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Show NEWSSUMMA11Y. Bombay reports the rains still holding hold-ing off and the crops withering. Arrivals at San Francisco from Cape Nome declare that district rich in gold. According to all accounts the experiment experi-ment of using native troops in Porto Rico has been successful. Severe storms raged off the Australian Austra-lian coast during June and the early days of the present month. No more cases of rellow fever are reported among the troops or government govern-ment employees at Santiago. Upon one scaffold and simultaneously, simultaneous-ly, four negroes were hanged in the Baltimore, Md., city jail yard. There were 253 cases and 121 deaths from the plague at Poomn India, on the 2Gth ult. The cases include four Europeans. Officials of organized labor in Chicago Chi-cago state that the brickmakers' strike is likely to precipitate a general walkout walk-out in the city. The secretary of agriculture has decided de-cided to chauge regulations recently issued for the free admission of cattle Into Cuba next year. At Bramwell, W. Va., Howard It. Sanson, an emissary seeking miners for Missouri and Indian Territory coal fields, was fatally stabbed in the coal fields. F. L. Stocking, assistant postmaster at Taeoma, Wash., has been appointed assistant director-general of posts at Manila. He will be next in rank to Director-General Vaille. A mortgage for 817,000,000 given by the writing paper trust required internal inter-nal revenue stamps to the amount of S3, 500, which were placed upon it and cancelled. Jeffords, the San Francisco heavyweight heavy-weight pugilist, who is now in Portland, Port-land, Ore., has practically concluded negotations for a fight with Peter Jackson, Jack-son, who is now in Victoria, B. C. The anthracite companies announce that all orders for coal at prices prior to July 1, not filled on July 31, will be filled at an advance of 25 cents per ton which will then go into effect. Twelve Spanish gunboats recently put on blockade duty have done remarkably re-markably good service in cutting off supplies for insurgents between the different islands of the Philippine group. It is the intention of the war department depart-ment to send all cavalry horses to the Philippines by way of Unalaska and Nagasaki so that they may be taken off the ships at both these places and given rest. James M. Garlinton, alias Darlington, Darling-ton, was hanged at Fort Worth. Tex. Garlington was the leader of a band who on the night of July 21, 1898, robbed rob-bed a Santa Fe railroad train near Sawinaw. By the assassination of President Heaureux of San Domingo, Cuba may lose one of its central figures, as it is well known that General Maximo Gomez Go-mez aspires to the presidency of the black republic. Albert Ballinger, who is in the receiving re-ceiving hospital, San Francisco, awaiting await-ing examination as to his sanity, is under un-der confinement because of his wild wooing of Blanche Bates, the San Francisco actress. At Westchester, Pa., a revolting murder mur-der has come to light. It is alleged Mrs. Fannie Stevenson, colored, crushed her infant's head with an ax and then threw the body to somehogsi which devoured it. Charles Waif angle, of Brazil, Ind., became suddenly violently insane and with ahatchet chopped his two daughters daught-ers and wife to death while they were sleeping. He then took a knife and cut his own throat. General Roy Stone, director of road inquiry of the department of Agriculture Agricul-ture at Washington, who is in New York, says that more activity is being displayed in road improvement than has been shown for years. The Privy council of England has decided in the case of Briden vs. the Union Colliery company that the province prov-ince of British Columbia has not the power to prohibit Chinese working underground in coal mines. A good deal of surprise has been caused in oilicial circles in Washington by the unexpected opposition developing develop-ing in France to the ratification of the reciprocity treaty just negotiated by Mr. Kasson and M. Cambon. Notice has been given in the state department at Ilarrisbnrg, Pa., that an application for a charter for the American Amer-ican Iron and Steel Manufacturing company will be made on August 16. The capital will be 530,000,000. The fifth biennial convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Temper-ance union, it is announced, will meet In Edinburg. Scotland, Monday, June 25. 1(00. The executive committee meeting will be held on Friday, June Major Maxfield has laid a cable across Laguna de Bay from Taguig to Calamba, the last town to be captured from the insurgents. This insures uninterrupted un-interrupted telegraph communications between Mani'.a and the advanced posts. |