Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-01
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Tuesday, July 20.

revolutionary leader, has mysteriously
Disappeared from New York city.
Mrs. Kruger wife of former Presi
dent Kruger of the South African Re-
public, was buried at Pretoria Sun
day.
From four to six cars of vegetables
are now being shipped from Chicago
daily to drouth stricken sections in
Illinois and Missouri
Secretary Hitchcock returned uneX-
pectedly to Washington yesterday in
order to supervise personally the final
chapters of the Oklahoma land open
ing.
Wednesday, July "a.
The Commercial Law League opened
its seventh annual convention at Put
in Bay. o., yesterday.
The United Mine Workers of Amer
ica will make an effort to organize all
West Virginia miners.
Contracts were let yesterday for the
new road which gives the Wabash
Pittsburg entrance.
Russia's wheat crop is reported al
most ruined as a result of the drouth
over there.
Sarah Knapp, rs, and William
White, 80. eloped from the Bing-
hamton, New York almshouse yester-
day.
The sixteenth annual convention of
the Brotherhood of st. Andrew an
organization of the Episcopal Church,
will be held in Detroit, beginning to-
day.
Thursday, July 25.
w. Morgan Shuster left Washington
d. c., yesterday for the Philippines,
with a revised copy of the tariff.
Edgar w. Abbott, professor of Ian
guages at Butler University, Indiana,
was drowned while bathing yesterday
Secretary Root is at his summer res
idence, Southampton, l.. l., for a three
weeks vacation.
The Federal grand jury was called
into session at New York yesterday to
investigate the affairs of the Seventh
National bank.
Joseph r. HiXson, general eastern
agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul railroad. died at his home in
Elizabeth, N. j., yesterday, aged SO.
Abdul Hamid's beautiful enemy
Princess Haree Hanem, wife of Ali
Nouri Bey, consul genera for Turkey
in Rotterdam, has escap ID from Con
stantinople.
Friday, July 20.
Andrew Carnegie has presented the
city of Winnipeg with 100000 for a
free public library, which has been
accepted by the city council.
w. E. Samuelson, of Provo, Utah.
broke the worlds unpaced mile bicycle
in 153 2-5
Superintendent of Philadelphia S
Mint Henry X. Boyer is seriously i'll
of typhoid fever at his country home
in Lower Providence, Montgomery
county
Operations have been begun on the
proposed ship canal between St. Pc
tersburg and the White Sea.
The Colburn family offer reward
of $500 for the finding Of Mr. Col
burns body.
Earl Spencer, chancellor of the Vic
toria University, yesterday severely
criticised Dr. koch's theory to the eff
feet that human beings We're immune
from contagion from tuberculous cat
tie
Saturday, July 27.
Knights Templers will ask Presi-
dent Mckinley to visit their encamp-
melt next month at Louisville.
Minister WI Ting Fang says he has
no knowledge of the fact that his coun-
try intends to recall him.
Signor Francesca Crisp, who has
been dangerously ill for se~eral days
seems to be weakening gradually,
Voorhees,, a pitcher for the Atlantic
City baseball club, was left 100000 by
the death of an aunt.
Governor Stone has reappointed DR..
j. l.. Forwood, of Chester, member
of the state quarantine board.
Mayor Ashbridge has returned to
Philadelphia, after a two-weeks' va
cation, during which his whereabouts
We're unknown even to the newspa-
pers.
Monday, July 20.
There We're nine deaths from the
neat III Cincinnati yesterday WHllG
Louisville had three.
Surrounded by brilliant corSege
and in the presence of the diplomatic
corps, President Romano opened the
Peruvian congress yesterday
The Denver National Live Stock AS.
sociation has issued a warning against
hasty acceptance of the Koch tubercu
losis theory.
Pressed glassware factories OF the
American Flint Glass Manufacturers
Association started up today, giving
work to 10000 men.
High telephone rates in Chicago Ill,
has caused court proceedings against
the Chicago Telephone company by
the Illinois Manufacturers Associa-
zion.
Congressman w. H, Graham, Allie
gheny; Dr. N c. Schaeffer, Lancaster
Edward Bailey, Harrisburg. and Sena-
tor William p. Snyder, Spring City,
have been named as Pennsylvania s
State Capital commissioners.