The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-04-19
NEWS NOTES.

Valuable copper deposits have been
found near Canton, Ia.
Mineral production in the United
States this year VIII reach q value OF
nearly 81 000,0O0,0OO.
Denmark's islands in the West Indies
cost the government S75, 900 a year more
than their revenue.
A Grecian war-ship, the first to cross
the Atlantic, will leave Athens for New
York in few days.
The first Indian schools were estab-
lished about twenty years ago. To-day
there are over POO OF these schools.
One hundred persons were poisoned,
some fatally. by eating chicken salad at
a church entertainment at Lima, Q.
Minnesota's schools cost about s., 0Oo,
600 annually, and that is one-third of
the money raised by taxes in the State.
The State Department has been mott
fed that the Persian Government is
about to send Minister to Washing
ton.
Because he had twice been sentenced
for robbery in Germany Julius Wanake
was forbidden to enter the port of New
York.
A hotel exclusively for women is to
be built in New York by the Woman's
Hotel Company, chartered with $500, 600
capital.
| New Zealand's frozen meat trade with
Great Britain now equals about $4,000
sheep a day, or some 100000 carcasses
per annum.
Five cents apiece is offered by city ALL
thorities for dead rats at Astoria, Ore,
where it is feared they will bring bu-
bonic plague.
The bubonc p.ague is rapidly spread
ing in India In Bengal 4725 deaths oc-
Cured last week, including IA in Cal
cutta and 2044 in Patna.
1t was reported that the Prince of
Wales intended to challenge for the
| Americas cup. but that he was inter
ferred with by the South African war
The Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf
Railroad was sold at Joplin, No. for
ST.. 500. 600, to the representative of the
! Philadelphia reorganization committee.
The Western College for Women has
sent home number of its girl students
because the faculty caught thirteen go
ing through the rites of a secret society
Secretary Long issued the order con-
shutting general board ito insure eff
ticient preparation Of the fleet in case
Of war and for the naval defense of the
coast.
\ victory for American ship owners
is the Treasury Departments decision
that American goods shipped to >kag-
way in Canadian vessels must pay
duties.
On the body of Henry Taylor, who
had been attended by a faith cure doc
tor at Havana. ILL.,. was found tag, on
which was written: This man is not
dead but in trance
The American exhibit at Paris. rep
resenting over 1000 firms, will be fair
in itself. Not less than 10000 Americans
have been engaged for permanent ser
vices on the grounds.
Lompoc, in Santa Barbara County,
Cal, grows mustard for the whole ma
ton. lnthat region 1000 acres are cul-
tlvated to the seed, the industry EN-
ploylng about POO farmers.
The New England Sunday Protective
League has sent a letter to President
Mckinley asking that he ask Congress
to close the American building at the
Paris Exposition on Sundays.
Last year sixtytwo new silk mills
were started in the United States. The
raw material must be imported but
American workmanship is producing
great results in its manufacture.
Exports of American manufactured
goods have increased 60 per cent within
two years. The capacity to make the
best articles at the best prices is full of
splendid promise for the country
4 sheepman of Rushville, Neb.. has
been buying up all of the dogs that he
could find for a car load shipment to
Dawson City. He has found any amount
OF the animals and he has averaged a
price for them of 50 head
Conditions are highly prosperous in
Kansas. During the past year only one
bank i'll the State failed. Nearly all the
banking institutions earned large divi-
dends Forty of them paid dividends
OF 27.9 per cent. and the general average
OF earnings was over 20 per cent.
Col. Hodges of Perry County, Ga. saws
the peach crop is all right The Elbertas
and one or two other varieties were
damaged slightly by the recent freeze,
but the damage done to the peaches is
hardly enough to relieve the trees of
the immense amount of peaches they
would have.
Along the docks and piers of New
York City are to be found ample evil
dences OF the great growth of our for
elgn trade Ships are loading there for
ports in every quarter Of the world, and
so rapidly are the goods being delivered
that the facilities for handling them are
severely taxed.
Detroit originally planned an exposi-
ton in honor of the booth anniversary
OF its founding, but has now decided to
raise s1,000,0OO for splendid marble
colonnade 1900 feet long, with column
rising go feet above the center of the
Detroit River and to be brilliantly illu-
minated at night
Interesting to Tobacco Consumers.
When the so-called Tobacco Trust was
formed about year ago, the Harry Wes-
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