Show t r f tJ Zt 1 1 r t T f j Tt U. U t NEWS SUMMARY Great destitution prevails among the laboring classes in Havana if r t G General General Jo nR Ero Brooke ke will bo be pe pema made made- the the- or of Cuba ba ma military g governor e. e of S. S The l paid its floating debt of to Russell Sage Decem December Do- Do De De- cem cember ber 8 A body of soldiers has been order ordered d to tobe be in readiness to esq escort rt Dreyfus to toP P Paris ris for trial r The The pope has decided that that f the Spanish SpanIsh Spanish Span Span- ish policy of the Vatican shall be bo anti- anti and not neutral Sir Thomas premier of Cape Colony from 1884 to 1886 1880 died at Cape Town in his year The Ninth Thirteenth and Twenty Twenty- ty first regiments of regular infantry have been ordered to Manila MaDila Secretary Long has cabled to orders to Rear Admiral Dewey to send the cruiser Raleigh to the United States Sir William Anderson director general general gen gen- eral of the royal ordinance factories and part inventor of cordite died at London Captain Samuel McKee member ex-member of congress and one one of ien Kentucky's tuckY'S most most promising Republicans s died at Lo Louisville Louisville Louis Louis- isil is- is ville il e of paralysis The thermometer at Denver on the registered 19 degrees e below z zero ro at Valentine Neb on n the saD same day ay 20 degrees below The widow of David obtained obtained obtained ob ob- a decision involving irom from John Phillip Sousa leader of the famous Ma Marine ine ban band Reports regarding the health of the troops at Santiago are encouraging and in inthe the Philippines the con conditions ba have ve ma materially ter ally improved The senate in executive session has ratified the treaty for the extension of the time for the completion of the Mexican boundary one year James Shaw the only surviving member of the Michigan legislature of 1847 when Detroit was the capital of Michigan di died d at Niles aged 86 The auxiliary cruiser Buffalo which sailed from New York with troops for Manila broke down soon after starting for sea and put in at Newport News Henry enry Mortimer Platt is dead at his home in New York aged 76 years Fifty years ago he be established the first gold and silver refinery in the United States Three e hundred men of the New York regi regiment and a number of sailors and officers o of f Admiral Deweys Dewey's fleet arrive arrived d din in San Francisco December 9 en n route oute home Among Bedford's population of 2800 there are re about 2000 2900 eases cases of f what is called genuine smallpox Other Pennsyl Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- syl sylvania Dania towns are are excited excited over the affair affair The fire in the works of the Standard Standard Stand Stand- ard Oil company at I LOS os Angeles has burned itself out the he en entire re property being consumed The total loss is estimated at The Ohio of the military military military mili mili- tary order of the Loyal Le Legion has decided decided decided de de- de- de to elect President McKinley commander commander commander com com- mander of the order at the next election election election elec elec- tion which takes place in May Sam Smith the train robber has been found guilty of murder in the first degree at Eldorado Kan He will ill receive a death sentence which in Kansas means life imprisonment A report submitted to congress by bythe bythe the commission of fish and fisheries shows an expenditure of for forthe forthe forthe the propagation of food fisheries dur- dur the fiscal year ended June last John Barrett formerly United States minister to Siam after visiting Pekin says the situation in China is one ono of the most critical nature and nd that Manchuria Manchuria Man Man- churia churis is no longer Chinese but Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian territory The session of the Canadian Joint High Commission yesterday was TaS again allain devoted to the reciprocity clause but there is no official intimation of how far or how amicably this discussion n had proceeded Secretary Long at the instigation of Senator Hale lisle has bas submitted a bill bm appropriating appropriating appropriating ap ap- ap- ap for the erection ol of ola ofa a monument and a a. fence lence at Colon cemetery cemetery cemetery cem cem- Havana where the dead of the Maine are buried burled Three e men were killed and eight were injured three three three-of of them probably fatally by the explosion of a press preas mill mm and four grinding mills in the tho yard of the Dupont Powder works at Wilmington DelThe Del The New England Shoe and arid Leather association yesterday announced the assignment of the tho Mudge Shoe company com com- pany with headquarters at Boston and factories at Newburyport and East Rochester N. N II H H. H Liabilities will vill reach |