The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-06-09
News Notes.

News Notes.
Heavy rains in California have partially
saved the perishipg crops.
The war has caused an immense decrease
in first and second-class ocean travel.
\ dispatch from London says Queen Vic
toria favors an alliance with the United
States.
Marine insurance companies are greatly
agitated over Spain's new threat of priva-
teering.
The Armours, of Chicago, will invest ST.
600, 600 in a packing house on the North
Pacific coast.
A tannery to tan the hides of wolves and
dogs has been established in Cheyenne
County, Kan.
OF the shoes imported into British colo
MES, more than As per cent. are of Ameri-
can manufacture.
Upwards of 10,OOO,0 Geo American flags
have been sold in this country since the
blowing up of the Maine.
The commerce of the United States with
Japan has grown mole rapidly in the past
year than that Of any other nation.
The Navy Department has invited bids
for the construction Of twenty eight tor
pedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers.
large part of Cuba is occupied by i'm
penetrable forests, not more than 10 Del
cent of the island being under cultivation.
In the Canadian Parliament, Premier
Laurier and Sir Charles Upper declared
themselves in favor of an American alli-
ance
An error in the naval personnel bill,
which recently became law, gives a re-
tired Captain mole pay than one in active
service.
10 MAINTAIN an army Of 200 COO men for
SIX months will cost $50, Geo 600. according
to estimates prepared by Paymaster Gen
eral Stanton.
The Russian Government has been petit
toned for As, eco rubles for the purpose of
feeding 10, 600 starving school children for
six months.
The Board of Supervisors of San Francis
co has changed the name of Bilboa boule-
ward to Dewey boulevard, in honor of the
hero of Manila
Lord Russell, Lord Chief Justice of Eng
land, urges intimate friendship between
Great Britain and the United States, with
contract of alliance.
According to London dispatch an alli-
ance between the United States, England
Germany and Japan against European
combinations is practically in effect.
D,i+ ID
esford, interprets MI Chamberlain S
to mean an alliance of England and Ger
many.
A dispatch from Hong Kong says it has
been discovered that the black plague is
disseminated among the people by the feas
which gathered the germs from the bodies
of those afflicted with the disease.
The great battle ship Alabama recently
launched at Cramps Shipyard, Philadel-
phia will be ready for service in about a
year. The Kearsarge and Kentucky will
be finished about November l.
The government needs war horses and
will soon invite bids for the supply that
may be wanted. Dealers all over the
country have been notified that desirable
stock is required. Prices are liable to go
up.
{ Havana advices by way of Jamaica say
that the Spanish troops in Cuba are dis
heartened, and openly express wish that
American victories will cause Spain to
abandon Cuba and allow them to return
home.
The talk of an Anglo American alliance
seems to have had a marked effect in Eu-
rope. Friendship for the United States
is now being displayed by powers which
before were believed to be intensely hos
tile to this country.
The richest deposit of aluminium in the
world has just been discovered near Bowl
ing Green, Ky. An analysis of the clay by
the government assayist at st. Louis show
ed the properties of aluminium contained
therein to be so per cent.
The federal statutes authorize the pay
ment of bounty of $1O0 for each man in
an enemy's ship of war that is destroyed
in action. Assuming that there were
1900 men on the Spanish ships at Manila,
there will be $500, GEO to be divided among
the men of Admiral Dewey's fleet.
Gold to the value of 1925, 1000, GOO, the
bulk of it owned by about lUO men, VIII
be brought down the Yukon by the first
steamer from Klondike. When the inform
alton left Dawson City news of the war
between the United States and Spain had
not been received.
The Secretary of the Treasury has sen,
to the Senate statement showing that on
May there were in the treasury 100, 355,
514 ounces of silver bullion, the cost OF
which was sos, s74, 662, and the coinage
value $141, 1863, 0S9, leaving seigniorage