The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-08-10
NEWS NOTES.

The court martial of Capt. Dreyfus will
begin at Rennes on August 10.
The cruiser Buffalo will be refitted as a
naval transport, at a cost of $50, wv. 49,
Repairs to cost 81, 900 will be put on
the cruiser Philadelphia, at Mare Island
navy yard.
Mamie King, New York girl, has lost
her reason through excessive cigarette
smoking.
Brig. Gen. Woods prompt measures
have checked the yellow fever outbreak
at Santiago.
Gov. J. Hoge Tyler has formally an
nounced his candidacy for United States
Senator from Virginia.
The Atlanta City Council has refused to
pass an ordinance requiring street preach
ers to obtain permit from the Mayor.
An insect is playing havoc with wheat
crops in South Dakota. One farmer lost
crop of 10 acres and others report
similar losses
While drilling an artesian well at Birm-
ingham, Ala, strong flow of natural
gas was struck at depth of more than a
thousand feet
The War Department intimates that
late news from the Philippines indicates
that the situation is much better than has
been generally believed.
United States troops are held in readi-
ness to be sent to Alaska in the event of
an outbreak, which is threatened as an
outgrowth of the boundary dispute.
The proposed Texas cattle syndicate
with a capitalization of half billion
dollars, has been found too big an under
taking and the plans will be modified
The natives in some of the Philippine
provinces are resisting Tagal domination
and are said to be willing to. declare ale
glance to the United States.
The remaining battalion of the 10Th IN
fantry at Camp Meade has been ordered
to San Francisco to embark for Manila |
on July %, on the Ohio and Newport
Kansas City has raised so, 900, which
it will offer to the Democratic National
Committee, if the committee will give
Kansas City the next annual convention.
In spite of the efforts of government Off
cals to prevent it, the Indians of the ter
ntory are holding their ghost Dances
smoke dances and other similar ceremo-
MES.
Planters in Brazos and Bureson Couu-
ties. Tex, make an estimate that in the
two counties 10000 acres of crops were
ruined and 1900 people are left home
less.
The two daughters OF Mrs. John Moore
of Dallas, Tex. died from drinking poison
said to be intended ior their mother, who
was an important witness in a lynchng
case.
Admiral Cervera wrote to Portsmouth,,
Y. H, denying that he was coming to
take back to Spain the bodies of the
Spanish soldiers who died at Seavey's
Island.
Anti expansionists in Alabama are ell
deavoring to have the seat of Brig. Gen
Wheeler in Congress as Representative
from the Eighth Alabama district, declar
ed vacant
Paris paper diseloses that several
French ministers of war We're cognizant of
the forgery of the bordereau in the Drey-
fus case and decided TO make the captain
scapegoat.
Citizens Of Cleburne County, Ark, have
declared wal on mOonshine1s, and have
warning the owners to stop the manufac-
ture and traffic.
Gen. A. j. Warner president of the
Blmetallic League. believes that Bryan
will be the next Democratic presidential
nominee, and that the chief issue will be
the Philippine war.
The Pensacola Paper Mills, at Pensaco-
la, Fla, have started in successful opera
ton manufacturing hard grade of manila
paper from pitch pine pulp. The material
is waste from saw mills heretofore burned
in slab piles.
1t has been estimated that 1000, 900
sheep have died in New South Wales be-
cause of the drouth this year. The num-
Der OF sheep in that colony is Il, 600, 900
less than ten years ago. Other Australian
colonies have had almost equally disas-
trons experiences,
Mrs. Helen NJ PeytoD, restaurant
keeper in Denver, Colo, has entered suit
for 500, 600 dover from the estate of
Isaac n. Peyton, president of the Nation
al Exchange Bank, SpOkOne Wash. alleg- |
ing that he obtained a divorce from her by
fraud.
According to a letter received by Chief
of Police Bishop Of Springfield Mo-,
Robert NJ. f. Coo er, penniless editor
is heir to 500, 900 in Cripple Creek min
ing property and Texas real estate left by
Capt Gregg, frontiersman who died re-
Gently N Cripple Creek.
Stephen Fell, an American citizen, is
sa i'd to have been slave for twelve years
in a tribe on the Upper Amazon from
which he finally escaped by killing his
guards he was originally accompanied
by two other Americans, one of whom
died of fever and the other of snake
bite.
The Manufacturing Industries.