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Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
CLAIM KINGSTON
DEAD ARE 5000,
Passenger on Steamer Admiral Dewey
Says Number Exceeds Former
Estimates.

BOSTON. Mass. Jan 2S.-It is now
claimed that 5000 people were killed i'll
Kingston, Jamaica, by the earthquake.
Capt. Asa DAWSON of the United
Fruit company's steamer Admiral Dew
ey, which arrived here today with forty
nine passengers, most of them from
Kingston, Jamaica, reports that condi-
tons when the Dewey was ut Kingston
were bad, and that the people were
greatly in need of tents and medical sup
plies.
About $50 destitute refugees who ap-
pealed to Capt. DAVIDSON were carried
from Kingston to Port Antonio, and
were given such other assistance as he
was able to offer.
Capt. DAVIDSON also said that the har-
Dor of Kingston was still without beacon
lights of any nature. The whole west
end of Port Royal he said was under
water to a depth of from 10 to 10 feet.
Arthur w. Eaton of Hartford, Conn,
Il passenger on the Dewey, stated that
the general belief of the people of King
stOn was that not fewer than 1000 lives
were lost in the earthquake and that
about 1000 people would die from their
injuries.
WASHINGTON. D. c., Jan. 2S.-
Vice Consul Orret at Kingston, Jamaica
advises the state department that the
american Red Cross contribution had
been gratefully received by the govern,
ment''
PARIS, Jan. 2S.-In an article on the
Swettenham-Davis incident today the
semi-official Temps rebukes some of its
French contemporaries for the ridiculous
intimation that the secret of the adj
miraI's haste in landing marines at
Kingston was that the United States
had designs on the island.
1t congratulates Great Britain and the
United States on keeping their heads and
not allowing the incident to disturb re
lations which are so potent for the good
of the world" The Temps concludes that
shOuId no advised 70 keen cool in future
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
WlFES CORPSE ON TABLE.
Pittsburg Man Finds Charred Remains
of Body with No Signs of
Fire About House

PITTSBURG, Pa, Jan. 2S.-Albert
Houck found the body of his wife lyina
on a table of her room, burned to a crisp.
when he returned home from work late
last night.
The police department and coroner are
making rigid investigation of the
death, but so far have failed to reach q
definite conclusion. Their first theory OF
accidental death was abandoned wher
it was discovered that nothing else il
the room was burned, not even the table
on which the woman was found.
When the woman's husband arrived
home the doors were all locked, all the
lights in the house were out and he was
compelled to climb through cellar win.
dow Whether the woman met with fOu
play the police are reluctant to say, but
considerable mystery surrounds the
death.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01

may be called into service under the
terms of the law.
The experience of the Spanish war re-
cruitment demonstrates that it was an
impossible task for the national gov
eminent to equip recruits in twos and
threes and half dozens in little country
hamlets. and feed and convey them to
central recruiting depotS. Therefore.
the regulations provide that the task
shall be assumed by the state authori-
ties.
They will secure these recruits them
selves and provide for their maintenance.
and deliver them IT the proper head
quarters All that will be necessary
for the national government to do to Sc
cure 4 thoroughly mobile. well equipped
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01

mum strength of the organizations Of the
militia il time OF peace and equipment
by the state authorities so that this force
will be instantly available in time of
need.
In the first place it is expected that
the state authorities Will take advantage
Of the generous appropriations made by
the national government annually for the
support of the national guard to keep all
their organizations at certain tixed
minimum strength These men are to
be completely equipped and drilled.
And in addition. the state must nro-
vide ample equipment. arms, clothing,
quartermaSters' stores. tenting. every
th:nc necessary for the militia men who
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
MINE DISASTERS
EXCITE EUROPE.
Hundreds Killed, Injured and Missing at
Saarbruck, Prussia, and Levin,
France.

LONDON, Jan. 2S.-Two terrible
mine disasters occurred in Europe to-
day-one at Saarbruck, in Rhenish
Prussia, and another at LEVIN, France,
in the Courriers district where hun
dreds were killed several months ago in
a similar disaster.
Scores Dead; Many Missing.
AdviceS from Saarbruck this after
non state that several hundred coal min
ers We're entombed early this morning at
the Reden shaft by an explosion of fire
damp. Ten corpses and many injured
were Immediately taken out.
At p. m. l64 bodies, and seventeen
dangerously injured miners had been
taken from the mine. Three hundred
others were said to be missing ut that
hour.
Soldiers Make Way for Rescue.
The catastrophe at LEVIN WAS due to
an explosion of fire damp in one of the
pits of Il coal NINE.
\ panic followed the explosion and
the greater part of the population of the
town rushed to mouths Of the pit, pre-
venting the work of rescue until gen
darmerieS restored a Scmhlance of order
An outbreak of fire i'll the RCdCn mine
at p. m. drove out the rCscucrs. 1t was
then considered probable that thirty to
forty men were still in the pit. The num-
Der of dead was at that hour estimated
Mt 200.
The scenes at the pit mouth where the
families of the miners gathered were
most distressing. The Reden mine is
owned by the Prussian government.
The mayor of LEVIN. who is an old
miner, superintendent the work Of rescue
Many Still Missing.
OF the So miners who descended into
the pit this morning $50 had been
brought to the surface The bodies of the
chief engineer and his two assistants
were horribly mangIed.
Say Only Three Were Killed.
PARIS, Jan. 2S.-Thc advices received
at the ministry of labor indicate thar
Nassicre, the chief engineer and his two
assistants were probably the only vic
tins of the explosion in the coal mine
today at Lieven.
1t appears they had gone down to
search for a gas leak. the task not re
curing the assistance of any of the mine
employees.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
MILWAUKEE SToCKYARDs REPORT.

HOGS-Market Zoe higher; light mixed,
G650G.S5; fair to choice mediums, $3.50
$50; heavy packers, 6.65@6SO; rough
heavy, 6.2506.60.
CATTLE - Market is steady: calves.
steady; butchers, steers, medium to
good 1850 to 1900 lbs, 5.O0G(5.75 fair to
medium, $50 to 1850 lbs, 4.23GD475; hcifcrs,
common, 2.75G%.25; good, ;i.75G04. so; cows,
fair to good, 325@i.oo: Gamers, 1.5OlO2 %
cutters, 2.4O0275: bulls. bOlogDas, ESQ
425; stockers. 3OOu3.5O Veal calves
light, 4.50d5.50; choice, 6.5OGD7.25. Mixers
and SprlngcrS-MarEet bad.
SIIEEP-Markct steady, 3500J.50; lambs.
steady; common, 5.50@6.5O; choice, 1909
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
TO CLOSE LOOP HOLES.
This Is Governments Aim in Bill fol
Criminal Appeals, Which Com
mittee Will Revise

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. Is
The Senate committee on the judiciary
today discussed the bill giving the gov.
eminent the right to appeal in certain
criminal cases and authorized a subcOm,
mittee consisting of Senators Nelson,
Knox, Spooner and Pettus to perfect this
measure and report it to the Senate.
The bill was reported last session. but
in a form that was said to be suscepti.
BILE to question as to its constitutiOnality,
The measure is the outgrowth of the
ineffectivness of the governments prose
cution OF Chicago meat packers.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
HUNDRED CHINESE DIE
TERRIFIC RAIN STORM SINKS FIFTY
CRAFT IN HARBOR.
Many Occupants of Wrecked Boats Res
cued by LauncheS-White Popu-
lation Is Unframed

HONG KONG. Jan. 2S.-A terrific
rain squall broke over Hong Kong this
morning and in the space of ten minutes
sank over fifty Chinese craft in the har-
Dor, more than 100 natives being
drowned
There were no casualties among the
white population. Launches from the
shore rescued many occupants of the
swamped boats. The harbor was liz
tered with the wreckage from the sunk
en- iunkS.
During the squall the river steamer
Paul Bean broke adrift, but she was
brought to an anchor without sustaining
any damage.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01

rambler rose and trumpet vines. The
great military drill plain on the expo
sition grounds contains thirty acres
surrounded by trees, shrubs and pretty
walks. 4 canoe trail two miles long
and twelve miles wide runs from
Boush Greek. which flows into Hamp-
ton Roads, through the most interest
ing and romantic part of the grounds.
More than a million flowers, shrubs and
trees are now growing on the exposi-
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
FOR SPECIAL SESSION.
Representative Cooper Calculates Peti-
ton for Speedy Revision of Tariff
Delegation to Act.

WASHINGTON. II. G.. Jan. IS
Especial. Representative Cooper is cir
gulatlnG Il petition to call Il caucus of the
Wisconsin delegation to take action look
ing to holding nm extra session of Con
gress to revise the tariff. Mr. Cooper said
this morning that he had secured the sig
natures of all members of the delegation
except Representatives Babcock, Miner
and Jenkins, who believe in the stand
pat idea in 50 far as tariff tinkerin@ is
concerned.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
BOY PRISONER WOULD DIE.
Waukesha Youth Ignites Bedding in Cell
and Tries to Hang Self.
MINI Ian %

STILLWATER, MINI, Jan. IS
Louis Abel Of Waukesha, Wis, % years
old, made a double attempt at suicide in
the Washington county jail. He first
set fire to the mattress in his bunk, and
then with strips torn from the same mat
tress made rope which he fastened to a
grating in the wall of the cell, the other
end being around his neck.
The smoke aroused the other prisoners,
who shouted until Waterman was
aroused He seized the blazing mattress
and cut the improvised rope. Abel was
aujUdged insane.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
TO ENLARGE VETS HOME.
Representative Often in Washington
Tries to Get $14, 600 for New Build
ings in Milwaukee.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. %.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Jan. %. -
Especial. Representative Often today
appeared before the House committee on
AUTHORIZATIONS to urge a provision in the
sundry civil appropriation bill for the
erection of additional buildings at the
National Soldiers home at Milwaukee,
Mr.. Often wants an appropriation Of
$500 for an additional dwelling for the
officers. and a similar amount for a
dwelling for civilian employees.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
Largest of Steel Plates.

Tie shell and boilers of the new Gu
narder baing built at Wallsend. England,
ire 10 be constructed of the largest steel
plates in the world. They are Silicon
Steel. weighing ten tons each. The boil
prs alone will weigh over 1000 tons.
Massive ingots and slabs weighing u
ard IA tons ere continually passing
through the rolling mills there for this
understandable Magazine.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
ALLIs-CHALMERs RECEIVERS.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Jan. %. =
Especial. 1.-The House today passed q
bill to remit to the Allis-C Chalmers man,
ufacturing company of Milwaukee $1,000
assessed against that concern as penalty
for failure to execute on time a contract
for installing certain machinery for the
District of Columbia water works. This
bill has passed the Senate.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
Out of Proportion

You don't mean to say" protested
the cat, that you're going to kill me
just because 1 ate your canary bird?"
Il am, indeed" replied the house
keeper. Il believe in a life for a life -
But you're taking nine lives for a
life" -Philadelphia Press.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
MILWAUKEE, Hay MARKET.

Choice timothy hay, 15O0@15.5O; No. 1
timothy hay. 1E25G014.75; No. , timothy
hay 13OO013.50; clover and mixed 1250@
1850; choice Kansas and Nebraska prairie,
lj.OO015.JO; No. / prairie, 14OOW14.50; No.
2 prairie, l2.00D1$.OO; Wisconsin prairie.
S.50M9OO; packing hay. 6.5O@7O0; rye
straw, S.2JGGS5O; wheat straw, GOOQ6.5O;
oat straw, 7.25G75O.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
He Might Succeed,

Professional Humorist-Wit should
never seem forced. Now, I never try
to be funny"
His -vis-Oh, but you should,
Mr.. Woodshinel One never knows what
one can do till one tries.-Puck.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01

Progressing Finely.

Lovett-I suppose q fellow ought to
have a great deal of money saved up
before he thinks of marrying.
Nonsense! l didn't have a
cent when 1 married, and I'm getting
along fine now.
Lovett-That so? Installment plan?
Marryat-Yes, and We've only been
married and keeping house for a year
now, and I've got the engagement ring
all paid for now.-PhiladeIphia Press.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01

ufacturing and commercial interests,
all of which speak volumes for the sue
cess of the jamestown exposition which
will be opened April 26, 1907, by the
President of the United States and
closed Nov. 80 1907, at midnight
Williamsport (Pa) Grit.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
u S Supreme Court Takes Recess.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Jan. Is
Chief Justice Fuller today announced
that the federal supreme court would
take three weeks recess from Monday
next for the purpose of consultation over
cases.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
WOMEN PREVENT WRECK.
Flag Iowa Central Passenger Train with
Shawl When They Discover
a Broken Rail.
MARSHALLTOWN, La. Jan. Is. =

NIARSHALLION \, III, IaH. .. =
Mrs Emma Randall and Miss Della
hide, of Geneva, saved an Iowa Central
passenger train from being wrecked last
evening. They discovered a broken rail
and with a shawl tagged the train.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
EASIER TO GET MILITIA.
War Department Rules to Avoid Delay
in Mobllizing.

in Modelling.
That the new regulations for the mo-
bilization of the national guard, just
perfected by Assistant Secretary of War
Oliver, viii result in making impossible
any repetition of the difficulties of re
organization of the militia forces in
the face of war. as experienced in the
early days of 1898, is expected by the
war department.
These regulations are drawn under the
terms of the constitution and Dick mill
tary law. They provide for the mini
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01

art. science. manufacture and COM
merce, during the last 500 years that
the jamestown exposition will be held.
The site for the jamestown eXposi-
ton is an ideal one. Nature and man
have combined to make this spot ex-
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01

and we'll armed force of men at short
notice will be to call upon the governor
of a state for the necessary levy of
troops and gather these up at large cen
trail stations.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01

An ounce contributed to the happi-
ness of another is a pound added to
your own.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
Three Buffalo Firemen Killed.

BUFFALO, \. Z, Jan. 2S.-As a re-
suit of the fire which destroyed the Co
lumbia building on Seneca street, near
Wells, occupied by about twenty tenants,
three fremen are dead and eighteen more
or less injured. The financial loss is
estimated at $J00,0G0. Several buildings
adjoining and opposite the Columbia
building were damaged.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
Two Children Burned.
CuARLESTOMN-

CHARLESTOWN, W. Va, Jan. %.
When Mrs. Joseph Knuciles went to
the well. a short distance away, at
Spring Hill, her house caught fire, and
her two children, aged 3 and / year,
burned to death today. Mrs. Knuckles
had locked the door. So fast did the
fire spread that it was impossible to
save the children.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
"Good Housekeeping" Has Fire.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Jan. Is
The plant of the Phelps Publishing COM
pany here was destroyed by early this
morning. The loss is estimated at ST.
100000.
The company published Good House
keeping, a monthly magazine, The
Monthly Agriculturist, The Orange Judd
Farmer, the New England Homestead.
and Farm and Home. Arrangements are
made for the publication of these jour
nails i'll other cities. The fire started
from spontaneous cOmbuStiOn
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01
Saw Onlv Three Were Killet
FOUR DEAD; SIXTEEN INJURED.
Explosion of Armour Ice Machine in Chi
CagO Deals Death.

CHICAGO. ILL.,. Jan. 2S-Four men
were killed, and sixteen others seriously
injured today as the result of the cxplo-
sion of an ice machine filled with am
mOnia fumes il the power house of Ar
mOur & Co.
Twenty men were working in the room
when the head of a cylinder on the ice
machine blew off, filling the room with
the fumes. Three men were instantly
killed, and a fourth died on the way
to the hospital
The other men are in serious condi-
ton
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-08-16
HARTMAN IS
GETTING JAPANESE
RAILROAD MAGNATE ARRANGES
TO TRANSPORT A LOT TO MEX
TCO DIRECT

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug I'm the
work of rushing to completion his $50
miles of new road in the Pacific coast
States of Mexico, south from a South
ern Pacific connection at Guaymas in
that country, Edward H. Hartman
has arranged to get 1000 Japanese Ia
borers and 100000 ties from Japan. He
already has a big force of Japanese
and Russian Jews from Siberia at
work on the road, but he wants many
more Japanese laborers.
For every mile of road he builds he
gets a subsidy from the Diaz govern
ment of $4,000 in gold and he has to
have certain sections of the new line
completed between certain dates
Southern Pacific officials here state
that Hartman is forced to send to
Japan for ties and labor because he
cannot get them on this side of the
Pacific ocean and fulfill his subsidy
and concession contracts with the Mex
lean government.
Hartman is to be supplied with Jap
anese labor by the Transoceanic Emf
grafton Company, an Oriental concern.
The Japanese are to come under con-
tract to the Mexican Engineering and
Construction Company, a Hartman
company which is doing most OF his
construction work 1t is understood
that under the terms of the contract
the Japanese laborers are to be landed
at the Mexican port of Manzanillc
without expense to the contractors and
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-08-16

per cent greater than it was before
March 14th when his famous procla,-
nation was issued, not counting those
coming in illegally
Moreover, while it is not charged
that Japan is not keeping faith with
the United States in denying passports
to laborers, both skilled and unskilled,
1t is declared to be a fact that many OF
the students, merchants, travellers and
servants coming in on passports
eventually turn out to be mere labor
ers How to prevent this is what ,he
President hopes the trip of Secretary
Straus will teach him.
Meanwhile agents of the government
are keeping a very close watch on
things and President Roosevelt has
hopes that something may turn up to
enable him to keep his promise with
out waving the big stick or increasing
the tension between this country and
Japan 1t was hoped that consent to
the customs union in Korea which
give Japan free entrance for her goods
would be clever move, but from the
Indifference of Japan it might be in
ferred that the process of "assimila-
ton will take less time than had beer
thought
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-08-16

IN TREATY
NEGOTIATIONS
JAPAN CURLY DECLINES AME-
RICAN PROPOSALS AND DOESN'T
WANT FURTHER DISCUSSION.

WASHINGTON, August Again a
deadlock has been reached in the ne
gotiations between the United States
and Japan over exclusion. The State
Department seized on Japan's latest
step in the benevolent assimilation OF
Korea as a favorite time to advance
the exclusion negotiations and made
offer to Japan of three things in con-
sideration of the exclusion of Japanese
laborers, namely:
First-Relinquishlnent of ex-territo-
rialty IN Korea.
Notwithstanding to the Japanese
Korean customs union.
Observation-Disclosures for Japanese
in the United States.
Japan declined the proposal and
stated somewhat CURLY that public sen
timent in Japan was unfavorable to
further consideration of treaty pro-
posals at this time.
The President is much annoyed at
this bar to negotiations, especially as
he promised California relief from
Japanese immigration and instead OF
the influx being smaller, it is almost 25
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-08-16
ENGINEERS MEET.

The regular meeting Of the Hawaii
an Engineering Association was held
last night at the rooms of the Society
in the Kapiolani Building. A very in
teresting paper was read by L. e. Pink
ham on Street Construction, Utilizd-
ton, Preservation; and the Installa-
ton Of Public Utilities. Thirty mem
bers were present and enjoyed the
reading. After the paper was read
County Engineer Gere, Marston Camp
bell, and ]. d. Gaines made some valu-
able remarks. AS a matter of great
Importance was decided on by the AS
ISOLATION, which was to purchase the
International Library of Technology"
to be used by the members as a refer
ence to any important subject nat
may come up in the future The sum
of $4,000 was appropriated by the
treasury Of the association, and a COM
mittee of five members We're appointed
to raise the money necessary to COM
plete the purchase President Brown
who has just returned from a long trim
10 the States gave an interesting talk
on the different plants and machinery
he had visited, The annual meeting
viii take place next month and also
the annual entertainment
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-08-16
ROTH To DEFEND
CHAMPIONSHIP
TENNIS TOURNAMENT ENDS THIS
AFTERNOON WITH ROTH PLAY
ING McKEEVER.

The final tennis match in the singles
for the championship of the islands
was played yesterday afternoon be-
tween Lowrey and McKeever, and the
latter was able to win by the score
of three sets to one. Lowreys' play
ing was brilliant at times and with
hard practice will soon develop into
championship form.
In the second set Lowrey won the
SCI by the score of 60 but was tired
out by his efforts McKeever played
a very strong and high class game
This afternoon at Ais McKeever
will play Roth for the championship
although Roth is the favorite, Nc
HoeNer will do everything % win, and
, Roth will have to play tennis from
start to finish.