The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-06-20
NEWS NOTES.

VIEWS NV4ES.
The lime burners of San Jacinto, Cal,
use crude oil as fuel in place of wood and
| coal.
| A British transport with 900 Boer pris-
oners will arrive at Hamilton, Bermuda,
July 8.
The per capita of wealth in the United
States was S30S in 1850, $3.50 in 1870 and
| is now $1,000.
1t is expected that 100000 boxes of
citrus fruit will be shipped from Califor-
mia this season.
A signed photograph of President
Mckinley has been presented to King
Oscar by Minister Thomas.
John Hunter, aged IS, and Mrs. Sarah
Jones. aged 10, were married at Pana.
The bride is great-grandmother.
The Servant Girls Union of St Paul
has fifty-three members, while its aux
iliary in Minneapolis counts up 800.
The proposition to issue bonds
amounting to $4,000 to build court
house at Bolivar, Mo-, was defeated.
Rumors that Mrs Maybrick has been
released from prison are denied at the
United States embassy in London.
The n orthman, the first Ocean steam
er to sail from Chicago, has arrived at
Hamburg, after passage of thirty-f
days.
Eighty seven carriage horses were
sold in New York the other day for an
o. o1
each.
In the schedule of New York bank
rupt recently filed in court it appears
that he owes $50 for beer and S26 pew
rent.
Although Japan is smaller than Cali
fornia, and only one-twelfth of her area
is cultivable, it has population of
100000 900.
Forty-four years ago the Kansas kaw
River was navigated from it's mouth up
as far as Lawrence. Now railroads do
, the business.
Vice Admiral Sir Edward H. Seymour,
who has been British commander in
chief on the China station since 1898,
has been promoted to the rank of Ad-
miral.
Wheat harvest has begun in Oklaho-
ma. The average yield in the vicinity
of Guthrie will be twenty bushels. The
territory's crop is estimated at 25,0O0,-
600 bushels.
Great quantities of frecrackers are
now being received in this country from
China, the merchants considering that
there will be a big Fourth of July de-
mand for them.
Pasteboard armor is the latest form
of defense. Experiments at Copenha-
gen show that millboard inches thick
was impenetrable to carbine bullets
which pierced 5-inch wooden planks.
A Malay doctor named Ibrahim ran
amuck at Singapore and killed six peo-
pie with spear, seriously injuring nine
Others He was then knocked down
and he died from the effects of frac-
tured skull.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, will be the site
of one of the most important of the
American naval stations on the Pacific
will be built, and first-class repair sta
ton for war-ships will be established.
The whole population of an italian
town is about to emigrate to the Argen-
tine Republic, and to continue the COM
munity in the manner and under the
same officials in the new country. Not
single individual is to be left behind.
A diamond thief was given twenty
lashes at Dover, Del, the other day be-
fore the largest crowd ever seen there
at whipping. The man stole $4OO
diamond shirt stud from doctor on
March 8, the closing day of the last
Delaware Legislature.
There are indications that the inau-
guration of civil government in the
Philippines will not take place until
August 1. Judge Taft, it is believed,
will be the first civil Governor. Gen.
Chaffee will succeed Gen. Macarthur
as commander of the military force.
A majority of the students at Berea
College, Kentucky, are mountain girls,
who until their arrival there had little
or no opportunity to learn modern cul-
mary methods. Education in this branch
is being carefully impaired under the
supervision of an expert graduate of
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.
The cyanide process briefly is the dis
| solving of fine gold in the crushed ore
by dilute solution of cyanide of po-
taSsium and the subsequent precipi-
tation of the gold from the solution of
cyanide with fine zinc shavings. The
ordinary plant is inexpensive and SIM
| Mo in nnoro finn Tho oocf of tho vrO