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Show NEWS SUMMARY. Plans are being- prepared and surreys sur-reys made for a street sewerage sohern in Santiag-o. Over forty Chinamen have escaped the vigilance of the customs ofiicers and arrived in Omaha. A smallpox scare has been started at Put-in-Bay, O., with the result that an exodus from the island has taken place. jThe United States hospital ship Solace has arrived at Boston, having on board seventy-four sick soldiers and marines. The Corbett-McCoy fight is now booked to come off on October 1, the new date having been agreed on a few days since. The Zionist convention of Switzerland Switzer-land has passed a resolution expressing express-ing its profound thanks to the czar for issuing his peace note. M. Jules Cambon, French ambassador am-bassador at Washington, has arrived in Montreal on a visit. lie is expected to remain there several days. Acting Secretary Allen has decided to adopt the policy of mustering out the naval militia in bodies instead of individually as heretofore. Riots are reported in the Iiarbadoes islands belonging to Great Britain. Plantations are being looted and more serious trouble is expected. Already several of the states have filed with the secretary of the treasury claims for reinbursetnents of expenditures expendi-tures growing out of the war. A detachment of fifteen volunteers for the signal corps has been formed at the Washington hat-racks and will be sent to Santiago in a few days. It is officially announced that there were 2,300 deaths from the plague last week in the Bombay, India pre-idency. pre-idency. The plague is spreading. General Blanco has sent a cable message mes-sage to General Toral, asking what duties have been imposed at Santiago with a view of regulating the tarriffs at Havana. Following' the unveilinjf of the monument mon-ument to Alexander II of Russia, Emperor Em-peror Nicholas gave a grand gala banquet at the palace of tho Kremlin in the evening. It is announced that Mr. David Sir Jordan of Stanford university will deliver the inaugural address at the opening of the University of Washington Washing-ton in November. The Pope has recovered from his indisposition. in-disposition. Precautions have been augmented and he is surrounded by every care. Pilgrimages, including American, postponed until October. At a joint mass meeting of the Welsh miners it was decided to accept the employers' terms, offered at the Cardiff conference, by which the miners get an increase of 5 per cent in wages. This ends the disastrous six months) strike. Captain Louis C. Duncan, surgeon oi the Twenty-second Kansas regiment, has been held by the sheriff of Fairfax county, Virginia, to answer an indictment indict-ment charging him with desecrating confederate graves at Bull Run, near Manassas. Colonel Charles Denby, who was minister to China for thirteen years and was relieved from his post a few weeks ago; in an interview said; "In my opinion China will never be dismembered dis-membered among the great European nations, as I do not think the United States, England and Japan will permit it." The preliminary examination of Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, who is accused of murdering Mrs. J. P. Dunning and her sister, Mrs. Deane, of Dover, Dela., by sending a box of poisoned candy through the mail to the deceased ladies, and of which they partook, has been postponed to September 6. Meanwhile Mean-while Mrs. Botkin stoutly maintains her innocence. The London Times, speaking of the czar's peace note, says: The czar's circular cir-cular has had a good effoct on th markets, as indicating that there is no immediate probability of war. Many people remark the fact that the proposal pro-posal appears when Russia's power to borrow freely is almost ended and when she has placed herself in positions posi-tions in China and elsewhere which can be defended only at great cost. John Meek, of Fremont county, O., father of George B. Meek, who was killed on the torpedo boat Winslow at Cardenas, May 11, has received a letter and a check for S100 from the Cuban Junta. The letter goes to show that Meek was the first American born sailor killed in the Cuban war. A Cuban gentleman, some months apo, cent the money to the Junta to be rrivea to the wife, children or parents of the first American born sailor who should die in the war to free Cuba. Captain Charles E. Clark, formerly commander of the battleship Oregon, when discharged from further treatment treat-ment at the hospital at New York, will be granted three months' leave of absence. Judge Valliant of the St. Louis circuit cir-cuit court, rendered a decision declaring declar-ing boycotts legal. An order had been r-mted euioining the union from boycotting boy-cotting a tailoring firm. Now Judge Valliant declares the boycott is legal, as long as no force or intimidation is resorted to. |