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Show NEWS SUMMARY. The plague is still spreading through- out Australia. j Affairs in China are in a state of ex. j traordinary quiescence. The City of Mexico experienced f I slight earthquake last neck. Flaguehasagain broken out in.lapau nearly all cases proving fatal. Three pee.-.ons were killed and two seriously injured during; a windstorm at St. Faul, Minn. Two men were killed and seven injured in-jured by the explosion o." an engine on the Illinois Central at Fubois, 111. Germany's commerce with Cue world in all commodities, except the precious metals, amounted last year to ii.lS'v 744.000. ! The London Kx press advocates the ' ostracism of Richard Crokcrln Knglaml . in reveuge for Tammany's attitude on j the Boer war. j More --Boxer" outrages are reported sixty miles north of Tien Tsin. where a number of native Christians have been massacred. The Sultan of Turkey will send to Crown Prince Frederick William, by a hig-h Ottoman dignitary, the int'az order, set in diamonds. Hongkong- police have confiscated large quantities of firearms and ammunition ammu-nition intended for distribution among-the among-the lawless classes in China. The queen lias issued a proclamation permitting trade between the South African colonics and the portions of the Orange Free State now occupied by the rritish. Three warships will accompany Prcsident r,oo ot Argentine to France. and after a six weeks' stay in Paris Mr. ; Eoca will come to the United Plates,! landing- at New York. After writing a note of farewell ', his former sweetheart, Harry Harrett, ', a prosperous Chicago business man and heir to an estate worth S ,3,000, took , carbolic acid and died. j Fifteen thousand Jfobainmedans, all j weavers, met in Benares and endorsed a memorial to the Indian government against the plague rules, declaring that these were contrary to the laws of Mohammed. The Secretary of the Interior has re- : ceived information that the Indians on i Tongue river, in Moutana, are becoin- j ing restless, and that an incipient ( ''.Messiah craze" has made its appear- j anee t here. i Mr. dones of Virginia has introduced 1 a resolution directing the secretary of war to furnish information in connection connec-tion with the Xeeley disclosures in Cuba. It follows the Baeou resolution in the Senate. In the British house of Lords the secretary for war, the Marquis of Laus-downe, Laus-downe, introduced a bill to extend the powers of the volunteer act by provid- j ing that volunteers may be mobilized ; in any great emergency. The present agitation in Spain be- i cause of increased taxes will subside, j says former Minister AVood ford, as soon as' King Alfonso's subjects realize that the additional revenue is necessary to maintain the national honor. The future for the fruit business in Porto Rico is bright. Frost is unknown in Porto llico, and her fruit capacity has never been tested. Fruits have never been cultivated there because there has been absolutely no market. j The Supreme court of Nebraska has ! cited Edward P.osewater of the Omaha J I Bee to appear .hi no f.th and answer for ; i contempt bit soil on the publication in ; the Bee of four articles relating to the connection of Gov. l'oyntcr and Judge ( llolcomb witli the pending Fire and Police Commission ease. i Two hundred ami thirty-five cases of the bobonic plague have thus far been ofiicially reported in Sydney. f these scveuly-nine have proved fatal. A second death from the plague bis occurred at Bockbampton, Greensland. Mme. Ihnma Nevada, the fainoussing-cr. fainoussing-cr. is entertaining in Cleveland, ., a. sister whom she met for the first time in twenty-eight years. Woven in with the story of the meeting of the two sisters is a pretty romaci- of the fulfillment fulfill-ment of a dying mother's rcest. a trust which Mme. Nevada disebtii-g.-d. A semi-oiiicia 1 government organ in Lisbon declares that the Helagoa railway rail-way bonds form part of the guarantee of a loan which tin: Pari com nil 1 tee of the Portuguese Tobacco company ha- granted to Portugal to pay the Delagoa award. The state department know" nothing of the reported detention of American canned beef at Loureneo Mari.u.-s. and j a purpose on the part of the t'nitedj State--consul to make a protest against ; the action of the I 'or'. uge':-.c autbori-ties autbori-ties iu this matter. j The Lnglish ciianeeilor of the ex- , rheoner. Mr Mlebaci 1 i i-ks - Jteaeb, j speaking at V.rhfA, con grc ' i.la ed the audience on the fact that -the cloud of war v,as fair':;.- lining and that, there were streaks of light portending a glorious dawn.' p.cturning ofbeers and men of the armv. accoraing to Yokohama advi-es. disagree with the optimistic views of the Philippine situation lately l'thl by the press and the public and say everything every-thing seems to point to a long BDtl de-' de-' vastating guerrilla warfare. |