Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-07
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
Events Of the Past Week Told In 4
Few Words.

tloaIL CHurcnlaC IAnSOnla,S COnu.' viz
lam w. Joy died in the .choir, loft yes
terday, just after he. had led q quartet
in singing the anthem, ,Sn"Come to u.s."
So great was the element following
that the services We're discontinued and
the 900 people in the congregation
were Dismissed.
The ,"Glad Tidings".; gospel tent res
newed its campaign against sin in>New
York yesterday. A thousand persons
Were on hand to participate in the first
skirmish. Prominent local ministers
were present to evidence their support.
1t was considered a most successful
beginning.
There is considerable excitement in
East Orange over the alleged discov'
cry of silver and. copper on the prop
erty of NJ. B. Wallace, an octogen.
arian. An old well ran dry and Wal
lace had it esdeepeRed. The stone and
dirt taken out was found to contain
$50 ounces Of silver to the ton and
$50 per cent. OF copper.
The Williamsburg Sunday School
Association has perfected arrange.
ments for the annual parade on Thurs
day afternoon of the $4,000 children
in the forty-fve schools attached to
the organization. With teachers and
other children there will be about 25,-
600 persons in line. George q. Moul'
ton will be the grand marshal.
The new Cromwell liner PrQteus,
reached New York yesterday from the
yards Of the Newport News Ship
Building and Dry Dock Company.
The Proteus is built Of Steel is 406
feet long, has a beam Of 4S feet and a
depth of hold of 80 feet inches. She
10 commanded by Captain eager, COM
fpodore Of the line.
Eight of the nineteen cabin passen-
gers on the Spanish line steamship
Catalina, which arrived in New York
yesterday from Havana, were trans
ferred to Hoffman Island, because
they had no acclimitization papers.
They will be released to-day. Twenty
eight of the voyagers on the Ward
liner Yucatan from Havana were also
held at Quarantine for the same rea-
son.
The schooner Warwick, which was
towed, leaking into Norfolk, reached
New York yesterday under tow, with
a cargo of asphaltum from Trinidad.
The vessel was partly dismahtled in
a gale off Currytuck.
Samuel S. AIoors, of Trenton, n. j.,
son of Henry O. Moore, president of
the Trenton Street Railway Company,
tried to kill his mother with razor
while suffering from acute mania
caused by overstudy.
The congregation of the First At
rteap United Methodist Episcopal
Church of Astoria, L. l., held pub
lie baptismal service in the East River
off Astoria Sunday afternoon. Fully
five hundred persons saw the cere-
1nony.
Whitecaps who punished Smith AL
ford with a coat of tar and feathers
near Bridgeton, n. j., for his alleged
truelty to his dying wife, threaten to
do further work in the outskirts of
this place The authorities fear they
will be powerless to prevent the carry
ing out of the threats.
A captive balloon which started in
on tour of summer duty in the Shoot
the Chutes enclosure at Coney Island
yesterday. broke away from its fas-
Jennings at $50 O'Clock last evening
and started for Europe at rate of
about forty-five miles per hour. Ben
jamin, Bowenywas the only passenger.
He threw out the irons, which trailed
along the ground until they caught
big tree at Neptune avenue. They got
a firm hold of the branches and
brought the flying balloon up with a
short turn.
The bubonic plague is considered at
an end in San Francisco. No new
cases have been discovered in two
weeks. Business has been resumed in
Chinatown and the work Of prevent
ing a recurranceS of the plague goes
on.
John. .McConnell.s fifty years old. and
John .O'Loughlin,. sixty, were found
dead ! in bed this morning at, No. 33S
East 126th street, New York They
had fbeen asphfyiatcd by gas, and on
the floor near them lay Robert Healy,
twepty'eight years old, who was un-
conscious, but alive, apd was taken to
Harlem Hospital, where it was said
he might recover.
Sarah .. Gardner, who claimed to
be the lneice of Commodore Perry, an
cestor of o. H. P. Belmont and hero
Of the battle Of Lake Erie, has left an
estate of $4,000, though she lived as
a ragpicker in Newport r. I.
Edward J.. Eckert was fatally injur-
ed at Pompton,. Mil, by being thrown
from vicious, horse he was riding.
He walled fivea miles with broken
skull before he could reach his friends
and receive prdper treatment. Death
came few hoUrs later.
Margaret Kehr, aged three years, of
Long Island City, was killed by troll
ley car while playing lin front of her
home yesterday.