The Republican journal., 1899-06-22
News Notes.
Columbia University has conferred the
degree of doctor of laws npon Gov Roose-
Welt

| Columbia University has conferred the
degree of doctor of laws npon Gov. Roose-
welt.
On account of the unprecedented drouth
in New Mexico sheep are dying by thou
sands.
The official trial of the United States
battleship Kearsarge has been postponed
until August.
I, A mammoth 81, 900, 900 hotel is to be
erected on the site of the burned Baldwin
Hotel at San Francisco.
Seven walnut growers associations of
Southern California have combined for
mutural protection.
A farmer of Aurelian Springs, N. c., a
few days ago, plowed up an iron pot filled
with old gold coins.
Nearly 1900 Cuban soldiers have been
paid by the United States army paymas-
tiers in Havana Province thus far.
In the distribution of Spanish cannon
captured in Cuba and Porto Rico, one gun
will be allotted to each State.
Brig. Gen. Charles King, just back
from the Philippines, has been honorably
discharged, to take effect on August End.
The United States Naval Construction
Board has finally approved the plans for
six new cruisers of the Denver class.
Eight hundred Japanese workmen are
now employed in track work on railways
in the States of Washington and Oregon.
Governor General Brooke has appointed
Senior Quesada special commissioner for
Cuba at Washington, with an annual
salary of s., 00O
The Pennsylvania act of 1897 prohibit
ing the discharge of a union soldier from
public service without cause has been
declared unconstitut ional.
While the population of France has in
creased only 10 per cent. in the last fifty
years, the number of state officials shows
an increase of 121 per cent.
At the burial of Bishop Durien, of
British Columbia, 5000 Indians chanted
death song and a party of Indians ell
acted the crucitixion of Christ
The body of George Merriam Hyde,
magazine writer who disappeared from
his home in New York two months ago,
has been found floating in the Hudson
River.
Squads of Usage Indian police have
driven several hundred squatters from the
Usage Indian reservation, in the Indian
Territory, and destroyed their property
and crops.
Chester P Cornelius, a full blood
Indian of the Oneida reservation, and Miss
Gertrude Smith, an accomplished white
girl of Darlington, Wis, were married
last week.
Seventy seven car loads Of agricultural
implements are now on their way from
the United States to the Argentine Re
public for the new harvest. Most of them
are harvesters and threshing machines
At kutztown. Pa, Mrs William Sch
mick, aged rs years, while walking in the
garden, fell heavily on an iron rake, the
teeth of which We're turned upward. The
sharp iron points entered her body, in
tlicting injuries from which she died.
The elm tree at Fort Meigs, made famous
by the campaign of Gen. William Henry
Harrison against the Indians, has fallen
and the spot is not now marked. An
effort Will be made to erect a memorial
tablet to mark the place where the tree
stood.
The French cruiser Sutfren, u, 5O4 tons,
which was begun on January 5, will be
launched on July 25. This is the first
occasion on which a vessel of this i'm
portance has been built in so short time
six months, twenty notwithstanding
completely British work.
By a vote of the high school at Beverly,
Mass, all the teachers and pupils of that
school will hereafter wear sunbonnets and
sombreros during warm weather. The
young women appeared on the streets of
Beverly last Thursday for the first time in
old-style head gear of many colors and
patterns and created a great sen sation.