Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-08
Events Of this Week Told In Few
words.

Fo.tylhree and one.half inches of
SHOW in sixty hours is the new record
established in New York State by the
recent storm. that amount of snow
falling at Rochester.
The United States Government has
purchased site OF hundred acres
IN Portsmouth, six miles from New.
port. Rhode Island, as q coaling sta
tioE
Tho British second class cruiser
Hermes is reported off Cat Island, in
the Bahamas, with her shaft broken.
Recent murders near Letohatchie,
Alabama. have reused the whites and
blacks, and race trouble is imminent.
The Cuban delegates who came
20 Washington to protest. on behalf
Of the Cuban people, against the ap-
Dointment of Mgr Sparcttl as iloman
Catholic Bishop of Havana aavc
tailed in their mission.
The War Department has received
cabled statement showing that the
total receipts from the PHILIPPINE Isl.
ends for February, 1900 We're S426,.
t23. of which amount S311 900 was de-
rived from customs.
The winter herring fishery in New.
fOundland waters has been q complete
failure, and thirty American vessels
have left ST Johns without obtaining
cargoes.
In revolt III the prison 1T Cairo.
Egypt, the troops were obliged to fire
upon the mntineers in Greer 10 restore
order. Five men were .iiot two OF
them fatally.
EdinbarEh ChN cisi,y is 20 confer
the degree o.: LII. y. u..ci Ambassador
Choatc.
The Portland Ma ~. Board of
Trade has enlpnaticalF endorsed the
views expressed ng C,l%.'cs nan Lit.
tletield against the p,.o.,O Nical Dill,
and praised him for his CONTAGIOUS
stand in the ma:tar.
An unusually heavy fail OF saow
has occurred in No.,hcra New York,
in some places the s.0w hTin" two
feet deep the level.
Mrs. Anna Jory, aged &c wears, has
been found dead ut ier home In Balu.
more. Escaping il;unina ting gas from
I leaking tube Waa the caaEe Of her
death.
a San .TIan de pueg:o f.ico despatch
says that fonr trooTs NJ ,he Fifth
United States cavalry are under or
ders TO return Ia the Cuitod States
and that native troof8 are being re.
cruitcd to fill thci? places.
Steps to erect & i,onun.cat over
the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln,
mother of Abraham I.incoin were Ia,
ken at 4 meeting OF tn" Nancy Hanks
Lincoln Memorial Association in In
dianapoiis, Indiana, on "Wednesday.
An appropriation OF 100000 has
been made by tho Kentucky Legisla
ture to be used in detecting and con-
victing the assassin OF Governor Goe
bel
Tx Mayor Hugh J. Grant has been
tue Railroad Company upon ncejM
appointed receiver for the New York
Third Avenue Railroad Company up
on the application of the Old Colony
Trust Company o. Boston. the Direc-
tors conseRting to~ the application.
The finding of 81 empty mail pouch
near a Long Island City dock dis
closed the theft Of REGISTERED mail. and
n discharged carrier who is missing
Is suspected by tho authorities.
Frederick kahler, a dealer In books.
In Philadelphia. has been sentenced
by Judge Finletter, in the Criminal
Court. to one year Imprisonment for
selling copies Of Daudet's novel.
"SaphO
The completion OF a deal whereby
the Erie telephone system. the largest
Bell system in the United States.
passes into the hands of the Tele-
phone, Telegraph and Cable Company
of America. has been announced. The
C-,-s<, h~o oh,
operating in North and South Dako.
ia, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Arkansas, Texas and part Of Ohio
and employs $22,000,o00 capital.
Two more white persons and eight
Kanakas have died of the bubonic
plague at Noumea, New Caledonia.
There were three deaths from the
plague at Honolulu on the 18th ult.,
the first for twelve days.
Lent will be observed more strict.
ly than usual in Germany. owing to
the death of the mother of the En-.
press.
Robert Johnson. at one time propri-
etor of a large dry goods store in
New York, and who was worth $4,000
900 twelve years ago, had wonder.
full escape from death by fire in
house in which he was living by the
courtesy of trust company that had
;c"eclosed mortgage on it.
General Otis has purchased from
the Spanish Government and turned
over to the navy two small gunboats
and n transport.
Marcus DAILY testified in Washing.
ton that he has no feeling against
Senator Clark. of Montana. but he ad-
Initted contributing heavily to the an.
t-Clarll fund.
kentucky's State Election Board
has issued certificates of election to
the six democratic candidates for mi.
nor State Offices, but the republican
incumbents refused to vacate the
places.
Minority stockholders in the II. c.
Frick Coke Company are trying to an
nul the contract with the Carnegie
Steel COmDany