Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-30
THE NEWS In BRIEF
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Parti
of the World

The Kentucky Court Of Appeals &C.
cided in favor of the Republicans in the
contest over the vote of Nelson County.
Henry H. Hall, Assistant United
States Treasurer under President Lin
coin, is dead at Santa Barbara, Cal.
Congressman II. Esch declared the
whole Wisconsin delegation would op-
pose the seating of Roberts in the
House.
William j. Youngs, secretary to Gov.
ernor Roosevelt. denied he was a can
didate for State Superintendent of In
surance.
The United States Circuit Court has
awarded the Pennsylvania Railroa
Company $4,000 damages on account CT
the Chicago riot of 1894.
The operators having agreed to send
no more coal to the southwest where
miners are on strike, there will be no
nabor trouble in Southern Illinois.
The latest dispatch from Mooi River,
Natal. says that a Reconnaissance in
force in the direction of Highlands Sta
tion discovered a big force of Beers.
with guns. The British artillery and
infantry We're compelled to fall back.
Buencamino, former member of the
so-called Cabinet of Aguinaldo, has
been locked up at Manila. He had
sought refuge in a village near San
Fabian, with Aguinaldos mother ana
son. The natives disclosed his identity
to Major Cronin, who captured him.
President Nc Kinlye and hundreds os
the foremost men of the Nation, at
procilant o,,t' 'c.
at Paterson, N. ]. The city was garh-
cd in mourning and the streets We're
thronged with people who had turne
out to pay tribute to the Vice-Pres;-
dent.
Gen. Wingate, commanding the An
glo-Egyptian forces, attacked and COM
pletely routed the dervishes southeast
of Godid, in the Soudan. The Khalifa
himself was killed and all the principal
Enirs We're slain or made prisoners.
Thousands of the dervishes surrender
ca.
Wives and women relatives of strik-
ing miners rioted at Nanticoke, Pa,
Friday
Mrs. Sarah NJ. Todd, leper about
whom there has been much interna-
tional discussion, probably will remain
in the San Francisco pest house.
Daniel Callahan a prisoner at the po-
lice station, Salem, Mass, committed
suicide in his cell by hanging himself
with large handkerchief.
The city of Tucson, Ariz., has accept
ed Andrew Carnegies offer of money
for library building on condition a
site and maintenance is provided.
The dead body of Silas White, who
murdered his sweetheart. Rhoda jack
son, near Aiken, Md, Thursday night
has been found in a clump of Eu hes
near the scene of the murder
General Otis reports in an official
dispatch that the Filipino government
in Luzon could no longer claim to ex-
ist. Its troops and officials are scat
tered and Aguinaldo is in hiding.
The hearing of Robert j. Knox. the
alleged swindler, arrested in New York
city, which was set for Friday in Pitts
burg. has been postponed until the ar
rival of Knox's attorney from New
York.
Ellery P. Ingham, former United
States District Attorney. and Harvey
*. hewitt, his law partner, have beoN
sentenced at Philadelphia to two years
and six months imprisonment for con-
spiracy.
Congressman elect Roberts, of Utah,
in an interview at Washington declared
his belief that the House would sustain
his right to a seat. He says that the
compact of 1890 did not require him to
give up the wives he had taken before
that compact was made.
Bautista, President of the Tagal Con-
gress in the Philippines, presented him.
self to General Macarthur and formal
ly renounced all connection with the
insurrection. He said the Tagal Con-
gress and Cabinet were scattered, never
to reassembe. He believed the Tagal
soldiers would lay down their arms
a. soon as they learned the truth.
News received from Natal in South
Africa is decidedly meagre and un-
satisfactory. There is q renewal at
Cape Town of the report that the Beers
at I.adysmith had fallen into trap set
by General White, but they are not
generally credited. A native runner
arriving at Mooi River said the be-
siegers at Ladysmith had been repulsed
with loss in an attempt to carry the
place by assault. The Governor of Ma
tai reported the repulse of small force
of Beers at Tugela Drift
1t Is feared that the Sac and Foxes
will rise. Five hundred of them are
threatening a massacre in Tama Coun-
ty, Neb.
Adolph Schaefer, a New York elevat-
ed railway oiler, while crossing the
track at Rector street, was run down
and probably fatally hurt.
Alonzo j. Whiteman, who is want
ed in Chicago on charge OF having
swindled the Grand Pacific Hotel out Of
$3.50, will not fight his eXtradition.
John II. Peyton has resigned as army
secretary of the Brotherhood of st.