Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-23
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events Of the Week Briefly
ana Tersoly Told.

ana Tersely Told.
Gsyamor General Wood of Cuba rode
l20 miles in 20 hours across the island.
A severe earthquake was reported from
Dawson City. Skaguay and Alaskan
points.
A Minnesota farmer near Arlington
killed his wife and three children, burn
ed his barn and fed.
The president has decided to give out
his letter Of acceptance from Canton
about a month hence.
Cuban customs receipts for the first
half Of 1900 were over $8yOOO,O 900, far
more than in 1899 for the same period.
Three masked burglars entered the
house of r. L. Fosburg at Pitts6eld.
Mass, killing the latter's daughter and
wounding his son.
The Canadian authorities have agreed
to act In harmony with the United States
in keeping out undesirable immigrants
destined for this country.
Monday, Aug. 10.
The surrender Of the main body Of the
Colombian revolutionary army was an
nounced.
The official count of the twelfth CEN
sus makes the population Of Greater
New York S,473,202
South Water street merchants report
that more than 62,0OO frogs We're sold
Saturday in Chicago.
The American tennis championship was
retained in this country by the defeat
of Gore, the English champion, at New
port, r. l.
Caleb Powers. ex-secretary Of state In
So sns
ty in the murder of William Goebel and
was sentenced to life Imprisonment.
Heat and typhoid fever are making
ravages in Baltimore. The fever cpl
demic Is largely due to bad drinking wa
aer, which in turn is the result Of the
dry, hot weather.
Saturday, Aug. Is.
Old Home week was celebrated in Con.
cord, N. H.
One man was killed and three injured
in Chicago FIRE.
Incendiaries tried to burn and loot the
village of Smithfeld, Ills.
Forest fires were reported raging In
several parts Of Colorado.
Seven cases of smallpox have developed
in Erie, Pa, all of light nature.
Japan has placed heavy orders in San
Francisco for salmon to feed its army.
Three men were drowned from the
yacht st. Francois in the st. Lawrence
river near Tadousac.
Poison was found in the stomach Of
Edward p. Herrick, the aged Chicago
merchant who died suddenly last week.
A Chicago wallpaper man committed
suicide in order that his wife and chill
dren might receive his So, 1000 insurance.
Two prisoners, who had been chained
together, jumped through a car window
from q moving train near Otis, Ind, and
escaped.
Friday, Aug. IT.
Fire ut the Berwind colliery, Dubois,
Pa, caused damage Of 100000.
Russell Sage gave his annual picnic to
1000 poor children Of Poughkeepsie,
N. Y.
Six hundred prospectors returned from
Cape Nome with stories Of destitution
and illness there.
Sir William NJ. Conway, the British
explorer, has reached Lima, Peru, en-
route to the Andes.
Two Kentucky train robbers were SEN
fenced, one to four, the other to ten
years imprisonment.
Henry Youtsey, indicted In the Goebel
case, has been taken i'll at Georgetown,
Ky, on the eve of his trial.
Three persons were killed by an explo-
sion of natural gas in a Chicago house.
and three are reported missing.
Michael Drumm of Oswego. n. Y. was
reported dead. Later he appeared and
threatened to sue the newspapers.
The French government Is reported to
be looking for English ships to bring
10000 tons of coal from Norfolk 10
French ports.
Thursday, Aug. 10.
Floods in Japan have drowned 200
people.
The president and Mrs. Mckinley left
Canton for Washington.
The Panama revolution was reported
to have ended by July 20.
The West India fruit steamer Bermu.
da sank at her dock in Philadelphia.
Seven persons were killed and many
injured Ia train collision at Piersou.
Mich.
Two 9-yesr-old boys have been arrest
ed at Victor. Colo. charged with wreck
ing trains.
G1-bouutor Ausuhs' iepohtco uSiuB AZ
Las Vegas. n. NJ. has expressed wish
to return to Atchison.
A design has been accepted for q
monument in Spencer county, Ind, over
the grave OF Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
Sand island. one Of the Midway group.
has been recommended as a landing sta
ton for the proposed Pacific cable to
the Philippines.
Wednesday. Aug. IL.
The Paris exposition jury has made
AZ, TOO awards to exhibitors.
Two railway men were killed In q
freight collision near Baltimore.
The French have peaceably occupied
the Touat oasis In North Africa.
An Alaskan steamer reached Seattle
with 500, 700 worth Of gold dust.
The government leader at Panama said
the rebel casualties in recent battles had
been GOO.
Miss Helen Zimmerman of Cincinnati
denied that she was engaged to the Duke
Of Manchester.