Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-05-23
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
DOMESTIC.

tight the members Of labor unions who
use the boycott.
d. NJ Parry in an address before the
manufacturers at Buffalo, n. T., says
the trend of Industrial conditions is
grave menace to the country.
BY the capsizing of their boat at
Prairie du Sac, Wis, Frank Shell and
Mabel Bickford were drowned.
President ROOSEVELT in an address at
San Francisco declared himself an ex-
pansionist, and that the duty of the
United States is to keep peace on the
Pacific ocean. Philippine control he
declared providential.
Louis, Frank and billiard Fades and
Logan ingalls, have been arrested near
Kokomo, Ind, for the alleged murder
of Lewis Yeager.
appropriations by the last session Of
congress totaled 1888, O5S, 500. A total
OF 9.501 new offices were created.
National Employers federation, to
include all large cities east of the Mis-
sissippi river, is projected.
During funeral services at Toledo,
o., drivers Of hacks struck because the
hearse was driven by non-union man.
The officiating undertakes filed the
strikers places.
Henry Churchill King has been in
augurated president of Oberlin CO.,
college.
One half of the business district of
Austin. Ark. has been burned.
Hilton Hayden, former treasurer OF
West Lafayette, Ind, who was found
10 be short in his accounts $4,000, has
disappeared.
Denver spent day n hunger be-
cause of a strike OF cooks, bakers,
butchers and walters.
Jacksonville, Fla, was flooded by
heavy rains and property valued at
100000 was destroyed.
President Roosevelt took part in
the dedication Of monument at San
Francisco to Manila heroes and was
given doctor of laws degree at Berke-
ley. banquet was held in his honor
by the University club, after which he
started for the Yosemite.
George W. Grubbs, of Martinsville,
has been elected commander of the
G. A. r.. department of Indiana.
The strike situation at Omaha is
more serious than ever and the gov
ernor will be asked to send troops.
George E. Spencer, of Alabama was
killed and Policeman Stephen Hama
gan fatally wounded in a pistol duel
at Kansas City.
Plans are being made to celebrate
the two hundred and fiftieth anniver-
sary of New York city May 90.
A special committee reported
against the proposal to change the
name of the Episcopal church at the
diocese convention at Savannah, Ga.
The body of Agatha Reichlin, the
Lorain CO., murder victim, was ex-
humed by the coroner and bruises
found under the eye and on the
wrists.
1t has been discovered that the in
fernal machine intended to blow up
the steamer Umbria in New York
was made in Chicago by George Rus
sell, who is missing.
Rev. ". H. Sneak, of Peru, Ind, re-
signed his pastorate of the United
Brethren church to accept a position
as natural history lecturer with
circus and menagerie
Mayor Low has stopped the preach
ing of mormonism in the streets of
New York city.
Moody Merrill, bank president IN
New Mexico, who is under arrest at
New York for embezzlement ten
years ago, is said to be serving as
a scapegoat for relative.
All Denver (Col.) labor unions, in
Guiding 1880 members, have struck
because of the failure of the Citi-
zens' alliance and their leaders to
agree over a central arbitration
board
Cars on a trolley line collided at
Indianapolis and ten women were in
jured, three seriously.
A commercial war which. it is said.
will extend throughout the country,
has been started by grocers in Mil
waukee against manufacturers who
allow their goods to be sold in de-
partment stores.
A memorial arch to the memory
of IS missionaries of the American
board of foreign missions who suf-
fered martyrdom in China in 1900 was
dedicated at Oberlin, O..
All danger of strike on the Great
Northern railway system has passed.
Postmaster General Payne has re-
scinded an order creating post Of
fee at Quindocquia, Md, for which
Andrew j. Day, a negro, was slated
for appointment.
President Roosevelt left San Fran
cisco for visit to the Yosemite val
ley. A plot to assassinate the presi-
dent during his visit to Oakland, a
San Francisco suburb, was disclosed
to the mayor through an anonymous
letter.