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Show NEWS SUMMARY, Many refugees from China are arriving arriv-ing in Japan. Indian troops are daily arriving at Hongkong en route to Taku The Ninth cavalry wili g0 from San Francisco to China early in August. Forty people were injured by a street car jumping the track at Mineral Ridge, O., and turning over. Four were seriously injured. Favorable action has been taken upon the application of Brigadier-Gen-eraljames H. Wilson, U. S. volunteers for active service in China. The Chinese, before they fled from Tien Tsin, killed all their own wound, ed, it is reported, to prevent their fall, ing into the hands of foreigners. The revelation of the ability of the Chinese forces in the north to stand thier grounds against the interrationals, is producing inevitable results in the south. The poatoffice department has authorized au-thorized an international exchange oil mails between Skaguay, Alaska, and White Horse, in the Yukon district of Canada. Mrs. Julia Stone, mother of Mrs. John Hay, wife of the secretary of state, died in Cleveland, O. , last week after an illness of several weeks of heart failure. A rainfall of over one-half foot has deluged the section about Sioux City, la. Small streams are out of their bank and it is feared the damage to crops will be great. A report from Hamburg says that detectives have arrested Secretary Kettenbnrg of the United States consulate con-sulate at that place for -the embezzle, men t of 20,000 marks. The exports of gold and silver from New York to all countries for the past week aggregate 8749,015 in silver bars and coin, and 52,166,954 gold. The imports im-ports were 5246,620 gold and 8102,320 silver. Four German officers, who have been acting as President Kruger's military . advisers, have just arrived at Lourenco Marques, having received orders from Berlin to proceed to active service in China, ' A postoffice has been established at the United States naval station, Pago Pago, Somoa, Mrs. M. H. Hudson, wife of Chief Boatswain Hudson United States navy, has been appointed postmaster. post-master. ' . Orders have been issued assigning Brig. -Gen Charles F. Humphrey, now chief quartermaster at Havana, as chief qaartermaster on the staff of Gen. Chaffee, in charge of the Chinese ex- pedition. Telegraphy by the use of typewriters in place of the ordinary clicking keys and sounders, familiar in telegraph offices, has been made possible by two Chicago men, Z. G. Sholes and A. C. Gilmore. Paris, which has been one of the most backward cities in the world as regards transportation facilities, has inaugurated an underground metropolitan metro-politan railway, similar to that in London. Executors of the will of George M. Pullman have turned over to the board of directors of the Pullman free school of manual traning 81,200,000, tha amount decreed for building such institution. Reports received from various points says that the trouble in China is seriously affecting the German textile trade in Gladbaeh, Bocholtand Kaiser, slautern where altogether 2800 men are locked out. The pay of Maccabebe soldiers in the Philippines will be just one-half that given to American troops owing to the fact that they are to be paid in Mexican silver, while the Americans are paid in gold. A fourth body supposed to be that of a member of the ill-fated Ralfe-Clayton Ralfe-Clayton party murdered on the Dawson trail last winter has been found four miles above Selkirk, on the Yukon, and forwarded to Dawson. About 20,000 people participated last week in the World's Christian Endeavor En-deavor convention on the Alexr-lria palace grounds. Meetings were held Simultaneously in the theater, concert hall and large market. Attorney-General Crow of Missouri has filed in the state supreme court quo warranto proceedings against the St. Louis Transit company, and the United Rajlroad company, askirig that their charters be revoked. The Government authorities are finding the present Chinese Bgitation is having the usual effect of stimulating stimulat-ing cranks and agitators and many of the highest officials have received anonymous letters containing threats. |