| Show SHORT STORIES Turn new cases of bubonic plague have been reported at Port Said M Dupuy de Lome the former Spanish Span-ish Minister ut Washington has been appointed Embassador to Italy The Lord Mayors Ottawa relief fund In London hns now reached 12000 oC which 110000 baa been remitted Tho Michigan forest fires cover an area of thirty miles extending westward west-ward as far as Swanson and northward to Carbondale Mich They are spreading spread-ing m I Jamestown St Helena reports the British auxiliary transport Bavarian arrived lucre1 from Capelown with 103H Boer prisoners All are In excellent health The pilnlcrb and carpenters unions at Gnlveston Tex struck for an Increase I In-crease In wager Work Is suspended most of the buildings now under construction con-struction The British nlcamer Strathglll Capt Cummings from San Diego via I Yokohama for Hongkong which had been on lire at Kobo has 600 bales of cotton and some flour partially damaged dam-aged The fighting at Thaba NChu Is of a desultory nature The whole front In now to bo swept by mounted troops preparatory to a detlnile forward movement move-ment for which Ihc forces may now bo termed organized The Princess of Wales arrived in London Lon-don yesterday from Copenhagen and met with an enthusiastic demonstraliori at the railroad station and while passing pass-ing through the streets on her way to Marlborough house The arrival In Chicago of the board of bishops from Indianapolis and Ihc assembling of delcgales from many Illinois Il-linois points commenced Ihe visible ac tlvltles of the Methodist general conference con-ference of 1900 It opens today A side light Is tin own upon tilt hungry condition of the garrison of Mafeklng by time fact that the united efforts of the whites and natives havo recently been devoted lo catching a swarm of locusts which passed over the town In York Neb Mrs Margaret Front Avas ariestcd on a Coroners warrant charged with causing the death of her husband Charles Frost by administering administer-ing poison to him The Coroner is now awaiting the analysis of thestomach of the deceased In Capetown at a big meeting held yesterday an Irish association was formed Those present cheered all references ref-erences to the Queen and the Deputy Mayor declared that the voice of the Irishmen In South Africa was for Queen and country |
