The Republican journal., 1900-05-10
NEWS NOTES.

A Michigan farmer was attacked and
painfully injured by thousand crows.
Automobiles valued at $4,000 were
shinned to the Hawaiian Islands from
Chicago.
The floods in Mississippi and Louisi-
ana have caused damage estimated at
50, 1000.
The will of the late Rufus Wright,
shot to death at Chicago, bequeaths
nearly 81 900. 900 to his family
The Nevada Republican Convention
| indorsed President Mckinley and elect
ed six delegates to Philadelphia.
A Buffalo bankers canvass shows a
possible increase of 1921, 7SS, s5S in bank
notes under the new currency law.
Treaties with Nicaragua and Costa
Rica for the construction of the inter-
oceanic canal are being negotiated.
The attempts of the Australian all
thorities to stamp out the plague at
Sidney have so far proved Intellectual.
During the siege of Ladysmith 1000
horses of the cavalry brigade were con
verified into soup or sausages in single
month.
Because he threatened to leave her,
Mrs. Lucy Christy fatally wounded her
husband and killed herself at Youngs-
town, ..
The house at Tappan, n. y, in which
Maj. Andre the British spy, was con-
fined during the revolution is to be turn
ed into soap factory.
1t is stated in Washington that Ad-
miral Dewey failing to get the Kansas
CITY nomination. would retire and not
run as an independent candidate
An amendment to the naval appro-
priation bill authorizing the President
to purchase from Spain the steel float
ing dry dock las been reported to the
Senate.
\ novel and interesting sight at Lake
Erie harbor is the mammoth car dump
ing machines in operation. With these
machines cars of coal are lifted bodily
enlptied into the hold of vessel and
replaced on the tracks in four minutes.
The State of Georgia is coming to the
front rapidly. Not only are cotton mills
multiplying in the State, but gold dig
ging has become a lucrative business
1t is said Sl5. 00o.00O has been invested
in the enterprise in the State within the
past eighteen months.
Recent sanitary reports give the pop
n!ation of Boston as 555. 900: Baltimore
:j4l 900; st. Louis, 623 900: Minneapolis,
%. 1900: st. Paul, 100000: Cleveland
80. 600: Philadelphia, l, 266, 500 Pitts
burg. 32O, 600: Albany, 100000: Roches-
ter 10000: Buffalo, 100000
The receipts at mints, assay offices,
private retineries and smelters for the
calendar year 1899 from the Northwest
Territory the klondike) We're So. 9S6.-
627 gold and SIG. 800 silver. a total of
sl6.254. 101. This shows a marked adj
vance in output for the klondike field
NJ. Legani, in getting up the fallen
columns of karnak, Egypt, recently
discovered city gate. 1t is the first
found in Egypt, is of great height, and
bears the date of the eighteen dynasty.
a second important discovery at Thebes
is large tomb of the eleventh dynasty,
i'll perfect preservation.
The receipts of Alaska gold at mints,
ttSSdA OlllCtS, IellueIleS, S1nelUerS. elC.,
for the calendar year 1899, We're s.. 6O2, :
OBJ. and the silver 1920, 33433. a total of
50, S31 3'55, OF 50. 1919, S44 more than in the
year 1898. OF this increase it is esti-
mated that -. 100000 came from the
new placer camp at Cape Nome.
Aaron Burton, who was the slave of
Col. Moseby. the guerrilla, during the
civil war. is now S6 years old, and is
living with one of his daughters in
Brooklyn. Col. Moseby's mother got
Aaron as present from her father, and
when the war began the Colonel took
him with him. His sole duty was to
look after his masters horses.
There will be more hemp raised in
Kentucky this year than has been rails
ed Ill great many years. There was a
time when hemp was the main. product
OF kentucky but i'll late years it has be
come such an expensive article to raise
that the farmers gave it up. Now the
price of hemp is high and the farmers
are taking advantage of it.
Kansas farmers have paid off $780,
ooo.oo0 Indebtedness in the past year.
Good crops are responsible. The last
yield OF corn amounted to $50, 600, 600
bushels. The wheat crop was about
"a, 1000, 600 bushels Each of these pro-
duets Melted the State about $50 600, 900.
The value of the other farm produce
and live stock makes the total about
$3.50, 000,0 600