Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-07-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF. /.
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.

Mark Twain has gone to Sweden to
take the Swedish cure.
Lord Kitchener will inspect guns on
motor carriages offered to the British
army.
The commercial treaty between POr-
tugal and the United States has gone
into effect
Ex-President Cleveland is said to be
willing to accept a chair in Princeton
University.
Admiral Cervera's conduct ut Santi-
ago will not be maae the subject of
official inquiry.
Nicholas Pacala, arrested in New
York for murder in YOnkers July 3,
has been taken to that city.
The assassins of General Luna. the
Filipino leader, have been acquitted on
the ground of elf-defense.
The British Colonial Office has been
informed of a serious outbreak of the
bubonic plague at Mauritins.
Minnesota entomologists fear de-
structive invasion of grasshoppers
from their North Dakota hatcheries.
DR.. Alfons Mumm Won Schwarzen-
stein will act as German Ambassador
during DR.. Won Hollenben's summer
leave.
The body of Owen McCann. who was
drowned July 4, has been picked up at
the foot of Twenty-fourth street. South
Brooklyn. n. Y.
The arm of Eli Forbes. OF East
Brookfield. Mass. paralyZed for thir-
teen years. has been cured by Il stroke
of lightning.
The Berlin police have confiscated
three Zola novels
Ex-State Senator William c. DAILY,
of Chatham. n. Y. is dead.
Charles Frohman has paid $4,000
for the dramatic rights of HAL Gaines
unfiniSed novel
Superintendent Edwin Mills and two
miners We're killed in mine explosion
at Port Dram. \. j.
William Keaton, the wife murderer.
hanged himself with his suspenders in
Il Philadelphia prison.
Mrs. May Wright Sewall has been
elected president OF the Women's In
ternatiOnal Congress.
The steamer Robert Kerr has left
Dawson for st. Michaers. with $1,000
900 in gold dust on board.
Two trains passed over the body
of Mrs. Emma kepple on the Lacka-
wanna Railroad. near Oswego.
The body of Levcnt Hartwick. killed
by Il baseball blow July 4. has been
found near Sioux Falls, s. u.
\ passenger train on the Burlington
road was wrecked near WaldrOn. Mo-.
several persons being severely injured.
The report of deadlock in the ne
gotiations over the Alaskan boundary
was confirmed by the British Foreign
Office in London.
Mrs. Dickins. wife OF Capt. Dickins.
L. $. n. was burned to death in \
fire and explosion in her residence in
Washington.
Comptroller Morgan's charges re-
garding the management OF the State
reformaiories will probably be brought
to Gov. RoOsevelts official notice.
The Christian EndeavOr trustees at
Detroit discussed plan for charter
ing steamships to take the American
delegates to the London convention
in 1900. No definite conclusion in the
matter was reached.
Two more cases Of yellow fever have
been reported in Havana.
Secretary Ayers order for the en-
listing of ten regiments Of volunteers
to go to the Philippines has been made
public.
a conference of referees charged
with the administration of the bank
ruptcy act has been called to meet in
Chicago July %.
President Mckinley told delegation
of Southern Congressman that he in
tended to send Gen. Wheeler 10 the
Philippines at an early day.
Gen. Henderson who will be the next
Speaker. had Il conference with Presi-
dent Mckinley in Washington. The
latter told the General there was no
likelihood of an extra session.
The acting Comptroller Of the Treas
ury has decided that Rear-Admiral
Sampson is not entitled to the pay OF
that grade from August 10, 1898, when
he was commissioned by the Presi-
dent. to March last.
Robert Bonner, the philanthropist.
publisher and horse owner, died ut his
home. No. 3 West Fifty-sixth street.
New York. The immediate cause OF
his death was general breaking down
of the system.
Washington. July 9.-Official and un-
official Washington alike are shocked
by the tragic death from an explosion
of gasoline in her home just west OF
the British Embassy of Mrs. Mar
guerite Dickins. one OF the best known