The Republican journal., 1900-01-25
NEWS NOTES.

NEWS NOTES.
European officers are constantly joining
the Boer forces.
Almost 5000, 600 persons are receiving
famine relief in India.
The cost of the ocean cables so far con-
structed exceeds $3.50, 900, 900.
Cars of American pattern have been
adopted for Paris underground electric
road.
The breweries of Milwaukee and Chicago
made during the past year 643, 800 barrels
of beer.
In the sixteen years ended July /, 1899,
there landed at New York, 416, 149 Irish
persons.
a broker asserts that the Christmas tips
in Wall street amount annually to nearly
$780, 600.
"Optical telegraphy," an italian inyen-
ton, has been adopted for testing in the
Mexican army.
The richest gold discoveries during last
year have just been made ON the Indian
River, near Dawson.
An electrically operated whipping device
has been introduced into some of the pen
itentares in France.
The New York grape belt contains 80 600
acres, and the average yield is 1000 cars,
3 600 baskets to- car.
Two thousand new policemen will be
required to keep crooks in control at Paris
during the exposition.
The extensive milling industry of Mar
settles annually brings large quantities of
American wheat to that port
The product of the potato farms in De
trot in 1899 was 10, 400 bushels, produced
at a cost of about Sc bushel
A beef famine is threatening the Klon-
dixie, the retail prices of fresh meat early
in December being 81 per pound
Since March 10 of last year New Jersey
has enrolled corporations that represent a
face stock value of 81, 403, 400, 900.
A hunt in Otero county, COL, resulted
in the killing of 2500 jack rabbits, which
were given to Denver's poor on Christmas
| day.
Statistics show a reduction, by curfew
, ordinances, of so per cent. of the crimes
committed by children under fifteen years
of age.
The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, at
Ponce, has sentenced five men to be gar
roted for murder committed in Octo-
Der, 1898.
Kid boots are going up in price in Eng
land. The reason given is that too many
young animals have been killed to pro-
i vide them.
A Kansas man is suing for divorce main
ly on the ground that his wife nags him so
persistently and has done it so long that he
hasn the heart even to say grace at the
table.
There are but few members of either
house of Congress who can be said to have
made their million. Not a single Southern
Senator or Representative is to be named
in the list.
After sandbagging man into uncon-
seriousness, two Minneapolis highwaymen
robbed their victim, ard then took him to
lodging house, put him to bed and paid
for his lodging.
In Santiago in the better class of houses
the bedsteads are surrounded with close
kind of netting, beginning at the floor and
gathered at the top. This is intended as
protection against tarantulas.
In the last year the railroads of Connec-
ticut carried so, 269, 1858 passengers, with
a record of none killed. The trolley lines
of the State caused the death of eleven pas
sengers in total of SO, 0s4, 702.
An analysis of the marriage records in
Oklahoma dscloses that the average age
of brides there is % years. If the remarry-
ing widows should be counted out the
average would fall below 10 years.
At recent local option election in
Cloverport, KY, women and preachers
crowded the entrance to the polls and
sang hymns, while church bells were ring
ing. The temperance advocates won.
An old woman, arrested for street beg
ging in Marquette. Mich, had in her dirty,
ragged clothing s3445 in bills, and eleven
500 United States per cent. bonds. She
was sent to an asylum, the authorities
| urging that a woman who thus made a
savings bank of her clothes must be in
sane.
The Chicago Anti Cruelty Society has
instituted movement TO nave all the car
riage horses in that city shod with rubber
shoes to prevent them from slipping. One
horse was attired in IA brand new set of
rubber boots during a recent snow storm
and got along SO we'll that Others are to be
equipped in like manner
| Senator Vest will not be candidate for
re- election when his present term expires
in 1908. He will then be Il, if he lives
until that time. Senator Vest will have
been in the Senate twentyfour years. He
was elected in 1879, succeeding James
Shields, who was filling, by appointment,
the unexpired term left through the death
of Senator Bogy.
A runaway horse in New York, with We
hicle attached, was stopped by wooden
Indian, which, with uplifted arm holding
a bunch of wooden cigars, was doing duty
in front of cigar store. The horse took
to the sidewalk, and the lines became en-
tangled with the Indians arm. The i'm
age being chained to the premises, the
horse was brought to a sudden stop.