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Show NEWS SUMMARY. The increase of population of Now York for the past three years Is 300,-000. 300,-000. Indications point to a settlement of the trouble between Bulgaria and Turkey. Tur-key. Armed forces from Russia are causing caus-ing the sultan of Turkey much uneasiness. un-easiness. The big strike In the lumber district of northern California, involving 600 men, has been declared oil. Yale students last week drove wagons wag-ons in New Haven, Conn., in an en-deavor en-deavor to break up a strike. In Missouri the court of appeals has decided that a preacher cannot sue his congregation to recover his salary. President Roosevelt will recommend recom-mend to Secretary Root that the Presidio, Pre-sidio, at San Francisco, be renovated. Miss Margaret Crane of Waterbury, Conn., was waylaid by tramps and so badly beaten that her life is despaired of. Charles Greene, a baseball player, was killed at Wilberforce, Iowa, colliding col-liding with another player, his skull being fractured. Russian frontier guards ran into an ambush of robbers last week, with the result that one captain and two men were killed. Samuel Fox, a wealthy farmer, was gored to death in his pasture near Wellington, Kans., by a bull. His body was crushed and mangled badly. The state department has received word from the German government that there will be no Interference in the expulsion of Mormon elders. The total appropriations made by the Fifty-seventh congress amount lo $1,553,683,002, an increase over the Fifty-sixth congress of $113,193,507. Edward DeRosa, 6 years of age, is dead at his home in New York City, from injuries received by being knocked knock-ed down and trampled on by "tough" boys in the street. According to advices that have reached Vienna, the Turkish forces are advancing upon Ipek, in European Turkey, and have wrecked three villages vil-lages with artillery. Lightning struck the Methodist church at Rockton, Ills., while services ser-vices were in progress Sunday, and three persons were seriously burned, though all will recover. The announcement is made that Joseph Jo-seph Letter, who figured in the wheat corner In 1897 and 189S, has made a proposition to his creditors to settle their claims against him for 20 cents on the dollar. Mrs. Sarah J. Fancher committed suicide by Jumping into a well on her farm near New Era, Ore. She had been demented for some time, and her family had contemplated sending her to the asylum. The Episcopal diocesan convention for the Los Angeles diocese took no definite action on the proposed chango of the church name, the matter being referred to a committee to report to the next convention. For stealing fifty-one pounds of chicken, two white farmers of Kent county, Delaware, James A. Powell and Thomas G. Smith, will receive re-ceive ten lashes each at the whipping post in the jail yard. Owing to the troubles in Morocco. Spain has thrown up defenses at Ceula (a seaport In Morocco belonging to Spain), and will ship thither six heavy guns, which have been lying at Algeciras since the Spanish-American war. |