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Show ! NEWS SUMMARY. , i The Mexican Minister of war, lierrezabel, is seriously ill. The German protected cruiser Cormo-, Cormo-, ran has been ordered to remain at j Samoa. Gen. Miles and party are making an extended tour of inspection of the army posts of the West. The firm of Mitsui & Co. of Japan is considering a plan to establish a new trans-Pacitie steamship line. Count Torranaz. governorof the Bank of Spain, has been appointed minister of justice in succession of Senor Duran The Rio Grand river is on a boom, and is threatening the buildings at i'ort Brown. Tex. Colonel I'ondo has been elected President erf Bolivia, in succession to Senor Severo Fernandez Alonzo. The President has appoi nted Edward P. Kingsbury of Ceutralia, Wash., to be surveyor-general at Olyiiipia, vice ilacMicken, dead. Secretar' Long will, it is said, make a recommendation for but a limited increase in-crease of the new navy in his forthcom-; forthcom-; ;ing annual report. Buekner Mek'ee. a prominent farmer, .and Mrs. John Wilson, a widow, were found dead by the roadside near Law-renceburg. Law-renceburg. Ky., Saturday. The engineers' reports confirmed the previously reported discovery of extensive exten-sive and commercially available coa beds in the State of 1'uebla, Mexico. Gen. Otis has notified the War department de-partment of the arrival at Manila of the transports Sheridan and Elder. The former carried the Thirtieth volunteers. At Tucson, Ariz, Al Ezekiels shot and killed C. C. Kasmussen, a well known contractor, because the latter had Ezekiels ejected from a house rented from Rasmussen. Brigadier-General Frederick Funston is to be breveted major-general and Colonel Wilder B II . Mctcalf of the Twentieth Kansas is to be breveted brigadier-general by the President. Maj.-Geu. Miles, commanding the army, has submitted to the secretary of war his annual report on the condition con-dition and needs of the army. The re- port is very brief and rather formal. The French Cabinet has approved the , text of a bill granting trades unions the same status as an individual citi.en and enacting priviligvs ami penalties to secure the free working- of such bodies. The Alaska Territorial convention adopted a memorial to Congress, and selected se-lected John LI. Trice of SUaguay as a representative to go to Washington, D. C, in the intrest of the people of Alaska. The hospital at Sagua la Grande, Cuba, collapsed Saturday, having been undermined by floods from the recent heavy rains. Of the fourty-two inmates four were killed and twenty-seven injured. in-jured. In Peoria, 111., Saturday, Fred Patee, president of the Patee Bicycle company and ex-chief consul of the Illinois di. vision of the L, A. W., was sentenced to five yeaaj in the penitentiary for forgery. Paris, Mo., grand jury has returned an indictment for murder, in the first degree against Alexander Jester, on the charge of murdering Gilbert Gates, son of a Chicago millionaire, twenty-eight years ago. It is learned that owing to the temporary tem-porary character of the settlement of the Alaskan boundary question there will be no meeting of the Canadian Joint High commisaion in the immediate immedi-ate future. It is positively stated at the war department de-partment that no decision has been reached in reference to the vacant brigadier -generalship iu the regular establishment resulting from General yhafter's retirement. Mrs. Mary Ruby, sister of Kit Carson, the famous scout, is dead at Warrens-burg, Warrens-burg, Mo., of apoplexy. She was born in an Indian fort near Hoonebore. i Howard county, aud during the eighty-seven eighty-seven years of her life was never out of the State of Missouri. Mrs. Ruby was the last member of the KitJCarsou family. Colonel John Ii. Yates, who died at Amesburg, Out., last week was liO years old. He had a fine record as colonel of the First Michigan engineers. The regiment was the main reliance of General Sherman for bridge building during his march from Atlanta to the sea The annual report of the chief of engineers en-gineers of the army, Brig.-Uen. John 51. Wilson, just made public, submits estimates for rivers and harbor works already authorized by Congress but not provided by continuing contracts amounting to S?0,!06.S21. In addition he asks for S 1 5 , ."" S ? . fi -' t3 to carry on work already contracted. . Twenty-four million dollars is to be demanded through the courts from ' eorporations iu Cook county for violat- inff the Illinois statutes. State Atorney I Deenen will make the demand in a few j days by filing 3000 suits. ! The secretary of war has received a , telegram from Governor Murphy of Arizona, say ing that considerable trou- ble has occurred at Xaco. on the border between Arizona and Mexico, between American cowboys and Mexico officers. Ue recommends that a company of troops be sent there. |