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Show NEWS SUMMARY. Tho trial revision bill has finally been adopted by the French chamber of deputies. Great Britain, it is reported in Lima, I'eru, has offered to purchase the Chilean and Argentine warships. General Otis reports that he has mounted several troops of cavalay on the little native ponies, with good results. re-sults. The plague has broken out in southern south-ern Formosa. There have been several deaths in the city of Tainan, where it is spreading fast. To keep up speedy communication between the American outposts and the base at Manila, General Otis has purchased GOO horses. President Alonzo, during the recent siege of La Paz, Bolivia, the nominal capital, shot five of the leading federalists, feder-alists, or insurgsnts. Well-authenticated reports have been received of horrible deeds committed by the Indians in the country between Corocoro and Oruro, Bolivia. The peach and apricot crops of Vernon Ver-non and Cedar counties, in Missouri, are reported dead. The loss is estimated esti-mated at more than S100,o00. Tom Sharkey and Charlie Mitchell have been matched to meet in a twenty-round twenty-round bout at the BolLngbroke club, London, for a purse of 3511,000, on May 29. The Rome correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says he learns from a good source that Don Carlos has instructed his agents in Spain to stop the agitation agita-tion in his behalf. The insurgent officers wilio have been parading around Havana in full uniform uni-form have taken the hint at Gomez's displeasure over their course and now appear without regalia. Judge Hazen of the Topeka, Kan., district court has handed down an opinion tin which Jhe sustained the legality le-gality of the special session of the legislature leg-islature in every particular. The empress of China proposes to surround Pekin with a quarter of a million foreign-equipped troops, who are to oppose any invasion from Manchuria Man-churia or the Gulf of Fochill. The Nebraska house has adopted a resolution indorsing the votes of Senators Sen-ators Allen and Thurston on the peace treaty, and declaring McKinley the greatest president since Lincoln. Frozen water pipes caused a fatal explosion in the kitchen of the female department of the Home of the Friendless, Friend-less, Baltimore. Two persons were killed and a third seriouly injured. "Italy and France," says the Rome correspondent of the London Mail, "have agreed to share possession of Cape Dumeira on the Raheita coast, at the southern extremity of the Red sea." In both Szechuen and Shansi provinces, prov-inces, Formosa, the Yumentze rebels have offered a reward of 120 taels for the head of every male foreigner who is killed, and 100 taels for every woman or child. It is stated in New York financial circles that the government in remitting remit-ting $20,000,000 indemnity to Spain for the Philippine islands will do so by shipping the gold direct from the treasury. The North and East rivers, New York, are blockaded with ice, the former for-mer being frozen solidly across at the upper part of the city. The narlem river is frozen solidly north from the Harlem bridge. The report that the sultan of Oman has conceded a coaling station to France and the rumors of the existence of Franco-Russian schemes to destroy British influence in the sultan's dominions domin-ions has been confirmed. It has been decided by the war department de-partment to strengthen the signal corps now in the Philippine islands by the addition of one company of sixty men recruited from the volunteers in the forces now stationed there. The Paris correspondent of the London Lon-don Daily News says: "A more ridiculous attempt at justification for a coup d'etat cannot be found in the annals of the nineteenth century than M. de Beaurepaire's charges." The Vienna correspondent of the London Standard, referring to the reports re-ports that France is seeking a Spanish alliance, recalls the fact that in 1S91 Austria proposed that England and Spain should join the dreibund, and that the proposal was acquiesced in by Germany and Italy. It is reported that after the raiding at lvueif, North China, while several hundrpds of children, under the care of the Roman Catholics, were on their way down river, they were seized and drowned by Yu-Mantze and his followers. fol-lowers. The government of Guatemala, in order to promote the rubber industry, has issued a decree offering a cabal-leria cabal-leria of the public lands, which is equivalent equiv-alent to over 100 acres, t6 any person having 20,000 rubber trees over four years old. It is believed in Washington that Germany precipitated the recent trouble trou-ble in Samoa in the hope that the United States or Great Britain would be tired of the tripartite arrangement and would ask for a modification of the Berlin treaty. |