The Republican journal., 1899-06-08
News Notes.

to develop the coal lands near Cooks In,
let, Alaska.
The Joint Peace Commission of England.
| Germany and the United States reached
Samoa May ID.
| Gov. Jones, of Arkansas, has decided to
admit to the State all miners who are 'hon-
! est and peaceable.''
The Minneapolis mills make IA, 900, 900
barrels of flour year, and consume co.
600, 900 bushels of wheat.
The product of the eighty seven milk
condensng factories in the United States
last year was worth about 500, 900, 600.
Michigan expects to have the largest
park in the United States. The tract
covers 1873, $50 acres and is located in six
counties.
According to recent French statistics,
France lost 1876, 600 men in the Franco
German war. Germanys losses were
only 32, 27S.
The citizens of Port Tampa, Fla, sug-
gest the erection in the United States of
a statue of Queen Victoria, to be paid for
by Americans.
Gold has been discovered in kamchatka
a peninsula of Northern Siberia. The
| population of Kamchatka is only 1900
most of the people being similar to the
| Eskimos.
The British Government has disavowed
| the action of the Captain of the English
cruiser Labaun in extending protector
ate to the island of Palawan, of the Phil
ippine group.
Nine tenths of the inhabitants of Guam.
| the leland in the Pacific which the United
States recently acquired of Spain, can
read and write and they are rapidly
learning English.
When Gen. Miles was fighting Indians
in the w st he learned the art of s'trail-
ing so that he was able to trace the
course of single man over prairie grass
as few, except Indians, can do.
Secretary Gage has made careful
study of his work ever since he became
the head of the Treasury Department. and
can tell the history and popularity of
every bill ever issued by the Government
The plan of Prof. Tyndall of purifying
water by electricity has been successfully
tried in the Burgess Canal in Belgium
After being subjected to a current of 1000
volts, the water became pure and palata-
BILE
The employees of the Cleveland, Akron
and Columbus railway, which recently
passed into the ownership of the Penn
sylvania railway have had the ten per
cent. cut in wages made IN 1898, restored.
The increase will take effect for May.
T. B. Robinson of Oakland, Cal, who
has just returned from the Copper river,
Alaska, says that he knows of eighteen
prospectors OF that section who are miss
ing OF dead. They attempted to reach
civilization and rescue parties have been
unable to trace them.
The Jamaica Legislature has decided to
send a delegation to Washington to en-
deavor to negotiate reciprocity treaty,
and has also accepted the Government
alternate scheme for promoting close
trade relations with Canada by subsdiz-
ing steamers should American recipr ocity
| fail.
Each American soldier in the Philippe
mes is provided with two full suits of
Khaki, two white duck SUITS an unlined
blouse, a pair of kersey trousers, a
campaign hat, cork helmet, a pair of
leggins, one pair of barrack and one of
russell Shoes and both wooden and cotton
| underwear.
An Arkansas man has invented a simple
and effective device for ventil ating rail
way cars without opening the doors or
/ windows 1t consists of a small wind
wheel set at the top of the car to drive
an exhaust fan mounted in an opening at
the end of the car, the two fans being con-
nected by a gear shaft.
The States of Nebraska, South Dakota,
/ Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North
ern Illinois have experienced a series of
the most violent storms known in years.
| A dozen lives have been lost. crops dam
! aged hundreds of thousands Of dollars
and large sections laid waste. SIX distinct
! tornadoes have been reported, accompa-
MED by lightning, rain and hail.
! Dawson advices state that there are evil
! dences of the most wonderful output on
record. Five thousand men are waiting at
| Dawson to take the first boat up river Half
| of them are miners with from 81, 900 to
| $50, 900 in gold dust each and bills of lad
| ing for more than 81 900, 900 to come out
on the first steamers have been issued.
| The lakes will be free from ice on June
| 4th.
The failure of the Cuban soldiers to APP
ply for their share of the money sent to
be distributed among them has caused no
uneasiness in Washington. The general
sentiment in official circles is Indifference
as to whether they take the money or not,
and no serious trouble is anticipated from
the disgruntled leaders who have persuad-
ed the poor devils, who need the money
so badly, to go away from Havana with
out it rather than surrender their arms.
A dispatch from Hong Kong says that
Admiral Dewey shows great improvement
in health. ''Installed spaciously at the
Peak Hotel, with windows that catch
every mouthful Of wind from the sea, he
is losing the air of languor that he wore
when he landed from the blistered flag
ship. 1t was rest he. needed-rest and
cool air.
Many members of the Sac and Fox tribe
of Indians in Iowa have refused to accept
annuities because of the old Algonquin
superstition that all their lands belong tC
the Great Spirit, and, as the annuities
| arise from the government sales of thell
lands, their acceptance of the proceeds
would bar them from the "happy hunt
ing grounds