Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-03-21
CONDENSED DISPATCHES
0otable Events OF the Week Briefly
and Tersely Told.

Uotable Events OF the Week Briefly
and Tersely Told.
The witch hazel manufacturers have
combined.
A new dervish movement was report
ed from the Sudan.
The February death rate In Havana
was reported as 1892 per thousand.
The kaiser's special envoy to Russia
was coldly received at st. Petersburg.
ambassadors and ministers have pre-
sented their credentials to King Ed
ward.
lish civil government in the Philippines
by May Is.
Governor Odell has signed bills tax
ing New York savings banks and insur-
ance companies.
The United States supreme court Is to
take a fortnight's recess from Monday
next. Decision Of insular cases Is not
looked for until after the recess.
Monday, March IS.
Adelbert Hay, United States consul at
Pretoria, arrived in New York.
The transport Fitzpatrick, with 400
sick soldiers, arrived at San Francisco
from Manila. Four privates died on the
voyage.
A supplementary estimate issued by
the British government shows that the
expenses Of Queen Victoria's funeral
amounted to t30,OOO.
Representative Marriott Brosius, chair
man of the Pennsylvania house commit
tee on banking and currency. died from
stroke Of apoplexy.
The sale Of q 100000 acres of land BY
the Northern Pacific railroad lying west
OF the Missouri river for $4O,OOO,OOO was
reported to have been consummated.
Saturday, March 10.
Commissioner of Patents Duell resign
ed.
Fatal student riots occurred in Mos
COW.
President and Mrs. Mckinley reached
Canton.
The battleship Alabama's trial proved
satisfactory.
Lieutenant General Trias of the Fill
pino army has surrendered, with officers
and men.
Time for ratification Of four Of the
British West Indian reciprocity treaties
was extended year.
A Pittsburg paper says Andrew Carne-
gle will give not less than $25,OOO,OOO to
found technical school in that city.
All efforts to locate the wreck Of the
steamer City of Rio de Janeiro in the
Golden Gate have proved fruitless.
The refusal of operators In the Penn
sylvania coal region to meet the miners
in conference caused the union to issue
an ultimatum.
The Ophir, carrying the Duke and
Duchess of York, left Portsmouth for
Australia, the king and queen accom-
panying the vessel down the Solent.
Friday, March Is.
All of Yale's remaining old buildings
save one are to be torn down.
Vice President Roosevelt left Wash
ington for Ills home at Oyster Bay.
Charles Il. Yerkes arrived in England
to superintend the new London railway.
Cloverport, Ky, was burned, and 1000
inhabitants are homeless. Loss, $500, 900.
Count Boni de Castellane thrashed NJ.
Ferdinand de Rodays, editor of the Paris
Figaro.
Novel arrangements for opening the
Pan American exposition on May l were
announced.
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the Viscayan islands have been seized
and destroyed.
Thursday. March Ia.
More mob violence occurred in the
Spanish provinces.
A storm of snow and sleet prostrated
wires in Nebraska.
Nebraska Republicans held another
fruitless caucus on the senatorships.
President Mitchell of the United Mine
Workers refused to discuss the possibili-
ty of a strike.
Unless revenue is increased the Brit
ish budget will show deficit of fo4,-
100000.
The New Jersey supreme court gave
formal decision upholding antispring
election law.
Wednesday, March Is.
A new independent glass factory is to
be built at Rochester.
A convention of mine workers met at
Hazleton. Pa. Five hundred delegates
were present.
The Dutch minister of war has re-
signed in consequence of an adverse vote
in states general.
At McKeesport, Pa, q brewing plant
valued ut 100000 was wrecked by an
explosion of the cooker" Two persons
were killed and two injured.
Well Known Writer Dead.
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