The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-07-01
In BRIEF. Word was received at Hall.

IN DRlEF. N0ru was received at Hall
| fax, n S., from Dartmouth, small town
across Halifax harbor, Thursday morn
| ing, that the body of John Taylor, a
steward, who was one of the crew of the
! barkentine Herbert Fuller, on board of
which the captain, second mate and the
captains wife were murdered, last July,
was found floating in the lake, Wednes-
| day night. Taylor re- shipped on board
the Fuller after the tragedy, and went to
Buenos Ayres. When the Fuller returned
to New York, few days ago Taylor went
| to Halifax, where he had been drinking
heavily of late, and it is thought that he
| fell overheard while intoxicated and was
| drowned. Sc. The Republican convention
of the Fourth Indiana district has nomi-
mated Major Charles W. Lee of Vevav.
| Ind, to succeed the late Hon. w. S. Hol-
man in Congress-. A bout So 600 pounds
OF tea brought TO San Francisco since the
| first OF May, was not allowed to be i'm
| ported, because II did not come up to the
standard OF quality established by the sec
retary of the treasury. The importers are
protesting. .... The celebration in connec-
ton with the four hundredth anniversary
OF the discovery of Newfoundland bv
John Cabot on June II, 1497, passed off
at St. Johns, Mid, June 24th with great
success. There was a grand parade of
the Masonic fraternity police depart
| ment and fire brigade, with athletic sports
in the afternoon and bontires and py-
rotechnics in the evening. The Ameri-
can. English and French warships there
participated The American warship, the
Massachusetts,, proved the great attraction
and was visited by thousands. The
weather was queen weather.. Gold has
been discovered on Oak Point island in
Rainy lake, which will undoubtedly lead
to an International boundary dispute be-
tween Great Britain and the United States.
IA treaty for the provisional union of
the five republics of Central America has
been signed at Guatemala w In the Brit
ish House of Commons Thursday, Mr..
George y. Curzon replied to the question
of MI Ernest William Beckett Conserva-
tive, regarding Hawaiian annexation. Mr..
Curzon said Her Majestys government
did not feel called upon to express an
opinion relative to the matter. The Bos-
ton Traveller says: The big transaction
by which the standard oil people secure
absolute control of the Bay State Gas
company of Delaware, was consummated
in New York Wednesday. Addicks by
virtue of the deal, retires from the gas
field, and the next move will be a reorgan-
ization of the entire business on simple
basis. .... Hon. John D. Long, secretary of
the Navy, arrived in the harbor at Ports
mouth, \. H, Thursday evening, on
board the United States ship Dolphin.
He inspected the navy yard Friday, and
then left for Washington. 80. The London
Echo publishes an interview with DR..
Chauncey NJ. Depew in which he is quot
ed as expressing the belief that the arb-
tration treaty between the United States
and Great Britain will be law before the
end of President Mckinley's term of
ottice.....A special cable from leading
flour importer of Amsterdam to the
Northwestern Miller states that the pro-
tection!st party in Holland has been total
y defeated and a free trade majority was
elected. This assures the future of the
American flour trade with Holland ...
The torpedo boat Foote made the reuuir-
ed ~ II miles an hour over the measured
course ON the Chesapeake, Friday. On
this, her second trial, she had 2S seconds
to spare. lit is denied in Madrid that
Spain and Japan have formed an alliance
to resist the United States. ~ MIS-. Mar
garet Oliphant, the author, died Friday
evening OF cancer... State Treasurer
BARLEY of Nebraska convicted of en-
years in the penitentiary and TO pay fine
of $500, O00.... The Berlin correspondent
of the London Standard says: 'tRussia
viii not Join in Japan's protest against
the annexation of Hawaii by the United
States, but she regards the measure as a
dangerous precedent. "...... Fitzsimmons
has agreed to meet John L. Sullivan in a
four OF six round bout at Ambrose Park
on the afternoon of July ). If Sullivan S
sparring shall be deemed creditable terms
for finish fight will be considered .. The
report of the committee of II on rural
schools in the United States, appointed at
the convention of the national education
association in July, 1895, has been com
pleted and will be submitted at the next
annual gathering. So. Professor Aarporath
of the Cordoba observatory asserts
! that the moon is not a satellite of
the earth, but planet Deputy
| United States marshals attached to the
Fort Smith, Ark, court, have captured
three men whose arrest, it is believed
has etfectually broken up the once famous
band of counterfeiters known to secret
service operators all over the United
States as the Bullfrog Valley gang. $50.
Canadians are rushing wool into the
| United States to avoid the coming duty
...,. Eugene V. DeDS Dig scheme to plant
socialist colony has been abandoned and
to take its place there will be small
| migration of unemployed men to the State
of Westinghouse. Spain will send 1000
| more troops to Cuba in October if the
| Spanish suffer from sickness in Cuba in
the rainy season. About fifty librarians,
men and women, delegates from cities
and towns in many States, sailed on the
| Cephalonia Sunday afternoon from Bos-
ton, bound for London, where there is to
be an international library conference
July 13 to 16, inclusive. A dozen or
more members of the Massachusetts Lib
rary Club were on the Cunard wharf to
see the party off. In the party was Mrs.
Mary II. Curran, librarian of the Bangor
pu bic library.
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