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Show V NEWS SUMMARY V Klgliteen persons were Injured as the result of a passenger train wreck near Towner, N. D. According to tho latest returns nearly near-ly a million persons In Japan aro on tho verge of starvation. Provincial Councilor Fllonoft was fired at five times and killed nt Pal tava, Itussla, by an unknown assassin. Many people aro burning corn nt Lubbock. Tex., as It Is the only fuel they can got. Coal Is worth $30 per ton. ' Vast quantities of soft coal aro being be-ing stored In vessels at lako ports In anticipation of a possible strlko of tho miners. Fifteen persons were Injured, two probably fatally, In a railroad wreck near Durham, N. M., soven cars being ditched. It Is announced upon reliable authority au-thority that Admiral Togo will visit America In April with two armored cruisers. Ono miner was killed nnd three others were seriously Injured by an explosion In Ball Knob mlno No. 2, near Delorme, W. Va. An agreement providing far tho establishment es-tablishment of parcel post at cheap rates between Sweden and tho United States has been concluded. A raco war has again broken out In tho region between Ellzabcthpol and Shusha, whero the Armenians and Tartars arc massacrclng each other. Four more anarchists, making sixteen six-teen during tho past fortnight, wero shot without trial In tho citadel at Warsaw. Of tho total fifteen wero Jews. Tho double tracking of tho railroad across tho Isthmus of Panama Is progressing pro-gressing rapidly, nnd It Is expected that both tracks will bo ready for service ser-vice In July. Tho funerals of the thirty-two mon who wero killed by machine guns at Vladivostok January 23, near tho commandant's com-mandant's house, wero held In solemn state on the 30th. Itocco Dell, who had been arrested on a charge of burglary, committed suicide In the county Jail In Chlcngo. hangjng himself with a rope made from the bed sheet. Tho president has sent tho nomination nomina-tion of Jnmes Smith of California to bo governor general of tho Philippine Islands, vice Henry Clay Ido, resigned, to tako effect Juno 1, 100C. Lady Grey of London, wlfo of Sir Edward Grey, tho foreign minister, who sustained concussion of tho brain by being thrown from her trap at El-llngham, El-llngham, Northumberland, Is dead. It Is reported In Vienna that a military mili-tary convention has been concluded between Italy and Montenegro, for tho purposo of breaking down Austria's predominating Influenco in tho Balkans. Bal-kans. Frank Wlllard, a half-breed, who murdered Sheriff Smith at Uklah, Cal., on December 22 last, has been sentenced by Judgo Burnett of Santa Rosa to bo hanged at San Quentln on April 28. Doubt as to the marriage of Mrs. Charles T. Yerkea to Wilson Mlznor have been set at rest by tho filing ot tho certificate of tho mnrriago with tho burcnu of vital statistics In Now York City. Houso committee on the District of Columbia has decided to report without with-out recommendation tho Adams hill, providing tho whipping post as n punishment pun-ishment for wiff-bcaters In tho District' Dis-trict' of Columbia. A statement prepared by tho department depart-ment of commerco and labor shows that tho commerco between Italy and tho United States in tho fiscal year 1905 aggregated ?77,G00,000, almost equally divided between Imports nnd exports. Informal negotiations for tho floatation float-ation ot n Russian loan havo ngaln been taken up In Paris. Tho amount mentioned In oinclal circles varies, but J400.000.000 Is genorally spoken of, with tho prlco at 90 and Interest at 5 per cent. William Walter Hamilton, a negro, was hanged In tho Jail In, Washington for the murder of l.b.zlo Lyman, his common law wlfo. The drop foil nt 7 o'clock and death ensued twolvo minutes min-utes later. Tho crlmo wns a particularly particu-larly brutal ono. William Clnrk was acquitted by tho Jury at Dubuquo, Iowa, of tho murder of Loroy Summer, whom ho found with Is wlfo. Tho Jury hnd been out sovoral hours. Tho plea of temporary Insanity wus mndo, but tho real plea was defonso of homo. Miss Uruor of Minneapolis, whoso uncle, I. G. Hruor, a Minneapolis lumberman, lum-berman, was drowned on boord tht Valencia, has engaged an Indian girl as a guide and Is preparing to go from Victoria to tho scono of tho wreck to search for her unclo's body. A decision wns handed down In tho supremo court nt St. Louis affirming tho decision of tho lowor court In finding find-ing "Lord" Seymour Barrlngton guilty of having murdered John P. McCann two y-s,s ego, and fixing the date of t)r, cxocutlon as March 15 next. |