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Show I CQEAf I OP THE NEWS j. f COM EVERYWHERE Fifty representatives of the -different employees' brotherhoods- in Cook county, 111., yesterday adopted resolutions against placing in the hands of ' the -Interstate Commerce commission railroad rate marking mar-king powers. 7 i The first bloodshed in the last strike in St. Petersburg occurred yesterday, when two carriers were killed and a. policeman was wounded during a fight between Cossacks Cos-sacks and strikers. . -- ' The ferment among the troops at Warsaw War-saw is Increasing. A hundred . soldiers yesterday headed a procession "that sang revolutionary songs. Other soldiers were ordered to fire on the procession, but refused re-fused to do so. . - A severe desert windstorm yesterday swept Lower California, doing .considerable .consider-able damage to orange and olive crops. 1"he convicts In the penitentiary at Havana Ha-vana mutinied yesterday and in a fierce tight with the guards two of them were killed and sixteen wounded and three of the guards were Injured. A platoon of artillery subdued the convicts. A delegation of prominent Mexican engineers en-gineers has gone to Lower California to inspect the Salton sea, to determine Its possible effect In taking up the water supply sup-ply of the Colorado river to the detriment detri-ment of Mexico. Baroness von Suttner" of Austria was yesterday declared the winner of the Nobel No-bel peace prise at Chrlstianla, Norway. Max Dyer, chief- clerk in the office of the general storekeeper of the Great Northern at St. . Paul, has accepted the chief clerkship under W. T. Tubbing, superintendent su-perintendent of construction of the Panama Pan-ama canal. ::' - .Frederick L. Power, a well-known actor ,TT:Chlcago. was operated on yesterdav at Chicago for cancer of the tongue. Hi) whole tongue was amputated and he will never be able to articulate again. - In his annual report. Admiral W. L. Capps, chief constructor of the navy nrges the construction of a dry dock a' Pensacola, capable of accommodating thi largest ships in the navy. Frank Weller. alias Wilder, and Joseph Castro, alias Lawrence, were arrested yesterday at Los Angeles, charged with being counterfeiters. , Carl Frederick von Saltza. Inistrurto? In fine arts at Columbus university, died at New York yesterday after an Ulnest of a month. Ignorant of the fact that hh wife had died three days before him. Considerable alarm was occasioned yesterday yes-terday by the Nantucket south hna lightship No. 58. chained to a spot f?r out in the North - Atlantic, sprliiRlrv leak. A fierce storm was raging av '-forts '-forts to go to her rescue were fru-'-As she has five water-tight comi ments, it Is believed she will not Mnk The Information was received at Newport New-port by wireless telegraph. ' A dispatch from St. Petersburg to Berlin Ber-lin says that the scheme of Baron Lee on de Lobel. the French engineer, to build a railroad from Siberia to Alaska, has been approved by the Russian Government. Govern-ment. - Richard Cheatham, secretary " of the Southern Cotton association at Atlanta, issued an open letter yesterday to the cotton growers of the South, urging them to hold for 15-cent cotton. . - The new Cunsrd line steamer Carman la arrived at New Tork yesterday from Liverpool Liv-erpool on her maiden voyage. A shooting affray In which one man. Thomas Rooney, was killed and several others were wounded, occurred In New fork yesterday between the police and a gang which started a riot. |