Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-06-08
THE NEWS In BRIETl
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.


The Gear will shortly visit Siberia.
london is experiencing one of the
hottest JuneS on record.
A Worcester (NIass.) doctor declined
to treat Il patient and she died. Now
he has been indicted for manslaughter.
The body of an unidentified boy was
found in the water at the foot of East
One Hundred and First street. New
York.
a twenty-five per cent advance In
rates on all freight from the Atlantic
seaboard to points in the Northwest
is to go into effect June 20.
1t has been decided that the Span
jsh bank shall issue no more bills in
Porto Rico. United States Currency
will be used there in the future.
Elisha Baxter, the tenth Governor
of Arkansas. is dead at his home in
Batesville. Mr.. Baxter was born in
Rutherford county, n. c., September /.
1924.
Governor Poynter, of Nebraska. has
been evicted, the lease on his house
having expired. He now lives ut Il
hotel.
Henry Lower, a well-to-do real es-
tate owner, of Cleveland, o.. who has
been suffering with what appeared to
be hydrophobia as the result of 4 eats
bite received Il month ago. died in
great agony.
Chas. Lester, negro of Long Island,
has been arrested at Tarrytown, n.
y, on Il charge of having crlminally
assaulted Mary Comedian. the 6-year-
old daughter of Michael Comedian of
that place. The negro narrowly eS-
capped lynching at the hands of an in
furated mob.
The recent President of the Greek
Catholic Church in America. John A.
Smt, of New York. was defeated for
reelection at Cleveland. o. The new
president is the Rev. Cornelius Lau
risin, of Shenandoah. Pa. The Rev.
Theodore Damj of New York,
is made first priest of the American
churches.
A Pittsburg firm has sold 200 steel
cars to the Egyptian States Hallway.
Edwin Leisy has surrendered 10 the
Reading, Pa. police accusing himself
of triple murder.
Jamaica has sent delegation To
Washington to plead for reciprocity in
trade relations.
twenty-five cows at the Chicago
Stock Yards have been found suffering
from tuberculosis.
Bert Meyers. of AIiddletown. y. V,
had his hat torn off by Il bolt of light
ming. but not seriously injured.
Harry r. Phillips a Filipino. has
been admitted to full citizenship in The
United States, at Tounton. Mass.
1t is the universal opinio nboth in
France and the United States that
Capt Dreyfus will be liberated as Il
result of his next Court-martial.
a terrific blast discharged at Indian
Head on the Hudson river dislodged
over 100000 tons of rock and reduced
to ruins a considerable portion of New
Jerseys famous palisades.
The spring wheat crop in the north
west is reported to be fully up To the
average and that the yield will he as
great if not greater than that of last
year.
yellow fever has broken out in the
South again. There are two cases of
the disease in New Orleans. and sew
eral mt Little Rock. Arkansas.
Johann Strauss. the waltz king. is
dead.
Adolph Langerman sucided with a
revolver at Newark. y. J.
John ID. Crimmins. of New York. APP
proves Sheehan's plan to depoSe CrOk-
er as Tammany leader.
al I,I l,,-
an agreement to raise wages and
shorten the hours of labor.
George *. Nash. of Columbus. Ohio.
has been nominted by the Republicans
of that State for Governor.
The bodies of three babies. each
wrapped in separate bundle. was
found in Il Newtown. l.. l.. field.
Our delegates mt the Peace Congress
refused To agree to arbitration on mon
etary and interoceanic canal questions.
Messrs. Mazet. Moss and Clarke. in
New York. discussed action to he taken
against witnesses who have detied
them.
The baby. Marion Clark, kidnapped
from Central Park Sunday. May II.
has been found and returned 10 her
parents. The kidnapers, George Beau
regard Barrows. his wife and Bella
Anderson. the nurse. have been arrest
ed. The Anderson woman has con
fessed. The child was found near
Haverstraw. n. Y.
Walter G. Walling, Il performer with
Haverly's minstrelS. was beaten and
robbed by II negro tough at Coney ISL
and, y. y.
Names of New York financial insiitu-
tions have been used without author
ity by builders of n Western railroad
More of the pariss passengers ar
rived on the st. Paul
Train robbers held up Union Pa
cific train at Wilcox. Wyo.. and Sc
cured 2S.000 in money and about half
that amount in diamonds and iewelry.
Spain has ceded the Caroline. La
drone and palem Islands to Germany
for SJ.000.O00.
Rushed Into the Breakers.