Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Par'
of the World.

SdS elty was serious.
A project has been started for /,
canal connecting the Red River Valley
with Lake Superior
Chicago commission men say that the
warm weather in october has spoiled
million dollars worth of app,es.
The cruiser Brooklyn, which is lead
ing in the race of war ships for Ma
Mia, has arrived at Alden, Arabia
Thomas d. Frazier, president of the
Empire City Trotting Association, is
dead of consumption at Versailles, Ky.
Gov. Roosevelt of New York will
have 81 vacancies to fill in various
State institutions and offices next
year.
Senator John NJ. Thurston, of Ne
braska and Miss Zola Purman were
married at the brides home in WASH
ington.
-Four additional Deputy Attorney
Generals have been sworn in at Al
bany to take charge of election cases
in New York City.
The Tugela Bridge, near Colenso. IN
South Africa is reported destroyed, by
the Beers according to advices fr IN
Lourenzo Marques.
Sir Weetman Pearson, an English
contractor, has agreed to rebuild the
Tehuantepec Railroad across the 18TH
mus and operate it for fifty years.
A motion for a new trial for Ingham
and hewitt, found guilty in connection
with the Jacobs Kendig counterfeit
cases, has been denied in Philadelphia.
Gen. Otis reports that the Filipinos
are scattering. and that the indica-
tions are that their retreat to their
mountain capital has been cut off.
The Naval Board of Construction has
decided to recommend the building of
eighteen new warships: Three armor-
ed cruisers, three projected cruisers
and twelve gunboats.
Former Congressman Bynum, of In
diana, has been appointed to succeed
Joseph Il. Wilkinson, Jr., resigned, as
a member of the Board of General APP
praisers in New York city
The United States gunboat Dolphin
is at La Guayra, Venezuela.
w. ]. Bryan has decided to make "a
tour of New England this winter.
jeremiah Healey is under arrest on
charge of causing the death of his
wife at their home at No. 1O2 Otis
street, Boston.
The San Francisco Chamber of Com
merce has petitioned Secretary Hay to
make no concessions to Canada In the
Alaskan boundary dispute.
Howell L. Delrich, who disappeared
from his home near Franklin, Pa, ten
years ago, has returned a rich man.
He made money on western real
estate.
The schooner Rather is now thirty
eight days out from Kodiak, Alaska,
and it is feared that she has gone
down in one of the many storms that
have recently swept the coast.
Jesse Moore, a Methodist preacher,
has been assassinated at his home, six
miles from Dexter, Mo. Elijah II. e.
Moore, a son of the murdered man,
has been arrested on suspicion.
The fruit steamer Admiral Schley is
| broken down and adrift off Jamaica.
DR.. Henry A. Buchtel, of East
| Orange, n. j., has been elected Chan
| cellor of the University of Denver.
While digging in the mines of the
| Bellefonte Furnace Company of Scotia
| at Bellefonte, Pa, the miners unearth-
| ed lump of ore weighing sixty tons.
| Biologists say that it must have been
| meteor.
The body of the Rev. Vincent Zal-
enski, pastor of the Church of the
| Mother of God. Philadelphia, who
came to mysterious death in that
city week ago, has been taken to
| Chicago.
The United States inspectors of
| steam vessels at Seattle have render
ed decision in the matter of the coll
lision of the ferryboat City OF Seattle
and the government coast and geode-
tic survey steamship Patterson, holding
the former blameless.
Christmas diamonds will cost so per
cent more than last year.
Senator Hayward, of Nebraska, is
reported to be critically ILL.,
Vice-President Hobart's physician
believes that he will recover.
Governor-elect Crane, of Massachu.
sets, will make Major-General Samuel
Dalton Adjutant-General.
A majority of the delegates elected
at Thursday nights Democratic eau.
cuses in Boston favored Collins for
Mayor.
A bold but unsuccessful attempt
was made to rob the Lake Shore train
between Erie and Conneaut Thursday
morning.
The Harvard College bell, rung
regularly since 1886, is cracked and
will be replaced.
The Government will save over $2,.
100000 by relieving the money market
under the offer of Secretary Gage to
buy $25,000,000 of bonds.
Wayne MacVeagh, of counsel for
ex-Capt. Carter, made plea for elem.
ency to the President for him, but re.
ceived little encouragement.
Comptroller Dawes has made public
the results of his investigation into
the number of loans and deposit ac.
counts in the banks of the country.
The Naval Board of Inspectors and
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