Show n a h NEWS SUMMARY The treaty of arbitration between tIThe tI-The Netherlands and the United r States was ratified on March 27 A bill prohibiting the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating liquors has been hilled by the Minnesota loglslo tune uroKlttani the priest who has been preaching a holy war In Morocco In i support of the pretender has been captured Attacks by Arabs on steamers ply Ins In Tigris have been so persistent that tho British lino has been com Polled to suspend By the falling of a cage In a coal 1 nine at Sewlcknu Germany four men were killed and more than twenty others Jnjured six seriously In order to be prepared for a strlko If one Is ordered the Lehigh Valley Coal Co has begun repairing the high fences surrounding the collieries in Inzleton Pa As a result of a quarrel over land Edward nienert a German rancher residing at Lobo Cal shot twice and probably fatally wounded C N Garry a land dealer at Benedict About twenty students captured L A Wlltsey the new Instructor In tho University at Fort Worth Tex and clipped his long side whiskers Several Sev-eral expulsions are expected Joseph Genaro a clgarmaker was shot and killed In New York City in a fusillade of bullets from seven italians said to be members of the Black Hand Five men were arrested The Pennsylvania legislature has adopted a concurrent resolution offering offer-Ing a reward of 15000 for information informa-tion leading to the arrest and conviction convic-tion of tho kidnapers of Willie 1 VhItIa A holy war Is again threatened in Morocco Reliable news received in Washington says that Fez and tho surrounding country including the town of Mcqulnz is in revolt against tae sultan The South Kansas conference of the Methodist church in session at Coffeyvlllc Kaus has voted against the restoration of the game of football foot-ball at the Baker Kan university 0 a church college I I Reginald McKenna first lord of the admiralty said In the house of commons com-mons last week that the British government gov-ernment had no intention of purchasing purchas-ing the Brazilian Dreadnaughts now i being built In that country The harbor at Vera Cruz Mexico has suffered from the recent earthquake earth-quake by receding waters rendering It so shallow thut ships drawing twentyfour feet of water touch bottom bot-tom Dredging will be necessary President Taft has not yet decided 11 > definitely upon his proposed trip to the west this summer He will determine de-termine the matter definitely after the close pi the extraorjlmrysesslcm0 of congres He has had In mind a trip to Alaska Governor Gillette of California has signed N + W Thompsons antiland grabber bill which provides for the sale of public lands at public auction at 125 an acre and ib 1 designed to 4 prevent fraudulent acquisition to such property General William Booth command erin chlef of the Salvation Army is ir in St Petersburg negotiating with the government for permission to establish es-tablish there a branch of tho Salvation Salva-tion Army Ho Is strongly opposed by the holy synod salT I sal-T + death sentences passed upon political prisoners were confirmed con-firmed by the supreino military court I at St Petersburg Fifteen of theso were convicted of an attempt to escape es-cape from the Irkutsk prison when a prison guard was killed Rudolph von Feneres one of the most eminent physicians of Germany is dead as a result of an operation for gall stones He was physician to the lato Empress Frederick and the Chancellor Chan-cellor von Buelow He often accompanied accom-panied Emperor William on his travels A feud between the ChAvez and the Padilla families living on adjoining t has ranches north of Padlna Mexico has already resulted In three deaths and It Is feared another outbreak l may occur at any time The trouble originated orig-inated in a quarrel over the boundary boun-dary lines Former Queen Lllluokulanl of Ha wall who recently went to Washington Washing-ton In an attempt to expedite action by congress on her claim against tho government of 250000 which she desires as compensation for the loss of her crown lands returned to her 1 home last week J Four men wore killed and five seriously seri-ously injured when a thlrtyllvefoot brick wall left standing after a fire a month ago which destroyed the Imtterine plant of Swift Co In Chicago I Chi-cago crashed down on them without warning Tho men were erecting a building adjoining The first year of the Des Moines commission plan of municipal government govern-ment at Des Moines Iowa was completed com-pleted March 24 The treasury shows a surplus of 20000 on hand over and above expenses In the year previous under the old system there was a deficit of 180000 Former Governor Hill of Maine acting chairman of the Republican national na-tional committee announced last week that time headquarters of till committee in Washington would bo abandoned after this month and continued con-tinued In Chicago with Secretary Hey ward In charge The Panama libel cases against tho Press Publishing company and Caleb Van Hamm one of the editors of the World will not be dropped so Ion I as ho Is dlbtrlct attorney was the statement made by United States District Attpnuty Sttmson in New York City Inl r IFpI |