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Show NEWS SUMMAEY. .Senator Allison of Iowa, discussing j matters in the Philippines, advocates j retention of the archipelcgo. j At Durban, Natal, the legislative bulding has been transformed into a hospital forthe Boerand Itritish wounded wound-ed who will be treated alike. (lov. Scofleldof Wisconsin has written a letter on the Philippine question, in which he said It would be dangerous to the Republic lo keep the Philippines. Imports of wheat into Liverpool during dur-ing past week: From Atlantic ports, 74,000 quarters; from Pacific ports, none; from other ports 1,000 quarters. Census olllcials have been appointed for all the districts of Porto Rico, and the first enumeration will bo taken between the 10th inst and December 20th. Telegraphic communication by Sig-nor Sig-nor Marconi's wireless system is to be established between five of the Hawaiian Ha-waiian islands by a company of Americans. Ameri-cans. William U. Smith, formerly Attorney-General of Hawaii has been selected j to represent the Hawaiiian islands at I Washington, while Congress is ic j session. j Honolulu is on tho eve of a coal j famine, caused by the large number of transports calling there, which have made serious inroads on the supply of army coal. So far as can be learned, nothing is known in Washington of the reported offer by Great Iiritain to cede the Gilbert Gil-bert islands and the Solomon islands in, the Pacific to Germany. Orders heve been sent to the Forty-ninth Forty-ninth volunteers, colored organization to start from Jefferson liarracks, Mo., on the 17th for San Francisco where they will take ship for Manila. A party of students from the University Univer-sity of Chicago will go to Kentucky mountains where the recent feuds have occurred, to study simple frontier life as retained by the mountaineers. One million eggs of the Chinook salmon sal-mon are to be sent by the United States fish commission to New Zealand on the steamer Moana from San Francisco. They are from a hatchery in Oregon. Transport Glanegle, 2f." officers 713 men of Thirty-second volunteers, have arrived in good condidtion at Manila. There was one casualty. Private Edward Ed-ward R. McCandless, company K, died at sea. Owning to the present low price of sugar and the poor prospects many Cuban planters have decided not to grind their present crop, but to use it in replanting and in increasing their acreage. The Berlin Tageblatt says Count Bothmer president of the German Peace society, has telegraphed to Queen Victoria praying her to accept the mediation med-iation of the United States in the war with the Transvaal' Dwight L. Townsend died suddenly Sunday night at his home in New York city, age 73 years. He was the asso-aate asso-aate of John Mackay and Robert G. Ingersoll in the formation of the Postal Telegraph company. Mrs. Ernestina Schaedlich, who. was tried for being an accessory to the murder of Senator Hampton Wall at Staunton, 111 , during the summer of 1898, has been acquitted in the Macou- pin county circuit court. President McKinley is expected to renew in his forthcoming message his recommendation that an appropriation be made for a commission to investigate the commercial and industrial condition condi-tion of the Chinese empire. George Bartle, the oldest clerk of the State department, "Keeper of the Great Seal" and a close friend of Daniel Webster, died at his residence in Washington Wash-ington last week. He was appointed by Secretary Buchanan in 1845. An eleven-year old school girl named Owens, returning from school at MortoK O. , had some trouble with play mates and ran to her home, secured a musket and fired into a group of children and fatally wounded a boy named Bewbow. The army is now recruited to within 1000 of its authorized strength of 100,000 men. It is estimated that vacancies will occur in the Philippines by reason of casualties and expiration of terms of service at the rate of 500 a month. Enactment of the gold standard into law and reform of the banking currency cur-rency laws, so as to give the country more elastic banknote currency will it Is said, be the leading recommendations of Secretary Gage's annual report. Commissioner Will of the internal revenue bureau has held that an express company which.buys and sells foreign exchange is subject to the special foreign tax of S.iO a year, as a basis on. which it transacts such business. Berlin Neuste Naehrichten in the course of an article evidently inspired says; "Germany has no intention of playing- into the hands of Franee by intervening in the Transvaal. She ln-tens ln-tens to pursue a course of absolute neutrality." The islands in the Philippine group referred to in the Madrid dispatch aa not having been included in the treaty ceding the archipelago to the United States, are not regarded by the members memb-ers of the Philippine commission as of any importance. |