The Republican journal., 1899-11-09
NEWS NOTES.

John P. Altgeld has offered to stump
the State of Nebraska for Bryan.
The Alaskan Territorial Convention
will not favor territorial form of govern
ment.
Hon. W. j. Bryan's speech at Findlay,
O., was interrupted by misses from the
audience.
Ruis Rivera, civil governor of Havana,
says the Cubans will fight unless they get
independence
Mrs. Todd, the leper, whom it was
sought to send to Hawaii, will remain in
San Francisco.
The Geological Survey parties in Alas
ka are pushing we'll into the country,
with some results.
A fund has been started among the
American women in London to equip
hospital ship for Sonth Africa.
Work is expected soon to begin on the
Pan American Railroad, running from the
City of Mexico to points in Texas.
The census office is sending a large
number of letters and circulars intended
census of dairy products.
There is so much grain at Fort William,
Canada, that the government has suspend
ed the law prohibiting American vessels
trading between two Dominion ports.
The heaviest snow storm in October for
twenty years fell in Montana last week.
The general depth on the level was 3 feet.
Fully twenty people have lost their lives
The preparations of an immense force
for sea has given rise to a rumor that
Great Britain is in fear of some foreign
powers movements inimcal to her inter
ests.
Mount Kenia, in British East Africa, has
at last been climbed. Mr.. Mackinder of
Oxford University, is the first man to
reach the top, which is Is, 600 feet above
sea level.
Seven out of ten Spaniards who served
in Filipino artillery command have been
killed by the Filipinos because of the dis
covery of a plot to surrender the artillery
10 Gen. Otis. The three surviving Span
iards are now in hiding III Manila.
A French officer, Capt. Gerard, has in
vented an army bicycle which promises to
do good service. 1t folds. At the word
of command the soldier riding the bicycle
dismounts, folds the machine in two
whips out the handle bars, attaches two
broad straps, sings it over his back and
walks Off with no more inconvience than
If he is carrying his pack.
Stories of wonderful corn crops are
told in all the Western States. Stalks
from II to Is feet high are common, but
in Kay County, Okla, one stalk has been
found that measures over 20 feet, beating
the record made by a Texas stalk in 1898,
which measured 10 feet and inches.
This stalk has been sent to Washington
to compete for a place at the Paris Ex-
position.
The next great celebration in New York
is likely to be held in September, 1909,
and it will be the 300th anniversary of the
discovery of the Island of Manhattan by
Henry Hudson. The 200th anniversary,
in September, 1909, was modestly cele-
brated by a dinner, held under the auspices
of the New York Historical Society
There is already talk that the anniversary
may be celebrated by worlds fair.
A Brooklyn physician recently perform
ed remarkable operation. A little girl
swallowed a screw l IL inches long. A
surgical operation would have endangered
the child's life. The doctor took some
fine strands of raw silk and mixed them
with some bread, which the girl was in
duced to swallow. He waited eight min
utes for them to revolve in the stomach.
Then he pulled on the threads, and the
screw came out, having been enmeshed
in the silk.