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Show Ni'JWS SUMMARY. The Shamrock, which left New York November ", arrived in the Clyde on the tilth. At Vernon, Italy, there was a bhort but very sharp earthquake Wednesday night. It threw the inhabitants into a panic. Troop tl, Sixth cavalry, which has been in the Coeur cfAlene district for several months, left Wallace for San FviMieiseo Sunday. The transports Senator and Ben Mohr sailed from San Francisco for Manila last week with the Forty-fifth infantry 011 hoard. I furry S. Ktlinger, an honorable discharged dis-charged member of company II, Kansas volunteers, was struck and killed by a train near Santa l'aula, Cal. The task of supplying the navy with K rao-Jorgensen rilles in place of the l.ee rilles that htive been in use in the navy for some time has begun. Over 4,71)0,000 stumps in all have been supplied to the Philippines, 1.080,000 to Porto Rico, 18,4:20,000 to Cuba, and -I."), 000 to Guam during the fiscal year. At Lebannon. Pa., the American Iron and Steel Manufacturing company compa-ny has suspended operations in all its puddling and rolling mills on account of no fuel. Active negotiations are proceeding to J , T....:i i,.lP nnnnne- hCCUie Jiuui uia.ii oum null, ui.v. sions as will extend the market for American wheat and American flour in that country. A pension of S 15 per month has been granted by Commissioner Evans to Adelaide E. Bag-ley, mother of Lieut. Worth Bagley, who was killed in the war with Spain. On behalf of Admiral Dewey and his officers and men. Washington attorneys have asked the Court of Claims to fln-d that the amount of bounty money due them is 382,800. The Baptist church of Texas is badly split as a result of the factional differences differ-ences which resulted in a large number of delegates being refused seats in the State convention at Dallas. Fears are entertained for the safety of the British steamer Saltrama, which left Philadelphia for Havana October 2Sth. The vessel should have arrived there thirteen days ago. The Secretary of the Navy, in his reports re-ports is expected to renew his recommendation recom-mendation for three new cruisers of the improroved Olympia type, such as failed to appropriate for last year. William llulf was taken from the county jail at Bloomfield Mo.,- and hanged by a mob of 100 men. Huff was charged with the murder of Andrew An-drew Melton. He showed remarkable nerve. President McKinley has promised to make an address at Mount Vernon on December 14th, when the Masonic observance ob-servance of the one hundredth anniversary anni-versary of Washington's death will occur. Havana newspapers object to the criticisms made by some American journals upon Sundayracing in Havana. They point out that after mass on Sunday, all Latin countries take a holiday. Dr. R. Prewitt, Populist candidate for governor of Mississippi, in the recent re-cent election, threatens to make a con- test of Judge Long in his election, on the ground that the latters nomination was illegal. The United States army transport Columbia has arrived at San Francisco from Manila' via Nagasaki. Eight government employes constituted the entire passenger list, no sick or discharged dis-charged soldiers being aboard. The voyage was uneventful. The transport Meade, with the Forty-third Forty-third United States volunteer infantry on board, sailed from New York for Manila Friday. The Meade attempted to get away on Tuesday, but stuck in the mud at her dock. The Statehood convention, which closed at Guthrie, O. T., Saturday, appointed ap-pointed a committee to draw up a memorial me-morial to congress asking that Oklahoma Oklaho-ma be granted statehood with her sent boundaries. The London Time's correspondent gives a stirring description by mail oi the storming of Talmanahill, and mentions men-tions that General Symons fell, mortally mortal-ly wounded, when galloping along the line to tell the troops that the hill must be taken. He describes the storming of the hill as one of the greatest acieve-ments acieve-ments of the British infantry. l'earl Hart, the woman bandit, who together with Joe Boot, held up a stage near Florence last June, has been acquitted in a trial before Judge Doan at Florence, Arizona, in the face of overwhelming evidence of her guilt. The steamer J. W. Taylor, which arrived ar-rived at New York Saturday from I Santos, Brazil, with the captain and cook ill with suspected bubonic plague, has been disinfected us far as possible without discharge of cargo. The patients pa-tients are at Swinburn island, and there is no change in their condition. The mining engineers employed in the Brazil, lnd district went outlast to enforce a demand for an advance ad-vance in wages 'from 850 to 873 per month. All the miners are idle, and 3,000 men are out of employment. |