The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-08-24
NEWS NOTES.

Gen. MERCER asserts that he will yet
prove Dreyfus guilty of treason.
Pennsylvania will yield about As per
cent. of full crop of apples this seas on.
The scientists at work in the fossil
fields of Colorado have met with great
| success.
One Havana paper thinks the best solu-
| ton of the Cuban problem is an American
| protectorate.
The War Department has 1t it's DISPOSE
ton army transports with capacity of
over II, 900 men.
The agricultural interests of France are
waging war on the reciprocity treaty with
the United States.
1t is said that thousands Of Texas goats
have been slaughtered and sold in Kapsas
City, Mo-, for mutton.
Gen. Collazo sarcastically refers to Gen.
Gomezs lamentations over the gratuity as
the shedding of crocodile tears
Caught in balloon rope, Swear old
Lester Miller was hoisted 800 feet at Ere
mont, O., but was lowered in safety.
Former Gov. Stone of Missouri will.
it is believed, be the real power in the
next Democratic National campaign.
Superstitious people of Elizabeth, N.
j., thought the end of the world had
come when tornado struck the town.
The new survey of the boundary line on
Mount ST. Elias gives the United States
about thirty square miles of territory
Sick and impoverished miners from the
Copper River region are being given en-
ployment by the government at Juneau.
Smallpox has been stamped out in Phil
adelphia, and steps have been taken to
prevent the temperance of the disease.
x-Gov. Altgeld of Illinois said he
would advise the omission Of an explicit
IL to plank in the Democratic platform.
In consequence of the advance in the
price of wool and rise of wages CARPET
quotations will be increased from 10 to 20
per cent.
The poor-houses in forty five Kansas
counties are empty and in thirty seven
counties there is not case on the crimi-
nal docket.
The friends of the late Roswell P. Flow
er have started subscription to build a
monument to his memory in his old home,
Watertown, n. Y.
Ex- Congressman Cultivate of Ohio
says: "If the Ohio Democrats reaffirm the
Chicago platform the Republicans will
carry the State
1t was said in London that Filipinos
were negotiating for the lease of an island
near Borneo as possible refuge for Agui-
naldo and his friends.
| The hostile Yaquis of Mexico are said
! to be more than match for the native
troops, and the indications are that the
war will be protracted one.
| Lightning struck knife in the b and of
F, Mrs. Weaver on farm in Springfield
Township Bucks County, Pa and hurled
the blade a dozen feet away. The woman
was slightly stunned, but unhurt, while
| the knife was found to be black, as though
burned in fire
One of Funston's men writes that in
the latest engagemeu t near San Fernando
the General went into battle at the head
of his brigade, composed of the Kansas
Montana and Utah troops. When the fight
started, however, Gen, Funston forgot
that he was in command of brigade and.
leaving his staff, orderly, horse and all,
he joined the Kansas boys on foot and
personally gave them orders as he led
/ them 10 the charge.
The house in Washington in which Presi-
dent Lincoln died is being renovated to
preserve it from decay, Congress at its
late session having appropriated 81, 900 for
that purpose. The building will not be
altered, but only such repairs made as
may be necessary to protect it against the
elements. The room in which Lincoln
died will not De touched. This modest
little house is yearly visited by thousands
of tourists from all over the country.