Show = NEVS + SUMMARY The Tennessee house has passed u bill making It a felony to keep a place where bolting on horio racing Is al lowed The Intensely cold weather which has prevailed in Spain recently has destroyed the winter crops In several piovlnces The coldest weather of the present winter Is being experienced in western west-ern Pennsylvania western Ohio and eastern Virginia The January statement of tho Lon Jon board of trade shows Increases of Tr331000 lu Imports and of 21 470000 In exports Troops have been sent to the copper mines in the Ashlo district Japan where tho miners made an attack upon the property using dvnamlte freely The Texas legislature has passed n bill providing that a special tax 01 5000 be assessed against every express ex-press olllce In the state handling ship meats ot liquor Six miners were klllod and twelve I or more injured In a wreck of a coal train on tho Chicago Northwestern railroad near the corporate limits ol Des Moines Iowa Fifteen wood cutters were overwhelmed over-whelmed by an avalanche in tho Mus cel district of the Transylvania mountains moun-tains All the men were dead when dug out of the suow There Is danger of an outbreak ot war In Central America although efforts ef-forts at arbitration are being made in the city of San Salvador In tho hops of preventing hostilities Tho state senate of California has unanimously passed a bill making it a crime to dock horse tails and prohibiting pro-hibiting the importation into the state of horses with docked tails Representative Hearst has Introduced Intro-duced a bill in the house to prevent corrupt practices In elections by malting malt-ing bribery a felony and prescribing other safeguards for elections President Roosevelt hopes to visit Alaska on a hunting trip after his presidential pres-idential term expires He expressed this desire last week to Robert M Wiley who has spent several years in that country It Is reported that Count font de Castelinne from whom his wife who was Miss Anna Gould of Now York secured a divorce in the French courts last November Is about to appeal to a higher court The body of John W Smith a farmer living near Raven I T was found on the 8th He left home on tho 5th during a severe blizzard and the supposition Is that he lost his way and was frozen to death Raymond Meyer a schoolboy of Brooklyn who was bitten January 17 by a mongrel dog died of hydrophobia hydropho-bia on the 6th Three other children who were bitten by tho same dog have had their wounds cauterized Seven miners are entombed in No 19 colliery of the Lehigh Wilkes barre Coal company at Wanamle Pa and mIners acquainted with the workings work-ings of the mine say there is little hope of caching any of them In the senate committee on agriculture agricul-ture last week an unsuccessful attempt at-tempt was made to Insert an amendment amend-ment to the agricultural aproprla tlou bill placing the cost of Inspection of meat products upon the packers Tho opopsitlon party are well in the lead in the elections in European I Russia having tweiit four seats In parliament assured and seventyfive I practically certain Tho conservatives conserva-tives have live assured and thIrtynIno probable Congressman William Alden Smith has been elected by the legislature to fill the unexpIred term of Senator R A Alger Congressman Smith had already al-ready been elected as Algers successor suc-cessor at the expiration of his term March 4 While Ignoring the antiJapanese feeling In a portion of the American press the Japanese public Is almost unanimous In demanding that the solution so-lution of the San Francisco school question must not Involve the labor question The Brazilian government has decIded de-cIded In order to avoid possible disagreeable dis-agreeable Incidents to exclude negro sailors from the Brazilian squadron which will visit the United States The opposition newspapers attacks the government gov-ernment for this step In a sensational speech before a Nebraska Ne-braska senate committee Senator Patrick Pat-rick accused the brewery and distillery distil-lery Interests of trying to corrupt the legislature and prevent tho passage of unfriendly bills and of raising 50 000 as a corruption fund The Missouri senate has passed tho bill providing that insurance companies com-panies bo prohibited from appropriating and ing money for political purposes from paying annual salaries of more than 50000 to presidents Tho penalty pen-alty Is forfeiture of license Mary S Anthony sister of and life Susan B Anthony long coworker with lIed at her homo In Rochester N YIn Y-In tho 6th Miss Anthony would havo Sho bad boon 80 years old In April novor been welt since the death of her sister eleven months ago |