Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-14
NE WyIlaK N GINERh
A Summary of Happenings at
Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS CONDENSED
A Review Of. WHIT Has Transpired
of Public Interest.

Greenyille, Me Sept. 1O--The body of
Dr. GeotS3 f.. EMerson, B6St0n, den.
tist who Vas Nkwned in lndt6hs Pond
has been Recovered and taken to MIS-
home in that city.
Dundee Sept. 10~-The Cotton and iuta
GUS proportions. Ten Minis have been
closed and 10000 mill workers are now
idle.
San FRANCISCO, Sept. 10.-The steam
ship Del Nprte has arrived from Alaska
with 1882 seal skins, consigned to the
North American Commercial Company.
The seals were caught under license
and the government nets Il large
royalty.
Plymounth, England. Sept 1O-The
Trades Union Congress- in session here
has elected j. Haslam, of the Derby
shire Miners Association. and A. VIII
kie of the Shipwrights' Association of
Newcastle, delegates to the Trades
Union Congress to be held mt Detroit
Michigan.
Shelby, Ohio, Sept. 10--Fire at thes
SnelDN uUe w NOIkS ueStIoNet lit
ing mill piercing machine room. and
the engine and boiler rooms. Eight
hundred men are thrown out of work
No defrite figures on the loss are OBJ
tainable. The plant was valued at
100000.
South Bend, Ind Sept. 1Q.-Jonn w
Dyche. of near Wooster, ohio, where
he owns large farm, found his fifteen
year-old daughter, from whom he has
been separated for II years, at Ken
dallville, and she has rejoined him.
The girl went away with her mother
when 4 years old
Gallipols, Ohio, Sept. 10.-Word has
been received here that fortune has
been left the descendants of Gorge A
Waugh, one of the first settlers of
Gallia County. who died in 1875. The
money was left by n rich relative of
Mr. Waugh, who died in London. Eng
land. 1t amounts to several hundred
thousand dollars.
Havana, Sept. 1O.-The Executive
Committee of the late Cuban Assembly
has commenced the distribution of
promissory notes to the members of the
IL
future republic. Each general receives
Il note for over $4,000 and each col
onel one for S11 900 The total amount
to he paid is over S20.000.0d0.
Buffalo, n. Y, Sept. 10.--Cbarles v
Austin. cashier for the Milsome Rem
dering and Fertilizing Company is in
custody. and it is stated that he is
short in his accounts To the extent of
$4,000 Austin was trusted employe
Of the company for many years The
concern has an immense plant near the
East Buffalo stock yards.
Jersey City. \. s.. Sept. 10-Among
the passengers who arrived OH the
Ward Line steamer Seguranca. from
Havana and Mexican ports, We're Gen
Canton and staff, of the Mexican
Army. The General is Governor of
Yucatan. The Seguranca also brought
the body of Frank c. Ives. the billiard
exeprt, who died recently in Meyico
Akron. Ohio. Sept 1O-A human pin
cushion was sent from this city TO the
insane asylum at Newburg. John c.
Vordeman. one year ago strong man.
is now complete wreck, victim of
are mass of punctures. holes made by
the needle of hypodermc syringe.
He became violently insane on the
streets.
Port Townsend, Wash, Sept. 10
Forty-four persons Were killed and
thousands injured in the destruction of
their homes by a typhoon in kagoshi
ma, Japan, on August lj. This news
is brought to port by the Oriental
steamer Glenogle, which reports that
forty-five ships We're wrecked on the
Japanese coast in the same storm.
Omaha. Neb.. Sept 10.A shortage of
$4,000 has been discovered in the Ma
tional Bank of Omaha, and the officials
say circumstances at present point to
theft. unless an absent eX-teller can
give an explanation of his accounts
The teller is Ned. Fl. Copeland, who for
ten years has held the position Of rail
road teller The money was lost on
August 2.
Charleston. w. Va, Sept 10.-When
some old wall paper was removed the
other day from the walls of the old NJ.
f. Church of Winfield the roster of
Company B, Thirteenth Virginia Vol
unteers. was found on the wall 1t
was in lead pencil, in the handwriting
of Orderly Sergeant James "A. Ray
burn. and was well preserved.
Brooklyn, n. Y, Sept. 10.-OtHcials of
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
say that some of the new conductors
have feeced the company heavily re-
Gently. Wholesale discharges have fol
lowed the discovery. 1t is said that
$4,000 represents the losses of the
company. The plan of the conductors
was the old one-that of pocketing
fares not rung up.
Santiago de los Caballos. Santo DO
mingo, Sept. 10.-General Jiminez is n.
garded as President. although his cleo
lion will not take place until Novem-
her, He proceeded on horseback to
Sanchez, whence a ship will carry him