The Republican journal., 1900-11-29
NEWS NOTES.
McKinley's vote in Colorado increas-
ed "a, 600 over that OF 1896.

is reported ITOm NcW1ouHuldIlu.
Officers of the revenue cutter Richard
Rush report that the Aleutian Island
Indians are rapidly dying off.
Harvard University has given to the
Historical Society of Ohio the famous
Serpent Mound" in that State.
One-fourth of the inhabitants of the
world die before they reach the seventh
year, one-half before their seventeenth
year.
The allies at Pao-Ting-Fu have sen.
fenced to death number of Chinese
officials responsible for the outrages
upon missionaries.
The total population of the United
States was announced by the Census
Bureau as 1926, ,220. That of New
York State is 7,26S,OO9.
There are 141 theological schools in
the United States, 80 law schools, 92
regular medical schools, 8 eclectic medi-
cal schools, and IA homeopathic.
The New Orleans City Council has
rejected proposed ordinance providing
for separate street cars for negroes, in
spite of great pressure brought to secure
its passage.
Only eight States have been uniform
ly Republican in presidential years since
1S60-Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
/ Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsyl-
vania, Iowa and Minnesota.
a kitten has been brought up on an
exclusively vegetable diet by a family
of vegetarians. The result is that it
will not touch animal. food, and pays
no attention to rats or mice
The experiment station has concluded
that flax grown for seed in Minnesota
is identical with Russian flax, and prob
ably equally as good as that imported
from Europe at high price.
Secretary Hay has cabled Commits
sioner Rockhill his appointment as
Councillor of the American Legation at
Pekin, to assist Minister Conger in the
negotiations for final settlement.
An officer in the Austrian army has
invented small balloons, which will
float both men and horses across river.
They are to be fastened to belts around
the men and to the harness of the horses.
During the last ten years more than
S1O.0OO,OOO has been expended in the ag-
United States in the maintenance of
ricultural experiment stations, S7,00O,-
900 of which has come from the federal
government.
Judge Dunno of Chicago rendered
decision that drinking beer from a pail
is not violation of city ordinance,
and ordered the release of two men
l,y+ +1,p1 1o, ,rfc fT,, f1,nf oil
ed OtfenSe.
Five of the worlds powers have agreed
to the Chinese policy Of the open door
and the integrity of the empire as en-
bodied in the Anglo-German compact,
reserving action on the third clause OF
the agreement.
The monthly comparative statement
of the government receipts and eXpendi-
lures shows that the total receipts for
October were sol ,626,O67, and the eX-
penditures S47, ,903. .637, leaving surplus
for the month of So, 632, 430.
In a saloon fight in New York one
man received probably fatal wounds.
When his assailant was captured and
brought before him the wounded man
declared, NO, he didn't stab me at all, :"
but the other broke in with, Sure |
stabbed him."
Some. at least. of the great redwood
trees of California will be be preserved,
the State having recently come into
possession of about 400 acres of redwood
forest through the will of the late Col.
], b. Armstrong of Cloverdale, Sonoma
Comfy The tract is to be held as a
public park.
Workmen digging ditch near Round
Prairie. in Logan County, o., have just
uncovered one of the best preserved
mastodon skeletons yet found in that
State. Unfortunately they damaged
one of the enormous tusks before they
knew what it was. The tusk is 9 feet
| in diameter at the socket end.
Two former candidates for the presi-
dency have died during the present year,
Gen. John Bidwell, the Prohibition
candidate, at his home i'll Chico, Cal,
and Gen. Palmer in Springfield. Ill.
of which 5000 were cast in California,
Los Angeles County, his home giving
| 300 of these.
Private letters from German soldiers
in China tell of frightful tortures and
slaughter of Chinese in battles by Ger
man troops. No quarter was given,
and prisoners, after being compelled to
dig their own graves, were beaten, shot
or sabred to death. The scenes are
said to be indescribable.
Representative Hardin of Wilkes, a
member of the Georgia Legislature,
was seriously wounded, and Represen-
tative Cam and two other legislators
were cut severely, in fight with knives
which took place aboard a special train
occupied by members of the Legislature
on the way to Valdosta to attend the
State Fair. Senator Hardaway is said
to have done the stabbing.
The eTrans-Siberian railroad offers the
cheapest travelling in the world. The
Russian Government, in order to en-
courage emigration to that colony, has
made remarkably low rates. For in
stance, a ticket from Russia to Toblosk
only costs Slip, and from that point to
any city in Siberia the fare is only 1928
That is to say, it is possible to travel
5000 miles for the sum OF $3.37.
How quickly the huge herds of buffalo
on the American plains were swept
from the face of the earth! A recent