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Show NEWS' SUMMARY.. H A dlBaatrouB hurrlcnao has blown. HftVJ over tho Fiji Islands, resulting ln HAVJ groat loss ot llfo nnd property. Sovcn peoplo, nil colored, wero In- jH stnntly killed by tho ox plosion of a jH bolter hi n sawmill In James City, N. U. Tho striking street railway era- HAVJ ployccs at Bluomlngton, 111., hnvo in- augurntcd a competitive) nutomobtlo HBVJ Tho wnr feeling In Colombia Is dying out, nnd thcro Is n general desire to HHVJ allow tho Panama secession to pass H without a disastrous war. Mayor Gnus of Albany, N. Y., hns ro- H voiced tho license of tho Empire tho- HAVJ atro nnd ordered radical changes In HBVJ tho other throe theaters of that city. BflVJ Mrs. William 11. Crocker ot San j! Francisco hns given $20,000 for nrcuno- ologlral work in Old Moxlco. lOxcava- hmVJ UoriB aro now being mndo at Cayocau, H Tho Intost reports from tho rollcC centers In Macedonia show thnt thoro H aro now 100,000 parsons who nro homo- jH less and without menus of support for H tho winter. HBV Tho monthly statement of tho colloc- H tlons ot lntcrnnl rcvenuo show that H tho totnl collections for December, H 1903, woro $20,577,700, n decrease for H tho month of $1GG,0G1. Lewis Radford, n negro, was HBV lynched nt Guthrie, Ky by a mob ot H about forty nogreos, for assaulting H and killing Prlscllla Frozoll, colored. HAS Radford admitted tho crime. Strong Indications thnt thcro will bo BVJ no war between Panama nnd Colombia HAV have boon obsorved by Bishop J tin- HAV guito, who hns Just returned to Pan- HAV am a from Cartagena and Bnrranqullln. BBV Tho Iroquois club, to which promt- AVJ nent Chicago Democrats belong, in AVB proparlng to boom donor nl Nelson A. H Mllos ns tho man to nomlnato for AAV president on tho Democratic ticket this AAV AA IOo Turner, proprietor of tho "Quar- BAA torhouso," who wns chnrged with kill- A Ing Deputy Shorlff Chnrlcs Cecil In tho AAA famous "Qunrtcrhouso" battle In Kon- AAA tucky, has boen acquitted by tho grand Jury. Tho total number of dcathB In tho AAV Alabama tornado Is thirty-eight, six AAj ot whom aro whlto. Tho number ot Injured Is estimated nt slxty-flvo, Aj twolvo fatally. Citizens of Tuscaloosa AAj aro caring for tho destitute AAJ As a result of tho breaking of n gov- AAJ ernor belt, allowing nn Immonso fly- AAJ wheel to run away and burst in a rail AAJ mill at Johnstown, Pa., threo men nro AAJ dead, threo aro fatally injured, nnd AAJ six nro mora or leas sovcroly wounded. AjAJ Tho Jury In tho case of Martha R Bowers, on trlnl In San Francisco on tho chargo of murdering hor husband, H Martin Bowers, brought In n verdict H of munrder In tho first dogrco nnd H fixed tho penalty nt Imprisonment for jB Tho stato department Is Informed H of tho Intention of tho authorities in H control nt Snn Domingo City to main- ! tnln n blockado of nil of thq'nthor ports JJ of tho republic, to becomo effect lva for H vessels from tho United Stntos Fobru- ary HBb Advices from Somallland say thnt H Konna's Somali mounted Infantry sur- H prised n body of tho Mad Mullah's H forces on January 17 In tho vicinity of H Ktllnnnd, killing fifty spearmen and H capturing 3,000 camels and thousands BBb sheep. IBb Nod Howard Fowler, leading man of H tho Emplro stock company nt Coltun- BBfl bus, O., shot and killed himself In tho H prcsonco ot his wlfo, Laurn Nelson H Hall, whom ho married recently. Nor- H vousness Is assigned as tho cause, duo BBb to overwork. HBb William Bnlsamo, nn Itnllan, hua H boon murdorod in n little grocery fl storo in Buffnlo, N, Y of which ho HBb was tho proprietor. At first tho Mafia BBb was suspected, but later four boys, BBa ranging In ngo from 15 to 17 years, HBl woro arrostcd, BBl About thirty persons woro drowned BBl and threo hotels nnd ono hundred and Bftl sovonty-slx houses destroyed as tho ro- H suit of a burstl resorvolr at Blcam- fontoln, Orange 'llvor Oolnny. Hun- J dreds of porsons hnvo boon rendered JBl homoless and destitute HBa Of nil tho articles for uso In tho ro- M llglous sorviccs of tho Central church M tnkon to tho Iroquois theatre tho day MAa boforo tho flro, only tho Blblo oscnpod M dostructlon. Us covers woro burnod H off nnd Its odgos chnrrod, but ovory M word of tho toxt remains. HBi Miss Fannie McNnbb, said to bo a M victim ot tho clgarctto hnhlt, hns been HAb adjudged Insano boforo Judgo Cartor H In Chicago, Sho Is 33 years old and tD evldonco was Introduced to show that 101 Iho had smoked a packago ot cigar fffi tttes ovory day for years.' HB |