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Show NEWS SUMMARY. The United States has been granted additional space at the Taris exposition. exposi-tion. Mrs. McKinley, who has been prostrated pros-trated by the warm weather, is improving. im-proving. Kansas rivers are out of their banks and doing considerable damage. There have been recent heavy rains. An earthquake shock was felt in Cal ifornia Friday. The vibration was from east to west. No particular dam-, age was reported. Governor Pingree of Michigan, denies that he is in a combine with Secretary Alger to control state politics and put Alger in the senate. The health of the I'nited States troops in Havana ' is remarkably good and makes a better showing than at many posts in the United States. Willard K. Baker, wanted in Boston for embezzlement, escaped from two police officers from that city in San Francisco and has not been captured. Queen Victoria entertained a number of American ladies at tea last week, They were delegates to the Interna-ional Interna-ional Congress of Women, which meets in London. At Pittsburg orders have been issued for the resumption on Monday of all idle coke ovens and all ovens heretofore hereto-fore run five days a week will be put on full time. Nothing is known in Vienna confirmatory confirm-atory of the published story of revolutionary revo-lutionary disturbances at Solia, Bulgaria. Bul-garia. In oflicialQquarters the report ;.s utterly discredited. The Savings bank of St. Paul, Minn., established in 1807, capital 8100,000, Thomas A. I'endargast. president, has been compelled to close its doors. Deposits exceed $1,000,000. The flood situation in Texas is not abating-. People all over the Brazos valley are being taken off high knolls to which they have been driven, almost al-most perished from exposure. The London Times announces that several officers have been ordered to proceed to South Africa to organize the residents as well as the police and local forces at various points in the frontier. The ten regiments of volunteers will be equipped throughout as are the regulars. reg-ulars. The ordnance department has on hand a sufficient supply of Krag-Jorgensen Krag-Jorgensen rifles and other arms to equip the regiments. Governor Rogers of Washington has refused the request of the governor of Idaho for the extradition of Francis Butler, who, it is alleged, was implicated impli-cated in the recent miners' riot. He is charged with murder. It is regarded a probable that General Gen-eral Faure liuguel will be appointed military governor of Paris and that General Zurlinden, the present incum" bent of that post, will be transferred to the command of an army corps. The contract for building the Palmer and Auburn cut-off of the Northern Pacific Pa-cific was let to P. J. Henry of Seattle and Nelson Bennett of Tacoma. The contract price for building the twenty-two twenty-two miles of track is understood to be about $400,000. The Ohio Association of Democratic clubs was organized in Columbus Friday, Fri-day, with General E. B. Findlay oi Bucyrus as permanent chairman and Charles L. Swain of Cincinnati, secretary. secre-tary. The association dclared for Bn-an. Ambassador Clioate and Lord Salisbury Salis-bury are almost deadlocked over the modus vivendi fixing the boundary between be-tween Alaska and the British possessions. posses-sions. Neither side will accept the provisional line proposed by the other. Mrs. May Wright Sewall, president of the United States Council of Women's Wo-men's International congress, has been elected to succeed the Countess of Aberdeen Ab-erdeen as the president of the congress, con-gress, which will hold its next session in Herlin. The Transvaal government has decided de-cided to prosecute on charge of high treason the three principal defendants whose complicit' in the recent attempt to promote a rebellious rising at Johannesburg Johan-nesburg has been for several weeks under judicial investigation. The agricultural bank has been organized or-ganized at Santa Clara, Cuba, by a number of prominent citizens, including includ-ing the mayors of various towns in the province. The bank proposes to lend farmers amounts necessary to cultivate their lands. Advices from Dawson say that the steamer Robert Kerr left there on June 20 with over S.I, 000,000 in gold dust, for St. Michaels, where she will touch en route to Seattle. At St. Michael she will take on additional passengers and more gold. Rioting at liarcelonia still continues. A mob stoned a number of shops and were charged by the police. The mob fired their revolvers at the officers, who returned the fire. In the encounter three oMicers and a number of rioters were wounded. About 325 Cuban soldiers have been disbanded at Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, province of Santa Clara, delivering up forty weapons. Three hundred and twenty-one men were paid and 10 7 refused pay, as their names did not appear on the lists. |