Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-06-22
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News Notes From Every Part OF
the Civilized World.

Chicago police believe the murderer
OF Miser Martin Meier got $4,000.
Democratic primary conventions were
held throughout Kentucy Saturday.
The Niagara Silver Works strike is
ended. The men have returned to
work.
La Iouraine took over $1,000 900 in
gold consigned to continental bankers
when she sailed for Liverpool
Jim Jeffries and Mike Morrissy the
irish pugilist, have been matched to
hght at Coney Island in September.
1t IS reported that the Union Pacific
train robbers have been captured in
the extreme western part of Wyom-
ing.
A syndicate headed by John ID.
Rockefeller has bought the Anaconda
copper mines in Montana for S15. 900
600.
capt Joseph \. Barney, who COM
manded the Confederate warship
jamestown, is dead at Fredericksburg.
Va.
Prof. Ben. Wheeler, of Cornell. has
been elected President of the Cali
fornia State University ut n salary of
$4,000.
John Liddy, of No. G62 East both
street. New York. has been taken TO
Reception Hopsital suffering from
smallpox.
Twenty-nine passengers on the Ward
Liner Iucatan from Havana are de-
tanned at Hoffman Island, New York.
for observation.
Mamie Friend, Il New York law
yer has secured i Judgment for 81 $50
against Robert FitZsimmons for pro-
fessiOnal services.
George Beauregard Barrow, the kid,
naper of Marion Clark in New York,
has been put to work cracking stones
in the pententiary at Sing Sing.
President Mckinley has commuted
the sentence of James ID. Harston.
serving term of three years for forg-
ing papers i'll apensiOn case in Okla
homa. Harston will serve only IL lit
tie more than half his original SEN
tence.
Admiral Dewey has left Singapore.
His next stop will be at Colombo. Cey-
Ion.
..
Woodford is seriously ill nj the Hotel
Margaret Rrooklyn
Women and children are starving in
German ana English East African DOS.
sessions.
The Duke and DuchcsS of Orleans
are in London. comforting with the
royalists.
Mrs. Jane Stanford has given more
valuable real estate to Stanford Uni
vcrsitv
The remains OF Professor Locke
Richardson. the elocutionist. was ere
mated ut Berlin.
Thirty persons are reported drowned
in Il steamboat collision on the River
oder, in Prussia.
y score of lives We're lost in an en-
plosion in the Caldedonian mine at
Glace Bay. G. +.
NJ. poincare declined to form Il new
French Ministry because of Radical
objections to Mn. Ribot and Barthou.
A treaty with Great Britain provid-
inc for reciprocity between the United
States and Barbados has been signed
in Washington.
First Assistant Postmaster-Ge
Heath explained the situation regard
ing proposed postal improvements for
New York City.
Coy. ringree. of Michigan. has
vetoed the beet sugar bonuty bill. and
the appropriation for Il State building
at the Buffalo Exposition.
Catherine Stackmeyer was severe
ly bruised by falling from the third
story fire escape of No. 300 East
Seventieth street. New York
Automobiles have been barred from
the South Side Parks in Chicago.
y powder magazine in Pekn explod-
ed. injuring 200 people.
John Higgins. eight years old. was
drowned while i'll swimming at Hills
dale. n. j.
Under Il new ruling Jersey City po-
licemen must not talk to anybody
when on duty.
Norman Williams. the Chicago law
yer and capitalist. is reported critically
i'll at Rye Beach, \. Y.
= The Fourth Regulars and the Wyom-
ing Volunteers have been added TO
Gen. Lawton's command.
Mckinley has refused an ivitation TO
attend the lale-IIarvard boat race
owing to previous engagements.
The Panama Canal Commission met
in Washington and organized by elect
ing Admiral Walker president
Nj. Poincare has informed President
loubet at Paris that he will accept
the task of forming new Cabinet
The first meeting of the Venezuela
Arbitration Commission has been held
i'll Paris but nothing of importance
was done.
Great property damage and some
loss of life is reported from Il cloud
burst in the mountains north of San
Antonio. Texas.
The Ohio Society of California has