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Show NEWS SUMMARY. Ten car loads of beer has arrived at Seattle from the east to be shipped to Manila The manufacturers of elevators are negotiating for the purpose of forming a combine. President McKinley has decided to make a trip to the Pacific coast in Jime of next year. The Stars and Strides will be formally for-mally raised at San Juan, Porto Eico, on Tuesday. Mrs. John Sherman's condition is much Improved and her friends hope for a speedy recover-. The Baptist mission at Sing-Ngan-Fu, in the province of Shen-Si, has appealed ap-pealed for protection. In St. Louis, Mo., as the result of a fight over a woman, John W. Edwards shot and killed Ales Charlton. A Pekin correspondent says there is a rumor in circulation that a plot is on foot for a massacre of Europeans. An uprising has occurred in Hainan, China, and the American Consul has been besought to protect the American missionaries. Senor Sagasta denies somewhat hotly hot-ly that there were any difficulties with Gen. Blanco on account of the latter's demands for money. Prince Ching, president of the Tsung-Li-Yamen, has informed Sir Claude MacDonald officially that the health of the emperor is improving. The sole consequence of the abortive attempt at a military coup d'etat in Paris will be the early displacement of several officers of high rank. Government aid in the shape of army rations willbe given to the sufferers from the recent floods in Georgia who are in need of the barest necessities of life. Farmers in the JCansu district, China, Chi-na, ascribing the cause of long prevailing pre-vailing drouths to the telegraph wires, have demolished poles and wires. An express company has completed arrangements for maintaining a semimonthly semi-monthly dog train mail and express service to Dawson over the ice, commencing com-mencing November 11. According to a member of the Spanish Span-ish cabinet, the commissioners atPariB have not yet taken up the question of the Philippines. The ministers, however, how-ever, are very reserved. A society to be known as the Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba, is now in the progress of formation. It will resemble the G. A. E., and will number 18,000 members. A. V. Francisco, collector of the port of Los Angles, was found dead in bed. Heart disease is ascribed as the cause of death. He was once manager of the Cincinnati Tribune. Comptroller Treadwell of the treasury treas-ury department has decided that post-officers post-officers inspectors are entitled to a per diem of Si for expenses only when on duty outside of offices. Georg-e Wilson Phillipps, aged 79 years, who invented most of the machinery ma-chinery which was used in the first match factory in the country, died at Spring-field, Massachusetts. Louis Kayazer, an engineer at the Seattle Steam Laundry, was electrocuted electro-cuted while changing' a small globe from one socket to another. His hand came in contact with the socket. A band of desperadoes numbering 2000, with 4000 disbanded- Manchu soldiers, sol-diers, took possession of the gold mines north of Kirin, China, and are hindering hinder-ing Russian railroad development. It is stated on good authority that the Northern Pacific Steamship company com-pany is arranging to put under the American flag six steamers which it is operating to China and Japan from Tacoma. The total registration in Greater New York for the first two days is 305,809. For Manhattan and the Bronx and Brooklyn the registration is 1,033 larger than on the first two days of last year. It is said in the highest Chinese circles cir-cles that the emperor -will be formally deposed on November 23rd, the birthday birth-day of the Empress Dowager, and tha Trince Jun, a boy of 13, will be named as his successor. The schooner Viva rescued from almost al-most certain death Harry Thompson, Frank Johnson and John Christensen, who were attempting to sail from St. Michaels to San Francisco in a boat only 28 feet long. Floods in Japan have done great damage and many lives have been lost. Aichi perfecture. which seems to have suffered most, lost thirty-five houses washed away, 1200 overthrown, 170 partly wrecked, 412 injured and 5600 inundated. Princess Kailuani is again reported to be engaged to be married. The chosen royal consort to he is or was a reporter, Andrew Adams by name, who but a short time ago was a member mem-ber of the staff of the Providence (R. I.) Journal. Quartermaster Sergeant James C. YouDg of the Twentieth Kansas volunteers, volun-teers, who was placed in the federal prison at Fort Leavecsu-orth to serse a one years sentence for embezzlement of company funds at San Francisco, has received a full pardon. |