The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-02-15
NEWS NOTES.

NEWS NOTES.
There are 219 national banks in opera
ton in Illinois.
Chicago may. establish a lodging house
for tramps.
The preliminary count made the popula
tion OF Cuba l, ,572, ,s45.
| A lawsuit that has lasted over century
has come to an end in Ireland.
An "open door" for American trade in
China is now regarded as assured.
Senator Elkins of West Virginia is be-
ing talked of as vice presidential timber.
Forty three per cent. of the fruit trees in
Southern California are orange and Is per
cent. lemon.
| Cuba, Hawaii and Puerto Rico will have
American exhibits under sold Glory'' at
the Paris exposition.
1t is reported that John R. Mclean will
start his vice presidential boom by accom-.
panying Admiral Dewey to Ohio next
spring.
The old frigate Constitution is to be re-
paired and used as ''a naval museum and
floating monument to the glory of Ameri-
can sailors.''
Three hundred lapidaries in New York
alone are out Of work because of the
failure of the supply of diamonds from
South Africa.
Medical inspectors excluded 452 pupils
from the public schools of Chicago last
week on account of more or less conta-
gious diseases.
Mrs Lawton was overwhelmed when she
leaned on reaching San Francisco with
Gen. Lawton's body of the fund which the
American people had raised for her.
Gen. Simon B. Buckner, late vice presi-
dental candidate of the gold Democrats,
says the Democratic party has no future
until the element now in control has been
wiped out.
President Mckinley has been invited by
the executive committee of the Ecumeni-
Cal Conference on Foreign Missions to at
tend one of the sessions of that conference,
to be held in New York in April.
Charles Maltby, who for three years
was in business with Abraham Lincoln in
Waynesville, ILL.,, is dead in San Francisco,
aged SS years. He was born in Vermont
and occupied many positions of public
trust.
According to the report of the Massa-
chusetts Cattle Commissioners, in 9S per
cent. of 7S5 cattle which were killed last
year were found cases of tuberculosis.
The total number Of cattle examined was
234, $40.
A Caracas dispatch published in Paris
said that anarchy prevailed in Venezuela.
Bank directors, including foreigners, have
been imprisoned for refusing to lend the
asked war ships to be sent at once.
The Senate committee on public lands
reported favorably Senator Warren's bill
granting 80, 600 acres in Wyoming for the
benefit of the State Soldiers and Sailors
Home of that State, and a bill granting the
abandoned Fort Hays military reservation
to the State of Kansas for branch agricul-
tural college.
Prof. Worcester, of the Philippine COM
mission, says he has been misquoted in re-
marks about the Filipinos. There are
from highly civilized people to the most
abject savages, guilty of head hunting,
idolatry, poiygamy and infanticide on a
wholesale scale.
Nearly the whole South African plateau
is covered with a long slender grass, which
under the fierce sun, is often as dry as tin
der. Nothing can live in veldt fire, and
in its passing it leaves desert. Under
the cover of the smoke that arises the
Beers can utilize that strategy for which
they are famous.
The cotton plant in Paraguay grows the
year around, favored throughout each sea-
son by conditions of soil and climate
After the cotton is picked the plant is cut
down and another grown from the roots.
Every two years both plants and roots are
plowed up and new plants started, finer
grade of cotton resulting.
Japan's new gold fields are beginning to
attract considerable attention. They we're
only recently discovered, so far as at pres
ent defined, and embrace a territory of
about $50 square miles. The gold is found
in the small streams and rivers rising in
the mountains, and it is obtained ia the
most primitive manner by washing the
sand.
In 11s6 astrologers said the world would
be destroyed by the conjunction of the
| planets. A few years later another alarm
was raised, and in 1882 Simon Goulart
claimed a mountain had opened in Assyria
and a scroll had been shown him on which
was written the prediction that the world
was coming to an end. He frightened
everybody.
The War Department has issued an order
providing for the filling of vacancies in the
signal corps by transfer from the line OF
the army officers less than 80 years of age
who served at least two years and passed a
satisfactory examination. The law pro-
vides that exceptions be made for the case
of officers with distinguished war service,
when the age limit may be increased to AZ
years. Another order allows SOC for every
twenty miles of travel to discharged sol
diers making their way home.
| Deer Isle Items.
Frank Tuttle and wife have moved to ell
| fast.