Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-02-22
MIsCELLANEoUs NEWS.
Events Of the Week Told in Few
Words.


ate of the South Congregational
Church. Boston, as successor of Rev.
DR.. Everett Hale, has declined the
call
A cold wave is doing considerable
damage in the coast country of Texas
to truck farming and fruit. Strawber-
ry farmers have suffered the greatest.
After a week of slow improvement
f. j. Phelps, who has had Il severe
attack of pneumonia, is now practical
ly out of danger.
Two men who were caught in an ice
foe at YOnkers, N. ", were rescued
off Fort Lee, after being exposed to
bitter cold for ten hours.
Wedding presents sent to the Hon.
Lillian Pauncefote, daughter of the
British Ambassador, have not been
equalled in Washington since the Cur
ZOn marriage there.
During the recent blizzard negro
was frozen to death ut Admission, Ala.
At a panic in circus in London.
England, two elephants ran amuck
and killed keeper.
Michael Davitt, wo resigned his seat
in the British House of Commons as
q protest against Great Britan's poll
cy towards the Transvaal, starts for
South Africa this week for the benefit
of his health
Six hundred Finlanders have sailed
from Liverpool for Canada, making
about 5000 who have emigrated dur
ing the past six months
Three Massachusetts soldiers, mem.
bers of the Twenty-sixth Infantry, are
reported to have been captured by Fill.
ipino insurgents, and tortured and
murdered in the public square at Boil
mag.
The annual report of the Maine De
partment of the Grand Army of the
Republic shows loss of 401 men,
bers, of whom 234 died.
Major Mills, of the SIKH Artillery.
commanding at Honolulu reports that
the plague situation is encouraging,
and predicts that if existing condi-
tions (Feb. p continue the quarantine
may be raised within the succeeding
twenty days
Senator McLaurin Of South Caroli-
ma, has been offered by the President
a place on the new Philippine Com.
mission.
The Western Packers Canned
Goods Association and the Atlantic
States Packers Association in Dat.oit
decided that the time was not oppor-
tune for a petition to Congress to re-
wise the tariff on tin plate.
AS the outcome of fight in the Bel
GUM Chamber of Deputies, NJ. Demb-
Ion, the Socialist Deputy who was re-
moved by force from the House, will
be prosecuted for assault.
Duke De Medina Sidonia. Spanish
Grand Chamberlain and Chief Of the
Royal Household, is dead.
The grippe is still gaining ground in
Berlin. The physicians assert that at
present there are more than $4,000
persons suffering from the malady, al
though relatively few cases prove IA
tai Ambassador White is still i'll.
Roosevelt ana Plat may retire Payn
Gruber and Davis from the New York
Republican State Committee.
Gov. Roosevelt, of New York. has
been formally pledged a denomination
by the New York Republican County
Committee
Kentucky Democrats have a clue to
GoebeIs assassin in child's letter.
The green goods business still -four
shes. New York police captured
cart load of circulars in charge of five
persons. the other day
Andrew carnegie has estimated that
for the current year the net profits
of the steel company viii reach $40,-
100000, while Mr. Frick's estimate put
the figure at s42 100000 These esti-
mates, experts say, are exceedingly
conservative. They declare tie prof
it's will be nearer $50,000000 than $40,-
900 900.
The floods have apparently concen-
trated their energies en- Montreal.
There is scarcely a dry spot any
where. The financial damage will
reach $150O00, and it will be several
days before railroad traffic can be re-
Eumed in it's normal state.
Great Britain is in the grip of bliz-
zard. Trains are showed in in all d.
rections and street railroad ines are
blocked, and telegraph and telephone
lines are down, delaying comminica-
tion in all parts. Mai vans and pee
pie travelling by foot in country dis
tricts are reported missing, and sever
al persons have been found frozen to
death in exposed places.
New England was visited by the
heaviest rain it has known in many
years Feb. 13, flooding towns an! ct.
les along the rivers.
Mrs. Langtry's ten concert at Sher-
rvs, in New York. was a treme dous
success, thousands OF dollars being
raised for the hospital sh p Maine
The senior class of the academic de-
partment of Yale has petitioned the
faculty to abolish the sophomore Sc
cret societies.
Roland B. MolincauX received
farewell visit from his mo osher and his
wife in the Tombs Feb. 13.
The bodies of Charles b erne and
Martin Loeffier were found locked in
closet of the utenanted house at No.
108 Edgecomb avenue, New York, Feb.
13. The boys disappeared last August
and it is believed met with ioul play.
The British India Office has re-
ceived Il despatch from Lord Curzon,
saying that distress from the famine
is increasing, and that those now iD
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