Show o II NEWS SUMMARY I II Joseph Arthur the playwright la dead In Now York aged D7 years Vlce Admiral Sir Henry Oronfell died In London last week Ho was born In 1845 St Vlatures college nt Bourbounnls III was destroyed by fire nt night Nonu were Injured The health department at Havana announces that no cases of yellow fever exist In Cuba Tho Calumet Hecla Mining company com-pany directors have declared a dividend divi-dend of 1G per share King Edward opened tho second parliament of his reign Monday afternoon after-noon with the customary ceremonies The Japanese government has declared de-clared March 10 us the date to bo celebrated cel-ebrated as the anniversary of tho war A modified form of quarantine goes Into effect against Havana and all Cuban and other tropical ports on Mar h 1 at Mobile nnds The city of Papeete I that dated and about sevcntyavoyress destroyed Including the loot m In consulate and the French g j ryof building The shipping In lid d nt Sun of Papeete escaped Injury nnco an tho direction of the wind o11cy All are entertained for vessels v Tho American steamer David hag i been wrecked on San Andrews Island off the Nicaraguan const Tho crow was saved but the cargo was lost Pima senate has ratified tho treaty with South America relating to quarantine quar-antine regulations The treaty Is similar to that with European countries coun-tries The department has received a cablegram from San Domingo saying that Harmon Caccres has announced that ho will servo tho unoxpircd pros idcntlnl term Three men lost their lives fighting fire in the shaft of the Old Dominion mine at Globe Ariz Tuesday Twelve boxes of powder In the tenth level I burned without exploding The united mine workers of Illinois have unanimously Indorsed tho action of the national convention at Indianapolis Indian-apolis In demanding an increase ot 12 > per cent over the present scale The strained FrancoGerman situation situ-ation appears to have increased somewhat some-what owing to the disheartened tone of the press which however carefully careful-ly avoids stimulating the war fever The scnnato has passed tho bill authorizing au-thorizing tho purchase of coal lands in the Island of Batan Philippine Islands Is-lands also the bill amending the Philippine Phil-ippine tariff act on textile fabrics on shoes Father P E Leary national chaplain chap-lain of tho G A U who is ill nt his homo In Chapman Mass with pneumonia pneu-monia is reported slowly sinking His physicians hold out no hopo of recovery re-covery Returning to her flat to get her money Mrs John Hank met her dacth in Chicago in a burning apartment apart-ment house Mrs Hanley had gono from the building with her son at the first alarm Tho correspondent of the London Dally Telegraph at Toklo says that fire In the town of Talra sixty miles southeast of Fukushima destroyed COO houses and caused the death of I thirtyseven persons In the British house of commons tho statement was mado that the transfer of Port Arthur from Russia to Japan docs not affect the status of Wei Wol which was leased to Great Britain by China Prince Plgnatelll Strongell aged 19 son of a ladin waiting to Queen Helena committed suicide at Naples by shooting He was to have been married In a few hours to a daughter of the Duke of Corigliano 1 Milton Turner of St Louis formerly for-merly American minister to Liberia Is endeavoring to enlist the Interest of Isthmian canal officials in the employment em-ployment of negro labor from the United States In building tho canal The bandits who kidnapped Colonel Robert Mnnnlgan the Deming N M ranchman from a stage near Silver City N M are alleged to have collect ed 2000 ransom money to date 1000 from tho Colonel and 1000 from hw son yet them still hold him It Is understood that the union miners mi-ners will demand a 12A cent Increase I In wages In the Plttsburg district Mitchell when pressed abot his neaning when ho said there would je no strike said that it applied to tho bituminous coal situation Efforts have been started at Seattle Wash to secure a shipload pf wheat for Japanese famine sufferers to be shipped if possible on the Great Northern liner Dakota sailing March 12 Late Oriental mall advices show that nearly a million people aro starving A force of religious fanatics Is reported re-ported to have Invaded and overrun a portion of Sokoto Africa from tho north to have destroyed a French post near tho frontier killing five French officers and capturing two and to have overwhelmed a British I detachment |