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Show MEWS SUMMARY Tito Kansas legislature has passed an anti-pans 1)111, Tho California scnato has Killed tlio womnn Bitftrnge. measure. James It. Garfield tool- tho oath ot olllco as secretary of tho interior on the Cth. Tho nrltlsh ship Lochgnrve It ashore at Kemnlo, on Molokal island, and will prolmhly bo a total loss. A fishing vessel with n crow ot ro en men foundered on tho const of St. Thomas, N. V., and all hands were lost. Two explosions In tho rock quarry of tho Chlhunhua & Pacific railroad at Sandoval, Chihuahua, killed 'J met and seriously Injured 9 others. Tho Missouri legislature has passed a hill giving tho cities or tho state tho right to fix the rntes charged by public utilities granted by franchise Tho bill to extend tho right of euf frago to women was defo.itcd in tho house of commoiH last week, where it was talked to duuth without coming to a vote. Tho California loglslatute has passed pass-ed a bill providing an eight-hour day for conductors and motoimen and other emplojes on street and Inter-urban Inter-urban railroads. Japan is withdrawing all hor troops from Manchuria except ir.,000 rail way guards. Tho foreign consuls are strongly protesting against tho non settlement of the I.lkln question. Kour persons worn burned to death t In lirooklyn, Sunday, threo In n tone , metit fire on Uushwlck avenue and a woman in her homo One man was fatally hurt in tho tenement dro After being out tin hour ,md a half ( the Jury in the rase of James and ; Phillip Strolhei, on trial at Culpcp per, W. Vn . for tho murder of Wll Ham !'. Uy waters rctutned a ordlrt! of not guilty. Ah n result of an ndoitls-mout in a paper for a wife, (Joorge Moon, a i v blow or of Aiisoiiia, Conn., ban boon' ho overwhelmed with applicants that In has posted a "no wile wunted" sign on his tiont door bomb was thrown Into a Hat oc copied by Prince ArgtitvnsM. dliector of the government high school of Warsaw. Tho piemlsos wore wreck f t'd but the prince w-as not Injuteil The bomb-thrower escaped. Advices received from Chihuahua Htato that thlrty-flci persons men, women nud children were killed at San Andoes, twenty leagues from thorc. by tho accidental explosion of a" largo qunntlty of dynamite. Tho Missouri senate has pussed a bill providing for tho nomination of candidates of nil parties for United States senator by popular vote at the November elections preceding tho log Islatures which will elect senators. Tho coal-carrying roads of Illinois hao decided to Increaso tho rates 10 I rents n ton on all coal mined in II J IIiioIh anil Indiana and brought to Chicago for consumption. The In ( reased rates will go Into effect April I 1 I A presidential boom for Senator W I Murray Crane, of Massachusetts, la In I full swing In Iloston. Ho seems to i hao the hacMtn; of his constituency I and other prominent Republicans Considerably cuthutdasm Is manifest-ud manifest-ud Tho Danuho Is thawing rapidly and Hooding thousands of acres of cultivated culti-vated laud, the Inhabitants of whlnh and tliolr caltlo are succeeding to escape es-cape with great tlltllculty. Tho water routines to rise and the danger is Increasing. In-creasing. A mutiny occuncd In the iiitllleiy bat racks at Toul, Trance. The men attacked nun commissioned oilbers with revolvers and swords. Several men wore wounded on both sides before be-fore the mutineers wete raptured nud Imprisoned Falling to get satlslnctlou foi tho recent minder of a (lei man mission ary, it Is repotted that (ierinntij in tends to occupy certain coal lauds on tho frontier, near llagdad, which sho has long desired for the put pom of tho llagdad railroad In older to prevent the Japanese I from poaching upon the sparsely ' guarded Siberian lltoral during the I Usblng season, commencing In April, liussln has decided to Mnd to the ' Pacific two small cruisers, which nru now In the Illacl; sen Tho military secretary's olllco of I tho army, established for tho benellt of Mnjor (icnoral Alnsworth, wont out of existence on tho Cth, In accord unco with tho provisions of tho army appropriation bill, and tho adjutant Koueral's department was levived. Andrew Watts, aged 27. was airej.1 ed at Louisiana. Mo., on tho charge of having attacked his sweetheart. ouio Itoss, whom ho found in company com-pany with (label Miles, beating her with a club and stabbing her with a pockot-knlfe. Hor condition is sorbins l)r I-ouIh Zorn, a woalthy dentist, convlctetl at Kansas City of murder-lug murder-lug Albert Sechrist. his tenant, In June, 1902, and sentenced to fifteen vejrs In tho penitentiary, has been granted a new trial by tho state su-yrme su-yrme court. Ho has had three trial. |