Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-17
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.

The New York Arion Club has reach
ed San Francisco.
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, has
reached Banff, n, w. Il.
The training ship Annapolis has
dropped anchor in Greenport U. IL
harhor
1t is reported that $3,OOO,OO0 in Klon-
dixie gold is yet to come from st.
Michaels
The Chicago trust conference has
planned special session to discuss re-
lation of tariff to trusts.
Details of the wrecking of many
steamers in the recent Australian
storms reached Vancouver.
Doubt is cast at Seattle on the re-
port of the bankruptcy of Alexander
Mcdonald, the Klondike gold miner.
The Cleveland car blown up by strike
sympathizers carried twenty-five pas
sengers. none of whom was injured.
An enormous cargo of American loco
motives and bridges left Philadelphia
for Nladvostock. to be used on Chinese
railways.
Gen. McArthur's troops had TO march
ten miles through mud and water to
take Santa Rita. whose capture has
been reported.
The deaths of Private John G. o.
Yancy and Corporal Andrew Petersen,
of the Eleventh Infantry. has been re-
ported from San Juan
The anti-Bryan Democratic confer
ence in Saratoga was regarded in
Washington as Il move of more signi-
ticance than hitherto considered
James Bloodgood and Grace Cooper.
of Annapolis. Neb.. each fifteen years
old. killed themselves with Il pistol
because their parents forbade their
wedding.
An automobile gun carriage is report
ed under construction at Peoria Ill.
A list of .Japans open ports under
the new treaty was given in Washing
ton.
Hailstones destroyed nearly 1000. 900
bushels of growing wheat in North Da-
kota.
The Canal Advisory Commission has
appointed George w. T.. Rafter. of
Rochester. consulting engineer
The Beers threaten TO blow up mines
and wreck Johannesburg if Great Brit
i'll forces war in South Africa.
Robert l.. Walker. of Poland. Ohio.
with whom President Mckinley was
once connected in business. filed Il pc
tition in bankruptcy,
\ tornado swept through northeast
eln Nebraska doing great damage to
the corn crops and wrecking many
houses and barns. No lives were lost.
\ Cleveland non-unon motorman
shot and wounded Il teamster who. lie
said, had called him "scab.' After be
shot. the teamSter threw Il hatchet ut
the motornan. cutting him.
Nathan kronman, accused of muir
dering his wife in New York. has been
admitted 10 bail in the sum of $4,000.
The Coroner says there is no evidence
pointing tn the prisoners guilt.
The Pope has been much weakened
by recent hot days.
The cruiser Chicago sailed from Cape
Town for st. Helena.
There is a great exodus of Vitland-
ers from the Transvaal
The Liverpool regiment has sailed
from Cape Town To Natal.
The United States is to have an ex-
elusive settlement at HankOw.
A tidal wave has done $1,OO0.000
damage in the harbor of Valparaiso.
The Rev Horace Porter, of Brook
lyn, left Havana to inspect the Cuban
relief farms.
a barn on the farm of Jacob w.
Lorrilard near Mount Holly. y. j.. was
burned. Loss, $1,000.
Gen. MacAathur's losses in Wednes,
days fighting We're five killed and
twenty-five wounded.
While driving across railway tracks
at Toledo. O., Ira j. Palmer was in
stantly killed and his wife fatally in
jured.
The New York State authorities have
formally accepted the Indian Lake
reservoir, and it is now Il part of the
canal system.
Secretary Root gave audience in
Washington to Senator Platt. Arch
bishop Chappelic Senor Quesada. Gen.
Miles, Gen. Corbin. and others.
Mexican State troops defeated
body of warning Yaqui Indians. kill
ing several. The outbreak was regard
ed as having no political significance.
George w. Blazer. superintendent
of the Elizabeth (Col) public schools,
was shot dead in the street. supposedly
by w. l.. Holland, editor Of the Eye,
who has disappeared
Gen. Otis reported the capture of
letters from a high Filipino authority
exhorting the natives to hold out