Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-14

Sh0re.
Admiral Kautz has transferred his
flag from the battleship Iowa to the
cruiser Philadelphia at San Francisco
Venezuelan Government troops have
moved against Maracaibo, where it
was said the insurgents would sur
render.
The Kentucky Election Board is said
to stand two to one in favor of seat
ing Gen. Taylor. the Republican cam
didate for Governor
Clyde Mattox, the slayer of five men.
has been convicted at Newkirk, l. T..
of manslaughter and sentenced to the
penitentiary for twelve years.
Lieut.. Ledyard. the American officer
killed in the uprising in Negros, in the
Philippines, was son of the president
of the Michigan Central Railroad.
Work has been resumed in the Dia-
mondville coal mines in Wyoming, with
a force of 175 non-union miners. The
union miners feel their defeat keenly
Miss Mary Halliday, of New York,
will have $4,000 drinking fountain
erected in Cairo, ILL.,, in memory of her
father. Captain William p. Halliday.
Gen. Young routed the Filipinos un-
der Gen. Tino after a five hours fight
in the mountain pass between Narva-
can and San Quinto in the Philippines.
The Mormon leaders are said to have
decided to order Roberts to give up the
fight for his seat in Congress, fearing
the effect on the church of a full in
vestgation.
James F. Keeley. who gave his name
as James Johnson. has been arrested
in Milwaukee on suspicion of being inn
plicated in the shooting of the Cheneys
at Racine.
President John McNaill of the Anal
Samated Federation of Boilermakers.
says that the strike of boilermakers
in the Union Pacific shops is ended and
that work will be resumed at once.
John Curtis, son of Robert Curtis. a
rich white man. who married into the
CadoS Indian tribe, killed Pete Thomp-
son and fatally wounded Henry Smith
at Reno, l. T.. Friday.
Relatives of Frank Langin of Ken
osha, Wis. who had been searching for
nm Tor years. have learned that he
was sentenced TO life Imprisonment un-
der the name of James Lonegran.
The Stuck River Valley, in Washing
ten state, is reported one vast sheet
of water.
Secretary Gage will ask Congress to
authorize the building of an additional
golc vault in New York City.
The natural gas interests of twenty
Indiana and Ohio towns have been con-
solidated, with capital of $S,OO0,O00,
Owing to scarcity of white paper in
Canada, 700 mill owners and large di-
rectors in the trade are withdrawing
their price lists.
The internal revenue collectors have
organized movement to advocate a
new and separate Cabinet office for
their department.
The Northwestern Life Association Of
Chicago has decided TO transfer it's
business to the Northwestern Life AS
surance Company.
The hosiery mill of the Nolde & Hoist
company of Reading, Pa, was Destroy
ed by fire Thursday entailing a loss Of
$250,o00. Miss Louise Clay, an en-
ploye of the mill was burned to death
and about sixty others We're more or
less seriously injured. There was an
insurance of $150,000 on the mill
AT Maysville, KY, mob of fully 1000
people took Dick Coleman, the colored
murderer of Mrs. James Lashbrook
from the officers and burned him at the
stake. The negro was frightfully tor
tured by the mob before the match
was applied by the husband of the
murdered woman.