Show HEWS BOILED DOWN The ladies hospital ship Maine will leave Durban Saturday She will remain in the Mediterranean a h short period for the benefit of the patients on board ArranpomiMils have boon made by the ofllrors of the Quarts musters department depart-ment whereby army transports on the line between San Francisco and Manila Ma-nila hereafter will touch Honolulu to coal coalDr Dr AIlHrt B Strong formerly known as a write on surgical and medical matter Is dead in the State asylum for the Insane at Kankakec Death was duo to exhaustion brought about by I iiKinlacnl excitement I United Stales Minister Merry has ar rived at Managua He Is nrcumpanlcd from Colon by Mr Rudolph Wolsaer I official agent of the Maritime Canal company and Is now being entertained by the United States Consul I The four police commissioners of the city of New York Dernird J VnH I John B Sexton Henry E A bell and Jacob Hess are according to the press to be indicted by the grand Jury for what the statute dellnes aa an offense against public justice The conference of coal miners and operators which has been in session In Des MoInes la since February 2Clh adjourned last evening after adopting a uniform scale of prices foi mining which amounts to about 38 per cent increase for the miners Reports from different sections of Texas show much damage to thc fruit crop from the frost which followed the snow of Thursday Berries In the coast country are not damaged materially I but the crop will be late Frank Bun y who for the past six I years has occupied the office of Cham berlain of Elnura N Y a Democrat and for three years previously was clerk In the Chamberlains olllce has voluntarily confessed a shortage of over 30000 In his accounts The Commissioner of the General Land Office has recommended to the Secretary of the Interior that the mammoth mam-moth tree grove and the south park gLove of big trees In Calavens and Tuolumne counties Cal be set aside us Government domain to preserve these I trees from injury and destruction |