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Show I SUMMAJIY Tho cholera is fast losing ground In ! L Manila beforo tho vigorous campaign waged by tho authorities. Itov. M. F. Hill, formorly of Losing-ton, Losing-ton, Ky., with his brldo, was drowned ' new' Chaplin, N. V. Hill was n lead er In tho Methodist church In ken' ' tuclty. Tho tholera In tho Ybur Tso valley is abating, but tho toll o( death thin season has been heavy. In Hankow 3,000 natives and a scoro of foreigners foreign-ers havo died of tho malady. Tho two-cent postago rates on lot-1 lot-1 tcrs between tho United States and tho British Isles, Including Bngtand, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, went Into effect Thursday, October 1. Ilobert Louis Stevenson's former homo on tho' heights of Husslan hill, San Francisco, has boon purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Sullivan for tho establishment of a nunnery. An explosion or gas at tho plant ot tho Pittsburg l'lale OIbbs company's com-pany's works No. 2, at Tarrontnm, l'a resulted In a loss by flro of 11(00,000, and threw 80Q men out of ' employment. tO Fearing to faco disgrace which ho Ip'Sh) would follow his arrest on- a ,1 chargo of abusing his wife, Leonard L'-J J. Schmidt, a piano maker of Now 5 o York City, killed hlmsolf by Inhaling J Illuminating gas. What Is practically the final sottlo-f sottlo-f ment of tho ostato of tho lato Archl- fs bald Illount of Oreltoii Manor, Hert- i fordnhlre, Kngland, shows that Ynlo V university will receive from tho cBtato !' about 328,00O net. L , A London dispatch announces that ( tho king's gardeners haVo plucked 900 i bunches of big black Hamburg grapes t from tlio iCO-ycar-old grape vino at Cumberland lodge, ono ,of tho king's many little country bouses, Robert Hu Tung, tho Hongkong millionaire, with his two wires and three children, who arrived nt San Francisco from tho Orient on tho stoamcr Korea, will bo deported to f tho land from whence thoy camo. , Massachusetts Democrats in stalo ' convention at Boston nominated Sen ator Jumca H. Fnhoy of Watertown ' for governor by acclamation. Kdgar I Brown of Brockton, the only other cnndldato for tho oMce, wlthdrow. r Tho promised light of tho Antl- t Saloon League of America ngalnsltho , re-election to congress of Spoakor Cannon Is almost at hand, according to a statement issued by General Su- perlntendont Baker of tho league i Director of tho M-'nt Leach an- t trounced last week that ho would re- sumo tho purchase of fine silver for S subsidiary coluagu. Ho states that ho yO cxpectB to purchaso about 125,000 ounces each week for un lndeftnflo ffc period. IsWf Ignorant of tho fact that hor two- jx months-old child was asleep under the coven Mrs, Mary Storti of Brooklyn cloedNup a folding bed in a darkened " roointand tho little ono was smothered .-j.to death boforo his mother realized VvSnt had happened. .;toslng her bearings in tho donso fcmbke and fog, tho Bteamor Ncshoto, bound down with Iron ore, ran ashoro on Crisp Point, eastern Lako Superior, and was broken to pieces by tho galo ruling. She Is a total loss. Tho crow was rescued by llfo savors, A gang of robbors 'blow open tho safe of the State bank, at Ladysnilth, Wis., taking about $3,000, They shot a policeman in tho arm nnd fired several sev-eral shots lh tho linker hotel to keep anyfcrdy-f rom coming out. They then rlobfea-'handcar and escaped. -The San Francisco Call says that Comfe Caralllo do Rudlp, tho Italian exile who threw ono of tho bombs that " shattered the carriage of Kmporor lxnils Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie, Eu-genie, killing ten persons and Injur-Ing Injur-Ing 150 others, In Paris, on the night of January 14, 1S5S, Is living quietly in Los Angeles with his English wife. BBtr With her right arm tightly clasped BBY y about tho dead body of her year-old BBt liaby boy, whose llfo she ended with BBf her own, Mrs. Krlq SutorUnd of Cam- BBf bridge, Minn., was found In tho shal- BBT low Water la Powdqrhorn lake nt Hft Minneapolis. Domestic troublo led to BBS the deed, BB Tim groat historical and industrial Bi parade, the most Important event of PktBburg's scsqul-centcnnlal colcbra- BY, tlon, was held on October 1. Hun- HB' drcds of thousands of persons HBbH, crowded tho stroots along tliu rnuto HBb of the parndo, a dlstanco of about BBP four miles. B Standard Oil company attorneys HBV presented evidence, before Judgo BBB- Franklin Forrlas, at Chicago, on Oc- BBf tobcr 1, In support of tho contention BE that tho oil company has not been BBE'- tho recipient of preferential rates BBT from railroads In different sections of BBT tho country. BBK Charles Edward Davis, charged HBjB with the munler of Dr, Frederick Rus- HBft Un nt Omaha, haB been bound over to BH t the court in bonds of tcu thousand BN dollars, which was signed by his two BJD brothers, Mrs. nice probably will bo BJH roleased on bond, to appear as a wit- BB uess at tho trial. HI A dispatch from Tomsonvlllo, Conn., BBBk. says; Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., bogan BBtf the work of learning carpet making BBBBf when Friday morning ho donocd over- BBgf alls and went Into the wool room of BBK) tho Hurtford Carpot corporation's BBff plant to take bis placo at a wool- BBJn washing machine. BBVL ' Dr. James Crossland, formerly BBK United States minister to Siberia and BBJf. negro political leader of national BfiBp jnromloence, was placed under arrest BK At Chicago on a charge of grand lar- BBfil ceny. Dr. Crousland is accused or BjV' wholesale theft of drugs, cigars, oto.. from a drug store. HHBJ' Negroes full-grown African lion, BBBJfc escaped Irpm the wlutcr quarters of BBflKgJ, ?(us located near New DrunnwlcU, BjHHJP N J" ttr having been hunted by KBBwL keepers U nlifht. was shot and klllud BeHtWNSBk. 00 w eounty road by Kdward Radel, BHmi'lfe A- LuI"."- KMvro. its eud w Hon BfflRMyBBKb! |