The Republican journal., 1900-03-15
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NEWS NOTES.

The consumption of cotton per head has
more than doubled in Germany since 1875.
! Many Cuban sugar planters have closed
their mills because Of the scarcity of labor.
| French statistics are said to prove that
| 81 French officers threw up their commits
sions to join the Beers.
Experiments in Ireland have yielded
| tobacco twice as strong as any. other sold,
with net profit of $500 an acre.
| Four thousand continental emigrants
! per month are rushing to England to take
/ vacant situations at higher wages.
The Legislature of Mississippi has passed
bill forbidding the safe OF cocaine except
on the prescription of physician.
1t costs 81, 400 900 year to maintain
the twenty four royal palaces of Emperor
I William throughout the German Empire.
Four hundred Alaskan miners have ap-
| pealed to Congressman Lacy, praying for
| legal authority to mine the Nome beaches.
Standard Oil stocks advanced the other
day to 80, ex- dividend. This means 30
including dividend, and this is the highest
( price ever reached.
A Huntsville MO. preacher has married
on an average one couple day for twenty
Years, and in not a single instance has
! there been divorce.
Our weather bureau service is to be ex-
tended by the establishment of obserya-
tories in all Mexican gulf ports between
/ Tampico and Progreso.
/ Eighty per cent. of he cattle of Uruguay
are used for the purpose of making ''tasta-
jo,' or jerked beef, for exploration to
Brazil, Cuba and Puerto Rico.
| A sale was made ut Columbus, Ga, one
day last week oI 3 !, coo bales of cotton at
! : l-2c per pound, The purchaser gave in
! payment bis check tor 91353, 900.
| The late Duke OF Westminster S estate,
supposed to be SO 600. 600 was returned
as aggregating only s., $40, G00 in view of
( heavy death duties levied on estates.
! From New York, Pennsylvania and
/ Vermont comes most of the comb honey,
/ and from Arizona and California the larg
est amount of extracted or liquid honey.
Gen. Ludlow has been obliged to delay
| his return to Havana because of the task
/ contided to him by Secretary Root con-
nected with the organization of war col
| lege.
| The Oldest note in the possession of the
Bank of England is dated December 10,
| 1899, for $500. In the bank library is a
note for so, which was not presented for
| III years
I Lieut.. Col. Clarence B. Edwards, who
accompanied Lawton's remains home,
has been appointed chief of the divisions
of customs and insular affairs of the War
| Department.
| Recent Investigations have shown that
| there are in the State of Mary land at least
i Is, 600 voters who could not meet au educa
/ tlonal test, should one be required, as has
been proposed.
The training ship Hartford was spoken
| January IS, all well, about 1000 miles
west OF the north coast of South America,
making for Callao, en- route to New York
+ oy way of Cape Horn.
The sum of 81. 637 coo has been expend-
! ed in New Jersey in making 440 miles of
good roads. Massachusetts has spent 81,
/ 631, 300 on $50 miles, which are as perfect
as any highways in Europe.
Mrs. Taylor, wife of the Governor os
? IA
the exciting times in Frankfort She
visited the soldiers each day, and carried
| TO them baskets of cake and sweetmeats.
Spain lost 125, 600 soldiers in Cuba. The
revolution cost 500, 900 Cuban lives. Jose
MART raised the flag of independence in
February, 1895. American Intervention
occurred in April, 1898. American occu-
patton began January /, 1899.
| The Mercha nts' Association of New
York wants to amend the charter as
to give the city large power of condemn
ing sources of supply for its water neces-
stiles. At present the city can not take
any water shed already controlled by a
private company.
Two German physicians are perfecting
an instrument by which it will be possible
to take photographs of the interior of the
stomach. 1t is essentially composed of a
series of lenses and a camera attached to
stomach tube. The lig hit is derived from
an electric lamp.
Because of the change in the South AT
rican situation London has become more
joyous. and preparations are making for
social affairs. Lord Roberts is now the
nero or the D0ur, while ten kltcnenef
popularity is on the wane, because of his
hardness of heart and automatic methods
Since Mr. Rockefeller's share of the
Standard Oil Company dividends gives
him an income of S32, 600, 600 year from
that source alone, Mr. Carnegie's state
ment that the oil king is the richest mar
in the world still holds good, despite thu
remarks of Mr.. Frick. which credits tn,
iron king with only S24 800, 900 year.
The Wogloms and the Waglums, all de
scended from Jan Van Woggelum, o
Woggflum, Holland, held family reunion
in Brooklyn on Washington's birthday
One important object of the reunion wa
to persuade the members of the family t.
change their names back to Van Woggelur
in honor of their Dutch ancestor.
John Montgomery of Council Bluffs
To-, the oldest man in that State, wa
killed the other dav by being run over b
a railroad train. He was standing on tn
tracks discussing politics, and was s
interested that he did not hear the train
v approach. He was born in Glasgow
Scotland, on January II, 1892, and ha
Y | lived in Iowa for thirty two wears