Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-11-14
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Tuesday, November 5.

The first snow OF the season ir
Pennsylvania fell at Pittsburg yes
terday.
Hon. Joseph H. Choate. American
ambassador to England, arrived in
Washington last evening.
A 50-foot sloop yacht was stolen
from Dock street wharf. Philadelphia
some time Saturday night.
The district attorney at Wheeling
w. Va. has asked the grand Jury to In
dict Carrie Nation for inciting . riot
there in October.
Wednesday, November 8.
President Roosevelt returned to
Washington last night from Oyster
Bay, l.. l.
Three steamers of the Arctic whal.
ing fleet have reached San Francisco
with light catches.
Fire at Livingston, Ala, destroyed
the court house and eight stores, en-
failing loss of 100000.
The Phoenix Hotel, at Charlotte,
Mich, was destroyed by fire, and many
guests had narrow escapes.
It is believed in Sofia that the bri.
gands will not abate the original ran
som demanded for Miss Stone.
Thursday, November 7.
Two men were killed in a wreck on
the Panhandle railroad, near Pitts.
burg, yesterday.
At New York yesterday Andrew
Carnegie denied that King Edward Of
England had offered him a baronetcy.
Safe robbers at White Hall, Mich,
secured $4,000 by blowing open the
safe of O'Donald & Mortons private
bank.
Ex-President Cleveland will deliver
a lecture at Carnegie Institute, Pitts.
burg, tonight, at the Founders Day ex-
ercises.
Rev. DR.. Silas G. Swallow was con.
victed of falsehood by the Central
Pennsylvania Methodist Conference at
Harrisburg and suspended from the
ministry until the next annual con-
ference.
Friday, November 8.
Prairie fires near Winnipeg, Man.,
destroyed many horses, cattle and
buildings.
Andrew Carnegie gave 100000 to
equip a technical college in South
Scotland.
Attorneys for Roland B. Molineux
began their arguments yesterday for
a new trial.
A new packing house, employing
5000 men, was opened at the Chicago
stock yards.
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Prison Association met in Kan.
sas City. Mo-, today.
The pants factory of Harrison &
Rudd, at Evansville, Ind. was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss. 100000.
Saturday, November 9.
The police stopped duel between
Spaniards at Havana yesterday.
Philadelphia schools celebrated the
landing of William Penn yesterday.
The rumored serious illness of Sen.
ator Quay is denied by his physicians.
1t is said that william Waldorf AS
tor will build $2.500.000 hotel in
New York.
France will establish a school in
this country to study American indus
trial methods.
A public reception was rendered
John P. Redmond, Thomas ODonnell
and party in Boston last night.
Evidence of violation of interstate
commerce and antitrust laws by rail-
roads was produced at the session Of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
at Chicago yesterday.
Monday, November II.
Secretary of War Root presented a
brass cannon, captured in the Philip
pines, to Hamilton College, at Utica,
N. Y.
Fire did $4,000 damage to the plant
of the Monongahela Coal and Coke
company at Six Mile Ferry, near
Pittsburg.
The Irish envoys, J ohm p. Redmond,
P. A. McHugh and Thomas O'Donnell,
spoke to 5000 men and women in Bos-
ton last night.
WI Ting Fang, Chinese minister at
Washington. has been offered the
chair in Chinese at Columbia Univer.
sity, New York.
Mine Inspector William Stein, of
Shenandoah, Pa, reports 13 fatal and
16 non-fatal accidents In the Sixth an.
thracite district for October.