The Republican journal., 1899-08-03

In BRIEF. Gov. Wacott of Massachu-
setts has nominated Judge Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, son of the late poet, to sue
ceed the late Walbridge A. Field as Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Massa-
chusetts. Judge Holmes is 5S years old
and graduate of Harvard, class of '61.
| He is a veteran of the Civil War and holds
the degree of LID. from Yale. Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius
Vanderbilt; William 2. Burden, son of
James A. Burden; Ernest lselin, son of
/ Adrien lselin, Jr., and Douglass Coch-
| rane left New \ ork city July 26th for a
| year tour of the world Special car No.
| 1876, generally used by Cornelius Wander
! bilt. will carry them on the five days run
TO Vancouver, which ends the first stage
| of the journey. They planned to sail from
! Vancouver for Japan on the Empress of
! India on July 31..... The New York Su-
preme Court has rendered a decision that
five employees removed from New York
city departments by their Tammany su-
periors were illegally removed, and must
be reinstated. The decision applies to
about three hundred other cases, and that
number of faithful Tammany heelers must
I regretfully abandon their positions to their
rightful occupants. -. Henry W. Cramp,
vice president of the Cramp shipbuilding
company, has denied the statement pub
| lished in Washington special to New
| y ork newspaper that serious defects had
| been discovered in the hull design of the
new battleship Maine, now in course of
construction at Cramps. The publication
referred to stated that Cramps had made
| the lines of the hull much finer to secure
extra speed, bringing her displacement
| down to l., 800 tons. The monument to
| Founder Rathbone of the Pythian order
was dedicated at Utica, n. Y, July Goth.
Ambassador Joseph II. Choate in ad
dressing the Satfordshire Agricultural
society IN England July Goth, said that he
| believed no question could ever arise to
interrupt the constant peace which had
| held the United States and Great Britain
together for the past eighty five years. ....
Adolph L. Leutgert, the wealthy sausage
maker Of Chicago who was serving life
sentence in the State prison at Joliet for
| the murder Of his wife, was found dead
in his cell July 21th..... The marine court
at Halifax, which investigated the loss of
the Red Cross passenger steamer Portia,
! on Big Fish Sboal, to the westward of
Halifax harbOr on the night of July 10th,
has condemned her commander, Captain
W. J. Farrell, as responsible for the
wreck, and has suspended his masters
certificate for six months but gives him
mates certificate for that period in con
sderation of his heroic conduct in saving
the lives of those on board, all of whom
escaped except little boy.... According
to the st. Petersburg correspondent of
the London Mail the Russian government
has introduced compulsory passport sys-
TEN for Ia Lien Wan and Port Arthur
-
from travelling the e....T The New York
Evening Post admits thar the stories it
( printed about brutality among American
soldiers in the Philippines turn ont to be
Inventions 1t should have known Ameri-
can character TOO we'll to credit such SLAM
ders in the first place. The national
Democratic committee has decided to re-
move its headquarters to st. Louis. This
will probably help Organism, tor Missouri
/ is a hot bed of the most radical Democ-
racy.. The United States transport
Hancock, having on board the soldiers of
the First Nebraska Regiment. U. S. v,
arrived at san Francisco hast Saturday
from Manila 49,. Since the death of Leu
CERT, the Chicago wife murderer, two al
legged confessions by him have been
brought out...... Judge George White,
judge of probate and insolvency for Nor
folk county, and the oldest judge in Mas
sachusetts, in point of service, died late
Saturday evening at his home in Welles-
ley. His age was so years. 80. A landslide
resulting from a cloud burst caused an
accident on the Erie railroad mile east
of Lackawaren, n. Y, last Saturday
night in which two persons were killed
outright and 26 others mo re or less injur-
ed. 49,. Tie Brooklyn base ball team stood
at the head of the National League July
3Oth, with percentage of $50. Cleve
land was at the foot with 169. Boston
held second place..... Miss Eliza Sanford,
S4 years of age, one of the 16 surviving
daughters of the Revolution named on the
pension list, died July 31st at Mountain
side Hospital, in Montclair, n. J..... Mrs.
Kate Chase Sprague, wife of a former Gov
ernor of Rhode Island and the daughter
of the late Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase,
died at her homestead, "Edgewood," in
Washington suburbs, early July 31......
Rear Admiral William T.Sampson has FL
ed suit for S700, coo in the Supreme
Court of the district, libelling the Span
ish vessel of war Maria Teresa and miscel-
laneous stores and supplies captured upon
her and other Spanish war vessels.
WAsHINGToN WHIsPERINGs. The
| President has come to the conclusion tina t
the raid on Pension Commissioner Evans
is unjust, and will make no change in that
office. 1t is said in regard to Mr.. Evans
that all through the raid upon him he has
borne himself with dignity and has shown
a frankness and willingness to explain his
acts that have gone long way to inspire
public confidence in him. $50. Information
from the Klondike up to June 20 has
reached the State Department from Unit
ed States Consul McCook at Dawson The
Consul says that ten millions will cover
the gold product for the past II months,
and adds that reports from Alaska indi-
} cate that more gold will be found there
than will ever come out of the Klon-
dixie. Typhoid has broken out six
weeks earlier than last year and there are
several hundred destitute persons in Daw-
son without means to get out. The gam
bling fraternity is reaping rich harvest.
49,. The Secretary of Agriculture has de-
cided to change the regulations recently
. issued for the free admission of cattle into
Cuba for next year, 50 as to provide for
the location of department inspectors at