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Show NEWS SUMMARY. The mansion house Ottawa fire relief has now reached 16.000. The laying of the German-American cable from Berkum island, in the North Sea, has beguu. It is charged that the secret police of Havana is a demoralized body, and the municipal police not much better. Emperor Francis Joseph- of Austria has appointed Emperor William field marshal-general of the Austrian army. Indiana Prohibitionists have nominated nomi-nated a full state ticket. Charles Eck-hart Eck-hart of Auburn was named for governor. gov-ernor. There is uo truth in the report that the American vice-cousul at Alexan-dretta, Alexan-dretta, Turkey, was maltreated by the police. The Brazos river is over the bottom at Hempstead, Tex., and below there. The river continues to rise steadily and the flats are rapidly being covered. cov-ered. Reports received at Calcutta from the tea districts show the prospects are generally unfavorable. Hail and rainstorms rain-storms have done much damage to the crops. Twenty-five thousand men employed by the Standard Oil company, as mechanics me-chanics and laborers all over the country, coun-try, it is stated, have had their wages raised 10 per cent. George V. Click, the Fusionist candidate can-didate and the only Democrat ever elected governor of Kansas, has boen nominated for congress bv the Democrats Demo-crats of the First Kansas district. In Chicago a true bill has been voted against George P. Gubbins, president of the Bricklayers and Stonemasons union, by the grand jury, the specific) charge being conspiracy to incite riot. Michigan forest fires are abating. The danger of Fisher being burned it past. Several camps of the Wisconsin Land & Lumber company, near Berk-mansville.aud Berk-mansville.aud valuable timber has been burned. The negotiations between Denmark and the United States relative to the purchase of the Danish West Indies, according to the Copenhagen correspondent corres-pondent of the Daily Mail, have been definitely broken off. The war department has Issued orders granting Major-General Wesley Mer-ritt, Mer-ritt, commanding the department of the east, leave of absence from the 10th inst., with permission to leave tha United States. The sundry civil appropriation bill, the most important of the general supply sup-ply bills and the last on the list, has been completed and reported to tho house. It carries hi,:so, uenig 8, 485, 992 less than tho estimates. The strike of the carpenters at Boston Bos-ton and vicinity for the establishment of an eight-hour work day und a minimum min-imum rate of wages of S J..r0 a day, has practically ended by nearly all firms signing the new schedule. Calls have been issued for the nominating nomi-nating conventions of the Democratic and Silver Republican parties In Nebraska, Ne-braska, to be held at Lincoln July 11th. The Populists will meet there on tho same day. It is probable a fusion plan for the state tickets will be agreed upon. United States District Judge L-ochren in St. Louis has decided that the ratification ratifi-cation of the treaty of peace between the United Stales aud Spain mad Porto Kico American territory and subject to the constitution of tin United States, without any further act of congress. Andrew Carnegie, who refused U contribute to the Dewey arch fund.hai given 81,000 to the fund for the widow of Sergeant Douglas, who was killed ' Croton Dam during the recent strike In sending the check Mr. Cnmegii wrote: "Sergeant Douglas fought no! for foreign conquest, but for peace an order at home." Among the many letters received bj Chief of Police Mcl.aughlan at Port, land, Or., in regard to the identity o' the man found drowned in the rivoi recently is one from Contra Costa, Cal., describing Captain Samuel L. Williams, who is supposed to have left San Francisco for Portland in March last. The sundry civil appropriation bill appropriates $:.";. 800 for surveying and marking the boundary line between Utah and Arizona, and SI."., 000 for surveying sur-veying private land claims in Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. The California state committee of the "Middle-of-the-Road'' Populists has named thirty-six delegates to the (Jin-j (Jin-j cinnati national convention and in' i structed them to vote solidly for E. V. Debs for president. Fusion with Social Democracy was favored. The president has selected William Glover Gage of Michigan to be commissioner com-missioner for the United States on the new Chilean claims commission, and William M. Hunt of Montana to bo agent for the United Slates before the same body. A meager report received at Fort Worth, Tex., gives information of a quadruple killing at Qmmah. Two of the men are Lute and Oage Peach, but the names of the other two are not j known. The trouble arose over a grass lease. |