The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-06-13
NEWS NOTES.

The ratio of paupers in Minnesota in
1900 was 4, $50 for each 100000 OF pop
ulation.
| A design for l6OOO-tons battleship
will be submitted to Congress at its next
session.
The Russian Government is consider
ing plans for a can II from the Black Sea
TO the Caspian Sea. =
The official Prnssian crop report shows
that winter wheat is poor. Summer
wheat is fairly good.
Arab Pasha, the famous Egyptian
rebel, who was banished to Ceylon in
1882, has been pardoned.
: King Victor Emmanuel of Italy had
narrow escape from being crushed in
an elevator in the palace.
Peter Postell, probably the wealthiest
negro in the South, and highly re-
| spected citizen, died at Hopkinsville,
Ky.
An estate near Washington, ID. c.,
mas been purchased by John r. Mclean
OF Ohio, who will turn it into a public
park.
Martin Vessels Pretorius, first Presi-
Dent OF the Dutch African Republic,
died in the Transvaal after two days
illness.
King Edward pluckily insists that he
Will go aboard the challenger yacht for
announcer spin as soon as the yacht is re-
| paired.
Senator McLaurin, in the course of a
| speech made in defense of his political
attitude, warmly eulogized President
Mckinley.
| charles Ellison, prominent contrac-
| tor, who formerly lived at Wilkesbarre,
| "a, has mysteriously disappeared from
| Mobile, Ala.
| The salmon Gamers of British Column
| bla have united in an association which
practically controls the whole industry
in the province.
| Three Russian officers were sentenced
In default to six months Imprisonment
IN Japan for making maps of Nagasaki
harbor, near the Notifications.
! The Belgian Senate has rejected a
resolution declaring in favor of the
/ TranSvaal and regretting that Belgium
is powerless to do anything in the
matter.
! Last year the corn exports of the
United States were 213,OOO, 900 bushels.
or 10 per cent of the total crop. Europe
took 193. 00O,0 bushels, against "a, OOO,-
600 in 1890
The Supreme Court of Kansas has re-
versed the decision of the District Court
in the Topeka Kan mayoralty contest,
and installed j. W. F. Hughes, Repub
lican, in the Mayors chair.
| For Vermont the enumerators report
| 80, 100 farms; in 1880 there were 35, 522.
and in 1890. 32.573 The number of
farms in 1900 is $50 in excess of that of
| 1890, and 2, 413 less than in 1880.
The German governments shipyards
at Wilhelmshaven according to the Ber-
liner Post, will be enlarged to enable
the construction of warships of 10000
tons. The work will require year.
Alexander Edwin Sweet. founder of
Texas Siftings aud humorist of ma
tional reputation under the pen names
of "Col. Bill Snort and Rev. Whang-
DOODLE" died at New York of heart
disease.
Miss Helen Bennett of Deadwood, S.
d., has just been elected a county super
intendent of public schools. She is a
Wellesley graduate and has for some
years been manager of a theatre in
Deadwood.
The trucking industry in North Caro-
/ lima is assuming immense proportions.
! The official figures show that last year
6,495 packages of vegetables, 4, 544 $50
! pounds, As cars, 22,504 crates of canta-
loupes, % cars, 4153 crates of dewber-
ries, SO cars, 2S, $40 crates of beans and
349, $50 crates, II, 400 $50 pounds of straw
berries were shipped from the Whining
ton section alone.
A dispatch from Pekin reports small
clash at arms between German and
American legation guards, the result of
the failure of some German troops to
comply with military regulations. An
American sentry resisted with his bay
onet the charge of a German officer
with sword, and subsequently fired
upon German soldier, wounding an
other man. An investigation is in
progress.