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Show NEWS SUMMARY. The plague still prevails on the Island of Formosa and is causing the death of hundreds of persons. The Mexican senate has unanimously adopted the new extradition treaty with the United States. Li Hung Chang is said to be conferring confer-ring with Marquis Ito of Japan regard' ing the trouble with Italy. Numerous requests are received from various districts in the island of Cuba for Implements and seed, not rations. The session of the Pennsylvania general gen-eral assembly of 1899 has adjourned after being in session a little over three months. The governor of Alabama has issued a call for an extra session of the legislature legis-lature to repeal the constitutional convention act. Herr Polack, a well-known engineer and electrician, has discovered a means of telegraphing 60,000 words per hour over a single wire. General Henry, commanding the department of Porto Rico, has asked to be relived of his present duty on account ac-count of ill health. The Minnesota legislature tabled the governor's message urging the recall from the Philippines of the Thirteenth Minnesota volunteers. The stone reefs of Brazil are t be mapped out and their relations to the geological history of the South American Ameri-can continent will be studied. Orders have been issued for the Ninth immunes to return to the United States by the steamer Meade yia New York for muster out at Camp Meade. The Third Nebraska will be mustered mus-tered out May 11 at Augusta, Ga. Colonel Bryan will be invited to review the regiment before it is disbanded. According to statistics gathered regarding re-garding the bubonic plague It is estimated esti-mated there has been 250,000 deaths recorded In India since Its beginning. The Tenth United States cavalry, the colored regiment which did such brilliant service In the Santiago campaign, cam-paign, is to have another tour of duty in Cuba. Miss Dell Clevenger, who was shot by her cousin, Ernest Clevenger, on the night of December 8, last, is dead at Missouri City, Mo., other wounds-Clevenger wounds-Clevenger Is in jail. The Naval Reserve assooiation o) Illinois, veterans of the Spanish-American war, have resolyed to offer the government 250 men for the service in the Philippine islands. After several conferences with the minister from Venezuela, the United States postofflce offiolals have entered into an agreement for a parcel postal treaty with enesuela. The farm on which Abraham Lincoln Lin-coln was born, two miles south of Hodgenville, Ky., has been sold to. David Grear of New York and will probably be converted into a park. Simon Hotema, the full-blooded Choc-tow Choc-tow Indian who was arrested on ths charge of murdering a man and two women last week near Cold Springs, I. T. , has written a confession of his guilt. The municipal revenues of Santiago have been reduced from 820,000 to 3,000 per month, and there have been similar reductions in other towns. Public works and schools must be stopped. stop-ped. Governor-General Brooke, in the distribution dis-tribution of the $3,000,000 to the Cuban soldiers, has determined to treat the Cuban offioers as soldiers and gentlemen gentle-men and not endeavor to go behind the rolls. At Carthage, Mo., the jury in the suit of Mrs. Gilflllon against J. D. McCrills, for 85,000 damages for the murder of. her husband, rendered a verdict for $2,000 damages in favor of Mrs. Gil-fillan. Gil-fillan. Adolph Rehfold, the saloonkeeper whose place of business near the Presidio was burned by a mob of soldiers sol-diers belonging to the Fourteenth United States infantry, has identified four of the culprits. A party of young men at Dalton, Minn., put lemon extract into the ginger gin-ger ale they were drinking and as a result re-sult Duffy Riorson and Martin Dahl are dead, while several others were made seriously sick. The Kentucky law under which many negroes in the past two years have been sold on the block for a term of years as punishment for vagrancy, has been declared unconstitutional by Judge Scott at Richmond. A drink generally known as vino, which is exceedingly palatable and inexpensive, is playing havoc with the soldiers in Manila. A single drink unfits un-fits a man for active duty for twenty-four twenty-four hours. Efforts are being made to suppress its sale. Authority has been given the British representative at Apia to join, if he deems it advisable in a joint proclamation proclama-tion with the other consuls, calling upon the inhabitants to abstain from hostilities pending the arrival of the Samoan commisioners. Advices from Manzanillo say that an American shell fired last summer during dur-ing the bombardment of the town by the United States warships, exploded last Sunday while being dug from the ground, kiliiDg three persons and wounding many others,. |