Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-11-08
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

months leave of absei E from his work
in Washington to recul rate his health.
The funeral Of form Mayor William
l.. Strong was attendt lin New York by
an unusual gathering f men prominent
in all walks of life.
Judge Vail of the ,nois state circuit
court decided that C) go board Of trade
quotations must be en to the public
without discrimination.
Motion at meeting of Dublin city cor
poration to confer freedom of city on for
mer President Kruger was ruled out OF
order by the lord mayor.
Monday, Nov. 8.
Mrs. Kruger, the wife of eX-President
Kruger, is very ill at Pretoria
Eleven persons were injured by the col
lision of two electric ears in Cincinnati.
The disturbances in China have struck
q severe blow to the silk industry in Eu-
rope.
The cabinet crisis in Chile has been ter
minated by the formation of coalition
ministry.
A large tannery at Rancho del Chopo,
near City of Mexico, was burned, with u
loss estimated at $500,OOO.
The Mississippi state board of health
officially reports one case of yellow fever
ut Natchez. The source of the infection
Is not yet known.
Standard Oil certificates made Il new
record in the New York curb market
They touched 625, or II points higher
than the highest price ever quoted.
Saturday, Nov. 3.
Every colliery in the Hazleton region is
in operation.
A football injury paralyzed a substitute
on the University of California eleven.
Arthur Harris, the negro who stabbed
Policeman Thorpe in New York, was SEN
fenced for life.
Constitutional guarantees have been
suspended throughout Spain as a result
of the Carlist disorders
Three hundred thousand dollars have
been left to Lehigh university to provide
fund to lend money to needy students.
Exports of manufactures amounted to
more than $1,OO0,0O0 day during the
nine months ended with September, 1900.
Stockholders of the Stickney Ware
house company of st. Paul have petition
ed court to terminate it's corporate ex-
istence.
Twenty-four students have been en-
rolled in the American School of Classical
Studies at Rome, representing ten col
leges and universities.
Friday, Nov. =.
General Daniel Mcclure, u. S. A., re-
tired, died at Louisville.
Count Tolstoi was hurt by Il fall and
in consequence will not spend the winter
in Moscow.
A big demonstration was held at Hall
fax in honor of the troops back from the
South African war.
Subscriptions to new Swiss loan Of
100000 francs will be received in New
York city as wellasin Europe.
Beers captured British outpost of sc
men near Geneva and also looted and
destroyed Cape Town mail train.
DR.. Chase of the Yale observatory pre-
diets that the meteor display which fail
ed last year will appear this month.
The British steamer Orange Prince res
cued at sea two sailors from an Ameri
can schooner who had become lost in O
fog and spent four days in an open boat
The London Yachting World printed a
letter from Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt to
Captain Parker in which he assumes ali
responsibility for the extra ballast OIL
the yacht Rainbow.
Thursday, Nov. 1.
A smallpox outbreak was reported at
Guayaquil, Ecuador.
A London dispatch reported the death
of Edward Henry Stuart Bligh, seventh
Earl Darnley.
A valuable horse in Bath Beach, n. Y.
was cured of lockjaw. This is the first
cure in veterinary history.
John w. Yerkes, Republican candidate
for governor Of Kentucky, visited Presi
dent Mckinley at Canton.
Doctors at the Post Graduate hospital
New York city. were unable to rouse
Nina Leavitt, the baby who has been
asleep for % days.
Three hundred miners employed ut the
Hudson colliery, at Wilkesbarre. went Oh
strike. There was also n strike at one
colliery in the Hazleton region.
Thursday, Oct. II.
More collieries in the Hazleton distric,
resumed operations.
The sum of 81 ,250,00O in gold dust ar
rived ut Seattle from Alaska.
Reports from Malaga say that tn,
raisin crop is 80 per cent short.
Fifteen persons were injured in col
lision on the Chicago and Alton road.
Count Tolstoi is reported in excellent
health and engaged in writing a drama
entitled "A Corpse
The department of agriculture ISSUED
an official report saying that the hors,
chestnut is poisonous.
| Returns from the British parliamentar!
election in the Orkney and Shetlan,
district show Unionist gain.
| L.
within two months imposed II specia
| tax for the benefit of the Red Cross so
ciety.
| A Texas Airship.
| AUSTIN, Nov. 3.-The Custaro Air