwaukee
& st. Paul railroad.
Fire which originated in the large
stable of the Allegheny (Pa) Transfer
company caused a loss ofS263,000 Sixty
horses were cremated
Patrick 3. Conklin, wife murderer,
was put to death in the electric chair
in Sing Sing prison.
At Lincoln, Neb., Cresceus, the trot-
ting stallion, broke all records for a
half-mile track, going mile in 2:OSA.
A strike of candy makers for shorter
hours at old pay closed several fac
tories in Chicago and employers say all
plants will be closed rather than sub
nit to union demands
President Roosevelt returned to Oys-
ter Bay, making brief address on de-
cent citizenship at Richmond Hill, n
Y, on the way home.
Capt. Robert Wringe, who sailed the
Shamrock III. in her races against the
Reliance for the Americas cup, will be-
come citizen of the United States.
At Syracuse, N. Y, the worlds mile
record for trotting geldings was broken
by Maj. Delmar, who made the distance
in 2:O11h.
Olin Knight, pugilist, died from in
Juries received in six round bout with
Grit Jones at Philadelphia
A conflict between the Roman Catho-
lie church and unionism has been started
by Father M. ]. Wards announcement
at Beloit, Wis, that he would refuse
absolution to persons taking the typo
graphical union oath.
New York tobacco merchants are
said to be in a conspiracy to buy the
product struggled into this country by
sailors