Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-04-22
WORLD NEWS OF
THE WEEK.
Covering Minor Happenings From
All Over the Globe
DOM ESTIC.

The hamlet OF Orleans, eight miles
southwest of Geneva N. Y, was nearly
wiped out by fire.
Midshipman Earl d. Wilson, who
suffered broken neck IN football
game on October 16, 1909, died from
his injuries at the Naval Hospital in
Annapolis, Md.
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener visit
ed the Military Academy at West
Point; there was no demonstration,
at his own request.
A report by the receiver Of the
National City Bank Of Cambridge,
Mass, showed that the total shortage
will reach $309,000.
Electric train made the trip through
the Pennsylvania tunnels from New
time.
The Assembly Ways and Means
Committee was told at hearing on
the Wall street investigation resolu-
tion that the Stock Exchange aided a
bank-note printing monopoly which
overcharged the public $1,000,000 an
nually.
A Federal Court jury in New York
City dismissed Clifford w. Hartridge's
claim for $4,000 against Mrs. Thaw
for legal fees and alleged disbursals,
and the Judge requested the Federal
and County Prosecutors to investigate
the lawyers conduct in the Thaw
case.
Meats of all kinds advanced again
in price and from 600 to 800 small
shops in New York city closed Po-
lice reserves checked the attempted
rioting around butcher shops at many
points.
The serious illness of Miss Lorraine
Clark, as the result of eating macaroni
boiled in soap at a high school society
initiation at Bridgeport, Conn.,, started
an investigation by the Board of Edu-
cation and war against the societies.
WASHINGTON.
The Chinese Minister designated
the First Attache of the legation here
to go to New York City to settle the
war between the tongs.
President Taft sent letter to the
woman suffrage convention express
ing regret for the kissing incident and
asking that it be forgotten.
Senator j. Mayhem Wainwright de-
clined the surveyorship of the Port
of New York offered to him by Presi-
dent Taft.
The Department of Justice, cooper
ating with Collector Loeb and other
Treasury officials, intends to run down
81, nln
in the sugar trust deals with the New
York Customs House.
Jefferson Day was celebrated in
Washington by a dinner at which
letter from William Jennings Bryan
was read and many prominent Demo
Gratis spoke.
Washington authorities hear by an
anonymous letter from New York that
there is a plot to blow up the Lee
statue in the national Capitol.
Speager Cannon challenged the in
surgents to depose him, saying that
unless they have the courage to join
the solid minority he will remain
Speaker until March 4.
FOREIGN.
Bert Hunter, farmer from Alber-
ia, Can, shot q man named Scho-
field and his wife and then committed
suicide in London.
Every foreign-owned building in
Changsha, China, except one, was
burned, and every house rented by
foreigner was looted by rice famine
rioters.
President Gomez. of Cuba, appoint
ed several new members of his Cabl-
net, one of them being a negro
Theodore Roosevelt was the guest
of Emperor Francis Joseph at dinner
at Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna.
A workman who announced his in
tention to kill NJ. BRAND, the French
Premier, was arrested at St Etienne,
and an attempt was made by an anar-
chist to shoot Judge in Paris.
Theodore Roosevelt left Porto Maui
rizio on his trip to Venice.
The Albanian insurgents have re-
turned to their homes under an agree
ment with the Turkish government,
which promises to grant any reason
able demands.
In Berlin 10000 Socialists and
Radicals made an orderly, most i'm
pressive demonstration in favor Of
electoral reform.