Show NEWS SUMMARY the united states commission haa left manila on its northern trip four fifths of the town of farsund norway has been destroyed by fire I 1 SOO people being rendered homeless cornelius vanderbilt was elected a lieutenant la the twelfth regiment national guard of the state of new york last week in of the discriminating duty against the united baates a shipload ol 01 resin has just arrived at bt petersburg from pensacola consul general de brigard character izes as untrue the assertion by the revo that they have 8 men under arms in the department of panama general kitchener has been nineteen mouths in south aruca and he is be lieveld to be in need of lest general lyttleton his successor has sailed for capetown isador raynor attorney general for maryland has been retained as one of the attorneys for rear admiral schley in his coming hearing before the court of inquiry contracts providing for harbor am prove ments at manila have been signed and work will begin at once the coat of the improvements amount to over a million and a I 1 alf dollars president pando in a message to hie newly convened bolivian congress says the government is resolved to maintain and consolidate friendly relations with all countries especially peru the stockholders of the bethlehem pa iron company voted almost unanimously to accept the price of 7 offered by the bethlehem steel corn pany for the big steel and ordnance works the night schools established in honolulu to enable to learn the english language have been die continued as it was found that the attendance was almost exclusively of the peruvian cabinet has tendered its resignation as a result of the resolution of censure adopted by a majority of one vote in the chamber of deputies but president declined to accept it an order has been issued for the formation of ten companies of coast artillery in accordance with the in crease of artillery recently made one of the new companies will be stationed at the presidio ban francisco japan persists in her demands for the concession of square meters up on the island of mak gan pho adjoin ing the russian concession the korean government stiffened by russia baa refused to accede to the demand germany certainly and probably france also are striving to upset the monroe doctrine by trying to purchase cayo romano and cayo cauz two of the islands of tl e greater antilles just off the northern coast of cuba the viceroy of ind a lord curzon reports that the famine prospects have been much improved by a heavy rain in bombay presidency and the government is considering tt e advisability of reducing tl e famine relief mr arogers friend in brussels say he has received a that there are now 17 burghers and 12 rebel Afrikan ders under arms and well supplied with weapons and ammini lion although provisions are very scarce dr koch s theory that bovine tuberculosis cannot be communicated to human beings is now being tested under the direction of the chicago health department several men art now undergoing the experiment of inoculation civil governor taft has addressed a letter to the new justices in the philippines urging that the courts ba so conducted as to create a good impression and stating that the native offenses should be treated with paternal clemency general Maximo Gomez has addressed a letter to the committee of the national party in havana who had chosen him as a candidate for the presidency of cuba declining to be a candidate he urges the selection of estrada palma colonel mackenzie acting chief of engineers has fe a compilation of the estimates of the engineers for rivers and harbors improvements to be con during the year ending june 30 1901 these estimates make a total ip dolphin from reached beattle last week with in gold aso of which was con signed to the assay office there by the dawson bran h of the canadian bank of commerce and 17 of which was private treasure the strike of the car builders of the delaware lackawanna Lac kawana western corn pany at anlon pa has been de glared off I 1 he men went out on may ath for an eight hour day at ten hours pay they go back without gaining a single A mortgage filed in jersey city for st owe that the consolidated tobacco company has absorbed the american tobacco and the continental tobacco and subsidiary concerns the mortgage bore revenue stamps to the amount of the record of british railways dis closed by the august and repeats is the worst known for many years the expenses have increased and earnings have shrunk and the decline in dividends is general but most marked on the heavy lines prescott arizona reports the beav lest rainstorm this seabon has occurred in that section live bridges on the santa fe prescott I 1 railway are reported washed out A cloudburst in the black hills between and jerome did much damage |