Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-10-26
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Telegraphic CleaninSs From All Parts
of the World.

Floyd and Jack w. Allen, brothers,
fought near Gladesboro. Va, and both
were fatally shot.
The British War Office announced
that 81 British were killed and 151
wounded in Fridays fighting in Natal.
Swindlers are reported to be selling
bogus lottery tickets in Mexico, with
the forged signature of Col. John
Jacob AStor.
1t has been finally decided to trans
fer Henry Diederich, United States
Consul at Magdeburg. to the Bremen
Consulate.
The Georgia State Agricultural De
partment estimates the cotton crop at
100000 bales.
Henry Ludovice, aged seventy, a
farmer living in West Dunellen, N. j.,
hanged himself in his woodshed. He
had been in ill health.
BY advice of his physician Admiral
Dewey has cancelled his proposed
trips to Philadelphia and Atlanta, and
will accept no more invitations.
Differences over employment of
non-union men by the American Tin
to cause a strike of $4,000 union en-
ployes.
Nat Herreshoff, at Bristol, r. l., one
of the builders of Columbia said he
was satisfied with .-er work, but could
try to design a better boat if neces-
sary.
Trains between Cape Town and
Aliwal in South Africa north have
again resumed running, all fear of an
invasion of Cape Colony by the
Orange Free State troops having
been removed
The United States Court of Appeals
at st. Louis has decided that the only
cause in which suicide invaHdates a
life insurance policy is when the in.
dividual contemplated suicide on TAX
ing out the policy.
Two of the Hungarians injured by
the explosion at Rockland Lake, N.
Y, have died, making six dead in all.
The Commercial Congress delegates
at Philadelphia went to Washington
to call upon President Mckinley.
A conference on plans for the Pan
American Railroad will be held at
Austin, Tex, between Gov. Hogg, of
Texas, representing eastern interests
and p. o. Saunders, an American cap
italist, living in the City of Mexico
1t was announced in Washington
that negotiations for a new govern
ment of Samoa were proceeding be-
tween the United States, Great Brit
ain and Germany. News from the ISL
ands indicated that conditions were
ripe for another outbreak.
Gen. Lawton has established base
at San Isidro in the Philippines. Sup
plies have been landed from the cas-
cos and will be transported inland.
1t was said in Washington that the
reason for the movement against Tar
lac was that Aguinaldo had made it
his capital.
Serious riots are reported from
Prague and other cities in Bohemia.
Secretary Hay was formally noti-
fed of the assent of Great Britain to
the Alaskan modus vivendi.
Gen. Young's advance guard oc-
cupies San lsidro. The heaviest re-
sistence was met at San Fernando.
The House of Commons in London
rejected an amendment to the ad
dress to the Queen declaring the call
ing out of the militia unnecessary.
No fears are felt at San Francisco
for the safety of the transport Sen
ator, with the Iowa troops on board,
which may have encountered ty.
phoon.
President Andrade, of Venezuela,
has accepted the insurgent terms and
will leave the country peaceably, the
Presidency devolving upon the Vice
President
A dispatch from Vienna announces
the death OF Col. Schneider, former
Austrian Military Attache in Paris,
and prominently connected with the
Dreyfus case.
Two hundred and thirty persons
near Toledo, Spain, have been attack
ed with a disease believed to be the
bubonic plague. Five new cases and
three deaths were reported at Oporto.
The Beers attacked the British at
Glencoe, Natal. They numbered A.
900, and placed five guns on hill.
from which they shelled the British
camp. The British artillery replied,
and under cover of this fire British
force captured the hill and all the
Boer guns after hard fight. The
English losses were heavy. Gen. Sir
William Symons was seriously wound
ed.
The transport Thomas has sailed
from Philadelphia for New York.
DR.. John A. Dowie, Chicago's divine
healer" was mobbed by medical stu
dents.
President Mckinley and his party
reached Washington Thursday after
the long Western trip.
Acting Indian Agent Nicholson, at
San Carlos, Arizona, reported that the
threatened Indian outbreak had been
averted
In London Mr.. Chamberlain defend
ed the governments South African
policy in a speech in the House of
Commons.
The Baltusrol Golf Club, near Short
Hills, n. j., began an Open tournament