Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-03-13
a WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Tuesday, March 4.

IN d III Ol JediOuSH, AHtuOlly Berry,
of Detroit, shot and killed Mrs. Sarah
A. Thillman and then killed himself.
Professor Frederick James Wood
bridge has been appointed to the chair
of philosophy of Columbia University.
New York
Adiutant General Stewart, Of Penn
sylvania, who was injured in run
away accident last August, resumed
his duties yesterday.
The five-story building OF the Aste
Press Printing Co.. in New York, was
wrecked by an explosion. A woman
who jumped from window was killed.
Wednesday, March S.
Australia produced i,333.6S1 ounces
of gold last year.
The Crescent Democratic Club, of
Baltimore, Md, celebrated it's 30th an
niversary last evening.
The Maryland senate passed bill
to authorize the admission of women
as practicing lawyers in the state
court.
The United States senate yesterday
confirmed the nomination OF Benja-
min B. Brown to be collector of Gus.
toms at Erie. Pa.
The United States cruiser Philadel-
phia sailed from Panama for Guaya-
quill, Ecuador, where she will show
the American flag for the first time in
several years.
Thursday, March s.
There are more desertions from
German merchant vessels at New
York than at any other port.
The navy department sold the old
monitor Manhattan to Henry Hitner's
Sons, of Philadelphia, for $15,21S.
Rear Admiral j. A. Howell will be
retired on the 10th inst. Next to Ad-
miral Dewey he is the ranking officer
OF the navy.
George Hettrick, of Trenton. n. j.,
who killed John kraus on Thanksgiv-
ing day. was sentenced to be hanged
on April IA.
Negotiations are being made for op-
tions on candy factories in st. Louis,
Mo-, with a view to forming a trust,
with $4,000 900 capital.
Friday, March 7.
The Babcock building and two other
structures at Plainfield. n. j., We're de-
stroyed by fire yesterday. Loss, $780,
900.
The New York chamber of com
merce adopted a resolution urging the
maintenance Of silver dollars or parity
with gold.
The Republican convention of Sus-
auehanna county. Pa, nominated Hon.
Charles f. Wright for congress for the
Fifteenth district.
President Roosevelt has been invited
to deliver the principal address at the
G. A. r. Memorial day exercises at
Arlington cemetery, Washington. on
May 80.
A telegram received at the navy de-
partment at Washington from London
announced the death of B. F. Stevens,
for 20 years United States dispatch
agent there.
Saturday. March 8.
President Roosevelt yesterday
signed the permanent census bureau
bill.
The United States cruiser Olympia
have target practice.
A man said to be Heber l.. Bull, OF
Philadelphia committed suicide in
Boston lodging house yesterday.
Camden, N. j., is nearly free of
smallpox, having but II cases. all of
whom are in the isolation hospital.
General julius j. Estey, aged 81,
president of the Estey Organ COM
pany. died at his home at Brattleboro,
VT, yesterday.
The labor dispute between the New
York Sun and Typographical Union,
No. 6, has been settled, and the office
hereafter will be union office.
Monday, March 10.
President Roosevelt on Saturday
signed the Philippine tariff bill.
William Gosden. one of the most
prominent young men of Richmond,
Va, committed suicide by taking NOR.
phine.
Secretary Wilson. OF the agricul-
tural department. denied that he in
tends resigning from President Roose-
velt's cabinet.
Charles Foster Kent. Phi. D., profes-
sor of Biblical literature at Yale Uni
versity. surprised his class by strongly
favoring hazing.
The Philadelphia Base Ball club Of
the American League will play its
first exhibition game on April 8 with
a picked team.
Creditors of the late Archbishop
Purcell. of Cincinnati, have appealed
to Rome for special collections in the
United States to wipe out his $4,000
600 in debtedness.
"Dry" Sunday In New York.