Show O < NEWS SUMMARY General Nelson A Miles left Bostot for Washington D C last week and It Is understood that ho will make his future home In tho latter city Don Iloemer was murdered In his homo near Wabasha Minn by two unknown men Ho was 72 years of age and a bachelor qulto wealthy The comptroller of the currency bas Issued a call for a statement of tho condition of all national banks nt the close of business on February 14 last Mrs Edward Lutzenburg was burned to death and her son Joseph probably fatally Injured In a lire that for a time serious threatened tho town of Barnesboro Pa It is estimated by one of tho managers man-agers of the Association for ImprovIng ImproV-Ing the Condition of the Poor that there are approximately 30000 homeless home-less men In New York today The court of appeals of Now York has sustained the constitutionality or ho gatt and electricity commission law giving tho legislature authority to delegate tho rate lixing power Brown Hal 212 for many years champion pacing horse of tho world and tho sire of the pacer Star Pointer 15934 died last week at well farm In Maury county Tennessee aged 29 years Jake Ktlraln the former pugilist has filed a petition In bankruptcy Schedules declare that Kllraln has debts of 1203 and assets of G7 The principal creditor Is Ernest Hocbcr the wrestler The Iowa supreme court has handed hand-ed down an opinion regarding the constitutionality of the Des Moines plan of municipal government by a commission upholding tho law In every particular The death sentence against Mrs Violet Goold who with her husband Vero St Leger Goold was convicted of the murder of Emma Levin at Monte < Mon-te Carlo last summer has been commuted com-muted to Imprlsonent for life Speaker Cannon has been endorsed for the presidency by the Republican organization of Guilford county North Carolina Mr Cannon Is a native ot this county having been born at New Garden seven miles from Greensboro General rung Fuh Slang the leader of the Boxers In the uprising of 1100 Is dead Ho had been banished to Kansu General Tung Fuh Slang was regarded nt ono time as the ablest and most powerful of the Chinese generals gen-erals eralThe cotton mills of the lloston Man ufacturlng company of Waltham Mass hereafter will be closed on Fridays Fri-days and Saturdays a reduction in the working time from 58 to 42 hours a week Nine hundred hands are affected af-fected A special dispatch received from Lisbon says that the greatest uneasiness uneasi-ness prevails there The palace has been surrounded by troops the entire garrison Is confined to barracks and ball cartridges have been issued to the men Charles J Romadka of Milwaukee has Instituted suit for divorce from Evelyn Calno Romadka whose sensational sen-sational escapade in Chicago resulted a few months ago In her Imprison ment in the penitentiary at Joliet for burglary John McD Hopkirk is dead from malignant scarletlna Mr Hopkirk was manager of a Mills hotel in New York City in which cheap lodgings are given to the poor and in that capacity ca-pacity handled hundreds of dirty germladen bills The French forces have recently had a serious battle with tho Moors at a point fifteen miles southeast of Fedala The French had two officers and several soldiers killed and three officers and twenty men wounded The loss of the Moors was heavy Alexander E Butt cashier of the wrecked Peoples bank of Portsmouth Va after making restitution to the depositors to the extent of 37000 on the total shortage of 252000 was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary peni-tentiary and to pay a fine of 7184 Judge Charles G Richie formerly a probate Judge and once candidate for governor of Kentucky has been held for trial in an Oakland Cal police court on the charge of passing a bogus check for 110 His case Is a mystery to his family and friends Claude Brooks n negro who confessed con-fessed to killing Sidney Herndon a welltodo butcher in his apartments In Kansas City January 21 has been found guilty of murder In the first degree de-gree and his punishment Ilxed at death Herndon was murdered for his money James A Deane broke Into the home of Charles McKay at West Forks Me at midnight killed Mrs her McKay with an ax after chasing to the yard of a neighboring house and tlien committed suicide by cutting cut-ting his throat Jealousy was the cause While the Japanese cruiser Akashl was engaged In towing work at Arl on Nagasaki prefecture yakl In the the evening of February 20 a bollard cave way Three noncommlssloned kilted and two officers officers were wero injured The Akashl returned to Kure of death The passage of sentence on General Stoessel who was tried on charges of cowardice and treason in surrendering Port Arthur to the Jap received with little satisfnc Is aneso tlon In the Russian capital It being charged tnat stoessel was mado the scapegoat racetrack followers Millionaires clergymen lawyers and legislators wore represented at the hearing at Albany N Y before the Joint senate codes committee on the AgnewHnrt atHl assembly bill to amend the penal ccfdo Prohibit gambling on code so all to race lrshs |