The Republican journal., 1899-07-13
NEWS NOTES.

dialects spoken in Mexico.
President Mckinley has received the
! LII. D. degree from seven colleges.
Philadelphia collected STOP, 600 as taxes
on trolley company dividends last year.
/ Thousands of cattle and sheep are dying
on the Colorado ranges in consequence of
drouth.
A company has been organized at San
ford, n. c., to operate cotton mill by
electricity.
Mr.. Sleepy is the name of one of the
most wide awake citizens of Phillips
County, Kansas.
The forest area of all the British pos
sessions in America is estimated at about
| so, 600, 900 acres.
| Don Jaime, the only son of the Spanish
| pretender Den Carlos, has Just won $780,,
| 600 in lottery.
= Congressman Ketcham of New York
has served in thirteen Congresses, and has
never made a speech.
The first mail in two months received
from the Yukon at Seattle, Wash, con
sisted of So 900 letters.
| Mrs. Cleveland and children have az
rived at Gray Gables, Mass, their sum
mer home on Buzzard Bay.
| The Spanish consulate at Mobile, Ala.
that was closed at the beginning of the
war with Spain, has been reopened
Ia Cuba women are now able to dine
alone in restaurants-a thing that was
never possible under the old regime
Alexander Jester, alleged to have killed
Gilbert Gates in Missouri, has been found
| after search of twenty eight years.
Baltimore has the largest negro popula-
ton of any city in ChIistendom. The
census is expected to show at least 49,
900.
The population of the South African
Republic consists of co., 600 Beers, 81, 600
other whites, called Outlanders, and 600,-
600 kaffirs and Zulus.
President Mckinley, at the last White
House reception, broke the hand shaking
record by greeting /. S16 persons in an hour
and forty five minutes.
Grasshoppers have become a great
( plague in Spain, invading even the cities
In Asturia 1000 soldiers were ordered to
assist in destroying them.
Louis Miller of Black Rock, Ark {,
thinks he has discovered in that place
William B. Tascott, who murdered Amos
j. Smell in Chicago in 1883.
Probably the richest person in Cuba is a
woman, Sonora Rose Abien. She owns
| millions and vast estates, but is democratic
in taste, and favo1s the United States.
The area of the Pretoria diamond fields
continues to be increased by discoveries
in almost every direction, and the yield
| from the extensive wash is reported as
highly satisfactory.
Copies of Filipino papers received with
| in the American lines at Manila show that
the insurgents hopes of success are kept
alive only by the agitation in their be-
half in the United States.
Gen. Phil Sher6an's widow still lives in
the house in Washington which was pre-
sented to the General by his friends when
he took command of the army. 1t cost
S45, 900 and has t1ebled in value.
An order has been received at the Chat
ham dock yard for the English feet to
mobilize July %. 1t is believed this step
is taken preparatory to the annual navy
maneuvers. Ten battle-ships and thirty
two cruisers will take part in the opera
lions.
Barcelona is to have a national exhibit
tion of coal and its products. 1t appears
that Spain imported last year 1,036, DOC
tons of coal, although the native product
amounted to 3, 800, 900 tons. 1t is believed
that in a few years there will be no more
importations.
An amendment will be introduced at the
G. A. r. national encampment to change
the name of the organization to "The
Grand Army and Navy of the Republic, -
and to admit all soldiers and sailors who
ever fought for the Union, all who are
fighting for it now, and all who may here
after fight for the flag and the principles
which it represents.
Examination of quantity of jewelry
taken from Mrs. Phyllis E. Dodge OF
New York, a passenger on the steamer
ST. Paul, shows that it is worth 100, 600
the value of a single necklace being $780,.
600. The duty on the jewelry seized woulc
have been $40, GOO. The contents of Mrs.
Dodge's trunk alone are worth $40, 1000
This seizure of jewelly is the largest evel
made at this port.