Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-28
THE COUNTRY IN GENERAL
A Summary of Happenings at
Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS CONDENSED
A Review of What Has Transpired
of Public Interest.

Nyack, Sept. 23.-Nancy Van Riper,
after three unsuccessful attempts to
drown herself, now refuses to eat, hop
ing to kill herself in that way. She is
domestic and Henry Eaton says that
he loves her, but they cannot marry
as he earns only 81 week.
Victoria, B. c., Sept. 23.-Peter Jack
son, the colored pugilist, who has been
giving number of sparTing exhibit
tions throughout the Northwest, has
returned from Vancouver suffering
from a severe attack of pneumonia.
He was ordered to the hospital, and it
is feared he may not recover.
indianapolis, Ind, Sept. pa purse
of $4,000 has been contributed by citi-
zens, and the Indianapolis Light Artil-
lery, known in the Spanish war as Bat
tery A, will take part In the Dewey
reception at New York. The battery
couterments and horses. and will be
forwarded by special train.
London, Sept. 23.-The Hamburg
American Line steamship Columbia,
Capt Vogelgesang. which called at
Southampton from New York via Cher
bourg for Hamburg, reported having
passed on September 16, in latitude 33,
longitude So, burning wooden ship.
seemingly of American build and ap-
parently abandoned.
Algiers, Sept. 23.-MaX Regis, for
merly mayor of Algiers and notorious
Jew-baiter, left during the night the
villa just outside the town in which
he and his party of adherents had
been barricaded for some days, fearing
arrest by the government 1t is said
he went on board Il boat bound for
Spain. Eight of his companions We're
arrested.
Vancouver, Il. c., Sept. 23.-Italian
claims in China as set forth in detail
are as follows: The Italian govern
ment claims for its capitalists the right
10 construct railways from Hang Chow
to Ningpo, from Pekin to Shansi and
from Canton to the western borders Of
the province of Kwang: and as con
tinuations of the projected English rail
way system. Italy also claims right To
establish Italian schools throughout
China.
Milton, Pa. Sept. 23.--Aged Post
master Isaac Wintermute is prostrated
after terrible battle with Il huge
blacksnake that had crawled into Il
nail bag at Mill Rift. He is eighty
one years old and the snake was six
feet long and very heavy. 1t coiled
about him and he fought several min
utes, upsetting many barrels and boxes
in his grocery store before he could
free himself from it's coils that almost
strangled him.
Manila. Sept. pa railroad train
was thrown from the track by the in
surgcnts mile south of Angeles. The
wreckers then opened fire on the de-
rallied cars from the cover of bani-
boo thicket Two Americans were
killed and several wounded. The in
surgents We're forced to retire under
vigorous fire from Lieutenant Lowe
and several scouts who were on the
train. They left six dead in the
thicket.
Washington Sept. 23.-George ID.
Gear, an attorney Of Honolulu, called
at the State Department to present
statement relative to the ill-treatment
of coolie labor in the Hawaiian Is
lands. He asserts that the Supreme
Court of Hawaii by its rulings is sus-
tanning a system of slavery of the
worst kind in the islands, in violation
of the constitution of the United
States, and he asks that the attorney
general be required to declare whether
or not the constitution covers the is
lands.
London, Sept. 25.-The British steam
ship Almond Branch towed off the
British steamship Oak Branch, Capt
Steel, from Baltimore for Vladivostock.
ashore ut False Ras Gharib. The Oak
Branch has returned to Suez, where
she is being examined by divers.
New Brunswick, \. j., Sept. %
William Darling, charged with the
murder of Harry Durham at New
Market in August, 1885, has just plead
ed non vult to an allegation of murder
here. He was sentenced by Justice
Gilbert Collins to twenty years in the
State prison Mt hard labor.
Louisville, Ky, Sept. 25.-Frank Me-
Twain, the young man who was shovel
ing coal on n barge near here, when
told that his half interest in a Cali
fornia gold claim had proved to be
worth $4,000. will not take any chance
on it. He said. when told. well, I'll
hold my job until get the money"
Chicago, Sept. 25.-Once more Walter
Jones. the comedian, is not going to
marry the heiress picked out for him
by matchmakers Miss Daisy Young,
daughter of Millionaire Otto Young, re-
turned from Europe and announced
that She and the comedian will not be
married on next Monday evening, as
announced, nor at any other time.
Akron, Ohio, Sept. 25.-For an hour
Mrs. Emil Pouchet waded up and
down in the cold waters of the Little
Cuyahoga River searching for the body
of her three-year-old son, who had
wandered away from his home and fal-
len from the river bank. Friends
who came to the woman's aid found
the body. The mother is craZed with