NEWS SUMMARY, i The flood of Kansas City, Kans, has left 23,000 people homeless. A New York boy was killed last week by an overdose of quinine. Governor Hunt of Porto Rico deles that he has any intention of resigtnfj. Mrs. Rose Gallgher of Cripple Cik is dead from ptomaine poisonig, caused by eating canned peaches. The Russian newspapers declare tht the murderers of the Servian mii-archs mii-archs ought to bo tried as criminal Juan Fernandez, a Mexican, dleht Durango, Colo., from injuries receid by being hit on the head with a stae. A cloudburst near Basalt, Clo., caused a landslide which carried aay a section of the Colorado Midlnd tracks. It is reported that General Mteo has surrendered to President Catro and that the revolution in Venezela is ended. Former President Cleveland pas been offered the presidency of the tTnl-verslty tTnl-verslty of Virginia, but has declfaed the offer. An Indiana man has applied foj a divorce because his wife refused ; to permit him to ask a blessing or ofer a prayer. . i ' Clara Nichols, society editor of the Chicago Tribune, was crashed to deith in an elevator in the Tribune building last week. i Henry Alcott Brown, a well known Colorado Springs man, was found dead iu a ua-m luo Dunuay. jjeain was aue heart disease. Four trainmen were killed and three badly Injured in a collision between a coal train and a freight train near Clearfield, Pa. Major W. H. Glbbs, who is said to have fired the first shot of tho civil war upon Fort Sumpter, is dead at Columbia, S. C. By the explosion of an oil lamp at her home, Mrs. Mary Touiy, of New York, and her 7-year-old daughter, were fatally burned. Arthur Lyons, who shot and killed his mother at Shoales, Ind., was surrounded sur-rounded by a posse and shot himself rather than surrender A lunatic who imagines himself to be Jesus, assaulted Emperor Francis Joseph with a club, in Vienna, but was seized before doing any harm. Norway and Sweden have decided to be represented by their own counsel at The Hague when the Venezuelan caseB are taken up for arbitration Dr. Rudoiph Baird, of Boulder, Colo., tried on the charge of having murdered mur-dered his wife with poison, was found not guilty by the jury and was discharged. dis-charged. Mayor Low of New York has received re-ceived a check for $5000 from John D. Rockefeller for the fund for the relief of the sufferers from the floods in the west. As a result of the postoffice investigation, investi-gation, what is known as the "flying squadron" of special agents of the rural ru-ral free delivery sen-ice has been abolished abol-ished as useless. As the result of the runaway of a merry-go-round at Evansville, Ind., a number of children were severely injured, in-jured, the children being thrown off against the posts. Lightning struck a school house at Lake Lauderdale, N. Y.. and the teacher and one pupil were seriously hurt. Twenty-five pupils were rendered ren-dered unconscious.