Show NEWS SUMMARY indian cotton Is displacing the amer lean article in japan A california brewing company will establish a plant at manila governor odell of new york has tinned the anti scalp ng bill up to march 31 the measure has produced A trans atlantic steamship line be tween chicago and hamburg has been the twenty eighth volunteer in fantry was mustered out at ban fran cisco the 2nd the pruss an govern me nth as bought the coal mines in the ruhr district fot 25 marks saloons in kansas city mo wera closed as tight as a drum sunday foi the first time in six years six hundred visiting ohioans wil attend the launching of the battleship ohio at san fradusco Fra nusco the the national federation committee of miners in france has voted against a general strike of the miners in san jaun porto rico last week the new pier caught fire and was destroyed in half an hour governor von hancke antil recently chief of the emperor s military cabinet has been appointed governor of berlin the appointment of a board of ad ministration for ch na is thought be a step toward reorganization of the government imports into cuba from the united stats eliminating coin shipments for will exceed those of 1900 by about 82 the brussels petit bleu announces king leopold intends to create a net work of electric railways requiring a capital of a million francs chancellor hicks beach s proposed export duty on coal threatens it li ald to bring upon great britain an in paralleled industrial crisis the harvard university corporation bas expressed itself unanimously in favor of granting the decree of doctor t laws to president mckinley there is a good deal of inflammatory t rhetoric in a portion of the english press on the subject of mr pierpont morgan s raids on english shipping ice dealers of chicago are preparing to advance rates nearly half it is aid this will mean a of suf fering in the poorer districts of the city secor one of the earliest american builders of marine engines Is dead at his home tn brooklyn aged 3 leaves an estate valued at over 11 the incident relative to the arrest 0 egnacio H baiz united states con bular agent at barcelona venezuela Is closed venezuela expresses regret or the occurrence another oil gusher was struck at beaumont texas recently the oil go ing to the top of the derrick the first leap this Is an eight inch well the largest in the district the dominion house of commons in committee of supply says an ottawa dispatch has voted for widening and deepening the entrances to the bault ste mane canal at a meeting held in new york last tuesday an arrangement was ade whereby five of the great shipbuilding concerns tn this country are placed under one management A dispatch from seoul korea con arms the report that the negotiations for french loan of 5 yen for the purpose of constructing the north ern railroad from seoul to eiju have been concluded natives of korea and china are pro habited from settling on the frontiers of russia and that foreign jews from central asia are not allowed to settle in russia nor to become russians plans are now ander discussion r a cons ll dation of the leading ture a of shovels and spades there has een a very compact association in this rade for a long time german merchants in venezuela will try to abny the harbor in the is land of margarita and hundreds of acre near by ostensibly as a private investment but really to make a ger man coaling station the chinese authorities have taken occasion several times of late to make known their appreciation of the ef forte of the united baates to keep the total of indemnity down to a sum which china conid reasonably meet irving M scott vice president and general manager of the union iron works when asked about the reported combination of the big ship building plants said that he had received no notification of any such tion the first sunday of the pan amen can expositions official existence brought out a good sized crowd the exhibits were closed and guards stood by the doors at the great buildings and prevented any one from enter ing burgeon general sternberg is very much gratified at the showing made in the recent reports of the manila hos petals showing a smaller percentage of sick than at any time since the american troops were sent to tie phil apine all property of the sound packing company which includes two ealmon canneries was sold at receiver s bale at new whatcom wash to the first national bank of seattle for the bank held a mortgage on the property for it Is reported that famine will make t impossible for the chinese court to remain longer in siau fu and that the coert is now only waiting for the as gers to fix an auspicious day for beginning the journey to kai in the province of ho Is an |