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Show NEWS SUMMARY It is rumored that the plague haa appeared at San l'ablo, Brazil. The Peninsular bauk at WiUiams-burg, WiUiams-burg, Va., was entered by robbers, tha safe blown open and about SliO.Ocn ;n money taken. San Francisco newspapers still insist in-sist there have been no cases of plan-no iu that city and continue to denounce the Hoard of Health. The postollice inspectors are still busy over the postal accounts i' Cuba and say it will be a month before their report will be ready. ; In Seattle Quartermaster Robinson has awarded a contract for the pur-1 pur-1 chase ef 2.0o0,ono feet of Washington j iir lumber for Manila. Captain llobert Searle. for many years commodore of the Pacific Mail fleet of steamers, is dead in Sau Fran-;c,.i Fran-;c,.i f,.,,,,, , (u'lin l in1, i r W. S. Taylor, former Kentucky governor, gov-ernor, and Charles Finley, wanted at Frankfort on a charge of complicity in ha Goebel assassination, are still in lrjdianapolis. Honolulu advices to May 15th say that at that date there had not been a case of the bubonic plague for forty-six forty-six days and business had resumed its former activity. Of the 450 delegates to the New York State convention 102 are pledged to insist on Bryan delegates to the National Na-tional convention, and 120, nearly all from New York city, are unpledged. Secretary Hay entertained at luncheon lunch-eon the Boer delegates in Washington. The affair was a purely personal compliment com-pliment extended by the Secretary, and had not even a social significance. Colonel AVeisenberger, commanding the national guard of Washington, has issued an appeal to the various militia companies of the state to accept Ta" coma s invitation to be present there July 4th. Judge Johnson, chairman of the Executive Ex-ecutive committee of the National Democratic committee, was elected chairman of the Kansas delegation to the Democratic National convention at Kansas City. Commissioner Wilson of the internal revenue bureau has held that bank checks issued by clients of the United States Circuit court, by direction or authority of the court, are exempt from taxation. The Chinese Minister in Washington has reoivpd nnmermm telecrrnms: trnm Chinese residents of San Francisco, asking him to have revoked the order that they shall be inoculated with the anti-plague serum. The Senate committee on appropriations appropria-tions has decided to insert an item of 5,000 in the pending deficiency bill as partial payment of the claim of the widow of Dr. Ricardo Ruiz, who died in a Cuban prison. Li Ping Hang, former governor of Shan Tung, who is strongly hostile to Europeans and whom the Chinese government gov-ernment in 1S07 dismissed from tho uovernorsnip on tne aenianci ot Germany, Ger-many, with an express promise that he should never again hold office, has been appointed to an important post. Options have been obtained on twenty-nine of the thirty-five metallic roofing plants in the country in an attempt at-tempt to consolidate these concerns as an allied company to the American Steel Sheet compan3r. Mr. Fisher, one of the Boer envoys, says it is their purpose to visit ten or twelve principal cities of the United States and explain to the people whatever what-ever they might wish to know of their cause. They came to plead with the whole American people for sympathy and support. Notwithstanding government opposition, op-position, the second reading of the bill to enable women to be elected aldermen alder-men and councilors in the new Borough Bor-ough councils formed under the Don- -don government bill ot 18U0, was carried car-ried in the House of Commons by a vote of 248 to 129. The water of a large lake near the town of Zapotalan disappeared in the recent earthquake in Mexico in agreat fissure in the earth, which seemed to be produced by a second shock that lasted about one minute. Governor Foster. elected by Louisiana Democrats for senator, confessed that he was not sound ou tho 10-to-l proposition, propo-sition, but declared that he would obey the wishes of the Democratic platform on that point. Senator McEnery. also elected, made a si milar confession on the tariff. Mail reports from the Philippine! show that there has been a steady increase in-crease in the number of cases of bu. bonic plague. There were thirty cases in Manila during January, forty-eighl during February and fifty-six during March. The president has sent tc the Senato a series of letters from the Chinese Minister, Wu Ting Fang, setting forth reasons why, in the opinion of his government, gov-ernment, the Chinese exclusion laws should not be made applicable to the Philippine islands. Governor Murphy informs Tx health officers that Arizona bus established estab-lished no quarantine against Sau Fran cisco nor does he consider tho situntiou at all alarming, but Arizona oflieor will be ou tho alert to meet auy contingency con-tingency which may arise. |