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Show NfiWSUMMiYT" Three tons of gold, valued at over one million dollars, arrived at Seattle from Alaska. London Times Pretoria eorresoon-dent eorresoon-dent telegraphs that Gen. Colvillo has been ordered home. The Boer envoys who have been in the United States for two months past have sailed for Europe. The Silesian coal operators have refused re-fused to renew their Austrian contracts con-tracts at the former low prices. """""a The government of Haiti has adopted the gold standard and the unit of value val-ue is the American gold dollar. Capetown reports that 1'rcsidoiH Kruger is still at Maehadodorp, afraid to iuovc for fear the bridges aro under" mined. Governor Thomas has issued a proclamation proc-lamation urging the people of Colora. do to give aid to the famine sufferers of India. Great Britain seems to have pretty well settled down to the belief that tho ministers at Peking will not come to much harm. The supreme court of ludiana hns held in a case from Grant couuty that the pumping of natural gas from gas wells is illegal. Robert Nouks la, been arrested at Big Stone, Va., charged with being implicated in the assassination of Governor Gov-ernor Goebel. Nine hundred men have sailed with.' General Chaffee on the Grant, and tho Ninth infantry is upon the water from Manila to China. There is a threatening uprising of Indians on the Rainy river, Out. Three thousand Indians are gathered near the mouth of Rainy river. Fully 7,000 window glass workers will be idle during July and August, and longer unless the wage scale is arranged ar-ranged before September 1. The Colombian government has finally satisfied itself that Nicaragua is responsible for the revolutionary movements on the isthmus of Panama. Rumors of withdrawals of troops from Cuba are said to be the probable basis for the persistent statements that more soldiers have been ordered to China. Tho prolonged drouth in Salt River valley, Arizona, has done many thousands thous-ands of dollars' worth of damage and threatens the grain and fruit crops not now harvested. The Republican state convention of Maine nominated'Dr. John F. Hill of Augusta unanimously for governor. Resolutions indorsing the national administration ad-ministration were adopted. Lieutenant J. S. Merron, who was in command of the expedition supposed to have been lost last fall while trying lofind an ail-American route to Yukon river, has returned to Seattle. The rumor in Havana that the See ond infantry will leave Cuba within Ihe next ten days as soon as a transport trans-port is available, and go directly to China, is generally believed in Havana- The Christian Reformed church syn. od of America, in session in Grand Rapids, adopted resolutions of sympathy sym-pathy for the Boers in the fight with Great Britain. They will he sent to president Kruger. According to Transvaal advices the Boers are intrenched in considerable numbers in the Middleburg hills. The Irish, Hollander and Italian corps are getting uncontrollable. They are loot-'ng loot-'ng stores and farms. The inspection board headed by Rear-Admiral Rear-Admiral Rogers, which accompanied the new battleship "Kentucky" on her final acceptance trial has returned to Washington and reports the result of the trial as satisfactory. The Republicans of the Fifth Mis- -souri congressional district, meeting in Kansas City, nominated W. B. C. Brown for congress. The nominee was a gold Democrat and left the Democratic Dem-ocratic party in 18'JO. Upon the Kiowa, Commanche and Cherokee lands trerpassers numbering 3000 exceed the Indian population. Or ders have been issued to compel the in- truders to leave the land. Military may aid in moving them. Seth Low, the president of Columbia university, discovered that twenty-four twenty-four men employed in the boiler-rooms and electrical power departments of the university, were working in twelve hour shifts. He gave orders at ouee to put the men on an eight hour shift, without reducing their pay, and toem-ploy toem-ploy one-third more men at once. The backbone of the great building trades strike in Chicago is broken. It is now only a question of hours when the 50,000 workman who have been idle for many months will be arrang- ing agreements for their return to work. Except for the boycott and 300 extra ex-tra policemen on duty, but little remains re-mains to tell of the great strike on the St. Louis Transit company's system inaugurated in-augurated May 8th. Cars are in operation oper-ation on all the lines without hindrance. hind-rance. Seth Sprague Terry, who is one of the beneficiaries of the w ill of Jose W. Sprague of Louisville, says that it will . be about fifty years before tho estate, valued at 250,000, will come into the possession of the Sijiithioniliu instl-tnte. |