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Show NEWS SUMMARY Tho yellow fever altuatlon In Havana is causing the cltizons much uneasiness. uneasi-ness. Flro children, scholars at St. Paul'e college, were drownrd near Montreal, Saturday. Reports from tho famine districts of Russia show that tho distress Ib steadily growing ncuto. Tho Adams Express offices and tho railroad station at Keyford, W. Va., were looted of $0,00ti and burned by robbers, Tho Natlonnl Grange lu session ut Denver, voted to hold Its forty-first annual convention In 1907 at Hart-ford, Hart-ford, Conn. Tho steamer Panama has boon found wrecked on Mineral reef point, Iuko Superior. Tho crow has probably prob-ably perished. Thrco loggers wero drowned whllo endeavoring to prevent u break In a log boom In the Cumberland river north of Wnsloto, Ky. Hy a viva vote and without a word of debate, the French Chamber of deputies voted to Increase tho deputies depu-ties salary from $1,800 to $2,000 a year. Tho Hawaiian sugar crop for 1900 promises to be the biggest In tho history his-tory of tho territory. It will probably prob-ably amount to more tlinn 450,000 tons. General Polkownlkoff, commandor ot tho garrison nt Pattnva, Hussla, was shot dead nnd a soldlor who wns passing pass-ing at the time also was killed by unknown un-known parties. Gen. Wlllard Wurner, ex-Unltcd States senator from Alabama directly direct-ly after tho Civil war, died suddenly at Chattanooga, Tenn., last week, of diseases di-seases Incident to old ago, Tho crop reports received hero from 71 provinces nnd districts of Hussla show tho yield of wheat to bo 15,-054,000,000 15,-054,000,000 pounds which Ib 9,958,000,-000 9,958,000,-000 pounds below the avoruge. Tho supremo court of Iowa has affirmed tho decision of tho lower court sentencing Louis Hussc, convicted convict-ed of murdering his wife und burning tho body, to hang December 14. In a message sent to the editor ot tho Buffalo Evening News, Senator Piatt says: "The question of my resig nation I will discuss hereafter. I am not considering It seriously now. Henry Puplneau, of Chicago, has been held to tho grand Jury on a chargo of murdering his paralytic wlfo by pouring gasoline on her clothing nnd sotting fire to her. Tho fuel supply lu Carlsbad, N. M., Is exhausted, und peoplo have been forced to burn bacon to keep from freezing. Schools havo been dismissed dis-missed in consequence of tho terrible cold. Mrs. Dora Drogmund, uged 20, who shot and killed her husband, Edward Ed-ward Drogmund, last April, In Kansas City, has boon convicted of manslaughter man-slaughter and sentenced to ono year in Jail. Helen Lambert, tho actress who was Injured In thu automobile collision col-lision In New York City In which Tom Cooper lost his life, la dead. This makes tho third death from the accident. Thu five unions ot cotton mill operatives, op-eratives, of Fall River, Mass., (, special meetings, voted large ma-Jorltes ma-Jorltes to reject an offer of a five per cent advance In wages, and to go on strike. Tho flrBt otficlal printed report on the representatives of the Sixtieth congress has Just been Issued by tho clerk of the house. Tho Republican Republi-can memberhlp Is 222, nnd tho Democratic membership 1C4. Mrs. Aurello Schreck, widow of Joel Schreck, for whoso murder In Los Angeles, An-geles, July 14th last, Ernest St?kpole Is now under sentence ot Ufa Imprisonment, Impris-onment, has been freed from a chargo of perjury und discharged from custody. Two masked men in an attempt to hold up tho St. Charles hotel ut Arkansas Ar-kansas City, Kans., shot nnd Instantly Instant-ly killed William Goff, tho night slcrk, and woundod S. A. Halpln, an actor, so badly that he died a few hours later. Tho steam bargo Resolution, from Erie, Pn to Toronto, Ont., sprang a leak and sank. Tho crew put off In two boats. One containing live men reached Bhore safely, while tho second was swamped, her six occupants being be-ing drowned. John FiiBlck, proprietor of a lodging houso In Ix8 Angeles, was shot und Instantly killed by two policemen who had entered his place lu search of a supoBod "blind pig." Fuslck, it is cluimed, drow a pistol on tho officers, offi-cers, whereup they shot blm. Frank Lynch, of Grand Rnplds, Mich., who promoted tho boxing match between Mlko Ward and Harry Har-ry Lewis, In which Ward met his death, has been arrested on a warrant charging him with making an agreement to promote a prize light. E. K. Gary, chairman of tho board of directors of tho Unltod StatoB Steel corporation, has anouncod that the wages of common laborers in the plants of tho subsidiary companies ot tho corporation will bo Increased It cents a day beginning May l next. |