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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23

nand over hand until within forty teei
from the ground. Then she became
unconscious and fell. but she was NOT
seriously injured by the fall.
The personal belongings lost by the
patrons of the Windsor Hotel In the
fire will reach large amount. The po.
lice Of the East Fifty-flrst street sta.
ton have in their possession jewelry
alone the value of which they place at
100000. lis impossible even to esti.
mate the loss which the guests have
sustained Mrs. Mary Kirk Haskin
the daughter of Mrs. Nancy Ann Kirk,
who died in Bellevue Hospital on Fri
day night as the result Of her injuries,
informed the police before starting for
Chicago with her mothers body that
she had lost jewelry worth at least
100000. A great many of the valua-
bles which the police of the East
Fifty-first street station are guarding
were taken from the bodies Of the
dead and from those who We're badly
injured. The reason why so much was
saved is found in the fact that when
the occupants of the hotel were
alarmed their first thought was to Sc
cure as many of their treasures as pos
sible. 1t is understood that the police
will turn the jewely over to the care
of Coroner Bausch, on the theory that
it was all taken from the dead.
Even in so fearful a time as pre-
vailed when the fire broke out in the
hotel, the loOters got to work. In sew
eral instances escaping guests saw
men robbing the rooms of valuables
which We're lying around One man
n, tod In n
way from the building with bundle
of clothing under his arm. When he
was searched ut the station house he
was found to have in his possession
among other things. about $1,000
worth of jewelry, which he had taken
from the apartments of Abner Mckin-
ley.
Following is a revised list of the
dead: John Connolly, aged forty-tiye
years: hotel employe: Kate Flanagan
employe: Mrs. John Gibson. of Cincin-
natl thirty-tivc years old; Eleanor
Louise Goodman. seventeen years old
daughter of Samuel Goodman. a bank
er: Miss Laselles Grandy, of Elizabeth
| City, \. c.. in the city on shopping
tour; Mrs. Maurice Henry. sixty-ive
years old; Mrs James $. Kirk. OF
Evanston. ILL.,, widow of the founder
of n large soap factory in Chicago
Mrs. Warren +. Leland. wife of the
proprietor: Miss Helen Leland, daugh
ter Of Warren +. Leland, proprietor OF
the Windsor Hotel; Miss Amelia Pad
dock. of Irvington, y. Y; Mary Sulli
van, died at Bellevue Hospital: un
known woman. midle-aged jumped
from window. died in Miss Gould'S
house; unknown woman. who threw
child and jumped after it. body not re-
covered: unknown child, thrown from
window by woman, body not recov
cred: unknown woman. jumped from
window. died at Nh . East Forty
sixth street: unknown woman died in
Church of the Heavenly Rest.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
GOV. Tanner orders Troops From pana.

Springfield. ILL.,, March 2:..-Sheriff
Downey. of Pana. presented 10 Gov.
Tanner resolutions adopted by mass
meeting of Pana citizens rh, Sheriff
said that he and his de,;ties were
low able To cope with the situation.
md that the troops nigh, safely be
withdrawn. GOV. Tanner Directed the
AdjutantGeneral to withdraw the
.roops on Thursday. On the Sheriff's
'equisition 300 stand of arms were
shipped 10 Pana f3r the u.s. of the
;heriff's deputies.
NOTICE Is hereby given that m application viii
be made to the Governor OF Pennsylvania, Friday,
March "a, 1899, by Herbert u. Bennett William +.
Burdell, A. NJ. Schoyer, Il. o. Ramsey and j. II. Har
er under the General Act Of 1874 and Its
Con to bo called The American District Telegraph
Company OF Pennsylvania, which Is formed fof the
purpose OF constructing maintaining and leasing
lines Of telegraph for the private use Of individuals,
nrms, corporations, municipal and otherwise for
general business and for police, fire alarm, or mes
Benger business and for the transaction In connection
herewith Of general messenger and delivery scr
vice, in the counties Of AdamA Allegheny, Arm
strong, Beaver, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bradford,
Bucks, Butler Cambria Cameron, Carbon, Center,
Chester, Clarion Cearfed, Clinton, Columbia Craw-
ford, Cumberland, Dauphn, Delaware, Elk, Eric,
Fayettte, Forest Franklin Fulton, Green, Hunting
don. Indiana, Jefferson, JuniatA LackAwannA Lam
caster. Lawrence, Lebanon, Lehigh, Lu.erne. Ly-
coming. Mexican, Mercer, ,Mifiin, Monroe, Montgom-
cry Montour, Northampton, N Northumberland, Perry,
Philadelphia, Pike, Potter, Schuylkill Snyder, Som
erset, Sullivan, ,Susquehanna, ,Tioga Union, Venango,
Warren, Warrington Wayne. WestmoreAnd, Wyo-
ming, and York, and for these purposes, TO have,
possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits aud privi-
bges Of said Act of Assembly and it, supplements.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
Buried Lots of Reef.

Chicago, March 22.-At the beef in
luiry, Col. ID. Jack Foster. of the Sixth
illinois Infantry. testified that at
Ponce he drew refrigerator beef once.
When the meat reached camp it was
pronounced bad and a board of inquiry
condemned it and it was buried. He
lid not try it again. Capt. Edward j.
Demmick, of the First Illinois. testi-
fed that some of the canned roast beef
he saw was spoiled and was thrown
overheard on. the voyage to Cuba.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
American Syndicate Invades Nova Scotia

Halifax, n. s., Mar. 21.- The Nova
Scotia Government is about to lease a
large tract of timber. Crown lands in
Inverness and Victoria counties. to an
American syndicate for a period of
thirty years for pulp and paper max
ng purposes. The lease covers about
1000 square miles. The company, ii
$ stipulated. must commence opera
tons by July and eXpend $4,000 in
works the first year. They are to pay
to the Government yearly rental of
$4,000. The company will erect a
arge plant.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23

Philadelphia. March 21.-So many
typhoid cases due to the drinking of
filthy water have arisen that the hospi.
tai doors are closed against such patti
ents. There are I30 cases of typhoid
now under treatment in the city hospl-
tails. and every institution has been
obliged TO turn away patients. The
medical fraternity is aroused and is up
in arms over the condition of affairs,
and the Medical Journal suggests suit
being brought against the city for
damages for typhoid fever due to the
failure to supply pure water
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
GENERAL LLOYD WHEATON.

GENERAL LLOYD WHEATON.
enemy in check and the fire of the re-
nforcing companies repulsed them,
iriving them across to an island
formed in the estuary. They We're
thus in front of the Twenty second
Regulars.
ON discovering that they We're en-
trapped the rebels fought desperately,
aided by the jungle and the darkness,
out they were completely routed, with
heavy loss after. two hours fighting.
The Americans lost two killed and
twenty wounded, among the latter
Lieutenant Frank Jones.
Gen. Otis says the American army
and gunboats now command the lake.
He estimates that property of the in
surgents valued at 100000 has been
destroyed, while quantities of rice and
sugar and four hundred tons of coal.
which is very valuable here, have been
captured.
Many of the prisoners represent that
the Filipino soldiers are weakening
The generous treatment that the
Americans administer to the native
prisoners and wounded seems to intiu-
ance the insurgent army powerfully. In
he opinion of the Americans, however,
the Filipino leaders will continue to
provoke fighting just as long as they
can retain their hold upon their fol
overs, because they have everything
to gain and nothing TO lose. The en-
emmy have twice as many men on
their firing lines as they have arms,
and the fact that so few arms are cap
.ured by the Americans is because the
guns of the wounded Filipinos and of
many who surrender are spirited
away.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
Germ," V'a-,' :.

Washington, March 1.-THE Ger
man gunboat Falk is to leave Apia,
Samoa. The reason given is the ad-
vance of the season when the harbor
lis unprotected against severe tropical
storms. The United States cruiser
philadelphia and the British cruiser
PorpOise will remain. The withdraw
al of the Fake gives further evidence
Of the improved relations between
Germany and America and of the pur-
pose of the German authorities to
avoid occasion for friction in Samoa.
1t is also said that it will remove an
element of possible menace, as it re-
1uces to that extent the armed force
supporting the several elements.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
War BalIoonist Dead.

Boston, March 22-ThomGs Carroll
Boone. the telegraph operator who
went up in the Santiago balloon under
IN awful Spanish fire, is dead Boone,
with two Government officers. per-
formed heroic work in the airship.
which was target for the Spanish.
until it fell into the trees and threw all
three men out Boone was caught in
the drag anchor and received wounds
from the effects of which he never full
w recovered.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
Hot Time in IIay..,,.

Havana, March 22.-The rioting
which began at a negro bal has been
luelled by the police, although it is
feared that it may be resumed at any
moment. Fighting between the negroes
and the police was begun at Cerro and
many on each side were wounded. A
company of American troops was des-
patched TO CerrO to reinforce the police
lhe trouble began at a ball, where
negro officers of the Cuban Army led
The rioters against the police SO far
our have been killed and sixty wound
al
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
On Speaking Terms with spain.

Gibraltar, March 22.-As the Spanish
squadron commanded by Admiral Ca
mara was leaving Gibraltar Bay it was
met near Algecircas by the United
States cruiser Raleigh, which is return
ing home from Manila. The Raleigh
ran up the Spanish flag and the Span
ish Admiral replied by hosting the
Stars and Stripes. This is the first act
Of internat tional courtesy between the
United States and Spain iE European
waters since the outbreak of the war
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
Ex- Senator Walsh Dead.

Augusta, Ga. March 22.-The funeral
Of ex- United States Senator II. Patrick
II. Walsh. Mayor of the city, and edi-
tor of the Augusta Chronicle. will be
attended by men of prominence from
all over the State Mayor Walsh died
after Il prolonged attack of nervous
prostration, which is said to have re-
suited from grief over the ingratitude
Of some of his closest friends. dis
played during the campaign for the
Mayorality.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
SchIey BEFORE a Hoard.

Washington, March Winfield s.
Schley has successfully passed the
physical examination for promotion to
the rank of rear-admiral in the navy
before medical board conrened at
the Washington Navy Yard. To
complete the legal test he must al
SO pass a moral. mental snd profess
sional examination, and his papers are
before a board of rear-admirals, which
convened at the Navy Department
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
Accused, Then Beat the Priest.

New Orleans, March 21.-The Rev.
Father Leander Roth, of Kenner, a
suburb of this city, is laid up as a re-
suit of an assault made upon him by
Colonel Thomas Sellers. wealthy
planter. Sellers assailed the priest
with n stick after accusing him of in
Sulting his daughter. Father Roth's
friends claim the assault was the re-
suit of the priests refusal TO grant alb
solution to certain members of Colonel
Sellers family
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
Russia to Help China Resist italy

st. Petersburg, March 2t.-It is as
serted here that negotiations are al
most concluded by which the treaty
port, NewChwang. province of Leao-
Tong, on the River Liaou. near the
Gulf of Pochili, will become a Rus.
sian possession. Russia undertaking in
return to support China in resisting
the demands of Italy.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
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rILIYhvUO OnUulii III Illnf
General Wheaton Falls Upon
Them and They Are Routed
With Heavy Loss.
TWO AMERICANS KILLED.
General Otis Gables That the United
States Army and Gunboats Now ,
Command the Lake.

Prisoners Say That the Insurgsnt Army
Is wsaksning-One Half of the Mon On
Firing Lines Have No Arms-Half q
Million Dollars w orth of Insurgent Prop
erty Destroyed.
Manila, March 2O.-Some of the ,reb.
els recently expelled from Cavite and
the small towns in the vicinity of Pa
sig combined forces and attacked
company of the Washington Nolun-
teers, detached post at Taguig, about
Il mile and half southeast of Pasig.
Gen. Wheaton Immediately reinforced
the Americans with two companies
each of the Washington and the, Ore
gon regiments. The post had held the
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
Carlists Are Angry.

Venice, March 21.-Don Carlos. the
Spanish pretender, is still here holding
4 petty court. It was announced that
the signing of the peace treaty with
the United States by Spain would be
the signal for a Carlist uprising, but
there are as yet no indications of de-
cisive action. The followers of Don
Carlos are experated at his indol-
ance.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
Serious Acciden. on Lake shore.

Buffalo. March 22.-Passeneer train
No. IS. known as the Southwestern
Limited, on the Lake Shore Railroad,
was derailed at Blaisdell and Engineer
Henry Shattuck. Of this city. was in
stantly killed. Brakeman George W.
Roberts is at the Fitch Hospital suffer
ng from fracture of the left leg at
he knee and several contusions of the
oOdy
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
sha,nr.ck,s nsainm.st.

London, March 21.-A squad of
Fife's carpenters has begun making
the Shamrock's spars and other wood
work. The log for the nainmast has
arrived. 1t is a fine stick of Oregon
pine little over one hundred feet
long, Therefore, it will be ten feet
longer than Valkyrie's. Fife, it is
thereupon claimed, evidently intends
to go the limit in canvas
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
MRS. PLACE PUT TO D ArA.

She Pays the Penalty :or ordering Ter
ei.pdaughtcr.
Sing Sing, March .h-Mrs. Martha
Place was put 10 death IN The electric
chair in sing slug Prison rniS morn
ing for the niurc" III h"r ~,cpdaUgh-
ter. Ida Place. In Hroo!y !yn. last year.
The execution look piac" ~ l1:01
o'clock.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23
More Woe for Spain,

Madrid. March 21.-Placards have
been posted at Castelion and Alcada
de Chisvert calling upon taxpayers to
refuse to pay their taxes. The placards,
which were addressed to the repatri-
ated soldiers, were torn down by the
DOlcp
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23

Havana, March pa complication
promising trouble has arisen in the
matter of distributing the $1,000 900
given by the United States to the Cub
an troops. The Cuban Assembly is in
possession of the muster rolls of the
Cuban army, and refuses to surrender
them. without these rolls it will be
impossible to distribute the money
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-23

BEEvEs.-Steers. 71s "a cts per b.
dressed weight; refrigerator beef. 91s 9lO
per lb.
Calves. to prime veals, So 90
q 81 SO v 100 ID; dressed veals, 9c.01lc
per Id.
SHEEP AND LANss-Fair to Prime Sheep
81 90 a S4.f2 per 100 lbs; Medium to
prime lamb, SO 65 q S.. so per 100 lbs:
Dressed mutton, 6071Sc. per h.; dressed
lambs, : @ peTlb.
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27
Seeing Bullets as Thew Fly.

AS every sportsman knows" said an
enthuiastic hunter, lit is easy to see
rifle bullet in the air. and those fired
from the new high-power guns are
very curious to look at Stand a dozen
yards to one side of the mark and LET
a friend blaze away at any range with
small calibre weapon using smoke
less powder, and you'll see a strange.
Dlulsh-white streak the instant the
bullet strikes home. The streak
is apparently couple of inches
wide and several feet long. and is
more like flash of light than anything
else | can think of. With the Old-fash-
1oned Remington or Springfield carbine
the bullet has the appearance of a long
black rod, and / don't know why there
should be such difference in the op-
tical Illusion produced by the smaller
cal1bre. / have heard some people deny
that the bullet can be seen, but they
are very much in error. 1t all depends
on getting the right view point. A
few feet either way will render the
missile invisible, but the right spot is
soon found by experiment. and after
that the thing is as plain as day.
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27
THE HUMAN BODY.
Many Odd Facts which Are Not Gener.
ally known.

many Odd Facts Which Are Not Gener-
| ally Known.
Human beings are of all sizes, bu,
the tall man is less common than the
snort; only one man in every 208 ex-
ceeas the height of six feet. For every
| foot OF stature man should weigh
| from twenty-six to twenty-eight
| pounds, a proportion that is not the
lot of all in these hurrying, scurrying
days.
An ayerage-sized man weighs 14O
| pounds; woman 125 pounds. Curl
| ously enough, the mean weight and
height of lunatics are below those of
sane people. Another unexpected
thing in this respect that a negro's
skeleton weighs more than that of an
Englishman.
The yitalizing power is the blood, a
drop of which ia, es but twenty-five
seconds to go the round of the body.
There passes through the heart once
in every three minutes an amount of
this precious fluid equal to all that is
contained in the body.
The mileage of the blood circula-
tlOn reveals some astonishing and un-
dreamed of truths. 1t is estimated
that. assuming the average speed of
the heart to be sixty-nine beats a min
ute, the blood travels 2O1 yards i'm
sixty seconds; in other words, seven
miles an hour, 16S a day, or $500 per
year.
IL man of "a could have one single
blood cOrpuscle floating in his blood
all his life, is would have traversed
No
miles
The average weight Of the brain of
an adult male is three pounds eight
ounces, of female, two pounds four
ounces. The wOman's brain begins to
decline in weight after the age of
thirty, the mans not till ten years
later. According to high authorities
the nerves, with their branches and
minute ramitications connecting with
the brain, exceed 100000 in number.
The palm of the hands and soIes of
the feet are composed of cushions of
fat. in order that sudden jolts and vio-
lent blows may be successfully re-
sisted. and no injury done to the mus
cles and bones underneath.
The muscleS-Of which the tongue
mOnOpolizes cleveland bones of the
human structure in combination are
capable of more than 1.2OO different
motions.
The teaching Of experience indicates
that accidents are far more likely TO
occur to the right leg and arm than to |
the left. Further evidence of this fact
is supplied by the makers of artificial |
limbs; they dispose of many more ap- |
pendages to the right side of the BODY |
than to the other. Statistics show that |
In hfty-four cases out of hundred the |
left leg is stronger than the right.
If man could move his legs pro-
as fast rs an ant, he would |
travel not far short of 500 miles an
hour
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27
Gould MOI Shoot

A Hindu looks upon the slaughter
OF an animal with the same dread
and horror with which be would wit
ness the taking of life of human
being. II would he well for some of
the hunters from our own country to
learn from such paganS "A lesson in
humanity. Rev. b. Fay Mills tells the
story of hunter who employed as a
deeoy for deer peculiarly construct
ed whistle. which closely initiated the
voice of young fawn calling it's
mother
With his rife in hand ready for
instant. action. be was one day blow
ing his whistle. when suddenly a
mother deer thrust her head ont of the
bushes and looked straight toward
him. There she stood. trembling with
fear, yet looking this way and that
I'D search of the little one which she
supposed 10 be in danger The hunter
said
"As | looked into those eloquent
eyes. anxiously glancing here and
there with maternal fear. my heart
melted. | could not shoot"
Young deer that have not been
chased or fired al by hunters will fire.
quently come very near TO unarmed
travellers. The writer. while driving
along country road in northern
Maine, has had a deer walk just in
advance of the horse for some dis
tance, and ii is well known that wild
deer ortep come into pastures and feed
with the COWS. TO take advantage of
this confidence seems very near to
murder.
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27
Rats and Underground Wires.

Rats are playing havoc with the
under ground telephone and telegraph
cables in st. Louis. They have dis
covered that the wires are covered
with paraffined paper, and they rather
like the taste. To satisfy their ap-
petltes. they must gnaw through the
lead casing around the wires. 1t has
happened in number of cases that the
rats in gnawing through the lead
cables. TO get at the creased paper.
have barred the copper wires i'm such
a manner As TO make it impossible to
establish communication over them
Every time this happens it costs the
company whose wires are interrupted
all the way from a few dollars to
several hundred. The telephone men
are trying 10 devise some means of
stopping the depredations.
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27
Non-Freezing Mater Pima.

The Germans. who are So far 9bead
of many nations in a certain class ~
technical skill. have incorporated into
their plumbing practice a non-freezinc
water pipe, which will save an iDcaI.
culable amount of annoyance and pro.
family in single winter. The purpoSe
of the invention is not only to prevent
the water from being frozen. but 10
provide an opportunity for it's expaD-
sion by cold. Into the iron pipe. as far
as it is above the ground there is in.
serted a second narrower pipe of thin
elastic substance. such. for inStancpN
as rubber. This insertion remains nm.
affected by the ordinary pressure: but
if the water ShOulu be frozen by ey
treme cold the elastic insertion is com.
pressed by so much as the volume Of
water is increased by the freezing.
With the coming of the thaw the in.
sertiOn expands again to its original
circumference. The object of the tin
or lead around the insertion is to pre-
vent an unpleasant taste or OdOr being
to the water. 1T is said that
water pipes provided with such an in
SertiOn have withStOOd n cold test of
40 degrees centigrade. while Others
that were no SO provided invariably
burst at that temperature.
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27
Life on a Torpedo Boat.

So injurious is life on torpedo boat
that a years continuous service will
mentally and physically incapacitatp a
man. This assertion is made on the
authority of Lord Charles BereSford
but that the strain on any one serving
on these crafts is very great is shown
by the fact that to one months service
the British naval regulations allow one
week off. Austria is endravoring to
mitigate the hardship of service on
these boats, and life on one built for
the Austrian navy. and tried on the
Thames recently. was demonstrated TO
be pleasanter than on those of the Eng
lish navy.
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27
New UsR Df Glass

The latest use of glass is instead
of gold as material for stoppinp
decayed teeth. 1t answers spIendidly
ana is lar less conspicuous than the
yellow metal. OF course, it is not or
binary glass. but it is prepared by
some new patent process, which rend-
ers is soft and malleable. Glass too
is being extensively used for church
bells. 1t can be toughtened so that
there is no risk of it cracking, and the
tone is said to be beyond anything vet
invented, perfect, soft and sonorous