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Show NEWS SUMMARY. The Norwegian government has negotiated ne-gotiated a loan of 20.000,000 crowns for military purposes. Collector of Customs J. W. Ivey at Juneau, Alaska, has been arrested on the charge of criminal libel. Dr. Nancy Guilford, the Bridgeport midwife charged with murder, is being brought from England to stand trial. Preparations have been completed for the dry docking of the second-class battleship Texas at the Brooklyn navy yard. There is very little serious sickness among the troops at Santiago. Everybody Every-body is improving with the cooler weather. The state of Texas has raised the yellow fever quarantine and the quarantine quar-antine inspectors and guards have been withdrawn. The war department has established a permanent paymaster's office in Huntsville, Ala., in charge of Major C. M. Marsh and S. II. Tyler. Charles II . Thornton of Los Angeles committed suicide in a St. Louis hotel by shooting himself in the mouth. No cause is known for the deed. It is estimated that no fewer than 18,000 people in the section in and around Santiago are learning English, in addition to the school children. Wilmington, X. C, city authorities are bending every energy toward persuading per-suading the refugee negroes, who are in the woods, to return to their homes. Orders have been issued to push work on the monitors Puritan and Terror Ter-ror at Norfolk navy yard, so that they will be available for service at short notice. The miners employed in the vicinity of Silverton, B. C, have rounded up all the Chinese laborers in the various camps and shipped them out of the district. Advices from members of the Eighth Illinois volunteers, colored, now ir Santiago province, Cuba, state thai fully 30 per cent of the regiment is in the hospitals. The Cubans arouud Guantanamo are going to work on the plantations. Colonel Kay refuses to issue rations tc those who decline to work at 40 cents a day, the regular rate. It is learned that the war with Spain has not delayed the surveys of the Nicaragua canal to any appreciable extent, and practically all parties have Bent in their notes to be platted. Edward Zola, a resident of Kansas City, and a cousin of Emile Zola, the champion of Dreyfus, says that the report re-port that the French author is coming to this country shortly is untrue. Owing to the great ill health of the New York volunteers now encamped at Honolulu, that regiment will be sent home as soon as the method of its transportation can be decided upon. The board of ordance and fortifications fortifica-tions has decided to institute an in. vestigation of the possibilities of flying machines for reconnoitering purposes and as engines for destruction in time of war. The winter plans for the postal service ser-vice in the Yukon region are completed and will consist of twiee-a-month service ser-vice via Juneau, that is, the regular route through Dawson to Circle City and Weare. Mr. Chong Ki Ye, connected with the household of the Crown Frince oi Korea, and eldest son of Chin Pom Yre, the minister from Korea to this country, coun-try, has been appointed an attache oi the Korean legation. The United States last year commanded com-manded more of the Samoan trade import and export than any European nation, and in the matter of exports to the islands stood second only to the nearby Australian colonies. The record rec-ord for the coming year will he watched watch-ed with interest. The deaths at Ilolguin, Cuba, from smallpox average thirty a day for the army and as many in the poorer quarters. quar-ters. Every hut is infected, and women, wo-men, children and men lie literally rotting to death without the care of even one doctor. The poverty of the inhabitants is beyond description. The Italian anarchist, Luigi Luc-cheni, Luc-cheni, who stabbed and killed Empress Elizabeth of Australia, on Septembei 10, last, has been sentenced to life imprisonment, im-prisonment, the full penalty allowed by the Swiss law for murder. Upon receiving his sentence, he laughed and cried loudly: "Long live anarchy, death to the aristocracy. British naval construction prograrr for includes two battleships o! 14,500 tons each, with very powerful armament and protection; two cruisers of 4,000 tons each, two large torpedo-boat torpedo-boat destroyers and eleven torpedo boats. Richard Guenther of Wisconsin has been appointed by President MeKinley to be consul-general of the United States at Frankfort, Germany, and Frank H. Mason of Ohio to be consul- 1 general of the United States at Berlin, ' Germany. 1 Col. Ilecker of the quartermaster's department, who returned from Havana Ha-vana a week ago, left Washington on the 14th, for the Cuban city to complete com-plete the work which he inaugurated preparatory to the reception of the American troops. |