The Republican journal., 1899-07-27
NEW S NOTES.

lola refuses to write or lecture about the
| Dreyfus case
The Pope is said to have originated the
universal peace idea.
Gen. Wood has estab lished an absolu tie
quarantine at Santiago.
Kansas City, Mo-, offers $50, 600 for tb e
Democratic National Convention.
The Socialist Labor party's meeting in
| New York wound up in free fight.
Spain last year exported 5000, 900
pounds of raisins to the United States
| The government is to be asked to appro-
pirate money for farming implements for
| Cuba.
A movement is on foot to build high
/ way 100 feet wide the entire length of the
| State of Connecticut.
1t is said that the relations between the
! United States and Russia We're never more
friendly than at present.
Fourteen persons were buried in a fall
OF earth in the Jagirsfontein diamond mine,
near Cape Town, Africa.
Senator Depew believes we should send
an overwhelming force to crush the
Aguinaldo instruction.
Hundreds of men are drifting down the
! Yukon, hoping that the United States gov
eminent will bring them home
| The exports of breadstutfs for June
from this country fell off nearly $40 000,-
600, compared with June, 1898.
Alabama anti-imperialists are urging
| the Governor to declare vacant the seat Of
| Congressman Joseph Wheeler.
News from Guatemala indicates that
| both England and Germany threaten to
make a naval demonstration there.
Another revolution is threatened in
| Guatemala, due to the initiation of currency
and the overproduction OF coffee.
The Klondike exhibit at the Paris Ex-
position next year will include four tons
of virgin gold, valued at g, 900, 600
After riding thirty miles Oh his bicycle,
Harry Park OF Sinking Valley, Pa, drank
copiously of ice water and fell dead.
Chinese exports of firecrackers, which
represents only a fraction of the produc-
ton, in 1897 were 20, 705, 1873 pounds.
Mary B. kemper saved her young sister
]
fell dead of heart disease in the surf
The edict prohibiting the export of Ara
/ bian horses from Turkey has been rescind-
ed, but an export duty of 81 is levied.
Pelagic sealing continues in Behring
! Sea, despite the Paris regulations, and the
seal herds are being diminished rapidly.
A G-inch projectile fired against armor
| plate intended for the battle ship Alabama
at Indian Head, went clean through it,
A reception and ball given by Gen. Lud-
low i'll Havana was attended by throng
of the most prominent residents of Cuba.
Surprise is expressed at the large num-
Der of Cubans in Santiago Province who
are accepting the American gratuity fund.
j. P. Bryant of Bardwell, KY, is said
to be the owner of the largest straw berry
patch in the world. 1t covers 100 acres.
All the American hotels and saloons in
Santiago have been ordered closed and the
| sale of intoxicants to Americans forbidden.
Not an inch of Alaskan territory will be
given to Canada in the adjustment of the
boundary disputes, declares Congressman
Hull.
1t is probable that the President will
defer his trip to Minneapolis until Octo-
Der, unless Mrs. McKinley's health i'm
proves.
The trains on the new Trans Siberian
Railroad are OF unusual magniticence,
being equipped with every possible con-
venience.
Animals imported in bond for exhibition
purposes under the act of 1897 may be ex-
ported at a port other than that of i'm
| portation.
The accidental setting off of a burglar
alarm caused the death by fright of DR..
Mary c. Edmonds, physician of San
| Francisco.
1t is now said that the court martial at
Madrid did not acGuit Cervera and his
officers, but postponed judgment and re-
leased them.
W. c. P. Breckenridge declares he will
not accept the nomination for the COVER
norship of Kentucky or any other office
from any party.
The Beers are expecting war with Great
Britain, and twice each week every able
bodied man is put through a severe drill
with arms to resist an invasion.
After being lost in the wilds of British
Columbia for eighteen days and suffering
terribly j. Edwards, from New York
State, reached Rossland, B. G.
The American Smelling and Refining
Company at Denver, Colo, will make no
effort to settle its strike until the Supreme
Court passes upon the eight hour law.
The Chicago Appellate Court decides
that marriage negotiated by third per-
son is ''void at law and in equity as being
opposed to morality and public policy"
Secretary Alger ordered the appointment
of new board of army officers to pass
upon the plans of the proposed third
bridge across the Mississippi at st. Louis.
The general opinion at Manila is that a
large force will be required to establish
peace, because it will be necessary to gar
rison many places to protect peaceful ma
tives.
1t is announced that copper ore of almost
incredible extent and richness has been
found in the Parry Sound district within
seven hours railway distance of Toronto,