The Republican journal., 1898-09-29
NEWS NOTES.


lyn Palmer, in Herald and Presbyter.
NEWS NOTES.
Two million bicycles have been made in
the world since the wheel was perfected.
The pecan crop of Texas is almost a
complete failure, and prices are advanc-
ing.
Mount Yesuvius is in violent eruption.
and the spectacle is the g1andest since
1872.
Detroit. Mich, has been chosen by the
Sons OF Veterans for their encampment in
1899.
The Treasury Department has received
$50, 600, 000 thus tar from the sale of war
bonds
The supply of food at Dawson is report
ed to be sufficient to carry the camp
through the winter.
More than 1000 Jews joined the volun-
teer regiments in the United States to
fight against Spain
Admiral Schley has notified the Navy
Department that all the Spanish war yes
sells have left Porto Rico.
Emil lola, who is now in Switzerland.
is said to be preparing an address to the
public on the Dreyfus case.
Five of the Arctic whaling fleet so long
imprisoned in ice in Behrng Sea are now
known to be out Of danger.
A committee of three statesmen having
into
determine the Alaska boundary.
The Indians in Supia, Ariz, are left
destitute, in consequence of the destruc-
ton of their crops by a recent storm.
The Marquis Ito of Japan has gone to
Pekin to arrange an offensive and defen-
sive alliance between Japan and China.
During the extremely hot weather last
August Dakota farmers did their field
work at night by the light of the moon,
The Spanish authorities in Cuba have
given olders to collect their troops pre-
paratory to their embal katiun for Spain.
Heirs to the estate of George VI. Pull
man say that debts against the New York
property, worth 500, 900, will wipe it out.
The California Railroad Commissioners
are to investigate the Pullman Car Com
pany to see if rates can be legally reduced.
The cartmen who haul sand to Rome fol
builders work nineteen hours 4 day for Soc
aud sleep in the stables with tn, il mules.
The Queen Regent of Spain visits daily
the sick soldiers who have returned from
Cuba, and attends personally to thei1
needs.
1T sand that the President has decided
that II will be necessary to keep all of the
Philippines in order 10 prevo Mt foreign
complications.
The account book OF the paymaster Of
the Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon, sunk
at Santiago, was found on the beach al
Mddletown, r. |.
Miss Cora Flood, daughter of the Cali
fornia millionaire, has donated Menlo Park
mansion and 80 acres Of land to the Uni
versity of California.
The ram katahd1n has been put out OF
commission and placed in reserve with the
cruise Columbia and Minneapolis al
League Island, Philadelphia.
burg, fourteen human skele tons have beer
found in a cave. The renal MS are evident
ly those of prehistoric people.
dispatch from Madrid says that the
publication in that city of a statement
that the United States intends to demand
S2O, OOO, 600 indemnity in behalf of Ameri-
can citizens who have suffered through in
surrection in Cuba has created throughout
Spain ga painful IMPRESSION
man in Java makes good living as
prophet. He has been paid $50 year fol
the last fifteen years ''for not predicting 6
tidal wave which will sweep clean over the
island" The credulous natives believe
that he has the power to attract the wave
that will overwhelm the country.
DR.. n. G. Woodward of Defiance, O.,
was married fourteen years ago and sem
an invitation to Lafayette Woodward, his
cousin. Nothing was heard from the lat
| ter until a few days ago, when he sem
from his home in Minneapolis, Mimi {
check for s., 600 as wedding present.
Hundreds of Spanish officers in Havana
have asked to be discharged from the
army. They refuse to return to Spain
where starvation stares them in the face.
Many of them have formed classes to study
English, hoping to obtain commissions il
the United States army as soon as they
learn the language.
A foreigner who was brought before a
San Francisco magistrate the other day
was found to be SO unceanly that the
police were ordered to give him a bath.
''Vat! Go in de vater?' he asked. eyes,
you must take a bath; you need it. How
long is it since you had one?' The for
eigner shrugged his shoulders, and re-
piled: 81 never was arrested BEFORE
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