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Show NEWS SUMMARY. Japan is said to be preparing for war with Russia. Yellow fever has made its appear-; ance in Sew Orleans. ) Queen Victoria has decinedto undergo under-go an operation for cataract. General Joe Wheeler is being urged to make the race for governor of Alabama. Ala-bama. Major Marchand has arrived at Toulon and was greeted with immense enthusiasm. A company of 100 Macabeeshas been organized in Luzon. They will be used as scouts. The winter wheat crop of southern Russia has been completely destroyed by protracted drouth. Elisha Dwyer was inaugurated governor gov-ernor of Rhode Island for his third term on Decoration day. President Zelaya has issued a decree removing eastern Nicaragua from the operation of martial law. Marshal Martines Campos has been appointed by the queen regent as president of the Spanish senate. The report of the Nicaraguan canal commission has been made public. It estimates the cost of the canal atSHS,-113,790. atSHS,-113,790. In a large fire at Yamigata, Japan, 600 houses and eleven shrines and temples were destroyed. A number of lives were lost. A political upheaval has taken place in Chile. The Liberals have united and will bring on the fall of the conservative con-servative government. Governor D. W. Jones of Arkansas has announced himself a candidate for the seat in the United States senate now held by Senator Berry. The Lincoln Park board, Chicago, has decided to erect a 8100,000 monument monu-ment to Admiral Dewey, the amount to be raised by subscription. The Yukon transportation companies are engaged in a rate war, and the faro from Lake Bennett to Dawson has been cut from 8100 to $2.50. General Otis has informed the war department that he will be satisfied if the army under his command is kept at the maximum of 30,000 men. Captain John M. Neall, of the Fourth cavalry, has been found guilty of mls-approriation mls-approriation of funds of his command and will be dismissed from the army, William Skinner and Arthur Pratt, young business men of Fon Du Lac, Wis., were drowned in Lake Winnebago Winne-bago the other night by the capsizing of a boat. Adrian Braun was put to death by electricity in Sing Sing prison for the murder of his wife. He murdered her in prison when she brought him some delicacies. Five thousand men are said to be in waiting at Dawson to take the first boats up the river. Half of them are miners who have from 81,000 to 850,000 each in dust. It will cost $8,000 and require twenty days to repair the injuries sustained by the Brooklyn in touching the bottom of New York harbor off the battery on Decoration day. The London Daily Chronicle announces an-nounces that Mrs. Florence May brick is likely to be liberated shortly, as the result of the pressure brought to bear by Embassador Choate. A negro murderer confined In the McMillanville, Kas., jail fatally injured in-jured two white prisoners, John and William Brown. lie attacked them wh''e they were nsleep. Studebaker Bros.' Manufacturing company of South Bend, Ind., have closed contracts for the construction of automobiles aggregating in the neighborhood of 81,000,000. A fatal duel with pistols was fought at Klausenberg, Hungary, between Professor Oberschall of the I'rossburg law academy and Herr Patucky. The latter was shot in the head. All buildings on the farm of John Rohrburg, two miles north of Mineoln,' la., were destroyed by storm. His little lit-tle girl aged eleven years, was killed, one of his boys had a leg broken and other members of the family quite seriously hurt. Judge Francis Corbln Randolph, formerly for-merly an Alabama jurist, is now serving serv-ing out a fourteen years' sentence in a Columbian jail. In a letter lie denounced de-nounced the American consular officers for not exertiDg themselves in his behalf. be-half. As the result of a family quarrel, Charles Ilerzog, a St. Louis teamster, aged 39, shot his young wife and mother, Mrs. Mary Sopp, and then killed himself. Mrs. Sopp is dead and her daughter cannot live. The couple had separated. Requests have come to the war department de-partment that no person dying on transports coming to or going from the United States to Manila, shall be buried at sea. The secretary of warhaB issued an order to that effect and embalmern will be supplied. The excitement over in Henderson county, Texas, because of the lynching of three-Humphreys on the night of May 23, is still intense. Eight prominent promi-nent farmers and cattle raisers in the vicinity of Aley, where the lynching took place, have been placed in jail. |