The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1889-10-17
Generalities.

The late Congressman Cox bcquratnrd MI
his property to his wife
All the bagsing interests Of The nite.l State,
will soon be consolidated.
The new Chinese Minister was recently re-
celved hy President Harrison.
Lumber fires in Michigan are reported 10
have caused 5000 900 damage.
The Swiss Government has adopted smoke :
less powder for the army.
Ex-Governor John A. Martin, of Kansas. i
prominent Republican, Is dead.
Three towns in the State of Chiapao, MeN.,
have been destroyed by cyclone
A New York syndicate propose, thu erection
Of 50, 100000 hotel at Louisville, Ky.
Seven thousand colliers. of Lancaster. Enc.
have struck for an advance Of ) per cent
Lowell capitalists propose to erect cotton
mill of 25,000 spindies at Denison, Texas
| Arrangements have been made for the e>t,i-
Iishment Of two colonies Of SwedoS in Ner-
| mont.
Sir Arthur sulIivan's song. ~The Lost
Chord has already paid him $4,000 and still
| has large sale
| The United States Government officially rlc-
! ognizes the Maritime Exhibition i'll Boston. but
does not aid it financially.
BY the recent gale in the Gulf of Mexico l05
houses We're wrecked at Laguna Delcnrm,.n
! and - vessels We're wrecked.
Mills giving employment to nearly 5000
hands at Preston, Eng, have resumed work.
| The prospects of revival of trade are good.
The wife of a Deputy Sheriff at little FaIl~
| Mimi, stole her husbands revolver, KEYS and
| rel q AM Iol,,, ,.;,t.
The Dunkerque lFreuch) codlis hcrmen took
! home from the banks this year 1850 tons of
cod or 100 tons more than in the previous wear.
A company has been formed to run liHe of
| steamships between Hamburg and Mozam-
bique. The vessels will stop at Zarzibar On
| route.
The Union Pacific Railroad is reported 10
have matured plans for the extension of its
! system to the coast through Southern Cali
| fornia.
Tommy Emore, three wears ola. of 4 Aachua,
Fla, is said to play the most difficult compost
tons on the violin with remarkable nicely and
| expression.
A W Washington special reports that the NAVY
Department will soon send the new war ships
| to increase our naval force on the different
stations.
W. iucu IpDDttI aUOtDeF Ill Il room III the
| Bancroft House, New York, then turned on
the gas and left him to die. lie was discover
| ed before he died
AS a result of a conference with citizens of
| Johnstown, Pa, General Beaver has assigned
$4,000 Of the relief funds for the cleaning and
| Improvement Of the streets.
Congressman Nutting of New York is re-
| ported to be on the road to recovery and it is
| possible that he may be able to take his place
| when Congress assemblies.
Almost with his dying breath WiIkie Collins
said: Il want simple funeral and no feathers
| no Grape, no forms nor ceremonies" His wish
| eS were executed to the letter.
1t is reported that the naval engineers made
mistake in calculating the horse power of the
new cruiser Baltimore and it may not equal
the contract requirement of 5000.
The net receipts of the historical pageant at
Hartford in honor of Mrs. Stowe amounted to
81 ,036 and this despite the fact that the illus
trious authoress was unable to be present.
Three hundred miners are reported starving
| at Upper Yukon, Alaska, sixteen hundred
miles from any settlement. A steamer which
was bearing them provisions was wrecked.
The Austrian Consul at Canea, Crete. an.
nounces that the Creton insurrection has been
queled, and that martial law will be enforced
only against murderers and persons guilty OF
other grave crimes.
Thirteen voators of the Edmunds law were
sentenced at Provo, Utah, recently. They
were sentenced to the penitentary for term.
of two to six months. None of them promised
obedience to the law.
The Governor of Michigan has SURRENDERED
to the United States the unearned lands grant
ed the State by act of Congress in 1856 for Ger
tain railways in the upper peninsula, amount
jno to ah0ut 900 600 acres
British war ship Lily struck rock off Pon
Armor and sank. Seven of the crew We're lost
The vessel is a total wreck. Considerable
money and valuables went down with her
nothing whatever being saved.
Up to this time nearly seventeen and a hal
millions of people have visited the Paris eX
hibtion, an increase of more than eight million
over the number in the corresponding perio,
at the exhibition in Paris in 1873.
A. II. Bogardus, the well-known rifle shot
has brought suit for $4,000 damages agans
Adam Forepaugh for the use of his name an,
lithograph in connection with the Forepaugl
| show when he was not with 1t.