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Show NEWS SUMMARY The I own of Lanuiya. Cuba, baa been practically destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $500,000. The settlement agreed upon the powers of Austria-Hungary and Europe Eu-rope of i he dispute has been accepted by the Servian government. Internal reveune officers have seized seiz-ed 9,000 barrels of liquor at the Cascade Cas-cade distillery, near Tullohoma, Tenn. This number is said to represent repre-sent half a million gallons. Mamie Kozlowski, aged 8 years, died in a hospital at Albuquerque, N. M., as the result of burns she received receiv-ed when her dress ignited from a fire about which she was playing. Count General Kuroki, commander of the first army in the field against the Russians, has retired, owing to the expiration of his military term, according to advices from Yokohama, Michael McKinna and Ailexander Hagan, convicts who escaped from the state prison at Folsom, Cal., lat week, were tacked down by bloodhounds, blood-hounds, and are again behind the bars. The bill urged by the labor organizations organi-zations of Illinois, which stops prosecutions prose-cutions for 'conspiracy unltess an overt act has been committed, was passed by the house after a bitter fight. Trouble between white and negro employes of the H. Alfrey Heading factory at Hope, Ark., resulted in the dynamiting of a cabin in the negro quarters, killing one negro and fatally fa-tally injuring another. As a result of playing with matches, Stephen Keefe, the 3-year-old son of Joseph Keefe of Washington, Washing-ton, was burned to death. Mrs. Mamie Ma-mie Keefe, his mother, was terribly-burned terribly-burned in an effort to save his life. One man was' killed and another probably fatally injured in a riot between be-tween a crowd of miners formerly employed at the Harwick mines of the Allegheny Coal company at Ches-wick, Ches-wick, Pa., and two deputy constables. Leaving a confession of the theft of $3,000 worth of silks and lace taken from a local dry goods store where she was employed, Mrs. Clarence Clar-ence Allen of San Bernardino, Cal., committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. Admiral Ijictu's practice squadron, with 180 cadets of the Japanese navy aboard, will arrive at San Francisco, April 25. The ships are enroute to Honolulu, and include the armored cruiser Aso and the protected cruiser Soya. San Francisco celebrated officially, on March 31, the close of its campaign cam-paign against bubonic plague by giving giv-ing a dinner to Dr. Rupert Blue of the United States Marine hospital service ser-vice and his corps of executive officers. of-ficers. The Royal 'Academy at Stockholm has presented Thomas A. Edison with the Adelskiold gold medal for his inventions in-ventions in connection with the phonograph phon-ograph and incandescent light. This medal is conferred only once in ten years. Additional taxes will be levied on liquors, wines and canned goods by Salvador after April 10. These taxes will be in addition to the customs duties. du-ties. The additional tax on imported liquors will be 50 cents per quart bottle. The Maya Indians in the southern part of the Yucatan peninsula have revolted. Colonel Jose Reyes, commander com-mander of the Eighth infantry, has been killed by them and four or his fellow officers either killed or mortally mor-tally wounded. Dtiring the month of March sixty-one sixty-one new cases of bubonic plague and twenty-eight deaths from the disease were reported at Guayaquil, Ecuador. There also were 10S cases of yellow fever in the republic, fifty of which resulted fataly. Prince. Kasatkin-Rosteofseff, a member of one of the best known families in Russia, was killed at Warsaw, War-saw, March 31, by a concert hall singer named Rosa Bauer. The woman wo-man made an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. The last emblem of American domination dom-ination Over Cuba disappeared at noon on March 31, when tne garrison flag at Camp Columbia fluttered down the pole and was repraced a moment later by the lone-star red banner of the Cuban republic. William F. Downs, a young clerk in the city register's office at Baltimore, Balti-more, has been held in $50,000 bail for a hearing on a charge of emblez-zling emblez-zling city funds. State Attorney Owens Ow-ens stated the amount taken from the city probablv would amount to $100,000. The system of selling convicts in Georgia has been abolished. On April 1, hundreds of human beings were led from the mines, choking kilns and damp factories into the sunlight, from the control of harsh and often brutal taskmasters, into the service ot the state. Nesaria Diaz, a Mexican woman 43 years old, living in Juarez, Mexico, saturated her clothing with kerosene and applied a match. Then she rushed rush-ed Into the street screaming. A crowd gathered and tried to smother the blazingTclothing. but the woman died from her burns. Oho Herbert Dilley, musical director di-rector and composer of popular songs, died in Senecaville, O., April 1, aged 35. Dilley was in charge of thWe Iroquois theater orchestra, Chicago, Chi-cago, the afternoon of the fire In that playhouse a few years ago. In which hundreds perishfJ. Bromine, useful in medicine, photography, photog-raphy, the manufacture of dyes and in certain metallurgical operations, is produced commercially in only four states of this country Michigan. Ohio. Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Last year's output was 1.379.496 pounds. |