Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-25
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the Civilized World
Brid.eton IN. j. fishermen report
sighting a sea serpent with tongue
two feet long.
Mrs. -Adela Beach. Of Toledo, Ohio,
sixty, and white haired, has been con-
yicted of bigamy.
Troops have been ordered to the Mo-
qui Pueblo Indian villages in Arizona,
to enforce vaccination.
The salt palace directors at Salt
Lake City have given orders for the
Immediate construction of the build
ing.
An English inventor Is perfecting a
device by which vessels may be warn
ed of the proximity Of rocks despite
fog.
David |. Field. retired capitalist of
st. Louis shot and killed Robert w.
Stratford, negro servant. Stratfofd
attacked his employer, who had just
discharged him.
Nine railroads that the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Company has
been operating under leases for years
have been bought outright by this cor
poration and hereafter they will he
but parts OF the big system.
john W. .Jorgensen. Jack. the Hair
Clipper died in Chicago from self
inflicted bullet wound. Jorgensen
was captured several months ago
while he was in the act of clipping the
tresses from II young girl on down
town street. He confessed TO a num-
ber of other hair clippings and declar-
ed that he had mania for despoiling
girls of their iresses.
III the United States Court at Musco-
gee. |. r. Nelson y. Jones was found
guilty as accessory TO the kidnapping
of Lincoln McGcisey and Palmer
Sampson. Seminole Indian boys. who
were kidnapped in the Indian Terri
tory by Il mob and afterward burned
to death at the stake near Maud, Ok
lahOma. Jones. at the time OF the
burning. was Il deputy United States
Marshal and had u writ for McGeisey,
but instead of arresting him and taxi
ing him from the hands of the mob.
assisted in the kidnapping. This il
the first of thirty-siy similar cases.
teualor l.. j. Rose. of California, Il
former mulli-mllionairc poisoned him.
self
The Berlin police have suppressed
play written io exploit the cruelties OF
vivisectiOn.
The first annual reunion OF the
Rough Riders will be held at Las We
gas, \. NJ. June ~.
The American schooner Leila Smith
is Il wreck OFF the Columbian coast.
All hands We're saved.
nrauil ix "a hc .allaI on IN naka
! amends for the mobbing Of our con-
sular officer at Manaos.
Latest reports from Cape Nome say
! that the gold strikes rival those of the
Klondikc for richness.
The Bethlehem Steel Company filed
notice at Harrisburg OF an increase in
its capital stock from $1,000 to S15,.
000.0
GOV. Roosevelt has arranged TO
come To New York for Sunday TO con-
suit senator Plat and others about
the franchise tax bill amendments.
The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men reelected Grand Master Nor
rssey and other officers. and selected
| Milwaukee, as the next meeting place.
The trial of Michael Emil Rollinger,
for wife murder. has been begun. The
ease has many features resembling the
| famous l.uetgcrt case. Like Luetgert,
! Rollinger is Il butcher. He is accused
| of strangling his wife and cremating
! her body.
The directors of Wittenberg College
one of the oldest Lutheran educational
| institutions i'm the country. have de-
| cidcd 10 admit women to the theologic-
al seminary and upon completion OF
the course to confer the degree of H.
! ID. upon them. the same as the men.
| The Missouri Senate has passed and
| sent To the Governor n bill placing 4
| license tax of $40 on all foreign cor
porationS which desire to do business
! in the State. in addition TO the present
| tax. Ii does not effect corporations
now authorized to do business i'm the
! State.
The United States transport Port
| land has arrived here. twenty-four
days from Manila. she has on board
twenty discharged soldiers Of various
/ regiments. Private Jeremiah Shea of
/ the California Heavy Artillery. died
and was buried at sea of the Island
| of FOrmOsa.
/ BY the purchase of the Bell Tele-
| phone interests in the State of Wis
consin. the cleveland Telephone Com
pany becomes the largest concern of
/ the kind in the world. 1t now ope
rates 10, ,I34 miles Of wire and serves
! 5000 subscribers. Aside from Wis
consin the company owns and operates
all the Bell telephone interests in the
States of Texas, Arkansas, Minnesota.
/ North Dakota. South Dakota, Michi-
! gan and the city of Cleveland
The 1llth annual session of the
I Presbyterian Church is being held at
Minneapolis.