Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-02


The National Steel Company in
corporated in New Jersey has in
creased its capital to $4,000 900, with
which to buy in several Ohio corpora
tiOnS.
Friends of the Nicaragua Canal may
force an extra session of Congress by
obstructing the passage of ,appropri-
alton bills in order to get the Canal bill
passed.
Tom Allen, once champion puglist,
shot and instantly killed Tim ConfOy,
4 stage hand in Il theatre, at St Louis.
Allen also shot his bartender through
The hand.
DR.. Lyman Abbott preached his
farewell sermon as pastor of Ply
mouth Church, Brooklyn, and said he
believed Christ to be very God Of
very God"
The Board of health reports that
there are more than $4,000 cases of
grip in the City of Mexico. The dis
aase is proving fatal TO many of the
poorer people.
Three attempts have been made at
Kewanee, ILL.,, in the past two weeks
to wreck No. 6, the Burlington roads
aast-bound overland flyer. Two boys
have been arrested.
Gen. Correa, Spain's Minister of
War. has cabled to Gen. Rios. who
commands the Spanish troops in the
Philippines. instructing him 70 ac,el-
crate the repatriation of those troops.
The Mexican Government has just
sent teachers to the YaQuai Indian
country. in the State of Sonora. where
they will open and conduct schools
for the instruction of Indian children.
The Minneapolis Tribune building
was destroyed by fire. There We're
about fifty people employed in the
building All escaped without injury.
rhe loss on the Tribune plant is $780,
200.
Ex-Commissary General Eagan told
The court of inquiry upon the beef ques-
ton that he never held any consulta-
tons with the commanders of theUni-
ted States troops sent TO Cuba and
Porto Rico.
An avalanche on the Lasal Noun
tains. near Park City. Utah, has un-
covered Il ten foot copper vein assay
ing % per cent. copper and containing
.ight-inch streak of glace assaying 20
per cent. metallic copper.
In his annual report to the Legisla-
ture. George w. Aldridge. former
Superintendent of Public Works of
New York. asks for Il suspension Of
Judgment on the canal scandal until
the Attorney General has acted.
Ii Hung Chang is returning to Pek
in from an Inspection of the Yellow
River flooded districts. He reports
that last years overflow was the
worst in recent years. Thousands of
natives are dying of starvation.
Robert breckenridge Halligan of
Chicago. has wired j. w. McGarvey,
Jr., of Lexington, Ky. stating that,
should his name be perpetuated by
Kentucky University. he will make the
institution an endowment of S5O0,00O.
The mana cement of the Swedish
state railways intends to buy twenty
locomotives in the United States be-
cause the European factories cannot
deliver engines with sufficient celebrity
TO meet the requirements of the lines.
The Dowager Empress of China is
greatly incensed at the action of the
Russians at Talieu- Wan, on the Lao
Tupr Peninsula, near Port Arthur, in
killing 800 Chinese during conflict
which originated over question OF
taxes.
The Ressemer Furnace Association
of Hlaron, Pa. of which all blast fur
naccs in Shenango and Mahoping Val
leys are members, has advanced wages
of all employees 10 per cent, TO begin
on March !. About 1000 men are at
fected.
AT Berlin. Ont. Judgment was given
in the case ofAdele vOnWebenau, who
is an Austrian countess, and Herman
Balderhauscn, her nephew, both
charged with conspiracy to defraud
the Merchants Fire Insurance Com
pany of Toronto. The accused we"e
sentenced to two months in jail.
The Secretary of State has transmit
ted to Congress n memorial from the
American Chamber of Commerce In
Paris, asking for a more liberal appro-
priation for the Paris Exposition Of
1900. The efforts of Commissioner
Peck to secure additional space are
highly commended.
The supply steamer Roanoke has
sailed for Manila from San Francisco.
Besides general cargo of supplies
for the troops in the Philippines the
Roanoke carried II recruits for the
Fourteenth Infantry, IL men for the
Twentieth Infantry and two men and
81 recruits for the Third Infantry.
Army officers who claim to have
knowledge of the subject say that the
Comptroller of the Treasury will de-
decline to authorize the payment to
Brig. Gen Charles +. Eagan, now un-
der suspension from rank and duty.
the salary Of COmmissary- General Of
Subsistence, amounting to $1,000 q
year.
The great sheets of ice that formed
In Chatham Bay. Mass. during the re-
cent cold snap not only DESTROYED vast
quantities of scallops but has almost
ruined this lucrative business for
wears to come, with the result that a
large number of fishermen dependent
upon the spring catch will be forced
IN cool, other amnlovmput