Show NEws SUMMARY The cholera Is fast losing ground in Manila before the vigorous campaign waged by the authorities ltev M P HIli I formerly of Lexlng ton Ky with his bride was drowned near Chaplin > N Y HIli was n lead rr In the Mclllodlst Church In Ken tuck The cholera In the Yang Tee valley Is abating but tho toll of death this season has been heavy In Hankow 3000 natives and a scoro of foreign era hao died of the mahulv Tho twocent postage rates on let tern between the United States and tho British Isles Including KnglanO Scotland Ireland and Wales went Into effect Thursday October 1 Robert Louis Stevensons former home on tho heights of Kussian hill San Francisco has been purchased by Mr and Mrs Francis J Sullivan for the establishment of a nunnery An explosion of gas at the plant ot the Plttsburg burg Plate Glass com panys works No2 at Tarrontum Ia resulted In loss a by tiro of 500000 and threw 800 men out of employment Fearing to face disgrace which ho felt would follow his arrest on a charge of abusing his wire Leonard J Schmidt a piano maker of New York City killed himself by Inhaling illuminating gas What Is practically the final settlement settle-ment of the estate of the late Archibald Archi-bald Blount of Orclton Manor Hert fordshire England shows that Yalo university will receive from the estate about 328000 net A London dispatch announces that the kings gardeners have plucked 900 bunches of big black Hamburg grapes from tho 150yearold grape vine at Cumberland lodge one of the kings many little country houses Robert Hu rung the Hongkong millionaire with his two wives and three children who arrived at San Francisco from the Orient on tho steamer Korea will bo deported to tho land from whence they came Massachusetts Democrats In state convention at Boston nominated Senator Sen-ator James H Fahcy of Watertown for governor by acclamation Edgar Brown of Brockton the only other candidate for the office withdrew The promised fight of tho Anti Saloon League of America against the roelectlon to congress of Speaker Cannon is almost at hand according to a statement Issued by General Superintendent Su-perintendent Baker of tho league Director of tho Mint Leach announced an-nounced last week that ho would resume re-sume tho purchase of fine silver for subsidiary coinage Ho states that ho expects to purchase about 125000 ounces each week for an Indefinite period Ignorant of tho fact that her two monthsold child was asleep under the cover Mrs Mary Stortl of Brooklyn closed up a folding bed In a darkened room and the little one was smothered to death before his mother realized what had happened Losing her bearings In tho dense smcke and fog the steamer Neshoto bound down with iron ore ran ashore on Crisp Point eastern Lake Superior and was broken to pieces by the gale raging She is a total loss The crew was rescued by life savers A gang of robbers blow open tho safe of tho State bank at Ladysmlth Wis taking about 3000 They shot a policeman In the arm and flrcd several sev-eral shots at tho Baker hotel to keep I anybody from coining out They then took a handcar and escaped The San Francisco Call says that Comto Camillo do Iludlo the Italian exile who threw one of the bombs that shattered the carriage of Emperor Louis Napoleon III and Empress Eu genie killing ten persons and injuring injur-ing 150 others in Paris on tho night of January 14 1858 Is living quietly in Los Angeles with his English wife With her right arm tightly clasped about tho dead body of her yearold baby boy whose life she ended with her own Mrs Eric Suterland of Cambridge Cam-bridge Minn was found In tho hallow hal-low water In powderhorn lake at Minneapolis Domestic trouble led to I the deed The great historical and industrial parade the most important event of Pittsburgh sesqul ntennlal celebration celebra-tion was held or ctober 1 Hundred Hun-dred of thousands of persons crowded the streets along tho route of the parade a distance of about I four miles Standard 011 company attorneys presented evidence before Judge Franklin Ferriss at Chicago on October Oc-tober 1 in support of tho contention that the oil company has not been the recipient of preferential rates from railroads In different sections ol the country Charles Edward Davis charged with the murder of Dr Frederick Hus tin at Omaha has been bound over to the court In bonds of ten thousand I dollars which was signed by his two brothers Mrs nice probably will be I released on bond to appear as a witness wit-ness at tho trial A dispatch from Tomsonvllle Conn says Theodore Roosevelt Jr begun the work of learning carpet making when Friday morning ho donned overalls I over-alls and went into the wool room of the Hartford Carpet corporations plant to take his place at a wool washing machine Dr James Crosslund formerly United States minister to Siberia and political leader of national a negro prominence was placed under arrest Chicagoon a charge of grand larceny lar-ceny at Dr Ciofibland Is accused of cen wholesale theft of drugs cigars etc from a drug store |