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Show ""news summary. The house of tho Texas legislature ,ns passed finally its bill fixing 1 per ! .eut tx 0" n" porsoual Incomes in excess ex-cess of S-.ooo. The industrial commission will hear no more witnesses until the Oth of June, when tho investigation of tho sugar trust will be begun. Fred Hurt, a farmer near Langdon, V., shot anil fatally wounded his four-year-old son Clinton, and blew V out his owu brains. Chairman Aldrieli of the senate committee com-mittee on finance will call a meeting of the committee, to be held in Washington Wash-ington early iu .lune. The cost of the proposed Nieara-guan Nieara-guan waterway, which is pronounced entirely feasible by the commission, is now fixed at 5125,000,000. Complying with an earnest request of members. Senator Kyle has withdrawn with-drawn his resignation as chairman of the industrial commission. Dr. Edmond, member of a posse, seeking Bill Watson, a notorious horse-thief, horse-thief, was shot and killed by the latter northwest of Shawnee, Okla. John II. Englis, formerly president of the Vallabout bank, Brooklyn, was stabbed in the neck by Christopher Daly, a beggar. The wound is a severe one. The government of Nicaragua has published a declaration to the effect 9 that its Mosquito coast is under the same laws and duties as the restof the state. Lieutenant-Colonel Edward J. Mc-Clernand Mc-Clernand (assistant adjutant-general) has been appointed to Jlatanzas, Cuba, as adjutant-general of that department. depart-ment. The army transport service has become be-come recently of such importance that the secretary of war has decided that it is entitled to the dignity of a distinctive dis-tinctive flag. John McLean, representing a New York and London Cuban association, has been authorized to make surveys and estimates for a railroad from Havana Ha-vana to Guines. Assistant Secretary Spalding has held that Japanese seamen may land in the United States without the examination exam-ination required in the case of manifested mani-fested emigrants. At the request of the secretary of the interior, Secretary Alger has agreed to order troops to the Moqui Indian reservation res-ervation in Arizona, to force the Indians In-dians to submit to vaccination. At Charlotte, N. C, Charles Jackson was hanged for criminal assault committed com-mitted on a young white girl last September. Sep-tember. He made a five minutes' speech protesting his innocence. The Commercial Cable company has issued the following notice: "We are advised that cable communication between be-tween Iloilo and Bacalod, Philippine Islands, has been reestablished." Enrique Garay, the wholesale hardware hard-ware merchant of Ilavana, in whose possession 1,500 Mausers, bought of the Spanish, were found a few days ago, has been required to surrender them. Charies Farris, company U, Third U. S. Volunteer engineers, who was found guilty by a court-martial in Santiago do Cuba and sentenced to be shot, had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment. imprison-ment. Gustav Bock of Hayana, is in New' York City arranging the union of his tobacco syndicate with the newly formed Ilavana Commercial company, of which F. Garcia is the leadiDg spirit. The Phoenix Bridge company, whose works are located at Pocenixville, Pa., has been awarded the contract for six ) additional steel bridges by the Russian government for use on the great trans-Siberian trans-Siberian railroad. In Enid, Okla., a negro Cakewalk at the opera-house broke up in a riot between be-tween whites and blacks. Three white men were hurt, four negroes fatally and several others seriously injured. Fifty shots were fired. A St. Louis policeman found Willie Mantcrs, a nine-year-old boy, crying and wandering around on Market street and took him to the station. The boy claims to have been kidnapped from Hamilton, Ontario. Cows which have usually been kept in stables situated at the lower story of residences in Havana, have been ordered by General Ludlow, through Surgeon-Major Davis, into the country where they can produce healthy milk. A meeting between Sir Alfred Mil-ner, Mil-ner, the governor of Cape Colony and high commissioner of South Africa, and President Rxueger had been arranged ar-ranged to take place on May 30 at Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free State. Nelson M. Jones has been found guilty as accessory of the kidnapping of Lincoln McGeisey and Palmer Sampson, Samp-son, Seminole Indian boys, who were kidnapped in the Indian Territory by a mob and afterward burned to death at the stake. William T. Stead says: "While I cannot repeat directly anything the Czar said to me during our interview a few days ago at St. Petersburg, it is permissible to tell Americans that he is full of hope for the results from the peace conference." 1 |
