Show v NEWS SUMMARY j I Eighteen persons were Injured as the result of n passenger train wreck near Towner N D According to the latest returns nearly near-ly I a million persons In Japan are on the verge of starvation Provincial Councilor Fllonoft was fired at live times and killed at Pal tavn Ilussln by an unknown assassin Many people are burning corn at Lubbock Tex as It Is tho only I fuel they can got Coal is worth 30 per ton Vast quantities of soft coal lira being be-ing stored In vessels at lake ports In anticipation of n possible strike of the miners Fifteen persons were injured two probably fatally in a railroad wreck near Durham N M seven cars being ditched It Is announced upon reliable authority au-thority that Admiral Togo will visit America in April with two armored cruisers One miner was Idlled nnd three others were seriously Injured by nn explosion In Ball Knob mine No2 near Delorme W Va An agreement providing fOr the establishment es-tablishment of parcel post nt cheap rates between Sweden and the United I States has been concluded A raco war has again broken out In tho region between Bllzabcthpol anti Shusha where the Armenians and Tartars are mnssncrelng each other Four more anarchists making sixteen six-teen during the past fortnight were shot without trial In the citadel at Warsaw Of the total fifteen were Jews The double tracking of the railroad across the Isthmus of Panama Is progressing pro-gressing rapidly I and It is expected that both tracks will be ready for service ser-vice In July The funerals of the thirtytwo men who were killed by machine guns at Vladivostok January 23 near the commandants com-mandants house wore held In solemn state on the 30th Ilocco Bell who had been arrested on n charge of burglary committed suicide in tho county Jail In Chicago hanging himself with n rope mado from the bed sheet The president has sent the nomination nomina-tion of James Smith of California to bo governor general of the Philippines islands vice Henry Clay Ids resigned to take effect June 1 1900 Lady Grey of London wife of Sir Edward Grey the foreign minister who sustained concussion of the brain by being thrown from her trap nt El llngham Northumberland Is dead It Is reported In Vienna that a military mili-tary convention has been concluded between Italy and Montenegro for tho purpose of breaking down Austrias predominating Influence In the Balkans Bal-kans Frank Willard n halfbreed who murdered Sheriff Smith at Uklnh Cal on December 22 last has been sentenced by Judge Burnett of Santa Hosa to bo hanged at San Quentin on April 28 Doubt as to the marriage of Mrs Charles T Yerkes to Wilson Miznor have been set at rest by tho filing ot tho certificate of tho marriage with the bureau of vital statistics In New York City House committee on the District of Columbia has decided to report without with-out recommendation the Adams bill providing the whipping post as a punishment pun-ishment for wife beaters in the District Dis-trict of Columbia A statement prepared by the department depart-ment of commerce and labor shows that tho commerce between Italy and the United States In the fiscal year 1905 aggregated 77500000 almost equally divided between Imports and exports Informal negotiations for tho floatation float-ation of a Russian loan have again been taken up In Paris The amount mentioned In official cIrcles varies but 400000000 Is generally spoken of with the price at 90 and Interest at G per cent William Walter Hamilton n negro was hanged in the Jail In Washington for the murder of Lizzie Lyman ills common law wife The drop fell at 7 oclock and death ensued twelve mln tiles later The crime was a particularly particu-larly brutal one William Clark was acquitted by tho jury at Dubuque Iowa of tho murder of Leroy Summer whom he found with Is wife The Jury had been out several hours The plea of temporary insanity was made but the real plea was defense of home Miss Urucr of Minneapolis whoso uncle L G Bruer a Minneapolis lumberman lum-berman was drowned on board the Valencia has engaged an Indian girl as a guide and is preparing to go from Victoria to tho scene of tho wreck to search for her uncles body A decision was handed down In the supreme court at St Louis affirming tho decision of tho lower court In finding find-ing Lord Seymour Barrington guilty of having murdered John P McCann two years ago and fixing tho date of his execution as March 15 next |