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Show NEWS SUMMARY. The promised manifesto of Don Carlos, Car-los, the pretender, is expected shortly. The transport City of Puebla, from Manila, has arrived at San Francisco. Navigation of the Volga has been partially suspended, but the Baltic ports are still open. Chinese and native thieves in Manila pre legion and the officers and eivil-ans eivil-ans arefrequatly robbed. The Magato Kaffirs in the Transvaal have been repulsed by the force of burghers sent against them. John Anderson, colored, charged with murdering a prominent farmer, was lynched at Lafayette, Ala. The shipments of Spanish silver specie at Havana, in anticipation of 1 the American regime, are very heavy. The municipal authorities of Toulon, France, have been notified that that place will be the center of important naval and military preparations. J. J. Kunkle, the Lawrence, Kans., tailor charged with poisoning his wife and daughter, has been remanded to jail for trial by the district court. The Emperor of China is believed to be afflicted with an incurable kidney disease, though it is probable that he will linger for a considerable time. The contention of the American company com-pany regarding its canal concession from the government of Nicaragua has been sustained by a Nicaraguan commission. com-mission. A small skiff in which, were three prominent citizens of Chicago, who were engaged in duck hunting, capsized cap-sized on Lake Michigan and all were drowned. General Whittier, the collector of customs at Manila, has been ordered to proceed to Paris for the purpose of tessifying 'before the United States peace commission there. Lillian Russell, the actress, is again free from matrimonial ties, Signor Perugini, whose wife she has been since January 21, 1S94, having just received re-ceived a divorce. General Wheeler has issued an order directing Brigadier-General Call to organize or-ganize the First division of the Fourth army corps and await the arrival of Major-General Chaffee. The seventh annual convention of the American Republican College league, postponed from May last on account of the war, will be held In Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, November 18. One of the heaviest rainstorm in years has fallen in the vicinity of Havana, and. all of the streak, are overflowing. The streets Jof Havana present the appearance of a flowing river. The body of Lawrence True has been taken from the Ohio river near Aurora, Ind., with his throat cut. Tho two gashes made in the throat are such that the coroner declared they could not be self-inflicted. There are rumors of a crisis in the Peruvian cabinet. The senate nas sanotloned the bill, previously approved ap-proved by the chamber of deputies, providing a scale of duties for rio, lard and petroleum. The Argentine government haj presented pre-sented a proposition to the Chilean government to form an arbitration tribunal, tri-bunal, composed of high functionaries of both countries, to settle the Puna de Atacama question. Peculiar conditions prevail in railroad rail-road matters just now, says Chauncy M. Depew. There is a large amount of traffic, and in many instances railroad companies cannot get cars enough to carry freight that is offered. The Japanese government has appointed ap-pointed Mr. Jutamro Kuramo, vice-minister vice-minister of foreign affairs, to be minister minis-ter of Japan to the United States. Mr. Kuramo was born in 1853 and studied law at Harvard university. The National Bank Examiner has only made a partial investigation of the affairs of the First National bank, Lisbon, Ohio, but he finds that I. A. Childs, the absconding cashier, was 860,000 short in his accounts. At Clairville, Plumas county, Cal., a new town at the terminus, fire destroyed de-stroyed a hotel and five people los their lives: P. Pedrini, Carson Barney, Bar-ney, Mrs. Cornado, Florence Roberts, 7 vears old, and a woman Whose name could not be ascertained. Several people peo-ple were injured by jumping from the second-story window. Count Muravieff, the Russian foreign for-eign minister, it is said, has recommended recom-mended to the French government a peaceful settlement of the Fashoda question, as Russia does not consider that war will serve the interests of France. The overflowing of the Yellow river in Shantung province has caused the most applling disaster of modern times in central China. Yillages were swept away by hundreds. Over 100,000 people peo-ple are homeless and destitute; 2,000 were drowned. David L. Snyder, one of two bachelor brothers who gave the city of Springfield, Spring-field, 111., a valuable park, is dead, aged 82, leaving an estate worth $2,-000,000. $2,-000,000. The other brother who died two years ago, left 8100,000 for the sick poor of the city. |