Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Telegraphic Gleanings from All Parts
of the World.

Hernandez in a battle near Tocuyo,
Venezuela.
Morgan interests are negotiating for
Ohio.
Gen. Brooke has reported his plans
for sending certain troops of cavalry
home from Cuba.
The John ID. Rockefeller timber land
in Washington has been sold to an
Eastern syndicate.
Jacob Hendrickson, of Woodbury., N.
j., mourned as lost at sea, was saved
by "a Glasgow schooner.
Mrs. Nettie F. Craven has won a par
tial victory in her contest over the Fair
estate at San Francisco
A steamer from Calcutta has arrived
at Plymouth, England. with fireman
on board suffering with the plague.
The battleship Massachusetts has
been ordered into reserve at League
Island as her crew is needed for the
Kentucky
The Broadway National Bank OF
Boston has failed, as a result of the
John p. Squire assignment. The de-
positors will be paid in full.
A dispatch from Manila says that
Major March has abandoned his pur-
suit of Aguinaldo. The latter has left
Bontoc. headed southwark, where he
may encounter the Americans.
Judge Adams, of the United States
Circuit Court, at ST. Louis, has estab-
lished the precedent that accertions to
riparian property by navigable rivers
is question for Federal courts.
American farmers have exported 1885,
$50, ,059 bushels of corn during the last
eleven months.
Mr.. Edwin " Morgan, of New York,
has been appointed United States Le-
cation secretary at Seoul, Corea.
Representatives Berry and Wheeler
had sharp debate over the Kentucky
election in the House at Washington,
Friday. ..."
Colorado will bring suit against the
Federal Government to test constitu-
tionality of refusal to coin silver bull
lion on demand.
Professor William Hardness, astron-
omical director of the United States
Naval Observatory, will be retired as q
rear admiral.
Gov. Roosevelt has appointed Judge
Frederick w. Kruse of Cattaraugus
County, N. Y, to the Supreme Bench
in the Eighth District.
General Otis reports that the Ameri-
cans are still pursuing the remnant of
the Filipino army, but through rough
country and under great difficulties.
The insurance of the wrecked Ameri-
can liner Paris has been adjusted. The
ship will return to the Atlantic service
and will be rechristened after an
American city.
The transport Sedgwick, Capt. Hen
ricks. has arrived in New York from
of the Quartermaster's Department on
furlough.
United States Consul Macrum, at
Pretoria, who is superseded by Mr..
Hay, has sailed for New York
Lieutenant Brumby is still in criti-
cal condition at the Garfield Hospital
in Washington.
The Republican National Committee
met in Washington and heard the
claims of New York, St. Louis, Phila-
delphia and Chicago for the honor Of
being the convention city. Philadel-
phia was selected as the place of meet
ing and June 10 was the date fixed.
The board of directors of the Penn
sylvania Railroad has voted to increase
fol OF nf ha ok
$13,000,000.
The Senate has confirmed the noml.
nations of Bellamy Storer as Minister
to Spain and Joseph Fl. Choate. Jr., as
Secretary of Embassy under his father
in London.
A detachment of Col. Hayes's cavalry
in the Philippines, has captured Biac-
nabato, the mountain stronghold where
the last insurrection was ended with a
peace treaty.
A bill to facilitate the administration
OF the franchise tax law by the State
Board of Tax Commissioners will be
introduced when the Legislature meets
at Albany.
Exercises commemorating the one
hundredth anniversary of the death OF
Washington were held at the tomb at
Mount Vernon, President Mckinley de-
livering an grafton.
The BODY, Of Lottie Cohen was found
in a hall of her home in the south end.
Boston, Thursday, with a deep cut in
the throat. Solomon Cohen, husband
of the woman. is under arrest pending
an investigation.
The National Flax, Hemp and Ramie
Association is in session in Fargo, N.
D., with large attendance. The phe-
nomenal growth of flax raising in
North Dakota and Minnesota led the
association to meet there.
After a trial lasting six days in the
United States Court at Juneau, Alaska,
the jury brought in verdict of muir
der in the first degree against ]. H.
Bird. That is the first verdict of MUIR
der in the first degree rendered in
Alaska.
Governor John G.. Brady of Alaska is
on his way to Washington to attend q
convention of governors on Dec 21 10
arrange for the celebration of the one
hundredth anniversary of the removal