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Show NEWS SUMMARY. Disorderly conduct of German troop Is causing much trouble in Shanghai. General Quintero Calderon, the acting act-ing minister of war at Bogota, is seriously seri-ously ill. President Castro st:ll cherishes the hope that the Colombian revolutionists-will revolutionists-will be the victors. The total shipments of wheat (flour included) from Portland, Or., for last week were 479,925 bushels. There are twenty thousand people in the Yukon territory, and the population popula-tion of Dawson City is approximately eight thousand. , ' An official of the municipal tax office in Buda Pest named Keiskematy has ' decamped with funds to the amount of 500,000 crowns. For Freedom, the great coursing hound, with a world-wide reputation, is dead in San Francisco. The dog was valued at 810,000. x L. J. Girouard, government registrar in the Klonkike, was shot and killed in Dawson on Monday. A man named Lord was the murderer. A cablegram has been received at the office of the surgeon-general of the marine hospital service, saying tbe plague had broken out at Odessa. Russia. Rus-sia. The Capetown guard has again been called out and Lord Kitchener has issued is-sued an order directing that all Boers captured in British uniforms are to be) shot. The official count of the vote at the) last election shows that the Democrats will have sixty majority on joint ballot bal-lot in the general assembly of Ken- ' tucky. William Ogden of McLeau county, 111., has bought 180,000 acres of land in western Kansas, which will be converted con-verted into the largest wheat ranch in the world. Trustees of Columbia university say there is no truth in the story that Chinese Minister Wu had been offered the chair of Chinese language and literature. A large sheep feeding firm of Sioux Falls, S. D., is preparing to ship 2.700 bead of sheep direct to the Liverpool market the sheep being brought from Big Timber, Mont. The stage and mail coach running between Marlow and Bailey, I. T., waa held up Thursday by highwaymen. Mail pouches were rifled and the pas- . sengers aDd "driver 'Acre, robbed. The new star in the constellation, Perseus, concerning which important discoveries are reported from the Lick observatory, has not yet been observed by the Yale university astronomers. The news of the French intervention in Turkey was suppressed at Constantinople Constan-tinople for three days, but the Sultan's cabinet being in constant session showed that a serious crisis had arisen. The widow of the murdered million- ' aire, Frank Richardson of St. Joseph, Mo., scored a point in her favor at Savannah, Mo., when the court granted a change of venue on grounds of prejudice. preju-dice. In Mexico City Tuesday, Charles Edwin Ed-win Rensen, an American of long residence resi-dence in Mexico, committed suicide by shooting himself while in his office. Business trouble is assigned as the cause. The cruiser Olympia, -which has been undergoing repairs at the Boston navy yard, will be put in commission Decern- j ber 18th and be assigned to the North ' Atlantic squadron. She will be flag-Bhip flag-Bhip of Admiral Higginson. Reports from the pig iron manufacturers, manufac-turers, covering production in October, show that the month was a record-breaker. record-breaker. The output reached the great total of 1,400,0(0 tons, or at the rate of 16,800,000 tons per annum. The projected treaty of cessions of the Danish West Indies to the United States is not so well advanced as it was hoped would be the case at this time. It is now doubtful whether the t treaty will be completed in time to submit to congress when "it reassem bles next month. I If the American people, says the Bulgarian Prime Minister, knew the kind of hellish barbarities perpetrated by Turkey in Macedonia, the voice of the nation which freed Cuba and fought the most chivalrous and unselfish unsel-fish war of modern times would awaken the cabinets of Europe to a sense of their duty regarding Macedonia Macedo-nia Representative Boutelle of Illinois has arranged for a future conference with the president on the subject of tbe abrogation of the 1817 treaty w'th Great Britain in which the building of war Teasels on the Great Lakes is prohibited. |