The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-07-11
NEWS NOTES.

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Courts have been established at Ma
mia, and English may be made the Ian
guage of the law.
A report come, from Lawrence coun
ty, Ala., of the discovery OF oil, the well
flowing 500 barrels day.
The United States civil service COM
mission has an examination July % for
farmers in the Indian service.
President Eliot of Harvard UNIVERSE
ty has invited 100 Cuban teachers to
attend the summer school there.
The demand for Pan-American post
age stamps averages 100000 day, or
more than half the government is able
to furnish.
Former Senator Towne of Minnesota
and Gov. McMillin of Tennessee have
gone into 100000 company to hunt
oil in Texas.
Advices from Manila tell of the con-
vlctlon of eight members of the society
OF the 'Sandatahans," an oath-bound
assassin band
Bowling alleys are to be put in the
basement of Sacred Heart Catholic
church, Chicago, to keep the young men
from mischief
Secretary Root has raised the stand
| ard of admission to West Point by add
ing algebra, English literature and trig-
| onometry to the requirements.
a clergyman at Saranac Lake has
been challenged to fight duel to the
| death by young gentleman who differ
ed with him on mathematical question
Miss Lucy Hanna, bookkeeper for the
Marietta Ohio Daily Register, was
killed by shock from live wire on
an incandescent lamp during storm.
Parkersburg, W. Va, is talking of
the trial of ellis Glenn" who is said
to be one and the same as Cora Gun
bingham, who was once buried alive in
| Florida.
Martin Anderson, a diver, persisted
while at work on the bottom ofNthe East
river, New York, the machine which
| furnished the air supply having become
clogged.
Arguments in the injunction suit
brought to prevent the collection of
tribal tax by the Chickasaw nation,
were heard by Judge Townsend at Ard
more, |. L. Decision was reserved.
The cruiser Newark, one of the first
| acquisitions OF the new navy, will be
entirely remodeled on modern lines as
soon as she arrives in this country from
the Asiatic station.
A report has reached Phoenix, Ari-
IONA, that three Indians have been kill
ed in the mountains, near Hoibrook, in
northern Arizona, by cowmen. The
| Indians were stealing cattle.
Secretary Root says there is no ne
| cessity now for the reduction of the
| military force in Cuba, as the military
! authorities will remain there until the
Cubans form government of their
own.
| The battle ship Illinois made an aver
age of 1881 knots per hour on her speed
trial, off Cape Ann, breaking all records
for American battle ships and the
worlds record for battle ships of her
size.
A committee of the Hawaiian senate
has recommended the entire abolition
'of the national guard, suggesting that
the military paraphernalia be put on
board a scow, toWed out to sea and
dumped overheard.
Mrs. Lila Pratt of Edmunds Idaho,
was killed, and Miss Lucas, daughter of
Bishop Lucas, seriously injured, in a
runaway accident while the two young
women and the Bishop were returning
from a drive.
Capt. Farrand Savers, commanding
officer at Fort Sill, Okla, started with
forty cavalrymen to clear Wichita
mountain land of unlawful intruders
preparatory to the opening of the Kiowa
and Comanche reservation to settle
ment.
Capt. Ahern, chief of the forestry
bureau OF the Philippines, issued cir
cular describing the timber resources of
the islands. He says that lumbermen
may secure valuable privileges free of
cost on many large tracts of state land.
A dispatch received in London from
Shanghai says it is reported that the
Chinese empress will soon proclaim the
killing Of the emperor by brigands; that
Prince Tuan's son is to succeed to the
throne, and that new Chinese capital
may be established.