OCR Text |
Show j NEWS SUMMARY. ! In Kansas the Republicans elected l six c the ten Jutlg-es and two State Senators to fill vacancies j The Berlin municipal election rastilt-! rastilt-! eci in the election of twelve Socialists and six Liberals to the Common Council. Guam, it is stated, probably will in the near future be a cable station and it is proposed to store 10,000 tons of coal there. The revolution in the Colombian republic is progressing. About 2000 revolutionists have occupied Cucuta and Oeana. General Andrade the deposed President Presi-dent of Venezuela, has arrived at San J uan de Porto Rico on board the steamer steam-er St. Simon, One of the most interesting- features of the Paris exposition will be a model American postoib'ce, which will be up to date in every respect. According to Colonel C. M. Sheafe, who is just back in Seattle from Cape Nome, the gold belt of the district extends ex-tends across Bering sea and into Siberia. Serious trouble is brewing between the miners and operators of the Duck-town, Duck-town, Tenn., Sulphur, Copper and Iron company. Six hundred miners are on a strike. The organizing of a civil government in Cuba is proceeding prosperously throughout the cities and towns, In many it is perfected; in others it is well under way. Havana Patria proposes that ten leading municipalities of Cuba shall Each give General Gomez Sl!0 a month as his health is poor and he is in need of funds. There is little prospect of the mine-owners mine-owners and strikers agree ing at Sandon B. C, according to dispatches. Efforts to bring in outside miners has not proved a success. A dispatch from Carpentras to which place former Captain Dreyf us u-ent after af-ter the conclusion of his trial, says that Dreyfus is confined to his bed by illness the result of a cold. The Berlin correspondent of Paris Figaro says Emperor William is resolved to occupy Tiger Bay, south of Angola, on the west coast of Africa, if England occupies Delagoabay. The Paris Gaulois asserts that the Minister of Commerce will subm', th Franco-American commercial treaty to the Chamber of Deputies immediately on its reassembling, The returns shows that the Virginia State Senate will be entirely Democratic the only member outside of the regular party nominees being W. B. Shands, Independent Democrat. While the fire brigade was engaged in putting out a fire which started in the Ottawa carbid works at Chaudiere, Ottawa, Ot-tawa, Ont. , the carbid exploded and injured in-jured ten or fifteen men. The transport Thomas, with the Forty-seventh regimenton board sailed from New York for Manila, last week. A great quantity of Christmas presents and ammunition was on board. In Pittsburg, Pa., John Cavanaugh and five others, charged with the death th of ''Kid'' Lavelle, who died from injuries in-juries received in a prize-fight with Cavanaugh last April, were found not guilty. Major Hugh McGrath Captain Fourth cavalry, died at Manila from wounds received at the battle of Noveleta, a month ago. Major McGrath was appointed ap-pointed to the military academy from Wisconsin. The Menasha, Wis., Woodenware company employing 1200 men has shut down as the result of a strike of twenty-eight lath men over a disagreement concerning wages. The plant is CJOfed pending a settlement. Mrs. Whitclaw Reid of New York has received a cablegram from Lady Randolph Churchill asking her to secure se-cure the services of several American trained nurses for South Africa. Lady Churchill will pay all expenses. In order to avoid the charge of militarism militar-ism already being raised in certain political quarters and preliminery tc the appointment of civil Governors, President McKinley and Secretry Root are eonsideriug the advisability of withdrawing troops from Cuba and Porto Rico. Jim Jeffries the prize figher and his brother, John were arrested in Xew York last Monday night ifter they had finished a boxing exhibition oa the stage of a theater in that city. Bail was furnished' and they were released pending a hearing of the case. Object is to test Ilorton law. Corp. Charles Rossmau of the Twentieth Twen-tieth Kansas was elected register of Miami county, Kan., by .100 majority. Rossmau, who w as left in a hospital at ! Manila when his regim ?nt started home ! knows nothing of his nomination and ' election. j Tlie body of Colonel Dallas C. Irish one of the wealthiest men of Pittsburg j Pa., was found on an unfrequented ! part of Coleman's lane not far from ! his residence Tuesday night. Foul play was at first suspected, but the phys;-cians phys;-cians believe death was-due to apopjexy ! In Seattle, Wash., at 11:30 o'clock j Monday night, two masked men armed ! with revolvers held up a Western ave-! ave-! luc street car which was well loaded with passengers. Several watchv.s and 60 iu cash were secured. The robbers j escaped. |