Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-06-15
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been lynched ut Holquin, Cuba.
! Increasing number of cases of the
plague are reported from Egypt.
| The new German steamer Brisgavia
has arrived at Queenstown disabled.
Bellamy Storer. United States Minis
ter to Spain. has arrived at Madrid.
The body of an unidentified man was
| found on the tracks at Franklin Park,
| \. J.
Mark Twain added TO his laurels at
| the banquet of the Savage Club in
London.
| japan is the only country that has
| objected to the cessation of the Caro-
line Islands To Germany.
| The Montreal Street Railway Com
pany has. given its employees accident
insurance free of charge.
James Woods, of 23S Bergen street,
Brooklyn. was run over and killed by
a train at Monmouth Junction.
Henry Dawson. IL convict ut the
| Columbus. o., penitentiary, unsuccess-
| fully tried to commit suicide by taking
concentrated lye.
i. j. Myers. Il switchman employed
| by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany at Toledo. o.. was run over and
fatally injured
| The orrville. o., Council has award
ed the contract for the paving of Main
estimated cost will be SO. 134.24.
| otto Barker stole Il bicycle at Ander-
son. Ind. and in n hours had been
| convicted. sentenced and placed in the
Ietfersonville Reformatory.
| An alienation suit has been filed at
! Princeton, Ind. in which Charles Col
vim, Il saloon keeper asks $4,000 from
| Samuel Anderson, Il farmer.
| At New Albany. Ind, John Reagon
| and VIM. Henry We're squirrel hunt
ing. when Reagon was shot in the
| right side, and ii is feared that he will
die.
! David Davis. under indictment for
| the alleged rohbing of cars on the Lake
| Division of the IittSburg and Western
Railroad has been captured by War
ren, o.. officers.
AlonZo Root, aged 10 employed to
run the elevator at the Madison Hotel,
| Toledo. o., got his head caught be-
| tween the elevator and the floor while
ascending. He cannot live.
Joseph Tole ut Madison. Ind, was
| sentenced To the State Reformatory for
| from = to II years for stealing horse.
| Five hundred chickens We're stolen
| from three farmers ut New Pittsburg,
| Ind. III one night.
| Robert F'itZsimmons was dethroned
| from the heavyweight championship
of the world by James ]. Jef1ries. of
| California. who Knocked him out in
the eleventh round of what was to
have been Il twenty-five-rouhd contest
before the Coney Island Athletic Club.
| Tie fight was for the worlds heavy
weight championship and side wager
| of $4,000, FitZsimmons's share of the
gate receipts was 1000. while JEFF
| fries. the winner. only received $4,000.
Ief1'ries has accepted Tom Sharkey's
challenge, and these two will settle
| tlteir differences in the ring some time
! in September of the present year.
| Havana cabmen have gone on strike,
demanding regular salaries.
| The largest hole in the stranded liner
Paris measures Ii by II feet.
Spain has offered to sell to Germany
| the island of Fernando Po, west of
| Africa.
| Archbishop Riordan. of San Francis
60. has been sued by priest for
| $50. 900.
| The large coal pockets of Kahrs l.
Co.. at Mount Vernon. n. Y, were de-
stroyed by fire.
y turtle weighing 1000 pounds has
been captured off Asbury Park, n. J.
| Ten thousand miners are on strike
at Dubois. Pa
No news has been received of the
| cruiser Newark. now some days over
due Ut Valparaiso. Secretary Long
says he has no fear for her safety.
| 1t was stated in Washington that
| tariff retaliation would he resorted to
if Canada refused to agree to the mo-
dus vlvendi on the Alaskan boundary.
! The French Government shas taken
steps To extradte Esterhazy from Eng
| land III order 10 prosecute him for the
part he played in falsely convicting
Capt. Dreyfus of treason.
| At spokane, Wash, Chaplain C. c..
Batenan. L. :. A., is under arrest at
the army post. Captain Bachelor, OF
Company \. Twenty fourth infantry,
ordered the Chaplain to his head
quarters and put him under arrest.
| ne nature of the charge is not made
public.
Al Hartville. Mo-. Jacob Fagley
farmer. formerly justice Of the
peace, chairman of the Populist Coun-
| ~ Committee and minister Of the gos-
pei. was found guilty of completely
III the robbery of the Kansas CITY.
Fort Scott and Memphis train at Ma
comb last January, and sentenced to
twelve years in the penitentiary.
| John j. Lalor. translator, in the
oil'ee OF the Director of the Mint, lost
his balance and fell from the second
floor in the Treasury Department to-
day down the shaft to the basement.
probably receiving fatal Injuries. Mr..
i.alor is Il we'll known writer on po-
, litical economy and Is the author of
an encyclopedia OH that subject.
The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky.
which has held the record heretofore