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Show V NEWS SUMMARY V J Three boys of Mcrldon, In., sons ol well-to-do fumlllcs, wero killed by nil Illinois Central passenger train. Kfty-flve natives wero drowned at Johannesburg owing to tho Hooding ol Iho South Hose, n deep gold mine. Tho supremo court hns denied n rehearing re-hearing In the enso of Jolmnn llocli, sentenced to bo hanged In Chlcagd .February 23 for wlfo murder. A special from I'Inghnr, In., says Governor Cummins la ready to nccopt n third term its governor nnd will make an olllclnl announcement soon. President Pnrdo of Peru has signed tho lnw npprovlng tho contract wltlt Henry MacOougnll for tho construe-' tlon of a railroad between Limn nnd Pisco. Cnptnln Ktirml, who commnnded tho Japanese nnvnl guns nt the slego of Port Arthur, has been appointed naval'' attache at the legation of Japan lit St; Petersburg. Tho fall of Count Vorontzoff-Dash-Jtoff, Viceroy of the Caucasus, whoso weak-kneed policy Is hold responsible for tho prevailing nnarchy In tho Caucasus, Cau-casus, Is announced. General Llncvltch reports to St. Petersburg the existence ot 220 cases of Siberian plague in the army. Tho total number of sick in the hospital! Is 744 officers and 14,282 men. Tho Internal rovonuo report for 190G shows that the business of tho' Phlllpplno Islands amounted to S105,-000,000 S105,-000,000 In gold. Tho amount of taxes' collected was $4,000,000 In gold. Poltavntsky, tho youth of Moscow who on Juno 15, 1005, attempted to assasslnato General Trepoff, has been! condemned to five years' Imprisonment, Imprison-ment, without loss of civil rights. Sarah Jones, a sevcnty-yeur-old wo-l man, was convicted of murder In the first degree at Philadelphia, for tho killing of her foster daughter's child' within n few hours after it was born. After n run, tho Columbia Nanking and Trust company of Charleston, S C, closed Its doors, nnd tho directors! mndo a general assignment of property, and' assets for tho benefit of creditors. A coroner's Jury at San Frnnclsco, In the Inquest over tho three men who wero killed recently on tho transport Meade, found a verdict of accidental death caused by Inhaling poisonous smoke, Jim Cotton, a negro, wns shot to death at Elmavlllo, AIu., by n mob of white men. Cotton wns accused of shooting at Jim Philips, a guano sales man, who had administered a thrashing thrash-ing to Cotton. At nickmor's Bhlp yard In Bremer-haven Bremer-haven Inst week there was launched tho biggest sailing ship In tho world. The length of tho crnft Is 438 feet and her brendth 54 feet, and she Is of 8,000 tons burden. Governor Stokes of Now Jersey has grnrjed M,rs. Antoinette Tolln, tiro Hackonsnck murderess, a further re-prlovo re-prlovo of sixty days In order to allow her counsel to present further evidence evi-dence for a new trial. A punltlvo expedition has captured a largo band of revolutionists In tho Dclilen cstato In tho vicinity of Riga. Fifteen of them have been tried by court-martial and shot. Tho others wero Hogged with knouts. Special Investigation of the affairs of tho Equitable Life Insurance society soci-ety within n year hnvo cost that coN poratlon more thnn $300,000, according to a statement authorized by Paub Morton, president of tho Equitable. President W. G. Tight of tho Now Mexico university was seriously Injured In-jured nt Albuquerque, by an explosion of gasolino while experimenting In tho laboratory. Ono of his nrms was torn oft and ho was otherwlso horribly mutlllnted. Mnny Jows nt Kleff have received by mall sentences of death in tho name of tho pan-Russian leaguo In dofonco of tho holy cross. A great panic prevails pre-vails among tho Jewish population, who nro expecting n rcnownl of tho nntl-Jowlsh riots. Flro broke out In Mttleton, W. Vn an oil town, and beforo it could bo extinguished nearly every business houso wns destroyed, about 800 of tho 1,500 inhabitants wero without homes nnd a ilnnnclnl loss of moro than ?200,-000 ?200,-000 was sustained. Mount Vesuvius volcanic activity continues. Streams of lava havo Invaded In-vaded tho railroad track at threo points, and It Is threatened at a fourth point. The station of tho Funicular railway Is oIbo threatened, nnd that, lino of transit has been stopped. Roy Mendonhnl shot nnd killed Mrs. Eva Kennedy, his flnncco, and then' fatally wounded himself, nt Dayton, Ohio, Tho couple had quarreled over Mrs, Kcunedy's request for a few days' postponement of their marriage which had boon set for Wednesday Major General Ixwnnrd Wood Is preparing for Held maneuvers ns soon as tho additional regiments being sent to tho Islands nrrlvo, Tho operations opera-tions will extend over tho larger part of tho Island of Luzon, so ns to tit tho troops for possible servlcq In China. |