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Show NEWS SUMMAJIY A bill hns been passed by tho housu appropriating $050,000 for a naval station sta-tion nt Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Tho Wisconsin delegation to tho Kopubllcnn national convention will stand: UiFolIctto, 26; Tnft, I. William H. Milton of Florida wns last week sworn In ns tiro successor of tho into Senator William J. Ilryan. Ono hundred and fifty recruits nt tho barracks ot Columbus, O., woro sent to Cuba lant week by tho war department. Tho San Francisco clenrlng houso hns passed resolutions expressing Its disapproval of tho Aldrlch bill, declaring de-claring It to bo unsound In prlnclplo nnd dangerous in practice. Governor Fletcher D. Proctor of Vermont hns announced that ho will not bo a candldntc for United States senator at tho election to bo hold by tho leglslnturo next fall. Chinamen of Now York City wlto wish to prcscrvo tho traditions of their native land aro planning to build n $100,000 club houso ns tho home of tlio Confucius association. A piotest against the elimination of the natiio of Jesus Christ from the exercises It. the public schools of Now York wns adopted unanimously by tho New York MethodlBt conference. W. J. Sprlngborn, president or tho public servlco board or Cleveland, Ohio, wns Inst week made tho victim or a gang or sharpers and lost $10,000 betting on a fnko wrestling match. Mrs. John M. l'nttlson, widow of tho Into Coventor Pattlson or Ohio, Is very 111 In a hospital In tho City or Mexico, resulting from exhaustion from cnrlng for tho governor during his last lllncBS. President rtooscvelt's known desire that tho building of four battleships shall be authorized by congress dur Ing Its present session may result In tho sending In ot a special message urging that action. Tho rortlflcntlons appropriation bill wns pnsBcd by tho senate, with appropriations ap-propriations or $12,110,187. As passed by tho house, tlio bill carried nn nggrcgnto or $8,210,011, tho scnato adding $3,905,570. Tho Natlonnl Hank or tho Republic, ono or tho lnrgcst and best known llnnnclnl Institutions In Iloston, closed its doors last week, nnd Its business nnd nssots will bo liquidated by tho Natlonnl Shnwmtit bnnk. While several hundred guests worn asleep In Smith & McNeil's hotel, In Now York, llremen successfully fought n stubborn lire In tho bnse-ment, bnse-ment, which caused damage amounting amount-ing to $1,500 boforo It was subdued. Anna Could has authorized tho statement that she him no Intention of marrying at present, nnd that sho p not now engaged to any ono. Tho stntcmont wns mndo public by Tylor Morse, a closo rrlend or tho Qould family. Illll Andrews, 11 negro, wns sentenced sen-tenced to pay n flno or $500 and servo six months Tor violating tho now stnto liquor law nt Guthrie, Oklahoma, Okla-homa, last week. This Is tho tlrst conviction In this stnto undor tho "Illllups bill." Mrs. Allco Webb, divorced wlto ot Urodlo Li. Duke, tho millionaire tobacco, to-bacco, mnnurncturcr, wns nrrostcd in Chicago last week on n warrant charging her with having dorrauded a Chicago hotol company by means ol fraudulent cltccks. Counsel tor tho Grcnt Northorn railroad pleaded guilty In tho federal court at Minneapolis to tho chargo of rebating brought against tho company, com-pany, nnd Judge Morris Imposed a lino of $3,000. Tho enso was brought In November, 1900. Upon tho forty-llrst nnniversnry of her marriage, Aunt Becky Young, the first woman to offer hersoir as u nurso when tho civil war broko out, nnd famous ns n leader of nurses, died on April C, nged 70 years, at hor homo In Des Moines, Iowa. Tho holly or Emmanuel Sweden-borg, Sweden-borg, tho famous mystic and wrltor, hns been taken from tho vault In tront of tho communion tablo In tho Swedish church In Princess squnro, London, whoro It wns deposited In 1772, nnd taken to Sweden for final burial. The first Hag bearing forty-six stnrs thnt Ilonts over tho natlonnl capital will becomo tho proporty of tho Oklahoma Okla-homa Historical society. A houso hill making that disposition of this particular par-ticular "Old Glory" was prosented In tho sonnto upon motion of Senator Goro or Oklahoma. Tho largest Inrnnt for Its ago over passed by tiro Immigration nuthorl-ties nuthorl-ties wns registered at Ellis Island InBt week. Tho child, a girl oloven months old. Is ns largo as tho aver-ngo aver-ngo youngster of four ycarB, und weighs us much bb some children or eight und ton yenrs. Leo C. Thurman of West Point, Ky.. was hanged nt Norfolk, Va on Friday, for tho murdor on February 1, 1900. of Waltor P. Dolson, of Mlchl gan, his room mate, whoso body ho pocked In n trunk und then iled, be Ing raptured eighteen months lator at Vancouver, H. C. Will Johnson, n negro boy, was given tho denth penalty nt Tccumsoh, Oklahoma, on April 7, ror nRsaultlng nnd slaying Mrs. Mnry Cuppy. nn aged white woman nenr Shawneo fcomo weeks ago. This Is tho first death penalty Imposed In tho now Btnto of Oklahoma. At Economy stntlon, near PlttBburg. Mrs. Emma llolss, uged 32, was found 'shot to death, and hor husband, William, Wil-liam, F. RelBH. aged 42, fatally wounded wound-ed with n bullet through his templo at their home. It Is nparently a caso ot murder and attempted gulcldo on the part of tho husband. |