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Show NKWS SUMMARY. The Federal National bank of Pitta-burg Pitta-burg closed Its diHiis Inst week. Northern New York hid Its first snow full of tho senson Inst week. Canada Is worried lest tho United Blntes w ill Hocuro (irei nlnnd by purchase. pur-chase. The Snntn Fe will build a 2:V mile cut off In New Mexico to nhortoii Us lino to the const. Robert K. Lewln, of Pl.lltiflold, N. II., j was Killed In a football vame at Annapolis, Ann-apolis, Md., InHt wiK-lt. Tho town of Bin Miguel, Cal., was visited by flro one day Inst week and suffered a loss In cxcchs of $.'u0.o(io Ten lives were lost 111 nn explorlon In thn ltnpld Transit tunnel. New York, Bundny. nnd great damage Inflicted. In-flicted. Tho business portion of Red Wood Falls. Minn., last week Miffcrod a fltlO.ooo losa by flro which Blurted in tho Hotel Francois. At Billion, Kpaln. 19.000 miners are on a strike. The rnilrond service his been Interrupted and tho authorities fear further trouble. Fir" lust week gutted the conch barn nnd stables of the l:ito of C. Ix'ilyanl Black, m ar I'uipack. N. J. Tho marblo building cost ?oo.nt)0. Tho Lnko Street I'.levated Railroad company, of Chicago-, capltullxed at $lll.. .no. .mil. w.ui pltic. d In tha binds of a receiver Inst week. The bandits who robbed tho bank at Burton, Kuns., havo been captured, hut only $18 was recovered, tho booty prosutnnbly hnvlng been burled. H. 8. Cnnlleld, writer and nowspa-permnn nowspa-permnn of Clilcngo,,lll., committed sill-cldo sill-cldo Inst week by cutting hts throat with a razor whllo temporarily Insane. Tho council of minister at Constantinople Constanti-nople has decided to grant CO, 01 pounds (Turkish) to rebuild Tillages and nllnvlnto tho distress In Macedonia. Mace-donia. Avory Kelly Ferguson, of Memphis, Tenn., a Jockey, shot himself through I the head In the presence of his brother I and a Utile girl last week, dying from I the wound. I The Jnpnnese minister of war at Yokohama denies that tbe army Is do-siroiis do-siroiis of wnr, nnd snya that tbe cabinet cabi-net Is unanimous In wishing peace wllh honor. Tho cntlro typographical force t tho KI Paso Kvening News walked out laxt week because of the failure of the publishers to allow a claim for avor-Hmo avor-Hmo of $3.3. f" ' V - - - At tho annual meeting of the Illinois Central rail road, hold at Chlcako last week. It wan voted to mortgnga thirteen thir-teen small branch lines for not to exceed ex-ceed $110,000,000. Tho ship Milton l'nrk, of Olnsgow, which snllcd from Liverpool March 3t for Freemantle, Australia, has, with her crew of twenty-four men, boon given up as lost. I Tho vault in the bnnlt of tho Ilnyes HnnkltiK con. puny nt Queen City, Mo., B wan blown to pieces' by litiri;l:irs e,:u'ly I Saturday. Tho amount btulcn baa nut I yet been learned. I Tho explosion of a car of dynamite- in New Jersey. doHtruycd houses for a jl dlstanco of half a tullo, and wrecked r others further away. That no one was killed 1b miraculous. Tho British steamer Tottonham arrived ar-rived nt San Francisco last week from Mojl, Jupun, and brought C.200 tons of coal. This Is ono of the largett cargoes car-goes ot tho kind thnt over crossed the Paclllc. Robbers blew open the bank at Pleasnnt Dale, Neb., last wock, completely com-pletely wrecking tho building and shattering shat-tering the vault, but wore evldontly frightened away beforo they could so-euro so-euro the money. Tho vault hold $30,-000. $30,-000. Three thousand employcea of the canning depnrlments of tho stock yards packing houses at Chicago, 111., havo presented demands for wnge Increases In-creases varying from 10 to 25 per cent. About 2,000 men and 1,000 women and boya aro affected. Mrs. William Tate, a colored womnn of Znyncsvillo, 0 last week gave birth to four girl babies, all of normnl slo nnd weighing slightly moro thin six nnd onehalf pounds each. Tho woman Is the mother of threo other children born singly. Charlea 8. Hunnw, 20 yenra old, bookkeeper and confidential clerk for a wholesale clothing firm nt New York, committed suicide nt his fullier'a home last week because ho was accused of. appropriating to his own use belong-' lug to bis employers. Benjamin Onlligher. a coachman In tho employ of Samuel Parker, of Honolulu, Hon-olulu, nnd who stolo $11,000 worth of Jewels from Mrs. Parker, has bon ruptured. All the riol. n Jewels luivu been recovered with the exception of dlninond valued at $l.5u0. The World's Fair committee on ceremonies cere-monies bin Hyylgnod August lH'li to New Mexico, nt the request of tlist territory's ter-ritory's con. nil. Hon for thn World's fair. It Is th,. niuilvM-siry of thn dny ort which Cene.-il I.-c.-,-i.,.v took forms' nos.sei.sion or the teniu.ry. |