Show t If NEWS SUMMARY High waters In Franco have caused onaldorablo damage to property Mall advices from Batavia report bo ambuscade and massacre of two companies of Dutch troops by natives In 1 tho Celebes L C Smith a night watchman and pioneer of Fresno Cat was shot and killed by a burglar ns the ofllcer was attempting to capture him There have been Gt cases of bubonic plague In San Francisco there havo been 37 deaths and 7 recoveries and 20 and now under treatment On account of tho Illness of the emperor em-peror of Austria the king and queen of Spain have postponed Indefinitely their projected visit to Vienna Three trainmen wore killed and much property damaged by tho explosion of an engine of the Central of Georgia which was standing near tho station of Reynolds Ga Four young men all residents of Perth Ambo N J were drowned in Baritan bay as the result of their boat catching on lire tho boat being over turned In an effort to subduo the lames Jose Gutlerez aged 117 died last week nt Ysluta a few miles below El Paso Texas lie drank whisky until he was 70 when ho found It was not good for a man and quit Gullcrez was never married Hoy Reed of Portland shot and tilled his wife Sylva Heed in tho of Ice of tho Hotel Havre at Havre Mont and before any one could interfere inter-fere turned the gUll on himself and blow his brains out H D Reynolds owner of tho Reynolds Rey-nolds bank at Valde Alaska which closed lust week says the bank will jo able to pay all claims He says tho liabilities are 55000 and the assets as-sets principally Valdez realty 92000 An order directing Joseph D Lee a lawyer to produco tho alleged mar rlago ceitlflcato and a lettor in which his client Mao Wood alleges Senator Thomas C Platt admits his marriage to her has been made by tho trial judge John Mitchell president of tho United Mine Workers entered the hospital at LaSalle 111 on October 12 and it is understood that ho will submit sub-mit to an operation for appendicitis when his condition becomes more favorable fa-vorable The housing committee of the repel corporation of San Francisco has filed a report showing that permanent and substantial homes have been built for 1382 refugee families at a cost oi 512007 during the past cloven months Elkan Cohn a once prominent banker and wealthy business man was fauna on tho streets of Oakland Cal last week in utter poverty and in a dying condition In tho past eighteen months Cohn has been robbed of 1CO 000 by swindlers Joseph Wood aged 1C years who was arrested on suspicion in connection connec-tion with the murder of 9yearolt Ethel Nevins whoso body was found In a thicket not far from her homo in hast Camden N J admits having murdered tho child Plans that will convert Valparaiso Chile into one of tho worlds largest and best ports have been accepted b > a committee appointed by the presl dent for the purpose French engl ncere submitted their proposal Tho work will take nine years Twenty carloads of mustard seed valued at 5000 will be shipped from Jximpoc Cal to eastern points In each car there will be 900 sacks each weighing eighty pounds Tho shipment Includes both yellow and red varieties of seed and Is tho largest on record The body of Frank Meakln son of tho English millionaire chlnamaker James MoaMn is being held under police po-lice orders in the medical department of St Louis university pending com munlcation with Kinsmen of the dead man in England Meakin died July 14 from injuries received by a fall from a window Peter Murray of Buena Vista Colo at the ago of 57 has gone to college He is a student at Jefferson academy Washington D C and the teachers say he is one of their most diligent pupils In his youth Murray had to work for a living and sacrifice his schooling Huudieds of lives wero endangered thousands of persons wero thrown into panic 125 electric cars used 01 several crosstown Hues were destroyed de-stroyed and property loss to the extent ex-tent of 400000 was caused by a fire in the Fourteenth street car barns In New York City on Oct 9 Tho barge Saxon lumberladen from Georgetown S C to Now York stranded thirty miles north ot Cape Hattuiaa at midnight October 12 The captain and two men of the bag were drowned One man Fred Lunt managed to reach the shore and wa picked up by life savors Abraham Huof appeared In JUdgE Dunnes court on October 9th at the time fixed for his sentence on the charge of extortion to which ho pleaded plead-ed guilty At the request of Asslstan District Attorney CooK Reefs attorney attor-ney consenting the date of Sentence was postponed to Oct 23 Assistant Secretary of State Aden characterizes as an absurd ranuid the report from San Francisco that Honduran land forces had captured a portion of Acajutla In September after a battle with the army of Salvador Mr Adeo said that Honduras and Salvador vador are on friendly terms The American Woolen company at Boston has bought about 20000000 pounds of wool about 20 per cent ot Its annual requirements which will cost cleaned 4000000 to 5000000 When tho companys new worsted mills are In full operation the annual requirements will reach 125009000 |