Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-11-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES

Notable Events Of the Week Briefly
and Tersely Told.
The report of General Wilson, chief Of
engineers, was made public.
William 8. Stryker. adjutant general of
New Jersey, died at his home in Trenton
Long contest over the Yale sophomore
societies has been settled by compro
mise.
The steamer Dolphin brought $500, 900
In gold from the Klondike to Seattle,
Wash.
The American Tube and Iron cOmpa-
ny's plant at Youngstown, O., resumed
operations
Eight persons were killed and q in
jured in a wreck on the Northern Pacific
near Livingston, Mon.
Monday, Oct. 20.
The torrential rains in the coast coun-
try of Guadalajara, Mexico, have caused
widespread damage.
All wine merchants agree that the
French vintage of 1900 Is the biggest and
best for many years.
Comte Cahen d'Anvers, we'll known
figure in Partisan society, was killed in
an automobile accident.
In collision on the Transcaspian
railroad between Batoum and Tifis 8
persons were killed and 20 injured.
London dispatches said that William
Waldorf Astor had donated 10000 to
the Cambridge university benefaction
fund.
George w. w. Blake, Democratic can
didate for the legislature, fell dead from
heart disease just as he had finished
speech at Dana, Ills.
Saturday, Oct. ~.
An alligator two feet long was found
in Newark IN. J) pumping station res
ervoir.
Four hundred thousand dsllars was
transferred to Chicago from the New
York subtreasury.
Explosion of boilers crippled hosting
apparatus at a coal mine near Minonk,
Ills, and imprisoned 25O men in the
workings.
Imports into the United States from
Porto Rico have trebled and exports to
the island Quadrupled since the new tar
If went into effect.
Mai Lucy Lection fled a breach Of
promise suit against United States Sena-
tor Sullivan Of Mississippi in the District
Of Columbia supreme court.
Friday, Oct. 20.
At the New York Stock Exchange
single share of Standard Oil stock sold
for $005.
American locomotives have been order
ed for the new Russian railroad between
Orenburg and Taschkend.
An explosion destroyed one Of the fill
ing houses and magazines at the Indian
Head proving grounds. No one was in
jured.
Governor Gambler of Georgia in his
message to the Legislature recommended
an educational and property qualification
for voting.
Mrs Anna Hart, friend Of defaulter
Schreiber of Elizabethport, N. j., surren-
dered to the bank officials jewels, horses
and carriages valued at $24 900.
The home of the late Bayard Taylor at
West Chester, Pa, known as Cedar
Croft, has been sold at sheriff's sale to
satisfy the claim Of trust company.
Thursday, Oct. 25.
The annual report OF the judge advo-
cate general of the army was made pub
lie.
Daniel f. Dobie, warden of Clinton
prison at Dannemora, died Of heart dis.
ease.
G. NJ. Cotterman has been appointed
director general of posts in the Philip
pines.
An extraordinary scarcity of money
was reported to threaten n financial cri-
sis in Sweden.
The Fidelity bank of New York city
was authorized to do business by the
state banking department.
officer and As Sikhs had been killed in a
brush with Mahsud raiders.
The Chicago labor troubles, as far as
they affect the construction Of the new
postofice building, have been settled.
Twenty.fou lives were lost in COLI
sion between the French steamers Faid-
herbe and Mitidja off the Spanish coast.
Funeral services Of former Secretary
John Sherman were held at his former
residence in Washington, apd the body
was taken to Mansfield. O., for burial.
Wednesday, Dot. ~.
The Russian battleship Retvizan was
launched at Philadelphia.
A Chicago girl shot herself to prove she
had the nerve to commit suicide.
C. NJ. Mather, accused of stealing jew
els In New York, was arrested In Seat
tie.
The complete suppression of the revo-
luton in Santo Domingo Is officially an
nounced.
The population of New York state
prisons is reported at $3.50, of whom 90
are women.
4 fire in a tenement house in Montreal
resulted in the death by suffocation of
FIVE children.
Tho first installment Of the volunteer
army now in the Philippines will leave
Manila Nov. l.
The seven insane convicts who broke
out OF the Matteawan State hospital on
Sunday have all been recaptured.
Floods In Wisconsin.
LACROSSN, Wis, Oct. 20.-In the
past "a hours seven and quarter inches
of rain fell in this city. The storm was
most severe In this city, although II was
generally felt within radius of so
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