The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-08-02
NEWS NOTES.

There is promise III oregon OF the
largest crop ever harvested.
Kansas cows to the number of 59.lS2
contributed creamery supplies last year
Some $500 Germans, Poles and Swiss
left their own countries last month to
settle in England.
Lemons and oranges from Los Ange-
les, Cal, were kept perfectly fresh in a
| cold-storage voyage OF 5000 miles to
Paris.
The Oregon's hull and machinery cost
So. 222. SO. Fitting out for service this
great ship represented an outlay Of &c.
5115,0 32.
Over So, 800 has been raised at Mos
COW to buy silver punch bowl for Gen.
Cronje, the chief Boer prisoner at St.
Helena.
The Marquette Monument Associa-
ton of Chicago will build a S25, 200
memorial to Father Marquette, on the
Island of Mackinac.
\ gunner's life was saved in South
Africa bv the bullet lodging in pack
of cards that he had in the pocket of
his khaki jacket.
The first Hebrew girl to receive the
degree Of master of arts in England is
Miss Dora E. Yates, at the University
| College Liverpool.
Pretty Rosa Palermo stole a clock i'll
store in New York, but the alarm
went off before She reached the door
and she was arrested.
1t is announced that Gen. Dodds, the
hero of the Dahomey campaign. has
been appointed to the command of the
French expedition to China.
| To escape detectives OF ten cities
who had all but run him down. Her
man kurth, accused of sWIndling, com
| mitted suicide at st. Paul. MINI.
The Hawaiian Islands have been
added to the internal revenue district
of California. and 4 collectors office
Will be established at Honolulu.
There has been talk lately in Switzer-
| land of an alliance with the | nlted
| States. one paper has even favored
| joining the American [ Mon as a State.
| In Easton, Pa, Jasper Beeman, in
| default of fines aggregatmg SS.o4 I'M
| posed for uttering twelve oaths. was
| sent to the county prison for 2SS hours.
| Several Fall River cotton mills have
suspended operations i'll compliance
| with an agreement to curtail produc-
lions for four weeks during the sum-
mer.
| Transvaal officials. who We're inter-
viewed at Machadodrop by correspon-
dent of the London Daily Express, as
10 l.. ~,
| last.
Owing to the fact that the German
meat law goes into effect on October ).
packers at Chicago get daily orders
from Germany for 100000 pounds of
sausage.
At Poplar Bluffs, Mo-, Mrs David
Radcliffe has three baby boys The trip
lets We're named William Mckinley,
Theodore Roosevelt and Marcus Hanna
Radclitf.
The California hop growers have
which is ''to improve the industry, reg
ulate supply and demand and maintain
fair prices
The British flag was planted on Nieu
or Savage Island by her Majesty's ship
Porpoise in June. The island is situat-
ed 300 miles northeast of the Tonga
group and has fertile soil.
Bombs and packages of dynamite
have been found in the Grand Art
Palace at the Paris Exposition. 1t is
believed band Of conspirators is bent
on destroying all of the exposition
buildings.
The Board of Health of Hoboken. n
j., has made an ordinance requiring
people who keep growing cocks in theil
back yards to pay 81 license fee fol
each. This is in the interest of peace
and quiet.