Show NEWS SUMMARY the epworth league convention convened at indianapolis the the dreyfus court martial will not begin its sittings until august the total output out put for the season in klondike is estimated at the lack of the usual fall of rain in cuba la Is delaying the maturing of the ugar sugar crop the war department has chartered the steamer slam to carry cavalry horses to manila there is no confirmation of the report that chief justice chambers of samoa will resign the raad at pretoria in secret session cession lias has adopted the seven years franchise proposition christian A geoffrion member of the canadian cabinet and a distinguished lawyer Is dead news of the arctic whaling fleet Is that so far it has been a bad year as very few whales have been seen the federal government has bal sent agents to several points in texas to secure horses for service in cuba tremendous storms have bave destroyed bridges and prostrated telegraph wires in chile interrupting communication the new tug tuo fearless recently built for the brothers san francisco has been cliart chartered ered by the government abe rothschild a notorious diamond thief and crook has been sentenced to erve three years la in the texas penitentiary for forgery united states consul jenkins has cabled tho the state department that san salvador is in a state stale of siege as a result of revolutionary plotting the past week closed the period of two years prescribed by tho the dingley law within which ity treaties may be negotiated an english syndicate has paid for the iowa and yellow jacket groups in boise basin idaho they join the famous gold dilill group governor bradley of kentucky has declined to call a special session of the legislature legia lature or send troops to clay county where a feudal war is in progress the mark lane express says that the british wheat promises a full average yield and barley an average and that the oat crop is distinctly deficient fici ent A reciprocity treaty under the pro visions of the dingley law has been negotiated between portugal and the united states stales and went into effect the dinst americans built the first street railway constructed in korea it Is an overhead electric trolley road six miles in length and runs th through seoul the capital the argentine minister of finance proposes to reduce red ace the taxes on foreign insurance companies s froni from 10 to 5 per cent raising those on argentine argentina corpo corporations rations from 2 to 5 per cent from john shermans Sher mans closest friend frien d and former law lav partner henry C hedges it is learned that thai the venerable statesman la Is improving slowly from his recent illness and hopes to be about agal again a soon the triple murder of an american named ward and two japanese women at yokohama the supposed cause being jealousy brings an american sailor named miller under the japanese law as the suspected murderer the agricultural departments foreign crop report for july states that commercial authorities estimate the shortage in the russian wheat crop at from to bushels as compared with last year the united states district attorney at jacksonville fla lias has been warned from washington to beware of filli alli blistering expeditions from the florida coast to honduras nicaragua and other central american countries the removal of tress passers white while sett settlers lera from the leech lake indian reservation has been postponed until august 23 by order of assistant secretary of the interior hitchcock the settlers are vigorously opposing removal st vincent cape verde islands reports the italian steamer centro america from montevideo june 30 for genoa with passengers has been towed there for a distance of miles having been disabled by the loss of her bar propeller work has haa begun on the construction of a passage from the cell of Cs capt p t dreyfus to the hall ball in which the court martial before which he Is to be ba tried willell will tit this will enable the prisoner to escape the annoyance of observation by the curious general shatter shafter will be retired on october 16 when lie he will reach the age limit friends are endeavoring to have him retained to la the service but the law is mandatory and the only re ilef possible would be by a special act of congress the war department la Is in correspondence pon dence with general brooke with reference to withdrawing the battal i ions of troops from cuba the troops it Is thought way may be needed for ertice in the philippines when tho the rainy eaton is I 1 over |