Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-10-11
CONDENSED DISPATCHES
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Tersely Told.

Notable Events OF the week Hrfcuy
and Tersely Told.
The United States supreme court con
vened at Washington.
Work was resumed by 1900 men in
Joliet (nls.) steel mill and car works.
''Tod" Sloane won the Prix du Consei
Municipal at Paris on NJ. Ephrussis Cod
man.
Five persons were killed and IS injur
ed In q collision at Karlsthor, Trans
vaal.
President Mckinley has started from
Canton for Washington, where he will
remain about ten days.
A jury was completed in the trial az
Frankfort, Ky, Of Fl. p. Youtsey fof
the murder of Governor Goebel.
Advices from Calcutta state that tn.
great drought In Assam has caused anx
iety for the tea and other crops.
Details Of Professor Koch's discovery
of cure for malaria showed that he had
tried it first on gorillas in Java with good
results.
Two men were arrested in Chicago OIL
q charge of conspiracy to swindle an in.
surance company and two insurance So
cieties out of $4,000.
Monday, Oct. 9.
New Hampshire's population was an
nounced at All ,5eS, an increase Of 9.3 per
cent since 1890.
At the Lehigh Pa.) Preparatory school
Leopold Gout, 16 years old, was acci-
dentally shot dead by his roommate.
Cornelius Vanderbilt announced that he
would not accept any Of the prizes won
by his 20 footer Rainbow this season.
Nearly one-half of the Touring mills in
Minneapolis have closed indefinitely ow-
ing to lack OF demand for their products.
Saturday, Oct. O.
From $500, 900 to 100000 Klondik.
and Nome gold reached Seattle.
A rising Of natives is reported from
Eromanba, in the New Hebrides islands.
The Russian cruiser Variag exceeds
by q QuArter knot her contract speed o.
% knots.
The strike Of the miners in the Mid
dlesboro district Of Kentucky is believed
to be over.
An, Italian made formal application to
an Illinois judge for permission to fight
a duel to the death.
ELI Garrett, a Sullivan county hunter.
was shot by one Of party Of New YORK.
sportsmen while acting as guide.
"A Strike Oh IulueTS at OdSketl, n.y., lOI
recognition Of the union, involving lower
wages, has been won by the men.
The Illinois secretary Of state has call
ed on corporations to make atfidavits that
they are not connected with trusts.
Fire seriously damaged Welbeck alb.
bey, the famous seat of the Dukes Of
Portland, at Worksop, Nottinghamshire
England.
Charles Broadway Rouss, the New
York merchant, has withdrawn his offer
of $1,O00,0O0 for the restoration of his
eyesight, feeling now that his case is
hopeless.
Friday, Oct. 8.
Klondike gold to the amount of 81, ,50O,-
600 arrived at Seattle.
There has been another outbreak of
smallpox at Cape Nome.
The total number of bodies recovered
at Galveston up to yesterday was 1886.
Wire communication between Skaguay,
Alaska, and the outside world has been
opened
The Texas floods have damaged cotton
to the amount of 100000 bales, worth
$2O,OOO,O0O.
Ciothier of Swarthmore beat Alexan-
der of Princeton and Plummer Of Yale
defeated Ware of Harvard in the inter-
collegiate tennis tournament.
1t was announced in Boston that the
embassad dorship to Italy had been offer
ed to George Won l.. Meyer, former
speaker Of the Massachusetts, house.
A Burlington passenger train was held
up three miles south of Council Bluffs
by two men, one Of whom was killed by
the express messenger. The other fed
without booty.
Thursday, Oct. 4.
News reached Victoria, b. c., Of rich
finds Of gold in the Porcupine district.
The personnel of the new Yale univer.
sity council was announced at New Ha.
ven.
The Cuban mosquito fleet reached Phil
adelphia and proceeded by the inside
route.
The New York state board of health
August.
tempt to go from Old Town. Me-, to
Washington in bark canoe.
A receiver has been appointed at South
McAlester. l. T., for the Mexican Gull
Coal and Transportation company.
Much annoyance has been caused the
presidential household at Canton, o.. by
baseless rumors of plot to kill Mr.. Me
Kinley.
The convention of the American Bank
ers' association was continued in Rich.
mond. Among the papers read was one
by United States Treasurer Roberts Oh
"The Treasury and the Money Market
Wednesday, Oct. >.
The annual convention of the American
Bankers association began ut Richmond.
The Michigan supreme court declared
the beet sugar bounty act unconstitu-
tional.
The Peruvian cabinet resigned as the
result OF the scandal over the purchase
Of arms.
More than $l1,0O0.OOO was collected
in the Eve boroushs Of Greater New York
on the first day for taking taxes
Prince Albert. heir presumptive to the
throne Of Belgium. was married at Mu-
mich TO Duchess Elizabeth OF Bavaria.