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Show NEWS SUMMARY. The police chiefs will meet next year In Cincinnati. The scarcity of pig irou and of steel Is getting more pronounced. The Third Nebraska, Colonel William J. Bryan's old regiment, has been mustered mus-tered out at Augusta, Ga. Leading German professors express the belief that the peace conference will be without practical importance. At Bitterfleld eleven persons were drowned In attempting to cross the river Mude. The rains still continue. More than 700 Cuban stevedores are out on strike and the work on ships in Havana harbor is being done by Chinese Chi-nese under police guard. In Rome, altough the composition of the reconstruction cabinet has not yet been officially announced, it is considered con-sidered the ministerial crisis is passed. C. E. Littlefield of Rockland, was nominated by acclamation by the Republicans Re-publicans of the Second Maine district, dis-trict, to succeed the late Nelson Ding-ley. Ding-ley. Three men were seriously and two probably fatally Injured by tne explosion ex-plosion of a boiler at the works of the New Jersey Iron and Steel company, com-pany, Trenton. The insurrection In Yemen is gaining gain-ing ground. The Turkish commander, Abdullah Pasha, has been forced to retreat to Sana, the capital of the province of Yemen. Dr. Clifford Mitchell of the Chicago Homeopathic Medical college staff has discovered that 21 per cent, of the persons per-sons who committed suicide in 1898 did so by drinking carbolic acid. Secretary Long has received a cablegram cable-gram from Admiral Dewey, asking permission to keep the cruiser Boston, on the Asiatic station for a short time. The request will be granted. An extraordinary movement is on foot looking to the consolidation of Presbyterian congregations in New York City, some of them among the richest in the United States. The London Daily Mall declares that a group of American and English liter-ary liter-ary agents has formed a syndicate for the purpose of controlling the future productions of Rudyard Kipling. A cabinet member is authority for the statement that the president has practically made up his mind to call congress together in extraordinary session about the 20th of October. In a great fire in the town of Graue Hnmora, province of Dukowina, Austria, Aus-tria, 200 buildings, including the principal prin-cipal church, the town hall and other publio edifices and all the school houses were destroyed. Major-General Otis has virtually decided de-cided against the legality of claims for indemnity filed by residents of Iloilo, whose property was destroyed during the operations Incident to the capture of that city on February 11. The Seminole burning and kidnapping kidnap-ping cases, in which there are thirty defendant for kidnapping and afterward after-ward burning at the stake Lincoln McGeisey and Palmer Sampson, Seminole Semi-nole Indians, are on trial at Muscogee. Musco-gee. Representatives of the chief iron manufacturing houses of Scotland de- ny that a scheme has been submitted to them by an American syndicate, headed by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, to absorb the iron and steel Interests of Great Britain. At Auburn, New York, the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tincknall were found In their room. The man was dead without a mark upon him. The woman was unconscious, with the side of her head battered In and the brain protruding. After a confinement of about six years in a political prison In the Republic Re-public of Colombia, Archie McCarter, a civil engineer and contractor prominent promi-nent in Fort Scott, Kansas, until 1891, when he left for Yucatan, has just been liberated. An association of heirs, with George Mills, manager of the United States flouring mill, as president, has been formed in Chicago to recover an estate consisting of sixty acres of property in the heart of New York and Brooklyn, valued at 8200,000,000. By an understanding arrived at by the American and Spanish ministers accredited respectively to Madrid and Washington, both of whom are now In Paris, it Is arranged that their arrival in the two capitals shall be as nearly as possible simultaneous. The Pacific coast seal herds are to be reduced without interference by the government. The treasury department depart-ment has indorsed the movement and instructions have been issued to Commander Com-mander Sebree of the twelfth lighthouse light-house district on the subject. The good feeling in this country toward to-ward France is shown in three distinct projects for erecting statues in France during the Paris exposition. The proposed pro-posed statues are Rochambeau, Washington Wash-ington and Lafayette. Kear Howard City, Mich., Joseph Harvey killed his wife, his uncle, Robert Rob-ert Pierson; his grandmother and mortally mor-tally wounded his three months' old child and his father-in-law, John Lo-genslayer, Lo-genslayer, and finally shot himself, inflicting a wound which is likely to urove fatal, |