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Show NEWS SUMMARY. Great destitution prevails among tho laboring classes in Havana. General John R. Brooke will be made the military governor of Cuba. The Missouri Pacific paid its floating debt of 51,300,000 to Russell Sage December De-cember 8. A body of soldiers has been ordered to be in readiness to escort Dreyfus to Paris for trial. The pope has decided that the Spanish Span-ish policy of the Vatican shall be anti-Carlist anti-Carlist and not neutral. Sir Thomas Upington, premier of Cape Colony from 1SS4 to 1SSG, died at Cape Town, in his 54th year. The Ninth, Thirteenth and Twenty-first Twenty-first regiments of regular infantry have been ordered to Manila. Secretary Long has cabled to orders to Rear-Admiral Dewey to send the cruiser Raleigh to the United States. Sir 'William Anderson, director general gen-eral of the royal ordinance factories and part inventor of cordite, died at London. Captain Samuel McKee, ex-member of cong-ress and one of Kentucky's most promising Republicans, died at Louisville Louis-ville of paralysis. The thermometer at Denver on the 9th registered 19 degrees below zero; at Valentine, Neb., on the same day, 20 degrees below. The widow of David Dlakely has obtained ob-tained a decision involving 5100,000 from John Phillip Sousa, leader of the famous Marine band. Reports regarding the health of the troops at Santiago are encouraging, and in the Philippines the conditions have materially improved. The senate in executive session has ratified the treaty for the extension of the time for the completion of the Mexican boundary one year. James Shaw, the only surviving member of the Michigan legislature of 1847, when Detroit was the capital of Michigan, died at Xiles, aged 86. The auxiliary cruiser Buffalo, which sailed from Xew York with 000 troops for Manila, broke down soon after starting for sea and put in at Xewport News. Henry Mortimer Piatt is tieaa at nis home in New York aged 70 years. Fifty years ago he established the first gold and silver refinery in the United States. Three hundred men of the New York regiment and a number of sailors and officers of Admiral Dewey's fleet arrived in San Francisco December 9, en route home. Among Bedford's population of 2,800 there are about 2,000 cases of what is called genuine smallpox. Other Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania towns are excited over the affair. The fire in the works of the Standard Stand-ard Oil company at Los Angeles has burned itself out, the entire property being consumed. The total loss is estimated at 5225,000. - The Ohio commandery of the military mili-tary order of the Loyal Legion, has decided de-cided to elect President JIcKinley commander com-mander of the order at the next election elec-tion wdiich takes place in May. Sam Smith, the train robber, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree at Eldorado, Kan. He will receive a death sentence, which in Kansas means life imprisonment. A report submitted to congress by the commission of fish and fisheries shows an expenditure of 51S7.S00 for the propagation of food fisheries dur-the dur-the fiscal year ended June 30th last. John Barrett, formerly United States minister to Siam, after visiting Pekin, says the situation in China is one of the most critical nature.'and that Manchuria Man-churia is no longer Chinese, but Russian Rus-sian territory. The session of the Canadian Joint High Commission yesterday was again devoted to the reciprocity clause, but there is no official intimation of how far or how amicably this discussion had proceeded. Secretary Long, at the instigation of Senator Hale, has submitted a bill appropriating ap-propriating 510.000 for the erection ol a monument and a fence at Colon cemetery, cem-etery, Havana, where the dead of the Maine are buried. Three men were killed and eight were injured, three of them probably fatally, by the explosion of a press mill and four grinding mills iu tho Haggley yard of the Dupont Powder works at Wilmington. Del. The New England Shoe and Leather association yesterday announced the assignment of the. Mudge Shoe com. pany, with headquarters at Boston aud factories at Newbury port and East Rochester, N. II. Liabilities will reach $125,000. j Senator Mitchell has introduced bill amending the existing- law in regard re-gard to volunteer soldiers' homes, so as to admit volunteers who were disabled dis-abled by tho war with Spain. About 2,000 men are atVeeted by the proposed amendinen t. Carrying out plans of friends of tho Uu ion Theological seminary, Nt,w York, to make it a theological university, univer-sity, a eonuuUtee has been named to procure funds for the establishment ot o. new chair, the liaiue of w doh bus Dot boon determined. |