Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-09-05
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Tuesday, August 27.

members of the Northumberland coun-
ty bar, died at Sunbury, Pa. last night,
aged SO years.
Steam fitting pipe has advanced from
25 to 100 per cent. in value in Chicago
during the last two weeks as result
of the steel strike.
Mr.. Lawson, owner of the Independ-
ence, reiterates the statement that the
yacht will be broken up after Septen-
ber 3.
Mrs. Louise Sheridan. better known
as Louise Davenport, the actress, died
in San Francisco last night from cir
rhosis of the liver.
Wednesday, August %.
The Russian beet crop has been
seriously damaged by a plague of cat
erpillars.
The Cologne Volks Zeitung of Berlin
reports the massacre of six Christians
at Ku-Ja, China.
The first session of the reunion of
Porto Rican veterans was opened at
Buffalo yesterday by General Miles.
The Chicago and Great Western
railroad has purchased the Winona
and Western.
The American Forestry Association
yesterday began a three days session
at Denver.
Funeral services were held at Oak
land, Cal, yesterday over the remains
of Mrs. Susan Field, widow of the late
Justice Field
The heat at Ardmore, I. T., yester-
day was record breaking, the govern
ment thermometer registering ITO in
the shade.
Thursday, August 90.
Orlando Harvey, the famous tenor
singer, is dead at Margate, near Lon
don.
1t now seems that November Is will
be selected for the Jeffries- Rubin
fight.
The transport Hancock arrived at
San Francisco from Manila yesterday
with the Fourth Cavalry.
George Howard, member of a
lynching mob in Wetumpha, Ala, was
sentenced to life Imprisonment yes
terday.
The committee on the revision of the
Westminster Confession of Faith, rep
resenting the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church, convened at Sar-
atoga.
Friday, August 80.
Brigadier General Fred Grant sails
Saturday on the transport Sheridan
for the Philippines
Adolph Osterloh. for 20 years the
German consul in Richmond, died at
his home there yesterday.
The Union Paper Mills of Monon-
gahela City, Pa, We're destroyed last
night by fire of unknown origin
Snow fell in a binding sheet for
an hour in the Alpine Pass, near Den
yer, yesterday, and was followed by q
severe hail storm.
Saturday, August 81.
The New York Central railroad has
been granted an extension of three
weeks to alter the Park avenue tunnel.
Dr. William Barnsmore Pape died
at Mobile yesterday aged 81 years.
He was noted as a pianist of remarka.
BILE gifts.
The Chilean congress has ratified
the nomination of Don Jerman Riesco
as future president of Chile. He will
assume office September IS.
The National Rife Association of
America began ten days shooting
tournament on the New Jersey state
camp ranges at Sea Girt yesterday.
A statement of the Lehigh Valley
railroad shows that it's net earnings
for July were $3O63l5S3 as against
$273,S70.67 for the same month the
previous year
Monday September 2.
Within a few months electric trac-
tion will replace horse power on the
street railroads in Manila.
About 500 delegates to the national
convention of the Letter Carriers AS
sociation have arrived at Chattanooga.
A series of heavy transforms last
night caused considerable damage to
farm property and roads around Cum
berland, Md.
Marshall Bomar, deputy sheriff OF
Paris. Tenn, was shot by Thomas
Tharp. negro. last night, and died
this morning.
The engagement is officially an
nounced of Helen, daughter of former
Governor Levi p. Morton, of New
York, to Count Bosom de Perigord, sec
ond son of the Due de Ta'leyrand.