The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-07-04
NEWS NOTES.

Heavy SHOWS have fallen in the Ba.
varlan and Tyrolean Alps.
Oklahoma millers are arranging to
use Beaumont oil for fuel.
Capt. Harry c. Barnes Of Oklahoma
, mas declined an appointment as second
lieutenant in the regular army, prefer
, ring civil life.
A girls band in Laurel, Kan, broke
up on the eve of a public performance
because the members could not agree
on programme.
Oklahoma fruit growers have begun
tne annual shipment of peaches to the
Northern markets. The crop is esti-
mated at $50, 900, 900.
twenty torpedo-boat destroyers and
torpedo boats will be turned over to the
government by the contractors within
the next few months.
Three Italian anarchists have been
arrested on suspicion OF having been
connected with Bresci in the assassina-
ton of King Humbert
1t is stated that the orange orchard
area at Riverside, Cal, covers 30 square
miles, or 10, 200 acres, on which are grow
ing l,536, 600 orange trees.
The Bates County Oil and Mineral
Company has been formed at Butler,
Mo-, and will commence boring for oil
IN the western part of the county.
A remarkably large meteor exploded
and an, fell near Hyndman, Nd, recently,
Illuminating the country for miles,
Many of its fragments have been pick
ed up.
An industrial school for negroes is
promised in Florida, thus putting that
ON a par with other of the Southern
States in the education of the colored
people.
A discarded swain in Harmon, W.
Va, has brought suit against his form
er sweetheart to recover S27.05, which
he spent in ice cream and fried oysters
for her.
Weakfish have made their appearance
off Sandy Hook, which is good news fol
the epicures. The Weakfsh is a sea
trout and one of the most delicious OF
saltwater fishes.
York county, Pa, the home of many
people prominent in State politics
boasts of a white man whose name is
Michael Andrew Jackson johnson Don
elson Fillmore Deckman.
Texas is the largest cotton State. Hel
product last year amounted to 2,24s, OO(
bales. Georgia came second with 1, 26O,
600 bales. Mississippi 1926, 900 and Ala
| hama I N O 000 ha1nc
George Cadbury, the English choco
| late manufacturer, has presented to the
city OF birmingham an estate of All
| acres, valued at 100000, upon which tt
build houses for working people.
Every year the German empress be
gins new diary and sends an old one
clasped and locked, to join its predeces
sors in safe. Not even the empero
may see these minute records of dali,
life.
Take care of the forests" saws
Tennessee paper, in announcing tina
out of single tree in Dyer county
citizen had got four cords of frewood
three gallons of honey and five rae
coons.
The next Democratic State conven
ton in Virginia will perhaps beat thu
States record in the matter of mem
bership, as it will be composed of abou
one thousand four hundred and forty
delegates.
A specially trained sanitary trool
lately drilled near Berlin has trans
| FL, of l.:
hospital cars, with berths for sick O.
wounded, in from three and one half tt
five minutes per car
Tasmanians plant apple trees close
! together The average orchard is SCI
out 10 feet apart, instead of 20 feet Of
| 40 feet, and it is said that as much as
six hundred bushels are sometimes gath
cred from single acre.
! Botanists of Lucerne county, Penn
are interested in strange discovery
along the Susquehanna river. The mem.
bers of a class found a species of VIC
lets growing in solid bank of culm
The roots were imbedded in the Goa
and their origin is traced, it is said, tC
seeds of the coal age.
r. J. O'Hanlon of Milwaukee, genera
organizer of the American Humane So
ciety, called upon Gov. Savage to ascer
tain his position relative to the proposed
bull fight at South Omaha. The Gov
ernor stated his position frankly, agree
ing with the humane society that nc
cruelty, even in appearance, should be
permitted.
Montezuma, eldest son of the famous
Sioux chief, Sitting Bull, is prosperous
bootblack in Philadelphia. His wife is
Winonah, also full blooded Sioux, and
the pair are known in the Quaker City
as Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Parker. The
husband is graduate of the India1
school at Carlisle, Pa. He has saved
considerable money and owns a pretty