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Show NKWtf SUMMARY. Kilro:ul (.,;, 11V In the Monthern half! , IVxi,s VBS nWlo.u.,1 several days lust, week cm account of washouts. Unite.l Slates Sul,-U,nsnl Kneipp at Nelson, It. (, has resinned. He has ' Wen only three weeks at his post. There are moo men at work on the l'nminKi canal, and progress is bein made th(uiKh slowly, jn constructing the waterway. " The lirst cherries from California were, shipped from Vacaville April 8, to Porter P.ros., Chicago. The first sliipnient is ten days ea rlier this season than lust. The War department, it is understood has received u proposition from the in, vontor of thorite, announcing his will ino'iiess to sell to the Government the ri'ht to manufacture the explosive for I Sir.o.ooo. The Kei-lin correspondent of Loudon Daily News asseiis'that the Keiehman, who is credited with having' led the Hoers at Korusprnit, is certainly the American military attache, Capt. Carl Ueichuian. The railroads have prepared a statement state-ment sho wiuo" that 11.000 cars of citrus fruitshavebeenshipped from California this season. There are still about 4000 cars of oranges and 1000 of lemons to be shipped. Judge Cauerill, at Frankfort, Ky. has forbidden the local newspaperman to send out the names of witneses who are called to testify iu the Goebel case or to speculate upon the nature of the evidence given. Delegations continue to sign contracts for quarters at the different hotels in Kansas City. One of the leading hotels ' has closed a contract negotiated by Senator Clark for fifteen members of the Montana delegation. Capt. James G. Green, now in command com-mand of the naval station in Havana, will be relieved of that post by Lieut.-Commander Lieut.-Commander Lueicn Young, at present Captain of the port at Havana. Capt. Green is relieved at his own request. While a priest was'administering the last sacrament to a dying man in the presence of his relatives at Corruna, Spain, the floor of the room collapsed, and the dying man and four others were killed and fourteen were injured. A handsome young woman giving the name of Helen Gray, and her home as Salem, Ore., attempted to commit suicide in Golden Gate park, San Francisco, Fran-cisco, by taking poison. The young lady later said her home was Indianapolis, Indian-apolis, Ind. Representative Levy of New York has introduced a resolution requesting the President to direct the Commissioner-General of the Paris exposition to render a detailed account of his expenditures, ex-penditures, amounting to S301,9S5, penditures, amounting to 5pjui,ysa, accounted for by him under the head of miscellaneous. The big Spanish cannon captured by Admiral Dewey at Manila which is mounted in the park at Charleston, W. Va., was discharged by unknown persons last week. The report was heard all over the city. The cannon was knocked from its foundations, completely wrecking the carriage. The naval authorities are exasperated over the delay in completing the cruiser "Albany" at the Armstrong works at Elswiek where her officers and crew have been for the last two weeks. The trouble has been due to the steam heating, which is something-practically something-practically unknown to foreign warship war-ship builders. James Hamilton Lewis, in a letter to Secretary Thomas Waloney of the Democratic State central committee of Washington, just made public, declines in advance the nomination by the Democrats next fall for Congress or for Govermor. The House Committee on Territories has reported a bill disapproving the action of New Mexico in creating; Mc-Kinley Mc-Kinley county, on the ground that the locality lacked the population and the business to warrant county organization. organi-zation. J Albert Merritt, aged 60, one of the most successful dry goods merchants in Kingston. N. Y., in a fit of temporary insantity, shot his mother through the head and then shot himself, ' dying instantly. in-stantly. It is thought Mrs. Merritt will die. The impression prevails in ofticial circles that General Otis is not looking for Ao-uinaldo very earnestly. A cer-fiin cer-fiin Filipino element would demand his execution, while another element might foster an uprising if he were not liberated. The semi-oflicial Tlerliner Post, in an article evidently inspired, charges the Berlin correspondent of the London Times with having systematically and maliciously misrepresented facts regarding re-garding Germany's attitude toward England. Formal orders have been issued by Secretary Root, directing the detachment detach-ment of Brig.-Gen. Ludlow from the command of the city of Havana and assigning Briu.-Gen. Lee to command the new department of Havana and Pmar del Rio. Portland Or. , Republicans have nominated nomi-nated II. S. Rowe for Mayor. Rowe is at present chairman of the Board of Fire Commissioners of that city, and for several years was general superintendent superin-tendent of the Oregon Railway A NaT igation company. |