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Show NEATSSUMaRY. It has been decided to abandon Camp Meade, Camp Black and the camp at Lexington, Ky. The Republicans of the S'.xth New-Jersey New-Jersey district have renominated Congressman Con-gressman R. Wayne Parker. A telegram from Seoul, capital of Korea, reports that the .crown priDce is seriously ill with dysentery. An imperial decree was published at Pekin dismissing Chang Yin Ilouan, the opponent of Li Hung Chang. Lewis C. Bass, manufacturer of bobbins, bob-bins, spools and shuttles, Boston, has failed, with liabilities of $155,000. The Spanish government estimates that there are 200,000 people in Porto Rico who desire to return to Spain. Jesse James, Jr., son of the noted Missouri outlaw, is suspected of being implicated in a recent train robbery. Yu Man Tze, a brigand chief of Sze Chuen province, China, threatens to attack Chunking. The natives are greatly alarmed. General Maximo Gomez has left the Rojas camp and is retiring to the estate es-tate of Boari Y7aguyay, near Remedios, province of Santa Clara. Enough orders for smokeless powder has been received by the Santa Crua plant to keep the mills running day and night for two years. All the European governments have now consented to Italy's proposal for a conference to concert measures for tha suppression of anarchists. Caroline Miskel-Hoy t, wife of Charles Hoyt, the playright, is dead. Mrs. Hoyt was considered one of the most beautiful women on the stage. The Italian government has issued formal invitations to the anti-anarchist congress, the time and place for holding which will be fixed hereafter. The Sirdar, it is said in Cairo, will become the first governor-general of Soudan, and may hold that post for a time, but he will resign the sirdarship. sirdar-ship. The war department has decided to send boards of officers to Cuba to investigate in-vestigate and report upon locations for camps for the army of occupation in that island. A claim for S100.000 on behalf of the state, of California for property turned over to the government during the war with Spain, will be presented to the secretary of war. Advices received from Van say fighting fight-ing has occurred at Alashgorb be- tween the Turks and a number of Armenians Ar-menians from Russia. About fifty Armenians were killed. The conference of Miners' Federation in London decided to accept the employers' em-ployers' terms regulating wages until 1901. The miners get an immediate advance of 2)4 per cent. Kang Yuwei, the Cantonese reformer, in interviews since his escape from Pekin, said he fled because the emperor informed him of a plot to depose him and kill the reform leaders. It is rumored in Paris that Dreyfus has already been transferred from the Isle de Diable to Calenne, where he awaits a steamer to bring him to a French or an Algerian port. A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Cape Town says: Gen. Kitchener has cabled to Cecil Rhodes that he has extablished a post south of Fashoda, and asks: "When are you coming up?" Sites for camps in the South have been practically determined. It is understood they will be located at Augusta and at Athens, Ga., and Columbia, Co-lumbia, Greenville and Spartansburg, S. C. The Madrid cabinent has decided to authorize General Rios to grant reforms re-forms in the Vizeaya islands on the lines demanded by the inhabitants! and to concentrate his forces at Man-dan Man-dan ao. If the present plans are carried out, it is expected the evacuation of Cuba will have been completed by December 31, and the new year will see the American colors raised all over the island. Dr. Nancy Guilford, the midwife of Bridgeport, Conn., who is wanted by the American police on the charge of having been connected with the death of Emma Gill, has been arrested in London. Charles Pittolkow, doing a real estate es-tate and insurance business at Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States court. The liabilities lia-bilities are placed at S13S,000 and assets as-sets at S153,00O. Colonel John Hay has been sworn into office as secretary of state. The ceremony took place in the president's room at the White House. The oath was administered by Justice Harlan, of the supreme court. Ex-Japanese Minister to the United States Hoshi does not believe there will be an Anglo-American alliance, and further says neither America nor England will dare take the Philippines without reference to Japan. The Madrid papers have unearthed the baptismal certificate of Adelina Patti, which has finally settled the question of her much-discussed birthplace birth-place and birth date. She was born in Madrid at 4 o'clock on February 19, 143- |