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Show NEWS SUMMARY. It is announced that tho bollormak. era' strike on tho Southern Pacific hu been settled. Spanish Honduras Is on tho verg of another revolution. President Do-nllla Do-nllla is maintaining martini law. Tho drouth has almost destroyed th. raalzo crop of Houmnnla, nnd the government gov-ernment has prohibited exportation ot maize. Salaries of employes at tho Expos tlon In St Louis havo been cut from 6 to 20 per cent In an effort to curtail expenses. Twonty-threo persons woro hurt as the result of a rear-end collision between be-tween two trolley cars near Netting ham, Ohio. In a freight wreck on tho Southern railway at Pattern's Mill, Tenn., caused by spreading rails, flvo porsoni wero injured, two seriously, Thomas N. Watson of Georgia baa decided to accept the nomination for president recently tendorod him by tho national Populist convention. According to tho schedules ot tho cstato of tho late William C. Whitney, which were filed In New York City last week, tho estate Is estimated at $21,334,101. Tho hop crop of Sonoma county, Cal., this year is plnced at 20,000 bales, a conservative estimate, and a considerable lncrcaso over tho previous pre-vious season. Tho threo plants of tho International Interna-tional Harvester company at Chicago closed down for an Indefinite period and 15,000 workmen will ho thrown out of employment. A newspaper says that within thi last few days Hussla has mado contracts con-tracts for nearly 200,000 tons of Wolst coal, which Is supposed to bo for th Vladivostok squadron. Hussla has expressed her pleasur nt being able to accept tho ofTor ol tho United States to tako part In thi protection of the seals nt tho Komi mnnder islands during tho war. In ono of the fiercest battles evoi witnessed In San Francisco "Battling'1 Nelson of Chicago on the 29th defeated defeat-ed Eddlo Hanlon of San Francisco, tho end coming In the nineteenth round. Isaac V. Barnum, inventor of the hemming attachment for sewing machines ma-chines and who Is said to have possessed pos-sessed a fortune of $500,000 a fow years ago, died in poverty last week in Brooklyn. After a weok of mental anguish, during which ho continually wept and prayed, Frank Benedotto, who murdered mur-dered his wife during a fit of Jealousy committed suicide in his cell at th county Jail In Chicago. William Pickens, n negro who grad tinted with high honors at Yale l month ago, has just been advised ol his election to membership In tho Ph1 Beta Kappa society tie Is tho onlj negro belonging to tho society. Tho Russian statement that vessel! of tho volunteer fleet hereafter will not bo permitted to operate for wai purposes Is regarded In Turkish ofll-clal ofll-clal circles as settling tho question ol their passage through tho Dardanelles. Forest fires In tho Gila forest reserve, re-serve, Arizona, which havo ragod foi tho past two months, defying all ef forts of forest rangers and devastating an area of fifteen square miles of fina timber havo been put out by heavy rains. Throe Moxlcan prisoners charged with murdering nnd robbing American prospectors In Sonorn havo escaped from Jail at Agna Prlota, a border town In Sonora, opposlto Douglas, Ariz. It Is said a woman llboratod them. James Barrett, foreman of a gang of plpo layers In Dorby, Conn., crawled into a 24-lhth plpo and, when ho did not come forth after two hours timo, was roscuod by his mon, when it was found he had becomo hopoless-ly hopoless-ly insane. A Paris dispatch says tho Baroness do Hoques and her daughter, Mrs. Maybrlck, complain bitterly of tho persistent efforts of tho press to obtain ob-tain Information concerning their movements, which they aro dotennlnod not to give, From January 1 to July 2C Inclusive, 77,825,800 Jnpanese yen hnvo been ro-colvcd ro-colvcd at tho Unltod Stntos mint In Sau Francisco and convcrtod Into monoy for tho Phillppino islands. The aggrcgnto amount In American monoy is $38,912,033. Vlco President Cntdoron, In his message mes-sage to tho Peruvian congress on its opening, snld tho republic onjoyod cordial relations with all forolgn countries coun-tries and that tho relations "with tho grent republic of tho north" were becoming be-coming closer. A strango epidemic has appeared among tho cattlo at Newport. L. I. Dr. Wllllnm T. Bull has lost flvo animals. an-imals. Dogs also aro affected and several lmve died. Tho dlscaso acts upon tho spinal card and paralysis of tho hind limbs Is the principal symptom. Tho London Dally Telegraph's Dor-Hn Dor-Hn correspondent says that Czar Nicholas hns sent ft telegram to M. DoWItte, president of tho Russian council of ministers, asking his ndvico and offering him tho post of minister of tho Interior, with tho tltlo of chancellor |
