Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-09-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES
Notable Events Of the Week Brieny
and Tersely Told.


ban elections passed off satisfactorily.
Prince Albert of Saxony has been kill
ed in carriage accident near Dresden.
Prince Ching has requested the state
department to instruct Minister Congcr
to open peace negotiations.
The census bureau has announced the
population of Elizabeth, n. d.. as g.
13O, an increase of 3S.O4 per cent.
The German emperor has cabled to the
president an expression of his sympa-
thy with the misfortune of Galveston.
A loaded truck from Wnnamaker's
New York store plunged from Fulton
ferryboat. Horses and driver were
drowned.
John Netzel of New York city has
been arrested Oh his mothers charge of
theft. She says clairvoyant told her
he was guilty.
Two Italians who were arrested in
Mount Vernon, n. v, for chopping wood
on Sunday have been fined IS each. Ac-
ton by the magistrate was based on an
old blue law.
Monday, Sept. IL.
The Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes. the
young millionaire curate of st. Paul's
Protestant Episcopal church in New Ha-
More than 200 Boxers have been killed
by the Fourteenth United States infantry
in an engagement at Matow, on the road
to Peking. No American casualties have
been reported.
Juda Fleece, an artists model of un-
usual beauty, committed suicide at her
home in New York city by taking NOR
phine. Although but 16 years old, she
had been married more than year.
The heads of many Of the United
States marines killed in battle in China
have been found in possession of cap
tured Chinese The Celestials had con-
cealed the ghastly trophies in sacks.
John B. Randolph, Il friend of the late
Coils p. Huntington and acknowledged
one Of the foremost art critics i'll the
country, died in the J. Hood Wright hos
pital in New York city yesterday morn
ing.
Saturday. Sept. 10.
A partial list of 2.701 dead has been
published in Houston.
Fitchburg railroad stockholders at Bos-
ton ratified the lease to the Boston and
Maine.
Railway companies entering Galveston
arranged to build temporary bridge for
joint use.
Galveston relief funds reaching Gov
ernor Savers Of Texas have amounted to
81 100000.
President Kruger has removed to the
home of the district governor of Louren-
60 Marques.
Travis defeated Byers and Livingston
bea, Armstrong in the golf semitnals at
Tuxedo Park.
Lord Roberts issued a proclamation to
the Beers, pointing out the futility of
further resistance.
\ second revolution has been reported
as likely in Colombia, over imprisonment
Of former president.
1t is said in Philadelphia that the short
coal supply in Europe would cause the
strike to be felt there.
Mrs. Breitkopf of New York city de-
clares her son was killed by roughs to
whom he refused TO pay weekly tribute
of $4
Friday, Sept. II.
President and Mrs. Mckinley have left
Somerset. Pa, for Canton.
Two telegraph wires have reached Gal
weston and are now working all right
The steamer City Of Seattle has
to Seattle.
Total subscriptions in New York for
the Galveston sufferers amount to more
than $4,000.
Two captains of New York ireboats
have been given gold watches for heroism
in the Hoboken fire.
Large sums are being offered on the
New York Stock Exchange. to bet on Nc
Kinley at odds of 21la to |.
Joseph Thielmarny, aged ), was fatally
shot by his brother, aged Z, while play
ing soldier at Perth Amboy.
The japanese in Peking have arrested
the assassin of Baron Won Ketteler. He
declared the Chinese government ordered
the murder.
Minister Conger has reported that Rev.
Cortland Van Rensselaer, Hodge and
wife, missionaries at Pao-Ting- Flu, have
been killed.
Thursday, sept. 13.
Drunken negroes are causing reign of
terror at Huron, Ind.
President Kruger of the Transvasl has
arrived at LOurenco Marques.
The plague has increased in India. Over
1000 deaths We're reported last week.
\ tower of the Pan American exposi-
tion ut Buffalo has been blown down.
Clara Barton of the Red Cross society
will leave Washington for Galveston.
An allied force left Tien-tsin Sept. = to
disperss threatening body Of Boxers at
Sheng- Fl ae-Sien and Tile.
Swiss has been arrested at San Sc
bastian with papers revealing anarchist
plot to assassinate a European monarch.
The Russo Chinese bank at Picking has
conhscated 5,OOO,OOO taels of Chinese
money as part OF the indemnity to be paid
Russia by China.
Wednesday,, Sept. IL.
Throngs Of guests have reached Somer-
| vet, Pa. where the presidents niece will
be married
Advices from Peking state that per-
feet harmony prevails among the inter
national forces.
1t has been reported through japanese
sources that the Russians have captured
the empress dowager.
A dispatch from Rome says the Ital-
ian cabinet has decided to initiate imme-