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Show NEWS SUMMARY. The job priuters of Columbus, O., are on a strike for a nine and a half hour day with ten hours pay. It is still unknown in Paris whether Dreyfus will be brought back, and the most conflicting statement are current. Jesse I. Gates, of the Second United States artillery, has been awarded the first pension on account of the Spanish war. Three thousand operators In the cotton mills at Augusta, Ga. , haT struck on account of a reduction in wages. All the job printing establishments at Minneapolis closed owing to a strike of the press feeders for shorter hours. Two hundred men are involved. The hurrying of work on warships continues at the Norfolk navy yard and the probability is that the night work will proceed for some time. The Alabama house of representatives representa-tives has passed a bill providing for a test of the constitutionality of the federal 10 per cent tax on state bank issues. Monsignor Valdes, the Spanish bishop of Porto Rico, has resigned the diocese, alleging that it is impossible for him to serve any other country than Spain. The French line steamer La Nor. mandie, which arrived at New Yorl( from Harve, is detained at quarantine, owing to smallpox among her steerage passengers Comte Esterhazy's "L' Affaire Drey fus," is believed in Paris to be an a tempt to throw mystery on the Ester-hazy Ester-hazy case rather than enlighten th Dreyfus affair. Lieutenant Lucien Young of the Hist, reports it is practicable to raise the former Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes, Mer-cedes, sunk on June 6 near the entrance en-trance of Santiago harbor. Word has been received from Col. Wood of the evacuation commission of Holguin. He has taken possession of the city and appointed Col. Rodriguez, a well-known Cuban, as acalde. Assistant Secretary Yanderlip has sailed for Puerto Rico, to familiarize himself with the financial conditions of the island, its possibilities of revenues, reve-nues, and its requirements of expenditures. expendi-tures. Mr. Kemper, United States postal agent for the military department of Santiago, has arrived with materials for estabishing post offices at all points in the island occupied by United States troops. T. A. Hauxhurst, agent of the Pan-American Pan-American Express conipauy of Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, attempted suicide yesterday mor ing in Havana, by cutting his throat in the Hotel Inglaterra. His condition is serious. The Royal Geographical society has issued a formal appeal for funds to fit out an Antartic expedition. Alfred Harms worth, proprietor of the London Daily Mail and the Evening News, has offered 5000. Havana is overrun with Americans who have arrived there quite without means of support, but in hopes of getting get-ting lucrative employment. There is no inducement whatever for outsiders in Havana at present. At Shanghai, Prince Henry of Prussia Prus-sia unveiled the monument to the officers offi-cers and sailors of the German third-class third-class cruiser litis, which was lost in a typhoon on July 23, 1S96, north of the Shan Tung promotory. Dispatches from Perpignan, capital of Pyrenees-Oriental, on the right bank of the river Tet, report that the region has been visited by severe storms. .Many vilages have been flooded and traffic has been interrupted. Heno Goblet, former premier and member of the French Chamber of Deputies for the First Arroudissemeht of the Department of the Seine, announces an-nounces that he will soon definitely withdraw from the political arena. The town of Macomb, Mo., reported threatened by forest fires, has not been reached by the flames, which have undoubtedly been quenched, as a heavy rainstorm is said to have prevailed pre-vailed in that section of the Ozarks. George Ferguson, a Portsmouth, Ohio, quaryman, and two of his chil. dred are dead, his wife and another child disfigured for life, as the result of an accidental explosion. Ferguson poured the contents of a can of blasting blast-ing powder into the stove, thinking it was coal. The United States Supreme courk has affirmed the judgement of the Supreme court of Washington, enjoining enjoin-ing the city of Walla Walla from building build-ing water works, on the ground thai this violated a stipulation by whick : the water franchise was given to i private company. S The identity of the train robbe : killed by Express Guard Blakeley i ; the holdup at Daggett, Colo., on Fri-1 Fri-1 day night, has been fully established. The dead man is Ignatius Fitlet. There were only two men !n the hold- up. Emmett Loucke, aged 17, wis f atallj Injured by being run over by a Unioa I Pacific train near Cheyenne. He wa stealing a ride, when he fell under the, wheels, losing one leg, and lay out in the cold all night before being dico" ered. |