v NEWS SUMMARY v Great Chlneso military activity Is reported In southern Mnnchurln. Clcnernls Mn and Yuan Shi Kal aro increasing in-creasing their forces. Samuel T. Hachol, one of tho host known real cstntc dealers and auctioneers auc-tioneers In St. Louis, killed himself by shooting nt his homo. Tho house passed a bill ctvatlng n Hurenu of tho Hcclnmntlon Service In tho Interior department, to bo headed by n director with a salary of $0,000 a year. Operators of mines in tho central Ohio district producing 7,500,000 tons nnnunlly havo unanimously rejected tho 190.1 scale presented by tho minors. Tho newspapers of Mndrld 1-cport thnt tho dormant volcano nt Palma, Canary Islands, Is showing Blgns of resumption. re-sumption. Columns of smoko nro issuing is-suing from the crater. Thrco members of tho crow of tho British battleship Prlnco of Wales wcro killed and four wcro Injured by n boiler explosion while tho vessel wns undergoing her speed trials. Antanln Urlllco, nged 31 years, an Iron worker, wns shot and stabbed to death nt his homo In Now York City. Alphonso Drllleo, 24 yenrs old, n brother of tho .dead man, Is under nr-rest. nr-rest. During n free-for-nll tight at a rail-road rail-road camp nenr Gurlcy, Ark., which lasted for somo hours, following nn lCaBtcr frolic, between Greeks, Slnva ond Italian lnborcrs, two of tho Greeks wcro killed. Harry Spencer, who was nearly mobbed In Chicago threo weeks ago on account of his throats against his divorced wife, last week shot her threo times nnd escaped. Sho will probably dlo. Fire Insurnnco underwriters In New York City variously estimate tho ln surnnco companies' losses In the Snn FranclBCo flro nt between $150,000,000 nnd $200,000,000. Prompt settlement) will be mode. Thomas 13. Fleming, nn engineer on tho Queen & Crescent road, died In Cincinnati of bullet wounds Inflicted by a negro whom Fleming had refused n ride on his locomotive. Tho murderer mur-derer csenped. A train of seventeen cars, loaded with supplies for tho pcoplo of San Francisco, was dispatched from Denver Den-ver Saturday night. Denver and Col-orndo Col-orndo will contribute $100,000 worth of food and other necessaries. Ten hours between Chlcngo and New Yoik on trains opornfed by clec-) trlclty and making an nverngo speed of soventy-flvo miles nn hour Is thej plan of Incorporators of tho Chicago & New York Air Lino railroad. Tho United States transport Sheridan Sheri-dan has sailed for tho Philippines via Honolulu and Guam, with sixty cabin passengers nnd COO marines nnd cnsuals for Manila. Tho vcssol Is nil ly ladon with nrtlllery supplies. James Surrock of Now Mexico has mado complnlnt to tho Federal authorities author-ities thnt ho has been dofrnuded by John Alexnnder Dowio out of n sum closo to $10,000, nnd thnt tho malls had been used In tho operation. It wns announced nt tho office of M. Guggenheim's Sons In Now York City on tho 20th that orders havo been Issued Is-sued by thnt Arm to proceed as soon ns posslblo with tho construction of a $5,000,000 smelting plant In San Francisco. Joseph M. Drlnkwntor of Chicago nnd his sister-in-law, Mrs. Dora Drlnkwntor, Drlnk-wntor, wcro arrested In Snn Frnnclsco' on complaint mado by Charles Drink-wntc. Drink-wntc. tho woman's husband, charging, thnt they eloped from Chicago, taking $1-1,000 of his monoy. Flro hns swept tho town of Marl-i qulnn, P. I., In Itlzal province. Two thousand dwellings aro In ruins. Tho government Is rushing assistance to tho sufferers. Flro nlso destroyed Pasll, nenr tho town of Ccbu. Two; Hundred persons nro homeless. i Charles W. Cook, a carpenter, kllledj himself nt Ocenn Pnrk, Cnl with n revolver. Ho left a noto which shows that ho had contemplated the act for' sovernl days. Cook was an old soldier) nnd had been out of employment. His widow, a dnughtcr and a son live In Colorado. j Thirteen earthquake shocks - wercj felt In succession on tho morning of tho 21st In tho provlnco of Siena, Tuscany. Tus-cany. Soveral buildings woro dam-nged, dam-nged, including tho city hall at Poggl-bonsl, Poggl-bonsl, nineteen mllos south of Florence. Flor-ence. Tho Inhabitants of Pogglbonsi wcro pnnlc-strlcken. Tho Boys Protectory, a Cnthollc Institution, In-stitution, under tho caro of tho Order of St. Francis, located near Folhl, Ohio, has boon burned. Loss $300,000. About 200 boys werp cared for In tho Institution. Five buildings, Including tho school, church, dwellings and dairy wcro destroyed. Secretary Itoot and Sir Henry Mortimer Mor-timer Durand, tho British ambassndor, signed a treaty on tho 21st providing for tho actual physical location of a part of the northern boundary of Alaska Alas-ka as agreed on In former treaties. Tho forty-first meridian was agreed upon as tho boundary.