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Show NEWS SUMMARY. Former President Grover Cleveland is confined to his house with an attack of rheumatism. M. Noma Droz, the distinguished Swiss statesman and former president of the confederation, died recently In his 56th year. The big steel steamer, Arthur Orr, has been wrecked on the rocks at the entrance of Georgian bay. The vessel oost 8225,000. The Postoffice department has authorized au-thorized a trial of an automobile mail collection service in certain sections of Cleveland, O. Lieutenant Roberts, son of Lord Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, and who was wounded in the engagement engage-ment at Tug-ela river, is dead. The statistician of the department of Agriculture reports the wheat crop of the United States for 1899 at 547,-800,000 547,-800,000 bushels, or 12.3 bushels per acre. Another lot of concealed arms has beenoaptured near Guantanamo by the rural guards. A party of colored Cubans Cu-bans was preparing- to distribute the weapons. The war department has arranged to send about 1000 recruits to Manila to fill the regiments which are running short on account of death, disease and discharge. Mozambique, Partuguese East Africa, Afri-ca, reports the island was swept Sunday Sun-day by a terrific cyclone, which did immense damage, destroying many houses in Mozambique. Thirty members of a Filipino theatrical theatri-cal troop brought to this country last July, are stranded in Seattle after a six months' unsuccessful tour of tho principal coast cities and towns. The Inter Island Telegraph company which intends to use the Marconi wireless telegraph between the Hawaiian Ha-waiian islands, has incorporated for $100,000, with all the stock subscribed. Caption Barineson dispatched the transport Grant from San Francisco to Manila on Sunday with Forty-eighth infantry, the last regiment now under orders to go to the Philippines. The report of the Texas state tax commissioner seeks to readjust the entire en-tire taxation system of the state, and is rather severe on railroads, telegraph corporations, raising tax assessments materially. Many thousands of loyal Briton-have Briton-have been calling at the Brittsh consulate consul-ate in New York City in the last few days, offering their services to theii mother country in her struggle with the Boers. Representative Elliots of South Carolina Caro-lina has introduced a bill for the build-ing build-ing of a new cruiser to be named the "Charleston," to take the place of the cruiser of that name recently lost in the Philippines. In Reading, la., the jury in the case of James E. Morton, a printer, charged with counterfeiting in ternational cigar-makers' cigar-makers' labels, returned a verdict of g-uilty, and recommendod him to the mercy of the court. Commissiones Hermann of the general gen-eral land office decides that tide lands in the district of Alaska are notpublio lands subject to disposal to individuals under any of the existing land laws of the United States, and that the department depart-ment has no statutory authority to make concessions to individuals of any mining rights pertaining to such tide lands. The Mexican authorities are contemplating- sending more troops into the Yaqui Indian country at once, as it is thought that the present force will not be able to cope with the situation. General Torrez now has some 5,000 men. The president has commuted to imprisonment im-prisonment to twenty years the capital sentences imposed by court-martial upon four American soldiers, members of a Washington regiment in the Philippines, Phil-ippines, for criminal assault upon native na-tive women. Walter T. Heber, arrested in Chicago yesterday charge with using the malls for-fraudulent purposes, confessed before be-fore United States Commissioner Humphrey that he had grown wealthy through his swindling operations. t, m l t . -tnwo mu uc a strong- eirort maae to have the next Democratic national convention held in Cincinnati. The building erected for the International Saengerfest last spring is still retained in expectation of having the national convention there. Fire destroyed the factory of the Duluth, Minn., Boot and Shoe company com-pany Sunday morning. One fireman, B. McVitt, was killed by falling walls', and two others, John Twaddle and Captain John Walsh, were seriously injured. Loss, S40.000. Mail advices from Surinam, Dutch Guiana, report a widely organized movement for tho purpose of aiding the South African Dutch and annoying the resident British subjects in which high officials and consular representatives representa-tives are implicated. Proof that at least one American soldier is fighting in the Boer army comes in the story of Duncan N. Hood, a graduate of West Point, and son of the famous General Hood of the Confederate Confed-erate army who has cast his fortunes with the South African republic. |