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Show NEWS SUMMARY Because of grief over the death of her mother, May Estella. aged 8, committed com-mitted suicide at Pittsburg, firing a bullet into her temple. The bill providing for the abolition -of the death penalty in Russia, which came up for discussion on February 10, has been indefinitely tabled. The house has passed the Mondell bill to permit change of land entry in case of a mistake in description of tracts intended to be entered. The steamer America has been wrecked off the coast of the province ( of Castellon, Spain. Sixty of her passengers pas-sengers and crew were saved. There has been a serious outbreak of the Asiatic cholera among the staff of St. George hospital, an institution maintained by the Red Cross in St. Petersburg. Three workmen were suffocated to death as the result of a fire in an apartment house in Manchester. Of fifteen lodgers who were removed by the fire, five failed to recover. Another earthquake is reported In the vicinity of Colima, Mexico. A violent vio-lent eruption of the volcano followed. A ridge of lava a mile long in steaming steam-ing down one side of the volcano. Joseph Hopkins, colored, aitrested at Ottumwa, Iowa, in connection with the murder of Clara Rosen, has been released. The police have now set free all of the persons apprehended. Resolutions condemning the agitation agita-tion against the Japanese in California were adopted by the executive council coun-cil of the Massachusetts states board of trade at a meeting held in Boston. The territorial legislature of New Mexico has adopted a bill in both branches providing for an issue ot $500,000 worth of bonds, to aid in extending ex-tending the public school system In the rural districts. An imperial edict issued February 9 appoints Hsu Shih Chang, viceroy of Manchuria, to the post of professor of the hoard of communications, made vacant by the dismissal three days previous by Chen Pi. Ashutosh Biswas, a public prosecutor, prosecu-tor, was shot dead today in the court at Alipur, a suburb of Calcutta, by a young Bengali. Biswas was the official offi-cial who prosecuted the recent anarchist anar-chist conspiracy case. The recent changes in the Turkish ministry are due to the discovery of a plot against the sultan that had for its object his deposition, according accord-ing to the Constantinople correspondent correspond-ent of the Frankfurter Zeitung. France and Germany have signed a far-reaching agreement concerning Morocco, thus banishing a spectre which for years has loomed up inter- ; mittently as the cause of strained relations re-lations between the two countries. Satisfied that Turkey has renounced its intention of demanding a rectification recti-fication of the Turko-Bulgarian frontier, fron-tier, the Bulgarian government has issued orders disbanding the recruits re-cruits called out a few weeks ago. Two girls were burned to death and their mother was fatally injured and two other children of the same family fam-ily were badly hurt in a fire that destroyed de-stroyed the farm dwelling of Albert Bennison, near the village of Rexviller N. Y. The report comes from Washington that Secretary of the Treasury Cortel-you Cortel-you has accepted the presidency of the Consolidated Gas company of New York. Mr. Cortelyou has declined de-clined to either affirm or deny the statement. The case brought at Ballston, N. Y. by Slyvester C. Corning against Lillian Lil-lian Russell, the actress. Corning claiming that he had been run down and injured 'by an automobile in which Miss Russell was riding, has been set' tied out of court. A dispatch from Odessa announces that Captain Niketini of the general staff has been condemned by a court-martial court-martial to death by hanging, after having hav-ing been found guilty of conducting revolutionary agitation among the men of the army. A windstorm of almost tornado proportions pro-portions struck the upper part ot Delaware and southeastern Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, February 10, causing the death of one man and a child and doingr much damage in the narrow path it made through the two states. President Roosevelt vetoed the senate sen-ate bill authorizing the secretary of the navy to mitigate or remit the penalties pen-alties of loss of citizenship imposed upon deserters : from the army and navy. The objection is based upon the infringement of the executive's power of pardon. After taking Charles Crumley, a negro, ne-gro, from the jail at Lakeland, La. and binding him to a stake, heaping wood about his body and pouring oil over the mass, a mob was induced by the sheriff to desist . and allow the man to be tried on the charge of attacking at-tacking a woman. A Chicago firm has been awarded a contract to supply the British army with corned beef for a period of three years. The first delivery, between 500,000 and 1.000,000 pounds, will be made next July, and further deliveries will be in accordance with the requirements require-ments of the army. Becoming suddenly insane on a Great Western passenger train near Berewick, la., Martin Oberman of Chicago Chi-cago drew a huge knife and slashed at all within reach. Before he had been beaten senseless by trainmen and passengers he slabbed three men. one of whom may die. An experimental joint. Franco-American sea postofnee will be established on the French steamship La Bretagno of (he Campaigns Cfenerale Tnuis-At-lantlque lino. All of the French line steamships will be equipped with these postofflces for two months, and werhaus permanently. |