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Show NEWS SUMMARY. The customs receipts of Havana In Tne day amounted to S-'l.OOO. Two boys, Martin and Hillery Nichols, Nich-ols, were killed at Fullertou, Cal., in a travel pit cave-in. The trade of Santiago is already showing a surprising growth under American administration. A Porto Rican census is being taken. It has begun in San Juan and it will be made to cover the whole island. The import of precious stones at the port of New York the past year were: Cut stones, 03 1,010; uncut, S-t, 'JO , 993. Of the paper issued by two banks in Torto Rico there is outstanding a little over 51,000,000. All the paper will be retired. Advices from La Paz, capital of Bolivia, Bo-livia, say that a combat is imminent between the revolutionists and the government troops. Reports received from the interior of the island of Cuba indicate the willingness will-ingness of the insurgents to disband if left to themselves. Prince Victor Napoleon, now in Brussels, is represented as preparing assiduously for a coupe, which he is fully resolved to execute. General Ludlow is determined to form a rural mounted police of 300 men and to patrol the suburbs of Havana with Cuban soldiers. The remaining Spanish troops will be embarked from Matauzas and Cien-fuegos Cien-fuegos within a fortnight, and then Gomez will come to Havana. The German government first hopes to reach a commercial provisorium with the United States before a regular reciprocit3' treaty is concluded. Aguinaldo holds as prisoners 11,000 Spanish troops, including two generals, gener-als, forty staff officers and 400 superior officers. He has 1,900 civilians. General Brooke has declined a proposal pro-posal to send a special convoy into the woods to find Gomez and treat with him as an equal power in the islaud. According to Chinese report, a secret treaty exists between Great Britain and the United States to prevent any further alienation of Chinese territory. A statement of the coinage of the United States mint at Philadelphia for the year 1S98 shows that the output for the year just ended was the largest since 1S90. In San Francisco Cal., TJnited States Circuit Judge Morrow has decided that the stamp tax on telegraph messages must be paid by the sender and not by the company. The payment of troops is putting American money in circulation in Havana, Ha-vana, but the complaint is made that small change is lacking in all business transactions. It is announced that the Kynock company of Birmingham has commenced com-menced making 10,000,000 cartridges for the United States at the rate of one million weekly. An American syndicate has obtained the right to build a road in Eucador connecting con-necting the seacoast belt with the rich interior, heretofore almost cutoff from the outside world. By an explosion of gasoline the hardware hard-ware store of Kiel & Son, Pemperville, O. , was badly wrecked and Augustus Kiel, the junior partner, so badly injured in-jured that he died in an hour. Two bills have been introduced in the house of the North Carolina legislature legis-lature requiring all railroads in the state to operate separate coaches for white and colored passengers. Colonel Biddle says there were 15,000 Spaniards and 400 Americans in Man-tanzas Man-tanzas when the American flag was raised. There are now 1,300 Americans Ameri-cans there and evei-3'thing is quiet. Charles A. Brewer, ex-postmaster of Paulding, 0., shot and killed his wife, after which he placed the revolver to his own head and blew his brains out. Domestic incompatibility was the cause of the shooting. General Polavieja, former governor-general governor-general of Cuba and the Philippine islands, and Senor Silvola, the conservative con-servative leader, have agreed upon the formation of a new cabinet and have been summoned by the queen regent. Bruno Puhan, who murdered Mrs. Nellie Aralin, but escaped the gallows because the jury did not believe him mentally bright, has acknowlcged in the Joilet penitentiary that he simply shammed insanity at the time of his trial. Paul Brooks, a member of the banking bank-ing firm of Brooks & Co., at Santiago, and late United States Consul at Guantanamo, died in Rutland, Vt., of pneumonia in his sixtieth year. His wife died a week ago of the same disease. dis-ease. The Great Western Distillery, destroyed de-stroyed by lighting last June, has been remodeled and enlarged and has resumed re-sumed with a capacity of 15,000 bushels bush-els of corn daily, which means an output out-put of 00,000 gallons of alchohol every day. The order requiring all customs collections col-lections on the islaud to be sent to Havana is felt to be absolutely necessary, neces-sary, the interest of good government requiring that there should be but one responsible head to the customs service ser-vice in Cuba. |