Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-12-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and Tersely TOld.
| The first issue of lhc London Sun I'M
der the cditorship of Rev. DR.. Parker
has appeared.
| The agrarian provinces comprising 2W'
| square miles around Icutschau, Hun
gary, are famine stricken.
| a red haired Italian girl was the first
| immigrant to land at the new depot at
| Ellis island, New York harbor.
| The French government has ordered
cases of Chinese loot sent to President
| Loubet embargoed at Marscilles.
A Lehigh Valley coal train dashed into
an electric car ut Luzerne. Pa. complete
| y wrecking it and injuring seven people.
Monday. Dec. II.
| The discovery of magnificent waterfalls
in the Canadian Rockies was announC ed
| at Winnipeg.
Oswald Ottendorfcr editor of the New
| York Stats Zeitung. died after many
years of suffering.
| William j. Bryan announced that he
| would establish n new weekly. To he
| called The Commoner, to uphold the Chi-
| cago platform.
Tclephoning without wires was sue
cessfully accomplished at Minneapolis.
| The distance was over 1000 feet across
| the Mississippi river.
The antique golden vase given by or
phans of Lima, Peru. to orphans of the
| Galveston Hood reached New York and
will be exhibited for sale.
The official report of the finances of
| the Paris exposition shows a loss IF
100000 The total of expenditures is
| S23,30O00O The receipts amounted 10
S22.90000O
Representative Bou,clle's physician an
nounccd that he showed Improvement,
| leading Ia the hope that he might lac
| taken home. but that he would never be
! fitted for work.
| Saturday, Dee. t5.
| The Taft Philippine commission has
passed liquor license law for Manila.
| Hamilton Harris. former counsel of The
| New York Central roalroad. died in AL
bany.
Professor q. w. Tyrrell has discovered
rich forests on the so called barren lands
of northern Canada.
I I
nal insurance association doing business
| in 80 states, has failed.
The skeleton of u man was found il
| the hull of the American line steamer 81
Paul at Cramps shipyard.
| In New York city Alexander Stewart
14-yearold boy. was sentenced to :,
| years in prison for murder.
Miners in the Shamokin region will re-
ceive this month over S2i5.0o0. the Ian"
gest pay roll ever known there.
The Jury in the case of Jessie Morri
son ON trial at FL Dorado. Kan, fol
murder of Mrs. Olin Castle. disagreed.
Friday, Dee. II.
Michael G. Mulhal. the statistician
died in London.
Ernest Bremen of Bale has been elect
ed president Of Switzerland
The Alaskan and Klondike gold outpu,
| for the year is estimated at SO, I25,OoU.
A woman who lived near Rochester
committed suicide by taking three kinds
of poison.
-Four masked men robbed John Doer
schuck's private bank ut Shanesville, D.
of between $1,000 and $4,000.
Patrick +. McCabe. an aged man. com
|
found to have 5000 pinned to his shirt.
\ number of electors in Caribou. b. G.
agreed to let jackpot decide whom ol
three parliamentary candidates the,
would vote for.
Thursday. Dec. IL.
The Illinois circuit court upheld thu
antitrust laws.
Professor Marshall Henshaw cf Am
herst died suddenly ut Springfield Mass.
The river and harbor bill will carr.
$2O.O 600 and authorize S35.o00,0O'
more.
1t has been discovered that the Portu
guese settlement of Maceo is II point .
Filipino insurgent activity.
The official canvass showed that Nj,
Knley's plurality in New York state wa
l43, ,60G aud Odell's Ill. l2i
General Alger. former secretary o
war. was thrown down by II thief whom
he found In his house in Detroit.
A nonunion telegraph operator wa
driven from the Santa Fe station ut Sc
dala. Colo, and shot in the arm.
The report of the New York Lying IL
Hospital society showed II birth rate of
child every ten minutes on Manhattan
Island.
Wednesday,. Dec. IL.
The governments side Of the Nicely ex
tradition case wa, pres, nted to the s,l
prcme court
1t was officially announced ut Tn
Hague that the trouble with Iortuga
was not serious,
w. :. Bryan will be guest of honor a
inauguration of Governor Elect lenning
Of Florida on Jan. |.
Supreme court has dismissed contemr
, proceedings brought against Standard o
company by the attorney general .
Ohio.
Former Queen Liliuokalani listened t
, Thanksgiving sermon devoted to tn
blessings of annexation in Honolul
church.