The Republican journal., 1899-07-06
NEWS NOTES.

Paper is now being made in Holland
from potato stems and leaves.
Colorado will send a gold miniature OF
Pixies Peak to the Paris Exposition.
Princess Chimay, accompanied by the
gypsy, Rigo, has left Egypt for China.
Congressman Cannon of Illinois does
not expect an extra session of Congress.
The smelters' strike in Colorado is be-
! Eeved to be in fair way of settlement.
The cruiser Boston has arrived at Ma
gasaki, Japan, on her way to San Fran
cisco.
New Zealand farmers now send frozen
cream to London, where it is churned for
butter.
archaeological antidote for snake bite
has been discovered by DR.. Mcfarland of
Philadelphia.
While cursing his daughter for marry
ing against his wishes, Texas man was
stricken with death.
Crazed by Christian Science, three mem
oers of one family are confined in an in
sane asylum at Elgin, Ill.
: Belgian capitalists have formed com
pany with S600,00 capital to invest in
property in the Philippines.
In some parts of Russia the only food
for the people consists at present OF acorns,
leaves and the soft bark Of trees.
Town boomers of Mountain View, Okla.
stole post office building from OakGale
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1t is estimated that the repairs to the
Brooklyn, which struck sunken wreck in
New FORK harbor, will cost 1000.
Seventeen Governors Of States have ac-
copied invitations to attend the anti trust
convention at st. Louis in September.
It is announced that the reports of the
killing of missionaries in the Chinese
riots in the Province of Ngan- II wei are in
correct.
Gen Joubert, of the Boer army, is said
to have made campaign plans for the tax
ing OF Cape Town in the event of war with
England.
The Ohio Society of California has sent
to President Mckinley an invitation en-
crossed on gold plate for him to visit San
Francisco
The Dominion Government has disallow-
ed the act passed by the British Victoria
legislature restricting the immigration
of Japanese.
The Ohio antitrust law is to be tested
in the federal courts by brewing com
pany, against which the Attorney General
has proceeded.
For denying the inspiration of the Bible,
Prof. Morgan of Drake University. Des
Moines, Ia, has been removed from office
by the trustees.
Through the two United States Sena-
tors, Southern California has offered the
Government a we'll organized regiment tc
go to the Philippines.
Admiral Dewey has written an acknowl-
edgment of his election as life member
of the Society of the Sons of the Revolu-
| ton at New ork
A Missouri man has gone into the bust
ness OF raising tame quail. The birds, ht
claims, ale more easily raised than chick
ems and far more profitable.
The people of Cobar mining district
tress through the failure of artesian wells
and many have died of thirst
Since the great fire at Dawson. in the
klondike, every unemployed man in the
vicinity has been given employment in re-
building residences and stores.
Joe Juneau, founder of Juneau, Alaska.
died very suddenly at Dawson May IS, OF
pneumonia. He made four great fortunes
in Alaska mines and squandered all.
Three New England men were lost on
the Dalton trail in the Klondike, and re-
duced by starvation two ate portions of
the body of the other. who was the first
to succumb.
Germs of tuberculosis were found in
every COW OF herd of ninety two that
were received at the Chicago stock wards.
Many of the infected COWS were from
State institutions.
The federal recruiting officers at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, have received orders from
the War Department to enlist negroes fol
service in the Philippines. The recruits
| will be sent to San Francisco.
Should the dissolution of the Standard
Oil Company take place, which now seems
probable, the business would be divided
among large number of independent
concerns and healthy competition woulc
ensue.
On account of the filth which is severed
into Lake Michigan by Chicago and other
cities the Indiana State Board of Health
has declared that the water of the lake is
unfit for domestic use and should be fill.
tered.
The Countess de Ibams and her daughte,
Rosa, recently from Havana, Cuba, were
robbed in broad daylight on public street
in New York last Thursday The thief
was subsequently captured and the stolen
valuables recovered.
1t is stated at the Navy Department that
every man attached to the Olympia, Bos-
ton, Baltimore, Concord, Raleigh, Petrol
and McCulloch during the battle in Ma
nilla harbor, regardless of rank or station
will receive a medal of honor.
Painted coffee beans are among the
latest curiosities of the adulterated food
market. Inferior beans are colored with
burnt lumber and made to look like the
finest Mocha. They are described as
''shiny- brown outside, yellow inside and
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Spain wishes to sell the Canary Islands
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