The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-09-07
NEWS NOTES.

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to Europe since the LIST of May.
The Society of the Army of the Potomac
will meet in Pittshurg on October II and
-.
Paul Jones' original flag of freedom may
be carried in the Dewey parade at Wash
ington.
1t is estimated that 2, 900, 900 bushels of
wheat were destroyed by hail in North
Dakota
Hudson City, Ala, the population of
which is exclusively colored, has been in
corporated.
Brazilian newspapers deny projected
South American alliance against the
United States.
Federal Judge Call, at Jacksonville. has
declared Florida's anti cigarette law I'M
constitutional.
Alfred Behrend, an American explorer,
has been created Knight of the French
! Legion of Honor.
The bodies of two dead men were dis
covered on hillside in the northern part
OF Hot Springs, Ark.
The Mississippi Populists Endorsed the
candidacy of Wharton Barker of Phila-
delphia for President.
Bella M. Hughes of Atchison, KAN, re-
Gently celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
of her second marriage.
In Prussia Alb school children under Is
years of age have committed suicide with
| in the space of ten years.
| I l.. Il.
| transports to aid in carrying the new
troops to the Philippines
The extreme lowness of the Nile threat
ems the cotton crops, and the natives have
| been warned to SOW early.
A convention will be held at Peoria in
October to agitate for a deep waterway
from the lakes to the Gulf.
Oklahoma has the youngest Adiutant
| General in this country. He is Bert C.
| Orner, and is but "a years Old
A junta has been formed in New York
| City to look after the interests of the
| Santo Dominican revolutionsts.
Two divinity students are working their
way through Yale by doing job printing.
| The name Of the firm is Clark q Watkins.
Consul Johnston reports from Hondu-
ras that the planters have thwarted the
efforts of banana trust to lower the price
of that fruit.
Recent official surveys along the south
ern coast of Porto Rico show that the
/ coast line is much more in error than had
| been supposed.
The auxiliary cruiser Panther has been
transferred to the War Department for
use in the trans portation to Porto Rico of
relief supplies.
The Greek Government has been grant
| ed the courtesy of having an ensign of the
Greek navy assigned to duty on the North
Atlantic squadron.
| On an eight mile road now being built
in Missouri, to connect with the Missouri
Kansas and Texas, twenty four bridges
are to be constructed
| The experiment of enlisting natives of
t. the West Indies into the American army
| has proved quite successful in the case of
the Porto Rican battalion.
The Comptroller of the Treasury. in al
lowing claim for disability pay to a
Gayhead surfman, says no person has
pOSilihC hiON VI LIS wv Ii tSGs
Assistant Secretary Vanderlip has given
81, 200 position in the Treasury Depart
ment to Miss Portia Sprague, daughter
Of the late Mrs. Kate Chase-Sprague.
A movement is to be made to secure
better transportation facilities between
this country and South America in order
| to increase trade between the two coun-
tries.
James Brown, a ship cook in the navy,
has applied to the New y rk subtreasury
for the redemption of 1,500 which he
had carried in his belt and was reduced
to pulp
The War Department orders that each
regiment of artillery will hereafter consist
of twelve batteries of heavy of l13 men
each and two batteries of field of 1872 men
each.
Orders have been issued to Capt. Rob-
ley D. Evans to confer with the Dewey
| reception committee and with Rear Ad-
miral Sampson as to the navy's part in
meeting Admiral Dewey
In spite of the Dreyfus affair and the
strong Anti Semitic agitation in France,
the French army has about 300 Jewish
officers among them Brigadier Generals
and even Generals of divisions
The program for the convention of
agricultural commissioners at New Or
leans has met with hearty approval from
all the commissioners in the Southern
States who have been heard from.
Gen. Weyler's political opponents are
making it hot for him in Spain. The
Spanish newspapers take delight in mis-
quoting him on important subjects, and
the Minister of War, Gen. Polavieja,
employs detectives to watch him CON
stantly.
The British Government keeps eleven
vessels at work sounding and charting the
ocean beds to find out where danger turks.
Last year 000O square miles were care
| fully chartered in different parts of the
world-Asia, Africa and the South Pacific.
| Complaints were made in Seattle, Wash,
recently, that the fire alarm system of that
city was working very badly. Investiga-
ton of the boxes showed that ''Yellow
Jackets had clogged many of them by de-
posts of clay which had hardened The
wasps had crawled through the key holes
and built their fire proof houses.