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Show NEWS SUMMARY. Peace is now re-established in Venezuela. Vene-zuela. LateBt advices from Manila show that Admiral Dewey is in perfect health. A treaty has been entered into between be-tween Great Britain and the Friendly Islands. The great steel combination, which has practically been completed, will have a capital of 310,000,000. The local branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce at Dresden, Ont., has been robbed of an amount estimated esti-mated at 810,000. The London Times comments on the Philippine situation, stating that the United States is making satisfactory sat-isfactory progress. The entire plant of the California powder works near Pinole, Cal., wa' more or less damaged by an explosion One man was slightly injured. Governor-General Brooke has signed the commissions of the president and the associate justices of the recently constituted supreme court of Cuba. Receipts in the Havana custom hou&B for April justify, it is said, the prediction pre-diction that the collection at that pirt for 1899 will reach fully 510,000,000. The German government has telegraphed tele-graphed orders to the German consul at Manila to give pecuniary aid to distressed dis-tressed Germans in the Philippines. The Duke d'Arcos, the newly appointed ap-pointed Spanish minister-to the United States has started upon his journey to his new post at Washington by way of Paris J. M. Johnson, chief clerk of the railway mail service at Los Angles, has been detailed to go to Honolulu to take charge of the transfer of mails at that port. No new cases of smallpox have appeared ap-peared among the soldiers at the Presidio or on board the transport, and it is believed the disease has been stamped out. General Henry at San Juan is mak ing fair progress in the plan of enlistment enlist-ment of 400 Porto Eicans in the United Unit-ed States army for service in their native na-tive country. United States Minister to Nicaragua Nicara-gua William L. Merry, has agreed to a settlement of the claims of United States citizens there against the Nica-raguan Nica-raguan government. Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn by direction of the president, has made a number of amendments to the tariff schedules and port regulations in Porto Eico and Cuba. The death of Miss Lillie Cunningham Cunning-ham at Kirksville, Mo., makes the thirty-fourth death resulting from the tornado of April 27. Others are in a critical condition. United States Consul-General Osborne Os-borne at Apia has refused to pay King Tanu's salary for the month of January. Janu-ary. Proceedings have been taken against him in the supreme court. General Charles P. Egan, prominent in the army beef scandal, has sailed from San Francisco for Honolulu on the steamer Australia. General Eagan and his family will spend several months there. General Eamon Gara, formerly Venezuelan Ven-ezuelan minister of war and marine, who started the revolution last February Feb-ruary and was finally severely defeated defeat-ed by the government, has escaped into Colombia. Eight Chilkat Indians who were ob. structing the construction of a trail by white men from Haines mission to Klukwan up the Chilkat river have been arrested and sentenced to thirty day imprisonment. Spain is collecting evidence at Hongkong Hong-kong with a view of claiming a cession of land in China as indemnity from the Chinese government for permitting the steamer Abbey to leave Canton laut Au" gust with arms for the Philippine insurgents. in-surgents. The Eussian government has addressed ad-dressed a friendly protest to the German Ger-man government regarding the appointment ap-pointment as one of Germany's delegates dele-gates to the peace conference at The Hague of Prof. Von Stengel of Munich university. John C. Wagoner, who has carried a bullet in his head since the Custer massacre in 1876, committed suicide at Stillwater, Minn., last week. He was chief of General Custer's pack train and was at the massacre of the Little Big Horn. A syndicate of eight-six aliens who were excluded from Atlin, Alaska, has been formed to bring suit against the Canadian government for SIS, 000,000. Damages are claimed for property lost by the exclusion of the plaintiffs from the famous district. Postmaster-General Smith has made a ruling that the sign "United States mail," or other signs indicating the carriage of the malls, must be carried onlv by such cars on street railway lines as actually at the time are transporting trans-porting the mails. In Hutchinson, Kan., John Moore, who in March last cut the throats of his five little children, crushed their skulls with a hatchet and then set fire to the house in order to conceal his crime, has been convicted of murder |