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Show NEWS SUMMiUlY. Fortres Monroe, onllnnrlly alylcil the Olbrnltnr of Amerloa, Is to be made even more formidable than now. Consul Swain at Montevideo reports tlmV American cxml lma oomo Into tho river Plat In nctlva competition with the Welsh coal Secretary Alger la authority for the statement that thcru le no truth In the report of n change In tho head of the navy department. I (irnernl Merrltt the first of tho year will tnke charge of the department of the coat, relieving tlencrul bhnftcr, now In command The directors of the Hell Telephone company havo declared n dividend ot 3 percent An oxtrn dlvldmdot IK per cent was nlao declared Prof John Hell llntehrrof Princeton has gone IhicU to Patagonia to coutlnue his M-nnh for rare foaslls nud txploro the Interior of the country Ihe atato department haa Instructed lci-Counul (Icnernl SprliiRir to pro-1 ceed to Havana mid close up the affairs of tho United States conauluto general thcru. (Icnernl Weyler la going to Madrid to confer with the Premier, who Is ex-1 pectcd tonnrpt also tho advances of1 Benlor Uomctury Itolnldo and Hmlor JosoCanattjan. Mike llenneaay, n mine-owner, who Uvea with his family, at Lead, H I) , and John Utoniudl, cmployid by lien-nrsa, lien-nrsa, wcro buruoi to death In their cabin at Lruwn Hill H A Hylveslrr, who waa formerly agent of the 1 ijultnblo Idfu Insurance company at Illllboru, N I) , has beeu arrrbtol In htuttle un n warrant charg lug him with imlKislcmcU 1 ho jury In tho case of H. Jenctt formerly prisldcnt ot the 1 ake Ka tlonnl Hank of Wolfboro, N. II, charged with cmbeixleuient of 810,000, returned a verdict of guilty Tho prifiruitlal tariff In favor of Orent llrltnln has not worked particularly partic-ularly well In Canada according to flguna transmitted by United blatca Commercial A out Hunt at Palmer-slon Palmer-slon In Washington a marshals jury declared de-clared loacph V I carton to In! lusaiii Piarsou Is the inun uliocreaUd a sen satlou by hurling mlullca through tho door and windows of tho Hrltlsh em bsssy Die stale department as yet has taken no atcpa townrd reopening the American consulates In Spain, and thla probably will bo allowed to await the exchange ot ratldcatlona ot the ptace treaty Frederick von Hartmann, nged 27, sonof Hamiivou llartmannof Cologne, Uermauy, Jina been sentenced to five years In tl e state prison by Judge ItucU ot ICalamaioo county, Mich., fur burglary Heerotary Alger aatdjeaterday afternoon after-noon that Major-Oeuernl Oils had rendered ren-dered most satisfactory service in command com-mand of the military forcea In the 1'iilllp! Inrs and would be retained In that position Hcrenflcr brooms will cost 3 rente moro apiece Members of the Hrooui Manufacturer' association of tho United btatca met In Chicago and de-cldid de-cldid to advance thoprlco of brooms S3 cents ndocin Three moonshiners, Jacob I amliert, Orccr, nnd an unknown man, were killed and auroral of their comradca wounded III a buttle with rovmue ofll cera In ICnox couuty, Ky, Ihe olllura wire not hurt. Hnintor Morgan line accurod the pas-sago pas-sago by tho scnato of n resolution authorizing au-thorizing tho Mcarnguan Canal com-mltteu com-mltteu to Inveatlgatu the alleged efforts ef-forts to obstruct the construction of tho Nicaragua canal Among a network of wires twenty feet above the ground, Roderick Chla holm, an electrlcan, tvaa alowly burned to death In alght ot several hundred apecatora at tho corner ot Fifty-fifth and State atrtets, Chicago In Syracuse, N Y , Arthur It. Hall, a well known bicycle trick rider, war Instantly killed recently by being struck on the head by a timber which fell six atorlea, crushing his skull. Ho was at work on the building Die Attorney-General haa transmitted trans-mitted to congress the report of tho commission appointed to prepare a code of civil lawa for the territory of Alaska. The lawa of Oregon aro taken aa tho basis for tbo new code An Issue of somo Importanio haa been raised by the civil service commission as to the right of Comp' roller Trace-well Trace-well of the treasury to refuso to audit the accounts of H.rsons appointed to positions ' in contravention of tho civil service law " The work ot completing tho combl- United States, to be known aa the American Pottery company, with a capital of tJ7,o00 000, la expected to be consummated In Now 'lork within the next ten days. The directors of tho Atchlnson, To-pckaiL To-pckaiL banta le Ilallroad company have declared a dividend of 1 per cent on the preferred stock, the first since the reorganisation of the company Tho officers and executive cotumllUc were re elected |