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Show NEWS SUMMARY. Tlio West Virginia legislature has pnsscd a bill to build three minors' hospitals hos-pitals in the state, at a cost of 810,000 each. Seven prisoners escaped from the jail at Tyler, Tex. Among the fugitives fugi-tives is Jim Nile, the surviving member of the Dalton gang. Senator Kimball has introduced a bill in the ArUasas senate for the erection of a new state capitol building, the cost not to exceed SI, 000,000. A new leather combine, capital SCO,. 000,000 is being organized to take over the tanneries outside of the United States Leather company. The British Columbia bugct shows a defict of SG-17,723 and estimates that the new government has to start with a balance on the wrong side of $100,000. Governor (iencrl Brooke has determined deter-mined to modify the military control of civil affairs by putting the government govern-ment into the hands of Cuban administrators. admin-istrators. The first authentic and official report on the recent damage throughout Georgia by the recent cold wave shows that the loss on crops will amount to several million dollars. It is said that General Gomez is now arranging with General Brooke for the distribution of the 53,000,000, which it is expected will be paid to the Cuban troops within a very short time. The North Dakota senate has passed a bill providing for the appointment of a commission of three physicians in each county for the examination of all applications for marriage licenses. The Brook Iron company has posted a notice at its works at Birdsbore, Pa., of an increase of 25 cents a ton in the wages of puddlers, to go into effect April 1. The new rate will be 82.50 a ton. Marshal de Campos is about to submit sub-mit to the Spanish senate a motion signed by all the generals in the senate, sen-ate, demanding a parliamentary inquiry in-quiry into the conduct of the recent war. The celebration in honor of Gomez's arrival in Havana has left a pleasing impression. Xo disorder occurred, and the absence of rancor toward the Spanish Span-ish classes is causing favorable comment. com-ment. The extradition treaty negotiated between Mexico and the United States has been signed by Foreign Minister Mariscal and Embassador Powell Clay, ton. The treaty is to have a retroactive retroac-tive effect. Eear-Admiral Dewey has informed the navy department that he has deposited de-posited 13,000 tons of coal at Cavite, Manila bay, making that a first class coaling station for the use of United States ships. A sensational discovery of opal is reported re-ported from Opalton, Queensland. The find is said to be one of the biggest big-gest blocks of opal ever discovered, its value being estimated between 7,000 and 10,000. There are persistent rumors among the natives at Peshawur that the Ameer of Afghanistan, Abdur Rahman Khan, is dead. The Indian govern, ment has not received any confirmation of this report. The city of Havana is able, it is said, to bear a 25,000,000;debt. The present pres-ent 6 per cent obligations, amounting to 812,500,000, will be refunded and the remainder of the new bond issue will be used for improvements. The Cuban assembly has transmitted to Major General Brooke an official communication which has been forwarded for-warded to Washington, thanking the government for the honors paid to the remains of General Calixto Garcia. The American members of the joint high Canadian commission feel that they have not been to blame for the failure to reach an agreement and that they are justified in the statement that they have made many concessions. M. Jules Carbon, the French embassador, embas-sador, has received a letter from M. Loygues, minister of public instruction and fine arts of France, accepting from the people of the United States the offer of a monument to General Lafayette. La-fayette. Neither the navy department nor the Nicaraguan legation has any recent news of the Nicaraguan revolution nor of the U. S. S. Marietta, which was dispatched over a week ago to Blue-fields Blue-fields to look after American interests there. The uniform of a Cuban general which Gomez wore on his entry into Havana was presented to him at Mariano Ma-riano by a Spanish school teacher of Havana, and the horse he rode was the gift of General Torres, who is now in Jamaica. Captain Greble has finished his report re-port on the inquiry regarding the widows of Spanish officers. He found eighty-five widows with 120 children, occupving government buildings in Havana, and subsisting upon American Ameri-can rations. Private Hampton Abernathy, company com-pany A, Third North California volunteer volun-teer infantry, has been tried and found guilty of manslaughter by a general court-martial and been sentenced to dishonorable discharge and to serve fifteen years in prison. |