Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-31
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.

The Catholic Summer School at Cliff
Haven, n. Y, Is closed for the eighth
season.
1t is probable that the entire National
Guard of Ohio will visit New York to
welcome Dewey.
Because the lockstep marks GRIM
inal for life the system will be abolish
ed in Indiana prisons.
The Railways Company General,
with capital of $10,0O0,O00, has been
incorporated at Trenton, N. 7.
Because she stayed out until 2 o'clock
in the morning ut church sociable,
Miss Edith Dunn of Franklin, Pa, is
dead, shot through the heart by a
neighbor in mistake for burglar
The campaign against the seating of
Representative-elect Roberts, of Utah.
n mormon polygamist. has commenced
at Providence, r. I. The five city
churches have united in petitions to
Congress asking that he be not seat
ed.
William Quinn, of Winesburg, Ohio.
has found at Hanna, Ind, his sister
whom he had not seen for 81 years.
The Quinn family was scattered many
years ago and William has been MAX
ing inquiries for the whereabouts of
his sister for a score of years
Because he loved to play among the
tombs in the old Rice cemetery, John
Waring. aged five. of Victor n. Y. was
buried there. He was digging at the
base Of Il tall monument when 1t fell,
crushing him fatally. He lay under
the stone some time before he was
found
President Bishop. of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
is on the track of four new cases of
cruelty ut the State Industrial School
for girls at Trenton. n j. He an
nounces that the fight against Mrs.
Eyler, the matron, will he pushed to
finish. He is receiving about 100 let
ters day supporting him in his action
When the big French plate mirror in
the home of Alfred Mermia of Cgdens-
burg, n. Y. fell to the floor and was
sheltered. the neighbors said there
would be death in the family. Mer.
mia scorned the old superstition and
threw the splinters out of doors. His
Seven-year- son fell on the pile of
glass and splinter of the mirror
pierced his lung. killing him.
The transport Ohio. which left San
Francisco on July 90. has reached Ma
Mia.
Barton Fitzsimmons died at Fishkill
Landing, y. Y. of hiccoughs. which be-
gan Sunday.
Gov. Roosevelt wrote to explain why
certain officers did not receive positions
in the volunteer service.
The Mutual Reserve Fund Life Asso-
citation of New York had Il hearing at
Albany before Superintendent Payn.
Two new cases of yellow fever at
Sancti Spilitus Cuba, have been re-
ported to the Marine Hospital Service.
Silas \. Brown and Matthew Craig
We're hanged ut Muscogee, l. 4. \
daughter of Craig's victim saw the
hanging.
The body of an elderly man. supposed
to have fallen from steamboat. was
washed ashore at Sea Gate, Coney
Island.
The question of organizing Il colored
| regiment for service in the Philippines
is under consideration ut the War De
partment
The nude boy of n red-haired boy of
fourteen was caught in Il fishing net
ut One Hundred and Seventy second
street New York.
The executive committee of the Afro
American Council has indorsed the bill
making lynching crime against the
general government.
Sylvester j. o'Sullivan, president Of
the Maryland Casualty Company. of
New York was struck by Il train at the
railroad depot ut Plaintield, n. j., and
| was seriously injured.