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Show NEWS SUMMARY. Korea is in trouble with Russia over the recent seizure of a whaler. It is asserted that there are 50.000 Russian troops now in Manchuria. The condition of the pope has become be-come more serious and his physician: fear he will not recover. An attempt was made to assassinati Hoshi Toru, formerly Japanese Minis ter to the United States, recently. It is staled that 5325,000 has been subscribed toward the construction of the alumni hall at Yale university. In San Francisco a short. sharp earthquake earth-quake shock was felt April 5. The vibrations vi-brations lasted three or four seconds. It is said that Gillett, the absconding abscond-ing cattle plunger, has gone to South America to engage in the cattle business. busi-ness. Military movements are noticeable in the northern provinces of Spain in con- j nection with the Carlist's threatened uprising. The secretary of the interior has approved ap-proved the plans of Director Walcott for the continuation of surveys in Alaska during the summer of 1899. Premier Dupuy, in the course of an important speech to his constituents at Le Puy, said the situation both at home and abroad was eminently satisfactory. satis-factory. Ninety-four Chinese were killed and 123 wounded by Russian soldiers in the recent riot at Talien Wan, China. A Russian interpreter was killed by the Chinese. Returns from the Irish county council coun-cil elections show that 300 Nationalists, National-ists, eighty-three Unionists, one labor candidate and one Liberal have been returned. News has been received at Yokohama that a French mission has been wrecked wreck-ed in the province of Chun Chong, Korea. The priest in charge was carried off. Orders have been issued directing i that none of the remains of j'ellow fever victims shall be brought from Cuba to the United States until cold weather returns. Welling, N. Z. dispatches say theim. perial government has accepted the offer of the colonial secretary to dispatch dis-patch a boat to Samoa, but the troops offered are not required. Dr. George A. Rawson, who figured in a sensational divorce case in Seattle, Wash., a few years ago, committed suicide at the insane hospital, Indianapolis, Indian-apolis, Ind., by hanging. Four thousand one hundred cans of beef have been destroyed at the Regla warehouse, Havana, during the last three months, without action on the part of the board of survey. Judge Ortiz, in Havana, insists that the incommunicado law is in full force, like all other Spanish laws which General Gen-eral Brooke's proclamation of January 1 affirmed were to be unchanged. The plague is still raging in Formosa. According to the latest advices eleven deaths had occured in Tainin and one in Tiakokua, bringing the total num-berof num-berof deaths since January 1, up to 232. Ten men in the mines in the southern south-ern Illinois coal district have decided to strike as a result of their employers' refusal to grant a raise of 25 cents a day. This will tie up at least 3,000 men. Capitalists from Chicago and other cities are attempting to secure an option op-tion on all the laundries of Indianapolis, Indianapo-lis, with a view toward purchasing them and uniting' them into one corn- bine. Latest advices from the seat of hostilities hos-tilities in Holiva say the federalists or insurgents now hold Coehabampa. Potosi and Santa Cruz, but President Alon.o has reduced, their positions near Oruro. Nearly all the wheat through central cen-tral Illinois, from Danville to Havana, considered the best portion of the state, is dead. There was a hu ge acreage ' sown last. fall. Farmers are discouraged. discour-aged. The agricultural and mineral resources re-sources of Manchuria are stated to be immense, and the Russians are working work-ing so as to exploit them for their sole advantage. Land is being compulsory acquired. An effort is being made to secure for Philadelphia commercial museum's expositions next fall exhibits of manufactured manu-factured anil raw products of Cuba, Porto Kico, Hawaii and the Philippines. Philip-pines. At the suggestion of I'.ear-Admiral Bradford, chief of the bureau of equipment, equip-ment, a comprehensive scheme has been adopted by the navy department under which coaling stations will be placed at strategic points in the West Indies as soon as possible. Major-General Wilson, militay governor gov-ernor of the department of Matanzas, savs. in the course of a private letter, that all the Cubans formerly in arms in the Matanzas province are now understood to be in industrial employment. employ-ment. Gcorcre K. Fern, a dealer in dry goods at 13'.'1 West Madison street. Chicago, was found dead on the floor of bis store with a Imi'et wound in his right temple. The cash drawers were ritlcd and Mr. Fern's pockets turned inside out. |