The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-02-22
NEWS NOTES.

refuses to sell papers to news girls.
The ports of Rio Janeiro and Santos
are officially declared free of the plague
| President Steyn of the Orange Free
State is visiting President Kruger at Pre-
toria.
The town of Hilo, Hawaii, terrified by
plague, rebelled, and troops may be sent
! there.
There We're ZOO penniless persons lodg-
ed in Chicago police stations Saturday
evening.
Great Britain is endeavoring to induce
| the United States to join her in parcels
| post establishment.
An attempt was made to burn the Chi
nese Theatre at Vancouver while 400 per-
sons were in the building.
Lawyer Stockenstroom of Pretoria, now
in command of a Boer command, is heir
to an English colonial baronetcy.
The olive crop of the past year of South
err California, including picked olives
and olive oil, was estimated at S1OO,0 600
| 1t is reported that ex- Congressman w.
II. King, Democrat and a Mormon, will
be elected to succeed Brigham II. Roberts.
| The Senate committee on commerce
! practically agreed on a favorable report
on the bill creating department of COM
merce.
A volunteer in a Colorado regiment at
Manila has been cured of suffering by
being slot through the throat by Mauser
| bullet.
In anticipation of the passage of the
shipping bill, many orders for merchant
vessels have been placed with American
shipbuilders.
The interest taken by the United States
Congress in the Nicaragua Canal causes
uneasiness among the Panama stoekhold-
ers in France,
lhe Echo Mountain House, a large hotel
! on Mount Lowe, near Pasadena, Cal, was
burned Monday. All the guests escaped
The loss is about 500, 900.
The new system of chilling moving
freight cars by electricity generated from
the axle while the car was is III motion
proved successful in a iun through the
Southern States,
| The Secretary of War has sent to Con-
gress TIE report of a survey of a channel
p feet deep from Kill Won Kull to Raritan
Bay, New Y ork harbor, the estimated cost
being 1896, 600.
/ Henry Walsh, clerk in charge of the
mailing department of the Chicago post
office, was arrested Sunday. charged with
roDbing the mails. 1t is claimed he has
robbed 900 letters.
A man in Philadelphia makes living
by selling foreign hotel, express and rail
road labels to people that paste them on
their baggage to create the impression
that they have been abroad.
A dispatch from Humboldt, Mich. SAYS
the Carnegie Steel Company interests have
| bought the Sampson mine near there, and
will reopen the property with strong
force in the immediate future.
Except for a few local showers. there
was practically no rainfall at all from the
/ LIST of August to the close of December in
/ British Guiana, and the ground under
cul ivation has been baked to brick like
! hardness.
! Rabbits have become a plague at Stutt-
CART, where they have multiplied so fast
that they threaten to ruin the gardens and
the famous surrounding vineyards. A
| bounty of L cents is now paid for each
dead rabbit.
Senator Jones, the leader of the Demo-
cratic party, has placed in the hands of
Senators Bacon, Tillman, Turley and
Money the task of constructing platform
that will be satisfactory to the many fac
lions of the party.
The fact that the Dutch East Indies.
while selling millions of dollars worth of
its products to the United States, bought
scarcely anything in return, is regarded as
a strong argument in favor of developing
our trade in sugar with our new possess
| SonS.
Each battalion chief of the New York
fire department is shortly to be supplied
with pocket telephone, which may be
affixed to any fire box, and will then en-
able the operator to talk directly with
headquarters The attachment is simple
and the device may be carried in an inside
pocket.
Centralia, NO., has a fourishing organi-
cation known as the Backbone Club. Every
member must sign pledge that he will not
use tobacco during 1900. The rules pro-
SiuC tudG IL duy lHcm DtT shall DFedk his
pledge he must wear on the lapel of his
coat badge bearing in large letters the
words, 81 Have No Backbone
The sad ending of young woman by
opium poisoning is the keynote to the rs-
ing storm of indignation against the prac-
tice of permitting young girls to do mis-
sionary work in Chinatown. Philadelphia
Mayor heads the list of those opposed, and
is joined by the clergy of all the denomi-
nations that are in arms against the prac-
tice.
In several cities of France there are
street railroads operated with compressed
air: in Berne, Switzerland, and elsewhere
in Europe. Air motors of American de-
sign, to meet the high requirements of
service in this country, are in successful
operation in Chicago and New York City,
and find favor with the street railroads
and the public.
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