The Republican journal., 1899-09-28
NEWS NOTES.
A company has been chartered to cut a
tunnel under Pixies Peak.


tunnel under Pike Peak.
Gen. Shafter fatty denies the charge that
he was not under fire at Santiago.
Well diggers on Lookout Mountain,
Tenn, discovered rich gold quartz vein.
The Chicago Board of Education has de-
cided to have Spanish taught in three OF
the high schools.
Two cent street car fares became reality
in Chicago last Thursday, twelve tickets
being sold for 25c.
United States Minister Buck reports
that Japan has opened to foreign trade
twenty-five additional ports.
Negotiations for temporarily defining the
boundary line between Alaska and British
Columbia are still pending.
Chicago's free employment agencies are
so crowded with business that the clerical
force will have to be doubled.
Chicago Qll.) police are looking for Mrs
Ellen Lightfoot, to whom $25, 600 has been
bequeathed by brother in California.
William j. Calhoun has announced that
he will not be candidate for the Repub-
! lican nomination for Governor of Illinois.
The auxiliary cruiser Dixie is to be con-
verified into training ship for the practi-
cal education of landsmen in the navy.
| The Mexicans are making preparations
on magnificent scale for the celebration
of the anniversary of national indepen-
| deDce.
Mrs. Nellie Blood, supposed TO be a lake
steamer stewardess, has fallen heir to
$50, 600 at Chicago, Ill, and can not be
| found.
Army officers report that the tide wave
of Cook Inlet, Alaska, comes in with
rush and browns many of the unwary set
tiers on the fiat lands
woman under arrest at New Rochelle,
N. Y, in connection with the disappear
was stolen by dog.
The Board of Construction will at once
begin the consideration of the detailed
plans for the three tleships authorized
by the last Congress.
Prince David Wawanakoa, nephew of
eX-Queen Liliuokalani, said III an inter
view at Seattle that Hawaii was never
SO prosperous as now.
The New Jersey Court of Chancery
decided that non resident defendant in
a divorce suit need pay no alimony if he
keeps away from the State.
Ii is now reported that several New
York poultry dealers have organized a
goose trust and are buying up all the
geese they can procure in Western cities.
The Pasteur Institute Commission,
which recently arrived at Oporto to study
| the epidemic, asserts that it is the genuine
Indian plague The commissioners have
begun treating patients with the Pasteur
serum, and protest against the inetlicienCy
Of the sanitary Gordon.
Mrs b. K Bruce Of Mississippi, widow
Of the late United States Senator Bruce,
has accepted the position of lady prnci-
pal Of the Normal and Industrial Insti
tute at Tuskegee, Ala. Senator Bruce
was the only negro who served fall term
in the United States Senate, and was the
| first negro Register of the United States
| Treasury.
At Atlanta, Tex, Capt. r. F. Boyle shot
and killed a. l.. Culberson his brotherin
law. Culberson was prominent attorney,
nephew of Congressman David Culberson
and a cousin of United States Senator
Chas A. Culbelson, and Boyle is Mayor
Of the town. They met and had a few hot
words and began fighting, but were separ-
ated. They met again in front Of the post
office and the killing occurred.
| Forty five acres of land on the ocean
beach southwest of San Francisco are to
be condemned by legal proceedings for the
| erection of heavy batteries for the defense
! of the harbor. The site commands the
! southern approach to the harbor, and is
| admirably adapted for fortihcatiOn pur-
poses. 1t has fine fresh lake in the rear,
which is fed by subterranean springs.
Work on the battery will be commenced
as soon as the government secures a title
to the land.
The prairie dogs in Texas are being de-
stroyed by means of new device for
catching them, which has been adopted
by large number of the ranchmen and
| farmers On one large ranch over Il, 900
We're captured and killed last week. The
trap is placed ever the animal mound,
and makes it a prisoner when it emerges
! from the hole This pest has been destroy
ing over 30 per cent. of the growing crops
and grass in Texas annually.
Ten years ago Louis G. Gottman went
in debt to buy farm Of l25 acres in Mar
ion County, Missoari. He refused all at
tempts to sell him more land, but carefully
cultivated every foot he had except what
he used for pasture. He is now out of
debt, has built a $1,000 barn, and recently
made a trip with his family to Europe.
He attributes his remarkable success to
utilizing to it's fullest capacity what he
possessed, without trying to overdue the
thing.