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Show XEWS SIDDIAEY. Senor Cuestas has been elected president pres-ident of Uruguay. The Carlists in Spain are showing signs of reviving activity. Aguinaldo's army is disheartened as the result of the recent actions. The queen of Belgium is gravely ill. Her majesty is suffering from bronchial bron-chial pneumonia. Germany is said to have renewed the negotiations for 'the purchase of the Caroline islands. President Alonzo's forces in Bolivia have again been defeated by those under General Pando. Many companies of tho insurgents have retired because their officers skulk and won't lead their men. The Italian warships have landed marines at San Mun bay, China, thus virtually taking possession. The Chilean war office and the military mili-tary authorit ies have definitely decided to reduce the army by 5,000 men. The Chilean government, it is said, contemplates the sale of several cruisers cruis-ers to the United States and Ecuador. Baron Banffy, former president of the Council of Ministers, has been appointed ap-pointed high steward of the Hungarian court. Panic reigns in the department of Oruro, Bolivia, and the province of Cochambamba has risen and joined the revolutionists. The latest news from Cebu is good. The natives are returning to the town. The coolies are now willing to work at reasonable wages. The American military authorities in Cuba are attempting to make the American soldiers teetotalers by stopping stop-ping the sale of beer at post exchanges. The house, by 77 to 102, has refused to concur in the senate amendment to the sundry civil bill, providing for the construction of a government cable to Hawaii. The leaders of the rebels in the province prov-ince of An Aoul (Nagan-IIooi), the notorious no-torious desperate Nui, has been captured, cap-tured, fifty-two of his body guaid being killed. At Owsley, K3'., John Hutchinson and his family were trying to cross a stream, when their vehicle capsized. Mrs. Hutchinson and two children were drowned. A band of 200 deserters from the Spanish army is now gathered near the French frontier, refusing to return to Spain, although the men have been pardoned. The senate has ratified the extradition extradi-tion treaty with Mexico with a retroactive retroac-tive clause to cover cases that were unpunishable because of the lapse of the old treaty. Hobson's promotion is the greatest material promotion as a recognition of gallantry in the history of the naval service. It will make Hobson a captain at the age of 30. It is the opinion of members of tho cabinet that tho limitation placed on the price to be paid for armor plate will result in a complete stoppage of all new construction. The bubonic plague is raging at Bom. bay with unparalleled severity. According Ac-cording to official returns, there were 912 deaths last week, but theso quite underrate the mortality. The army bill as reported by the senate committee increases the appropriation appro-priation to the extent of 51,302,000, making a total of S84,-l.'!0,000. The increase in-crease is for pay to officers and men. It is rumored in Manila that a steamer steam-er with 30,000 stands of arms and ammunition, am-munition, which was bound for the Philippines, has been seized in Japanese Japan-ese waters by the Japanese authorities. Reckoning on the basis of the September Sep-tember reports of outputs, South Africa Af-rica will produce in the current year 370, (357, .375 of gold, which will place South Africa ahead of ail the gold-producing gold-producing countries. At Bradford, Pa., Thomas Nolan, aged 18 years, son of a well known oil producer, was shot and probably fatally wounded while trying to effect an entrance en-trance into the house of former Senator Lewis Emery. Man guarding property did the shooting. General Maximo Gomez has sen t Governor-General Brooke a statcmcn t of the number of men in the army. It is understood that the tolal readies 4x,-00032,(100 4x,-00032,(100 prWates, 10,000 non-commissioned officers and the rest commanding com-manding officers. The war department is inclined to believe that under the new army bill the governors 'of states are deprived of all power of appointing volunteer olli-cers, olli-cers, as the volunteers under the law are United States volunteers and not btate volunteers. The influential nativesof the inlands of Mabate anil Tiecci request General Otis to send troops there. They say that 200 men could easily subdue tho rebels. The two islands contain about 80,000 cattle, which constitute the food supply of the rebels. William Goirgs, an Indian sentenced to death for tnurder was not shot at Mc.Mester. I. T , according to the sentence sen-tence of the Indian court. The habeas corpus issued by Judge Clayton of the United States cou' t was served on the sheriff in time to save Going's life. |