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Show NEWS SUMMARY, " The sealing schooners have made a wonderful good catch on the Pacific coast this year. Jim Jefl'ries knocked out James J Corbett in the twenty-third round of a very game contest. Capt. R. E. Mont fort of Cincinnati has been elected commander of the Ohio department (!. A. It. Consul-General Long at Cairo, Egypt cables the secretary of state that the plague has appeared in Alexandria. W. J. Brynn has returned to Lincoln Neb., for a stay of two months, moil" of which will be spent on his farm near ' that city. Forest tires caused the loss of three lives aud the destruction of much property near Ruunton, Pa. Three children were burned to death. In Fresno, Cal., J. W. Shanklin, ex-City ex-City Clerk was acquitted of the charge of embezzling public money. Shanklin was brought back from Hillsboro, Ore., for trial. Notwithstanding the solicitations of the anti-taxatiou press in Spain, there was a complete absence of the labor element in tho recent manifestations at Barcelona. A statement of the gross recelts at fiftj' of the principal postofllees for April of this year as compared with a similar period of 1899, shows an Increase In-crease of S255,655. Favorable progress in the construe, tion of naval vessels is shown in & statement just prepared by Admiral Hiehborn, chief of the bureau of oon- struction and repair. The Senate has confirmed the nomination nomi-nation of 8. B. Dole, to be Governor of, and Henry E. Cooper, to be Secretary Secre-tary of Hawaii; also J. M. Oat, to bo postmaster at Honolulu. Joseph Chamberlain declares that the British government is not prepared to recognize the independence of the Boor republics, and is determined that tha republics shall be finally incorporated under the British flag. The six chief emigration companies com-panies in Japan, at their recent annual annu-al meeting, reported business in good condition and took measures to continue con-tinue sending Japanese laborers to the United States aud Hawaii. Bishop Thomas O'Gorman just returned re-turned to Sioux Falls, S. D., from the Rosebud Indian agency baptized into the Catholic faith the fierce old Sioux chief, Two Strikes. He is 81 years of Jamaica, military authorities au-thorities have received a cable dispatch from the British War oflice ordering-all ordering-all the available officers of the West Indian regiment to proceed immediately immediate-ly by the shortest route to Cape Coast Castle to join the expedition against the Ashantis. The government of Spain is seriously serious-ly concerned in regard to the opposition opposi-tion developed to its financial projects. The feeling at Catalonia, especially is running high and has taken the form of hostile demonstrations against the Minister of the Interior. He was stoned by a mob at Tarraza. Gov. John Brandy of Alaska was the guest of honor at a dinner recently at the Waldorf, New York, at which a bust of William IT. Seward the gift of Francis L. Loring, was presented to the people of Alaska through Governor Brady. A detailed statement sent to the Senate of the cost of the Haris exposition exposi-tion commission from the date of it organization to December 31.1899 shows that the total amount paid for salaries wasS107,7GSand for traveling expenses 653,397. Mrs. Nettie R. Craven has been indicted in-dicted by a San Francisco grand jury on a charge of felony, namely, perjury for her testimony given before that body in relation to her claim for . t widow's share of the estate of James 0-Fair. 0-Fair. Further investigation into the pos-tal pos-tal frands in Cuba show it to he almost al-most impossible that Nccley could have committed them alone. It is nov believed that sutlieient evidence will soon be forthcoming to warrant other -arrests. From 000.000 to S3, 000,000 a year is the amount Commissioner of Pensions Evans roughly estimates will be added to the pension cxpendituree of t"8 Uovermnent by the action of the of Representatives in amending the dependent pension law of 1S90. Colonel Loander Oyer, a prominwt momber of the G. A. K.. died atWoa1' ington. 111., aged 5s years. He Consul at Odessa, Russia, for tweKn yen,rs, being appointed to that posit'011 by President G ran t and was postmaster postmas-ter at Memphis under Harrison. From well in formed circles in Cn- , the stantinople comes the report ui-1 Turkish minister in Washington, f Fcrroulh Key, has given assurances the settlement of the indemnity ela"1 against Turkey, but asks for 6,0 delay, which is grunted. Employees of the Kansas City stru(j Car company have submitted d"" for increase of wages and recetf11 of their union. Tho company . " t 1 fused tho deiumnv and a strike is certain to bo ordered. Sixteen drod men nvo Involved. |