Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-10-04
CONDENSED DISPATCHES

ana TerseIy Told.
Town elections were held throughout
Connecticut.
Luther Edgerton Newport of st. Paul
became suddenly insane at Hartford.
Much property was destroyed in Ma
zatlan, Mexico, by q severe windstorm.
1t is stated that Secretary Root will
probably be able to resume his official
duties this week.
The mayor Of Georgetown, s. c., ap'
pealed to the governor for troops to pre-.
vent race riot in that place.
President Adams of the University OF
Wisconsin has been obliged to take a
years rest because of poor health.
At the opening of the Nottingham
autumn meeting Johnny Reiff, the Amer.
lean jockey, rode the winners in four
chief races.
Monday, Oct. 1.
Thirty persons were injured at Wichi.
ia, Kan, by the derailinS of a street car.
Mrs. j. w. Clark of Avondale, Ala,
was shot in the head and instantly killed
by her own son, aged 1S.
Governor Sayers Of Texas announced
that he had received $672, ,476.29 for the
sufferers on'the Texas coast.
Hon. 8. N. Parent has accepted the
premiership of Quebec province to sue.
ceed the late premier, Marchand.
The recent storm damages at the town
Of Velasco, Tex, are announced by the
local committee to aggregate $4OO, 900.
A Santa .Fe passenger train was wreck
ed at Waterloo, o. T.. Two persons
were killed outright, and three others
we're fatally wounded.
Saturday, Sept. 20.
No case Of yellow fever has been re-
ported at Santiago, Cuba, since last De-
cember.
The town Of Solomon City, at the
mouth Of Solomon river, Alaska, was de-
stroyed by a recent storm.
Paul Sloan, deputy sheriff, was kill
ed by a mob at Lake Charles, La, while
saving a negro prisoner from lynching.
The United Mine Workers ordered
strike in the Oak Hill district of Ohio un-
less the operators raised wages to the
district scale.
Fire in Hamburg, Germany, destroyed
several warehouses. granary and resi-
dences, causing a loss Of more than
1,000, 900 marks.
American exports to Asia and Oceanica
for August show a falling off, but total
exports for eight months Of the year
show large increase In all directions.
Charles T., Yerkes Of Chicago and New
York was elected chairman of the new
board Of directors of the Charing Cross,
Euston and Hampstead Underground
railroad in London.
Friday, Sept. %.
The Greek warship Navarchos Mao
ules arrived in New York harbor.
Tho TTuifod 2%staS ;p;nr ah;,, H,x,,I,
ran ashore nine miles above Montreal.
Secretary Hay will resume charge of
his Office in Washington early next week
Irving NJ. Scott Of San Francisco has
been elected president of the Pacific Com
mercial museum.
The two hundredth academic terms of
Yale opened yesterday. The freshman
classes number 600.
The new bessemer plant of the Repub-
lie Iron and Steel company at Youngs-
town, o., began work.
The United States received more
awards at the Paris exposition than any
other nation except France.
Charles A. Collier, prominent citizen
of Atlanta, was found in his back yard
having been shot, probably by burglars
The steamer Robert Dollar, which sail
ed from Port Townshend for Cape Nome
on Aug. 25, has not since been heard
from.
Thursday, Sept. 27.
News was received of great hurricane
in Iceland Sept. 20.
The Russian church has excommuni-
Gated Tolstoi, the novelist.
An appeal for further relief was issued
by the Galveston committee.
-Four lives We're lost in u tornado at
Ferguson, Marshall county, la.
Lieutenant Richmond p. Hobson has
gone to Alabama to visit relatives.
Professor Frank X. Sanders of Yale
has been elected president Of Iowa col
lege.
The Mexican congress declared Gen
eral Diaz unanimously reelected presi-
dent
Steps have been taken for the fedora
tion Of the Fiji islands with New Zea-
land.
Admiral Walker. chairman OF the Mica.
ragua canal commission, visited Canton
and conferred with the president.
Boer sympathizers in convention at
Chicago invited President Kruger to
make his home in the United States.
Wednesday, Sept. 20. |
Another death from the plague was re-
ported at Glasgow.
The Iron Mountain shops at Barring |
Cross, Ark. were burned.
Marble Falls and Kingsland, Tex, were
reported in great danger from floods.
Two men were sent to Jail for two
months at Atlantic City for sc,tlping rail- |
road tickets.
Fire about Occidental. Cal. covered !
$50 square miles and did damage to the |
amount of 81 100000.
A storm that ragged for two days ut |
Nome destroyed property valued at $780, |
600. Many lives were probably lost.