Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-24
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Tuesday, October IS.


Emperor William has returned to
Berlin, after q three-weeks' hunting
trip
Mrs. Hannah Powderley, wife of
Immigrant Commissioner Powderley,
died yesterday.
Rev. N. X. Melhorn, of PhiladelphiI.
refused to take a $1,000 pastorate Of
fered him by the Grace Lutheran
Church of Bethlehem, Pa.
The Rev. Sheldon A. Harris, q Con-
gregational minister of Dwight, ILL.,,
has been elected vice president of the
Illinois State Federation of Labor.
Wednesday, October 16.
The American Humane Society con-
vened in Buffalo yesterday.
George Carter knocked out Joe Wal
colt in the seventh round at San
Francisco last night.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland was
elected a member of the board of trus-
tees of Princeton College.
John D. Rockefeller is said to have
pledged 100000 toward the endow-
ment fund of Barnard College.
The 9th annual convention of the
directors of the poor and charities OF
Pennsylvania is in session at Altoona.
Thursday, October II.
Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee,
Ala, dined with the President last
evening.
Edgewood Inn, summer hotel on
Lower Saranac lake in the Adiron-
dacks, was burned.
All litigation over the will of Jacob
s. Rogers, the eccentric Newark mil
lionaire, has been settled.
Somerset will be the next meeting
place of the Association of Directors
of the Poor of Pennsylvania.
The first annual meeting Of the In
ternational Missionary Conference of
the Christian Church began at Piqua,
O.. last night and will continue in ses-
sion four days.
Friday, October 18.
J. H. Van Wormer, of Bradford, Pa,
a wealthy oil producer, was killed by
a train at Lima, o.
The quarantine at Naples has been
abolished, and that city has been Off
cially declared free from the plague.
Officials Of Shreveport, La, claim
great injustice was done their city by
the report of the United States cen
sus department regarding the death
rate there.
The National Council of Congrega-
tionalists adopted resolution at Port
land, Me-, favoring the appointment
of a committee of seven to consider
the plan of publishing a systematic
and graded work for Sunday schools.
1t was stated in New York upon the
authority of his relatives that Edward
Stokes. who killed Jim Fisk, is not in
a dangerous condition. He is ill, but
not seriously, and is able to go out
driving.
Saturday, October 10.
A gypsum trust is planned with
capital Of $13,000,00O.
The Presbyterian Synod of Pennsyl-
vania, in session at Pittsburg, decided
to hold it's next meeting at Dubois.
Attorney General Knox, Justice
White, of the supreme court, and Hon.
Wayne MacVeagh dined with the
President last night.
Funeral services over the remains of
the Duke of Alva were conducted yes
terday at st. Josephs Roman Catholic
church in New York city.
At Wilmington, Del, last night,
Jack Bennett, of McKeesport, got the
decision over Charles McKeever, of
Philadelphia, in a 15-round bout.
Sydney R. Tabor, of Lake Forest,
ILL.,, was elected president of the Amer
lean Humane association, vice Francis
H. Rowley, of Brookline, resigned.
Monday, October Fl.
The shortage in cotton at Liverpool
is becoming serious
Senator Hanna starts on a two
weeks campaigning tour of Ohio today.
The 17-day strike on the Chicago &
Southwestern Midland railroad is
ended.
Dr. B. M. Duggar, department of
agriculture expert, goes to France at
once to study mushroom raising.
The government breakwater at the
Portage Ship Canal, Mich, was COM
pleted at cost of $325,O00
The Marine Guard at the Pan-Amer-
lean exposition will be transferred to
the exposition at Charleston, N. c.
The perjury charge against James
Callahan, connected with the Cudahy
kidnapping case, will be pushed at
Omaha, Neb.
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