Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
CONDENSED DISPATCHES
Notable Events of the Week BrleAy
and Tersely Told.

gurated ON active campaign against the
Maya Indians.
Three parties sent out by the United
States geological survey are now at work
in the Cape Nome district Of Alaska.
Ten thousand Beers, according to q
Cape Town dispatch, will emigrate to
the United States after the war is over.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
wreck and probably to rob the Union Pa.
Cffic fier about four mikes from Mauhat.
tantKan.
A Union line car on the Lee avenue
division Of. the st. Lgouis Transit com.
pany was npown up by dynamite. Two
passengers were badly injured.
Curtis Guild of Boston, who was
rendered the appointment % 6rst assist
ant postmaster general to succeed Perry
8. Heath, has declined to accept the o.
fee.
Monday, July 10.
Fire in q. car of South Side elevated
train in Chicago put the passengers in
great peril Of their lives.
G. Y. Eskridse, editor Of the Nmporia
(Kan.) Republican and former lieutenant
governor. of Kansas, died from self in.
1icted wounds.
At New Castle, Cal, fire destroyed all
the fruit Warehouses and principal bust.
ness houses Of the town. The loss will
exceed 100000.
In Baltimore Louis Eisen, shoemak.
er. Killed himself, his wife and 18-month-
old babe and wounded almost unto death
his 3M-yenr-old son.
Judge w. II. Washington of Philadel.
phia, direct descendant Of Augustine
Washington, father of George Wash
ington, died at Castle Greek, A. 4.
Saturday, July II.
Another victim of the oil tank car ex.
plosion at Somerville. Mass, died.
Patrick Welsh, North Pelham On. ~
farmer, was gored to death by his bull.
The rail reducing mill Of the Illinois
Steel company at Milwaukee has resumed
operations.
The recently quarantined Chinese OF
San Francisco have prepared suits for
damages against the city.
Superintendent Kilburn addressed the
state bankers cSnveation at Saratoga on
the requisites Of a good banker.
A collection of rare coins, valued be-
tween $1,000 and $4,000, has boen stolen
from the Milwaukee public museum.
J. g. Schmidlapp has offered 100000
to build wing to the Cincinnati Art
museum us a memorial to his wife and
daughter.
Cattle were reported dying by thou
sands in the drought stricken counties of
Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz. Yuma, Cochise
and Maricopa in Arizona.
Tho doors of the Dime Savings institu
ton of Newark, N. j.. were not opened
owing to the alleged stealing of its funds
by Charles r. Westervelt, secretary and
treasurer
Friday, July IL.
The Indians at Red Lake Mimi, were
reported holding war dances.
A strike has been ordered at tho tin
plate plants ut Washington, Pa.
Fifteen persons were badly injured in q
trolley car accident at Springfield. O.
Exceptionally hot weather caused nu-
merous sunstrokes and prostrations in
London.
Disastrous forest fires were reported
near El Dorado, in Colorado, and Pres
colt, in Arizona.
Ex-President and Mrs. Harrison left
Indianapolis for their summer home in
the AdirOndacks.
Bandits robbed a freight train at Santa
Fulalia, station near Chihuahua, on
the Mexican Central.
Immense subterranean streams Of pure
water have been discovered from 1,500
to 1000 feet above sea level on the is
land of Hawaii.
Thursday. July IL.
Two young women were saved from
drowning at Patchosue, n. Y.
Fire, started by fire balloon. destroy
cd thousands of acres of California tim
Der.
The work of removing shag rock from
San Francisco harbor has been com
pleted.
Tho colonial cruiser Fiona went ashore
near Codroy, on the southwest coast of
Newfoundland
Chicago promoters have arranged a
$50, 900 600 deal to insure a permanent
pure water supply for st. Louis.
Eighteen buildings, comprising over
half of the business part of Walnut, Ills,
were burned. with II loss of $112.00O.
Serious trouble WAS reported threatened
between the Mojave Indians at Fort Mo-
jave. Colo, and the agency authorities.
The Baltimore and Ohio express from
Washington for New York was wrecked
near Philadelphia. 1t had $3,0OO,O0O in
gold on board. The switch had been tam
Wednesday,, July II.
The yellow fever epidemic vt Quems
dos. Cuba, has subsided.
Hawaiian plantation owners have de
cided to import negro laborers from the
southern states.
Ground for the New York state build
ing of the Pan American exposition at
Buffalo was broken.
The commission to the Eve civilized
tribes has begun the enrolment OF Chero-
KEGS at Fairland. l. II.
Chicago won the Broeklyn trophy at
tho meeting Of the American Whist
League at Niagara Falls.
The Chicago city council kicked about
the council chamber and tore to bits petit
tions signed by 2l,0O0 persons on the
North Side.
An AerOiite Explodes.
NEW ORLEANS. July ia large
aprolite or mpterOic Stone hurst over th.