Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-26
WORLD NEWS OF
THE WEEK.
Covering Minor Happenings Frcr1
All Over the Globe
DOMESTIC.


Boston reported that Mrs Stetson
would resign as a trustee Of the New
York Christian Science Church and
would give up her $4,000 year sal
airy.
James J. Hill said national eXtraya-
gance had grown to an extremely seri-
Gus height.
st, Paul Mine at Cherry, H., was
flooded with water. which failed to
quench the fire, and the opinion Was
general that the 800 entombed miners
We're dead. Gov. Deneen was asked
for troops to quell a riot expected
when the news is told the miners
families.
One human being is killed an hour
and one injured every ten minutes,
said w L. Park to the New York and
New England Association of Rail<ay
Surgeons, but he reported progIes
was being made in safeguarding life.
John NJ. Briggs. an independent ice
dealer, testified in New York that he
hunted Charles W. Morse with re-
volVer for two weeks because the Ice
Trust persisted in spelling the crop
OF rivals on the Hudson Riyer
Canon Peters declared that the in
crease in socialism is due to Thomas
f. Ryan, the late E. II. Hartman, aul
III general to the way great business
affairs are being conducted.
Mrs. Augusta p. Stetson appeared
before the directors of the Mother
Church of Christian Science in BGs-
ton. and her hearing was begun ON
charges that may lead to eXcomm-
Hunication.
Evidence tending to show that the
American Ice Company sent boats up
the Hudson River early in 1900 10
break up the ice Of rival companies
was given in the antitrust case.
WASHINGTON
The United States intends to obtain
speedy reparation fro2 Nicaragua;
The transport Buffalo is under hurry
orders for Panama, and the PraiTia
will probably be sent TO Goiuu5
whence they could carry marines 10
enforce demands.
Addressing the National Press Club
at Washington, Henry Watterson de.
tionalism in newspapers.
The Attorney-General and Secretary
MacVeagh were told by the Cabinet
to collect all money due from the
Sugar Trust and to prosecute all per.
sons involved in the sugar frauds
The Civil Service Commission as.
serted that twenty-five assistant
weighers at the Custom House in
New York were involved.
Clifford Pinchot is said to have writ
ten peremptory letter to Presideat
Taft. demanding that he choose be-
tween the Chief Forester and Secge-
tary Ballinger.
Mr.. James B. Reynolds, formerly
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
denies the charge that he had hinder
ed the sugar fraud investigation.
The United States Supreme Court
sentenced Sheriff Shipp of Cbattanoo-
ga and two others to ninety days and
three men to sixty days Imprisonment
because of the lynching Of neElo
while his case was pending before the
court.
There is good reason to believe that
the scandalous state of affairs dis
closed in connection with the opera
tons OF the sugar trust will be made
subject of discussion at a Cabinet
meeting.
FOREIGN.
The Viceroy OF Pe-Che-I.i has been
punished for failure to carry oat he
ceremonial prescribed at the burial 2t
the Empress Dowager.
President Zelaya, of Nicaragua re-
ported two revomtionists defeated in
battle before Greytown and that port
again open to commerce.
Eugene Higgins and his party and
all the crew escaped from the wre X
ed Varuna which was being pound
ed to pieces on a rockbound part Of
the coast of Madeira,
Onicial estimates place the damage
in Jamaica from the storm at Sf,250-
600; five steamers were wrecked, but
only the Avalon is q total loss
The Salvation Army is planning 10
establish farm colonies in Newfouud-
land
Lord Lansdowne, opposition leader
in the House of Lords, will move re-
lection of the budget, which viii
mean a general election in January.
Advices from Kingston Jamaica.
say that about fifty persons were
drowned in the floods on the north
coast and that the property loss viii
not be less than s1,2500s0.
China and Japan sent assurances
to the State Department that the re-
cent treaties between those countries
would not exclude Americans from
mining along the South Manehurls
and Antung- -Mukden railways.