The Republican journal., 1899-06-29
NEW S NOTES.

Henry J. Agnew, the well known horse
breeder of California, is dead of heart dis
ease.
Henry Walters of Baltimore has given
$45, 900 to that city to provide two public
bath houses.
A cave has been discovered ten miles
from Wellington, New Zealand, larger
than Kentucky's Mammoth cave.
The War Department new immigra
ton rules for Cuba do not exclude labor
ers from Canada and Mexico.
Gov Pingree denies the report that he
contemplated retiring from politics. He
says he will "be around for some time
One of the sights at Freeport, Me-, on
a recent afternoon was grand daughter
of IA years teaching her grandmother how
to ride bike.
An Ohio man has sued for divorce from
his wife on the ground that she 'bossed''
him and forced him to do the family wash
ing and cooking.
In 1850 our production of cheese was
105, 500, 900 pounds. In 1890 it was 256,
$50, 600. AT present it is estimated to be
about $50, 600, 600 pounds.
Hong Sing, the first Chinaman to take
advantage of the bankruptcy acr fled his
petition at Chicago and scheduled debts
amounting to SPA, COO, with So, 800 assets.
The New York silver men will send a
delegation to the Democratic National
Committee meeting, in Chicago, on July
20, to insist that none but Chicago plat
form delegates be seated.
June bugs are thick in parts of Ger
many this year. At Brody school children
lately gathered % 1-2 hundredweght from
a sixteen acre field. Some one has figured
out that this means l ,270, 600 June bugs.
The watch which Robert E. Lee carried
through the war is in the possession of
the Rev T. X Fount LIE Roy of Opelou-
sas, La. It has a gold dial plate, which
is handsomely chased, and has in its center
a fine diamond.
An old deed unearthed at the Rock
Island offices in Topeka discloses the fact
that at one time the Kansas River was
known as the Camp River, and the
bluffs at Kansas City as the "Foothills of
the Rocky mountains of Missouri
There is a town without name on Lake
wv
ing the summer the dwellings are hidden
away in the brush, tenantless, but when
winter comes their owners appear, move
| them out on the ice, cut a hole through
the floor and the ice and proceed to fish.
1t has been found impossible to dslodge
| the American steamer Paris from the
Manacle rocks on the coast of England
where she was recently stranded. Her
practical value aHoat to her owners was
So, 900, 000 The insurance ON vessel and
cargo aggregates 81, 242, 900.
There will be elections on November I
in eleven States, six of which, Maryland,
Ohio, Iowa, Massachusetts, Kentucky and
| Mississippi, will choose Governors and
other State officers. Pennsylvania will
elect State treasurer, Superior Court
judge and two Supreme Court justices.
A wealthy but absent minded resident
of Mcpherson, Kap., recently bought a
safe in which to keep his valuabes and,
being unable to remember the combna-
ton, scrubbed it on the plastering of a
near by wall. Subsequently he ordered a
calciminer to put new coat on the wall.
| The memorandum was obliterated and it
became necessary to have the safe blown
open.
In criminal prosecution recently tried
at York, Neb., the jury, after brief DELHI
Grafton, returned the following verdict
1--WE, the jury in the above named case,
do not believe one word that the witnesses
have sworn to; neither do we believe that
any of the attorneys have spoken the
truth, nor that either of them could do so,
even if they should care to take the trouble
| to try'