Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-24
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Nntable Events of the Week briefly
and TerseIy Told.

and TerseIy Told.
The miners of c. Pardee 4 Co. at Lat
timer. Pa, went on n strike.
King Oscar of Sweden and Norway
has resumed the rcins of government.
Harvard has decided TO send an expedi.
ton to visit Iceland, Greenland and Lab
rador.
Venezuela is said to have demanded
S1,000,000 from the Bermudez Asphalt
company.
The Philippine commission has passed
an act establishing department of pub
lie instruction.
Fourteen milk dealers We're arraigned
in New York special sessions. charged
with selling adulterated milk. The fines
imposed ranged from $40 to $40.
Monday, Jan. 81.
The Argentina wheat crop, it is esti-
mated, will yield 2.600,000 tons.
The Chilean congress has approved
the budget for the present year, amount
ing to 11j,00O,OO0 pesos.
The wonderful ice bridge at Niagara
Falls has formed. For the last few
days the thermometer has stood at zero.
Woverville. the county seat Of Trinity
fornia. has been snow bound since the
latter part of December.
John d. Rockefeller has. agreed to give
$4,000 TO Carson and Newman college
of Messy Creek. Tenn. provided the trus-
tees raise S5O,000 additional by 1908.
saturday. Jan. 10.
Russian students We're eXilcd to Port
Arthur for indulging in political agita-
ton.
Twelve persons were severely injured
in trolley car collision at Mount Yer
non. n. Y.
Krugcrs secretary denies the report
that the cx-president has decided to visit
the United States.
Majority of Jamaica legislature voted
to resist attempt to restore absolute
crown government.
Charge against Mrs. Nation. the Wich-
ita w. G. Il. y. woman. dismissed on
ground that she is irresponsible
Twenty families were rendered home
less in Jersey City by fire which par
tally destroyed six tenement houses.
Friday, Jan. IL.
A hurricane swept over the Suez canal.
The Hamburg American liner Bulgaria
grounded in the Elbe.
A black deer that barks like dog has
been discovered in the Philippines.
The British cruiser Sybille was wreck
cd near Lambert's bay, Cape Colony.
A man was murdered and robbed aud a
woman shot ON an English railroad train.
The British steamer Kaisari was wreck
ed on the island of Reunion. Twenty y-ive
lives were lost.
NJ. Paul Jules Barber. the French dra-
matte author and the librettist OF Faust"
and many other well known operas. died
in Paris.
Thursday. Jan. II.
Moslem tribes in Dahomey are prepar-
Ing 10 rebel.
Havana's death list in December was
the smallest in ten years.
Governor Allen signed the bill estab-
fishing jury trials in Porto Rico.
Scott Wike. former assistant secretary
of the treasury. died NJ Quincy. Ills.
The German government has ordered
2I0O tons of saucrkraut in Philadelphia
The mutiated body of II man was
found Ia u trunk on Pier IL. East river.
New York city,
Theodore q. Boettgcr. an aged musical
was thJutN''
ia Chicago.
Cornelius l.. Aiyord. Jr,, who pleaded
guilty of stealing S,i2o,0oo from the First
National bank. New York. was sentenced
lo IL years Ia Sing Sing by Judge Thom-
~.
Wednesday, jan. ~.
Ground was broken Tor new custom
house IN New York.
Venezuela was reported to have seized
two American steamers.
Mrs. Carrie Nation. the Wichita W. g.
i. L, woman, was released from jail
Elijah W. Blaisdeli one vi the founders
of the Republican party, died al Rock
ford Ills.
The British steamer Monarch cleared
from New Orleans Tor Cape Town with
100 horses for the british array.
stephen Van Rensselaer, Townsend. "a
well known New York lawyer. died al hi
hoHle Ia Hampstead. on Long Island, att
~ several months sickness.
The Wllliamstown eoilisry. controlled
BY the Pennsylvania railroad. has sns
pended operations oa account nf diii.r'
.nees between the colnpany aud the OPP
srgtlyes ever lhs hours VI Motk.