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

macKefel OH Newport, II. L.
Contributions at NewYork for the fire
sufferers of Jacksonville, Fla, amount
to S37,909
The battle-ship Oregon has left Yoko-
hama for the United States. She stops
first at Honolulu.
Belgium, hardly larger than one of
our New England States, has 800 miles
of public highways.
Venezuela has apologized for indigni-
ties offered to an American consular
agent at Barcelona.
Gen. Mascardo, the Filipino leader,
has surrendered to the Americans with
y officers and 33l men.
Acknowledgement Harlan of Porto
Rico has created CONSERVATION by de-
claring prize-fghting illegal.
Nine hundred emigrants have just
left Porto Rico for Hawaii, and 400
more are awaiting departure.
Hon. John Edmund Commerell, ad-
miral of the English fleet from 1892 to
1899, is dead. He was born in 1929.
A vigorous war is being waged in
SCNCldl VI Vi IIod SlelCo dSdlISG GuC l1dll-
ing dresses of women in the streets.
Edward Cudahy of Omaha says he
will double the S25, 900 reward for the
capture of the kidnapper of his son.
A money package containing $4,000 in
currency has been stolen out of regis
tered pouch ell route to Kansas City.
Mrs. Louis Botha has sailed from
Durham for Europe to interview Paul
Kruger and urge him to advocate peace.
The oldest large bridge in Europe is
that at Ratisbon, over the Danube. 1t
was built in 1875, and is 1874 feet in
length.
Eighteen cases of smallpox have brok-
en- out at the California State Institu-
ton for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, at
Berkeley.
The wreck of the American ship Col
usa was found off Queen Charlotte Is
land and the fate of her crew is I'M
known.
\ surgeon of the marine hospital ser
vice Las been sent to Colgate, |. T., to
aid in dealing with the smallpox out
break there.
The Cologne Gazette in an article in
vites Russia to join Germany in tariff
war against America as. a dangerous
trade competitor.
The French Government has sent two
cruisers to Tangier, Morocco, to enforce
payment of indemnity for the murder
OF d French citizen.
Aguina}do, in an interview said that
lie thought American rule in the Philip
pines 10 be satisfactory, should conform
strictly to the constitution.
Tax assessors at san Juan. Porto
Rico have increased the valuation Of
property there from $4,000 900 to S15,
000.0 and owners are bowling.
The garrison at Fort Gibbons, Alaska,
has issued supplies to destitute miners
to such all extent that there is likely to
be shortage Of provisions at the post.
Statistics just published by the Inter-
national Sugar Association show that
Germany's beet sugar acreage this year
is ,165, 10 acres, or an increase of 60 al
Reports reaching the Interior Depart
ment show that smallpox is widespread
among the Indians of the Western res
ervations. Several deaths have occur
red
Ex-Congressman Lewis, CT Washing
ton State, says democrats of the
Northwest favor David Hill and Tom
johnson for President and vice Presi-
dent"
At recent trial in Paris it was re-
vealed that a French firm was making
more than $4,000 cOrsets year for men,
5000 being shipped to England, chiefly
for army officers.
BY the new apportionment Cook
County, Ill, which includes Chicago,
will have. two years hence, fifty-seven
OF the 1913 members of the House of
Rel sesentives of Illinois.
The customs collections on the docks
at New York from baggage OF passen-
gers from Europe during April amount
ed to SIS, 531 During April last year
these collections aggregated to 1892.
Robert W. Potts of Monroe City
wants $1,000 damages from Theodore /,
Jordan, a saloon-keeper, claiming that /
the defendant continues to sell him in
toxicants, although the plaintiff has !
warned him to the contrary, whereby
he the plaintiff has lost the respect of ;
his neighbors and the affection of his !
wife Potts is local preacher and :
somewhat eccentric.
4 reporter last week took census of !
a mile of Fifth avenue, New York, en-
bracing the homes of many very rich !
men, and found just fifteen children I'M
der the age of II. There was an average |
of one child to three houses. Then the |
reporter transferred his attention to
the East Side tenement district, where
he found in one fiat house sixty-three
children, or more than four times the
number found in the whole Fifth
avenue mile.
Parents and guardians in Greenwood
County, Kan, complain that questions
far beyond reasonable limit are asked |
of even the younger children. At re-
cent examination the following were
among the questions put What is
meant by free trade? Imperialism? Pro-
lection? Expansion? Write briefly ON
the following topics: Missouri COM
promise, bred Scott decision Kansas
Nebraska act
Tie pupils of grammar school, No 2,
at Pottsville, Pa, have headed a move
ment which they call a strike for short
Ell hours, and the idea is popular among
the scholars of the other schools The