The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-06-15
NEWS NOTES.

The United States Treasury surplus for
May was over 81, 900, 600.
Cuban radish grown this year pear
MANAGES weighed pounds.
Dewey's flag was the first of full Ad-
miral to be flung to the breeze in Asiatic
waters.
The new Spanish Minister has arrived
in Washington and assumed the duties of
his office.
There are tifgy-four ports in the island
of Cuba, but only fifteen are open to the
world 5 commerce.
The subcommittee of the worlds peace
conference at The Hague has adopted the
American mediation plan.
Last year the people of the United
States used about 1000, 900 pounds of
tea which cost SO, 600, 900.
The War Department is having Difficult.
| ty iii providing men to care for the in
creased number of coast defense guns.
In some parts of Russia the only food
for the people consists at present of
acorns, leaves, and the soft bark of trees
HhPfH has CONSIDERABLY more IMAM udlt
as many Inhabitants as the United States,
though our country is twenty two times
its area
There have been placed in the Susque-
hanna River at Columbia 5000, 600 shad
fry, obtained from the fish plant at Per-
rysville, Md.
Gen. Otis has cabled the President that
he is still of the opinion that 30, 900 troops
will be sufficient for the effective control
OF the Philippines.
During the last twenty years the Amer
lean Bible Society has put into circulation
in Mexico 500, $40 Bibles, Testaments and
portions of the Bible.
One Of the largest steel works in the
world is being built at Ensey, Ala. Part
OF the equipment will consist of ten fifty
ton basic open hearth furnaces.
Capt. Bob Evans could not with
stand the choppy seas of Lake Erie, and
succumbed to seasickness while fishing
with ex-P President Cleveland.
The Post Office Department has issued
instructions directing that hereafter ne VS.
papers shall be treated as letters in max
ing up the mail for Porto Rico.
The widow of ex-senator Stanford of
California has decided stocks and real es
tate valued at $4,000, 600 to the Califor-
MIA university which bears his name.
In the coal mines of Illinois, during the
year ended June 30, 1898, seventy five
men were accidently killed, leaving forty
hive widows and 112 fatheEiess children.
Tho Massachusetts,
Health has issued a circular, urging gen
eral vaccination throughout the State to
prevent the threatened epidemic of small
pox.
1t is said that the new city of New Ro-
chelle is the richest of its size in the
United States, having population of 49,
Oou and an assessed valuation OF S13, OOO,-
oO0, an average of 81 200 per capita.
1t has been determined that light is an
important factor in sugar production, re-
cent Investigations showing that the sugar
contents of the plant is dependent on the
amount of direct sunlight received.
The Ministerial Association at Fort
Wayne, Ind. has issued a proclamation
signed by all the Protestant ministers of
the city, calling attention to the loose di-
vorce laws of the State and publicly agree
ing to marry no person who has been di-
vorced unless the cause was untaithfu-
ness or willful deserton, and then only
the innocent party.
European engineers visiting our West
ern machine shops, electrical plants and
lake shipyards express surprise and adj
mir ton at the artistic construction and
the mechanical completeness of these
structures. A 100000 shipyard at
Lora, o., is splenddly equipped with
travelling cantilever cranes and the finest
tools and machinery. The machine shops
are built almost entirely of glass. SO are
the shops of the Chicago Shipbuilding
/ Company.