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Show NEWS SUMMARY ThP cholera is fast losing ground in Manila before the vigorous campaign waged by tho authorities. Rev. M. F. Hill, formerly of Lexington, Lexing-ton, Ky., with his bride, was drowned near Chaplin, N. Y. Hill was n leader lead-er In tho Methodist church In Ken tucky. Tho cholern In tho Yang Tso valley is abating, but tho (oil of death this season has been henvy. In Hankow 3,000 natives and a score of foreign ers hnvo died of tho malady. Tho two-cent postngo rates on lot tors between tho United States nnc the Ilrltlsh Isles, Including Euglnml, Scotland, Ireland and Wnlcs, went Into effect Thursday, October 1. Robert Louis Stevenson's former homo on tho heights of Russian hill, San Francisco, has been purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Sullivan for tho establishment of n nunnery. An explosion of gns at the plant ot the Pittsburg Plato Glnss company's com-pany's works No. 2, nt Tarrcntum, Pa., resulted In a loss by flro of $500,000, and threw 800 men out of employment. Fearing to faco disgrace, which ho felt would follow his arrest on a chnrgo of abusing his wife, Leonard J. Schmidt, a piano maker of New York City, killed himself by Inhaling Illuminating gns. What Is practically tho final settlement settle-ment of the cstnto ot tho late Archibald Archi-bald niount Of Orolton Manor, Hertfordshire, Hert-fordshire, England, shows thnt Ynlo university will receive fiom tho estato nboitt $328,000 net. A London dispatch announces that tho king's gardeners hnvo plucked 900 bunches of big black Hamburg grapes' from tho IDO-ycnr-old grapo vino at Cumberland lodge, ono of tho king's ninny little country houses. Robert Hu Tung, tho Hongkong millionaire, with his two wives and thrco children, who arrived nt San Francisco from tho Orlunt on the steamer Korea, will bo deported to tho land from whence thoy came. Massachusetts Democrats in state convention nt Uoston nominated Senator Sen-ator James H. Fahoy of Watertown for governor by acclamation. Edgar Hrown of Hrockton, tho only other candldnto for tho olllco, withdrew. Tho promised flght of tho Anti-Saloon Anti-Saloon League of America against the re-election to congress of Speaker Cannon Is almost at. hnnd, according to a statement Issued by General Superintendent Su-perintendent linker of tho league. Director of tho Mint Leach announced an-nounced last week that ho would re-sumo re-sumo tho purchase of tine sliver for subsidiary coinage. Ho states that ho expects to purchase about 125,000 ounces each week for nn Indefinite period. Ignorant of tho fact that her two-months-old child wns asleep under tho cover, Mrs. Mary Stortl of Brooklyn closed up a folding bed In a darkened room and the little ono wns smothered to death before his mother realized what had happened. . Losing her bearings lu tho denso smcko and fog, tho steamer Ncshoto, bound down with Iron ore, ran ashore on Crisp Point, eastern Lnko Superior, and was broken to pieces by t)io gale raging. She Is n total loss. Tho crow was rescued by llfo savors. A gang ot robberu blow open tho snfo of the State bank, nt Lndysmlth. Wis., taking about $3,000. They shot a policeman lu the arm nnd fired several sev-eral shots at the linker hotel to keep anybody from coming out. They thon took a handcar and escaped. The Sim Francisco Call says that Comte Cnmlllo do Rudlo, tho Italian oxilo who threw ono of tha bombs that shattered tho carriage of Emperor Louis Napoleon 111 and Erapreus Eugenie, Eu-genie, killing ten persons and injuring injur-ing 150 others, lu Paris, on the night or January 11, lbTS, is living quietly lu Ijos Angeles with his English wife. With her right arm tightly clasped about tho dead body of hor year-old baby boy, whoso llfo Bho ended with hor own, Mrs. Eric Sutcrland of Cambridge, Cam-bridge, Mlnu., wns found In tho fallow fal-low water In Powderhorn lake at Minneapolis, Domestic troublo led to tho deed. The great historical and Industrial parade, the most Important event of Pittsburg's sesqul-centeniitnl celebration, celebra-tion, was held on October 1. Hundreds Hun-dreds of thousands ot persons crowded tho streets along tho routo of tho parade, u distance of about four miles. Standiud Oil company attorneys presented evidence before Judge Franklin FpitIbs, at Chicago, on October Oc-tober 1, In support of tho contention that tho oil company has not been tho recipient of preforentlnl Tates from railroads lu different sections of tho country. Charles Edward Davis, charged with the murder of Dr. Frederick Rub-tin Rub-tin nt Omaha, has been bound over to the court lu bonds of ten thousand dollars, which was signed by his two brothers. Mrs. Rice probably will ho released on bond, to appear as a witness wit-ness at the trial. A dispatch from Toinsonvlllo, Conn., says: Theodore Roosevelt Jr., began tho work of learning carpel making when Friday mniiilug he donned overalls over-alls and went Into tho wool room of tho Hartford Carpet corporation's plant. to take his place at a wool-washing wool-washing machine. Dr. Jnnics Crossland, formerly United States minister to Siberia anil a negro political leader ot national prominence, was placed under arrest nt Chicago on a charge of grand larceny. lar-ceny. Dr. Crossland Is accused of wholesale theft of drugs, cigars, etc., from a drug store. |