Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-07-20
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Telegraphic Gleanings From All Parts
of the World.

peace had been restored.
Americans are being replaced by ma
tives in the Cuban mail service.
Mary Vaughan. of Cedar Falls, Ia,
is dead by the bite of Il kissing bug.
William Jennings Bryan spoke at Il
great mass meeting ut Humphreys. Ne
braSka.
Gen. Otis cables that typhoons and
heavy rains made the sailing of trans
ports impossible
The National Fair Company, to give
fairs and eXpositions. has been incor-
porated at Albany
An incendiary appeal to Cubans
signed Betancourt has been scattered
broadcast in the island.
The Milwaukee Brewing Company of
New York City has been incorporated
at Albany with Il capital of S:,.0oo.00o.
Wireless telegraphy will he usea as Il
means of communication between the
different islands in the Hawaiian
group.
X. T.. NJ. Cooper II poor st. Louis
man. has been beuueathed So0o.0OO by
John G. Gregg. of Cripple Creek. whom
he saved from drowning.
Three Oaks. Mich. having with Il
population of 1000 contributed 81. 49,
To the Maine fund. get the cannon
Dewey sent from MANILA.
Cashier George NJ Valentine has adj
mitted taking The funds of the Middle
sex County Bank at Perth Amboy. n.
J., and the city lost Sl29,ooo.
The Filipino Junta will move to La
buan from Hong Kong. where ii is too
closely watched by American officials
to be of any service TO the natives.
The Furness Line steamer Manches-
ter Port has put into st Johns with
her bows stove IN. having collided with
an iceberg in the Straits of Belle Isle.
Frank NJ. Eastman of Harrisburg eX-
planned the Pennsylvania system Of
bank taxation To the New York state
Bankers Association ut Alexandria
Bay.
Because il refuses to pay 500 for
the privilege the Standard On Com
pany is deharrcd from crossing Il New
Jersey public road with Il pipe line 10
its Bergen Point rctinpreS
Governor Pingree has put three cent
fares in operation on Dctroii'S street
railways.
Herr Rose. German Consul General
at Apa. Samoa. called upon President
Mex inley.
The State Department has provided
bicycles for clerks ut Havana living ut
distance.
Lenore Jackson of Chicago. has heru
ordered To play before Queen Victoria
at Windsor.
\ German flag was torn down by Il
party of soldiers in Honolulu ON the
Fourth of July.
Friends of Gen. Shafter are said to
be working to keep him in the service
aftear he passes me age limit.
Lydia w IlaZlilt. u faith "healer"
whose pneumonia patient died. is To be
tried at Richmond Ind.
Pedro OriZar. who was cabin boy
and hugler auudrd teiNrrs'S flagship.
has enlisted IN the American navy.
Webb &. Hayes. son of the late
President Hayes. has been appointed
Lieutenant Colonel of the Thirty first
Regiment,
Perth Amboy, \. j., ciosed its doors,
Il shortage of SlOOoU0 hayin% been
discovered. The cashier has sIIrreHd-
cred.
Gen. Corbin said that volunteers
We're enlisting 50 rapidly that enough
would be enrolled to make up II rcgi-
ment before the week ended.
At the stable fire al Wheatlcy. l., l..
none of W. c. Whitney's thoroughbred
horses We're LOST. The damage 10 the
buildings and stock WAS S25.oOo,
4.
dismissal of Niscount Ouki. Minister
of Foreign Affairs. who prevented
their sending a delegate To the Wom-
ems Congress.
Gov. Pin@ree has planned to call Il
special legislative session to submit
IA constitutional amendment to the peo-
pie permitting Detroit 10 go into ma
nicipal ownership OF s'reet-car lines.
Secretary Hay assured w. Barclay
Parsons. of the America,i-cinia De-
velopment Company. that the Govern
ment would protect American interests
in China. but would not cooperate
with Great Britain to that end.
Governor General Brooke has abol-
ished the incommunicado system in
Cuba.
An empty excursion train of seven
ears ran through IN open draw into
the Chicago River.
The Queen Regent has given the
Treasury 1.000000 pesetas of the
Crowns income.
The Internal Revenue officials will
recommend important changes in the
Wra Revenue act
Strikers ut Bridgeton. n. j.. stormed
train and captured Il party of non
union glassblowers.
1t is expected the new Thirteih
Regiment will be ready to sail for the
Philippines August u.
The Chicago directory publishers
now estimate thai ctty's population at
1,942,000, instead of 2.o2U.ot0
Fire destroyed the Summer residence
of William Muller. near Paterson. y.
j.. the family barely escaping.
Dian Langdeau, three years old. of
Woonsocket. X. L.. ate fifty tonic pills
for candy and died in commissions.
The Klondike exhibit ut the Paris
Exposition next year will include four
tons of virgin gold, valued at 81